‘Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm,’ the former Georgia congresswoman wrote

Marjorie Taylor Greene has urged fellow MAGA supporters – and other Americans – to “take off their political blinders” over the death of protester Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, warning that they are being “incited into civil war.”

“I unapologetically believe in border security and deporting criminal illegal aliens and I support law enforcement,” Greene wrote on X Sunday, the day after the fatal shooting. “However, I also unapologetically support the 2nd amendment.

“Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm.”

Despite video showing that 37-year-old Pretti was filming federal officers but did not have a weapon drawn, the Trump administration has claimed he had tried to assassinate agents in an act of “domestic terrorism.”

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    this the same idiot who was calling for a ‘national divorce’ every other week? as if that wasn’t just a euphemism for civil war

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    People need to stop acting like she’s turned over a new leaf. She’s a crazy racist. She has nothing to say that’s worth hearing. She did more than most to put us where we are. She belongs in the sea.

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      Look, yes. She’s a piece of shit. But she’s not wrong here. And honestly, we need people (even batshit crazy racists) calling out the stupid shit Trump and co are doing.

      Do not conflate agreement with acceptance. We need all the help we can get right now. Worry about washing your hands later. Too many good people are dying to stay on that high horse.

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      Her saying this is better than her not saying anything at all—we can demand more from her but we can also benefit from her existence at the moment since she isn’t staying silent

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      At this current point in time, anybody against Trump in this fascist regime is a friend of mine

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      No one truly thinks she’s fully caught sanity. However, people like her are the only chance we’ll ever get to drive a wedge into the maga cult. If they get messages of sanity from people that were on their side, some of them might back off from the brink.

      Less bloodlust right now is a good thing.

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      Yeah people don’t become non racist in a couple months. The best case scenario is that she actually has no ideology, was using racism to extend her support base and now is trying to switch sides because she wasn’t accepted as a top level member to the racist boys’ club (surprise surprise they also turned out to be sexist).

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    I can’t help but read MTG as Magic the Gathering and it makes these headlines kinda sorta bearable.

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    For a rat jumping off a sinking ship, she’s pretty good at it tbh. She is very selective and has only gone against trump on two things from what I understand (Epstein and 2A), both probably hitting the mark even in cultish Maga territory.

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      Even a Republican grifter is doing a much better job at opposition than most Democrats and that is all you need to know about American politics

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      It is bizarre watching these far-right broken clocks be occasionally right as reality steams past their previously untenable position into full dystopian horror.

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    What is being missed here is

    EVEN MARGERY TAYLOR GREEN IS GETTING SUPPORT BY TELLING THE TRUTH

    which leads us to ask

    DEMOCRATS IN OFFICE, WHY IS THIS SO HARD?!?!?!

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        This. No one needs to look any further. We are not being lead, we are being fleeced.

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        If there weren’t, MTG wouldn’t be doing it. There is less money in it than their current strategy.

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          Not necessarily, she’s young by politician standards and she understands the old geezer leader her party is going to die leaving a charisma void and eventually a clusterfuck party-imploding. Building popularity right now is her correctly reading the writing on the wall and making investments in this eventuality.

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      Listen, I know its nice to point at MTG and go “omg shits so fucked even this psychotic bitch can see the truth”

      But thats not the case.

      MTG is a fucking opportunist.

      She seen the writing on the wall with Trumps second term and is pulling a Meghan McCain, in that shes trying to position herself infront of Cameras saying stuff that sounds reasonable to try and salvage a political career and potentially have a position of leadership in the post trump era, and especially in the post-trump republican party.

      Don’t let her con you into liking her, believing her, or supporting her, just because shes now saying shit you believe and agree with. Because she pulled that shit already with the right wing and extremists… and she does it easily because she doesnt believe it. Shes a vile opportunist who would spew anything if she thought it’d let her maintain her power, or obtain more.

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      They didn’t even really throw her out until she got salty over not running for senate (which they told her ‘no’ cuz she’d have lost.)

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    She compares these protesters with the “peaceful J6ers.” Fuck off traitorous manipulative fuckwad. J6 was the darkest day in American Democracy, since the McCarthy hearings at least if not going back a lot further.

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    She’s nothing more than a bilge-rat, sensing the ship is sinking and escaping to higher decks.

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      Yes to the first part. However, disagree on the last bit…I mean, is anything actually sinking that isn’t wanted and expected by the paedo in chief?
      And I’m asking seriously here.

      I don’t see any sinking of the republican party or maga. I see an old orange child rapist shitting on the fundamental allies, institutions, and laws of america with no one stopping it from happening.
      Yes, america is losing those long time allies and money, etc, BUT that is by design of the wannabe dictator and its enablers. Again, where’s the sinking?

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    Hey MTG, if you’ve got evidence, maybe get that shit leaking. Leaders need to start talking more seriously about treason charges, because that is what this is.