MTG goes on extraordinary rant about Charlie Kirk, Republican men and her resignation
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-charlie-kirk-resignation-b2873166.html
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celeste@kbin.earth · 134 pts · 292d
Hmm. There's a degree to which it feels like she's shoving canned goods from the pantry out of sight into her purse while she's saying this, but I do agree with her basic point here. Especially the way parties are treated like football teams.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 79 pts · 292d
I hate it when this happens

RePsyche@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 292d
Shirley, you know someone worse.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 292d
There's always Ted Cruz, and don't call me Shirley.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 291d
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 292d
I’m sure we all do.
And don’t call me Shirley.
BruceCampbellschin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 292d
Please don't call me Shirley
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d
pls call me shirley senpai uwu
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 290d
breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 292d
This is the process of MTG becoming Woke.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 291d
He, even Hitler loved dogs...
7112@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 292d
"Two party toxic political system"
Maybe she really is going to run with Musk's party
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 292d
Well someone convinced Trump to divide the Republicans into groups apparently, so they'll probably split into Repugnant, Repulsive, and the Democrats will find a way to split into Corporate centrists and progressives, why... Because they can't possibly take advantage of a divide and try to win back both houses
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 292d
I mostly remember her screaming at a man who survived a school shooting that he was a crisis actor.
And screaming “you lie” at Joe Biden at his SOTU for no obvious reason.
Maybe people would listen to her if she didn’t act like an unhinged lunatic grifter.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 291d
I seriously wish a whole lot more conservatives and "moderates" and "independents" would pay more attention to sportsball instead of voting for Republicans for culture war reasons. They definitely treat culture war/wedge issues like sportsball...
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 291d
They're pissed about sportsball because sportsballers started protesting while still respecting the flag by kneeling and now they refuse to watch sportsball.
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 290d
You just gave me an idea.
Implement voting in sports, but only for big things. Who should be LocalTeam's coach? Who should be HomeTeam during BigGame? How much should your team splurge on the latest star player?
They would be too busy with all of that to worry about politics.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 290d
Probably would have worked better if she hadn’t abandoned the metaphor and swapped to another one.
She went with whatever she felt would be most impactful for the message portion, rather than the whole thing.
It seems disingenuous because it is. It’s not a coherent thought. At best it’s a bunch of unrelated thoughts crammed together. Probably based on what she thinks will hit. As sound bites.
So don’t feel bad not trusting it; it’s not even internally consistent. Even if you agree with part of it, a stopped clock is right at least once.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 291d
But the current President is one of those rich powerful men raping the trafficked. What did she expect would happen?
zbyte64@awful.systems · 20 pts · 291d
She expected support for her run for Senator. She got none.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 290d
I'm wondering if that is a description of herself?
Maybe that's why this issue is her line in the sand?
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 292d
Woman experiences leopards eating her face while live streaming it.
fl1p@piefed.zip · 25 pts · 292d
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 292d
numbermess@fedia.io · 13 pts · 292d
MTG, standing eyeball-deep in feasted leopard shit, gnashing and tearing away the flaps of flesh the leopard left behind
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 291d
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 291d
I don't think even she is so stupid that she is just now realizing that the Republican Party is....full of Republicans.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 14 pts · 291d
The consultants got her. She's going centrist for a presidential run
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 291d
Likely Senate first, and then try and inch her way into the neo(shit)libs democratic party, then presidential run.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 2 pts · 290d
I don't think she could get the Senate seat... If she could she wouldn't have resigned from the house
She's distancing herself and doing the talk show circuit. If she wanted the Senate seat, she'd be lying low and doing things locally... And 100% she's been picked up by a group of consultants
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 289d
This is likely it, she's just at the cash in part of her villain arc.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 10 pts · 291d
nah she wants the sexism removed but wants to keep racism and bigotry intact. No one told her its a package deal.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 292d
She's resigning exactly two days after her pension kicks in.
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 292d
In fairness, we would all do it this way. Would you stop a week short? Fuck no, I worked for that.
