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Marjorie Taylor Greene has reportedly been booted from the House Freedom Caucus after calling Lauren Boebert a 'bitch'
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How terrible do you have to be for that collection of terrible people to throw you out of their hate group?
Actively undermine democracy? That's fiiiiiine
Call a gigantic piece of shit a mean name? Right to the gulag!
Greene’s mistake was directing it at one of their own. There isn’t a limit to how terrible they can be to everyone else.
Yep, she pissed in the tent. As long as you're inside the tent pissing out you can do whatever you want.
That depends on which way the wind is blowing.
You would think that Qbert and Margorie Trailer Trash would be BFFs, but no, they're even shitty to each other. The funny thing is that they were fighting over one of them copying her articles of impeachment from the other: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-lauren-boebert-little-b-house-floor-gop-p-rcna90592
"Greene then called Boebert “a little b----,” the Daily Beast reported, adding that Greene accused Boebert of having copied articles of impeachment she filed against Biden. Boebert pushed back at Greene’s claim, saying that she had not read the Georgia lawmaker's resolution, the news outlet said.
Nick Dyer, a spokesperson for Greene, confirmed to NBC News that the outlet’s characterization of the interaction was accurate.
“I had already introduced articles of impeachment on Joe Biden for the border, asked her to co-sponsor mine — she didn’t,” Greene told reporters Wednesday. “She basically copied my articles and then introduced them and then changed them to a privileged resolution.”
So much for McCarthy being in charge of the House majority.
Give in to the demands of the fascist faction, have your party run by the fascist faction.
It'll be interesting to see what he does. Either way he's coming out with scars.
If he finally tells the Freedom Caucus to go fuck itself, and builds a coalition with Democrats, he'll be doing wonders for the GOP's image. Showing extremists the door in favor of cooperation for moderate policies is what people want to see. And McCarthy may get personal fame for it, possibly even better political aspirations. However, he'd earn the ire of the Freedom Caucus and his primary would get a lot harder. It's possible he would piss off too much of his base. The Republicans would start rehabilitating their image, but at the cost of handing Democrats 2024 with the extremists fracturing off.
On the other hand, if he stays a little bitch to the extremists, he'll continue to get squeezed on all of these budget negotiations and inevitably blamed. By not decisively taking action with the Caucus, tensions and fractures continue to grow in the GOP. And they continue to be seen as the children in the room and, well, extremists.
Before writing this out I actually thought there was a decent chance McCarthy would grow a spine. But now looking at everything else that would happen, yeah it's unlikely as hell.
Standing up to the fascists would probably cost him his job, but at least it would be an attempt to draw a line in the sand.
But neither Boehner nor Ryan nor McCarthy have enough spine to actually stand up to the extremists. Instead, they're happy with keeping a title that means less and less, only to eventually slink away and never be heard from again.
These guys could go out with a bang, with a big fight, with a grand proclamation that Republicans don't stand for extremism or fascism or homophobia or sexism or white supremacy or racism - but their willingness to idly stand by and let the fascists and extremists and white supremacists and conspiracy theorists run the show tells you all you need to know about them.
Well said.
They've always hated each other. They're basically both vying for the same thing, which is to be the greatest Sarah Palin imposter of the age. Washington isn't big enough for two of those. Boebert's likely to be voted out next election so she's trying to do something memorable (like a doomed Biden impeachment) so she can land a Fox News gig. But Greene thought of it first! It's a race to the bottom of the spiral.
I was gonna comment that as a European, I know about both of them and have seen pictures of them. But I could not tell them apart. So it seemed weird they were at each others throat.
With this comment, it seems more that it's a profiling issue. They are both trying to fill the same role and can't stand each other because of it. Maybe it's a good sign that they believe there's no room for more than 1 of them?
Every hate group turns on themselves eventually.
You have to insult someone who deserves it.