These mfers get a pension after five years? And they keep it if they quit? Like why aren’t more of them giving up early access to information for stock trades?
Most seem to want to stay in office until they die of dementia.
Bye, bitch.
May she feel, every minute of every day, the same existential fear for her safety and life that she’s made a career of making every minority and woman in America feel.
She’s going to get some kind of cushy book tour from the #NeverTrump Republicans and cash in on her “I’m in the president’s party but I don’t like him” the same way Ron Paul dined out as an anti-Bush Republican for over a decade.
Nothing bad ever actually happens to these people, with the special exception of Charlie Kirk
She’s going to get some kind of cushy book tour from the #NeverTrump Republicans and cash in on her “I’m in the president’s party but I don’t like him” the same way Ron Paul dined out as an anti-Bush Republican for over a decade.
looks dubious
Within the broader party, she was generally associated with Trump, and just recently ran into friction on a few issues.
Ron Paul was famous for disagreeing with broader party positions, and had been doing it for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul
he cast two thirds of all the lone negative votes in the House during a 1995–1997 period.[23]
If you wanted to take someone who had a record of disagreement with Trump, maybe Thomas Massie from the small-government faction, or if you want someone centrist, maybe Lisa Murkowski.
So what is the local election likely for the state? Was it close last time? Are there good potential progressives or at least a dem who could win? Does this potentially tip the Senate a bit?
Well the AP chose to quote the county republiQan chairman as to the next steps to fill her seat.
Which probably was on purpose. Even though it’s going to be an open special election so hey - Social Democrats of . . . wherever in Georgia - now’s the time
It temporarily narrows the House majority even further. It’s a very red district, so the next rep will almost certainly be a Republican unfortunately
She got rich so…
Right? Boo hoo.
Came here to post this, but you beat me to it.
She’s up to something.
“She’s carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her action have not backed up the rhetoric,” -AOC
She criticized the party too loudly and too often. Bet she got told to leave. Wonder what compromising material they have on her to force her out.
I was just starting to warm up to her. I mean, she’s still a vile human being, don’t get me wrong, but she was at LONG LAST asking the correct questions, only to be immediately shut down. I hope MAGA takes note of this.
Oh, who am I kidding. Trump could personally rape their kids and they’d still defend him.
I’d prefer she stay and continue to prod the Trump regime.
If she leaves we’ll just get a stronger Trump loyalist.
I guess she’s leaving with some integrity. Hard disagree with most of her beliefs but at least she stuck to them and didn’t just kowtow to the pedophile president.
Guess I have some of the same sort of respect for her that the right shows to Bernie, sort of a don Quixote lunatic with honor.
She’s leaving because she got what she wanted. Pension for life and millions of dollars from insider trading.
Funny how she was hated for years by the left and she was fine. Hated by the right for a few days and she felt the need to hire security and then resign.
Obviously it’s because the far left terrorist antifa are so insidious they make their death threats silently, so that no one else even knows. Only the brave and courageous MAGA warn the actual victim.
Wut?
I think you missed the silent /s
Totally true. But i wouldn’t be suprised to see a similar comment yet genuine.
I think this is the reason. With the mass de-masking in recent years and people saying the things out loud that they’d previously just keep to themselves, it’s become more difficult to tell if people are being sarcastic or just are genuinely hateful and cruel.
I hate that this feels like the reason, but it does. I’ve lost a lot of people that I used to count as respected friends and peers.
I cannot believe how quickly its transpired that people can’t pick up on very, very obvious sarcasm. I genuinely can’t.
The number of homeless children has increased by 50% n 6 months.
“We should grind them up and feed them to the Rottweilers guarding the multi-billionaire’s properties so they can save money on dog food and help create more jobs!”
“You WHAT?!!? These are CHILDREN!!”
the /s wasn’t a thing pre covid. I dont get it,
the /s wasn’t a thing pre covid.
It’s been around a looooong time, certainly well before covid.
Before reddit, too. I was using it on vbulletin forums decades ago.
I feel like it’s worse here than on Reddit. I’ve joined less than a month ago, and already had things ‘explained’ to me by someone completely missing how the entire sarcasm thing works, and got several downvotes on top. On Reddit I can go months between such occurrences, and upvotes usually indicate that people get the clue.
Tone Indicators (wikipedia.com) have been around for a long time.
The syntax of modern tone indicators stems from /s, which has long been used on the internet to denote sarcasm.[4] This symbol is an abbreviated version of the earlier /sarcasm, itself a simplification of </sarcasm>,[5] the form of a humorous XML closing tag marking the end of a “sarcasm” block, and therefore placed at the end of a sarcastic passage.
Just because one hasn’t been exposed to a concept doesn’t make it new. :)
Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that “I’m only kidding”. If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.
Jerry Schwartz, 1983, UsenetIt’s just Poe’s Law in action. It’s impossible to create satire that is too extreme, because there will always be someone who believes it to be a genuine post. The law was originally coined to refer to fundamentalist Christians, but was later expanded to encompass any kind of satire or sarcasm in online text.
She wasn’t “hated by the right for a few days”, her life and her family were threatened. She hired more security and still doesn’t feel safe now that maga freaks are against her. For all its faults, that’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans…
Indeed, you have grasped the salient point.
OMG the Higgs Boson!! I’m a massive fan!
Is this you taking a shower?
I think that’s their point
. . . on Saturday morning, Trump dubbed Greene “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown.”
Geez he really is losing it. That’s weak.
All the kids were saying Perjury Traitor Greed six years ago.
Whatever her reasons for doing so, she was calling out Trump for some of his bullshit, and that was getting the arguments on Fox “News”, which meant a few MAGA were hearing it, possibly for the first time. That was good.
I can only imagine the pressure put on her to quit. It’s no surprise she caved.
I heard a rumor maga chuds were making death threats.
I mean, there are so few reasons why she’d do this and not be Fetterman-like opposition while getting paid.
Fetterman betrayed progressives and has gotten a lot of bad press. Greene betrayed MAGA and is getting death threats. There is a difference there.
Very good point
MTG said so herself.
Marjorie Junior Tweedle?
Whooops. Should’ve put my glasses on.