I don't like her and I don't like nearly everything she's done, but this is the most honest way people in congress make their money. I'd be more angry about most of the other ways.
SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 292d
She’s also worth 21 million dollars now, when she entered congress she was worth less than half a million. Her stock trading game has rivaled Nancy Pelosi’s since she entered office. This should be the bigger scandal. It’s not because it bipartisan.
Honestly, —assuming there’s no fuckery here, which in fairness is a bold assumption— I kind of respect the resignation. She fucked us, got her bag, and fucked off. That’s far better than her becoming a fixture of Washington for the next 50 years.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 291d
I don't know how Pelosi became this issues poster child, other than normal Republican boogie-man creators. She's bad, don't get me wrong, but far from the worst.
Here's a look at the top 10 for 2024:
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 291d
Even your tiny modicum of respect for her behavior is exactly what's wrong with everything right now.
This acceptance of institutional raiding for the sake of individual material gain has completely eroded any sort of civic reprisal. These actions are inherently antisocial and yet we have people praising folks who "got their bag".
America deserves what it's getting.
g0nz0li0@piefed.social · 48 pts · 291d
Sounds like she’s just discovered the “find out” part of “fuck around” might possibly apply to her, so she’s out.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 291d
She bailed exactly as her pension matured. She's gonna try for a presidential run as a third party outsider.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 291d
Good. The more the Republican voting block is fractured the better.
leadore@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 291d
More likely governor.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d
Some guy once said "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." It's possible this may apply here.
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 291d
The concept behind the proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is found in the ancient Sanskrit treatise Arthashastra, attributed to Kautilya (also known as Chanakya), a political philosopher and advisor to the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta I.
This treatise, dating to around the 4th century BC, outlines statecraft, military strategy, and economic policy, and it formalizes the strategic idea that a ruler's enemy is the natural ally of a neighboring power that is itself threatened by the same conqueror.
Specifically, Kautilya describes a king whose territory borders that of an enemy as a natural ally of the conqueror, because they are separated from the conqueror only by the enemy.
This strategic framework, known as Rajamandala or the "circle of kings," was used to inform foreign policy and alliances in ancient India.
Madison420@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d
It doesn't. She's an asset for someone with money every politician I know of is. Don't trust a single one, use them and throw them away like single use packaging.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 43 pts · 292d
For anyone trying to figure out what the angle is, MTG is trying to become the face of the American TERF movement. She's going to milk that for years (if it catches on). Expect a book about the horrors she endured as a brave woman in the Magasphere.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 291d
oh no the toxic masculinity that I endorsed is toxic!
DomeGuy@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 292d
I don't know if right-wing radical feminism in America is necessarily going to be trans-exclusive. Transmedicalist if it isn't, for sure, but there are plenty of right wing grifters who also happen to be trans women.
The mainstream facist right already have transphobia cornered as a brand, so being trans-inclusive might be key to turning some discontent into a real political movement.
Archer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 291d
lol how could right-wing TERFs possibly be trans-inclusive
DomeGuy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d
They couldn't, but "radical feminism" isn't explicitly transphobic. Hence the four letter acronym.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 42 pts · 291d
"Typical of Republican men telling a woman to ‘shut up get back in the kitchen and fix me something to eat."
Wait, so as far as I understand she wants the sexism removed from republican party but wants all the other stuff like racism and bigotry to remain? I am sorry dear, they come as a package, drown in the shit hole that you fought so hard to protect.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 290d
She does seem to genuinely believe in protecting kids… But she has an extremely warped idea of what that entails. The Epstein thing has been an obvious wedge between her and Trump, because it’s one thing she has dug her heels in and refused to drop. Because (again) she does at least seem to care about protecting kids. And she sees the Epstein stuff as an obvious “if you protect the files, you’re protecting pedos” signal flare. Broken clocks, I suppose. At least she has shown that she hasn’t been willing to budge on this one specific issue.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 290d
Yeah, MTG is crazy but she hasn't been bought, which is unfortunately rare
daannii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 288d
Can't be bought when you have been winning at stocks from insider trading.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 290d
Wait til you hear what the Latino republicans want, and the gay republicans… Turns out the bigotry party has bigots of all flavors
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 288d
Ive got a (out) gay republican racist cousin. They sure are something.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 35 pts · 292d
I really hope that she is immediately plunged into irrelevancy when she leaves office. Id prefer to never have to hear her speak or see her over bleached teeth again, if possible.
