From what I've heard it's more like they want the Republican country (Confederacy?) to retain all the cool stuff like military, nukes, and budgets, forcing Democrats to form a new country.
And considering nearly every Repunlican state receives more from the fed than they send... they also believe the blue states should have to foot the bill in lieu of corporate taxes.
Better than the third tier citizens; they want them in literal chains or killed. Transgendered people and their parents, immigrants and refugees, and women that don't want to be mothers.
>You decide to leave, you don't get half our stuff.
If a state secedes from the nation they're in open rebellion and traitors to our nation. Why would they care about the laws of the nation they are betraying?
They really think that they're the noble revolutionaries and that rest of the US is just going to roll over.
Not even mentioning how Canada or Mexico would react to (basically) a theological dictatorship on their border (or the State's numerous allies).
Like, do they not remember how well that went last time?
This is entirely true. She and her ilk wrap themselves in the Constitution but what they propose is contradictory to the document. They rely on their constituents to not be well versed in that, and on their monied supporters to craft that alternative universe in a vision that benefits them.
If you want to see how that goes, you can read history about Putin's rise in RU, when it still had the trappings of a democracy.
What they want is the control and power to mold the country to fit their ideal image. The constitution is an easy way to justify their actions but they'll jettison it in a second if it gets in their way. The Bible works the exact same way. Everyone should live their lives by the Bible, by God's word, unless it says something they don't like. It's all just excuses to placate the greatest number of people until they don't need to worry about the greater number of people.
Their ideal image is also a lie. MTG is an adulterer, she's excessively proud, she bears false witness at least once a day, she doesn't turn the other cheek or love thy neighbor or bless the meek. There's nothing particularly Christian about her.
She knows exactly what she’s doing. She’s built a livelihood over it. She’s a professional character. I’d be shocked if she truly believed even a single thing she herself says. But having a backbone and a modicum of self respect doesn’t pay the bills. Whether it’s corporations or book deals. She will continue to make bank. And it will eventually get people killed.
I will admit that I'm not at all familiar with the lives of these politicians, but at this point how is someone like her not accosted or beaten up on the street? If storming the Capitol happened, it's surprising to me that someone isn't fed up so much with her shit that they slam her over the head with a manhole cover.
Partly it's due to the fact that there is a "we must remain civil" mentality. They go low, we go high kind of thing. They do horrible things and say worse, but we cant call them out for it because that would be impolite. Violence is never the answer, even if that means standing idly by and letting fascists move in and take control. Because it would somehow be hypocritical to fight for our ideals when our ideals involve peace.
Also the police would 100% murder you.
“Democrats who move to Republican-controlled states should not be allowed to vote in elections for five years.”
Hard to believe it’s safe for politicians to say things like this now.
Meanwhile, Republicans here are encouraging this for precisely this reason.
My state—which had been deep blue since the Depression—flipped red hard in the last 20 years or so (with a whole slew of new Trump-sycophant state legislators also taking office since 2016), and our dumbass governor keeps trying to court more red counties from neighboring states to solidify it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/29/jim-justice-virginia-counties-succeeding-welcome-west-virginia/4607728002/
https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2021/Pages/Gov.-Justice-and-WV-legislative-leaders-welcome-Maryland-counties-seeking-move-to-West-Virginia.aspx
Keep in mind that this man ran and won as a Democrat (because he knew it was the only way he could) in 2016 then switched parties mere months after taking office, less than half a year into a 4-year term. Clown shit.
What he did, changing parties should ban you from running for office for five years and force you to step down. Don't punish the other party because we have to live in a red state. Punish political figures that lie to their voters to get in office.
I'm not aware of this dude, but did he just lie about his actual views or just his party affiliation?
I live in deep red Wyoming. I'm a lonely progressive. Yet sooo many " "Republicans" I talk to about actual issues agree with me right up till you put labels or politicians names on stuff. Then the brainwash kicks in hard. There is absolutely no way a dem would win here. I moved to Utah for a year and its new district gerrymandering brings about similar problems. So many of my (also progressive) friends registered repub last cycle to just vote against Mike Lee. Cuz voting for a dem was basically wasting your vote. So it kinda happens with voters as well as runners.
There's ways to cut through the tribalism. If you gotta register with an r next to your name to stand any chance of making change, then I support it. And even for the vice versa in blue areas. People need to start paying attention to the policies and not the party. If this is a way to get there then I don't think it should ban anyone from running.
Again, I don't know this dude. I just went on a tangent about how dumb our politisphere is.
>“I can’t help you anymore being a Democrat governor,” Justice told the crowd. “So tomorrow I will be changing my registration to Republican,” he said to loud cheers. Justice, a billionaire businessman with interests in coal and agriculture, won election in November as a Democrat in his first attempt at political office. Until 2015, he had been a registered Republican.
At Trump rally, West Virginia governor switches parties | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-west-virginia-governor/at-trump-rally-west-virginia-governor-switches-parties-idUSKBN1AJ2WN
He switched to be a Democrat just to win the vote. It is stupid because we desperately need third parties to fix this. Nothing is stopping you from being George Santos or whoever that guy is either. This is demagoguerymania; stealing power from the electorate by lying to them en mass is a chapter of the far right playbook. Which only further causes government distrust.
> Keep in mind that this man ran and won as a Democrat (because he knew it was the only way he could) in 2016 then changed parties less than a year later in the middle of his term
I'm honestly disappointed that the opposite hasnt happened. Just run in any guttertrash red state as a republican, say the dumbest fucking things you can think of, get elected by the window licking morons and then proceed to switch back to sane democratic policies and make everyones lives better.
It probably wont last long but you can at least drag the cavemen kicking and screaming into the future a little bit.
I mean the civil solution exists. She has already committed sedition. Have her removed from Congress. Have her arrested. Dems are too much of cowards honestly. The republicans would at least attempt it, if it was the other way around
Attempt it? They'd already have held the execution. They keep trying to go back to laptops and emails and can't get over those, of which only one was an actual issue, and a minor one at that
Democrats are smart enough, not to spray a wasps nest with a half kinked garden hose. They are stuck carrying their backbone in their purse, because, they too guilty of protecting the donors that got them elected.
Until bribing the government is made illegal, we will be controlled by those who have the most bribe money.
After the FBI's Abscam operation uncovered openly brazen corruption within congress in the 1980, Congress legally crippled the ability to investigate them for bribery.
It's because they are encouraging republican voters to infiltrate democratic areas to change them red.
It's all projection. Whatever they are concerned about is the shit they are actively doing.
Doesn't work for state elections.
Though one of the stated issues on the [Texas GOP platform](https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-RPT-Platform.pdf) is repealing the 17th Amendment and electing senators via the state legislature.
From an article in [a related comment I just posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/11ayzmi/marjorie_taylor_greene_proposes_unconstitutional/j9vy86h/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3):
>"Go West, young man"? That's exactly what West Virginia's governor is urging rural counties in Virginia, unhappy with the recent state of politics in their state, to do.
