Did Marjorie Taylor Greene actually say this?:

[Kingofalldems]

"You think gas prices are high now? Wait until you're forced to drive an EV."


On edit---yes she said it.

Link to tweet

[wryter2000]

1. OMG

[Turbineguy]

2. It's a contest

whoever says the dumbest things, wins.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. First prize is a week at Merde-a-Loco

Second prize is two weeks.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Seems real. Certainly it is her style

https://newrepublic.com/post/182491/marjorie-taylor-greene-understand-electric-vehicles-work

[paleotn]

4. Sounds about her speed

She’s got one of those telephone pole family trees so common in NW Georgia.

[3catwoman3]

8. What does this interesting term mean?

I grew up in western upstate NY, and have never heard this before.

[FakeNoose]

13. I think it means they marry their own relatives, so there are no branches on the family tree

[3catwoman3]

15. Thnx.

DU is so educational.

[paleotn]

19. Bingo.

Lets just say, there's not a lot of diversity in her genome. Gotta be from the south to get that one I guess.

[paleotn]

20. Southernism possibly. I've heard it all my life.

It means her genetics aren't terribly diverse.

[FakeNoose]

21. In the case of MTG, I think she plays dumb on purpose

Maybe she really is that stupid ... I don't know. But she definitely thinks her voters are that stupid.

She plays the "dumb blonde" deliberately for the MAGA crowd. If I were a voter in her district I'd be entirely insulted.

Another factor is that she plays dumb for Chump because she knows that he feels threatened by intelligent, educated women. Up until the other day she was still auditioning for the VP job. But that's over now.

I really can't wait until somebody primaries her, but it won't happen for this election.

[3catwoman3]

23. I've read speculation about that before. If so, it's a role...

…she plays to perfection.

[3catwoman3]

6. Oy.............

She really is dumber than a box of rocks (apologies to rocks).

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Does she know what an EV is?

...or supply and demand?

[haele]

14. And the University of Georgia School of Business checks records for the year she graduated

Wondering how the hell she got her Bachelor's Degree.
I guess they just need to chalk up where she is now to long term steroid use.

Haele

[zwobble379]

9. Don't know

Reading the tweet, and then Pete Buttigieg's response to it, I'm not sure he's right. If demand dropped I could see the oil companies cutting back on production to try and maintain a certain level of price so we'd probably have to see. But, I do agree on what he said.... that MTG probably didn't do much thinking about it at all

[Kingofalldems]

12. And who would be responsible for those high prices?

Trump's pals in the oil industry.

[Torchlight]

16. Demand and production declined dramatically during the pandemic

and a the price of barrel of oil reached negative numbers, so I'm not so sure you're right.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. They Would Try

But, that would stimulate demand for electric. So, it would be a death spiral.
During the peak of COVID, prices fell to lower than the cost to produce. So, they all greatly reduced production. Given the excess inventory, the prices didn't budge in response to production cuts.
We do agree that producers & traders regularly manipulate supply to assure their bets always win.
But, on a more global scale, their power gets greatly diminished.

[Eugene]

10. As dumb as that statement is, it just might be effective messaging within the MAGA cult.

Red meat target at low-information voters.

[honest.abe]

11. Reminds me of that Yogi Berra quote..

Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. Queen of Dumb

[madinmaryland]

22. I think MTG is actually intrigued by JD Vance fucking a couch.