Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., announced on Friday that she is resigning from her seat, following weeks of clashing with Donald Trump.
“If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can't even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well,” Greene said in a statement posted to social media.
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ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 130 pts · 271d
When you suddenly realize how disposable you are to the cult if you dispute the word of their deity...
danc4498@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 271d
I’m sure it’s to go make more money being awful elsewhere.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 271d
You thinking Fox or our America news?
danc4498@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 271d
I was thinking consultant for some shit corporation that she helped give tax breaks to while in office.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 270d
Yeah, she has superpac evil energy is spades.
mirshafie@europe.pub · 6 pts · 271d
She'll just go independent on YouTube trying to ride the same wave Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are cruising.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 102 pts · 271d
The suddenness, her “excuse” about not being liked, and feuding with Trump?
I dunno. I smell one of two scenarios:
Edit: if someone was in her position and TRULY cared about the American people, she would fight for them and against Trump’s team. That’s why I think choice 2 is what is really happening.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 37 pts · 271d
#2 is obviously the case, we knew several days ago when Trump's comments about her resulted in a drastic increase in threats.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-death-threats-mtg-assassination-11059578
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/lawmaker-marjorie-taylor-greene-blames-trump-threats-against-her-after-their-2025-11-15/
https://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-mocks-mtg-danger-claims-her-life-danger-who-that-3790676
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 271d
Yes, exactly. The whole spending more time with family line seems like she’s trying to hint at this.
robocall@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 271d
She could be running for president, or getting a job as a pundit somewhere.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 271d
We're still 3 years out from a presidential election. Her current position goes through the end of next year. Leaving a public position in the middle of a term this far out is not a helpful move for a presidential run. She had wanted to run for Senate, but PEDOnald said no
Triumph@fedia.io · 21 pts · 271d
Por que no los dos
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 271d
it could be both, really.
That she's in it for the grift AND is being threatened.
Dragomus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 271d
I have the impression she either realized or was told/shown how the Trump admin plans to stay in power forever, plus all the economic lies, and this disheartened her to a great extent.
On top of that the pushback from trump, and most likely her receiving covert threats to stay out of the way, is what also made her come to this decision.
I am curious if her stepping down will stick in the long run.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 271d
It's number 1.
She's ridden the ride long enough to do speaking engagements and political commentary for as long as she can remain entertaining. Also book deals, but that depends if she can scare up a ghostwriter who's willing to attach their name to her.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 271d
The whole point of ghost writing is the don't need to have the name attached lol
robocall@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 271d
There's more to this story. There is some information we don't know about yet.
spongebue@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 271d
Or she's going to try to run for Senate and wants to lie low for a bit to cool down emotions
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 271d
She’s definitely angling for something bigger, maybe president.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 271d
jesus h that would be a bad timeline
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 2 pts · 271d
Empress of the World would be my guess.
Objection@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 271d
"I have information that will lead to the resignation of Majorie Taylor Greene"
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 271d
Yeah this makes little to no sense right now. Whatever we do t know is much more than whatever we do know.
henchmannumber3@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 271d
Wait til she realizes MAGA was always a grift by elites to get votes and support and they never cared for the "Real Americans™."
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 271d
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 271d
Her quitting makes no sense unless she was secretly visited by Trump related minions whose threats caused her genuine fear.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 271d
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 271d
rayyy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 271d
Wonder if it has anything to do with the Jan6 capital bombing attempt.
Redditsux@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 271d
LOL I think this is MTG playing the game like Trump - this is a tantrum, a threat, like a girlfriend who threatens to break up with you. It gets your attention - that is the true objective of this. She ain't done with politics. She's making a move here.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 271d
She's got that BPD cunning, like a ferret or a raccoon. Dumb as a bag of hammers but with an innate knack for manipulation and scheming nature, willing to shred or set fire to anything in her path to get whatever shiny trinket she wants.
Xero@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 271d
What does 'BPD cunning' mean? Are you referring to bipolar disorder?
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 271d
Sorry, borderline personality disorder
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 27 pts · 271d
This is because DEMOCRATS are so VIOLENT!
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 271d
How are the chances that Trump pissed off enough people in Georgia that a Democrat could take over?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 271d
Georgia's 14th district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index is R+19. That means that if the Republican candidate for President gets 45% nationwide, then the vote is expected to be 64% in that district.
Normally, an R+19 district would be untouchable for Democrats. Probably wouldn't even run a candidate, and if they do, it'd be a strategic move to force the GOP to spend money on what should be a gimme. I met a woman once who ran in a race like that, and it ain't a fun job.
That said, Democrats overperformed in the recent elections to close to that number, so it's not out of reach.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 270d
And then the democrats lost every single shred of support by caving on the shutdown.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 270d
And here we have the bitter core of American politics. We have a party that's overtly pro-ghoul and a party that pretends that be anti-ghoul until it's time to act meaningfully.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 271d
A bit of a performative flounce this. If resigning, resign. Instead she gets to play the martyr role just in time for the religious season.
0ndead@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 271d
Yeah, this smells
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 271d
From elsewhere, I’ve heard she’ll be fully vested in congressional retirement at the exact date she’s resigning.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 271d
2 days before her resignation date she becomes eligible.
2piradians@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 271d
Makes me wonder if the trump reich had saved up some dirt on her prior to the public spat. Get out or we're using this kind of thing.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 271d
Marjorie Taylor Greene Hits Out at Net Worth Claims: ‘Go to Hell’
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 271d
Maybe she's in the Epstein files, needs to be redacted.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 271d
just when she was becoming a stone in Trump's shoes, now she'll be replaced with a loyalist
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 271d
RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 271d
I feel like this is more a subset of the party is asking for her to back out so people will forget hating her as they plan on trying to pass her as Diet Trump, to republican voters as a backup plan in 2029.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 271d
Trump called her big donors and told them to cut her off. They told her she was out. She resigned rather than lose.
leadore@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 271d
One thing I know by now, no one in power in the House or Senate (or SCOTUS, etc) ever willingly relinquishes that power, only leaves by death or threat of death -- there are very very few cases for other reasons and those only by people who have the ability to overcome their ego and see it as the right thing to do, which is not the case here.
A lot of the old-school repubs who were driven out when MAGA took over the GOP, pretended like they chose to not run again for various reasons, but some of them later revealed they feared for their lives. This regime doesn't fuck around, cross the Don(ald) and you're out, try to defy that order and you're told what will happen to you and/or your family if you do.
Gigdragon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 270d
Hopefully they strip her of her pension like she stripped people of their benefits.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 271d
Cult breakups are like skateboard tricks, any one you can walk away from is a good one. I feel like this could have gone a lot worse for her.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 270d
So i guess she wasn't committed to being a better person
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 271d
bomberesque@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
Doing a Sarah Palin?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
Wtf it's Friday can't we get a night off?
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 271d
Good riddance.
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 271d
So...she's not a Republican or a Democrat anymore?
baronvonj@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
Is she ... a secret third thing?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 271d
Nope. That doesn't happen in the US. If you do that you just turn to ash.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
So she's politically nonbinary?