‘Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm,’ the former Georgia congresswoman wrote
Marjorie Taylor Greene has urged fellow MAGA supporters – and other Americans – to “take off their political blinders” over the death of protester Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, warning that they are being “incited into civil war.”
“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement,” Greene wrote on X Sunday, the day after the fatal shooting. “However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment.
“Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”
Despite video showing that 37-year-old Pretti was filming federal officers but did not have a weapon drawn, the Trump administration has claimed he had tried to assassinate agents in an act of “domestic terrorism.”
Asshole that caused the downfall of society: Yo, society is falling apart!
You guys notice how Republican start being “normal” and stop spewing shit the minute they retire?
It tells, they all KNOW they are lying and stealing, they just don’t give a shit while they are grifting.
She is another rat sensing the ship is doomed and is currently scurrying down the ropes with every other Republican and internet personality who helped make all this happen.
She retired because she saw the writing on the wall when the first wave of Epstein clues dropped, that if she doesn’t distance herself from the GOP before the next electoral cycle then she would be dragged down with them.
The GOP broadly has two paths ahead, they will either:
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Collapse entirely between midterms and 2028, particularly if Trump dies, which he may at any moment, and the remaining rats are going to all be playing hot-potato with the blame and accountability. At this point, every Republican you ask will say they were “against Trump from the start” and will blame the Democrats for not stopping him. Seriously. There will be massive division and we will see a new “tea-party” like sub-movement that will gain a little ground but will need around 8 years to gestate into an actual party or even power-bloc committee in senate and house.
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Completely yank the mask off and try to actually make a play for totalitarian control through the dessicated emperor on his golden throne and High Chancellor Miller splitting power with Vance as they deploy every kind of act and measure to stall, delay and eventually cancel electoral politics. The only way they can do this with a country as large as the USA is by embroiling us in a war we can’t pull out of, likely Iran or someone else who won’t upset the world financial institutions.
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What is being missed here is
EVEN MARGERY TAYLOR GREEN IS GETTING SUPPORT BY TELLING THE TRUTH
which leads us to ask
DEMOCRATS IN OFFICE, WHY IS THIS SO HARD?!?!?!
There’s no money in it
This. No one needs to look any further. We are not being lead, we are being fleeced.
Listen, I know its nice to point at MTG and go “omg shits so fucked even this psychotic bitch can see the truth”
But thats not the case.
MTG is a fucking opportunist.
She seen the writing on the wall with Trumps second term and is pulling a Meghan McCain, in that shes trying to position herself infront of Cameras saying stuff that sounds reasonable to try and salvage a political career and potentially have a position of leadership in the post trump era, and especially in the post-trump republican party.
Don’t let her con you into liking her, believing her, or supporting her, just because shes now saying shit you believe and agree with. Because she pulled that shit already with the right wing and extremists… and she does it easily because she doesnt believe it. Shes a vile opportunist who would spew anything if she thought it’d let her maintain her power, or obtain more.
Let us not forget she was probably the first politician to publicly encourage a civil war since the first one.
Screw her. She helped push us here.
Most functional broken clock.
It’s been a long day.
I can’t help but read MTG as Magic the Gathering and it makes these headlines kinda sorta bearable.
Same tbh
It’d be better if she’d sacrifice herself from the graveyard already.
She can speak to MAGAts better than anyone left of Orange Mussolini.
She’s useful
Actually she has a tremendous opportunity to sway a non-trivial number of trump voters against him and his bloc right now. I say let her play, couldn’t possibly hurt the situation now.
Narrator: it could
Exiled. I don’t think you can sacrifice stuff that’s not on the board.
For a rat jumping off a sinking ship, she’s pretty good at it tbh. She is very selective and has only gone against trump on two things from what I understand (Epstein and 2A), both probably hitting the mark even in cultish Maga territory.
Even a Republican grifter is doing a much better job at opposition than most Democrats and that is all you need to know about American politics
It is bizarre watching these far-right broken clocks be occasionally right as reality steams past their previously untenable position into full dystopian horror.
She’s auditioning for 2028.
There won’t be a 2028 for her to compete in.
She’s nothing more than a bilge-rat, sensing the ship is sinking and escaping to higher decks.
Yes to the first part. However, disagree on the last bit…I mean, is anything actually sinking that isn’t wanted and expected by the paedo in chief?
And I’m asking seriously here.I don’t see any sinking of the republican party or maga. I see an old orange child rapist shitting on the fundamental allies, institutions, and laws of america with no one stopping it from happening.
Yes, america is losing those long time allies and money, etc, BUT that is by design of the wannabe dictator and its enablers. Again, where’s the sinking?
Bitch, YOU’RE A PART OF IT. 🖕🏽
Say what you want but more obnoxious cunts turning sides can only be a good thing.
You can say a lot of shit about her, but she’s also an untrustworthy turncoat.
Bitch, you created this monster. Now that you finally nfpund your marbles, it’s a bit late, dontbya think? I’m all for a redemption arc, but you really were one of the worst.
It’ll take more from you to forget what you’ve done
Bitch that civil war was your jam until they threw you out of the club… you’re not wrong, just terrible
They didn’t even really throw her out until she got salty over not running for senate (which they told her ‘no’ cuz she’d have lost.)
this the same idiot who was calling for a ‘national divorce’ every other week? as if that wasn’t just a euphemism for civil war
My guess is she is a survivor of child sexual assault and the Epstein files broken her anti-empathy.
I actually agree with her on that. But yeah she says all sorts of other stupid hateful shit.
But whatever we need as many cracks in the MAGA cult logic as we can get. And they sure as hell won’t listen to me.