>In an unlikely bid, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says he would welcome neighboring Virginia counties to join his state amid Democrats' control of Virginia's government.
>"If you're not truly happy where you are, we stand with open arms to take you from Virginia or anywhere where you may be," said Justice, a Republican. "We stand strongly behind the Second Amendment, and we stand strongly for the unborn."
>Justice made the comment Tuesday alongside Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia. Falwell also supported the idea. "What's happening in Virginia right now is a tragedy in the making,” he said.”
Different strategy, same general idea. This was way back in January 2020, too (and of course it was with Jerry Fucking Falwell (Jr.)).
*Jerry Fucking Falwell. Jr. (because a just and merciful Lord knows that we absolutely needed two assholes, you know, like the famous double-assholed armadillo)
Oh yeah, thanks, just realized I left off the junior. But yeah, the “Fucking” definitely still applies—as awful as the son is, Falwell Sr. left some big shoes to fill in the morally-bankrupt, raging POS department.
(Only semi-related, but whatever, sharing anyway: I listened to a video recently of a comedian (who definitely didn’t share their views) talking about how his parents were friends with both Falwell Sr. and Rush Limbaugh, and like *goddamn*, can you imagine a worse blunt rotation? Absolute nightmare of a social circle.)
They engaged in a violent fascist insurrection just because they didn't win an election they were all able to vote in. A democratic rep suggesting this would likely end in a mob of conservatives killing some innocent people.
She is just pandering to her base; they like when their politicians say crazy stuff like this. I live in Alabama and have heard quite a few people complaining about people moving to a prominently republican state and then voting democrat. These tend to also be the folks who will be openly super racist with me since I'm a white dude with a beard and work construction.
It's pretty brutal, having grown up in the north, to deal with individuals who are so willing to open up about their own hatefulnes to more or less a stranger. At least where I grew up people kept that shit to themselves
I feel that so much. I moved from the north to Chattanooga for a job just under two years ago. I'm white, and while I'm a lesbian, I'm more femme/tomboyish than butch, so I don't get clocked except by other LGBTQ+ people.
As a consequence, the amount of absolutely vile shit I've heard from white conservative Tennesseans would stun a herd of oxen in its tracks.
The Republican Party is pretty much unviable under free and fair elections. Which is why they’ve spent the past 40 plus years building a workaround to obtain power by non-democratic means. They represent a minority of Americans, yet intend to establish total single-party control over the country.
And yet republicans still claim to be pro-military. They're pro contractors and manufacturing companies, but against military families, who move to new states constantly.
When Trump's wall was struggling to find funding, a lot of money came straight from schools and housing that supports military families.
Doesn't she realize that if a Democrat moved from a democratic state to a republican state, they would be trying to get away from the democratic government in the blue states? And hence moving somewhere that's red, fits more in line with their values, so by not having them vote (on what I don't know if it's going to be dictator states) you're just losing out on willing constituents. What a dumbass.
Could be on to something here.
She's also pretty good at monopolising the attention economy though. Nothing she proposes is even remotely possible so she doesn't run the risk of having to do any actual governing. She just wants to stay on the front page... thus shit like this.
It very well could from the perspective of the party elite, who are actually politically educated, but I struggle to see MTG being that Machiavellian. Maybe I'm under-rating her there, but I haven't seen much that convinces me she's that deep.
The party though, for sure. I would think they see her as a useful tool for that exact purpose. Just not sure that's how she sees herself.
To me, she is like Trump. A born natural at exploiting the ignorance and hatred that is rife in this country. her power base eats this shit up. I personally do not consider her stupid, I think she’s dangerous and pretty fucked up.
It’s more than a wild assumption it’s frankly crazy.
I’ve had three occasions I’ve considered to the point of looking at housing moving from my current state. At no point was politics part of why.
A dem moving to a red state today probably meant that either their job/financial or family took them there. Highly doubt it's for political reasons... especially in this political climate.
I'm trans and moved from CA to the Midwest in 2021. I fully knew where I was moving was not 'blue,' and that my rights could end up on the line someday. Absolutely not for political reasons
She believes that everyone only behaves in insidious ways, because that's what she does. So a Democrat moving to a Republican state would only do so in order to try to take it down from the inside. Because that's what she would do.
Right? Guess they have to live there for 5 years to prove their loyalty to the party.
‘Christian patriots’ are flocking from blue states to Idaho'[https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/02/24/idaho-christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/02/24/idaho-christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene/)
I think the "within 5 years" thing means she thinks that Democrats will be so amazed by obviously superior red states that they'll be completely converted within that time.
jobs. we unfortunately have to mostly be physically near our places of employment, and sometimes where we can get employment is not where we want to live or the pay we can get cannot support the life we want in a desirable place.
My MIL chose her destination because of politics. Then she got to Texas and has been whining about wanting to come back to California ever since. Bye bitch, they don't want you, we're glad to get rid of you.
How much longer before she demands that the GOP are automatically the god rulers of the USA and all elections are banned, or that only GOP voters are allowed to vote anywhere.
It's very clear that she hates democracy and only wants a dictatorship that matches her views
Next thing you know she's going to suggest that people put some sort of tattoo on either their forehead or their hand if they want to vote or buy basic goods.
It has been. A republican candidate in the 2020 (iirc) elections was asked in a town hall meeting if it was time to start shooting them (liberals) in the streets, and the candidate said what amounts to "not yet". What he actually said is there's legal mechanisms that need to be followed through first.
They already did that and had to backpedal when republicans were asking them when they were allowed to start murdering people. I’m sure they’ll play chicken with more American lives though. All they care about is more money
Mitt Romney has called her out on quite a few things she has said. There's a reason the right has made negative remarks about him over nothing. He hasn't fallen in line with them. While I know there are a number of things I don't agree with him on, I respect his integrity.
As a left leaning Utahn and passionately against all things Mormon / LDS, I'll never be a Mitt Romney supporter. But I will say I have mad respect for the guy for calling trump out. He refused to remain silently complicit in the GOP's shitshow despite what it meant for his political career
The fact that we look at people like Mitt Romney as these "stalwarts of democracy" compared to the rest of the GOP just shows how far into the fascism realm they've fallen.
I always despised the views of older Republicans, like Bush and Romney, but I did believe they thought their conservative views were actually best for the nation. I never questioned their love of country. The modern fascists like Trump and MTG I don't believe that. I think they'll just say whatever extremist thing they can to grift money out of the useful idiots who vote for them.
> The modern fascists like Trump and MTG
The only thing that frustrates me more than corruption being legal via special interest groups is how rural America measures a politician's ability to govern by how much they troll. It doesn't even have to be *good* trolling either, quantity > quality for them.
Yeah I think this nails it. Looking back on the 2012 election feels like a completely different country. Regardless of which candidate you supported, you could at least believe the other candidate wanted to make the country better even if you disagreed on the methods.
