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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 690 points 5 days ago (7 children)
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 210 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just make them all public all the time! That'll show those fucking libs.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 123 points 4 days ago (3 children)

As a liberal I would be so fucking owned by this

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[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 130 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 75 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 50 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What they don't grasp is that we'd send our guy to jail: because they won't.

That's the difference.

When a corrupt democrat is exposed they're expelled (bye bye Cuomo)

When a corrupt republican is exposed they're re-elected.

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[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Holy shit I agree with MTG

Harambe truly was this universe's anchor being, and the decay is increasing exponentially

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 5 days ago

Let me stretch first. Don't want to pull anything.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 380 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 152 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Then who is supporting Nancy Pelosi?

Quip aside, let's bring on the sunlight.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 119 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Honestly don't know anyone that likes Pelosi.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

And yet here she is wielding enormous power.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 61 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)

I don't know why anyone likes neoliberals.

She's a model one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/nancy-pelosi-federal-lawmakers-should-be-able-to-trade-stock.html

I vote blue with my nose held as always for harm reduction, but neoliberals like Pelosi are why so many actual leftwing people that want a society walked away, they have no party that isnt enthusiastically part of the root problem of maintaining crony market capitalism at society's catastrophic expense.

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[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 77 points 4 days ago

The tweet in question to save you the click.

The replies are hilarious. Everyone is 100% in favor of this idea, but the MAGA dipshits don't realize she's literally only doing this to protect a pedophile sex trafficker.

So, MTGs plan is to call out the entire Republican party as corrupt and rally her supporters to air their dirty laundry to the public. Truly fantastic, MTG. Please don't let anyone talk you out of it.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 93 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 62 points 4 days ago
[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Marjorie Taylor Greene may yet be our Gollum.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 225 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Deal

Edit: no takebacks

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 73 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

Am..Am I agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Is..Is Marjorie Taylor Greene making smart, intelligent, good points?

We really are in bizarro world.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A broken clock is still right 2 times a day.

You're giving her too much credit.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

She's threatening other Republicans to keep them in line with Trump.

The headline only touches on it but the article goes deeper into her comment.

It's not an honest request to release anything, but a threat to release everything if they release the Gaetz report.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 133 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

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’.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 173 points 5 days ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 150 points 5 days ago (8 children)

The amount of cognitive dissonance I got from reading something MTG said that I actually agree with was nuts

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Focus on that pain and it will lead to enlightenment.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 47 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I feel you. I have this new super bitch of a boss, but she wore cute pants one day in September and it left me conflicted. I'm still pissed off about it.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago
[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Does she think this is a burn? It’s absolutely what should happen.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

What makes you think she thinks this is a burn?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago
[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble but this isn't an actual suggestion to release the Gaetz report.

It's a threat directed at other Republicans that if we are going to release the Gaetz report, we're going to release many other reports too.

Marjorie is a die-hard bootlicker, and she's not going to break lines with Trump.

Her full tweet is in the article. The headline only touches on her intentions.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 108 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Something something broken clock

[–] islands@lemmy.cafe 80 points 4 days ago (4 children)

"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.

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[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

fuckin do it. don't threaten me with a good time.

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[–] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day...

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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 71 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Except in Pelosi’s district. Those Democrats don’t appear to give any fucks about corruption.

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] realtegan@lemm.ee 53 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago
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