As the article states, the inclusion of the nudes in the newsletter allows a very clear path for criminal charges in D.C. and Georgia under their respective revenge porn legislation. She should receive charges for both.
In any sane world, a member of congress would be immediately expelled for presenting literal nudes, without permission and in bad faith, of a sitting POTUS' family member, who is not, nor has ever been a member of the administration or government employee.
Congratulations to Vladimir Putin and the CCP, as your work to dismantle the U.S. through propaganda and mainstreaming batshit tinfoil-hat insanity through promoting these ridiculous, unserious elected officials like Greene, Paul, Jordan, Comer, Gaetz, Santos, et al, has been incredibly effective.
In any sane world, a member of congress would be immediately expelled for presenting literal nudes, without permission and in bad faith, of a sitting POTUS' family member, who is not, nor has ever been a member of the administration or government employee. of anyone.
Wouldn't it be neat if she faced consequences for her actions, instead of the US working overtime to make sure potheads do as much time as they possibly can before they're finally forced to admit they lied about pot
He's my Congressman so I've had my eye on this, praying for the hammer to drop.
Here are the facts:
They couldn't summon up enough evidence and no one involved would testify. The girl involved now has an Only Fans page, so even if she offered, the prosecution felt that would hurt her credibility. So it's dropped.
It's not unintelligent. People are extremely adept at reading facial expressions and microexpressions. Years of evolution / survival instinct development have made us extremely skillful at knowing a lot about a person based on their face / eyes. Our lives depended on it, you see.
Your survival instincts (which are smart) are telling you she's an untrustworthy, toxic individual that you probably shouldn't keep around in your community, and in this case they're right. Everything else she says and does backs up your instincts too, so this isn't just a one-off thing.
I have little doubt that MAGA republichudism was wholely responsible for the KKKonvoy rallies that cost the Canadian economy literally billions of dollars in a matter of days with their illegal blockades.
I'd be remiss if I didn't quote one of my favorite saved comments from that-content-aggregator-which-shall-not-be-named...
Dude grow up...
We did it with smallpox
We did it with polio
We did it with measles
I've got an "almost" centenarian in the family. Dude grew up watching German zeppelins on the front line of invasion, his folks were both mostly bald from the Spanish flu. When he immigrated to Canada (on a boat) he had to get another round of vaccinations even though he had the full onslaught in the army while babysitting German POWs as they removed landmines from the beaches of his home country. Ask anyone 75+ how many of their childhood friends died from what are now preventable diseases.
If you think the shit were taking now is untested, what the hell do you think they were handing out back in the 20s and 50s.......
Have you ever traveled abroad? Like not to London, or Tokyo or somewhere nice.... But to somewhere shitty like Bangladesh, Nigeria, or Guinea? Do you have any idea how many people die in these countries every year from preventable diseases? You do know that even as a Canadian you legit cant board an aircraft in or out of these places without at the VERY least a yellow fever card right? Before vaccines it was pretty common for a boat to have to sit for a few weeks in quarantine at the destination before people were allowed to disembark... This is not new, this is not unique, this is not something to fuck around with.
Sit down, shut up, and take your medicine you spoiled little shit.
The etymology of "quarantine" literally refers to the practice of making a ship sit at berth for 40 days before anyone could disembark. "Quarantina" means 40 days in Italian....
Since you brought up ship quarantine, I think we should start doing that with air travel. It's the number one long-range transmitter of pandemics. It's the enabler of global pandemics.
Quarantine-free air travel should perhaps be treated as a privilege of living in a civilization with advanced medicine and monitoring, a privilege that could be revoked mid-flight for all flights in any given region, like the entirety of Europe.
It's amazing how she, Boebert, and Gaetz are three of the biggest idiots probably ever to hold office in the House, yet they've been popular by spewing hate. That tells us what drives their base.
It reminds me of that nut from Africa they showed on the daily show a long time ago, where the guy was telling his tribe what gay people do. "And dey eat da poopoo. Dey eat it like ice cream!"
