The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and her sort-of-serious crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.

The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet to attack Greene, invoking the “Moscow Marjorie” nickname coined by former representative Ken Buck.

Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had already taken aim at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.” This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene “Rep. Mayhem Taylor Greene” and accused her and her allies of being “most interested in TV hits and internet donors.”

Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra Saunders demanded to know “who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I got perma-banned from Reddit for saying that I wished she’d trip and swallow her own head. That’s inciting violence apparently.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I got banned for commenting “guillotine”. Nothing else. If that word is all around banned they should say so

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        I mean, context does matter. If you’re replying to a post or comment about a person or group of people, “guillotine” comes with a pretty clear implication: “they should be sent to the…”

        If you were responding to a question like, “What tool did Mel Brooks’ character use to provide circumcisions in Robin Hood Men in Tights?” “Guillotine” may be an acceptable response. Again, context matters.

        Saying they can’t ban a word is the same excuse white supremacists use when they coopt shit like the “OK” gesture to symbolize white power.

        A very thin veneer of plausible deniability doesn’t somehow make a call for violent executions align with policies against violent rhetoric.

        • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Even if I say “we should guillotine the billionaires” why is that wrong? I fully believe we should, and literally eat one as a message. Why would some low wage mod care that I’m calling for the death of billionaires? Billionaires aren’t people.

          • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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            7 months ago

            Look, billionaires are bad for society, but normalizing this kind of dehumanizing violent rhetoric is how we get violent extremists.

            When someone finally decides to act in this language and mails a bomb or goes to Tesla HQ with a gun, guess who is probably not going to be there

            The mailroom worker or the receptionist are going to be in the line of fire while Elon probably isn’t even in the same state.

            3.5 million people died during the French Revolution, only a tiny fraction of them were actually part of the ruling class. Acting like this is some ideal to strive for is childish. The “joke” stopped being funny the 27-millionth time it came up in the comments of a “Billionaire Bad” article.

            At best, you’re distracting from people discussing real solutions to wealth inequity, at worst you’re promoting violent extremism. If I were moderating a community I’d probably boot you as well to make room for more productive conversations.

            • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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              7 months ago

              Let’s cry liberal tears for the poor billionaires while they continue to fuck us. Nobody has balls, that’s why we keep getting fucked

    • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I got a warning for saying I wished tory voters get to experience the policies they voted for. Same reason

  • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.”

    Liz Peek thinking she’s better than MTG, yet playing the same game.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I don’t care who it is or what their motives are. She’s finally getting called out for her bullshit from folks she’s supposedly on the “same side” with?

      I can’t wait until she runs for re-election.

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          She’s running without a republican challenger. She won the last election 66% to 35%. Georgia’s 14th district hasn’t voted blue since its gerrymandered inception. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Sorry, I should have phrased that differently:

          I can’t wait for the results of her run. :)

          • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Don’t get your hopes too high. I’ve lived in GA and frequently drove through her district. There’s jack shit out there. No major businesses, no public services, no food outside of Subways, Bojangles, and McDonald’s. It’s mostly farmland with some really small towns filled with the kind of people who would vote for MTG. They’re not at all informed and really don’t care about anything more than “owning the libs.”

            • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Fair point, but I’m still going to hope. Sounds like Boebert is never coming back, 2/2 would be a nice win.

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 months ago

              To be fair, some of it is Chattanooga suburbs, there are the carpet manufacturers in Dalton, and that Buc-ee’s opened a few years ago (that counts as fine dining, right?).

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    I think I’m actually more mad about “Murdock owned media outlet, Murdock owned, also Murdock owned outlet oh and Murdock owned media. By the way, Murdock owned media outlet. Would you believe it, also Murdock owned outlet.”

    Ffs… Right wingers go on and on about the “deep state.” How about how all of your goddamn brain rotting anti-reality “news” is coming from ONE GODDAMN ASSHOLE.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      FOX is in deep with the Pentagon and has been since its inception. So I’m not shocked to see them find issue with MTG for failing to be hawkish enough (on Russia). But I think TNR underestimates how much Murdoch This and Murdoch That is, itself, falling out of favor with mainstream conservatives.

      We played this game back in 2008, when the Murdoch Press went hard in the paint for Rudy Giuliani and he couldn’t break double digits in his “strong” state of Florida. Same thing happened to Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis and Nicki Hailey.

      Wingers love FOX when its slinging the red meat - criminal drug using migrant caravans and hordes of anti-semitic Columbia students and black teenager shoplifting rampage - but they fall out fast when Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino aren’t screaming about how Woke Swifties Are Ruining Football.

      How about how all of your goddamn brain rotting anti-reality “news” is coming from ONE GODDAMN ASSHOLE.

      The QAnon Crowd has largely walked away from FOX and moved on to harder stuff - OAN, Alex Jones, 4chan/Truth Social, etc. Go check out “QAnon Anonymous”, a great source for monitoring and cataloguing the sheer depth of the crazy going on in the danker corners of the internet.

      FOX has an average audience measured in the 1-2 million views. Compare that to Joe Rogan’s podcast, which regularly hits above the 10M listener mark.