A New Jersey Democrat stirred up social media on Tuesday afternoon during a fiery speech outside the Treasury Department, in which she said her party would "fight back" and demanded to "shut down the Senate," declaring, "We are at war!"Rep. LaMonica McIver, who represents the district encompassing N...

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Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) sparked controversy with a fiery speech outside the Treasury Department, declaring, “We are at war!” and calling for the Senate to be shut down in response to Elon Musk’s access to federal payment systems.

Her remarks, applauded by some Democrats, drew backlash from Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who likened them to “a call for insurrection.”

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    140·
    1 month ago

    Is it really an insurrection if you’re trying to save a government from destruction by outsiders?

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      211·
      1 month ago

      The Republicans thought the same thing, to be fair. The difference is that we can be 100% confident that they’re pumped full of the most insane propaganda and are astoundingly stupid to believe that their team isn’t the most wild, overt version of everything they claim is evil.

    • NateNate60@lemmy.world
      17·
      1 month ago

      Obviously it is. But not all insurrections are wrong.

      Committing an insurrection because you lost an election is far less laudable than committing insurrection against an increasingly fascist dictatorship.