She is fucked. If she sent nudes of Hunter Biden to her constituents then the DOJ will absolutely come after her for that. Insane doesn’t come close to describing what may have happened here.
I dunno, she's done a lot of stuff already that would warrant charges but nothing ever comes of it. Of course I'm hoping it sticks this time, but you know how the system works.
Hunter Biden is President Biden’s son. To be clear, he doesn’t work for the gooberment.
Greene is a congresswoman, House of Representatives from the state of Georgia. She’s a complete right wing nut. And makes howler monkeys look civilized
Honestly you're not exaggerating. If I was asked to pick between attempting to have a civil conversation with Greene or a howler monkey I think I'd have a better chance of success with the latter.
Marjorie Taylor Green, sometimes called MTG, is a representation and a result of the dumbing down of united state politics. She's a member of the far right party in this country and pushes conspiracies, racism, bigotry and hatred. She's possibly the least intelligent person to ever hold federal office in this country.
Hunter Biden is the son of the current US president. He holds no office and has nothing to do with politics, but because he's the president's son, the far right politicians spend a large amount of time trying to find anything they can to make him look bad. He's had problems with drugs and the law in the past so there's a decent amount there for them to attack.
Incredibly stupid question, but, if she was charged and convicted of this, wouldn’t she have to register as a sex offender? That would be rather amusing.
“Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and environmental programs, that is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on, and Joe Biden is attempting to complete,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said at the conservative Turning Point Action conference over the weekend.
Except … she meant it all as an insult?
Two jewish men are sitting on a bench in Israel reading newspapers. One of the men, reading a newspaper in Hebrew, notices the other man is reading a newspaper in Arabic.
"My friend," he exclaims. "How can you read that trash! Don't you know its all lies?"
The other man puts down his paper and replies, "I used to read your newspaper and I'd get depressed. Its all bad news. Now I read this paper and it makes me happy. We run all the banks, we run Hollywood, soon we will take over the world!"
An Australian (I think) news network took just that clip out of context. Biden's Twitter team reposted it with an "I approve this message." It's great!
I mean... Not really. But tbh, if anyone feels like "all nudity is bad" in America, it's the GOP. So, there is significant irony in a party member potentially participating in dissemination - knowing the number of times any involvement in the past has been criticized on these very grounds.
Remember when Bill O’Reilly would monologue about “disgusting debauchery of Spring Break” over videos of sexy young women playing volleyball in bikinis.
Not a fan of republicans but it seems rather obvious that it was not her intent to send sexual content to minors. But yes there is an irony that republicans would be the last to recognise that there is non-sexual nudity, so you have a point.
Despite your edit, from what I can tell of being born and raised in the USA, there isn't really a concept of non-sexual nudity, outside of locker rooms/campsite bathouses, some restrooms, and of course, nudist communities/beaches.
Even just taking a leak somewhere that is somewhat secluded if there are no restrooms can land someone a public urination and maybe an indecent exposure charge.
This is what comes of being largely founded by puritanical moronic zealots. Many of them were the Scientology of their age. Europe was glad to ship them over here.
This would really be more like non-consensual sexual nudity... Potentially sent to minors who might unexpectedly be exposed to it (presumably) without their or their parents' or guardians' consent.
Accidental or not, my understanding is that the reason she was sharing the photos to begin with was because she believed there was something "scandalous", embarrassing, and specifically sexual going on in the photos.
So Republican men are obsessed with penises, and apparently Republican women are as well.
Democrats should be turning the GOP into a laughing stock with this situation. Making some innuendo jokes about "like father like son" to imply that Joe is hung like a horse, or make some jokes implying MTG isn't getting any at home, so she's lusting after some Democratic sausage. Basically make it very humiliating for Republicans to continue to push this issue.
Unfortunately, as usual, I just don't see them doing it. There might some jokes being made online, but Democrats as a party don't seem to really be attacking the GOP on this with dirty, underhanded attacks.
