MTG fumes that Republicans are ‘doing nothing’ to tackle high food prices as shutdown rumbles on
The far-right congresswoman has increasingly broken ranks with the MAGA movement, leading even Donald Trump to wonder ‘What's going on with Marjorie?’
Marjorie Taylor Greene has hit out at her fellow Republicans for "doing nothing" about rising food and healthcare costs in her latest breach with the Trump administration.
In an interview with the conservative broadcaster Real America's Voice on Tuesday, the Georgia congresswoman warned that letting Joe Biden's Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of the year would "crush" Americans' finances.
Those subsidies are now at the heart of a government shutdown that's lasted 15 days and counting. Senate Democrats are demanding the subsidies be extended as a condition of reopening the government while Republicans are refusing to budge.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-shutdown-obamacare-trump-b2846196.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
This is like the third time I've agreed with her in the last month or two wtf is going on
This is the really loud rat that slept in the wall right next to your head and pissed you off every night!
Now the ship is on fire. That loud, annoying rat is loudly abandoning ship. She may act dumb, but she's making some smart decisions (for her own preservation) right now.
I think her being the "smart" one should tell us something about the rest of the Republicans. She's not the smart one. The rest of them are confident in the fascists ability to hold power through state violence. She appears smart because she's reacting to the unfavorable view most people have of the administration (while remaining loyal to Trump and never calling him out by name).
She's not being fed talking points now; so she actually is just defaulting to a somewhat reasonable position from shit she sees as popular.
She's not a part of the main leadership and she has only ever made a name for herself by being "more radical". Well, the Democrats are limp dicks and the Republicans are rounding up people and putting them in labor camps. The only move she has is to literally just say reasonable shit to remain relevant.
That describes a person smarter than I ever gave her credit for being.
The Overton window has shifted so far right that MTG seems like a bleeding heart liberal in comparison to the rest of the Republican Party.
If you only take into context the things that we agree on over the past month or so, her opinions on those topics are bleeding heart liberal. I wouldn't say the Overton window has shifted so much as I would say she's presenting a persona to save her bacon and trying to not get voted out next election.
She's betting on collapse
Both.
She recently was on Tim Dillon podcast and my impression of the situation: She’s a duplicitous lip-server. Shes delusional enough to rationalize the impending healthcare disaster the dems point to as actually “lapses in Obamacare”, not at all because the BBB bill just passed by her party. Also, she is just protesting with dems where convenient because she is capitalizing on some popularity internal to MAGA. It’s easy to hold her party leaders to account and follow through on promises if that means getting some leverage later on.
That and I bet she’s gonna run for president later. She’s banking on maga failing and wants a long history of “rational thinking”
Blonde haired white ultra-consertvative woman that the right will be able to claim "FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT! And all you dissenters are sexist!"
If she’s a real blonde, then I’m the queen of england.
Necromancy!
If you're referring to Elizabeth II, she wasn't the queen of England, she was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (along with being the monarch of several other independent kingdoms.) The "Queen of England" title hasn't been used to refer to the well-known British monarch since the early 18th century, which means that the GP poster must descend from a secret royal line that's been operating in the shadows, waiting for the correct moment to reveal themselves to the world.
Or. Necromancy.
i prefer to use "queen of france" because the last queen and monarchy died centuries ago but yours works too
She reminds of the people who are so astronomically stupid they actually believe that conservative politics will help the average person. Her entire ideology is falling apart in front of her eyes and, too her very likited credit, she’s standing up for the people she represents.
If only she wasn’t a massive piece of garbage in countless other ways and so utterly stupid I’m amazed her last braincell can even fire in semi regular intervals with burning up like a 20 year old CPU being asked to run some unoptimized AAA junk at 4k.
My guess? She’s somehow financially compromised. A congressperson doesn’t feel the urgency of high costs of living unless it affects them somehow; and if she’s worried about the prices of everyday staple items, she’s losing money.
I remember some of her family members are financially struggling. Might be a reason why. However, the main reason is that she never got a cabinet position or any position in Trump’s admin.
