• themeatbridge
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    3166 months ago

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

    • @Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
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      196 months ago

      Or it reveals an intention by the republicans to release a flood of bad faith ethics reports on Democrats

      • @Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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        26 months ago

        Oh no, republicans released the kraken.

        Oh wait, nevermind, it looks like trump just scribbled with some crayon. And the occasional sharpie

  • Phoenixz
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    1146 months ago

    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.

  • @chetradley@lemm.ee
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    726 months 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_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    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
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      396 months 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
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        156 months ago

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

    • Meeech
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      276 months ago

      A broken clock is still right 2 times a day.

      You’re giving her too much credit.

      • @JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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        Eh she’s more like a 24 hr clock. Or maybe one of those little “comic-a-day” calendars that you keep out on your desk that always seem to be on the wrong day until you remember to update it…

    • @roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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
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      166 months 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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        Right. Not only does she completely misunderstand her enemy, but that misunderstanding has resulted in her explicitly saying, in public, that a whole lot of shady shit has been happening inside the GOP. We all knew that, but saying it out loud is something different.

        There are weaknesses in fascism that we should look to exploit. One is that they pick people for loyalty first and competence a distant second. Another is their complete inability to have a good mental model of their enemy’s actual strengths and weaknesses.

    • @Chais@sh.itjust.works
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      96 months 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.

    • @winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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      26 months ago

      She’s not, i don’t think she wants this to happen and i think she knows that people won’t agree to this kind of thing.

      But what she’s saying is right. The people deserve to know what our representatives are up to.

    • Phoenixz
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      Point, point… it’s just a single point so it was probably just an accident

  • Phoenixz
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    596 months ago

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

      • @PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world
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        96 months ago

        I think most of us know it’s not a genuine threat, but we don’t care. I hope the MAGA mob eggs her on until she doubles down, and I hope in the process of eating itself alive the entire GOP fails to pass any of their regressive legislation.

  • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    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
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      36 months 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.

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          06 months ago

          We know of some democratic lawmakers who have been held accountable, and a very small number of republicans. But, really we don’t know whether what we’re seeing is the norm, or if it’s just a tiny fraction being held accountable. It’s possible that there are more democrats that are committing unethical acts, but that they’re better at hiding it and/or have more complicity in covering it up. But, I think most sane people would say that everybody’s ethics violations should be public information. Even if it means hundreds of congresspeople losing their jobs and massive uncertainty in who will hold power. Ethics violations should be something voters get to know about.

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            Oh FFS. Your premise is that the dems are bad because they might be hiding evil stuff, or they’re better at hiding it, so that makes them just as bad as the republicans who get actually get caught?

            Give me a break.

            I already laid out what the problem is with republicans and how ethics are essentially meaningless to them when it comes to holding themselves accountable, but they freak out over tan suits, so I really have no clue what your point is.

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              16 months ago

              Wow, you’re like some kind of cultist. Any criticism that might apply to democrats and you come out swinging.

              My premise is that we don’t know what ethics violations have been suppressed by either party. We know that both Republicans and Democrats have been found to have violated ethics, but we don’t know whether it’s the majority that have been exposed or if it’s just the tip of the iceberg. If it turns out that the Democrats have never suppressed an ethics violation then maybe they do live up to your mental image of them and are pure as the driven snow. But, it’s also possible that the democrats have protected some members.

              That doesn’t mean that Republicans are better than Democrats or something, it just means that politics is politics and sometimes people in power get away with things. But really dude, you should cut back on the hero worship. These are just politicians, they shouldn’t be your whole identity.

              • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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                16 months ago

                It’s possible that there are more democrats that are committing unethical acts, but that they’re better at hiding it and/or have more complicity in covering it up.

                This is your premise. Democrats are possibly evil too, and that’s what you’re basing your argument on.

                There’s no hero worship here, it’s objectively true that democrats punish their members more than the republicans do by a long shot.

                • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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                  16 months ago

                  My premise is that people are sometimes corrupt and that power corrupts. There are democrats in power.

                  Are you really so much in a cult that you can’t believe that your side could possibly be anything less than pure?

  • @holycrap@lemm.ee
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    596 months 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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      356 months ago

      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.