It's crazy to me that anyone can be ok with someone sharing nudes of someone who did not consent. They're both adults at this point but it's literally the president's son, too. I'm not big on appeals to authority but maybe a modicum of respect for a politicians family insofar as not sharing naked photos of them?
And the response so far is that she can get away with it. So it continues to be normalized.
The people who dismiss her as "just a dumbass" - whether she's doing this because she's literally insane or because she's been told to - recognize the lasting damage this type of behavior is inflicting.
What's crazier is that the same people who scream "the liberals are exposing our kids to sexually explicit content" because a book has two gay characters hold hands are perfectly fine with the nude photos being sent to everyone. If a gay kiss lasting two lines is enough to cause screams of rage, why aren't actual nude photos being emailed to everyone resulting in screams?
Of course, the answer is that they don't care as long as the nude photos "own the libs." (So Hunter nudes are okay, but Ivanka nudes would be outrageous.) If showing kids an explicit video of two guys having sex would somehow "own the libs," then the right would suddenly be all for kids seeing that sexually explicit content.
She's trash, along with all other rebuplicans in congress.
Also I wonder if Hunter Biden is regretting not encrypting his laptop hardrive and/or using veracrypt/cryptomator (assuming he now knows it's a thing).
I can't help but wonder who he was sending videos of himself smoking crack to? Why would a grown man even take a video of themself doing something illegal? I don't care, he's not any part of the Biden administration, its just bafflingly stupid.
She should become a sex offender for this. Any normal person would get sentenced to prison if they did this, yet somehow i don't think she'll get in any real trouble for this.
What the fuck can we do about this? I'm so sick of seeing powerful people get away with all types of crimes every single day while there are regular people serving 30 year sentences for getting caught with some weed.
We are past the point where we should be revolting. I don't think we should resort to violence, but we should put our collective foot down.
We have all the power. This country's economy would grind to a screeching halt if we stopped showing up for work. We need to make some demands and stop contributing until they are met. Accountability for the powerful should be among those demands. I also say we demand the ability to pay for housing, goof, and health care by working a full time job. If we don't have those bare minimums, then what are we even doing?
I saw this posted so many times on reddit. IDGAF. please stop reposting about MTG. my life is better without seeing her face or hearing about her. It also feels in line with claire mccaskill's democratic election strategy - keep showing people the most extreme and they'll turn right back to us centrists. hakeem jefferies also just hammers this point day in and day out. I am glad they are, but i wish there was something more than this, its soooo down there.
Right? Like what the fuck. I can't imagine ever going, "haha look at Eric's penis. AOC is a legend!" or anything. I like AOC because she doesn't do things like that. And if she did things like that, I would lose respect for her.
That was such a weird and weak "but both sides" attempt because it's only based in a hypothetical situation where they can pretend they know how things will totally turn out.
Edit: oh. Surprise. That koofnoof's history is not surprising at all. Apparently thinks conservative ideas such as hating trans people isn't hateful because "the true hate is from the trans people hating themselves". I've never once yet ever on here or reddit seem a stupid "both sides" come from anyone even remotely left leaning. It's always hateful bigots trying to say everyone is as much of a piece of shit as they are.
Funny how right wingers think everyone just wants to protect their own like they do. No, that's why the two side are NOT the same. We want the rules followed no matter who
Didn't we play this out earlier with Melania? That she was a model before she married Trump and there are pictures of her in her underwear? And didn't both sides go, "Why are you bringing this up? It is not relevant to this election."
All except Tiffany and Baron were an official part of the Trump administration, as advisors to the President, so all except Tiffany and Baron are fair game politically. Eric, Don Jr, Ivanka chose to become active parts of Trump's political endeavors.
What the fuck is wrong with you? It's horrible no matter who does it and it's also AGAINST THE LAW. You know, the thing the Republicans claim to be the party of?
You're proposing a scenario that wouldn't happen, because AOC isn't a deranged fascist like Greene. But if AOC did what Greene has done here, she would also need to face harsh repercussions beginning with expulsion from office.