# Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene MUST GO
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [January 31, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895 "2021-01-31T00:44:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 105
### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2085 "2025-12-09T18:15:51Z")
And MAGA is xenophobic, while gibbons roam.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2086 "2025-12-09T18:16:03Z")
> [@Miller](#):
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> I have it on good authority that the gibbon on the left worked for Matt Gaetz’ campaign
These gibbons are from Zoo Salzburg in Austria, so if true, we should open an investigation into foreign interference in our elections.
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> In addition, foreign nationals are prohibited from participating in decisions involving election-related activities. A foreign national may not direct, dictate, control or directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process of any person (such as a corporation, labor organization, political committeeor political organization) with regard to the person’s federal or nonfederal election-related activities.
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2087 "2025-12-09T19:20:02Z")
> [@Babale](#):
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> In addition, foreign nationals are prohibited from participating in decisions involving election-related activities. A foreign national may not direct, dictate, control or directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process of any person (such as a corporation, labor organization, political committeeor political organization) with regard to the person’s federal or nonfederal election-related activities.
Maybe wandering off-topic, but is that a quote from an official US government document? I only ask because it looks as though there are plans in Washington to interfere in just that way, in Australia and Europe.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2088 "2025-12-09T19:34:55Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#):
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> Maybe wandering off-topic, but is that a quote from an official US government document?
Yes, the Federal Election Campaign Act.
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2089 "2025-12-10T06:57:09Z")
Worth knowing, thanks.
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### Author:  [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2090 "2025-12-10T12:11:09Z")
“Jilted.” So he is confessing to a fling with Marge? While married? I mean, Melanie would probably be relieved to have someone take him off her hands for a bit but…eww.
Yeah, I know, allegorical (cause he probably hasn’t been able to get it up for years now) but the language of infidelity sure comes naturally to him, doesn’t it?
Remember when people got mad about Clinton and a blow job? No, me either.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2091 "2025-12-13T02:41:10Z")
Marjorie wants to take Mike Johnson down on her way out the door.
> **[MTG plans to oust Mike Johnson before leaving Congress, report says](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson-b2883679.html)**
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> The Georgia Republican plans to resign in early January, following an acrimonious public feud with her former close ally President Trump
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### Author:  [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2092 "2025-12-13T06:04:54Z")
Does she have any political capital whatsoever left to do that with? Did she even have that much before she painted herself as a lame duck?
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2093 "2025-12-13T06:26:33Z")
It only takes nine votes for a motion to vacate, and she already ran one Speaker out of Congress, so if she could find eight other Republicans who are as sick of Mr. “I haven’t heard about that” as the rest of us are, it could happen. Presumably all 213 Democrats would vote to remove him, so if there are enough Republicans willing to force the vote in the first place, then it would succeed.
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### Author:  [@Sooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sooner)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2094 "2025-12-13T07:06:41Z")
Honestly I very confused by Marjorie’s actions lately.
It almost seems she had an actual realization, Trump is not on the side of the working folks she knows (seeming health coverage, is the sticking point).
As we say in the south - well bless her heart (mostly mean, but a little bit sincere)
But if true, what good does resigning do? Living near that district, it could easily go even more weird.
Given any new insight on her part, wouldn’t remaining in congress been more impactful.
Or is she playing a long con? If so, what is the angle
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2095 "2025-12-13T07:26:53Z")
> [@Sooner](#):
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> But if true, what good does resigning do?
It’s one thing when you’re provoking death threats and another thing to be on the receiving end of them.
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### Author:  [@Sooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sooner)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2096 "2025-12-13T07:58:43Z")
And hence why it is so curious, she bucked up.
She could have easily completed her term, and put her name on fine used car dealership - or something similar.
Seems she is either a convert at some level, or is hoping game the MAGA cult.
Interesting either way.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2097 "2025-12-13T08:02:52Z")
> [@Sooner](#):
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> Seems she is either a convert at some level, or is hoping game the MAGA cult.
