Marjorie Taylor Greene gets House GOP to cut Pete Buttigieg's salary to $1 over his sexuality

[RKP5637]

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 Buttigieg’s 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]

1. fuck that white power homophobic POS

[grumpyduck]

2. More grandstanding for the RW media.

Apparently she has nothing better to do with her salary.

[Initech]

34. Yup, they're just content creators for Sean Hannity and Alex Jones.

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]

46. "Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex." - FZ

[Initech]

53. Zappa FTW!

[aeromanKC]

3. GOP scared of Pete

My money is on Pete.

[onecaliberal]

6. When we get the majority she needs to be stripped and banned from the House floor.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

10. I won't watch that.

[Mr. Evil]

24. No, no, no!!!

I don't want to be blinded and/or have that image in my mind for the rest of my days (daze?)!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. By "stripped", I hope you mean stripped of committee assignments ...

... and any other privileges.

[onecaliberal]

32. Of course that is what I mean. Good lord.

[BaronChocula]

45. You can't say anything around here with these people

[sheshe2]

43. Oh please NO.

Please please, please do not strip her on the house floor. My eyes!

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

50. No! No! No!

?1602141784

[onecaliberal]

60. Stripping her from her assignments bring me great joy.

Not sure what you’re talking about.

[Oopsie Daisy]

61. Shame! -- Shame! -- Shame!

[TDale313]

4. I hate where we're at right now.

Seriously. I know they’re not a majority but they wield way too much power. That the hate has become so widespread and acceptable is heartbreaking 💔

[liberalmediaaddict]

16. The more extreme they get the more elections they lose

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 Trump’s insanity and desperately want him to go away.

[SergeStorms]

37. Hate, anger, and fear.....

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]

5. do these ridiculous $1 salary cuts have to pass both houses?

?

[LenaBaby61]

9. I believe so .... I'm so sick of that horse face, philandering putin-loving, racist,

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

[Dan]

22. Yes

[Rebl2]

38. No

[Rebl2]

40. How about

cutting republicans salaries in the house to a dollar a year.

[angrychair]

44. Yes

Yes they do

[Disaffected]

58. I have no idea but I will

make it a horse race by voting No.

[LakeArenal]

7. GOP. DRIVING NAILS IN THEIR OWN COFFIN.

Screw polls. These guys are done unless they cheat their way to power.

[Initech]

36. I don't hate all republicas...

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]

8. Isn't there a minimum wage? Wouldn't that have been more appropriate of a dig?

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]

11. Please proceed.

[2naSalit]

12. Her karma is gonna hurt...

When it comes around for her.

[Irish_Dem]

13. But one of her colleagues gets drunk/high and engages in sexual acts in public.

In front of children.

Lets dock her damn pay.

[Shermann]

14. She's projecting her own market value nt

[KPN]

26. Must be. Everything else about any Dems from these

people is projection.

[RainWalker]

15. Why wasn't she expelled for her role in January 6

She should've been expelled and I don't understand why she wasn't.

[Autumn]

19. Because the DOJ didn't go after the elected officials, neither did the J6 committee.

[RainWalker]

20. That was a big mistake

[Autumn]

23. Yes it was a huge mistake. Now they know they can get away with it again.

[Evolve Dammit]

25. agree 100%

[superpatriotman]

17. I fully blame her constituents

They are 100% to blame for her and others of her ilk.

[Think. Again.]

39. Didn't she win...

...her election because her opponent dropped out or something?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

54. He had to move out of state

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.]

55. oh, I wasn't implying that....

I was responding to the post blaming her constituents for electing her.

[Hekate]

18. That she-thug has got to go

[Jim__]

21. And they really don't understand why they lose elections!

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Now that GQP got burned in the election they're doubling down on their radicalism

Expect more of the same.

[niyad]

28. Isn't this the same person from EarlG's Pic of the Moment

yesterday?

[byronius]

30. Traitorous idiot.

She’ll end up in jail.

[Midnight Writer]

31. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

[Initech]

33. Hey Marjorie, fuck you you fucking asshole!!!

Go shove your homophobia and your conspiracy theories up your ass!

[SWBTATTReg]

35. And this is what the repugs are working on? To assure the American public that they are homophobic,

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]

41. This is from the Onion right??

[keithbvadu2]

42. Cut her salary to $1 due to her history of adultery?

[Quanto Magnus]

47. The next amendment

should reduce her salary to $1

[GiqueCee]

48. And this woman...

... 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]

51. "By their fruits you shall know them"

Matthew 7:16

[LiberalFighter]

49. Then Trump's pension would be $1.

Instead of $226,300. Pension for President is based on salary of a Cabinet Secretary.

[vlyons]

52. The senate won't bring it to a vote, and Biden would veto it.

Just so much hatred and aggression from MTG.

[Xavier Breath]

56. Everyone seems to be ignoring the true headline here.

Secretary Buttigieg apparently won a sex award! Congratulations, Mr. Secretary, and here's hoping you will defend your title next year!

[TheFarseer]

57. And if he wouldn't have traveled to those places

They would ask where he was and accused him of not even caring and just sitting in his comfy office.

[kacekwl]

59. This is

How you know there are no moderate repukes.

[Hotler]

62. Pete should announce that to show service and patriotism for my counrty I will work for free. Then ask,

Marjorie, will you join me in working for free also?

[Maraya1969]

63. Can the senate do anything to stop this? Maybe they can make sure his salary is saved

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]

64. It will never pass the Senate. This is all performative bullshit. nt

[Maraya1969]

65. Ohhhh I forgot all about that. Thank you for reminding me!

She is such a little shit who tries to hurt people and is happy about wasting taxpayer money to do it.