You're probably just becoming more like her surely she would never change lol
The headline gets it wrong. She's not breaking ranks with MAGA. She's beginning to lead it.
She's breaking ranks with Trump.
"The House is not in session, which I think is inexcusable. Mike Johnson should be calling us back. Because we should be working, not only on our appropriations but building an offramp off of Obamacare for the American people... and passing president Trump's agenda and executive orders."
Can't help but feel like she's not so much breaking ranks with Trump - but instead she has said one or two things that the media has spun up to make it sound that way for clickbait headlines.
I mean... she voted for the healthcare subsidies to expire by voting for the Big Bullshit Bill.
I feel like she's just playing the usual games here. She could have not voted for the BBB. The Democrats are simply trying to roll back changes that were made in the BBB.
So, was she just an idiot who didn't read the bill (possible) or just playing the rotating villain (more probable imho).
I think I kind of believe her when she said she cares now because her adult children's premiums will be doubling.
And I have an even easier time believing that she didn't know that was going to happen until after she voted for the bill.
Damned plausible is what it is.
She's a gnat fly. She just goes from one thing to an other. The BBB is in the past, she's seen something else shiny.
It’s gnat
Yep, we have now reached the point in the clownworld timeline where Marjorie Taylor Green, the Jewish Space Lasers lady who did campaign ads by just shooting a physical representation of 'socialism' with a 50 cal anti materiel rifle... this woman is seemingly a 'moderate Republican', a 'voice of reason' within the party, to use the mainstream political vernacular of roughly 10 years ago.
Go back 10 years, and if you told anyone that anything like this was even possible, much less probable, likely, you would be called insane.
And that's not a hypothetical, because I did, and I was.
What that shows you is how immensely brainwashed and politically illiterate and/or disingenuous almost everyone, on all sides, was, institutional or citizen, political news junkie / official wonk or couldn't care less.
Yay
American Exceptionalism is now well and truly dead.
I mean, it was really never a thing.
List of American achievements that made them a super power:
end list
I mean 'American Exceptionalism' not as being literally true in any sense, I mean it in the actual Political Science / Sociological sense of attempting to differentiate various democracies and their behaviors from each other.
'American Exceptionalism' is ... or was, basically our national ethos, a kind of shared, secular religion, a subtext that was basically always present, referred back to often, but not as often just directly stated.
We did, for quite a long time, just quite arrogantly think we were special, basically magically so, immune from or indifferent to many things that all societies have to grapple with.
So, now our core cultural identity has been revealed to be entirely bullshit, and as a result, basically everyone is having a psychotic break / existential crisis / nihlistic withdrawal ...all the time.
But anyway, yes, I totally agree with you that in the 20th century, it really all does just boil down to not having our own territory being literally blown to oblivion in WW2, and then misinterpreting that obviously leading to roughly one generation of massively abnormal economic gains... as proof that we are just magically amazing, the 'indespensible nation' that was leading the world to the 'end of history', all that bullshit.
EDIT:
As an addendum to that last paragraph...
The Boomers are the worst thing that has ever happened to this country, they lived in the literal best economic boom anywhere in the world, in the entire 20th century, at least if you simplify down to capitalist economies...
... and they think that was all them, and they had it tough actually.
No, they are the luckiest and most spoiled and delusional generation in American history.
And they continuously voted to destroy everything that underpinned their own opulence from possibly carrying forward onto other subsequent generatioms.
Only to be replaced by an even more extreme version of American Superiority Complex.
Closely followed by American Victim Complex.
I think at this point its just American Schizophrenia:
Anytime you go outside, assume anyone or everyone could be schizophrenic, and yeah that's basically America right now.
Followed by American Pyscho
I'm stuck in american clown complex and my arteries are full of tallow
I like how she’s changing but republicans have always screwed the working class. I guess she’s just figuring out what her party is about. I’m in full support of her calling out both parties for allowing Israel to buy their loyalty with AIPAC money though
The more I hear from this woman, the more I feel like there might actually be a decent heart deep down inside who wants to better her country, but is being hindered by an incredibly stupid brain that is calling the shots.
