We have definitely been transported to an alternate universe
Really wild to see MTG appear to be on the correct side twice in a week. I wonder what the goal of the party is aside from distancing themselves from a losing candidate.
I think she woke up and realized a government shutdown right before an election caused by ineffectual republican leadership might hurt them in the down-ballot. Or we woke up Sunday on the next timeline because the earth exploded, and everyone died Saturday night. It’s been a crazy week and it’s only Tuesday.
Edit: looks like a shutdown before the election due to ineffectual republican leadership is back on the menu boys.
I think this is absolutely the correct interpretation of this. Shutting down the government because repubs don’t want to play ball weeks before an election is only likely to hurt their chances.
Yeah but they do this every election year, and their supporters never care
They don’t until their social security checks stop flowing.
I think you’re putting far to much faith in people willing to vote ®, their base would vote for them even as their families are sent to labor and death camps, while undecided and ‘independent’ voters will cast their ballot entirely on the last headline or 72 hours.
To me this reeks of Greene and other Magots realizing their wing of the party is imploding and will have to find a place in what ever GOP comes out the otherside of this election and the next midterm. Trump’s decline makes it pretty obvious they need someone else’s coattails to grab onto and rally around, so she’s trying to be the loudest voice in the room to be part of the new power structure if not the face of it.
It matters very little if I or any of us have faith in the republican voter base and rather it matters if the Republican leadership thinks it could matter to a significant enough portion of their base that they should avoid a shutdown.
Also, I find the rest of your comment to be quite insightful. I do think most of the Republican leadership are still all in on Trump, however I wouldn’t be surprised if there some back up plans in the works.
This is exactly it. Shutdowns are not popular, if they shutdown the gov before the election it is going to cost them significant votes. They are already worried about the impact of Trump on down ballot candidates, a shutdown will almost certainly cost them seats. This is MTG expressing her panic because she realizes how stupid the GOP is behaving with an election about to happen.
What surprises me the most is that out of all the Republicans, it’s her that realizes how stupid this is.
Of course she does.
She’s terrified that if the Dems take the House back, she’ll lose her committee seats again. Like all small-government advocates, she wants power.
Ah, thank you. Considering what a shithole “safe”-ly red district she represents, I didn’t think she had any particular reason to care even with vote losses from a shutdown.
It makes logical sense for a person to draw this conclusion, but MTG is famously an idiot, so that’s what’s baffling. What convinced her to change her tune?
The checks stopped clearing?
I vote for this!
I SAW IT ON THE TV!
I must have slept through it.
It appears you CAN spell Jesus without “us”.
Putin said he wants Harris to win, she took that literally 😂
haha. beautiful
Putin consistently underestimates women. He was happy Hillary was secretary of state until she gave vocal support to the Ukrainian Revolutions in 2014 that ousted his puppet. He assumed CIA was pulling her strings or operating through her so tried to burn that bridge. Trump was a resounding failure at implementing long term policies to benefit Russia, so now he’s banking on Harris being passive in foreign policy.
Is she trying to distance herself from the maga side of the party after seeing the polls predicting a big defeat this election?
Very strange to see.
My spitball theory is that she sees this new Loomer person coming to eat her lunch as token crazy maga lady, so she’s trying to get off her sinking ship.
Loomer is Trump’s side piece
Priority #1 is always to remain elected so that you can stay “on the take”.
She doesn’t want to miss a paycheck.
MTG hasn’t suddenly grown a ethocortical gland. She’s getting polling numbers that scare her, and she wants to win reelection. Georgia is turning purple for a variety of reasons, and a government shut down would be bad for her campaign.
I haven’t seen polling specifically for her district but, while Georgia is very purple (and has been since like 2014), her district is gerrymandered to hell and back to not be anything other than red. I think I saw that it’s one of the deepest red districts in the country.
Deep red refers to voter registrations. It’s generally a very good indicator which was they will go, but this election is anything but politics as usual.
