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Marjorie Taylor Greene may not run for reelection

www.newsweek.com Marjorie Taylor Greene may not run for reelection

The news comes amid speculation that the Georgia congresswoman is on the shortlist for Trump's vice president.

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Don’t tempt me with a good time.
- I think it goes further than that: she is threatening us with a good time.
She thinks she’s going to get the VP nod from Trump. As usual, she’s fucking delusional.
- Or she's under investigation for January 6th, I can hope.
  
  Por que no los dos?
  
  ...or something like that. My spanish sucks.
  
  She can be delusional, correct, and under investigation all at the same time, and it would be far from the weirdest thing she’s been involved in.
- I can see the bumper stickers now: "dumb and dumber 2024"
  
  But how will anyone know which is which?
- I thought Sarah Palin was extreme. Greene makes her look like a Democrat.
- I could see it.
It’s like nobody ready the article. It says she’s considering challenging Kemp in a primary for Georgia Governor because he’s not defending Trump.

Edit: apparently I can read better - she wants to run against Kemp in the primary when he runs for Senate, not Governor.
- What a crappy headline... Poorly executed click-bait that misinforms more than it informs.
- But Kemp's serving his second term as Governor. He can't run again unless he waits 4 years after he's out of office. Which will be in 2026. EmptyG would have a whole another term as a congresswoman before we vote on the governor
  
  I also didn't read the article, but are you sure that's what it said?
  
  Ah, I slightly misread - she wants to run against him in the primary when he runs for Senate. I’ll edit my comment. Thanks for pointing that out.
Bro I can tell you rn lady that being Trumps running mate wont end well.
- I don't think I've ever seen a double entendre for Gallows humor, but here we are.
Remember when MTG stood for Magic: The Gathering? I 'member.
- Well, if she's no longer elected, then it can still be.
- Can you elaborate?
  
  https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering
Clickbait title much? It's because she's considering a Senate run or being Trump's VP.
- ~~The summary bot has Georgia governor (primary anyway).~~ apparently wrong.
  
  Goddamn I hope she runs for gov.
  
  Kemp is term-limited. He has to sit out from the office for the next term before he can run again, which means he'll probably seek some other office in the meantime. And whatever he runs for he's almost certain to get.
  
  People talk about GA being a swing state, but it fucking isn't. MAGA doesn't do great statewide, but the GOP has near total control with little contest.
  
  MTG on the ticket is EXACTLY what the GA Dems need to make some serious inroads in statewide elections.
  
  That's a misread of the article/summary. It's saying that Kemp (the current GA governor) is talking about a Senate run and MTG would challenge him in a primary for the GOP Senate nomination.
- If she goes the VP route, hopefully she ends up a political nobody like that dink from alaska
- Because pence wasn't bad enough, now the dumb and dumber goblin needs a go.
  
  At least Pence had the decency to stand up to Trump and finalize the votes. I mean he drew the line in the sand just before committing treason, but he at least drew it somewhere. Can't say the same for a lot of other Republicans right now.
- I don't think that's clickbait. I assumed running for a different office was by far the most likely reason before even clicking.
This woman deserves to be indicted for her participation in Jan 6.
- We never did find out about the tours or the pipe bombs.
Did her state introduce a literacy test she can't pass?

Or will she refuse because reading all those erotic stories would be a sin.
IE: she's been offered a high-paying job fucking something else up in the private sector, probably to as much of the detriment of the human race as scientifically possible.
- She literally thinks she's going to be VP...
  
  I don't even think Republicans are stupid enough to entertain that notion, but I've been sadly wrong before when estimating the stupidity of the GOP.
The headline made me think this was going to be good news.
Hopefully she goes away forever
- It’s a clickbate headline. She’s considering running for a higher office.
- She won't. Trump said we'd never hear from again if he lost the election. They crave the spotlight.
She's eyeing the vp for Trump
Yeah, but the reason is even worse. She thinks she's going to be VP! AAAAAHHHHHHH!
- It would make me pine for someone smart and competent like Dan Quayle
  
  God. Remember when misspelling potato fucked up your chance of political office?
  
  Good times (only sorta).
- That is like Gomer Pyle being Secretary of Defense
  
  How DARE you insult Gomer Pyle like that!
  
  You apologize RIGHT NOW!!
- How did that work out for Sarah Palin?
  
  “I can see Russia from my house!”
  
  She's been on TV a few times, both political commentary and reality TV, and has run for a few elections (and lost them all).
Time to cash in
This is the best summary I could come up with:

Flamethrowing GOP representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has suggested she might not defend her seat in Congress next fall after two commanding victories in Georgia's 14th District.

Following comments by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp—who is reportedly weighing a run for the U.S. Senate in 2026—criticizing recent, disproven assertions by Donald Trump that he won the battleground state in 2020, Greene said she might be willing to challenge Kemp in a GOP primary.

Assuming, of course, Trump doesn't decide to name her as his running mate after winning the Republican presidential nomination.

After publicly breaking with the far-right Freedom Caucus early this year to support the election of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with Trump's endorsement, Greene has been in lockstep with the former president.

In addition to Greene, Republicans like New York Representative Elise Stefanik and unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake are seen as top contenders along with Florida Representative Byron Donalds, another close Trump ally and a rising GOP star in the House.

Other possible names include South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, a 2024 presidential candidate who has been largely left unscathed by Trump's withering attacks on his GOP competitors on the campaign trail.

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Makes sense, while she's here, who's running hell?
- Satan's insulted. She's not competent enough to run a wheelbarrow race let alone the largest jobs program in the realms.
  
  Maybe. On the other hand, can you imagine being middle management in her department of hell? That's a punishment all on its own.
- I chuckled.
Trunt.
This makes me feel sick. I really do think I might expatriate is she somehow becomes VP
she may run for the border and not stop til she hits Ecuador
Is she running for governor of GA?
- If she is, it would probably be to change laws in the State of Georgia to allow a president to pardon someone of Georgia state charges.
  
  Ding ding ding!!!
  
  Republicans don’t give a fuck about constitution, states rights, rule of law, or even basic decency. The first thing republican governor in GA would do is to overturn that state law to pardon the Florida man.
  
  That law is because of a time in the 1930s where a GA governor would roll up to prisons with signed pardons in hand, and sell them to inmates.
  
  The governor can pardon state crimes
Oh God, stop teasing me like this 🥵
Good. Get fucking lost. Or better yet, go to prison for your involvement in undermining our election.
I think it's going to be Stefanik. Trump doesn't need help from the right, he needs to pull in the moderate Republicans.

And I think he's actually too racist to pick Scott. He might phrase it more like "he doesn't look straight out of Central casting" but that sort of thing is important to him.
- Trump was forced to pick up Pence on this same logic. What makes you think he'd let that happen again?
  
  He did win that election.
- I'm still guessing he'll do a "coalition" ticket with RFK Jr. Everyone behind RFK Jr. is a Trump ally.
Don't threaten me with a good time
Good.
If she doesn't end up getting installed in another political office, some poor village in the far reaches of Dumbfuckistan will get a new idiot and wicked witch all in one. At least she'll have to split her time between those two roles and do a mediocre job at both.
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