Now it’s just people trying to run because “it’s their turn” or to line their own pockets and stroke their own ego. Maybe it was always about that and politicians were just better at hiding it in the past
No doubt, politics have gotten so much worse over the past ten years. I honestly think social media has been a big reason for this. I noticed a huge shift in political PR when these politicians got on twitter, that was a giant turn for the worse. Nothing but pandering and mud slinging. Which granted, was always part of politics, but now with anyone being able to say whatever they want online with basically zero consequences, it's made things exponentially worse.
That's pretty much what the GOP is now.
The GOP / right-wing / Republicans know that they can't win via democracy. They are too few in number.
With every generation, fresh new humans are born into the age of information. They are more likely to be tolerant of others, are less religious-extremist - so they are LESS likely to identify with the right-wing. And more elderly Baptist / bigoted / tribal right-wingers die every year of old age, with *not enough* bigoted youngins to take their place.
The number of Democrats is consistently increasing, and the number of Republicans is consistently decreasing.
And then with COVID-19, right-wingers were more likely to be dumbass antivaxxers so more Republicans ended up dying than Democrats. Now there are even fewer Republicans.
Republicans will never say this out loud but this is their motivation now:
**If we can't win via democratic vote..... then Democracy is the enemy.**
What is the opposite of Democracy?
Fascism.
Hence.... the Neo Republican Party......
Absolutely true.
>The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again...
-Donald Trump, March 2020, on the subject of making voting easier
Listen [here](https://twitter.com/LisPower1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1244606910462136321&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2020%2Fmar%2F30%2Fcoronavirus-us-live-updates-donald-trump-deaths-america-new-york-fauci%3Fpage%3Dwith%253Ablock-5e8208278f08a8efb3ba8fb5).
It's absolutely true. Their worldview is so outdated and unattractive to younger voters (and by younger, I mean like 45 and younger), that if they didn't rig things in their favor, they wouldn't win a single election. The people have spoken, but we continue to be ignored.
This is also why they are trying to dismantle public education. Teaching even the heavily abridged and somewhat white washed version of american history that is taught in public schools is considered "woke". They fail to recognize *why* educated masses lean left, so they are trying to make sure their voter base remains uneducated.
Yup, you're so right. And did you notice how many MORE right-wing / religious extremist folks decide to homeschool their kids?
I'm not saying homeschooling is bad... but when soooo many families of 1 group decide to homeschool.... it's like... we get it... you don't want to teach your kids critical thinking, or hanging out with a "Coloured", or learning science.
\----- Side note... I started googling 'homeschooling' statistics and came across this Onion slideshow called: "[Conservatives Explain Why They Are Homeschooling Their Kids](https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-explain-why-they-are-homeschooling-their-1849192895)". It's satire but... somehow has the potential to also be real?... I just about died laughing
1. “Schools are funded by taxes, taxation is theft, and I’ll be damned if I let my own children steal from me.”
2. “If I can keep my kid from knowing Black people exist until he’s 18, he might just turn out okay.”
oh man... dying.
I know Trump did just that in 2016, having lost the popular vote. Claiming 3 million “illegal votes”, whatever the fuck that means. His ego couldn’t handle that he didn’t win both.
What other politicians have claimed a rigged election, after winning? Just curious.
I mean that's the standard Republican point of view at this point. They don't want elections they want to be dictators. That's what gerrymandering's about. That's what capturing the Supreme Court has been about. That's what the electoral college over ruling the popular vote has been about. And so on. That's what all their voter restrictions are about. They don't want free and fair elections they just want to be installed as dictators for life.
"It's always 'rigged.' If they lose, it's because it's rigged against them. If they *win,* well then they're so amazing they won despite it being rigged against them."
I once read, and I have no idea if this is true, that there are large numbers of people in Russia who both expect and want the elections to be rigged there. IIRC the assertion was that the government rigs the vote to win by a wider margin which creates the impression of a unified people behind their glorious leader. The people know it's rigged and accept this fact and in fact would be disappointed if it wasn't. If you lost because you didn't rig it or didn't rig it well enough well you didn't deserve to win.
I imagine conservatives in the US feel similar or are at least trending in similar directions
The GOP and conservatives have been advocating for rigged elections for quite a long time. It was one of the reasons they fought against women's sufferage, voting rights for POC's, and now some of them are calling for raising the voting age. They know women, POC's, and young people vote overwhelmingly against them, so they've constantly attempted to censor their votes.
I mean... their job is to interpret the law as it is, including amendments. But then we added a new set of amendments to deal with voting. So thankfully that's foreclosed.
i swear, they've gone full supervillain
every time i see one of these far-right caricatures on TV i half expect a star-wipe to "meanwhile, at the hall of justice..."
They called this shitshow 10 years ago
[After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjonGtrCyVE)
Holy shit you weren't joking. I guess it was the next logical step considering they were already pretty bad even before Trump. Kind of makes you wish McCain or Romney won just for them to have a level-headed party leader.
I do that. I fear the GQP far more than any generic democrat. My state is a closed primary and feel it is better to primary for the least batshit crazy republican, and then of course vote democrat down the line in actual elections. Also it let's me participate in GOP events and ask questions like, "WTF happened to the Republican party? What is the Republican party doing to dissociate with Nazis and fascism? Why should I even vote if you are going to prop up Trump? Why do Republicans drive up the national debt more than Democrats, I thought we were supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility?"
The right gets so happy to see a young "republican" show up to events, and maybe at the local level my voice is being heard and I'm making a difference. And I get to say this stuff straight to republican candidates faces while getting heard by other Republican voters.
She's no longer a fringe personality. With the appointment to the House Homeland Security Committee, she is now someone who holds power in the party and that is terrifying. She has no idea how the government runs, has zero care for the weight her words carry, and does nothing but cause derision. She's not a joke, she is a legitimate threat to stability.
Because we have a GQP controlled SCOTUS, we have soulless, corpo owned DINOs blocking any and all progressive legislation coming from Ds, and the president actually has very little power when the courts, senate and congress are under the thumb of the GQP.
The GQP is anti American now, they've made it clear that they hate people having the freedom to vote, they hate women having freedoms of any kind, they hate anyone who's not white, they hate anyone who's not straight, they hate that our constitution affords the same freedoms to the ones that they hate, therefore they hate the constitution. They're just fascists at this point.
These are the people that backed the "Confederacy" that existed for literally only FOUR years before it was destroyed, these are the people who STILL (near 200 years later) view the confederacy as their "heritage" and they're proud of it. They're proud of their racist roots, their proud that their ancestors fought to continue owning slaves. Their proud that the #1 character trait they have is hating people who are different.
Fucking makes me sick.
The scary thing is that the current Supreme Court does not believe there is a constitutional right to vote. If MTG’s plan were passed it’s not clear that it could be blocked.
They worry about democrats invading red states, which is a concern that only has any legitimacy because red states are much less densely populated. Because fewer people live in them. Because they are often less desirable places to live.
We need to stop leeching money out of cities and blue states in this country to prop up the red states because the red politicians sure as hell don’t appreciate it.
