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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

this is probably just an internal threat to bring dissenting republicans in line, nothing to see for us here since it likely won't be realized

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 44 points 20 hours ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene may yet be our Gollum.

[-] sozesoze@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

What a hilarious way to put it

[-] chetradley@lemm.ee 67 points 23 hours ago

The tweet in question to save you the click.

The replies are hilarious. Everyone is 100% in favor of this idea, but the MAGA dipshits don't realize she's literally only doing this to protect a pedophile sex trafficker.

So, MTGs plan is to call out the entire Republican party as corrupt and rally her supporters to air their dirty laundry to the public. Truly fantastic, MTG. Please don't let anyone talk you out of it.

[-] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 54 points 22 hours ago
[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 36 points 22 hours ago

Does she think this is a burn? It’s absolutely what should happen.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago
[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Is that tim pool without his beanie?

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble but this isn't an actual suggestion to release the Gaetz report.

It's a threat directed at other Republicans that if we are going to release the Gaetz report, we're going to release many other reports too.

Marjorie is a die-hard bootlicker, and she's not going to break lines with Trump.

Her full tweet is in the article. The headline only touches on her intentions.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 22 points 23 hours ago

I mean, it doesn't detract the sentiment of the people. Do it. People want to see the ethic reports on everyone in a position of power.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago
[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago
[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Am..Am I agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Is..Is Marjorie Taylor Greene making smart, intelligent, good points?

We really are in bizarro world.

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago

When Democrat politicians fuck up, other Democrats will absolutely call for, and get, resignations. Even things that boil down to consenting adults in privacy can result in resignations when it's seen to compromise a politician.

When Republicans fuck up, the party circles the wagons and goes full defensive. They will absolutely fight to resist any calls to resign, using any tactic they can think of to keep their latest pedo/pervert/con man/criminal in power. Only if the evidence is incontrovertible, and the outcry impossible to ignore, will they ever consider resignation, and as we've seen with Gaetz, that's not even necessarily the end of their career.

MTG is exactly the kind of brainlet to think that Democrats work the same way Republicans do. She thinks "Release all the Ethics reports" will make Democrats back down, or at least intimidate them. A party agreeing to release ethics reports relating to their own people is utterly unthinkable to her.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Well, thank you for coming in and ruining the moment with your facts and reason and obvious statements and common sense

[-] Denalduh@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

A broken clock is still right 2 times a day.

You're giving her too much credit.

[-] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't worry, you agree with her words but not her intent. She doesn't actually want to do it, she just wants to use the threat of it to keep Gaetz's report secret.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that the Democratic party is far more morally corrupt than the Republican party. So therefore she believes that this is a nuclear option she does not realize that this is what everyone literally wants, well everyone except for the people in her own party.

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[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Don't worry, she's not, at least not on purpose. Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while.
Pretty sure she's being sarcastic.

[-] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Blind pigs are far more capable than this creature.

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[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

fuckin do it. don't threaten me with a good time.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ok.

Do it.

The overwhelming problem is that the Dems tend to hold their members accountable while the republicans absolutely DGAF and happily keep literal criminals in their ranks.

She’s basically acknowledging there’s plenty of dirt, but the only offenses they’ll care about is their opponents’.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

Even if the democrats weren't actually holding their members accountable, it should be done. So what if dozens of politicians, both R and D get expelled as a result. Nobody should be upset that people who had bad ethics reports get expelled.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

It would be ideal if both sides held their members accountable equally. My point was that this isn’t the case.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 199 points 1 day ago

Just make them all public all the time! That'll show those fucking libs.

As a liberal I would be so fucking owned by this

[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 123 points 1 day ago

I don't care if they are Republican or Democrat. If they are criminals, they should go to jail. Release the Epstein files and send Bill and Trump to jail.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago

Thats the thing I don't think they get.

"Ok, well our guy will go to jail, but so will yours!!!"

"That's fine."

"But then we BOTH lose!"

"This isn't a MAD doctrine situation. This is supposed to be more like a scorched earth situation. No corruption left behind."

And I don't think they grasp that.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 48 points 1 day ago

What they don't grasp is that we'd send our guy to jail: because they won't.

That's the difference.

When a corrupt democrat is exposed they're expelled (bye bye Cuomo)

When a corrupt republican is exposed they're re-elected.

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[-] ToAllPointsWest@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Ummm, Ok!!! Don't threaten me with a good time

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

She's right and all...

But will it actually matter? The public voted for a pedo rapist felon. Surely if the triple threat is your pick for president, to be considered "incompatible" you would have had to do something truly horrific.

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 370 points 1 day ago

This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don't support corrupt leaders. MTG does.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 150 points 1 day ago

Then who is supporting Nancy Pelosi?

Quip aside, let's bring on the sunlight.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 112 points 1 day ago

Honestly don't know anyone that likes Pelosi.

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[-] auzy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Especially looking forward to all those Biden ethics violations they spent months trying to find and millions of dollars

It will probably be a short read compared to the comey report though

[-] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago

Even a broken clock is right twice a day...

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Its actually clever. When the repubs block the release of the reports she will claim the dems balked at releasing the reports because they are the dirty ones.

How many of these ethics reports even really exist? Gaetz existed I thought because he was under investigation for his crimes and they said if he dropped out it would be sealed.

Do they actually have reports for everyone? If so that's great, but I can't imagine they were actually investigating every person in the same manner.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 217 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Deal

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[-] islands@lemmy.cafe 78 points 1 day ago

"For my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate, If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see. Yes.. all the ethics reports and claims including the one I filed, all your sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled paying off victims with tax payer money, the entire Jeffrey Epstein files, tapes, recordings, witness interviews. But not just those, there's more, Epstein wasn't/isn't the only asset. If we're going to dance, let's all dance in the sunlight. I'll make sure we do," the lawmaker said in a post on X.

Interesting, she's going the Madison Crawthorn route. Remember what happened to him? They dished up all the dirt they could find on him and hung him out to dry. This sounds noble of her, but she's using this as a threat to try to force them not to go after Gaetz, her pedophile buddy.

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[-] Catoblepas 167 points 1 day ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

[-] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 141 points 1 day ago

The amount of cognitive dissonance I got from reading something MTG said that I actually agree with was nuts

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[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 67 points 1 day ago

I don't think this is as stupid as it sounds. With some exceptions Democratic voters tend to punish their representatives for corruption, but republican voters never do

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[-] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

yes absolutely! do that!

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 103 points 1 day ago

Something something broken clock

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