‘We need a national divorce’: Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for the ‘need to separate into red and blue states and downsize the federal government’ in President’s Day message.
- “National divorce isn’t civil war, but Biden and the neocons are leading us into WW3 while imposing corporate ESG and gender confusion on our children”: MTG
- “Everyone I talk to says that,” said the hot-headed Georgia congresswoman
- Twitter users were quick to point out that Greene himself lives in a state that has chosen Democratic senators in its last three Senate elections
On This President’s Day, right-wing arsonist Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested the US needs a “national divorce” between red and blue states.
“We need a national divorce,” the Georgia Republican wrote on Twitter. “We need to separate red states and blue states and downsize the federal government.”
“Everyone I speak to says that,” she added.
“From the sick and disgusting waking culture questions we’ve been hoarded to the Democrats’ treacherous America Last policy, we’re done.”
On This President’s Day, right-wing arsonist Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested the US needs a “national divorce” between red and blue states
Twitter users were quick to point out that Greene himself lives in a state that has chosen Democratic senators in its last three Senate elections.
Greene called for a reduction in the federal government just weeks after she complained that her federal government salary was not enough for her.
“Becoming a member of Congress made my life miserable. I made a lot more money before I came here. I’ve lost money since I’ve been here,” Greene said while appearing on journalist Glenn Greenwald’s podcast.
“It’s not a life I think I’ll enjoy because I don’t enjoy it, but I’m committed to this job because I believe in it,” she said.
Members of Congress earn a salary of $174,000, and under new rules, amendments can now spend rent and meals from their time in Washington, DC
The national divorce remark came on President’s Day, a day to celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, who fought to prevent a national divorce between North and South during the Civil War.
It’s not surprising for Greene, who regularly makes controversial and antagonistic statements, some of which resulted in her being stripped of her committee mandates at the last Congress.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox — a Republican — tore up Greene for her tweet.
“This rhetoric is destructive and wrong and frankly evil. We don’t need a divorce, we need marriage counseling. And we need elected leaders who don’t benefit from tearing us apart. We can disagree without hate. Healthy conflict was critical to the founding and survival of our nation,” he wrote on Twitter.
Greene, who aligned with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, was rewarded with a seat on the high-profile Oversight and Homeland Security committees at that convention.
The congresswoman said she regrets her previous QAnon alignments she expressed, including a suggestion that “lasers or blue light beams” were under the control of a Jewish family leading a left-wing movement.
In another tweet, MTG shared the Rasmussen poll, which shows the nation’s deep political divisions as Donald Trump was simultaneously ranked as the number one “best” and “worst” president.
When asked who is the “best” president of all, dating back to Bill Clinton, 36 percent of respondents said Trump, followed by 30 percent for Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Clinton at 9 percent, and President Biden at 8 percent .
When asked who was the “worst,” Trump received 41 percent of the vote, Biden 39 percent, Obama 5 percent, Bush 4 percent, and Clinton 3 percent.
Greene, who acted as Donald Trump’s go-between to get McCarthy the speaker’s gavel, now wants to be his vice presidential pick.
“This isn’t a shrinking violet, she’s ambitious — she’s not shy and she shouldn’t be,” Bannon said. “She sees herself on the shortlist for Trump’s vice president. To paraphrase Cokie Roberts, when MTG looks in the mirror, they see a potential president smile back,” he said of the long-dead NPR and ABC commentator.
Greene told a crowd at a Young Republican event in New York in December that if she had organized January 6, “we would have won” and “it would have been armed.”