The US government shutdown extended into its 20th day on Monday with no resolution in sight, as a prominent Republican lawmaker publicly broke ranks with party leadership over the decision of Mike Johnson, the House speaker, to keep Congress shuttered for weeks.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a representative of Georgia, on Monday morning criticized Johnson’s strategy, calling on the House to return to session immediately.

“The House should be in session working,” Greene wrote on X. “We should be finishing appropriations. Our committees should be working. We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent. I have no respect for the decision to refuse to work.”

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[+] 45 points 1 year ago (18 children)
  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    She wants the Epstein files released so she can ride the negative sentiment to a position more prominent in party leadership.

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

    She wants the Epstein files released because she thinks the secret codes to the Jewish space lasers are in there somewhere. I also think antisemitism explains her willingness to call out Israel for genocide (which, like, to be clear, shouldn't be an antisemitic stance at all, but MGT is a dumb hateful bitch who thinks every single Jewish person is in on some massive conspiracy to rule the whole world so of course she stupidly folds the real crimes of Israel and Epstein into that bullshit).

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You asked what the turnaround was and I told you. Welcome yourself to now. I’m fucking sick of this place.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Read your first comment back to yourself and imagine it’s someone else talking to you. Your last two sentences of your first reply make you sound very snarky.

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

    She's a true believer, and doesn't understand why all the grifters aren't marching onward with the crusade. She probably legitimately believes the Epstein files exonerate Trump.

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

    I have a graduate degree in psychology

    You would know better than me, but just from personal life experience, I tell people "Don't try to ascribe rational motivations to irrational actors, because the effort will just make you crazy in turn."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Honestly, it's very possible that someone close to her told her that trump actually sucks.

    If someone whose opinion she valued explained why trump was awful, without pivoting to supporting the lesser-evil democrats, she's compelled to listen to reason to avoid becoming the politician that these people hate.

    This might come as a shock to you all, but a lot of conservatives are conservative because they recognize the Party of Clintons does not have their interests at hand. Democrats would have better results in elections if they ran more candidates like Bernie Sanders, but they don't want to pay more in taxes so we end up with the Clintons and a culture war.

    spoilerI fully expect a useful idiot to reply saying "conservatives don't represent them either," and that's true. Neither party represents the working class. However, since our rulers get richer by dividing us with a culture war, that's what each party encourages.

    Until we can stop succumbing to their two-pronged strategy, we shouldn't expect the political climate to improve. I won't hold my breath.

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

    We should be passing bills that make President Trump’s executive orders permanent.

    It's not like she suddenly woke up sane or anything.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    When they make up random shit and say "nuh ah, it's permanent, you can't undo it at all, ever, for all eternity" and expect that to stick to a society ready to revolt and completely overthrow the current government.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Eat shit Marge.

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

    I can't believe the us has become a kakistocracy where MTG is the smarter of the bunch

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, you can say she is smarter than the rest of the party, because she can read the writing on the wall...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    She is the classic "stopped clock". The vast majority of what she believes and says is still vile and wrong, but the media is only reporting on her rare points that diverge from her fellow extremists.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was one of the longest before, but now it's even more one of the longest.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Technically yeah. On Monday at 20 days, it was the third longest, on Tuesday at 21 days, it ties for the second longest, and on Wednesday at 22 days (assuming) it will become the untied second longest.

    But I think we're going for the record, currently at 35 days, set during the administation of exactly who you think.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    She realized she is related to a Trans jew I'm guessing.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Aren't we still 2 weeks away from the longest in US history?

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

    The shutdown, which began on 1 October, has become the longest full government shutdown in US history, and the third-longest when including partial shutdowns. If it extends past Tuesday, it will surpass the 21-day shutdown of 1995-96 to claim second place. Only the 35-day partial shutdown during Donald Trump’s first term, from December 2018 to January 2019, has lasted longer.

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

    lol T-Rump is going for his own record.

    Aside, demographically, isn’t it mostly republican states suffering from the shutdown, them being the biggest receivers of government assistance?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yes. Welfare red states will suffer the most from this and all of Trump's policies.

    And I'm enjoying every moment of their suffering. I savor it slowly like a fine wine.

    Except the part where we end up bailing out farmers who voted to destroy their own livelihoods.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Well Republicans can't govern. So this works out for them.

    How many holes have to be in one's brain to vote for these fuckups?

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