Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) unexpectedly called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to work with Democrats to avert a government shutdown.In a statement on Tuesday, Johnson said Republicans should support his plan to include the SAVE Act, legislation making it more difficult to vote, in a bi...

We have definitely been transported to an alternate universe

    • comador @lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      She’s up for reelection? That’s the only way I can see her actually going counter to her bullshit antics.

    • tuckerm@supermeter.social
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      2 months ago

      That was a great explanation.

      I remember hearing an interview with John Boehner on NPR (former Republican Speaker of the House) a few years ago. He was talking about the government shutdown that happened shortly after far right wing was elected in 2010. Apparently, a few of them barged into his office after the shutdown and demanded to know why the government had actually shut down.

      And Boehner was like, “Um…you said you wanted it to?”

      And the right wingers said, “Well we didn’t think it would work!”

      These are irresponsible people who think they should just get to play games in life.

      • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

        –Jean-Paul Sartre

      • sawdustprophet@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        And the right wingers said, “Well we didn’t think it would work!”

        I recall a number of voters who voted in favor of Brexit who were interviewed and said things like “but I didn’t think it would actually happen!”

        I also seem to recall a similar sentiment in a case where people voted to strip funding from a local library in Michigan, then were shocked when the library had to close.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    How the hell did MTG start sounding reasonable. What alternate universe have we entered.

  • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
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      2 months 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.

    • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
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      2 months 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.

    • Podunk@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        2 months 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.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    MTG hasn’t suddenly grown a ethocortical gland. She’s getting polling numbers that scare her, and she wants to win reelection. Georgia is turning purple for a variety of reasons, and a government shut down would be bad for her campaign.

    • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I haven’t seen polling specifically for her district but, while Georgia is very purple (and has been since like 2014), her district is gerrymandered to hell and back to not be anything other than red. I think I saw that it’s one of the deepest red districts in the country.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Deep red refers to voter registrations. It’s generally a very good indicator which was they will go, but this election is anything but politics as usual.

        I’m not privy to her internal polling, but I’ll bet she saw numbers than people in her district are concerned about Trump, see a lack of leadership in the GOP, and are considering staying home rather than show up for her. Angry people show up to vote, and if enough people say they are going to vote Trump out, then she doesn’t want to be on his boat when it happens.

        Another possibility is that she’s testing the waters for a Senate or Governor run in 2026. She doesn’t need to move towards the center if she can bash people to her right. It makes her look reasonable and conciliatory without actually being either one.

        Either way, she’s not doing this because of principles. She’s doing it for personal benefit, because she’s a conservative.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I’m sorry but, as a Georgian, I’m pretty sure she has a 0% chance of either losing her district or getting elected to statewide office, no matter what she does.

    • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      The only danger MTG has in her district, as someone who lives right next to her district, is being primaried. She will never lose the general to a Democrat.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    The GOP has held this country hostage many times and 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.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months 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.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    OK, I’m selling everything and moving to a cave in the mountains, because if MTG is going to act sane for 5 minutes in a row, then some serious shit is coming down

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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 did, and 3) or don’t, and then tie the government shutdown more directly to Johnson. 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 to rabid to doing this for civic-minded reasons, so something has to be going on.

    • greyfox@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.