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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 30 points 1 hour ago
[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 6 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

fuckin do it. don't threaten me with a good time.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 52 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (6 children)

Am..Am I agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Is..Is Marjorie Taylor Greene making smart, intelligent, good points?

We really are in bizarro world.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 13 points 43 minutes ago (2 children)

When Democrat politicians fuck up, other Democrats will absolutely call for, and get, resignations. Even things that boil down to consenting adults in privacy can result in resignations when it's seen to compromise a politician.

When Republicans fuck up, the party circles the wagons and goes full defensive. They will absolutely fight to resist any calls to resign, using any tactic they can think of to keep their latest pedo/pervert/con man/criminal in power. Only if the evidence is incontrovertible, and the outcry impossible to ignore, will they ever consider resignation, and as we've seen with Gaetz, that's not even necessarily the end of their career.

MTG is exactly the kind of brainlet to think that Democrats work the same way Republicans do. She thinks "Release all the Ethics reports" will make Democrats back down, or at least intimidate them. A party agreeing to release ethics reports relating to their own people is utterly unthinkable to her.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 points 29 minutes ago

Well, thank you for coming in and ruining the moment with your facts and reason and obvious statements and common sense

[–] castlebravo404@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 29 minutes ago

She also thinks it will matter. When a lot of voters have shown they have no problem voting for morally bankrupt people as long as they have the right letter next to their name.

[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 25 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

A broken clock is still right 2 times a day.

You're giving her too much credit.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Eh she's more like a 24 hr clock. Or maybe one of those little "comic-a-day" calendars that you can out on your desk that always seem to be on the wrong day until you remember to update it...

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Don't worry, you agree with her words but not her intent. She doesn't actually want to do it, she just wants to use the threat of it to keep Gaetz's report secret.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks that the Democratic party is far more morally corrupt than the Republican party. So therefore she believes that this is a nuclear option she does not realize that this is what everyone literally wants, well everyone except for the people in her own party.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

MTG seems to be in the minority of elected Republican representatives in that she actually seems to believe the things she says

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't worry, she's not, at least not on purpose. Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while.
Pretty sure she's being sarcastic.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Blind pigs are far more capable than this creature.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 50 minutes ago

She's not, i don't think she wants this to happen and i think she knows that people won't agree to this kind of thing.

But what she's saying is right. The people deserve to know what our representatives are up to.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

She's right and all...

But will it actually matter? The public voted for a pedo rapist felon. Surely if the triple threat is your pick for president, to be considered "incompatible" you would have had to do something truly horrific.

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 4 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm thoroughly convinced this country would have elected Jeffery Dahmer.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 4 points 49 minutes ago

If he had an "R" next to his name, no doubt.

[–] ToAllPointsWest@lemmy.world 20 points 2 hours ago

Ummm, Ok!!! Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 53 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ok.

Do it.

The overwhelming problem is that the Dems tend to hold their members accountable while the republicans absolutely DGAF and happily keep literal criminals in their ranks.

She’s basically acknowledging there’s plenty of dirt, but the only offenses they’ll care about is their opponents’.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

yes absolutely! do that!

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Its actually clever. When the repubs block the release of the reports she will claim the dems balked at releasing the reports because they are the dirty ones.

How many of these ethics reports even really exist? Gaetz existed I thought because he was under investigation for his crimes and they said if he dropped out it would be sealed.

Do they actually have reports for everyone? If so that's great, but I can't imagine they were actually investigating every person in the same manner.

[–] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 56 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day...

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the second time.

[–] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grrgyle 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Random word generator about 15 years ago, been my handle ever since.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 126 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, nothing wrong with that

You know what's wrong though?

Her brushing over the fact that Gaetz is a pedo rapist. You'll never hear her admit to this because the republican party never admits that they are the source of all the shit they accuse everyone of.

Fuck this waste of oxygen.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol -2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I hear this often on Democrat centric pages but I never even saw his name on conservative sites until his nomination. What is he confirmably guilty of? I'd like to know.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 3 points 45 minutes ago

He hasn't been found guilty of anything, yet, but that's largely (imo) because the Merrick Garland DOJ has refused to prosecute and blocked attempts to independently figure out what the hell he's doing.

I think it's highly likely he's guilty of sex trafficking minors and both the DOJ and the ethics committee know this.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Those two are peas in a pod as well.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago

17 in georgia? Almost an old maid....

I kid, i kid.

So did Matt...

[–] islands@lemmy.cafe 72 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

"For my Republican colleagues in the House and Senate, If we are going to release ethics reports and rip apart our own that Trump has appointed, then put it ALL out there for the American people to see. Yes.. all the ethics reports and claims including the one I filed, all your sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled paying off victims with tax payer money, the entire Jeffrey Epstein files, tapes, recordings, witness interviews. But not just those, there's more, Epstein wasn't/isn't the only asset. If we're going to dance, let's all dance in the sunlight. I'll make sure we do," the lawmaker said in a post on X.

Interesting, she's going the Madison Crawthorn route. Remember what happened to him? They dished up all the dirt they could find on him and hung him out to dry. This sounds noble of her, but she's using this as a threat to try to force them not to go after Gaetz, her pedophile buddy.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

She's actually threatening the Republicans explicitly, I assumed she was going with the 'both sides do it' argument.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 43 minutes ago

She's definitely going after the Republicans because they're the ones who have the power to force this release. The Dems have no real impact as long as the Republicans vote as a bloc, which they are likely to do. This is basically a threat to people who might step out of line that their records might be next.

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 627 points 16 hours ago (9 children)
[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 109 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I don't care if they are Republican or Democrat. If they are criminals, they should go to jail. Release the Epstein files and send Bill and Trump to jail.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 58 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Thats the thing I don't think they get.

"Ok, well our guy will go to jail, but so will yours!!!"

"That's fine."

"But then we BOTH lose!"

"This isn't a MAD doctrine situation. This is supposed to be more like a scorched earth situation. No corruption left behind."

And I don't think they grasp that.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 hours ago

It would do more to drain the swamp than anything Trump had ever imagined.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

She is only saying it because she is positive the files will never get released.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 40 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

What they don't grasp is that we'd send our guy to jail: because they won't.

That's the difference.

When a corrupt democrat is exposed they're expelled (bye bye Cuomo)

When a corrupt republican is exposed they're re-elected.

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[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 171 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Just make them all public all the time! That'll show those fucking libs.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 98 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

As a liberal I would be so fucking owned by this

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[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 69 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think this is as stupid as it sounds. With some exceptions Democratic voters tend to punish their representatives for corruption, but republican voters never do

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 41 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So you're saying she's betting that while republicans will have significantly more corruption, democrats will be the only ones punished because their voter base is the only one that actually cares? Honestly, you could very well be right about the result of a hypothetical universal ethic report release, though I'd be surprised if MTG was smart enough to think 2 steps ahead like that.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

The Republicans control the process to determine who gets punished.

So MTG is taking her shot to be Joe McCarthy.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 358 points 16 hours ago (43 children)

This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don't support corrupt leaders. MTG does.

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 207 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Deal

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