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Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at Mike Johnson and calls to fund government with Dems (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We have definitely been transported to an alternate universe

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The GOP has used the threat of a government shutdown many times to hold this country hostage. And when it comes to remembering who's at fault for it, most of the U.S. electorate has the memory of a crack-addled ferret. But if you have a government shutdown THIS close to an election, some of them just might remember who caused it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is she trying to break out?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably realizing she won't get elected, and trying to seem reasonable to voters 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Now we'll really be in an alternate universe if this makes her either flip to dem or just quit altogether

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

BBBB Broke ranks? Unbelievable

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Never give them what they want in exchange for them doing the bare minimum. The Dems just need to send flyers to government workers whose representatives got them furloughed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Something smells fucky. She's in a gerrymandered district so re-election isn't a concerned. Presumably Trump is in too much of a froth to realize this might be a political mistake and would love the theatrically of it. It will fire up the base and keep immigration central in the election discourse.

I don't quite get it. But my speculation is that this is an early volley and positioning to try to get rid of Johnson soon by 1) calling him out and making him look weak, 2) forcing him to capitulate to the democrats "just like she said he would," and 3) or he doesn't work with the dems, and then she's tied him more concretely to the government shutdown. Following this, I assume the crazy crew will start undermining him in the media, and then they'll eventually vote to try to get him removed and install one of the crazy crew.

She is absolutely too rabid to be doing this for civic-minded reasons, so something has to be going on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gerrymandered districts are more in danger not less. Gerrymandering is about spreading out areas which are easy wins, and instead spreading those votes over multiple districts.

You gain more seats, but you make every race closer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

She won her seat last election with almost 70% of the vote.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

She is playing a post-Trump game and knows a looming power vacuum when she sees one.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Either there's writing on a wall or she got hit by a brontosaurus bone and thinks she's a functioning Congressional member...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pretty hopeful news actually.

MTG is among the most seemingly dedicated to being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit, and yet even she is recognizing that a platform of being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit is no longer serving her.

Fuck her forever. But I'll take this specific brand of opportunism as a positive sign.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ill be honest, ill take it. But im so confused right now.... is this how progress is supposed to happen? Its been so long. I didnt draw the line, they did, and still here we are. At something reasonable?

Still. I must reiterate, fuck mtg, but... support her this time? Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think her deal is being outrageous, and the republican party has been pretty outrageous as of late, meaning she's nothing special anymore. So, she's just doing whatever gets attention now.

Edit: read the article. She's giving the whole game away. She must be MAD.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

No it is happening because it is close to the election. Would be fucking wild to yet again convincingly prove they are incapable of governance while just weeks away. Even this hollering gibbon can see that. Any other time she would be doing the usual racist MAGA bullshit and refusing to cooperate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

This is the difference between a normal racist and a high functioning racist that knows a failed state can't effectively oppress the people.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's seeing the potential writing on the wall and is attempting to come across as moderate all of a sudden so that when the Republican party purge of MAGA begins, she can hopefully be overlooked by it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This isn’t what she’s trying to do. Instead of trying to blend in with moderates, she represents a radical and extremist part of the party that she wants to paint as the true moderates in order to leverage the opinion of the republicans upon Trump’s reelection.

The stance of tearing down speakers of the house is not new, she has railed against every speaker of the house this term for not enacting her extremist policies. What she is doing is trying to force the republican party’s hand to become more extremist because they can’t get over the line to win anything as a party without the extremists supporting them.

I fear that many people don’t understand this move from her but it’s clear if you’ve been paying attention. The point is to sell out the rest of the party that does not side with her. Her philosophy is “MAGA party or no party” and she has a small group of 5-10 allies that also believe this. If Trump loses, the party splits along these lines. If he wins, this fascist group will suddenly represent the whole party. That’s the bet she’s making.

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