‘Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm,’ the former Georgia congresswoman wrote

Marjorie Taylor Greene has urged fellow MAGA supporters – and other Americans – to “take off their political blinders” over the death of protester Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, warning that they are being “incited into civil war.”

“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement,” Greene wrote on X Sunday, the day after the fatal shooting. “However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment.

“Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”

Despite video showing that 37-year-old Pretti was filming federal officers but did not have a weapon drawn, the Trump administration has claimed he had tried to assassinate agents in an act of “domestic terrorism.”

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    For a rat jumping off a sinking ship, she’s pretty good at it tbh. She is very selective and has only gone against trump on two things from what I understand (Epstein and 2A), both probably hitting the mark even in cultish Maga territory.

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    Bitch, you created this monster. Now that you finally nfpund your marbles, it’s a bit late, dontbya think? I’m all for a redemption arc, but you really were one of the worst.

    It’ll take more from you to forget what you’ve done

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    Doesn’t matter if the intent is to cause a civil war or not. We don’t have a choice.

    They will keep ramping up until we fight back. May as well start it now before more lives are lost.

    I know Trump thinks it’s going to keep there from being primaries, midterms, but he’s wrong.

    It’s also not going to stop us from demanding the Epstein files.

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      They didn’t even really throw her out until she got salty over not running for senate (which they told her ‘no’ cuz she’d have lost.)

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    I swear to God if this BS act works and people vote for this unprincipled scumbag in 2028, I’m going to stick my head in a trash compactor.

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    Coming out of this hell for the USA could require help from anyone, and convincing MAGAs to come over to the good side might be accomplished more readily by someone who once was theirs, would that be her or not.

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    this the same idiot who was calling for a ‘national divorce’ every other week? as if that wasn’t just a euphemism for civil war

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      National divorse is in no way a euphemism for civil war. There’s literally a constitutional way of states removing themselves from the Federal Government, that’s what national divorse means.

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        National divorse

        constitutional way of states removing themselves from the Federal Government

        that’s what national divorse means

        Not from here, huh. Well, that’s alright. 1860 wasn’t the same everywhere around the world, of course.

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          A convention of states to amend the constitution; explicitly saying that specific state is no longer apart of the U.S., or inserting another legal route of succession into the constitution.

          Much easier, and at the same time much more difficult than civil war.

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    People need to stop acting like she’s turned over a new leaf. She’s a crazy racist. She has nothing to say that’s worth hearing. She did more than most to put us where we are. She belongs in the sea.

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      She’s a crazy racist

      Do you realize need someone to explain to you why trump losing the support of crazy racists is a big deal?

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      Look, yes. She’s a piece of shit. But she’s not wrong here. And honestly, we need people (even batshit crazy racists) calling out the stupid shit Trump and co are doing.

      Do not conflate agreement with acceptance. We need all the help we can get right now. Worry about washing your hands later. Too many good people are dying to stay on that high horse.

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      At this current point in time, anybody against Trump in this fascist regime is a friend of mine

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    This is like the 3rd time I’ve agreed with her this year.

    Much as that sucks, it could be that we’re being fed bullshit to divide us. Weird, I know.

    She’s still an idiot whose views only align with mine in a few cases because she doesn’t really understand reality.

    But she actually seems like someone who maybe cares about the truth sometimes. She was indoctrinated, but maybe she could be pulled out of it? Not when she’s surrounded by the right wing echo chamber, but it gives me some hope that the redcaps in our own orbit might have a chance?

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      She seems like a crazy person that’s also a true believer.

      She went to Washington wanting to expose, among other things, a secret child-sex abuse ring involving people at the highest levels of government and society. And lo and behold, there was one, but it was being protected by the people in her own party.

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        True believers sometimes have some hope because some have just followed misinformation too far. Some will snap out of it when confronted with reality. The Final Experiment actually managed to turn some true flerfers. No effect on the grifters, obviously, but it shook some believers loose.

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        That’s what I thought, too, but her latest utterances don’t make sense in that light.

        Maybe her net worth has finally exceeded her values, so she’s finding something like a conscience and isn’t moneyed enough* for that to really factor in? She’s very, very new money, and likely can’t really imagine what that means? People are likely trying to tell her.

        * : if foreign money bought her, I’m sure she was fairly cheap. She may have realised that recently…

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          They’re not supposed to make sense. Russia did this exact thing within its own borders after the fall. You have the most outspoken poles of the political spectrum do complete 180s. Why?

          Because you’re trying to keep the people from organizing. You foment distrust in leaders and movements and try to keep people home by all means. You’re trying to get people disinterested in the messy world of politics.

          Meanwhile, you identify the people who are willing to break the rule of law and follow orders and put them to work nipping at the edges of those brave enough to organize.

          It’s happening now.