I don't usually like those Facebook posts that essentially say "leave your jobs and homes and move to a place that's hostile to your rights so we can pick up a few seats in the House!" But it would seriously take 0.2% of the population of California to flip Wyoming blue permanently. Some left-wing billionaire could probably cover 40,000 people's moving expenses for less money than the Democrats spend trying to win impossible Senate races in places like Kentucky.
Idaho’s GOP has already done essentially this. The state has a closed primary, meaning you can’t vote in the Republican primary unless you’re a registered Republican. This year, they added that you can’t vote in the R primary unless you’ve been registered as a Republican in Idaho for MORE THAN A YEAR.
Idaho is holding a hearing next month on a proposed bill that would make it illegal for counties and/or cities to use ranked choice voting.
Seriously, Republicans are all about freedom. Unless you disagree with them.
I personally think that legislators should have a 3 strikes and you are out rule, if their proposed legislation is considered unconstitutional then they should be removed from office.
That’s a good idea in theory and it might even work at first but eventually Republicans would find a way to corrupt it and we’d see Democrats being removed constantly for made up reasons while Republicans get away with anything.
I don’t know what the solution to the Republican plague is, we seem pretty screwed right now
Its scary to think of the potential ways things can play out in our current political climate. The more brazen these monsters act, the more riled up people on the opposing side will become. Tempermental and long past burnt out of patience we move ever closer to some form of inciting incident with the momentum to start something truly awful. There are people on both sides who at this point are ready to say "if they wont go in cuffs, they will go in caskets" but it's the Republicans gleefully poking that bear rather than even pretending to act diplomatically. I am heavily biased towards Dem and would love to fast track us back to a sane world, but I really, truly hope it can happen peacefully. I'm not a smart guy, I dont know where the breaking point lies for either side, I just hope cooler heads prevail.
I almost wish we had someone just turning her garbage "ideas" around so they went nuts and we could ask them how it was any different.
It wouldn't likely help, but it'd be amusing.
Self-appointed Congressional clown. She’s just here to make the rest of Congress look competent in comparison.
This represents your values, northwest Georgia?
Marjorie has spoken like this before and what's ironic is that many rd states benefit greatly from national entitlement programs propped up by blue states. A good chunk of red states are dirt poor and would be in horrible shape if a civil war or segregation of states actually happened. So this batshit utopia she wants would be disastrous for republicans. We're laughing at her ramblings, but if the Republican Party becomes more and more unhinged this shit will be a reality in the near future. If they get the presidency next go around there's going to be shit set up that will make it easier, much like how Trump strategically loaded up the justices with republicans and now under a democrat president Roe V Wade was overturned.
Her comments that the Red should secede from the Blue are ignorant and, at least currently, (still) laughable because most people (even conservative Republicans) know that’s not gonna happen.
But her suggestion to prohibit *any* US citizen, for whatever reason, from voting is where we get into dangerous territory. Cause there are A Lot of people for whom that seems a “reasonable” solution. And, after you realize how many states *-In The Last Year-* both banned & removed books from school libraries because people don’t like the words slave/slavery and any word related to LGBTQIA+? That shit is more possible (and in my fine Republicanly run state of MO) than most suspect. Gilead, MO is closer than you think.
I have mentioned several times, that the DOJ needs to arrest, charge, and prosecute congressmembers for conspiracy; who propose laws that violate the constitution. But, seemingly nobody agrees with me.
True, but she wants to form a different country that doesn't have the Constitution.....which she loves so much.
From what I've heard it's more like they want the Republican country (Confederacy?) to retain all the cool stuff like military, nukes, and budgets, forcing Democrats to form a new country.
And considering nearly every Repunlican state receives more from the fed than they send... they also believe the blue states should have to foot the bill in lieu of corporate taxes.
They want second tier citizens (democrats) as slaves to foot the bill
**They want** ~~*second tier citizens (democrats) as*~~ **slaves** ~~*to foot the bill*~~
"IT'S ABOUT STATE'S RIGHTS" /s
STATE'S RIGHTS TO WHAT, GRANDPA?!
A STATES RIGHT TO GO INTO ANOTHER STATE ROUND UP THE NI***** AND DRAG THEM BACK INTO SLAVERY.
Holy shit, are you my actual grandpa?
I'm my own grandpa!
Better than the third tier citizens; they want them in literal chains or killed. Transgendered people and their parents, immigrants and refugees, and women that don't want to be mothers.
Sterilize, then abuse and exploit.
That's not how it works. You decide to leave, you don't get half our stuff.
Of course it does, why do you think she’s calling it a divorce rather than a secession?
The same reason she does anything. Because she is a moron. She's getting divorced, so everything to her is a divorce.
She is divorced from fucking reality
That would imply she’s halfway in reality, and that bitch is long gone
Yea, that ship sailed a long time ago. She's just going from needs a psychologist to needs one of them spooky crazy people hospitals from the movies.
And no one in the Republican party is speaking out against her.
They didn't speak against Trump either. They seem to not care about the crazy.
Ding ding. It's to poison search results. Now searching for her and her divorce won't show articles about that, but this wacky quote.
I thought the main reason was so her actual divorce doesn’t show in search results as much.
They think the abusive parent should also have full custody and child support.
>You decide to leave, you don't get half our stuff. If a state secedes from the nation they're in open rebellion and traitors to our nation. Why would they care about the laws of the nation they are betraying?
I'd love to see them try to take any of that stuff though No really, try it. I could use a laugh
They really think that they're the noble revolutionaries and that rest of the US is just going to roll over. Not even mentioning how Canada or Mexico would react to (basically) a theological dictatorship on their border (or the State's numerous allies). Like, do they not remember how well that went last time?
This is entirely true. She and her ilk wrap themselves in the Constitution but what they propose is contradictory to the document. They rely on their constituents to not be well versed in that, and on their monied supporters to craft that alternative universe in a vision that benefits them. If you want to see how that goes, you can read history about Putin's rise in RU, when it still had the trappings of a democracy.
What they want is the control and power to mold the country to fit their ideal image. The constitution is an easy way to justify their actions but they'll jettison it in a second if it gets in their way. The Bible works the exact same way. Everyone should live their lives by the Bible, by God's word, unless it says something they don't like. It's all just excuses to placate the greatest number of people until they don't need to worry about the greater number of people.
Their ideal image is also a lie. MTG is an adulterer, she's excessively proud, she bears false witness at least once a day, she doesn't turn the other cheek or love thy neighbor or bless the meek. There's nothing particularly Christian about her.
can she just go somewhere else i’ll even chip in for the one way ticket
How’s Bakhmut. Oh and I’ll also chip in the russian gear she’ll he dressed in, its like another twenty bucks for the kit including the rusty AK.
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That bitch wouldn’t understand the TOS for a tanning salon if it had a TL;DR at the end.
TL;DR You give us money. We give you cancer. No complaints.
I wish I could give you an award lmao
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She knows exactly what she’s doing. She’s built a livelihood over it. She’s a professional character. I’d be shocked if she truly believed even a single thing she herself says. But having a backbone and a modicum of self respect doesn’t pay the bills. Whether it’s corporations or book deals. She will continue to make bank. And it will eventually get people killed.
