‘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.”
I hate MTG.
I will also take any ally we can get at this point, as long as they vote what they speak
He was an observer not a protester ffs. Even subtle things like this shift the narrative.
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
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.
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.
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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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.?
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
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.
Well, Marj is right on this one.
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
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.)
Coming out of this hell for the USA could require help from anyone, and convincing MAGAs to come over to the good side might be accomplished more readily by someone who once was theirs, would that be her or not.
“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this!”
Screw her. She helped push us here.
Doesn’t matter if the intent is to cause a civil war or not. We don’t have a choice.
They will keep ramping up until we fight back. May as well start it now before more lives are lost.
I know Trump thinks it’s going to keep there from being primaries, midterms, but he’s wrong.
It’s also not going to stop us from demanding the Epstein files.
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?!?!?!
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.
Their comment however was not about simping MTG. It was questioning Democrats sucking ass.
There is no effective difference between the parties, the reason the Dems are as weak as the GOP are grifters is because they all have the same donors.
We flush incumbent dems out this year, all of 'em. Then see what happens after we shake the Yahtzee dice.
Give em hell
There’s a tidal-wave of sudden pro-establishment democrat accounts being made across Lemmy right now. Check the account ages when you see them, you’ll notice many are less than a month old.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence though.
Surely.
There’s no money in it
This. No one needs to look any further. We are not being lead, we are being fleeced.
If there weren’t, MTG wouldn’t be doing it. There is less money in it than their current strategy.
Not necessarily, she’s young by politician standards and she understands the old geezer leader her party is going to die leaving a charisma void and eventually a clusterfuck party-imploding. Building popularity right now is her correctly reading the writing on the wall and making investments in this eventuality.
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.
She compares these protesters with the “peaceful J6ers.” Fuck off traitorous manipulative fuckwad. J6 was the darkest day in American Democracy, since the McCarthy hearings at least if not going back a lot further.
I don’t care what her reasons are for saying the right thing. People on the right listen to her and we need more people saying the right thing.