My WAG is that she was a True Believer who found out that the Republican establishment doesn’t actually believe the stuff she believed about Jewish space lasers and fake school shootings with crisis actors and Democrats harvesting children for adrenochrome, but are just using people like her to get what they really want, which is to rewrite the law for the benefit of the billionaire donor class.
The metaphor I’ve used several times is that she’s the equivalent of an ‘80s wrestling fan who thought wrestling was real, then went around the back of the arena after the show hoping to get some autographs and caught Hacksaw Jim Duggan sharing a joint with the Iron Sheik.
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### Author:  [@Sooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sooner)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2098 "2025-12-13T08:20:16Z")
Take that back
Hacksaw Jim would never do that!
I do find it hard to believe she would be that naive, but it does seems to be the simplest answer.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2099 "2025-12-13T08:35:48Z")
> [@Sooner](#):
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> Hacksaw Jim would never do that!
Actually, he did. 😁
> **[Jim Duggan And The Iron Sheik: The New Jersey Parkway Incident](https://wrestlingnews.co/stories/jim-duggan-iron-sheik-new-jersey-parkway-incident/)**
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> On May 26, 1987, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) was in the midst of a national expansion that relied heavily on the suspension of disbelief. The business model was predicated on “kayfabe,” the unspoken contract that the conflicts inside the...
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### Author:  [@Sooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sooner)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2100 "2025-12-13T08:41:46Z")
I know, my seemly poor attempt at levity.
And to make the point, things may often be a bit obtuse.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2101 "2025-12-13T13:23:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#):
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> It’s one thing when you’re provoking death threats and another thing to be on the receiving end of them.
WRT that…on the assumption that nothing actually becomes of these death threats, I have zero problem with her being in fear for her life for a little while. She spent enough time being in a position that allowed her, with little more than hand gesture towards a vaguely defined group of people, put those people in very real danger. And again, with the assumption that no harm is brought to her, I’m okay with her getting some first hand experience as to what it’s like to be on the receiving end of that kind of rhetoric.
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2102 "2025-12-13T14:44:08Z")
> [@Sooner](#):
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> Or is she playing a long con? If so, what is the angle
She wants to run for president. She’s putting some distance between her and Trump to do it. She’s going to run the most nativist, racist, America First campaign y’all have ever seen.
And if that doesn’t work, she’ll link arms with her cross-horshoe-buddies and become a host on The Young Turks.
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### Author:  [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2103 "2025-12-13T19:11:08Z")
> [@Sooner](#):
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> It almost seems she had an actual realization, Trump is not on the side of the working folks she knows (seeming health coverage, is the sticking point).
Like many others, I think MTG was a true believer who grew disillusioned with the MAGA movement both personally and philosophically. On a personal level, she put a lot of effort into supporting Trump and MAGA and fairly recently came to the realization they weren’t interested in supporting her. MTG functioned as a MAGA cheerleader, which was fine, but Trump wasn’t going to endorse her senate run and nobody was interested in seeing her move into leadership positions within the House. They were happy to have her maintain her seat in the House simply because she could reliably vote how they wanted. Philosophically, she finally had to accept Trump didn’t give a damned about anything but Trump.
Make no mistake, MTG is still the same person she was before. She hasn’t seen the proverbial light. She’s still a snake.
> [@Sooner](#):
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> But if true, what good does resigning do? Living near that district, it could easily go even more weird.
Why stay? She can’t really do much of anything. She’s got no friends in the House with MAGA, Trump, and the Democrats being hostile towards her, and she’s just going to be primaried soon anyway. Her only notable accomplishment as a politician has been as a MAGA blowhard. That particular relationship has be severed and she’s got nothing left to offer. And whatever she does have to offer nobody wants.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/2104 "2025-12-15T23:29:08Z")
MJT takes the high road with respect to the Reiner deaths:
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> Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to Nick Reiner’s “drug addiction and other issues” in a statement on X.
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> “This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies,” Ms Taylor Greene said.
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> "Many families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health issues. It’s incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder.
“High road” here only by comparison to the Orange Gibbon. This is more the normal road.
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