Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Releasing All Ethics Reports, Not Just Gaetz's: "If We're Going to Dance, Let's All Dance In The Sunlight'
Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Releasing All Ethics Reports, Not Just Gaetz's: "If We're Going to Dance, Let's All Dance In The Sunlight'
This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don't support corrupt leaders. MTG does.
Or it reveals an intention by the republicans to release a flood of bad faith ethics reports on Democrats
Oh no, republicans released the kraken.
Oh wait, nevermind, it looks like trump just scribbled with some crayon. And the occasional sharpie
Magic the Gathering supports a lot of things. I don’t know if it supports this; I’ll ask.
Deal
Edit: no takebacks
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Her arrival at the correct answer was done through a series of mental lapses, poor judgements and terrible ideas that plopped her exactly where she should be. Like watching an episode of Mr Magoo.
Bruh I literally just told my husband "Fuck MTG for saying something that makes me agree with MTG!" due to this story.
Ill recover if Congress actually takes her up on it though.
You leave Magic the Gathering out of this!
Don't feel that way. Take this as observing your opponent taking a misstep. This is an opening.
I read her comment and instantly thought "Wait... am I on the wrong side of this issue?" Now I'm wondering who she filed against.
Focus on that pain and it will lead to enlightenment.
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.
17 in georgia? Almost an old maid....
I kid, i kid.
So did Matt...
Those two are peas in a pod as well.
I hear this often on Democrat centric pages but I never even saw his name on conservative sites until his nomination. What is he confirmably guilty of? I'd like to know.
He hasn't been found guilty of anything, yet, but that's largely (imo) because the Merrick Garland DOJ has refused to prosecute and blocked attempts to independently figure out what the hell he's doing.
I think it's highly likely he's guilty of sex trafficking minors and both the DOJ and the ethics committee know this.
Something something broken clock
It's more like she's so fucking stupid and petty that she doesn't realize how it'll hurt her party.
Her party elected a convicted felon, rapist, traitor, insurrectionist. Do you really think it matters?
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
"Scorned" in this context is equivalent to our contemporary "betrayed".
She's been passed over for reward by Trump.
Is that tim pool without his beanie?
"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.
That is what the FBI does.
That and get paid by Russians to ruin the body politic by telling the USA that there was no trouble between Trump and Russia right before election.
She's actually threatening the Republicans explicitly, I assumed she was going with the 'both sides do it' argument.
She's definitely going after the Republicans because they're the ones who have the power to force this release. The Dems have no real impact as long as the Republicans vote as a bloc, which they are likely to do. This is basically a threat to people who might step out of line that their records might be next.
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
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.
The Republicans control the process to determine who gets punished.
So MTG is taking her shot to be Joe McCarthy.
I'm shocked and slightly sickened that trollish dipshit is suggesting something I agree with. I think I need a shower now.
Am..Am I agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Is..Is Marjorie Taylor Greene making smart, intelligent, good points?
We really are in bizarro world.
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.
Well, thank you for coming in and ruining the moment with your facts and reason and obvious statements and common sense
She also thinks it will matter. When a lot of voters have shown they have no problem voting for morally bankrupt people as long as they have the right letter next to their name.
A broken clock is still right 2 times a day.
You're giving her too much credit.
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...
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.
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.
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.
MTG seems to be in the minority of elected Republican representatives in that she actually seems to believe the things she says
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.
Blind pigs are far more capable than this creature.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
Germany, 1933
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.
TFW you accidentally say something smart and you don't even know it
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.
So it's a good idea for multiple reasons?
Marjorie Taylor Greene may yet be our Gollum.
What a hilarious way to put it
For once I agree with this ghoul.
Does she think this is a burn? It’s absolutely what should happen.
What makes you think she thinks this is a burn?
...yes
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?
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.
I mean, it doesn't detract the sentiment of the people. Do it. People want to see the ethic reports on everyone in a position of power.
fuckin do it. don't threaten me with a good time.
edit word
Ummm, Ok!!! Don't threaten me with a good time
Its actually clever. When the repubs block the release of the reports she will claim the dems balked at releasing the reports because they are the dirty ones.
How many of these ethics reports even really exist? Gaetz existed I thought because he was under investigation for his crimes and they said if he dropped out it would be sealed.
Do they actually have reports for everyone? If so that's great, but I can't imagine they were actually investigating every person in the same manner.
Maybe this is a sarcastic suggestion that won't see any progress beyond showmanship. There is no low too low for the Republican party, but i wonder if there is integer underflow for situations like this.
Let all Ethics Reports be released? Then how about:
Forgive student debts to own the libs?
Shutdown fossil fuel extraction because they power space lasers?
Get rid of the lotteries and stupid stuff, end illegal immigration by making all immigration de facto legal?
I have zero idea why everyone expects shit to go smoothly after it took what, like 19 votes to get a House Speaker? It might have been even more.
Everyone just expects this gaggle of sycophants and psychopaths to agree on shit?
If someone gets anything, the rest are going to sabotage them so they get replaced. So even if they all want to do something, they all want the credit and will prevent the person next to them from doing it.
Crabs in a bucket.
She's right and all...
But will it actually matter? The public voted for a pedo rapist felon. Surely if the triple threat is your pick for president, to be considered "incompatible" you would have had to do something truly horrific.
Fuck did I die? Why is MTG right?
Evidently she is explicitly threatening republicans for threatening to out gaetz. Like thats not out of context
Magic the Gathering has been right since snow covered lands.
