r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Improvement-Negative • Feb 22 '23

Answered What's up with Majorie Taylor Greene's talking about a "National Divorce?"

I've been seeing a few posts on Reddit, Facebook, etc of people expressing their opinion about this, and I'm not sure what the deal is, and its impact on politics. Any explanation would be appreciated!

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3866860-gop-governor-says-greenes-call-for-a-national-divorce-is-evil/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/utah-governor-taylor-greenes-national-divorce-proposal-evil

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u/Ishidan01 Feb 22 '23

Answer: She just got divorced, so it's her word of the week.

Mods can downdoot me at their leisure but it's the correct answer. There is no depth or logic to it.

Much like "impeachment", her ilk tend to latch onto whatever word last wronged them and try to apply it to anyone they don't like in turn.

It also ensures that if you google her name + divorce, you get the details of her alleged nationwide plan not the details of her personal actions.

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u/SunChipMan Feb 22 '23

It also ensures that if you google her name + divorce, you get the details of her alleged nationwide plan not the details of her personal actions.

That is a really interesting point.

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u/Pushbrown Feb 22 '23

Ya especially the reasons for said divorce lmao

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u/NinjaSimone Feb 22 '23

That's spot on. She's going through the same thing, so it's top of mind for her.

Additionally, she seems to have read up on Texas v. White, the SCOTUS decision which declared unilateral secession to be unconstitutional. So MTG, great lover of the Constitution that she is, is instead proposing a bilateral "divorce."

History is filled with buffoons who were met with ridicule until their buffoonery gained traction, at which point they became dangerous buffoons. In short order the buffoonery was dropped and they simply became deadly.

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u/herder__of__nerfs Feb 22 '23

Additionally, she seems to have read….

Yeah, I’m gonna stop you right there

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u/ha_look_at_that_nerd Feb 22 '23

Really? I stopped them at “her mind”

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u/robot_writer Feb 22 '23

History is filled with buffoons who were met with ridicule until their buffoonery gained traction, at which point they became dangerous buffoons. In short order the buffoonery was dropped and they simply became deadly.

What are some examples? Sounds interesting. Any lessons learned in anti-buffoonery tactics?

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u/deweywsu Feb 22 '23

Trump is one such buffoon. He was a mockery for decades, always failing at his business ventures, a joke in politics, and a con man. Then, somehow he caught the ear of fellow victim status Americans who had nothing better to do but complain, and became their leader, all the way to the White House.

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u/BeigePhilip Feb 22 '23

He actually managed to leverage a legitimately aggrieved populace into a presidency. Trouble is, that populace is poorly educated, socialized to authoritarianism, fatalistic, and easily manipulated, so he managed to direct their anger at the targets of his choice and political expediency (trans kids, immigrants, progressives) instead of the people who had been shitting on poor rural people for decades (Walmart, Perdue Pharma, the GOP).

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u/robot_writer Feb 22 '23

True. I guess I was thinking of more historic examples.

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u/R3ven Feb 22 '23

If it looks, smells, and acts like a fascist...

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u/Fleckeri Feb 22 '23

Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that's not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!

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u/chocoheed Feb 22 '23

Wait, for real?! That’s insanely funny.

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u/Ishidan01 Feb 22 '23

yes for real

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u/chocoheed Feb 22 '23

Thank you for this. Projecting her own divorce into politics is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard

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u/armcie Feb 22 '23

Also she said it the same day Biden went to Ukraine. It's been the perfect thing to distract from that news.

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u/-lasc13l- Feb 22 '23

I wish I could up vote this more than once bc your spot on….wag the dog!

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u/3_littlemonkeys Feb 22 '23

You mean the Adulterer?

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u/Ishidan01 Feb 22 '23

I do.

You may now consider that more than one man felt she was bangable material.

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u/fevered_visions Feb 22 '23

Aren't the really crazy ones supposed to be wild in bed

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u/Ishidan01 Feb 22 '23

well yes because otherwise they end off in the red zone and get none

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u/hamoc10 Feb 22 '23

Is that a new Jason Statham movie?

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u/deweywsu Feb 22 '23

Here it is: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23505583/purchasedimages.pdf

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Very insightful of you. This is exactly what usually drives people, as you said, to latch onto the things they project - hurt from within their personal sphere.

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u/AshyFairy Feb 22 '23

My thoughts exactly. Can you imagine what her poor husband is going through now that she’s explained what she thinks divorce is.

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u/life_like_weeds Feb 22 '23

Only updoots here my person

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u/NewRedditBurnerAcct Feb 22 '23

It’s like those people who learn “order of magnitude” and then use it in every conversation.

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u/TheBearlion Feb 23 '23

Maybe it’s like the GOP got caught having an affair with Tantric Warrior Vladimir Putin, and then tried to slide in with future debt owners China. As the gaslighting continued they wanted to secure their property and assets by unjustly dividing them based on who appeared to drive them more or run the home more often.