LuckyFogic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 292d
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 292d
Dig a little deeper into her reasoning behind everything she's complaining about, and you'll lose that forgiveness, fast. She's still blaming immigrants for all of America's problems...she's just also tacking some additional blame on businesses that exploit immigration policies for the cheap labor.
At the end of the day, her issues are more that Republicans are being disingenuous about truly wanting to get rid of all the brown folks.
SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 292d
Forgiveness can only be granted after an honest apology, acknowledgement of the harm caused, and an honest effort made to undo those harms.
Her acknowledging the harms that those surrounding her are causing is a step in the right direction, and a step towards forgiveness. But oooh boy does she still have a lot of aplogizing to do and acknowledging the harms that she herself has caused. Not to mention that her current plan isn't to undo those harms but wipe her hands clean of it all.
Forgiveness is only on the table once she starts championing the causes of the black, hispanic and trans peoples she has victimized.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 292d
Forgiveness is for people that show remorse
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 292d
No, not forgiveness. She knew what she was doing and this world is worse for her doing it. I'll gladly never say another bad thing about her as soon as she disappears into obscurity and never speaks publicly again.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 292d
And gives all the money back? Like the Covid money she stole?
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 292d
Fuuuuuuck no. I'm done with this turn the other cheek bullshit. These assholes rape everything around them, then when they get rich they are like "Can we like... just debate, bro?"
Anyone that wants forgiveness needs to first fully acknowledge their wrongdoing and then earnestly apologize. This "both sides" bullshit she's spewing ain't it.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 292d
Don't worry, they'll soon find someone even worse to replace her with.
jumperalex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
The chaos agent in me wants her to keep slinging shit at Congress
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 292d
This photo just gets more unsettling the more one looks at it.
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 292d
My secret is that I haven't been settled in years.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 291d
I like the new MTG a little more than I liked the old one.
slickgoat@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 290d
True, but that is like saying you like typhoid a little more than cholera.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 290d
Fair.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 291d
wuffah@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 292d
I wish this vile woman would take a long tour of the Acme anvil factory on floor cleaning day.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 292d
May rat kings infest her home and plumbing
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 292d
Oh, now those are problems.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 292d
They’re only rhetorical problems. When it comes to taking steps to address them, anyone affected needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
pachrist@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 291d
I can't tell if her grift got bigger, or if she realized the people serving her kool-aid aren't drinking it.
Probably both.
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 292d
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 292d
What exactly led her to choose the Republican party?
watson@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 292d
She is extremely racist and homophobic
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 292d
And also not very smart, or good at things. It was an easy choice.
obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 291d
She's good at grifting and stock trading on privileged information
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 8 pts · 292d
And religious
But I repeat yourself
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 291d
Good at lying and religious nuttery, grifting, a racist and a homophobe. A perfect fit really.
MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 291d
STFU, Trailer Queen. You helped put us here.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 291d
She's swinging for the midwestern mom vote and it's going to work, she can build a fanbase there.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 1 pts · 289d
Yep. That "midwestern mom vote" won't be enough to get her elected again anywhere, but it will 100% be enough to let her grift millions and continue polluting the airwaves and social media with her hate filled screeds.
jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 290d
As it turns out, criticizing trump is bad for oligarchs.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 290d
She's still a racist sack of shit and this is another FAFO. Zero sympathy and get lost.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 290d
Whoa whoa whoa. Kirk would not approve of her saying this stuff. She should shut up and get in the kitchen according to him. But Kirk got shot in the neck and would be perfectly fine with what happened to him. So who cares what he thinks.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 290d