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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14604927

Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene

The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and her sort-of-serious crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.

The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet to attack Greene, invoking the “Moscow Marjorie” nickname coined by former representative Ken Buck.

Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had already taken aim at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.” This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene “Rep. Mayhem Taylor Greene” and accused her and her allies of being “most interested in TV hits and internet donors.” 

Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra Saunders demanded to know “who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”

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[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

So they knew she was a moron all along, but were perfectly content to let her do her thing as long as she only attacked democrats. Sounds about right.

[-] HauntedBucket@lemm.ee 44 points 6 months ago

Hey look, a positive scoring post in this shit hole of a community. Be proud boys, your garbage fire of a political party is turning on itself.

[-] HauntedBucket@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

This is the most left leaning community on Lemmy. Day after day we get opportunities to upvote your asinine bullshit and day in and day out we vote it down. Get a clue you authoritarian asshats. You're not welcome here.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago
[-] HauntedBucket@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

aaand your ideals don't survive in a democratic society

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

I wonder how much money she has accepted from Putin.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 months ago

Over the weekend, a Russian state TV host described Greene as “a real beauty. She is a blond who wears white coats with a fur collar. She’s demonstrably heterosexual.”

Finally, someone is recognizing her fantastic looks. /s

[-] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

LFG, that bitch is the only person in modernity I can safely say deserves a muzzle (the kind you put on dogs, idk if there are any other meanings for the word but if so then I'm gonna make myself painfully clear that I don't endorse violence, just putting contraptions over idiot politicians mouths to keep them from being a danger to society)

[-] realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 6 points 6 months ago

As a conservative myself, NYP and Fox News messaging doesn't represent the true values or positions of the GOP base.

While most Republican politicians support continuing to fund Ukraine with no end, most Republicans are at most cautious of that idea, if not opposed to it altogether. There's a big reason why the GOP presidential candidates were trying so hard to convince the audience that funding the war is a good idea.

[-] sj_zero@social.fbxl.net 12 points 6 months ago

I strongly suspect that most Democrats don't actually want to fund a bunch of forever wars either. I mean, that's what Obama was elected for, he just turned out to do the opposite of everything he was elected to do. "Help the poor, end the wars, shut down gitmo? I agree but let's tweak it to help the 0.1%, keep the wars going forever, keep gitmo going!"

[-] realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 2 points 6 months ago

Well, I don't know. Democrats are more vocal about it for sure, but that's just because many of them hate either Jews or Israel. Democrats seem to love Ukraine, and would like to keep funding them, while Republicans seem to not care about them at all.

[-] sj_zero@social.fbxl.net 3 points 6 months ago

I'm making a distinction between the rank and file and the media, I don't really believe most rank and file are really like whatever the media or the like claim.... I mean if they really did flip 180 like that then it makes them incredibly disingenuous people...

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