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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 707 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 219 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 129 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a liberal I would be so fucking owned by this

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 135 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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 82 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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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[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Thus is the difference between MAGA/republicans and everyone else

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[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Holy shit I agree with MTG

Harambe truly was this universe's anchor being, and the decay is increasing exponentially

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 1 month ago

Let me stretch first. Don't want to pull anything.

I'm kinda with you... Like, let them fight?

I think she meant this as a threat to get the party in line, but i can't see any way this doesn't blow up in their faces. If the leopards are eating leopard faces, will they notice mine..?

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 393 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 154 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Then who is supporting Nancy Pelosi?

Quip aside, let's bring on the sunlight.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 120 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Honestly don't know anyone that likes Pelosi.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

I don't know why anyone likes neoliberals.

She's a model one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/nancy-pelosi-federal-lawmakers-should-be-able-to-trade-stock.html

I vote blue with my nose held as always for harm reduction, but neoliberals like Pelosi are why so many actual leftwing people that want a society walked away, they have no party that isnt enthusiastically part of the root problem of maintaining crony market capitalism at society's catastrophic expense.

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[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 39 points 1 month ago (8 children)

She has famously had an abysmal approval rate nationwide, but she gets more votes than her opponents so she gets to keep her seat.

Like Mitch McConnell, MTG, Lauren Boebert, or Matt Gaetz.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 226 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Deal

Edit: no takebacks

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 175 points 1 month ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 152 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] Today@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I feel you. I have this new super bitch of a boss, but she wore cute pants one day in September and it left me conflicted. I'm still pissed off about it.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 134 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yeah, nothing wrong with that

You know what's wrong though?

Her brushing over the fact that Gaetz is a pedo rapist. You'll never hear her admit to this because the republican party never admits that they are the source of all the shit they accuse everyone of.

Fuck this waste of oxygen.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 108 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Something something broken clock

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 82 points 1 month 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.

[–] islands@lemmy.cafe 81 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"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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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

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 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A broken clock is still right 2 times a day.

You're giving her too much credit.

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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 72 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you're saying she's betting that while republicans will have significantly more corruption, democrats will be the only ones punished because their voter base is the only one that actually cares? Honestly, you could very well be right about the result of a hypothetical universal ethic report release, though I'd be surprised if MTG was smart enough to think 2 steps ahead like that.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

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’.

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[–] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TFW you accidentally say something smart and you don't even know it

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

She's threatening other Republicans to keep them in line with Trump.

The headline only touches on it but the article goes deeper into her comment.

It's not an honest request to release anything, but a threat to release everything if they release the Gaetz report.

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[–] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Marjorie Taylor Greene may yet be our Gollum.

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[–] realtegan@lemm.ee 53 points 1 month ago

She's trying to extort her fellow Republicans into not releasing the report, not realizing that the public is saying, "HELL YEAH!" at the suggestion. What's sad is it might actually work, and they won't release anything.

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[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

For once I agree with this ghoul.

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

makes popcorn

What? Can't a man just make popcorn without it IMMEDIATELY being assumed to be a statement reflecting the imminent surge of corrupt behavior all coming to light across the entire GOP side due to MTG's own suggestion?

Are you saying I'm only making popcorn because I will treat this as an entertaining movie watching the cockroaches skuttle?

..........I mean, you're right, but daaaaamn. Why you gotta out me like that?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Y'all are missing the implication of this. These comments think it's the public she's talking to here. She's talking to other Congress people with skeletons in their closets.

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