The NYT reports: "Her announcement came days after President Trump branded her a “traitor” for breaking with him and helping compel the Justice Department to release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. Ms. Greene, who was elected in 2020 and positioned herself as a die-hard Trump supporter until a series of recent ruptures with the president on a variety of issues, made the abrupt announcement in a video and statement she posted online, filmed from her home in Georgia, her Christmas tree on display behind her."
This is another one of the "certain topics" I was talking about yesterday in "I feel as though unseen readers are leaning on me to write about certain topics that I see out there." Today's news is easy to absorb, and now I don't have to react to what the NYT has been pushing at me for the last few days in things like "The Three G.O.P. Women Who Broke Trump’s Grip on Congress" and "Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Not on Our Bingo Card."In the "Bingo Card" conversation, Frank Bruni said to Bret Stephens, "Bret, steel yourself for a sentence I never expected to write, a preoccupation I never expected to have, words that shock, shake and shame me. I cannot stop wondering if I’ve sold Marjorie Taylor Greene short." And Bret said, "The revolution always winds up eating its own, as Robespierre and Trotsky found out. Trump was the guy who let the lunatics out of the conservative asylum, Greene foremost among them. And now, no surprise, she’s turned on him. The question is whether this turns into a full-scale Republican schism or they find a way to paper over their differences for the time being."
Yes, you see what the theme has been this past week: The Republicans are breaking with Trump. At The Bulwark, there was "Brace Yourself for … Full. Blown. Panic. The president is feeling cornered and lashing out. It will get ugly—and dangerous." Oh, really? Are the walls closing in.
Meanwhile, in the Oval Office, Trump was finding common ground with Zohran Mamdani. They're both practical men who want what's good for New York City. And Trump affably shrugged off all the old insults — Go ahead and call me a fascist. I've heard worse. You can just say it. It's easier.
Greene's grim announcement stepped on Trump's happy times, and we'll see where people choose to go.
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Why are Mandami supporters supporting his working with Trump? It’s like they have no principles at all…
’Brace Yourself for … Full. Blown. Panic.’
The two-minute hate from the Bulwark pussies.
Bulwark is like the economist who successfully predicted 13 of the last 4 recessions.
Why are Trump supporters supporting his working with Mamdani? It’s like they have no principles at all…
It's too early for a Christmas tree.
I can't speak for anyone else but me, but I couldn't give a shit with whom Trump sits down and talks. It's Trump's way of doing his job, buteven after all these years I would not expect a Leftist to get that. It is the Leftists who break out in hives when they think anyone "normalizes" Trump.
Hell, he sat down with Kim Jong Un, why not Mamdani?
MTG has learned from the Cheney's experience that breaking with Trump makes you suddenly beloved by the MSM and beltway crowd, no matter how much they hated you before. For some like her, it's hard to pass up the opportunity for all that attention.
"The walls are closing in!" How many times have we heard this and then it. Never. Happens? Go watch The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) – the crushing wall scene is unforgettable and fits the trope perfectly.
I think that the word they were looking for was "ruction," not "rupture," but I guess expecting quality writing out of people who are chosen for their beliefs foremost is asking a lot.
I will take Greene's side over Trump's any day, and the fact that the spokespeople for the uniparty are celebrating this just weighs in her favor. I think that Trump has abandoned the vision that won him the presidency. Maybe the whole thing is more complicated than Greene understands, but I feel like when Trump read Greene out of the party, he read me out of the party.
Sometimes it’s fun to have a nut on your side for comic relief. Other times you just know that the cringe factor someone induces on her opposition will eventually make her voters cringe too. At least if the nut runs as a Republican. The D’s nuts tend to rise to leadership positions.
If she supports the GOP she would have quit in time for a normal election next year but she wants to hurt her party and resigned in a way that requires a special election and even the retards at The Politico know we rarely win special elections and have lost the last three in GA in spectacular fashion.
Good riddance. Hope no space lasers hit you on the way out.
The first postulate of propaganda is that human beings have an innate need to belong to a group; baboons and chimpanzees live in "troops," after all and it predates our emerging as humans, and is wired incredibly deeply. The engineering aspect of propaganda science consists of preying on the fear of separation from the group, and this is accomplished through narratives.
So basically anybody who questions the wisdom of this course of action or that by "leaders" risks becoming an outcast, well, almost guarantees it.
Why are Trump supporters supporting his working with Mamdani
This is what Trump does- works with opponents, looks for consensus…the art of the deal. Plus this doosh is going to be mayor of Trump’s city and he doesn’t want to it to fall to further ruin.
What’s the explanation for Madmani’s fans?
Trump was the guy who let the lunatics out of the conservative asylum,
So, who let the lunatics out of the "liberal" asylum, gave them the car keys, a full tank of gas, and a map to "liberal" headquarters, the combination to the safe therein, and handy cash bonuses to smooth the way forward?
I saw the name calling thing…Trump was exasperated with the propagandists again. I thought his response was clever…
"Hope no space lasers hit you on the way out."
While I sincerely doubt that "space lasers" were involved in the starting of those wildfires, it has been noted that a string of them started on twenty mile intervals on a certain highway, so the speculation that they were set is not unreasonable.
But sure, Charlie Kirk begins to question Israel's horrific tactics in Gaza, and kablooie! I don't think that Israel had him killed, but you know what? If Israel didn't constantly carry out, and brag about, assassinations on foreign soil, they wouldn't come up as one of the "usual suspects" quite so quickly.
MTG apparently wanted to run for the Senate or for governor and Trump would not support her. He wouldn't give his support because she has absolutely no chance of being elected to either position. I live in GA and I am no fan of hers. She could at least have served out her term and kept her mouth shut. Instead she had her little tantrum and is taking her ball and going home. Her district can do better.
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