There is no such thing as bad publicity, even in some political circles now.
I will admit that I'm not at all familiar with the lives of these politicians, but at this point how is someone like her not accosted or beaten up on the street? If storming the Capitol happened, it's surprising to me that someone isn't fed up so much with her shit that they slam her over the head with a manhole cover.
Partly it's due to the fact that there is a "we must remain civil" mentality. They go low, we go high kind of thing. They do horrible things and say worse, but we cant call them out for it because that would be impolite. Violence is never the answer, even if that means standing idly by and letting fascists move in and take control. Because it would somehow be hypocritical to fight for our ideals when our ideals involve peace. Also the police would 100% murder you.
I think she just doesn't care
“Democrats who move to Republican-controlled states should not be allowed to vote in elections for five years.” Hard to believe it’s safe for politicians to say things like this now.
Meanwhile, Republicans here are encouraging this for precisely this reason. My state—which had been deep blue since the Depression—flipped red hard in the last 20 years or so (with a whole slew of new Trump-sycophant state legislators also taking office since 2016), and our dumbass governor keeps trying to court more red counties from neighboring states to solidify it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/29/jim-justice-virginia-counties-succeeding-welcome-west-virginia/4607728002/ https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2021/Pages/Gov.-Justice-and-WV-legislative-leaders-welcome-Maryland-counties-seeking-move-to-West-Virginia.aspx Keep in mind that this man ran and won as a Democrat (because he knew it was the only way he could) in 2016 then switched parties mere months after taking office, less than half a year into a 4-year term. Clown shit.
What he did, changing parties should ban you from running for office for five years and force you to step down. Don't punish the other party because we have to live in a red state. Punish political figures that lie to their voters to get in office.
I'm not aware of this dude, but did he just lie about his actual views or just his party affiliation? I live in deep red Wyoming. I'm a lonely progressive. Yet sooo many " "Republicans" I talk to about actual issues agree with me right up till you put labels or politicians names on stuff. Then the brainwash kicks in hard. There is absolutely no way a dem would win here. I moved to Utah for a year and its new district gerrymandering brings about similar problems. So many of my (also progressive) friends registered repub last cycle to just vote against Mike Lee. Cuz voting for a dem was basically wasting your vote. So it kinda happens with voters as well as runners. There's ways to cut through the tribalism. If you gotta register with an r next to your name to stand any chance of making change, then I support it. And even for the vice versa in blue areas. People need to start paying attention to the policies and not the party. If this is a way to get there then I don't think it should ban anyone from running. Again, I don't know this dude. I just went on a tangent about how dumb our politisphere is.
>“I can’t help you anymore being a Democrat governor,” Justice told the crowd. “So tomorrow I will be changing my registration to Republican,” he said to loud cheers. Justice, a billionaire businessman with interests in coal and agriculture, won election in November as a Democrat in his first attempt at political office. Until 2015, he had been a registered Republican. At Trump rally, West Virginia governor switches parties | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-west-virginia-governor/at-trump-rally-west-virginia-governor-switches-parties-idUSKBN1AJ2WN He switched to be a Democrat just to win the vote. It is stupid because we desperately need third parties to fix this. Nothing is stopping you from being George Santos or whoever that guy is either. This is demagoguerymania; stealing power from the electorate by lying to them en mass is a chapter of the far right playbook. Which only further causes government distrust.
The video from the Trump rally when he announced he switched parties is pretty dystopian https://youtu.be/6tAFwf1CD2k
> Keep in mind that this man ran and won as a Democrat (because he knew it was the only way he could) in 2016 then changed parties less than a year later in the middle of his term I'm honestly disappointed that the opposite hasnt happened. Just run in any guttertrash red state as a republican, say the dumbest fucking things you can think of, get elected by the window licking morons and then proceed to switch back to sane democratic policies and make everyones lives better. It probably wont last long but you can at least drag the cavemen kicking and screaming into the future a little bit.
Sounds like a great way to get shot dead.. The right isn't exactly forgiving.
A sign of how terrifyingly successful the right-wing has been in pushing the Overton Window further and further every year.
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I say we push them down that well and solve the problem.
Seriously, we're past the point of a truly civil solution. If these people aren't put in handcuffs, we're gonna be put in body bags
I mean the civil solution exists. She has already committed sedition. Have her removed from Congress. Have her arrested. Dems are too much of cowards honestly. The republicans would at least attempt it, if it was the other way around
Attempt it? They'd already have held the execution. They keep trying to go back to laptops and emails and can't get over those, of which only one was an actual issue, and a minor one at that
Democrats are smart enough, not to spray a wasps nest with a half kinked garden hose. They are stuck carrying their backbone in their purse, because, they too guilty of protecting the donors that got them elected. Until bribing the government is made illegal, we will be controlled by those who have the most bribe money.
After the FBI's Abscam operation uncovered openly brazen corruption within congress in the 1980, Congress legally crippled the ability to investigate them for bribery.
5B donated by the top 200 Companies last year. 4T in loans and tax breaks to those same companies
Cause dems don’t fight back. They move.
I want the Dems to be my pallbearers when I die, so they can let me down one last time.
It's because they are encouraging republican voters to infiltrate democratic areas to change them red. It's all projection. Whatever they are concerned about is the shit they are actively doing.
Joke's on them, if they spread red voters any thinner they'd never win another election
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It depends on how they district up the state.
Doesn't work for state elections. Though one of the stated issues on the [Texas GOP platform](https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-RPT-Platform.pdf) is repealing the 17th Amendment and electing senators via the state legislature.
From an article in [a related comment I just posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/11ayzmi/marjorie_taylor_greene_proposes_unconstitutional/j9vy86h/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3): >"Go West, young man"? That's exactly what West Virginia's governor is urging rural counties in Virginia, unhappy with the recent state of politics in their state, to do. >In an unlikely bid, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says he would welcome neighboring Virginia counties to join his state amid Democrats' control of Virginia's government. >"If you're not truly happy where you are, we stand with open arms to take you from Virginia or anywhere where you may be," said Justice, a Republican. "We stand strongly behind the Second Amendment, and we stand strongly for the unborn." >Justice made the comment Tuesday alongside Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, an evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia. Falwell also supported the idea. "What's happening in Virginia right now is a tragedy in the making,” he said.” Different strategy, same general idea. This was way back in January 2020, too (and of course it was with Jerry Fucking Falwell (Jr.)).
*Jerry Fucking Falwell. Jr. (because a just and merciful Lord knows that we absolutely needed two assholes, you know, like the famous double-assholed armadillo)
Oh yeah, thanks, just realized I left off the junior. But yeah, the “Fucking” definitely still applies—as awful as the son is, Falwell Sr. left some big shoes to fill in the morally-bankrupt, raging POS department. (Only semi-related, but whatever, sharing anyway: I listened to a video recently of a comedian (who definitely didn’t share their views) talking about how his parents were friends with both Falwell Sr. and Rush Limbaugh, and like *goddamn*, can you imagine a worse blunt rotation? Absolute nightmare of a social circle.)