I hope that's true. The cynic in me thinks she's playing the long game and plans to make a presidental run, which means breaking away from MAGA to be more palatable to reublican, neoliberal, and independent voters. The cynic in me also thinks that she's pissed she didn't get a cabinet spot, so she's breaking with the party to throw a metaphoric tantrum. All speculation; I really hope she's come to her senses.
I was thinking the same thing. The MAGA base is financially liberal and socially conservative, she's pitching herself to those people for a promotion
She is a grifter. She will gather the clout with correct statements to prevent Republicans from moving to an actual alternative.
Idk. She hasn't done anything nearly as grifter-y as a typical Republican, especially the QAnon type. She was into QAnon back when it was an obscure movement and hasn't really grifted people with it through the usual currency exchange scams, crypto tokens, etc. I think she's a true believer in her principles, it's just that she's an incredibly stupid and incompetent person and those principles are stupid as well. I don't know if someone who is incredibly stupid and easily swayed who actually has principles is better or worse than someone who is actually competent but has no principles and is only driven by greed and personal gain.
Somehow she always finds a way to blame antifa and not daddy Trump in the end.
Again, that is completely aligned with her principles displayed so far. She thinks he's a messianic figure who fights the depe state from the shadows. I'm not saying it's right or smart, but it's consistent.
That's the good in you, believing there could be good in even her.
I think a lot of people who do evil things don't see themselves as evil.
I think the Bushes were evil people who did evil things and I'll never forgive them.for all the damage they caused. But I also don't think they were unpatriotic. They believed in what they did and thought they were making society better.
I think MTG is the really stupid, slightly more evil version of that. She really wants to make things better, but not for everyone. But when she clearly sees that the people she does care about (uaully right-wing racist trash) are being hurt, she wants to make things better for them.
You do kind of have to admire her seeming to stick to her principles. It's just a shame that those principles are usually deranged.
It's weird how Marj is just now figuring the Republican Party is full of Republicans.
High cost of living for the non-centimillionaires? Who gives a flying fuck!
The conservative project is about punching down on liberals, women, POC, LGBTQ, non-xtians, foreigners, and especially the poor. It's about lifting up the very rich and platforming Nazi assholes like Charlie Kirk.
None of which is going to do anything about healthcare costs, or cost of living. It's not intended to.
It is nothing new to her. Like many/most politicians, she is an opportunist. She found a way to make it into the house, and now she has other ambitions, she is looking for another way to achieve that.
I wouldn't be surprised if the russian influenced far right talking point feeds (and indirect but related funding) aren't influencing this change too.
See I would say a broken clock is right twice a day but somehow this entire country has gone to such shit that even she's right more than twice
She's trying to ignite a new form of populism against Maga. It might work really well.
Make maga great again? MMAGAGA?
Mixed martial arts Gaga? I'd pay to see it
Idealism, moral compass, the greater good, these things are anchors in modern times.
She keeps this up maybe I'll change my tune. Right now all I can say is she's not an idiot
She's still a "Jewish Space Lasers" QAnon conspiracy nut, gaslit into being a modern US equivalent of a Nazi... until she demonstrates otherwise. And that is deeply tied to that same moral backbone we see on display, of her trying to hold Trump to his word.
The fact that she's running to the Left of 95% of the Democratic Party in the federal government is telling, and how deep the incentives go within the power structures.
She has everything she needs to be the first woman president of the United States.
She is still an idiot. Just maybe she somehow has at least the bare minimum of a stance she is willing to not abandon.
Not sure. She was politically inactive until MAGA/QAnon triggered her to become an active outsider. Trump's first term was relatively milquetoast economically. He did do China trade war stuff, but overall mild. He didn't impose so many tariffs and largely left the resident immigrants alone, fixated on the border instead. To the extent she might have been dissatisfied, she was on the outside and the blaming if deep state and for the last half of the term, obstructionist Democrat rhetoric worked.
Then she became an insider, but an insider to an opposition party for the Biden presidency. Their blaming Biden and performative opposition still worked even on the inside.
