‘Hopefully No One Dies’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Predictably Unhinged Response to McCarthy Retirement

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) might not have figured out how to get any bills passed, but she does have a certain…way with words, shall we say, in response to political news developments. Her reaction to former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) retirement was par for the course for Georgia’s least productive member of Congress.

McCarthy, who endured a grueling fifteen rounds of votes to finally curl his fingers around the speaker’s gavel, only for it to be brutally snatched away from him less than a year later in a defenestration led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed he would retire from Congress in December.

McCarthy’s district is reliably Republican, but until a special election is held (the date to be set by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat), the House GOP majority will shrink by one. The caucus was already down one after the vote to expel Rep. George Santos (R-NY), the serial fabulist whose staggering collection of lies and schemes finally became too much to tolerate when a fellow Republican congressman accused Santos of defrauding his mother.

The ouster of Santos and McCarthy’s retirement announcement clearly ruffled Greene’s feathers, and she took to The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter to air her grievances.

“Well,” she wrote. “Now in 2024, we will have a 1 seat majority in the House of Representatives. Congratulations Freedom Caucus for one and 105 Rep who expel our own for the other. I can assure you Republican voters didn’t give us the majority to crash the ship.”

Greene concluded on a macabre note: “Hopefully no one dies.”

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