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.

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[–] 182 points 1 year ago (19 children)

This is like the third time I've agreed with her in the last month or two wtf is going on

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  • [–] 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    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”

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Blonde haired white ultra-consertvative woman that the right will be able to claim "FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT! And all you dissenters are sexist!"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If she’s a real blonde, then I’m the queen of england.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    The headline gets it wrong. She's not breaking ranks with MAGA. She's beginning to lead it.

    She's breaking ranks with Trump.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    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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    American Exceptionalism is now well and truly dead.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Closely followed by American Victim Complex.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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    I'm stuck in american clown complex and my arteries are full of tallow

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    crying

    Yes Ronald, I AM LOVING IT!

    louder, ugly crying

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    W̴̬̾o̸̺̎ṷ̶̒l̵̬̓d̸̗̔ ̴͇̃ÿ̶͈́ő̷̘u̷̥̅ ̸̢̔l̸̢̉i̷͕̇k̷̬̓e̵̯͐ ̴̦͝t̵̝̽o̸͔͌ ̵̡̀S̷͕̚ų̸̎p̴̞͐ẻ̵̫r̴̳̾S̷̳̄i̴̫͗z̷͔̓e̷̟̍ ̸̠̑y̶̻̓o̴̦̐u̸̱̒r̵̫͋ ̴̻̽m̵̟̂ȅ̸̱ǎ̴̲l̸̠͑ ̵̯͝ṯ̴̒o̸̻̔d̶͎̊à̷͎y̵̠̔?̵̮́

    Edit:W̷̖͕̙͈̑̓̄̚e̵̼̞̞̾̇͗ ̸̢̛̹͙̱̓̔a̵̦̓͝l̴̛̻͓̥͕l̵̦̈́̀̕͝ ̴̗̟̌̚S̷̨̼͖̏u̴̟̟͙͑̇̽p̵̺̼̗̺̈́́̿e̵̲͋ŗ̴̙̠͛̾̽ ̷̢͆͗͠ͅS̸͍̮̟͒i̵̗͌̔͒̿z̸̥̜̺͈̈̇̂ĕ̴̘ ̸̫̅d̶̻̆̓͂ǫ̵͙̏͛͆w̴̦͠n̶̜͑͑͝ ̴̬̩̂̈́̕h̸̬̩͋ḛ̶̖͍̓̍r̴̗̩̦̽e̶̠̩͗

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    She's trying to ignite a new form of populism against Maga. It might work really well.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    The real reverse fetterman

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago*

    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

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Somehow she always finds a way to blame antifa and not daddy Trump in the end.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's the good in you, believing there could be good in even her.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    That's you, babes.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    New Title: Local Republican in denial about what being a Republican means shocked to discover truth about Republicans

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Of course they don't do anything there. That would not be profitable for their donors.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    She only changed her tune when she found out her adult kids would be affected. Is this more of the same?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    She’s got someone in her ear. No way she’s coming up with this on her own volition.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    MTG finally realizing that the "do nothings" aren't the democrats, but her own party... I did not have that on my bingo card.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Because he lied to get elected, MTG. That's why.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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