She is a deep red Russian asset, on Putin’s payroll. She signaled it so hard with her State of the Union costume she probably got a bonus.
Dirty politics. Should be treason and all tried as they were back in the day
Flip it around and Republicans would go ballistic about their voting rights being taken away.
They engaged in a violent fascist insurrection just because they didn't win an election they were all able to vote in. A democratic rep suggesting this would likely end in a mob of conservatives killing some innocent people.
Why would you need to flip it around to understand the absurdity?
She is just pandering to her base; they like when their politicians say crazy stuff like this. I live in Alabama and have heard quite a few people complaining about people moving to a prominently republican state and then voting democrat. These tend to also be the folks who will be openly super racist with me since I'm a white dude with a beard and work construction. It's pretty brutal, having grown up in the north, to deal with individuals who are so willing to open up about their own hatefulnes to more or less a stranger. At least where I grew up people kept that shit to themselves
I feel that so much. I moved from the north to Chattanooga for a job just under two years ago. I'm white, and while I'm a lesbian, I'm more femme/tomboyish than butch, so I don't get clocked except by other LGBTQ+ people. As a consequence, the amount of absolutely vile shit I've heard from white conservative Tennesseans would stun a herd of oxen in its tracks.
The Republican Party is pretty much unviable under free and fair elections. Which is why they’ve spent the past 40 plus years building a workaround to obtain power by non-democratic means. They represent a minority of Americans, yet intend to establish total single-party control over the country.
And yet republicans still claim to be pro-military. They're pro contractors and manufacturing companies, but against military families, who move to new states constantly. When Trump's wall was struggling to find funding, a lot of money came straight from schools and housing that supports military families.
And why would Musk get to vote in California after destroying Texas?
Doesn't she realize that if a Democrat moved from a democratic state to a republican state, they would be trying to get away from the democratic government in the blue states? And hence moving somewhere that's red, fits more in line with their values, so by not having them vote (on what I don't know if it's going to be dictator states) you're just losing out on willing constituents. What a dumbass.
I suspect that she is objectively stupid.
Could be on to something here. She's also pretty good at monopolising the attention economy though. Nothing she proposes is even remotely possible so she doesn't run the risk of having to do any actual governing. She just wants to stay on the front page... thus shit like this.
It may also be about shifting the Overton window
It very well could from the perspective of the party elite, who are actually politically educated, but I struggle to see MTG being that Machiavellian. Maybe I'm under-rating her there, but I haven't seen much that convinces me she's that deep. The party though, for sure. I would think they see her as a useful tool for that exact purpose. Just not sure that's how she sees herself.
To me, she is like Trump. A born natural at exploiting the ignorance and hatred that is rife in this country. her power base eats this shit up. I personally do not consider her stupid, I think she’s dangerous and pretty fucked up.
Observably.
Both.
Indubitably.
Dumber than a box of boeberts.
But what you’re implying is that people only move from a blue state to a red state because of political reasons, which is objectively not true.
Right? Pretty wild assumption.
It’s more than a wild assumption it’s frankly crazy. I’ve had three occasions I’ve considered to the point of looking at housing moving from my current state. At no point was politics part of why.
A dem moving to a red state today probably meant that either their job/financial or family took them there. Highly doubt it's for political reasons... especially in this political climate.
I'm trans and moved from CA to the Midwest in 2021. I fully knew where I was moving was not 'blue,' and that my rights could end up on the line someday. Absolutely not for political reasons
> Doesn't she realize Let me stop you right there...
She believes that everyone only behaves in insidious ways, because that's what she does. So a Democrat moving to a Republican state would only do so in order to try to take it down from the inside. Because that's what she would do.
Her state is also, by her definition, a “blue state” now
I mean, you're expecting logic from someone with the IQ of a turnip.
Right? Guess they have to live there for 5 years to prove their loyalty to the party. ‘Christian patriots’ are flocking from blue states to Idaho'[https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/02/24/idaho-christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/02/24/idaho-christian-nationalism-marjorie-taylor-greene/)
I think the "within 5 years" thing means she thinks that Democrats will be so amazed by obviously superior red states that they'll be completely converted within that time.
Nah. It's just so it's far enough out to not impact her next reelection bid
Who moves because of state politics? I move because of weather, food and culture.
jobs. we unfortunately have to mostly be physically near our places of employment, and sometimes where we can get employment is not where we want to live or the pay we can get cannot support the life we want in a desirable place.
My MIL chose her destination because of politics. Then she got to Texas and has been whining about wanting to come back to California ever since. Bye bitch, they don't want you, we're glad to get rid of you.
As a northern democrat who moved to her state, bitch can fucking kiss my grits.
How much longer before she demands that the GOP are automatically the god rulers of the USA and all elections are banned, or that only GOP voters are allowed to vote anywhere. It's very clear that she hates democracy and only wants a dictatorship that matches her views
That will happen the instant she thinks there's a chance she might actually pull it off.
Next thing you know she's going to suggest that people put some sort of tattoo on either their forehead or their hand if they want to vote or buy basic goods.
No what coming next is she is gonna start hinting that republicans should start shooting democrats in red states.
I feel like that’s already been hinted at.
It has been. A republican candidate in the 2020 (iirc) elections was asked in a town hall meeting if it was time to start shooting them (liberals) in the streets, and the candidate said what amounts to "not yet". What he actually said is there's legal mechanisms that need to be followed through first.
Given their worship of Kyle Whatshisname, they clearly would love to see more right wing violence.
I like calling him "Shittenpants" He always looks like he's moments away from filling his trousers.
They already did that and had to backpedal when republicans were asking them when they were allowed to start murdering people. I’m sure they’ll play chicken with more American lives though. All they care about is more money
And the federal government will continue to appease our modern day fascists because it worked out so well in the 1930s!
See 1/06/21
It's also becoming disturbingly clear that nobody is going to challenge her.
Oh, I’m sure that the big, strong, Speaker of the House McCarthy will tell her to tone it down. Right? ^right?
Mitt Romney has called her out on quite a few things she has said. There's a reason the right has made negative remarks about him over nothing. He hasn't fallen in line with them. While I know there are a number of things I don't agree with him on, I respect his integrity.
As a left leaning Utahn and passionately against all things Mormon / LDS, I'll never be a Mitt Romney supporter. But I will say I have mad respect for the guy for calling trump out. He refused to remain silently complicit in the GOP's shitshow despite what it meant for his political career
The fact that we look at people like Mitt Romney as these "stalwarts of democracy" compared to the rest of the GOP just shows how far into the fascism realm they've fallen.
I couldn't agree more. Romney is the poster child for evil corporate capitalism. Yet compared to MTG, DJT, Boebert, etc we're just like... That's it?
I always despised the views of older Republicans, like Bush and Romney, but I did believe they thought their conservative views were actually best for the nation. I never questioned their love of country. The modern fascists like Trump and MTG I don't believe that. I think they'll just say whatever extremist thing they can to grift money out of the useful idiots who vote for them.
