We have definitely been transported to an alternate universe
Is she trying to break out?
Probably realizing she won’t get elected, and trying to seem reasonable to voters 🤣
BBBB Broke ranks? Unbelievable
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.
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.
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.
She is playing a post-Trump game and knows a looming power vacuum when she sees one.
Either there’s writing on a wall or she got hit by a brontosaurus bone and thinks she’s a functioning Congressional member…
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.
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.
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.
This is the difference between a normal racist and a high functioning racist that knows a failed state can’t effectively oppress the people.
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.
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.
Her voter base of Joe Rednecks don’t have a passport, and stopped paying attention to the wherabouts of their birth certificate once it got them their first gun.
Voter suppression suddenly doesn’t feel so good, when it puts your seat on the line…
Ah, that explains her sudden interest, however fleeting, in sanity.
Honestly this might not even be that far off. I could see a lot of people opposing requiring presenting documents to vote because they don’t want the government to be able to track them.
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
Like a rat fleeing a sinking ship.
This headline is easy to read wrong – my brain grouped the subject of this headline the other way at first. I read, “Marjorie rages at (Mike and calls to fund government)” rather than “Marjorie (rages at Mike) and (calls to fund government).”
Selfish snake switches sides when her own side starts to lose pressure. Nothing strange here
Seems like we’ve reached the point where most voters realize that virtually all government shutdowns have been the Republicans’ fault.
It’s probably because preceding each shutdown they loudly proclaim that they will shut down the government and blame the dems… and then they do…
Now is the time Dems must insist on border security bill and negating presidential immunity as a must for passing the budget
I genuinely hope this is due to therapy and/or medication. I’m willing to wipe the slate for someone putting in real effort who just needs some sort.
But should she burn any fucking bridges after this…
