• @btaf45@lemmy.world
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    This is great news since it officially establishes that Johnson has a dependency on Democrats now. Which gives Dems more leverage because if Johnson refuses to cooperate on something in the future than Dems could bring a motion to vacate the chair.

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      Yeah, I was frustrated with Greene saying “Democrats saved him,” because with the infinitesimal majority they have, it would be the Democrats who ousted him if they voted the other way. Republicans basically have no agency in their choice of Speaker anymore, thanks largely to the chaos and dysfunction caused by her faction.

    • @meleecrits@lemmy.world
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      It also shows how toothless the extreme MAGA side is. Democrats and moderate Republicans made bipartisan deals to get aid passed and this troglodyte can’t abide compromise. She genuinely thinks compromise is evil.

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          91 year ago

          Correct. She must be fuming because she thought she had that kind of power - and she doesn’t.

          I have a small sliver of suspicion that many Democrats voted to help Johnson in order to put her in her place.

    • @PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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      No sooner than Greene triggered the vote on her motion to vacate the speaker from his office, the Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise countered by calling first for a vote to table it.

      An overwhelming majority, 359-43, kept Johnson in his job, for now.

      The House voted nearly immediately to resolve something. How often does that happen? That is a resounding rejection.

      There are mechanisms for Congress to expell members, but that’s unlikely to come up Santos for her.

      • @nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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        The House voted nearly immediately to resolve something. How often does that happen? That is a resounding rejection.

        Everyone is just sick if her bullshit it seems. Except her constituents, they love that shit.

  • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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    341 year ago

    In another thread, someone referred to her as Perjury Traitor Greed, and I’m just here to make that more popular.

  • @ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    281 year ago

    I guess on balance it’s more important to me that the Democrats reject Greene than reject Johnson. It’s clear to everyone that Johnson is “weak” (in MAGA support) and dependent completely on Democrats to get anything done.

    Now that that’s out in the open and he’s slightly a MAGA pariah, he’ll probably get back to more old fashioned Republican projects like destroying the environment, fucking over workers, giving billions to billionaires, and a blank check to the military.

    I mean … Freedom.

    • @Daft_ish@lemmy.world
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      He feels like a paul ryan type. He marks all the check boxes that the far right extremists need to have checked but in reality he’s just some chump with shitty beliefs and won’t ever be anything more.

  • mechoman444
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    Has anyone ever noticed that mtg looks like a wax life sized figure of a cave woman in the natural history display at the local museum?

    Someone needs to give her a basket so she can gather some berries!

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        I feel like these ad homien attacks are what allow people like Marjorie to thrive. If all you can do is put someone down for how they look then I really don’t need to listen to what you have to say.

        It’s unfortunate because there are way worse things about Marjorie than her looks.

        • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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          I’m not saying ad hom is good, I’m saying she factually looks like a Neanderthal. If it’s insulting to anyone, it’s Neanderthals.

          On the other hand, ridicule is the only way you can actually engage with someone like marge because you can’t actually engage in good faith.

    • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Just watched the new docu on Netflix about Neanderthals. Wow, you nailed it. She must have been frozen in a sheet of ice for a long time like Encino Man. Oh hell, now I’ve dated myself. For the young, it’s a stupid movie from a long time ago. I think Sam (of Frodo fame) was in it. And another dude who you’d recognize. And a third dude who was popular for about ten seconds.

    • @irreticent@lemmy.world
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      I’ve heard that she is actually Dog the Bounty Hunter in drag. I mean, it is possible… has anyone seen the two of them in the same place at the same time. And the resemblance is uncanny!

  • gregorum
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    161 year ago

    Cuntery Taitor Bullshit’s game is played out, and nobody will put up with her shit anymore.

  • Dreizehn
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    81 year ago

    Who the hell do you support in this case? The right-wing religious nutter or the Russian FSB agent?

    • partial_accumen
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      The right-wing religious nutter or the Russian FSB agent?

      The right wing nutter. He did the bare minimum to enable support to Ukraine. That’s more than the Russian FSB agent ever did.

    • If it stops the legislature from being paralyzed and gives Democrats leverage, it’s certainly better than the alternative. But no…it’s not ideal.

    • “If it’s not perfect it’s garbage”

      “Playing with broken toys is so cringey”

      … talk about depressing, imagine hating reality and being obsessed with a utopia you will never see

        • Way to stretch what the original commenter was saying… lmao.

          They’re shitting on people for making do with what they have for the purposes of the present people that need help.

          Seems to me that if we can focus on improving the present, the future would naturally be improved. That means taking the lemons life has given, and turning them into lemonade. Not bitching and moaning about how you don’t have any strawberry lemonade mojitos.

    • mozz
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      It is a safe bet that if MTG is for it, it’s bad for the country.

      She is clearly looking to punish him for the Ukraine aid vote. Her losing that battle is a good thing. Winning the house in November so that we don’t have to deal with this as much going forward would be even better than that.

  • @doingthestuff@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    I intentionally take in news from different political views and the only people talking about MTG are generally Democrats. She’s an annoying nobody to the right. I’m not at all surprised her power play fizzled.