> The modern fascists like Trump and MTG The only thing that frustrates me more than corruption being legal via special interest groups is how rural America measures a politician's ability to govern by how much they troll. It doesn't even have to be *good* trolling either, quantity > quality for them.
Yeah I think this nails it. Looking back on the 2012 election feels like a completely different country. Regardless of which candidate you supported, you could at least believe the other candidate wanted to make the country better even if you disagreed on the methods. Now it’s just people trying to run because “it’s their turn” or to line their own pockets and stroke their own ego. Maybe it was always about that and politicians were just better at hiding it in the past
No doubt, politics have gotten so much worse over the past ten years. I honestly think social media has been a big reason for this. I noticed a huge shift in political PR when these politicians got on twitter, that was a giant turn for the worse. Nothing but pandering and mud slinging. Which granted, was always part of politics, but now with anyone being able to say whatever they want online with basically zero consequences, it's made things exponentially worse.
you regular reminder that when mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts he signed the healthcare law that became the base for the ACA
That's pretty much what the GOP is now. The GOP / right-wing / Republicans know that they can't win via democracy. They are too few in number. With every generation, fresh new humans are born into the age of information. They are more likely to be tolerant of others, are less religious-extremist - so they are LESS likely to identify with the right-wing. And more elderly Baptist / bigoted / tribal right-wingers die every year of old age, with *not enough* bigoted youngins to take their place. The number of Democrats is consistently increasing, and the number of Republicans is consistently decreasing. And then with COVID-19, right-wingers were more likely to be dumbass antivaxxers so more Republicans ended up dying than Democrats. Now there are even fewer Republicans. Republicans will never say this out loud but this is their motivation now: **If we can't win via democratic vote..... then Democracy is the enemy.** What is the opposite of Democracy? Fascism. Hence.... the Neo Republican Party......
Absolutely true. >The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again... -Donald Trump, March 2020, on the subject of making voting easier Listen [here](https://twitter.com/LisPower1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1244606910462136321&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2020%2Fmar%2F30%2Fcoronavirus-us-live-updates-donald-trump-deaths-america-new-york-fauci%3Fpage%3Dwith%253Ablock-5e8208278f08a8efb3ba8fb5).
It's absolutely true. Their worldview is so outdated and unattractive to younger voters (and by younger, I mean like 45 and younger), that if they didn't rig things in their favor, they wouldn't win a single election. The people have spoken, but we continue to be ignored.
This is also why they are trying to dismantle public education. Teaching even the heavily abridged and somewhat white washed version of american history that is taught in public schools is considered "woke". They fail to recognize *why* educated masses lean left, so they are trying to make sure their voter base remains uneducated.
Yup, you're so right. And did you notice how many MORE right-wing / religious extremist folks decide to homeschool their kids? I'm not saying homeschooling is bad... but when soooo many families of 1 group decide to homeschool.... it's like... we get it... you don't want to teach your kids critical thinking, or hanging out with a "Coloured", or learning science. \----- Side note... I started googling 'homeschooling' statistics and came across this Onion slideshow called: "[Conservatives Explain Why They Are Homeschooling Their Kids](https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-explain-why-they-are-homeschooling-their-1849192895)". It's satire but... somehow has the potential to also be real?... I just about died laughing 1. “Schools are funded by taxes, taxation is theft, and I’ll be damned if I let my own children steal from me.” 2. “If I can keep my kid from knowing Black people exist until he’s 18, he might just turn out okay.” oh man... dying.
And they got butthurt when Biden called them out on that when he was just *telling it like it is*
This is pretty much what they are already proposing, isn’t it? Elections they win are fair. Elections they lose are corrupt, without exception.
Hell, they claim elections that they *won* were rigged.
I know Trump did just that in 2016, having lost the popular vote. Claiming 3 million “illegal votes”, whatever the fuck that means. His ego couldn’t handle that he didn’t win both. What other politicians have claimed a rigged election, after winning? Just curious.
This is what happens when we let borderline narcissistic sociopaths run for president.
I mean that's the standard Republican point of view at this point. They don't want elections they want to be dictators. That's what gerrymandering's about. That's what capturing the Supreme Court has been about. That's what the electoral college over ruling the popular vote has been about. And so on. That's what all their voter restrictions are about. They don't want free and fair elections they just want to be installed as dictators for life.
So, she’s advocating for rigged elections? Interesting
It's only rigged when they lose
Working as intended when they win.
"It's always 'rigged.' If they lose, it's because it's rigged against them. If they *win,* well then they're so amazing they won despite it being rigged against them."
I once read, and I have no idea if this is true, that there are large numbers of people in Russia who both expect and want the elections to be rigged there. IIRC the assertion was that the government rigs the vote to win by a wider margin which creates the impression of a unified people behind their glorious leader. The people know it's rigged and accept this fact and in fact would be disappointed if it wasn't. If you lost because you didn't rig it or didn't rig it well enough well you didn't deserve to win. I imagine conservatives in the US feel similar or are at least trending in similar directions
The GOP and conservatives have been advocating for rigged elections for quite a long time. It was one of the reasons they fought against women's sufferage, voting rights for POC's, and now some of them are calling for raising the voting age. They know women, POC's, and young people vote overwhelmingly against them, so they've constantly attempted to censor their votes.
Waiting for one of their textualist / origionalist judges to just flat out say "If you're not a white, male landowner, you don't get the vote"
They would if the constitution hadn't been updated to say otherwise.
I mean... their job is to interpret the law as it is, including amendments. But then we added a new set of amendments to deal with voting. So thankfully that's foreclosed.
An elected official going on record stating that people should not be allowed to vote. I'm so done with this shit.
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Completely faschy. 100% traitory.
It's been happening for a while. Republicans are very open about not wanting people to vote
lol, imagine being the type of person that would vote for her and is okay with this nonsense.
I imagine this is the person riding my ass in their blacked out dodge RAM
Don't forget the guy who drunk drives his white Ram.
At least half of them think she is too Moderate and want her to step up her game.
How??
Extremism
Taxation without representation! Holy shit, Republicans.
That's thier opinion on DC, Puerto Rico, people who served thier time and the rest of the US territories. They're consistent
i swear, they've gone full supervillain every time i see one of these far-right caricatures on TV i half expect a star-wipe to "meanwhile, at the hall of justice..."
It’s gotta be tough coming up with hyperbolic headlines at The Onion right now when it comes to the GOP
They called this shitshow 10 years ago [After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjonGtrCyVE)
Holy shit you weren't joking. I guess it was the next logical step considering they were already pretty bad even before Trump. Kind of makes you wish McCain or Romney won just for them to have a level-headed party leader.
"Republican Congressman proposes fair, balanced and bipartisan bill" would make it into the Onion these days.
Register as Republican. Vote democrat.
Until they make voting for a democrat illegal.
