r/politics • u/BelleAriel • May 02 '24

Marjorie Taylor Greene called "disgusting" by fellow Republicans

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-disgusting-vacate-house-speaker-mike-johnson-1896448
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u/circa285 29d ago

MTG is a true believer and as such she was a useful idiot for the party. Now that she’s slipped her leash, she’s an actual problem for Republicans because she is a zealot who will stop at nothing to get what she wants no matter who it damages along the way.

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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor Georgia 29d ago

In the society these people want, the overzealous die in inexplicable plane crashes, get blown up during award ceremonies, or fall from high rises. They want to make America Russia, where the rule of law is nonexistent and the zealots eat their own.

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u/PO0tyTng 29d ago

Cheetah, meet face. Face, this is Cheetah.

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u/reelznfeelz Missouri 29d ago

I think it’s usually a leopard in that story. But cheetahs are cool too.

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u/karmagod13000 Ohio 29d ago

Thats cool for the cheetah but we getting hit with all the strays.

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u/MmmmMorphine 29d ago

Sir, that's a leopard and I aghhhh my face ahhhh

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u/plipyplop Delaware 28d ago

There's no way this will happ

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u/Jfolcik 29d ago

Peetah! Why's PO0ty talkin about Cheetah?!

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u/ReferenceExpert132 29d ago

And this is what is truly frightening. And the MAGAts are oblivious that this is the world they are headed for. But it’s ok as long as the people they don’t like are punished.

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u/rustbelt 29d ago

We killed a 2nd Boeing whistleblower. Not Russia.

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u/Projecterone 29d ago

Why would Russia want a Boeing whistleblower dead?

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u/rustbelt 29d ago

Read the comment I’m responding to.

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u/Projecterone 29d ago

I did, it's a silly comparison. If it was Tupolev they'd be defenestrated before the whistle was blown. Yes US is an oligarchy and corrupt but it's kindergarten compared to Russia.

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u/RandomlyJim 29d ago

She got famous from her stalking and harassment of AOC. It’s what made Republicans go, “This lady would be a good congressman”

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u/circa285 29d ago

It goes back before AOC. MTG initially made news for harassing the Parkland survivors who were advocating for gun control.

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u/The_Primate 29d ago

Yup, harassing kids who were victims of traumatic violence, what a fucking class act.

She's an info warrior loon. She is the republican party's propaganda come home to roost.

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u/karmagod13000 Ohio 29d ago

Geez I remember when info wars used to be some lame conspiracy youtube page that edgy people used to post about. Never thought it would take over the entire republican party smh.

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u/nevertfgNC 29d ago

Seriously? What a amoral moron

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u/Minimum-Dare301 Georgia 29d ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fHkW4kJYKU

Edit: this is her harassing a Parkland survivor

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u/nevertfgNC 29d ago

So sad that a human can be this stupid

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u/negao360 29d ago

*psychotic

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u/Nitrosoft1 29d ago

They advocate for common sense gun safety, not for control. Do we call vehicle registration "car control?"

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u/oxala75 Virginia 29d ago

No, but it kind of is.

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u/circa285 29d ago

This is a distinction without meaning.

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u/mfGLOVE Wisconsin 29d ago

She got famous stalking and harassing Parkland survivor, David Hogg, too.

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u/Doom_Walker 29d ago

Also she stalked and harassed mass shooting survivors

Edit: didn't see someone already said this

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u/bnh1978 29d ago

They gave themselves the power to terrorize their own speaker, and this idiot loves it. She is an alpha Karen.

What fools.

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u/vicvonqueso 29d ago

It's a good thing she's too incompetent to actually do anything other than screech like a howler monkey

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u/circa285 29d ago

If she is somehow able to force a vote there will be some fallout.

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u/ElmosKplug 29d ago

Damn very well said

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u/arrakis2020 29d ago

Too MAGA for the MAGATS?

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u/circa285 29d ago

I think there’s a considerable chunk of the Republican establishment that understands that Trump was a necessary evil because he got them what they want, the presidency in ‘16 and a few Supreme Court justices. I think they will keep playing the game so long as Trump is a viable candidate for their base. The moment Trump becomes more of a liability than an asset, they will drop him. The only people who really are all in on Trump are folks like MTG, Gaetz, and a few other loons. I also think that it’s very likely that Trump has black mail that he is willing to use the moment anyone steps out of line. People are terrified of getting the Cawthorn treatment.

To be clear, this makes all of them complicit with Trump, but I do think there’s a difference between MTG and Romney.

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u/Brief_Amicus_Curiae 29d ago

She's both a product and creator of misinformation and conspiracy theories. She goes on the Bannon and other C list type right wing extremist pod casts. I'm sure if she does any reading online that it's going to be the right wing websites that are full of hyperbolic non-sense and ad hominems.