The pigs are fighting for their position at the feeding trough
lets just start with demanding that all the incoming nominees and appointees, and donvict (and family) and couch lover, put all their assets and holdings into blind trusts.
this is probably just an internal threat to bring dissenting republicans in line, nothing to see for us here since it likely won't be realized
Does anyone remember back when President Bill Clinton was in office ? FOIA was an amazing moment in American politics.
Now the judges, presidents, congresscritters, and cops just say, "Nah it is too dangerous for citizens to see the government's work."
What is that ? What the fuck is that ?
Wow, I actually agree with MTG on an issue, this is a first.
Sure, Marge, let's do it. Now show us how many rubles you've got.
I wouldn't be surprised if MTG has no relation to Russia and is just a shithead for the hell of shit
She's definitely too stupid to willingly be an agent. She's just simply dumb as rocks.
Even the stupidest person on earth gets one right every once in a while.
yes absolutely! do that!
You love to see someone arrive at the correct answer through ignorant spite. Wow.
GOP will see to it that she'll be shutting the fuck up about this and never speaking of it again by tomorrow
MTG: "Isn't everyone in congress raping children?"
Fucking do it. Release them all.
She believes both sides are equally corrupt and thinks this will prove it. She'd be wrong then something something deepstate.
Especially looking forward to all those Biden ethics violations they spent months trying to find and millions of dollars
It will probably be a short read compared to the comey report though
Do it pussy
The sad thing is, this will never happen. We’re in the throw-away timeline where all the bad stuff happens.
Did she stumble into a coherent thought?
Fucking do it.
I mean if Putin knows their secrets, shouldn't the American people?
I... agree... with MTG?
I don't think that's the threat she thinks it is...
Ok.
Let's start with Gaetz.
Uh huh .. go on..
He went on to address the allegations against him, saying he deems them "worth less than nothing." "Under our laws, a man is considered innocent until proven guilty. If AG Garland (an unprincipled D-bag) could have secured a conviction against Gaetz, he would have, but he knew he could not. Case closed," Musk added.
This probably a biggest eason why Garland was the absolute stupidest choice for AG Biden could have made.
Obama nominated him for SC, because he knew no one would get a hearing, it literally didn't matter.
Obama didn't really want Garland on the SC, because it would be a wasted appointment compared to what Republicans seat in the bench.
But Biden's old ass didn't understand what was happening. So he actually appointed Garland as AG, and seemed to honestly have expected Garland to do anything.
And trump supporters never know what's happening, they knew the name from before Trump took office as Obama's SC pick. Assumed that meant Garland was hyper partisan, ignored everything he did say, and when no one was held accountable, used it as "proof" that there was no evidence
The only people that was ever happy with Garland as AG, was Garland and neo liberals who also rarely understand what's happening.
Wait, we agree on something? What's the temperature in hell right now?
She is just as gross and opportunist. They will find the one example that isn't one of theirs and use it for the next 20 years. I'm all for it just never trust the snake.
Yes
Oh let’s! Please let’s do that.
Best idea she's ever had
Don't stop at Republicans! Do Democrats and Independents, and every other party who have and are serving!
Never thought we'd agree on anything
How about hell yes?
Honestly if they have dirt on any of the current generation on either side now would be a good time to nuke them all from orbit. Plenty of time for the next generation to form before 2028
I hate MTG but lately I've agreed with her twice:
That's like pointing a gun at your own head and ... at your own head.
It’s easy to say “holy shit I agree with MTG”, but the tinfoil hat on my head is telling me she’s for it because she knows nothing will be done against her team, regardless of what is uncovered.
They don’t give a fuck about hypocrisy. So the dirt on the libs will be aired and used as an excuse to justify prosecuting them.
Those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing
Yes. Do it. Please.
I know she's just bluffing but god I wish they'd do that
Um, nooooooo dont own teh libs so hard!!!
Sounds good to me?
Just make them all public all the time! That'll show those fucking libs.
As a liberal I would be so fucking owned by this
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.
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.
Thus is the difference between MAGA/republicans and everyone else
Bill was lended Epstein's plane one time to a regular AIDs relief tour in Africa.
Trump has been on his plane many times, but more importantly called him a friend and went to his island. Many times.
You sound as crazy as the people calling Stephen Hawking a kid diddler when you say stuff like that. You, like the majority of Americans, seem to have no fucking clue what actually happens around them.
But yes, I agree, release the reports and send people who broke the law to prison.
Holy shit I agree with MTG
Harambe truly was this universe's anchor being, and the decay is increasing exponentially
Wow......having seen almost NONE of the other Marvel movies, I walked out of Deadpool vs Wolferine just kind of confused. Not by the plot, that was simple as shit. It was insultingly simple.
The part that confused me was "WHO IS DEMANDING THIS MOVIE???". I don't watch a lot of movies, but the ones I do watch I like to make "worth it". And everybody was going on and on and on about how great this movie was going to be once it came out. And then......
Ok, imagine going to this movie, without ANY concept about who these cameos are, who a LOT of the characters are supposed to even be, and without having seen a single previous deadpool or x-men movie before.
Yeah, movie kind of sucks now, doesn't it?
But......silver lining.....at least I was able to get the joke of a Lemmy post months after the fact.
.......yeah, I still want my $12 back.
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..?
It's so weird to see an MTG post and... yeah... I'm over here like: LFG.
Oh no. Please, stop.