• Machinist@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I read her statement. Still crazy as a shithouse rat and a true beliver of terrible and stupid things.

    It didn’t really explain why she’s resigning. Just that the other kids won’t stop picking on her and the principal is really mean.

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      16 hours ago

      She is absolute scum and is only upset that the rabid MAGA base is treating her the way she asks them to treat opponents. She lasted only a few weeks of the treatment and caved because she’s a coward.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      17 hours ago

      Still crazy as a shithouse rat and a true beliver of terrible and stupid things.

      My understanding from reading past analysis of things she said is that it’s safe to say that she hasn’t actually believed everything she’s said, but saw it as politically-useful to take those positions.

      Which I think is something of a sad statement about the voters in her congressional district up (in northwestern Georgia, as I recall). But I don’t think that it’s necessarily that she personally is uniquely crazy.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Whoa:

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign from Congress in January, the Republican firebrand announced on Friday, following her high-profile public falling out with Donald Trump over the Epstein files.

    “I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” she wrote in a statement.

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    17 hours ago

    If one takes her justification at face value, it seems odd. Even if she wanted to avoid the primary, she could simply announce that she’s not running in the next election. She didn’t need to resign to do that.

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      16 hours ago

      Let’s hope one day we’ll find out the truth, because there’s definitely more going on here, and it feels dark.