This time September 15-16, 2025: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-divorce-leftists-charlie-kirk-b2827075.html
or are you thinking of another time.?
National divorse is in no way a euphemism for civil war. There’s literally a constitutional way of states removing themselves from the Federal Government, that’s what national divorse means.
What is the constitutional way of states removing themselves from the federal government?
A convention of states to amend the constitution; explicitly saying that specific state is no longer apart of the U.S., or inserting another legal route of succession into the constitution.
Much easier, and at the same time much more difficult than civil war.
A convention of states to amend the constitution;
Uh, no. That’s not a constitutional way of states removing themselves from the federal government; that’s a constitutional way to amend the constitution.
And why would we want to? I am so fucking proud of Minnesota right now you can’t begin to imagine. Why would I want them to leave? They are arguably the very best of us.
No, the one that needs to leave is the orange chancre and his minions. Why are you not talking about that? Minnesota’s not the problem here.
inserting another legal route of succession into the constitution.
Another? I’m still waiting to see the first.
That’s not a constitutional way of states removing themselves from the federal government; that’s a constitutional way to amend the constitution.
Is it constitutional to amend the constitution? Then how is that not a constitutional way?
You can’t tell the difference?
I don’t understand how you can’t know the difference, because this is your own claim.
Where’s that “legal route of succession” that’s already in the US Constitution? You know, the “national divorse” by way of the “constitutional way of states removing themselves from the Federal Government” you led with. You openly claimed,
There’s literally a constitutional way of states removing themselves from the Federal Government, that’s what national divorse means.
Your exact words. So, where is it? A simple enough question for someone as conversant with the US Constitution as you are, right?
This is very interesting to me because you have a lemmy account that’s barely a month old, and much of the time you are fluent in English, and other times – like in your interactions with me – you seem to be barely hanging on by your fingernails. But either way, you’re always desperate to push a narrative, and never able to answer any questions put to you about what you’ve already written.
So let’s talk about that “legal route of succession” that’s already in the US Constitution, the “constitutional way of states removing themselves from the Federal Government,” because YOU cared enough about it to bring it up.
Better yet, let’s talk about constitutionally evicting that orange kiddie rapist and doing a 25 for 47, because I’d far rather keep Minnesota in the union. No need to throw out a perfectly good state when one useless syphilitic pedo is the real problem. Do you think he’s being paid by Russia, Putin’s bitch? Or do you think that $500 million he banked in Qatar from selling stolen Venezuelan oil is the real story? I’m interested in your views on this.
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National divorse
constitutional way of states removing themselves from the Federal Government
that’s what national divorse means
Not from here, huh. Well, that’s alright. 1860 wasn’t the same everywhere around the world, of course.
She’s attempting to stay relevant after quitting congress and currently has no role/job.
she’s hoping she can capture the MAGA crowd and take over when trump croaks.
It’s the same right wing grift from a different angle.
She’s going to run for Gov of GA. She needs to moderate to get that position.
Actually, she’s lined up a tv news role. She cashed in her government pension already. You’re otherwise right
People need to stop acting like she’s turned over a new leaf. She’s a crazy racist. She has nothing to say that’s worth hearing. She did more than most to put us where we are. She belongs in the sea.
Yeah people don’t become non racist in a couple months. The best case scenario is that she actually has no ideology, was using racism to extend her support base and now is trying to switch sides because she wasn’t accepted as a top level member to the racist boys’ club (suprise suprise they also turned out to be sexist).
She’s a crazy racist
Do you realize need someone to explain to you why trump losing the support of crazy racists is a big deal?
This. The way forward is this. Her audience needs to hear this. Not us on Lemmy, we already know.
It boils down to a simplified “us versus them” attitude that the wealthy exploit regardless of party.
No one should agree with anyone 100% of the time, because then you’re just blindly agreeing and not thinking.
But people who view the world as binary teams like that can’t rationalize any of “them” saying anything right.
Right now it’s very important to remember because fascists are always dogshit at maintaining a coaltion after assuming power. Divide and conquer is cliche for a reason, it fucking works.
We need to hammer the 2A angle, because 2A is a huge chunk of Republican support. That’s one of their top wedge issues.
Pro-gun progressives could always dominate any election, but even more so now that the left should understand how important gun rights are. And we’d still cut down on mass shootings, because people would feel like they have something to lose in the first place.
Her saying this is better than her not saying anything at all—we can demand more from her but we can also benefit from her existence at the moment since she isn’t staying silent
Look, yes. She’s a piece of shit. But she’s not wrong here. And honestly, we need people (even batshit crazy racists) calling out the stupid shit Trump and co are doing.
Do not conflate agreement with acceptance. We need all the help we can get right now. Worry about washing your hands later. Too many good people are dying to stay on that high horse.
At this current point in time, anybody against Trump in this fascist regime is a friend of mine
You’re not supposed to throw trash in the sea.
Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it’s better
Down where it’s wetter
Take it from me
And yet, her takes are better than most Democrats
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It was incredibly unnecessary to use that ableist slur.
Your misunderstanding of English has caused you to miss my point.
I understood your point perfectly fine. I’m telling you that the r word, in the way you used it, is an ableist slur.
My argument was specifically that she was pretending to be intellectually deficient, the true meaning of the word that I’m apparently not allow to post. It is not, inherently, an “ableist slur.”
Using the word in that definition is literally the slur.
I can see why you would think that.
That’s like claiming using the n-word to refer to someone of recent African decent isn’t a slur because you are using the word “correctly” and that it would only be a slur if used for people who aren’t black.
A better comparison would be the NAACP or UNCF not changing their names because they don’t care to engage in the euphemism treadmill.
