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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 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 42 points 3 days 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.

[–] castlebravo404@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 3 days 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.

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