Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) unexpectedly called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to work with Democrats to avert a government shutdown.In a statement on Tuesday, Johnson said Republicans should support his plan to include the SAVE Act, legislation making it more difficult to vote, in a bi...

We have definitely been transported to an alternate universe

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    The GOP has held this country hostage many times and 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.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Now is the time Dems must insist on border security bill and negating presidential immunity as a must for passing the budget

    • comador @lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      She’s up for reelection? That’s the only way I can see her actually going counter to her bullshit antics.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

  • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Priority #1 is always to remain elected so that you can stay “on the take”.

        • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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          9 months ago

          I wonder if there’s any way that could be changed by executive action? If the government gets shut down, Congresspersons don’t get paid. Their aides and support staff are essential because they do the real work, but they don’t get paid until they pass a budget…?

    • JesusSon@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        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.

        • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          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.

          • StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            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.

      • djsoren19@yiffit.net
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        9 months ago

        I mean yeah that’s sound political strategy, but you’re telling me MTG woke up and possessed the self reflection necessary to realize that?

        I think it’s more believable that we all died.

      • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        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?

      • ultranaut@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        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.

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            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

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              9 months ago

              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.

      • Trilobite@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        No way she is involved in the Russian election interference case and is trying to pull a tim pool

      • celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        9 months ago

        The Earth exploding and everyone waking up in a new timeline, having absorbed our prime selves, is somehow more likely now than it was 5 years ago.

      • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        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.

    • zcd@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      She might’ve been hit by a stray neutrino or something? Flipped a random bit?

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I genuinely hope this is due to therapy and/or medication. I’m willing to wipe the slate for someone putting in real effort who just needs some sort.

    But should she burn any fucking bridges after this…

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Seems like we’ve reached the point where most voters realize that virtually all government shutdowns have been the Republicans’ fault.

    • BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      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…

  • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    Pretty hopeful news actually.

    MTG is among the most seemingly dedicated to being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit, and yet even she is recognizing that a platform of being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit is no longer serving her.

    Fuck her forever. But I’ll take this specific brand of opportunism as a positive sign.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      No it is happening because it is close to the election. Would be fucking wild to yet again convincingly prove they are incapable of governance while just weeks away. Even this hollering gibbon can see that. Any other time she would be doing the usual racist MAGA bullshit and refusing to cooperate.

    • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      This is the difference between a normal racist and a high functioning racist that knows a failed state can’t effectively oppress the people.

    • Podunk@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Ill be honest, ill take it. But im so confused right now… is this how progress is supposed to happen? Its been so long. I didnt draw the line, they did, and still here we are. At something reasonable?

      Still. I must reiterate, fuck mtg, but… support her this time? Fuck.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I think her deal is being outrageous, and the republican party has been pretty outrageous as of late, meaning she’s nothing special anymore. So, she’s just doing whatever gets attention now.

        Edit: read the article. She’s giving the whole game away. She must be MAD.