I’m not privy to her internal polling, but I’ll bet she saw numbers than people in her district are concerned about Trump, see a lack of leadership in the GOP, and are considering staying home rather than show up for her. Angry people show up to vote, and if enough people say they are going to vote Trump out, then she doesn’t want to be on his boat when it happens.
Another possibility is that she’s testing the waters for a Senate or Governor run in 2026. She doesn’t need to move towards the center if she can bash people to her right. It makes her look reasonable and conciliatory without actually being either one.
Either way, she’s not doing this because of principles. She’s doing it for personal benefit, because she’s a conservative.
I’m sorry but, as a Georgian, I’m pretty sure she has a 0% chance of either losing her district or getting elected to statewide office, no matter what she does.
Fair, I don’t know much about Georgia.
Prologue or Act III?
Wow. He really nailed it in a very simple way. Nice job.
Jeff Jackson is amazing. He’s not my representative, but he’s running for state wide office(Attorney General, N.C.) this year. Don’t be surprised if you see more of him.
Seems like we’ve reached the point where most voters realize that virtually all government shutdowns have been the Republicans’ fault.
It’s probably because preceding each shutdown they loudly proclaim that they will shut down the government and blame the dems… and then they do…
wtf did i just read???
She’s up for reelection? That’s the only way I can see her actually going counter to her bullshit antics.
not sure if that first question was genuine or if you are an american eligible to vote, but yes, every single member of the united states House of Representatives has to be re-elected every two years and very few people seem to realize that. meanwhile Jill Stein is running for president becuase she’s a complete asshole and russian operative.
Uh has anyone done a brain slug check recently?
Sometimes when the slug wiggles a certain way it causes a normal thought to drip out.
Yeah, hers must have starved.
The GOP has used the threat of a government shutdown many times to hold this country hostage. And when it comes to remembering who’s at fault for it, most of the U.S. electorate has the memory of a crack-addled ferret. But if you have a government shutdown THIS close to an election, some of them just might remember who caused it.
Either there’s writing on a wall or she got hit by a brontosaurus bone and thinks she’s a functioning Congressional member…
Never give them what they want in exchange for them doing the bare minimum. The Dems just need to send flyers to government workers whose representatives got them furloughed.
What.
The.
Fuck?!
Someone else in the thread posted this which nails it: https://lemmy.world/comment/12412369
No, that part I get.
It’s the worst person you know having a rational argument.
That’s just throwing me, I just can’t wrap my head around it.
Now is the time Dems must insist on border security bill and negating presidential immunity as a must for passing the budget
Is she trying to break out?
Probably realizing she won’t get elected, and trying to seem reasonable to voters 🤣
Now we’ll really be in an alternate universe if this makes her either flip to dem or just quit altogether
Something smells fucky. She’s in a gerrymandered district so re-election isn’t a concerned. Presumably Trump is in too much of a froth to realize this might be a political mistake and would love the theatrically of it. It will fire up the base and keep immigration central in the election discourse.
I don’t quite get it. But my speculation is that this is an early volley and positioning to try to get rid of Johnson soon by 1) calling him out and making him look weak, 2) forcing him to capitulate to the democrats “just like she said he would,” and 3) or he doesn’t work with the dems, and then she’s tied him more concretely to the government shutdown. Following this, I assume the crazy crew will start undermining him in the media, and then they’ll eventually vote to try to get him removed and install one of the crazy crew.
She is absolutely too rabid to be doing this for civic-minded reasons, so something has to be going on.
She is playing a post-Trump game and knows a looming power vacuum when she sees one.
Gerrymandered districts are more in danger not less. Gerrymandering is about spreading out areas which are easy wins, and instead spreading those votes over multiple districts.
You gain more seats, but you make every race closer.
She won her seat last election with almost 70% of the vote.
BBBB Broke ranks? Unbelievable
OK, I’m selling everything and moving to a cave in the mountains, because if MTG is going to act sane for 5 minutes in a row, then some serious shit is coming down
