Georgia voters to pick replacement for Marjorie Taylor Greene in special election
Her name isn't on the ballot. She no longer serves in Congress. But Marjorie Taylor Greene is looming large in the minds of north-west Georgia voters as they prepare to choose who to replace her with in Washington.
Known for her hard-line Christian conservative views, brash committee appearances, and embrace of multiple conspiracy theories, Greene quickly became one of the most prominent Republican members of Congress after winning her seat in 2020.
"She did some stuff off the wall," said Justin Leonard, 28-year-old firefighter in Georgia's 14th congressional district, who voted for Greene twice. "Kind of making conservatives look a little right-wing and a little like nut jobs. But other than that, I think she did her job."
But when Greene broke her unwavering support for US President Donald Trump late last year, the pair's rift descended into a very public feud that ultimately led to her decision to quit Congress in January.
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Justin Leonard, you're a fucking idiot.
I wonder what side does Leonard think that conservatives fall under? Center? Surely not left-wing.
You just described half of the people in this country... On all sides.
And if you don't think your side has any fucking idiots then you are part of the problem.
If intellectual dishonesty and arguing in bad faith caused searing abdominal pain, you'd spend your conscious moments curled up in the fetal position.
Well spoken for someone who thinks picking sides is what unifies a nation towards a real democracy.
It's been established that you're intellectually dishonest.
I never accept the premise of assholes.
In summary, no one cares (correctly) about your take on anything.
I think they call that voting.
The difference is the batshit insane fucking idiots on one side want to murder all non-whites, and the batshit insane fucking idiots on the other side want us all to eat vegetables and live in free-loving communes. There's a difference between a lovable moron and a hate-filled asshole moron.
Then which one is Schumer, Pelosi and Booker? Something tells me y'all are confused about where the sides really are.
They are not fucking idiots. They are assholes who care far more about power and money than about the public in general, but they aren't idiots.
That said, you will also find no shortage of people on the left who are furious with those three and want them primaried out. Those three were voted in for sounding sensible and logical and appealing to the center. They stay voted in because most voters are uninformed. On the right, though, voters will happily vote in the primaries for the MOST insanely illogical person. It's like a contest to see who can say the most insane thing.
Watch them pick someone ten times stupider and even more of a racist religious fruitcake.
You are just describing a Georgian, no need to be redundant.
Hey, there are probably dozens of us Lemmy users here!
The only thing that stops Georgia from being a blue state is that Atlanta's population isn't quite big enough.
The only think stopping Georgia from being blue is voter suppression.
Good point; I stand corrected!
(Any other difference between Georgia and more reliably "blue states" still comes down to having a slightly lower urban/rural population ratio, not ideological differences between the urban people of different states or rural people of different states themselves, though.)
Decatur, checking in.
I lived there for 10 years and while the ignorant redneck stereotype is certainly very well-represented there, there are also a lot more progressives than you'd think.
Especially in Atlanta and the college towns. And a LOT of Black people who are not politically represented in the media at all, but who vote regularly and often have progressive opinions. Stacey Abrams, for example, is a powerhouse of a political activist, as well as Georgia through and through.
This thing where a given state or region is represented as one homogenized whole is just the same old Trump us vs. them tactic turned in a different direction. Maybe it makes people feel better, but I got news for them: there are racist motherfuckers and nutjob conspiracy believers in EVERY single state of the union, and P.R. and Guam and the USVI too.
I moved to California, and can confirm: the people in the rural areas in this state are an awful lot like the ones in Georgia!
The top two candidates in the runoff are a dem that's a retired one star general, and a guy endorsed by trump. The dem was winning by 8 points or so.
She's going to run for president.
Don't ever be fooled into thinking she's an ally just because she got off the sinking ship before others and said two sane things.
That's what everyone said about Paul Ryan as well.
She is bat shit insane, but at least consistent on the Epstein shit. They will only elect someone more sycophantic considering the area.
Probably she tried to grift with the rest of them but ran into unprocessed trauma and her body wouldn't let her do the crime anymore
Didn't she already get her money so she doesn't give a fuck?
And her lifetime, top tier medical insurance.
It's literally two more fascists.
Odds on them picking someone even worse?
Near 100%
Her replacement: a drunk raccoon.
Over qualified!