I have a mix of emotions when I read her resignation statement. In it, she reminds everyone about how much of a piece of shit she is, as she has dedicated her work to establishing a white...
I have a mix of emotions when I read her resignation statement. In it, she reminds everyone about how much of a piece of shit she is, as she has dedicated her work to establishing a white Christian ethnostate, but the core complaint is a relatable one. I think the call for competency and actual governance is a broadly held American hope. That's even an idea Trump himself ran on. Nearly a decade later, that swamp has not been drained. MTG's solutions are the wrong answers to the problems we face, but they do actually acknowledge that people are unhappy with the status quo. She's right that our elected officials need to actually do their job.
She's a corrupt grifter and linked forever to the MAGA abomination. From Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke - The Atlantic Edit: Similar thoughts from AOC about it:
She's a corrupt grifter and linked forever to the MAGA abomination.
Gullible as Greene was about crackpot theories and her political associations, she seems to have been clear-eyed about her own direct personal interests. She was one of the most active and successful stock traders in Congress, in a number of cases betting for or against companies about which she likely had advance information. She timed her resignation to take effect two days after her congressional pension vested. She’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington only if the cinematic Mr. Smith had returned home to Montana hugely enriched by timely speculations on land holdings near the Boy Ranger camp he championed.
But she never did get the joke on the biggest joke in town, the joke that MAGA is about anything more than manipulation, exploitation, corruption, lust, and cruelty. She seems to have sincerely believed the lies that shrewder players merely mouthed. She gained her own millions without appreciating that her allies were scheming for billions. She balked at the self-abasement before every one of Trump’s whims that is indispensable to MAGA survival and success. Her failure on those scores is her one service to the country—because it helps other Americans, the joke’s ultimate victims, better understand what is happening to them and why.
Edit: Similar thoughts from AOC about it:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."
While she may have advocated for what she believes while in office, too many politicians are guilty of only having a clear conscience when they run and resign from office. Shameful
While she may have advocated for what she believes while in office, too many politicians are guilty of only having a clear conscience when they run and resign from office. Shameful
My bet is on a lucrative media platform position - conservative talk show, Spotify podcast, or the like. No need for re-election, and she can spread her particular flavor of unhinged right-wing...
My bet is on a lucrative media platform position - conservative talk show, Spotify podcast, or the like. No need for re-election, and she can spread her particular flavor of unhinged right-wing populism to a nationwide audience.
My understanding is that she's from a pretty conservative, safe deep red district in Georgia. Could she actually win a state-wide contest? I know it appears she's "moderating" (aka less crazy),...
My understanding is that she's from a pretty conservative, safe deep red district in Georgia. Could she actually win a state-wide contest? I know it appears she's "moderating" (aka less crazy), but would that really be enough?
I know very little about Georgia politics. The only thing I've ever heard is that state leaders are leery of Georgia being viewed as another "typical" backwards Southern state. And if that's the case, and that's a reflection of the voter's will, I don't see how she'd be able to win a statewide contest. She built her whole career on being batshit crazy. With Jewish space lasers and qanon and all that. Will voters forget that quickly? (yes, I know voters do forget that quickly...*looks at White House*)
I'm a Georgia resident. Prior to the last 30ish days where her platform was, what I would describe as "entirely unhinged", no, I do not think she could have gained enough statewide support for any...
I'm a Georgia resident. Prior to the last 30ish days where her platform was, what I would describe as "entirely unhinged", no, I do not think she could have gained enough statewide support for any other elected positions in Georgia. Our state mostly follows the trend of blue in the cities, red everywhere else. But given our most recent elections, it's very much a purple state right now. That said, after her "recent position changes", I would have some degree of concern that she is walked back enough of her shenanigans to potentially earn support of people who might not have voted for her because "[they] could just never vote for a democrat, no matter who it was" (thinking of my wife's grandmother, for example) -- But because of her ideology change, perhaps they could ship from not supporting her at all, to supporting her.
I remember last year at about this time I had a fantasy or a dream that some of the most unethical politicians would be visited by three Christmas ghosts. And the ghosts would teach them empathy...
I remember last year at about this time I had a fantasy or a dream that some of the most unethical politicians would be visited by three Christmas ghosts. And the ghosts would teach them empathy and compassion, and how to act like a responsible person who tries to make things better rather than just use political power for self-enrichment.
So maybe that's what happened to her, and they told her the best thing for everyone is for her to go away.
I have a mix of emotions when I read her resignation statement. In it, she reminds everyone about how much of a piece of shit she is, as she has dedicated her work to establishing a white Christian ethnostate, but the core complaint is a relatable one. I think the call for competency and actual governance is a broadly held American hope. That's even an idea Trump himself ran on. Nearly a decade later, that swamp has not been drained. MTG's solutions are the wrong answers to the problems we face, but they do actually acknowledge that people are unhappy with the status quo. She's right that our elected officials need to actually do their job.
She's a corrupt grifter and linked forever to the MAGA abomination.
From Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke - The Atlantic
Edit: Similar thoughts from AOC about it:
She was one of Trump's biggest enablers for the last decade. Good riddance.
While she may have advocated for what she believes while in office, too many politicians are guilty of only having a clear conscience when they run and resign from office. Shameful
Pure opinion/speculation, but I suspect she's just going to run for a different office, likely senate or governor.
My bet is on a lucrative media platform position - conservative talk show, Spotify podcast, or the like. No need for re-election, and she can spread her particular flavor of unhinged right-wing populism to a nationwide audience.
My understanding is that she's from a pretty conservative, safe deep red district in Georgia. Could she actually win a state-wide contest? I know it appears she's "moderating" (aka less crazy), but would that really be enough?
I know very little about Georgia politics. The only thing I've ever heard is that state leaders are leery of Georgia being viewed as another "typical" backwards Southern state. And if that's the case, and that's a reflection of the voter's will, I don't see how she'd be able to win a statewide contest. She built her whole career on being batshit crazy. With Jewish space lasers and qanon and all that. Will voters forget that quickly? (yes, I know voters do forget that quickly...*looks at White House*)
I'm a Georgia resident. Prior to the last 30ish days where her platform was, what I would describe as "entirely unhinged", no, I do not think she could have gained enough statewide support for any other elected positions in Georgia. Our state mostly follows the trend of blue in the cities, red everywhere else. But given our most recent elections, it's very much a purple state right now. That said, after her "recent position changes", I would have some degree of concern that she is walked back enough of her shenanigans to potentially earn support of people who might not have voted for her because "[they] could just never vote for a democrat, no matter who it was" (thinking of my wife's grandmother, for example) -- But because of her ideology change, perhaps they could ship from not supporting her at all, to supporting her.
The rumour is she turned on trump because she wanted to run for senate and he told her no.
I remember last year at about this time I had a fantasy or a dream that some of the most unethical politicians would be visited by three Christmas ghosts. And the ghosts would teach them empathy and compassion, and how to act like a responsible person who tries to make things better rather than just use political power for self-enrichment.
So maybe that's what happened to her, and they told her the best thing for everyone is for her to go away.
But more likely she's working on some new scam.