Now she is on the inside of a party that has all the control she imagined and is seeing the administration double down on the most destructive policies and seeing first hand her party pretty much doing nothing except letting Trump unilaterally do whatever.
I think she was a naive gullible true believer and is perhaps finding out that no one actually is sincerely with her in the power structure.
She's a fool and racist, but I think this is sincere.
But see, now, it's ruining the wrong people's lives.
The real reverse fetterman
She's right BUT it doesn't negate the fact that she should have known (or did know but ignored the fact) that Trump wouldn't do a single thing for the American people. He was only ever going to be about fleecing them for as much as he, his family, and his cronies can manage to take.
She did know, but at the time, if you didn't support his fat ass you were done. Now that MAGA is feeling the pain and turning, so is she.
She will only do what benefits her. Nothing else.
She's a hateful...hateful...person. But she's not stupid.
She knows that when the public turns on Trump/Maga, they'll likely be reactionary and look to his most vocal detractors for leadership. She wants in on that when the orange fuckwit finally eats the last burger that clogs his aorta for the last time.
That's Gavin Newsom's play as well. Setting themselves up to the be faces of a post Trump America by being as vocal as possible now, banking on the hope that with Trump gone, MAGA will devolve into internecine chaos followed by nuremberg trials for Miller, Vance, Bondi and the entire gang of chucklefucks.
Vance and Miller on the other handing, are on every news station in America hoping to be the face of MAGA itself, hoping that they have the rizz to wrangle the movement and prevent the above mentioned internecine chaos.
Thank fuck that when you think of lacking rizz JD Vance and Steven Miller spring immediately to mind
how many of these do you think JD owns
That's you, babes.
Shit has hit the fan when normal Americans agree with MTG. She used to love the Nazi's, but I think she is seeing that she may also end up in prison for fascist crimes.
She may posses the insight to be aware of her future with continued allegiance to the regime.
New Title: Local Republican in denial about what being a Republican means shocked to discover truth about Republicans
forgot to finish it with "decided to continue being republican"
She may switch to that group of Republicans in denial about being Republicans that are known as Libertarians.
Of course they don't do anything there. That would not be profitable for their donors.
MTG's approach to politics is to say the most outrageous shit to gain attention and clout. She has no principles at all, other than "Any publicity is good publicity".
Right now, she's being crowded out by all the other Republicans like Nancy Mace, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem etc. being just as crazy as she is. She can't go any crazier without losing support, so she has to pivot in the opposite direction in order to stand out and get the media's attention like she used to.
It's working, by the way. Until she started saying this stuff, did you see anything from MTG? I didn't.
Wtf did she think was going to happen? She helped create a monster that she can't control. The Stupid America she wanted created the exact conditions for this.
She only changed her tune when she found out her adult kids would be affected. Is this more of the same?
I'm assuming her adult kids suddenly had to pay some big grocery bills.
I don't trust her; she's still a terrible Christian nationalist. I do agree on some of her more reasonable takes lately, but she still has an angle to stay in power.
Like keep saying things to challenge the bastards, but I'll never support her.
She’s got someone in her ear. No way she’s coming up with this on her own volition.
This actually fits with her. Like she is crazy but she also cares about people, so long as they aren't Jewish or brown.
She's always been known to listen to her rural Georgia constituents, and her demands have been dumb because her dumb hick constituents are dumb.
They must really be feeling the inflation and tariffs, and letting her know. She used to perform for an audience of one, now she seems to actually be doing her job.
MTG finally realizing that the "do nothings" aren't the democrats, but her own party... I did not have that on my bingo card.
Because he lied to get elected, MTG. That's why.
She saw working class white christians being harmed while “doing nothing wrong”. She has some version of morals and a soul she’s just racist.
She wanted to be VP but Donny 2 Inches didn't find her attractive enough. Then she wanted to run for a senate seat, but was prevented by the GOP from doing so. So she's pissed off and wanting to take her ball home. That dumpling Elise Stefanik was shafted similarly, but so far has just accepted it. Maybe she might get entertaining too like Empty G, but I doubt it, unfortunately.
