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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarjorie Taylor Greene gets House GOP to cut Pete Buttigieg's salary to $1 over his sexuality
THE GOP IS TURNING CONGRESS INTO A DAMN SIDESHOW. THIS IS ABSURD. KICK HER THE HELL OUT OF CONGRESS!
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-gets-house-gop-to-cut-pete-buttigiegs-salary-to-1-over-his-sexuality/?utm_id=top_story
Citing lies, her own opposition to progressive policies, and false Facebook videos, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced an amendment to decrease out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigiegs salary to $1. She even accused Buttigieg of using private planes funded by taxpayers to receive awards for the way certain people have sex.
House Republicans promptly voted to pass it.
Celerity
(46,154 posts)grumpyduck
(6,633 posts)Apparently she has nothing better to do with her salary.
Initech
(101,518 posts)Hell Hannity was at Congress last week, and I assume he was giving his MAGA minions their quarterly performance evaluations. They don't work for us, they work for Fox News and Infowars. Fox News does not own the government, though they like to think they do.
JoseBalow
(4,829 posts)Initech
(101,518 posts)aeromanKC
(3,452 posts)My money is on Pete.
onecaliberal
(35,440 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(1,423 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,965 posts)I don't want to be blinded and/or have that image in my mind for the rest of my days (daze?)!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,727 posts)... and any other privileges.
onecaliberal
(35,440 posts)BaronChocula
(2,446 posts)sheshe2
(86,868 posts)Please please, please do not strip her on the house floor. My eyes!
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,061 posts)onecaliberal
(35,440 posts)Not sure what youre talking about.
Oopsie Daisy
(4,325 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Seriously. I know theyre not a majority but they wield way too much power. That the hate has become so widespread and acceptable is heartbreaking 💔
liberalmediaaddict
(917 posts)And they keep doubling and tripling down because they believe polls saying Trump is going to win in 2024.
Honestly I think if we can turn out once more time to defeat Trump and his MAGA christofascists next November his toxic movement will be swept into the dustbin of history like the Nazis.
Election after election since 2017 have shown the majority of Americans are fed up with Trumps insanity and desperately want him to go away.
SergeStorms
(19,273 posts)are all the Trumpublican party has. They're totally bereft of any useful ideas for making life better for all Americans, and their baseline for any idea is tax cuts for the wealthy.
jcgoldie
(11,948 posts)?
LenaBaby61
(6,991 posts)anti-Semitic, anti-black, anti-american dumb ass 🤬🤬🤬
Her end is coming though thanks to Jack Smith. Let me calm down and go troll some crying, idiot, dumb ass tRump cultist sheep clowns crying over on MSN. They're still crying and boo- hooing over what they say was another rigged election. Bunch of sore losing holes
cutting republicans salaries in the house to a dollar a year.
Yes they do
Disaffected
(4,980 posts)make it a horse race by voting No.
LakeArenal
(29,711 posts)Screw polls. These guys are done unless they cheat their way to power.
Initech
(101,518 posts)But I flat out utterly despise the Majrorie Greene types. They revel in their awfulness and all they do is go on those shitty talk shows like Steve Bannon and Alex Jones and Sean Hannity to justify their awfulness. We've got to get these cretins out of Congress. The sad thing is the GOP seems bent on replacing any sane members they had left with more like her. And Gaetz, Gosar, Luna, Hageman, the list goes on and on.
Freethinker65
(10,991 posts)The guy served in the US military honorably, is married, and has two kids, and she and fellow intolerant Republicans are effectively dissuading anyone from serving their government in a Cabinet position if contract salaries can be rescinded by vindictive House members to score political points.
enough
(13,447 posts)2naSalit
(91,848 posts)When it comes around for her.
Irish_Dem
(55,825 posts)In front of children.
Lets dock her damn pay.
Shermann
(8,507 posts)KPN
(16,027 posts)people is projection.
RainWalker
(605 posts)She should've been expelled and I don't understand why she wasn't.
Autumn
(45,953 posts)RainWalker
(605 posts)Autumn
(45,953 posts)Evolve Dammit
(18,317 posts)superpatriotman
(6,504 posts)They are 100% to blame for her and others of her ilk.
Think. Again.
(16,998 posts)...her election because her opponent dropped out or something?
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)And that disqualified him from running for that particular office.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/why-marjorie-taylor-greenes-opponent-quit-the-house-race/E3TYSMAAPRDUPPB6F3BBQAFCME/
So don't believe any of the insane claims from certain conspiracy-loving loons that he was bought off or threatened. He wasn't.
Think. Again.
(16,998 posts)I was responding to the post blaming her constituents for electing her.
Hekate
(94,160 posts)Jim__
(14,410 posts)bucolic_frolic
(46,483 posts)Expect more of the same.
niyad
(119,109 posts)yesterday?
byronius
(7,580 posts)Shell end up in jail.
Midnight Writer
(22,870 posts)Initech
(101,518 posts)Go shove your homophobia and your conspiracy theories up your ass!
SWBTATTReg
(23,957 posts)that they are only interested in cutting salaries to $1 because (I have to laugh here) this is all they can do, despite having the majority of the House. They are toothless still, and their legislative efforts as you can see are worthless.
If we need to pool our resources here on DU, each of us pay a $1 or $10 to help cover all of these people that the repugs have cut salaries to $1 I'd be very willing to donate, but as one DU poster said, I think that these have to go to the Senate next, and perhaps signed off by the President afterwards, which is highly unlikely. And president Biden deserves his candidates too, didn't they say that tRUMP deserved his selections when he was formulating his cabinet? What does the GOP say to this fact?
a kennedy
(31,797 posts)keithbvadu2
(39,726 posts)Quanto Magnus
(1,001 posts)should reduce her salary to $1
GiqueCee
(1,256 posts)... calls herself a "Christian". Well, if this is the depth to which Christianity has sunk, where a professed "Christian" can harass a teenage mass shooting survivor on the streets of DC, and yet suffer NO condemnation from others claiming the same faith, or show pornographic images of a private citizen on the fucking House floor without repercussions, or belittle a cabinet member's most private and intimate relations in order to cut off his income for yet another malicious, grandstanding circus act... then it's probably time for a wake, 'cause ain't NOBODY gonna roll away THAT stone, nossir.
Jesus wept.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,061 posts)Matthew 7:16
LiberalFighter
(53,366 posts)Instead of $226,300. Pension for President is based on salary of a Cabinet Secretary.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Just so much hatred and aggression from MTG.
Xavier Breath
(4,828 posts)Secretary Buttigieg apparently won a sex award! Congratulations, Mr. Secretary, and here's hoping you will defend your title next year!
TheFarseer
(9,465 posts)They would ask where he was and accused him of not even caring and just sitting in his comfy office.
kacekwl
(7,406 posts)How you know there are no moderate repukes.
Hotler
(11,965 posts)Marjorie, will you join me in working for free also?
Maraya1969
(22,958 posts)and then when we take over give it back to him.
AND TAKE AWAY MAJORIE THREE TOE'S SALARY! OR TAKE AWAY EVERYONE WHO VOTED "YES'S SALARY"
Nittersing
(6,794 posts)Maraya1969
(22,958 posts)She is such a little shit who tries to hurt people and is happy about wasting taxpayer money to do it.