Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) appeared to defend the leader of the Proud Boys militia group after the Justice Department (DOJ) announced it is seeking a 33-year sentence for his role in planning the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Enrique Tarrio was found guilty of seditious conspiracy in May, the most serious charge brought against anyone related to the riots. A 33-year sentence is the longest requested and would be the longest handed down in the Capitol riot cases, if accepted by a judge.

“You know who the Justice Department is not seeking 33 years in prison for?” Greene said on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday. “Antifa/BLM violent rioters who burned, looted, destroyed $2 billion in property in George Floyd riots. And Hunter Biden and Joe Biden for taking criminal bribes selling political influence and favors.”

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    I am so fucking done with reporters continuously bending over backwards to give the absolute worst of our political spectrum the benefit of the doubt and an assumption of good faith.

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    And Hunter Biden and Joe Biden for taking criminal bribes selling political influence and favors

    Remind me who sold presidential pardons for $2 million each?

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      The right wing morons don’t know that because right wing media never reported it, and they foam spit "fake news"repeatedly when you tell them

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    America produces the most rage inducing politicians, I don’t live there and I’m so tired of the circus, it must be awful to be a reasonable American and have to deal with this shit, I can’t believe how much the world has changed for the worse in 20 years.

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      As an American, it’s exhausting.

      I can’t be reasonable with most because hardly anyone critically thinks. Not asking the important who, what, when, where, why and how questions. It’s surface level and whatever has the most attention. It’s hard to get someone to think for themselves. Not realising they are in fact easily influenced.

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    The supremacists are testing the waters by taking their masks off, believe everything they are saying and go after them to the maximum extend of the law.

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    I’m not sure what annoys me more - her stupidity, her open hypocrisy (wouldn’t care if she was an adulterous harlot if she wasn’t part of a party that is regressive and oppressive), or the fact that people value her for a combination of her appearance and deliberate offensiveness. She exhibits every behavior that Aviator wearing redneck truck video makers imagine ‘them Antifas’ do,being shrill and obnoxious and ‘disrespectful’, and they’re okay with it because they think it somehow ‘owns the libs’.

    Wasn’t able to pull her bullshit when her Fuhrer was indicted in NYC - she needs more FAFO in her life.

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    A little OT: why is it that you have 435 representatives and we always hear about like five of them for the last couple of years?