MTG has been in the news for musing about something called ‘National Divorce’. I’m not sure exactly what it would entail, but it has to do with a legal separation of red and blue states so that disaffected and unhappy blue-state Democrats moving to red states won’t be able to ruin these red states with their left-wing views.
As far as I can tell, the recent conversation about this started here:
This guy is moving from California to Florida because he can't stand living in the mess that lib politics created and he *still* has the audacity to talk down to Floridians about their politics. Libs are a cancer. They are the absolute worst people in this country. https://t.co/3naThdjoGV
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) December 29, 2021
I support actively discriminating against transplants like this through legislation. They shouldn’t be able to vote for a period, and they should have to pay a tax for their sins.
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) December 29, 2021
This is when MTG chimed in on the issue:
All possible in a National Divorce scenario.
After Democrat voters and big donors ruin a state like California, you would think it wise to stop them from doing it to another great state like Florida.
Brainwashed people that move from CA and NY really need a cooling off period. https://t.co/NB2dVj7n2X— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 29, 2021
That apparently set off the lib masses, who didn’t like what MTG was musing about at all, with some saying it would be civil war:
There is no “National Divorce” either you are for civil war or not. Just say it if you want a civil war and officially declare yourself a traitor. https://t.co/5bAxVcoReX
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) December 29, 2021
🚨Don’t ignore this. I want you to see what a GOP-run country looks like. They will take your right to vote if you don’t agree with them. MTG may sound batty but she’s not kidding and she has @GOPLeader McCarthy fully behind her. Register to vote now: https://t.co/oWU1VnWnR5 https://t.co/KImYmWTqmX
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) December 29, 2021
Fast forward to this morning.
MTG just released a multi-tweet thread REFUSING to apologize for musing about protecting red states from ‘Democratic Communism”:
1. You know what is necessary about threatening a divorce?
It’s a wake up call to the one offending the other that they’ve had enough.
And if the other party cares at all, they look at what they are doing wrong and care to fix it.
National Divorce is not civil war.
Cont’d
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2021
2. Divorces happen in court or perhaps for a country can happen in Congress.
I’ve been married 26 years, clearly I’m not in favor of divorce.
Happy marriages are the result of 2 committed people working together resolving differences and changing behavior that hurts the other.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2021
3. But the state of our union is currently far from happy, and I really don’t care how many Democrats I offend by calling it out.
For your information, you like our red states BECAUSE of our politics and it’s OUR Republican politics that create the very environments you like.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2021
4. So I will NOT apologize when I muse or discuss ideas that stop Democrat voters and donors, who are moving out of the shitholes they created with their Democrat votes and donations, from ruining GREAT red states by bringing your disastrous ideas and destructive votes with you.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2021
5. For your information, we Republicans don’t want your blue votes ruining our red home states!
We don’t want high taxes, high crime, high amounts of perverse school curriculums, loss of freedoms, & AUTHORITARIAN big government in our red states!
That’s what you Dems vote for!
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2021
6. If you are so offended by my comments about #NationalDivorce then take a real hard look inward and ask yourself why it’s sadly such a popular idea with Republicans.
We are serious about our freedoms and we feel very threatened by Democrats that constantly tread on them.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2021
7. I don’t want a National Divorce, but I not will tolerate is Democratic Communism.
Leave your blue votes in your blue states.
If you move to a red state, learn from your blue state experience that your Democrat ways failed.
Then we welcome you.https://t.co/VyT2W6gtSf
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 30, 2021
I don’t know about National Divorce, per se, but blue staters ruining red states is a true concern of mine. I’ve voiced it several times with respect to people living in cities like Minneapolis and San Francisco, where crime is skyrocketing because these cities throttle and defund their police forces. Nothing will cause people to move out faster than if they feel they aren’t safe, which means a potential mass exodus of Democrats with their socialist ideologies from blue states into surrounding red states. Next thing you know, a red state is turning purple with left-wing politicians being elected to both state and national offices.
I don’t really know what to do about it, but yeah, I completely understand why Greene is musing about it and speaking in such stark terms.