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‘I do not work for you’: MTG speaks out on growing rift with Trump’s White House over Epstein files

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MTG speaks out on rift with Trump White House and pushing back on its tactics

‘I’m like, “[Expletive] you,”’ Marjorie Taylor Greene said about receiving threats from White House officials

Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out swinging at the White House over the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.

The rift between the MAGA firebrand and White House deepened after a Trump official apparently told her that her support of bipartisan legislation ordering the release of the so-called Epstein files would be viewed as a “very hostile act.”

Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein. If a discharge petition receives the signature of a majority of members, they can force a vote without the consent of leadership.

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Though I hate having to support MTG, I think we actually should, just for the moment. Strange bed fellows for sure, but just try to keep it together for a minute. If she can pull enough maga away for maga and the GOP to fall to pieces, I think it's a good day for everyone
- Also, she's one of the few in that crowd to stick to her guns and it and not flip to the party narrative.
  Even if she's generally a terrible person, is doing it for shitty reasons, or hasn't done it in the past. It's actually a good thing that it's happening at right now and should be encouraged.
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend, at least for a moment. We even allied with fucking STALIN to fight the Nazis.
  So let's encourage Empty G and Boobert, and the rest of crazier-than-normal wing of MAGA in their revolt. Well-timed remarks like "Are you going to let him say that about you?" should help a lot.
- Remind me who this is again, please?
  
  Marjorie Taylor Green or the guy in the picture?
Idiots fighting idiots. IDIOT FIGHTS!!!
lol.
- Sounds like an idea for an app to me. Something to pass the time on the bus maybe. Bobbleheaded versions of ketamined Elon punching a ripped MTG in a cartoon boxing ring? And they just mash each other with Looney Tunes effects over their heads?
the only time someone criticizing Israel or Epstein is actually antisemetic
Ugh... I hate myself for supporting Jewish Space lazers trash Nazi here.
- We can agree with the contextual sentiment without needing to support the person.
  After all you can have a whole spectrum of opinions on something but to specifics al it boils down to is a binary pro/contra
The Long Knives are sharpening for the Night...
The rats are leaving the sinking ship
- That’s what this feels like. It’s not like these people were standing around smelling diapers for the love of the game. They want the power he wields and eventually they will come take it.
She can do one good thing in her life if she just completely fractures the Republican party.
- Who would join her? She's a island
  
  Not true:
  Greene is one of four Republicans, alongside Reps. Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to have signed on to a discharge petition to force the release of files related to Epstein.
  That's four, and there are undoubtedly others who are too cowardly to speak up, but will switch sides when the numbers start to add up.
  
  She's closer to the great pacific garbage patch, but I get your point
I wonder if MTG is the Republican Party experiencing the 4chan effect: if you build your community around pretending to be batshit insane, you'll eventually attract genuinely batshit insane people who aren't in on the joke. It could be that she doesn't realize most of the elected GOP is just pretending to go along with the right-wing outrage du jour to support their cult, and she's genuinely confused about why they're no longer interested in the epstein affair.
That, or she just sees the writing on the wall and is trying to distance herself from it. Either way, fuck her and the shitbags she made a bed with.
- I've been saying that about the Conservative movement for literally 40 years.
  I started listening to Rush Limbaugh when he first came on the air in the late 80s. His listenership was growing rapidly, easily the biggest media story of the time. My Critical Thinking Skills are too well-honed to succumb to his nonsense, but I listened to caller after caller tell him that they'd never heard anyone that could make politics make sense to them before.
  I knew he was lying about EVERYTHING, and wondered where America would be if he stayed on the air, with that level of success, for the next few generations. I thought that eventually we will have people growing up around the dinner table with Dad (or Mom) ranting about whatever Rush was lying about that day, and then those kids would grow up and raise THEIR kids the same way.
  Eventually we would have a huge segment of the population who have been exposed to the worst bad-faith propaganda possible on an intergenerational basis, especially as the Conservative Propaganda Machine grew and became more experienced and sophisticated.
  Rush Limbaugh, and the propagandists of his time knew they were lying, but their followers didn't. They grew up believing the bullshit, and raised their children on the same bullshit. Now we have a large portion of America who actually live in an alternative reality, created by the Conservative Propaganda Machine, even though 2/3 of America, and the entire rest of the world, live in reality.
  It's bad enough that these people see America through these treasonous glasses, but now we have people running. For office, and winning, who were raised and politically educated exclusively by the Conservative Propaganda Machine. Gullible, delusional people are actually running America, based their decisions and policies on the bad faith propaganda that Russia has been steadily feeding to the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which then regurgitated to America.
  IF we ever get out of this, it will be crucial to somehow reconcile the 1st Amendment and Freedom of Speech with highly-organized bad-faith propaganda, designed to literally destroy our nation.
  Do we really have to tolerate such an abuse of our Constitution? If the answer is Yes, then we, as a nation, need to be stronger in resisting those who would would take advantage of our national morality. We have to agree that it isn't a bad thing to harshly slap down those who have treasonous intentions.
- Yea in the 90s proper Republicans knew things like Rush Limbaugh were just to get the rubes riled up, but now the rubes are running the show. Even the president sits around watching Fox News for hours a day.
- MTG the person can go fuck herself. MTG the politician has the opportunity to do something good on behalf of everyone. boy, it'd be great if she stuck to her principles here and refused to compromise. unfortunately, we need resistance from every group opposed to our fascist administration. she ain't welcome to the party but i have to begrudgingly wish her well on this alone.
- Or maybe she is using Epstein as some sort of leverage and has taken it too far by gambling big. Or maybe she thinks she can get the majority of the republican base support behind her if she pushes this hard enough, maybe even eventually dethrone Trump.
  
  Or she’s dumb enough to think this will put her in the running for president after he finally dies.
The Timeline has fractured on a quantum level
- Is there any other kind of timeline fracture?
TFW you realize you're rooting for the worst people you know
- Nobody is rooting for her it's just great that a terrible person is fighting a much worse person
- The worse person you know just make a very valid point.
- They told her all the democrats were pedophiles and she believed it. She still thinks releasing the Epstein files will result in a bloodbath on the left and the arrests of every Democrat congressman ever. She's an idiot.
  If you sat her down and explained to her that this will be bad for Republicans because they are the people in the Epstein files she would never be able to connect those dots. She's not out to get trump, she's still after Obama, Clinton, and Biden.
  
  A useful idiot is still useful, despite being an idiot.
If she doesn't work for Trump and she doesn't work for her constituents, who does she work for?
- Green paper rectangles
  
  The only dinner with candles she gets at home
  
  That's true. She must be pissed with Trump tariffs making her stocks extremely volatile.
Never did I expect to root for this troll
Is it, weirdly, possible that she could be our Aunt Lydia? I mean, it’s the true believers that take cult disillusionment the hardest.
- My hometown is not too far from her district, I’ve known many MTGs, and I’ll tell you they are crazy as fuck and miserable people but part of their mania began with their love for kids and desire to protect them. They are delusional don’t get me wrong. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she stood her ground here and that’s good for everyone
She's now realizing that Mafia are real.

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