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.

  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    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

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    6 months ago

    Now that truth is contrarian, expect this… thing to be “correct” more often in a bizarro world kind of way.

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      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”

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    6 months ago

    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.

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    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!

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    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??

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    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.

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    Maybe this is what happens when RFK Jr.'s brain worms leave the brain. My liberal ass is besides myself siding with her lately.

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    did she have some kind of epiphany? or just getting bullied by her GOP colleagues for being a woman, and now she’s lashing out?

    either way, i wouldn’t complain about more of this from more republicans

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      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.

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        she’s just racist

        pretty sure that’s a prerequisite for just the privilege of calling yourself republican. yes, black republicans hate black people too

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      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.

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    6 months ago

    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.

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      She is a grifter. She will gather the clout with correct statements to prevent Republicans from moving to an actual alternative.

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        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.

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            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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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

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      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.

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      No. Shes nothing more than a bilge rat that senses the ship sinking and is dutifully scurrying to higher decks to save her own ass.

      Don’t trust this bimbo.

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    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.

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          I mean, it was really never a thing.

          List of American achievements that made them a super power:

          1. Didn’t get their country blown to sit during WWII

          end list

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            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.

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          Only to be replaced by an even more extreme version of American Superiority Complex.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.