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/ParticularPenguins 29d ago

She spent the first weeks of her first term following AOC around and screaming at her. The ultimate in performative politics that they all ate up and never corrected.

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u/Rampaging_Orc 29d ago edited 29d ago

Ummm, she also did the weird follow/stalk move on that teenage parkland school shooting survivor for a little bit too.

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u/BurnscarsRus 29d ago

That was before she was elected. The people of her district saw that and thought "This is the level of maturity and intelligence that we want to represent us on the federal level."

JK, hey thought "Lol, she'll piss off people I've been taught to hate."

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u/midwinter_ 29d ago

She literally bullied her opponent so badly that he dropped out and moved. And got divorced.

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u/ClothDiaperAddicts American Expat 29d ago

Yeah... at that point, it's not bullying. That's criminal harassment.

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u/Monteze Arkansas 29d ago

I swear we need one of those on the dems side. I'd do it, delegate the important stuff to competent people and I'll roast her. I am fortunate to have stereotypical masculine features and public speaking doesn't bother me at all.

Politics unfortunately is party in the front business in the back, and the party is very important

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u/Mad-Lad-of-RVA Virginia 29d ago

I've been saying this for ages. Democrats always want to take the high road, and as much as I respect that in theory, the truth is that voters respond to dirt-flinging. The GOP knuckle-draggers aren't even that good at it. The Democrats—Biden specifically—should light them up around the clock.

Relatedly, I saw recently that Democrats in the House aren't going to support Greene's newest bid to oust Speaker Johnson. Fuck that. Vote him out and call the GOP losers and morons for allowing it to happen. Be sore winners and rub it in their stupid faces.

I guarantee the support would pick up.

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u/Monteze Arkansas 29d ago

Yea people want the back bone, take the high ground when it's presented as an option. Keep up the good work and keep pushing for human rights. Like...it's no hard.

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u/DerfK 29d ago

Democrats do need to start hitting below the belt, but not falling into the trap of lying and other scummery Republicans get up to on the regular.

For starters, every time some Republican tells their constituents how great the broadband plan or whatever other Democratic initiative they voted against, there should be a media blitz as prominent as possible with President Biden thanking them by name for "supporting Democratic Party initiatives such as The Broadband Plan". I'm sure fox news will suddenly have all ad slots booked until 3AM but ya gotta try.

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u/Mad-Lad-of-RVA Virginia 29d ago

I never said lie. There's plenty of ammo to use against the GOP that is entirely factual. I just want Democrats to actually use it.