‘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.”
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
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.?
She’s attempting to stay relevant after quitting congress and currently has no role/job.
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.
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.
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.
You’re not supposed to throw trash in the sea.
And yet, her takes are better than most Democrats
Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it’s better
Down where it’s wetter
Take it from me
At this current point in time, anybody against Trump in this fascist regime is a friend of mine
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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.”
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.
Using the word in that definition is literally the slur.
I can see why you would think that.
Stay unemployed Marge
What office does she hold rn?
A home office
This is like the 3rd time I’ve agreed with her this year.
Much as that sucks, it could be that we’re being fed bullshit to divide us. Weird, I know.
She’s still an idiot whose views only align with mine in a few cases because she doesn’t really understand reality.
But she actually seems like someone who maybe cares about the truth sometimes. She was indoctrinated, but maybe she could be pulled out of it? Not when she’s surrounded by the right wing echo chamber, but it gives me some hope that the redcaps in our own orbit might have a chance?
She seems like a crazy person that’s also a true believer.
She went to Washington wanting to expose, among other things, a secret child-sex abuse ring involving people at the highest levels of government and society. And lo and behold, there was one, but it was being protected by the people in her own party.
True believers sometimes have some hope because some have just followed misinformation too far. Some will snap out of it when confronted with reality. The Final Experiment actually managed to turn some true flerfers. No effect on the grifters, obviously, but it shook some believers loose.
MTG has always smelled like foreign/capital influence and the stank keeps getting worse.
That’s what I thought, too, but her latest utterances don’t make sense in that light.
Maybe her net worth has finally exceeded her values, so she’s finding something like a conscience and isn’t moneyed enough* for that to really factor in? She’s very, very new money, and likely can’t really imagine what that means? People are likely trying to tell her.
* : if foreign money bought her, I’m sure she was fairly cheap. She may have realised that recently…
They’re not supposed to make sense. Russia did this exact thing within its own borders after the fall. You have the most outspoken poles of the political spectrum do complete 180s. Why?
Because you’re trying to keep the people from organizing. You foment distrust in leaders and movements and try to keep people home by all means. You’re trying to get people disinterested in the messy world of politics.
Meanwhile, you identify the people who are willing to break the rule of law and follow orders and put them to work nipping at the edges of those brave enough to organize.
It’s happening now.
Aizen, just because you’re helping Ichigo now doesn’t mean I forgot about what you previously did.
On one hand it’s good to see anyone with a following stating truth to power, on the other hand it kinda pisses me off that only now after multiple needless deaths does this ass-hat who helped to set this situation up finally come to her senses.
i never thought I would see the day where I didn’t outright cringe / disagree with MTG
Bitch that civil war was your jam until they threw you out of the club… you’re not wrong, just terrible
I’ll take what can be had from her words, but she cannot be trusted and shares blame for the groundwork for the cult followers we see today. She’s also made a lot of money and is getting out after the fact.
I hate MTG.
I will also take any ally we can get at this point, as long as they vote what they speak
She still voted republican 99.99% of the time.
Fuck this bitch.
She’s the reason we’re in this fucking mess.
One of the many reasons. We started this slide with Reagan.
She is absolutely fucking right on that one!
They’re just waiting for someone to shoot back to send the army.
