from the welcome-to-the-resistance,-space-laser-critic dept
It’s a meme so well-known it has its personal Wikipedia web page. And like loads of memes with this form of pedigree, its origins are humble: simply one other article by The Onion (or reasonably its Clickhole offshoot). You recognize the face and you recognize the phrases:
Heartbreaking: The Worst Particular person You Know Simply Made A Nice Level
To Marjorie Taylor Greene’s credit score, she’s carried out this greater than as soon as. She’s the wild card within the GOP occasion, however not the sort which may result in one other win. She’s the opposite sort of wild card: the unknown and unpredictable issue that sometimes delivers debacles and flame outs, reasonably than the straightforward, uncomplicated heist of democracy her occasion is actively engaged in.
So, when MTG goes rogue, it means one thing. However it presumably means lower than if a staid backbencher all of the sudden stood up and declared Trump improper about something. That mentioned, we’ll take what we will get when the takings are so meager and restricted in amount.
Right here’s Taylor Greene saying what everybody is aware of, however nobody else in her occasion will say:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is constant to buck GOP congressional management, putting blame on prime Republicans Thursday morning for failing to drag the federal government from its ongoing shutdown.
“I’m not placing the blame on the president,” Greene (R-Ga.) mentioned in an interview on CNN’s “The Scenario Room.” “I’m really placing the blame on the speaker and Chief [John] Thune within the Senate. This shouldn’t be occurring.”
Authorities shutdowns are a GOP specialty beneath Trump. This time round, although, the White Home has expressly politicized the shutdown by way of its official web sites, which is simply one other line this administration feels snug crossing.
The administration is indignant as a result of Democratic legislators received’t log off on each ridiculous factor the Republican occasion is demanding in alternate for a barely-functioning authorities. As well as, it’s clear the GOP doesn’t really need the shutdown ended, what with the administration utilizing it as an excuse to put off or hearth individuals it wasn’t in a position to do away with again when DOGE was nonetheless a going concern.
Marjorie Taylor Greene putting the blame the place it belongs (speaker of the Home Mike Johnson and Senate chief John Thune) undoubtedly bucks the development on the subject of Republican discussions of the continuing shutdown. The GOP has aligned with the administration, which has chosen to publicly blame (once more, by way of official authorities web sites) the Democratic occasion for a disaster the GOP intentionally created to make use of as leverage to push by much more odious laws.
Taylor Greene, in fact, is not any angel. Between her COVID conspiracy theories and her insistence that some form of Jewish-controlled “house laser” prompted California wildfires, Taylor Greene has been nothing however batshit loopy whereas one way or the other sustaining entry to appreciable public energy. Pizzagate, QAnon, substitute principle, and so forth. have all been a part of Greene’s arsenal for years. However this time, she’s really proper. There’s no conspiracy right here. There’s simply the GOP holding the federal government hostage till it will get what it desires.
And now, her super-weird type of native advocacy has turned her into the rogue the GOP can’t management. It’s not simply this current shutdown. It’s an entire lot of issues the GOP would reasonably faux merely didn’t exist, starting with the Epstein information and working proper by the healthcare worth hikes their constituents can be going through if the GOP manages to cross the finances invoice it has proposed:
Greene has continued to be a thorn within the aspect of Republican management in current weeks, splitting from President Donald Trump and the GOP on a string of main matters — calling the struggle in Gaza a “genocide,” campaigning for the discharge of information associated to the Jeffrey Epstein case and pushing for an extension of enhanced Reasonably priced Care Act subsidies.
MTG — nonetheless momentarily — has simply grow to be one among us: individuals who cannot solely see by the GOP’s more and more silly lies, however know that America’s by no means going to be nice once more with these motherfuckers in cost. There could also be hope for Taylor Greene in any case. But when current historical past has something to say about it, the brand new, improved MTG can be simply as unpredictably terrible as she was previous to this temporary return to actuality.
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