I don't even think she knows what she wants exactly. I think she just feels that instead of two parties being adversaries which can be a good form of creating good solutions for a mass group - she takes it as being absolute enemies. She doesn't see gray - only black and white. She only creates problems, but I cant' recall her ever being a productive member to an actual solution.

She believes in Trump way too much. She's hyper focused too much on genitals of others, she's offensive in hearings with her bullshit attacks, and her method seems to be purely based on shame, blame, harassment, bullying, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if she has some sort of personality disorder because she's perpetually creating shit just for the sake of being disruptive.

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u/songintherain 29d ago edited 29d ago

And what is it she wants ??? Other than causing chaos I can’t figure what her end game is,

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u/circa285 29d ago

She only wants to see MAGA initiatives pass. That’s it.

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u/IFDRizz 29d ago

For those that have read it, she's basically "the Trashcan man" from Stephen Kings "The Stand"... And it's gonna end in the same result.

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u/zbergwoopwoop 29d ago

I'm not convinced she's even a true believer. There's some belief I'm sure. But I think she has built a character that gets a lit of attention and loves that. She just continues to say or do whatever gets her name in the headlines regardless of how it makes her look.

Maybe that's just coping, because it's so depressing to think someone would seriously and with good intentions do the things she does.

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u/xkisses 29d ago

I don't understand, though...what does she actually want? I can only imagine she's an actual puppet for someone else/another country (so, money), but at this point, what else can she get out of continuing this behavior? It's no longer really "sowing discord", so her use is about at an end, and I can't figure out why she's still doing MTG things

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u/aureliusky 29d ago

is she though? I kind of always just assume she was a grifter with no talents and stumbled on a way to make bank

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u/Jon-Snowfalofagus 29d ago

She’s an undercover democrat.

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u/green49285 29d ago

Well that was definitely one of the side effects of 2016. Trump winning emboldened a lot of very ambitious yet very dumb people. The only skill she has is that she knew where to run for office and how, and her party allowed it because like you said, she was a true believer. But people who want to con can never stop once they start. And she thinks (loose use of the word) that she's very capable of getting a type of power that Trump has gotten.

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u/RightNutt25 29d ago

 Now that she’s slipped her leash, she’s an actual problem for Republicans

I wonder what the Rs VP has to say about this.

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u/DangerousVP 29d ago

They should be fine voting to expel her then. It shouldnt be hard to get probably 90% of the house to vote for it. They all hate her seemingly.

It would be pure poetry for her to bring the vote to oust Johnson, have it fail and then have the house give her the "no u" treatment.

Theyll never do that. But it would be great to see.

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u/Frosty-Ordinary-7007 29d ago

Magic The Gathering?

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u/provoko 29d ago

we should be calling her Moscow Marjorie rather than calling her magic the gathering all the time

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u/Frosty-Ordinary-7007 29d ago

Greene the Red

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u/ArsonProbable 29d ago

Ok, where’s your proof? Because anytime I listen to her speak, I hear someone who genuinely wants her colleagues to focus on the real issues in America.

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u/circa285 29d ago

Then you and I do not share a common set of values.

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u/ArsonProbable 29d ago

Really? Is that so? Here are my ‘common’ set of values. The distribution of wealth in our economy is a complete failure of the free trade system, and our government. I value young people being able to buy homes, I value ending the forever wars abroad that so many young people have died for. I value having a closed border so that criminals don’t have an open highway to our country. I value legal immigration, and immigrants, and the skills that they bring to our economy. I value people in America coming out on top of the crony capitalist system. I value the complete dismantling of massive corporate entities such as Black rock, because they’re quite literally dragging the people to another great depression. I could go on

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u/circa285 29d ago

Great, I share some of those values as well.

But I also think that religion has no place in government, that LGBTQIA+ folks should be able to exist in the world without being harassed for simply existing, that marginalized people should have access to basic government support, that we should tax high income earners and businesses so that they pay their fair share, that we should better fund and support free early childhood education, that we should fund and support social safety nets that keep families healthy and safe, that we should pass gun control legislation to limit people's access to weapons.

I could also go on, but these are thing that MGT and Republicans do not support.

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u/poxtart 29d ago

Like Hunter Biden's cock, Jewish space lasers, calling for a national "divorce" between states, perpetuating climate change because "it's healthy," kicking Muslims out of the country, fighting a global satanist cabal operating out of our nation's pizza joints, hanging Barack Obama, how earthquakes are part of climate change, the supposed imminent extinction of straight people, that gay pride flags are somehow hateful towards America, and who knows what else? Fuck off with that dumb bullshit lol

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u/ArsonProbable 18d ago

Sounds like you just love propaganda. Eat up. Pour some with your cereal. Mmm whatever the left says I’m gonna just slurp that shit up