Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'Investigations' for Companies Not Donating to GOP

[Hotler]

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, has promised "investigations" for corporations that stopped donating to GOP politicians who supported former President Donald Trump's claims of a "stolen" 2020 election.

Greene said during a Wednesday appearance on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's War Room podcast that, should Republicans regain control of the House following next month's midterms, GOP representatives would target corporate donors that refused to continue financial support to those who supported claims of massive fraud in the last presidential election.

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-investigations-companies-not-donating-gop-1755004

The world is a corporation Mrs. green. The say bring it.

[vlyons]

1. Sounds like a sure way to get corporations to contribute to her opponents

There is no way that GE or Exxon or General Mills or Hughes or Apple or any other big corp would tolerate such nonsense.

She's such a stupid, mindless woman.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Putin does it in Russia. CEOs who don't comply accidentally fall out of windows.

[RKP5637]

15. And so do politicians, yep. n/t

[RKP5637]

17. Ha, there's a big business to be had selling faulty windows for tall buildings in the

right places! LOL!!!

[sarcasmo]

21. Yep, the GOP is copying the Russian/Putin control style.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Absolutely straight out of the KGB handbook.

The GOP has fallen for it hook, line and sinker.

[Irish_Dem]

2. US oligarchs will be mandated to "donate" money to GOP campaigns.

Sounding more and more like Putin's Russia.

[Chainfire]

4. She is going to send the Gazpacho after them.

Silly, redneck hick.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Oooh, that's cold!

[Blue Owl]

14. Soup to nuts, MTG is the complete crazy package

Batshit insanity that makes even Michele Bachmann seem tame by comparison...

[Casady1]

25. She's not a hick

But from a upper middle class suburb of Atlanta. She went to high school 10 miles from me.

[Chainfire]

26. You can be from a fine neighborhood and still be a hick. Ignorance is the factor.

There are words that I have banned from my vocabulary that would better describe her.

[Casady1]

35. The family owned

A big local construction company. She might be a white supremacist but she is no hick.

[CrispyQ]

5. The party of big business is going to take on big business?

[Emile]

7. GOP threatening private businesses. Crime family

tactics indeed!

[NowISeetheLight]

8. How does this work?

So the DOJ is “weaponized” by Biden because they’re investigating Trump… yet MTG “investigations” are OK? Well the MagaT Hypocrisy is alive and well.

[rurallib]

10. an aside - love your screen name

Welcome to DU a little late

[NowISeetheLight]

12. I grew up...

[Girard442]

9. "Nice company you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it."

[rurallib]

11. She says in public what the Fascists are saying behind closed doors.

[PortTack]

13. Blah blah blah

[RKP5637]

16. And this is what happens in a country with a lot of mental health issues!!!

As demonstrated by her ludicrous brain tracks.

[eShirl]

18. Listen up, heathens! This is a shakedown.

Cough up the dough or else.

[world wide wally]

19. "Gimme your money or you're going to jail"

[ck4829]

20. So, uh, shakedowns?

[BlueIdaho]

22. The beatings will continue

Until morale improves… what a bitch.

[Journeyman]

23. If freedom of speech means anything, it is the right to say "No" . . .

[niyad]

24. May she, and her enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. That's extortion

[Turbineguy]

29. I miss

Saddam Hussein.

[Rebl2]

30. How is

that any of the republicans business (or the governments business) because companies decided not to give to republicans or democrats for that matter.

[TeamProg]

31. All the GOP has is a race to the bottom. Down hill all of the way.. n/t

[Stuart G]

32. Again, A very "Stupid Comment" from someone who doesn't know she's "VERY STUPID"

These ..."Stupid Ones." think they know it all. But really know 'NOTHING AT ALL"

[Casady1]

38. The saying is

Smart people know they are stupid, stupid people don't know they are stupid.

[patphil]

33. Are we talking protection money?

Nice corporation you have here. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.
So, how much can we put you down for?

[hadEnuf]

34. An open admission of criminal intentions while running for public office.

What is left to say?

[Warpy]

36. Looks like a shakedown to me

"Gimme money or I'll launch an expensive and uncomfortable investigation!"

Somebody needs to pull oh her choke chain.

[Hugin]

37. It's a hallmark of fascism.

AKA The Biggest Shakedown.

[kwolf68]

39. Free market?

So she wants the government to be involved with business decisions? Funny how they love capitalism until capitalism gives them results they don't like.

[Caliman73]

40. Blatant violation of Free Speech. Literally, for once...

and who is behind it? Why it is the party that always cries "Free Speech" when a PRIVATE actor decides to distance themselves from Conservative toxicity.

The idiot is LITERALLY saying that they are planning to abuse their power and violate Freedom of Speech by using government authority to quell political support or punish people and corporations, simply because they do not like the speech.

I personally, do not like the idea of "corporate speech". I prefer that politicians actually have to talk about policies and goals without billions of dollars pouring in from who knows where. I want the people with the best ideas and policies to win, not the people with the biggest pockets. The thing is that as it stands now, Corporations are people and money is speech. Since that is the case, unless there are specific allegations of laws being broken, for Conservatives to "investigate" solely companies who stopped donating to GOP politicians seems to be completely politically motivated and likely illegal.