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.
When you are an elected official, you have a duty to remain in office barring a major life change such as illness. People campaigned for you and voted for you. If your workplace becomes hostile, you must suck it up buttercup. MTG is a snowflake.
Wow, the left falls in love with Dick Cheney and MTG in a single week
Who’s next? Steve Bannon?
As MountainMan said, MTG wanted to run for GA Senate seat, which would have been a sure loss of a winnable seat, so she's the selfish one, not Trump, who was just engaging in the normal sort of discipline that any political party leader anywhere would do in such a situation.
Why does everyone dial up the stupid is it a prerequisite
She did some good things for the j6ers she went down the rabbit trail on israel
The dems and the uniparty protect their eccentrics (stark raving loonies) like plaskett from accountability add gaseous lesuo swallwell
Go huddle up with the Democrats like sheep in a fold, Cheney's funeral was just a vision of the future of American politics. But this whole affair is looking like that scene in Star Wars where Lucas went back and changed who fired the first shot, which I seem to recall, was Trump.
"Oh let's all scurry back to the 'safety' of the disastrous policies of endless war that we have followed, Democrat or Republican, since 1992."
They havent fixed the fulton county mail drop in fact the possums seem to have started up the witchhunt again in earnest
How does anybody stand to live in the shithole of political life? It’s a nightmare of constant vicious accusation and character assassination, particularly in the social media age.
No its more like appalachin the mobs last roundup
Bret has the most foolish take
Basing your takes on a myth is a hard way to deal with life, Jaq. Trump did not “read her out of the party” and if you think his “withdraw my support” statement is the pivotal event then consider what she said last week. In a private meeting earlier this year she asked for his endorsement in a run for Governor of GA. He showed her the polls reflecting little chance for her to win the expected matchup.
That meeting according to Greene was the point she went anti-MAGA and simultaneously started promoting the stupid “MAGA is imploding over Epstein” idiocy. Then after voting for the CR in the House started appearing with Hakeem and congressional Democrats at every shutdown theatre press conference.
Finally this week after ignoring her 5-month temper tantrum did Trump say he wouldn’t support her reelection. She’s still in the party. Still representing GA until January, unfortunately. She can have a long career bashing ex-colleagues like the other fake-cons in Media and bulwarkian orbits. It’s a good gig for people with negotiable scruples.
In matters of crazy people you just have to put up with them until they resolve. There was nothing that was going to make MTG happy. Sadly it was her job to make her constituents happy. She did not seem to make that a priority.
That was some foolishness on her part, but she could have survived it if she had dialed down the eccentricities
Of course because the Dems stole two dozen seats through the census we are in this predicament
---- This is another one of the "certain topics" I was talking about yesterday
Could it be because it's the same bologna served up by the same old baloneyheads?
MTG's district is, per Wikipedia, the most reliably Republican District in GA.
"Located in Northwest Georgia, it was created following the 2010 census, when the state gained a 14th seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+19, it is the most Republican congressional district in Georgia.[3]"
Since at least 2008, every statewide Republican candidate has garnered 68-72%. MTG's predecessor regularly won 75% or more; notably MTG won 75% when she first ran in 2020 but was down to 64% in 2024. They could run George Conway as a Republican and he'd win (I hope they don't).
I don't think anybody is thinking that the Republicans are going to lose the district. A Dem has as much chance of winning as Sliwa had in NYC.
I can be convinced my take is wrong. Simply show me how she goes from MAGA support to agreeing with the clown who dissed her “bleach blonde bad butch body” that Trump is a fascist stooge of the Joooos?
Go ahead and call me a fascist. I've heard worse. You can just say it. It's easier.
Didn’t Trump use the term “despot,” not fascist? Seems like Trump prefers the unitary style of governance terms like despot, autocrat and dictator over the ideological connotations of fascist.
I mean, as Dirty Harry intoned, “man’s got to know his limitations.”
Except everyone knows Republicans only vote in force in Presidential election years. “Reliably R” seats go down in special elections all the time in lots of places.
Mark said...
Why are Trump supporters supporting his working with Mamdani? It’s like they have no principles at all…
There are some Democrat voters who have good intentions. Not many, but some. We have no problem working with people who have good intentions.
The bulwinkles take is amusing
They need to write better scripts
Jaq said...
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.
Trump is trying to lead a bag of cats.
It isn't just that the Republican political tent includes views that are oppositional. It is that only the most self interested and greedy people of either side run for office.
MTG was right about the Epstein files.
MTG also thought she was more important than she is.
MTG also thought that being right about one thing made you right about all things. She is trying to hand a congressional seat to Democrats right now.
There is always a bigger picture.
They're both practical men who want what's good for New York City.
One of them is, anyway. As I’ve written before, communism is not practical, and neither are communists.
The Times is perhaps the most ridiculous take except for the bulwinkle
..."She could at least have served out her term and kept her mouth shut. Instead she had her little tantrum...."
That was pretty much my take on it, too. A Public Servant would have just finished her term on behalf of her constituents and then got on with her life. I always kind of thought that MTG was a good example of a fairly normal person that got chewed up by Washington DC and went a little crazy, became erratic. I think Trump told her privately about the bad polling for the Senator / Governor race, and she took it as a personal affront and went on the attack. I wonder what her post-election ex-husband is thinking right now.
This comeuppance to all of you idiots who fell under the spell of these grifters is just too enjoyable. How could you ignore that Trump was a big phony, crazy blowhard whose only interest was himself and taking over the Republican party and turning it into his own personality cult? It was all so obvious!
It is going to be a long three years of King Donald falling even more into madness. I predict it will be Republicans who will try to orchestrate his third impeachment, so they can start rebuilding the party ahead of 2028.
This was all so predictable.
I didn’t pay much attention to her though the quit and the timing smells more like the result inside ball pushing her out…
I was shocked by this. I think MTG has vastly underestimated how much she had Trump by the balls. And yet paradoxically overestimated her own personal appeal. Resigning means she lets Trump win, and becomes nobody. She could have been an agent for turning Trump back on course, and now he is going to double down on some of his more stupid policies. Not cool.
She chose poorly
"They're both practical men who want what's good for New York City." What makes you think Mamdani is a "practical man"? His major? His job experience? His plans? His rhetoric? His allies and comrades? Or just the vibe that he can't possibly mean the antisemitic postcolonial socialism he spouts?
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