Yeah. Its like I admire that she is consistent.
We know that brain damage decreases empathy, what causes the opposite? What happened to her? There’s no way that she figured out that she’ll be out of a job because she’s a woman.
Imo, probably getting paid by Elon to bail on the Republicans to join his America.party or whatever. I have a hard time believing she's acting in good faith.
Setting up a bid for presidency 👍
Maybe she had a visit from some ghosts?
Nah, she scares away the ghosts.
Maybe someone slipped her some MDMA.
Or mushrooms. They expand the mind.
It's really scaring me that she's starting to say things that make sense now. Did she get back on her meds or something??
or am i going more insane than she is and now that the whole world is wiffly
But Trump said egg prices were down 400%. He would never lie to me. He loves me. And my family. And he is the most peace loving person in history. They should give him an award. And just look at that tan!
Isn't it obvious? She's positioning herself for a presidential run in 2028 by pointing out issues she has with the current administration, and where she would make improvements.
She's going to run for president in 2028. Which also means not all MAGAs aren't on board with a permanent Trump presidency. They're all jackals, they want a bite at the prey, too.
Weirdest ally ever.
But people should make no mistake this woman is no friend to liberals or liberal ideas she is a populist. She goes with what she thinks is popular. Not unlike Trump.
She is also an entrenched homophobic antisemitic racist. So, there's that.
Now that truth is contrarian, expect this... thing to be "correct" more often in a bizarro world kind of way.
I've known people like that in real life. They'll come up with excuses all day why they changed sides that isn't "I'm contrarian"
Ew Jesus Christ can we get some kind of blur on pictures of this absolute meathead? It's like getting flashbanged when this leering simian head pops into my feed 😂
Anyway, whatever this dipshit is saying, she's a racist, the loudest moron in the room, and a Christian nationalist. Fuck that. She's still the enemy.
Magic The Gathering
I wouldn't tap that
She would def be one of those cards that only does bad things to you because you're supposed to give control of it to your opponent somehow.
Watch this all be part of the plan. She'll be the savior that comes and "rescues" the right. The good cop in the game. Raping everybody all the same in the end.
I don't get it? How would that benefit "the right"? Why would they want to go through all that only to be embarrassed and broken by one of their own that has been vocally breaking with them on several other key issues.
Anything to get her face on TV and try to stay relevant.
They aren't "doing nothing". They're collecting the profits.
Please, please let her start a new party and fuck shit up for the GOP in the midterms cause that would be so funny
A broken clock is right twice a day, and it looks like it's 11:32 on the dot.
Mtg baby face turn was not on my 2025 bingo
Maybe this is what happens when RFK Jr.'s brain worms leave the brain. My liberal ass is besides myself siding with her lately.
I've seen this meme a billion times and never realized his shirt said "music⚡band"
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but I will always high five someone when they're doing the right thing. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Trust however... trust is earned.
Her words are hardly “breaking with the Trump administration” if you read the article. At least that’s how I’m looking at it. She’s saying why aren’t we Republicaning harder.
Nah.. she wants a future political career outside the house, but apparently the crazy laser woman game only works in her current district of burn-the-world-down rednecks...
Now that she helped set the world on fire and the polls are in, she'll change tack like an everyday boring sleazy politician.
Read the article.
I did ... and I am aware of additional reporting outside this article, that suggests she has ambitions beyond her current station.
Your comment makes absolutely no sense in light of what she said.
It's not perfectly aligned with your comment, I'll give you that.
The republican party is still the best fit for space laser lady, only because it is the only party where conspiracy nutjobs stand a chance.
She doesn't give a flip about fixing the republican party, but purely about her polling and chances in the future. That she is capable of this pivot suggests that there is more sleazy politician to her than nutjob. Neither is praiseworthy.
Why would they? They don't care and never have.
WTF has gotten into her lately? The world is upside down. Nothing makes sense anymore!
Google Holodomir & get a clue, Marge.
MTG for president