‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials

Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out swinging at the White House over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.

The rift between the MAGA firebrand and White House deepened after a Trump official apparently told her that her support of bipartisan legislation ordering the release of the so-called Epstein files would be viewed as a “very hostile act.”

Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein. If a discharge petition receives the signature of a majority of members, they can force a vote without the consent of leadership.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      Sounds like an idea for an app to me. Something to pass the time on the bus maybe. Bobbleheaded versions of ketamined Elon punching a ripped MTG in a cartoon boxing ring? And they just mash each other with Looney Tunes effects over their heads?

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    If she doesn’t work for Trump and she doesn’t work for her constituents, who does she work for?

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      That’s what this feels like. It’s not like these people were standing around smelling diapers for the love of the game. They want the power he wields and eventually they will come take it.

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    well, she won’t be in office for much longer. The democrats already think she’s a fucking idiot and now she’s angered der fuhrer.

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    I still think she’s insane, but I wish we had more progressive, D congresspersons that had this attitude of serving The People instead of the DNC.

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      You think the jewish space lasers cunt is insane? What gives? The bar is really low for americans to side with someone.

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        As far as I know yes.

        But, D congresspersons rarely speak against party leadership.

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            Depends on the progressive, I’d say. But, they are certainly more willing to, so I might have been better to leave that adjective out of my comment.

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        On this particular issue, yes. But I think they’re talking about other things that the Democratic party supports but that are bad for their constituents.

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          If we aren’t just talking about this specific instance and instead we’re talking about her attitude in general, is that really the attitude we want to see in progressive politicians?

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            She bucked the party on war with iran, gaza, and geo engineering.

            So yes, fighting against the imperial mandates of party leadership is something we should want to see in all dems, as effective as their meek acquiesance has been…

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    It’s crazy that there’s any other position.

    Bernie fucking Sanders just sits there like a dumb bitch “calling Trump out.” All these people pursuing “more important matters” while a systemic child raping conspiracy is allowed to turn into a circus.

    And this is who we have. A handful of nutters who are the only ones “crazy” enough to care. All the other career politicians can go Kirk themselves.

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        This [FPTP] is the weapon of the enemy, we do NOT (need to) USE it.

        Any Condorcet method would yield a significant improvement in representation accuracy, but it would trigger one heck of a party re-alignment.

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      how many other high profile republicans are there aside from MTG who have broken from trump on this? I bet you can count the names on one hand.

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        I’m not really talking about corrupt government officials I’m talking about the maga sheep who seem to be out there killing eachother all of a sudden. We know that they’re violent extremist but they might be waking up to the fact they were conned by pedo Don

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    Either she had an epiphany and saw what she is doing will end her up in prison and probably hell if it exists in her world.

    Maybe she is starting to understand she is going to be held accountable in a few years and doesnt want to end up in the concentration camps they send immigrants to.

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      No, she wants power games and shitting on people. She’s just not ok with Trump playing power games and shitting on her. She’s a terrible person, and I’m all for a battle of idiots between her and Trump.

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      I listened to an interesting take on her on a podcast. Basically they think she is looking beyond Trump and the void if and when he is out of office and she is positioning herself to be the tell it how it is candidate.

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      In what universe are any of these people going to be held accountable??

      The safest route for sure is to just follow the pack and not stand out. Unless you think that the average Republican has a serious risk of ending up in prison, in which case you’re more delusional than she is.

      I’m old enough to remember when people (including my young and naive self) thought that the Bush administration would be held accountable for illegal torture and spying and all that. Democrats got a supermajority and didn’t touch them, and even continued a lot of the shit they’d been doing. The rule of law simply doesn’t apply to you if the only people who could enforce it against you are these soft, civility-obsessed careerists. It’s pure cope to think otherwise.

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      My hometown is not too far from her district, I’ve known many MTGs, and I’ll tell you they are crazy as fuck and miserable people but part of their mania began with their love for kids and desire to protect them. They are delusional don’t get me wrong. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she stood her ground here and that’s good for everyone