We have definitely been transported to an alternate universe
The GOP has used the threat of a government shutdown many times to hold this country hostage. And when it comes to remembering who’s at fault for it, 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.
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
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Is she trying to break out?
Probably realizing she won’t get elected, and trying to seem reasonable to voters 🤣
Now we’ll really be in an alternate universe if this makes her either flip to dem or just quit altogether
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fair, I don’t know much about Georgia.
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.
Like a rat fleeing a sinking ship.
Really wild to see MTG appear to be on the correct side twice in a week. I wonder what the goal of the party is aside from distancing themselves from a losing candidate.
Putin said he wants Harris to win, she took that literally 😂
Putin consistently underestimates women. He was happy Hillary was secretary of state until she gave vocal support to the Ukrainian Revolutions in 2014 that ousted his puppet. He assumed CIA was pulling her strings or operating through her so tried to burn that bridge. Trump was a resounding failure at implementing long term policies to benefit Russia, so now he’s banking on Harris being passive in foreign policy.
haha. beautiful
She doesn’t want to miss a paycheck.
Congress always gets paid. They’re “essential.”
I wonder if there’s any way that could be changed by executive action? If the government gets shut down, Congresspersons don’t get paid. Their aides and support staff are essential because they do the real work, but they don’t get paid until they pass a budget…?
Is she trying to distance herself from the maga side of the party after seeing the polls predicting a big defeat this election?
Very strange to see.
My spitball theory is that she sees this new Loomer person coming to eat her lunch as token crazy maga lady, so she’s trying to get off her sinking ship.
Loomer is Trump’s side piece
Priority #1 is always to remain elected so that you can stay “on the take”.
She might’ve been hit by a stray neutrino or something? Flipped a random bit?
LOL how many bits is MTGOS anyway…
4
2-bit
I think she woke up and realized a government shutdown right before an election caused by ineffectual republican leadership might hurt them in the down-ballot. Or we woke up Sunday on the next timeline because the earth exploded, and everyone died Saturday night. It’s been a crazy week and it’s only Tuesday.
Edit: looks like a shutdown before the election due to ineffectual republican leadership is back on the menu boys.
I think this is absolutely the correct interpretation of this. Shutting down the government because repubs don’t want to play ball weeks before an election is only likely to hurt their chances.
Yeah but they do this every election year, and their supporters never care
They don’t until their social security checks stop flowing.
KEEP
GOVTOUT of MY MEDICAREAnother accidentally prudent statement.
I think you’re putting far to much faith in people willing to vote ®, their base would vote for them even as their families are sent to labor and death camps, while undecided and ‘independent’ voters will cast their ballot entirely on the last headline or 72 hours.
To me this reeks of Greene and other Magots realizing their wing of the party is imploding and will have to find a place in what ever GOP comes out the otherside of this election and the next midterm. Trump’s decline makes it pretty obvious they need someone else’s coattails to grab onto and rally around, so she’s trying to be the loudest voice in the room to be part of the new power structure if not the face of it.
It matters very little if I or any of us have faith in the republican voter base and rather it matters if the Republican leadership thinks it could matter to a significant enough portion of their base that they should avoid a shutdown.
Also, I find the rest of your comment to be quite insightful. I do think most of the Republican leadership are still all in on Trump, however I wouldn’t be surprised if there some back up plans in the works.
I vote for this!
This is exactly it. Shutdowns are not popular, if they shutdown the gov before the election it is going to cost them significant votes. They are already worried about the impact of Trump on down ballot candidates, a shutdown will almost certainly cost them seats. This is MTG expressing her panic because she realizes how stupid the GOP is behaving with an election about to happen.
What surprises me the most is that out of all the Republicans, it’s her that realizes how stupid this is.
Of course she does.
She’s terrified that if the Dems take the House back, she’ll lose her committee seats again. Like all small-government advocates, she wants power.
Ah, thank you. Considering what a shithole “safe”-ly red district she represents, I didn’t think she had any particular reason to care even with vote losses from a shutdown.
She was told to do this. There is no realization.
It makes logical sense for a person to draw this conclusion, but MTG is famously an idiot, so that’s what’s baffling. What convinced her to change her tune?
The checks stopped clearing?
The Earth exploding and everyone waking up in a new timeline, having absorbed our prime selves, is somehow more likely now than it was 5 years ago.
Have we been absolved of Harambe?
I mean yeah that’s sound political strategy, but you’re telling me MTG woke up and possessed the self reflection necessary to realize that?
I think it’s more believable that we all died.
Can confirm, am dead.
Me too lol
Mitch McConnell made a statement of how stupid and damaging a shutdown would be for them. I would bet she is just listening to the wise turtle.
Basically this - conservatives are great at understanding problems, once the problems affect them personally
Tell that to the MAGA working class
Clarification : it has to impinge directly on their ego.
I SAW IT ON THE TV!
I must have slept through it.
It appears you CAN spell Jesus without “us”.
Or she’s jealous that someone else is fucking Trump so she’s causing problems.
No way she is involved in the Russian election interference case and is trying to pull a tim pool
BBBB Broke ranks? Unbelievable
Uh has anyone done a brain slug check recently?
Yeah, hers must have starved.
Sometimes when the slug wiggles a certain way it causes a normal thought to drip out.
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).”
Prologue or Act III?
Wow. He really nailed it in a very simple way. Nice job.
Jeff Jackson is amazing. He’s not my representative, but he’s running for state wide office(Attorney General, N.C.) this year. Don’t be surprised if you see more of him.
He’ll have my vote.
He was my representative, but because of these videos he gerrymandered out of his district.
Well, it’s NC, that’s what happens. If we had fair districts, we’d be blue.
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.
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
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.
Is this a video?
It’s a link to a video if that’s what you mean
Weird must be the app because I just see a picture with a play button it that does nothing
I see that too except there’s also a functional link below the picture. I did still open the picture twice before trying the link though haha
Now is the time Dems must insist on border security bill and negating presidential immunity as a must for passing the budget
Selfish snake switches sides when her own side starts to lose pressure. Nothing strange here
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.
Either there’s writing on a wall or she got hit by a brontosaurus bone and thinks she’s a functioning Congressional member…
