The far-right congresswoman has increasingly broken ranks with the MAGA movement, leading even Donald Trump to wonder ‘What’s going on with Marjorie?’

Marjorie Taylor Greene has hit out at her fellow Republicans for “doing nothing” about rising food and healthcare costs in her latest breach with the Trump administration.

In an interview with the conservative broadcaster Real America’s Voice on Tuesday, the Georgia congresswoman warned that letting Joe Biden’s Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of the year would “crush” Americans’ finances.

Those subsidies are now at the heart of a government shutdown that’s lasted 15 days and counting. Senate Democrats are demanding the subsidies be extended as a condition of reopening the government while Republicans are refusing to budge.

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    I like how she’s changing but republicans have always screwed the working class. I guess she’s just figuring out what her party is about. I’m in full support of her calling out both parties for allowing Israel to buy their loyalty with AIPAC money though

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      Idealism, moral compass, the greater good, these things are anchors in modern times.

      She keeps this up maybe I’ll change my tune. Right now all I can say is she’s not an idiot

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    It’s weird how Marj is just now figuring the Republican Party is full of Republicans.

    High cost of living for the non-centimillionaires? Who gives a flying fuck!

    The conservative project is about punching down on liberals, women, POC, LGBTQ, non-xtians, foreigners, and especially the poor. It’s about lifting up the very rich and platforming Nazi assholes like Charlie Kirk.

    None of which is going to do anything about healthcare costs, or cost of living. It’s not intended to.

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      It is nothing new to her. Like many/most politicians, she is an opportunist. She found a way to make it into the house, and now she has other ambitions, she is looking for another way to achieve that.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the russian influenced far right talking point feeds (and indirect but related funding) aren’t influencing this change too.

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      She reminds of the people who are so astronomically stupid they actually believe that conservative politics will help the average person. Her entire ideology is falling apart in front of her eyes and, too her very likited credit, she’s standing up for the people she represents.

      If only she wasn’t a massive piece of garbage in countless other ways and so utterly stupid I’m amazed her last braincell can even fire in semi regular intervals with burning up like a 20 year old CPU being asked to run some unoptimized AAA junk at 4k.

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      The Overton window has shifted so far right that MTG seems like a bleeding heart liberal in comparison to the rest of the Republican Party.

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        If you only take into context the things that we agree on over the past month or so, her opinions on those topics are bleeding heart liberal. I wouldn’t say the Overton window has shifted so much as I would say she’s presenting a persona to save her bacon and trying to not get voted out next election.

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      This is the really loud rat that slept in the wall right next to your head and pissed you off every night!

      Now the ship is on fire. That loud, annoying rat is loudly abandoning ship. She may act dumb, but she’s making some smart decisions (for her own preservation) right now.

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        I think her being the “smart” one should tell us something about the rest of the Republicans. She’s not the smart one. The rest of them are confident in the fascists ability to hold power through state violence. She appears smart because she’s reacting to the unfavorable view most people have of the administration (while remaining loyal to Trump and never calling him out by name).

        She’s not being fed talking points now; so she actually is just defaulting to a somewhat reasonable position from shit she sees as popular.

        She’s not a part of the main leadership and she has only ever made a name for herself by being “more radical”. Well, the Democrats are limp dicks and the Republicans are rounding up people and putting them in labor camps. The only move she has is to literally just say reasonable shit to remain relevant.

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      She recently was on Tim Dillon podcast and my impression of the situation: She’s a duplicitous lip-server. Shes delusional enough to rationalize the impending healthcare disaster the dems point to as actually “lapses in Obamacare”, not at all because the BBB bill just passed by her party. Also, she is just protesting with dems where convenient because she is capitalizing on some popularity internal to MAGA. It’s easy to hold her party leaders to account and follow through on promises if that means getting some leverage later on.

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        That and I bet she’s gonna run for president later. She’s banking on maga failing and wants a long history of “rational thinking”

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          Blonde haired white ultra-consertvative woman that the right will be able to claim “FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT! And all you dissenters are sexist!”

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                If you’re referring to Elizabeth II, she wasn’t the queen of England, she was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (along with being the monarch of several other independent kingdoms.) The “Queen of England” title hasn’t been used to refer to the well-known British monarch since the early 18th century, which means that the GP poster must descend from a secret royal line that’s been operating in the shadows, waiting for the correct moment to reveal themselves to the world.

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    Watch this all be part of the plan. She’ll be the savior that comes and “rescues” the right. The good cop in the game. Raping everybody all the same in the end.

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      I don’t get it? How would that benefit “the right”? Why would they want to go through all that only to be embarrassed and broken by one of their own that has been vocally breaking with them on several other key issues.

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    Her words are hardly “breaking with the Trump administration” if you read the article. At least that’s how I’m looking at it. She’s saying why aren’t we Republicaning harder.

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      Nah… she wants a future political career outside the house, but apparently the crazy laser woman game only works in her current district of burn-the-world-down rednecks…

      Now that she helped set the world on fire and the polls are in, she’ll change tack like an everyday boring sleazy politician.

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    The headline gets it wrong. She’s not breaking ranks with MAGA. She’s beginning to lead it.

    She’s breaking ranks with Trump.

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      She’s breaking ranks with Trump.

      “The House is not in session, which I think is inexcusable. Mike Johnson should be calling us back. Because we should be working, not only on our appropriations but building an offramp off of Obamacare for the American people… and passing president Trump’s agenda and executive orders.”

      Can’t help but feel like she’s not so much breaking ranks with Trump - but instead she has said one or two things that the media has spun up to make it sound that way for clickbait headlines.

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    I mean… she voted for the healthcare subsidies to expire by voting for the Big Bullshit Bill.

    I feel like she’s just playing the usual games here. She could have not voted for the BBB. The Democrats are simply trying to roll back changes that were made in the BBB.

    So, was she just an idiot who didn’t read the bill (possible) or just playing the rotating villain (more probable imho).

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      She’s a nat fly. She just goes from one thing to an other. The BBB is in the past, she’s seen something else shiny.

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      I think I kind of believe her when she said she cares now because her adult children’s premiums will be doubling.

      And I have an even easier time believing that she didn’t know that was going to happen until after she voted for the bill.

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    She’s right BUT it doesn’t negate the fact that she should have known (or did know but ignored the fact) that Trump wouldn’t do a single thing for the American people. He was only ever going to be about fleecing them for as much as he, his family, and his cronies can manage to take.

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      She did know, but at the time, if you didn’t support his fat ass you were done. Now that MAGA is feeling the pain and turning, so is she.

      She will only do what benefits her. Nothing else.

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    This is a vile woman who will stab anyone in the back if given the chance. She is, however, consistent. She is anti war/nation building and anti Pedophile She just gets her strings tugged by a different pet billionaire. One that is allowing her to go off cuff more. She would get many centrists vote if she took the Trump crime ring down.