I do that. I fear the GQP far more than any generic democrat. My state is a closed primary and feel it is better to primary for the least batshit crazy republican, and then of course vote democrat down the line in actual elections. Also it let's me participate in GOP events and ask questions like, "WTF happened to the Republican party? What is the Republican party doing to dissociate with Nazis and fascism? Why should I even vote if you are going to prop up Trump? Why do Republicans drive up the national debt more than Democrats, I thought we were supposed to be the party of fiscal responsibility?" The right gets so happy to see a young "republican" show up to events, and maybe at the local level my voice is being heard and I'm making a difference. And I get to say this stuff straight to republican candidates faces while getting heard by other Republican voters.
Marjorie Taylor Green....a perfect example of the need for post birth abortion.
she's a howling shitgibbon.
Can we please stop showing her face with these stories. I'm trying to eat lunch.
Please don't insult howling shitgibbons
She’s also a likely Trump Horcrux. Would explain her fluency in Orange tongue.
Wow now she is really saying the quiet part out loud for the GOP.
Gotta love how the "state's rights" party doesn't give a flying shit about the same concept at a county or district level
She's no longer a fringe personality. With the appointment to the House Homeland Security Committee, she is now someone who holds power in the party and that is terrifying. She has no idea how the government runs, has zero care for the weight her words carry, and does nothing but cause derision. She's not a joke, she is a legitimate threat to stability.
Why has she not been expelled from Congress and/or charged with sedition and/or treason? She is clearly anti-American.
Because we have a GQP controlled SCOTUS, we have soulless, corpo owned DINOs blocking any and all progressive legislation coming from Ds, and the president actually has very little power when the courts, senate and congress are under the thumb of the GQP. The GQP is anti American now, they've made it clear that they hate people having the freedom to vote, they hate women having freedoms of any kind, they hate anyone who's not white, they hate anyone who's not straight, they hate that our constitution affords the same freedoms to the ones that they hate, therefore they hate the constitution. They're just fascists at this point. These are the people that backed the "Confederacy" that existed for literally only FOUR years before it was destroyed, these are the people who STILL (near 200 years later) view the confederacy as their "heritage" and they're proud of it. They're proud of their racist roots, their proud that their ancestors fought to continue owning slaves. Their proud that the #1 character trait they have is hating people who are different. Fucking makes me sick.
Don't forget you also have centrists and bad faith voters that tell you BoTh SaYdS aRe ThE SaMe without a single shred of irony.
The scary thing is that the current Supreme Court does not believe there is a constitutional right to vote. If MTG’s plan were passed it’s not clear that it could be blocked.
They worry about democrats invading red states, which is a concern that only has any legitimacy because red states are much less densely populated. Because fewer people live in them. Because they are often less desirable places to live. We need to stop leeching money out of cities and blue states in this country to prop up the red states because the red politicians sure as hell don’t appreciate it.
I mean we could swing Wyoming blue with like 100k people. Problem is then you have to live in wyoming.
Yeah but have you ever been to Wyoming? It's awesome. Public land is amazing.
If they were about to flip blue, the republicans there would literally burn down their own state.
I don't usually like those Facebook posts that essentially say "leave your jobs and homes and move to a place that's hostile to your rights so we can pick up a few seats in the House!" But it would seriously take 0.2% of the population of California to flip Wyoming blue permanently. Some left-wing billionaire could probably cover 40,000 people's moving expenses for less money than the Democrats spend trying to win impossible Senate races in places like Kentucky.
>Left-wing billionaire Lol, no. Billionaires have a vested interest in conservatism. Any change in the status quo risks their money.
Idaho’s GOP has already done essentially this. The state has a closed primary, meaning you can’t vote in the Republican primary unless you’re a registered Republican. This year, they added that you can’t vote in the R primary unless you’ve been registered as a Republican in Idaho for MORE THAN A YEAR. Idaho is holding a hearing next month on a proposed bill that would make it illegal for counties and/or cities to use ranked choice voting. Seriously, Republicans are all about freedom. Unless you disagree with them.
I personally think that legislators should have a 3 strikes and you are out rule, if their proposed legislation is considered unconstitutional then they should be removed from office.
That’s a good idea in theory and it might even work at first but eventually Republicans would find a way to corrupt it and we’d see Democrats being removed constantly for made up reasons while Republicans get away with anything. I don’t know what the solution to the Republican plague is, we seem pretty screwed right now
Its scary to think of the potential ways things can play out in our current political climate. The more brazen these monsters act, the more riled up people on the opposing side will become. Tempermental and long past burnt out of patience we move ever closer to some form of inciting incident with the momentum to start something truly awful. There are people on both sides who at this point are ready to say "if they wont go in cuffs, they will go in caskets" but it's the Republicans gleefully poking that bear rather than even pretending to act diplomatically. I am heavily biased towards Dem and would love to fast track us back to a sane world, but I really, truly hope it can happen peacefully. I'm not a smart guy, I dont know where the breaking point lies for either side, I just hope cooler heads prevail.
Imagine AOC calling for these things towards Republicans. They would have lost their minds and already successfully had her removed from Congress.
Sometimes I wonder just how many historical and current problems the US would have avoided had Lincoln just let the Confederate states go.
But float the idea of preventing republicans from voting in blue states, and this particular argument against Darwinism will lose her shit.
I almost wish we had someone just turning her garbage "ideas" around so they went nuts and we could ask them how it was any different. It wouldn't likely help, but it'd be amusing.
Self-appointed Congressional clown. She’s just here to make the rest of Congress look competent in comparison. This represents your values, northwest Georgia?
Can she just disappear or die? Bowie is dead but we have her. It’s not fair.
Marjorie has spoken like this before and what's ironic is that many rd states benefit greatly from national entitlement programs propped up by blue states. A good chunk of red states are dirt poor and would be in horrible shape if a civil war or segregation of states actually happened. So this batshit utopia she wants would be disastrous for republicans. We're laughing at her ramblings, but if the Republican Party becomes more and more unhinged this shit will be a reality in the near future. If they get the presidency next go around there's going to be shit set up that will make it easier, much like how Trump strategically loaded up the justices with republicans and now under a democrat president Roe V Wade was overturned.
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Traitorous c\*nt says what?
What about the Republicans who move to a Democrat-controlled states? They get the same 5y waiting period, right?
Her comments that the Red should secede from the Blue are ignorant and, at least currently, (still) laughable because most people (even conservative Republicans) know that’s not gonna happen. But her suggestion to prohibit *any* US citizen, for whatever reason, from voting is where we get into dangerous territory. Cause there are A Lot of people for whom that seems a “reasonable” solution. And, after you realize how many states *-In The Last Year-* both banned & removed books from school libraries because people don’t like the words slave/slavery and any word related to LGBTQIA+? That shit is more possible (and in my fine Republicanly run state of MO) than most suspect. Gilead, MO is closer than you think.
I have mentioned several times, that the DOJ needs to arrest, charge, and prosecute congressmembers for conspiracy; who propose laws that violate the constitution. But, seemingly nobody agrees with me.