I was really surprised to hear this news, since I figured she was angling for a presidential run later on, with her recent stands against THE LYIN' KING. Now I don't know what she's thinking. So I'm curious what the other members think.. I'm assuming she thought she would lose the primary, against a THE LYIN' KING backed challenger.. I was really hoping she would read the whole client list from the Epstein survivors, on the floor of the US House, as she said she would do, before she leaves congress. But now I really doubt she will do it before she leaves. Which is a pity, because that is the one forum where it would be immune from any lawsuits for defamation, since congress is exempted from that during floor speeches..

Wow I stopped watching the news for 2 hours and MTG resigns. That makes no sense at all. What did the Lyin King do this time, bribery or sick threats. He really does have a way with women. I was just starting to not hate her. This makes no sense because she had to know disagreeing with him was going to make him angry. I think saying she would read the names was a very dangerous thing to say out loud. She should have kept it quiet.

I disagree. I was glad when she said it out loud, tho in retrospect, it now looks like she said it in order to pressure for the release of the files, who knows? Either way, I was hoping she would go ahead and do it on the House floor, but now it seems likely that she will not do it before she leaves, and even if she did try it, Johnson would find some way to block her from doing it. Which is what I expected would happen, after she announced that she was going to do it, that Johnson would never allow it. So it may have just been an empty threat to pressure for the files release.. We'll probably never find out the real story behind her decision..

just because someone is nutty, it doesn't mean that we can't trust the emotions they're presenting. We know she's never liked Democrats. She's been saying she doesn't like some of the things going on in her Party, especially the Epstein coverup. And she expressed how she felt about the prez attacking her and the threats she received. So, resigning makes sense. She may have had bigger aspirations, but i don't think she has them now. She'll probably miss the spotlight. If the king goes down in disgrace -- she might take the opportunity to resurface as someone who got it right. But if he goes down because of political pressure his voters will see her as someone to blame.

it probably would have been better for the left if she stayed as a cog in the works

even before he took office, the trend has been to resign if you oppose him. that's not helpful.

I agree, resigning because of someone you oppose, might be better for your own life and welfare, but it does nothing to stop the 🧻hole you oppose. If anything, it gives them a win, and makes them look and feel stronger... To me, the congress critters who start finally opposing THE LYIN' KING before they resign, are not profiles in courage, rather they are cowards. I have more respect for a Liz Cheney, who stand and fight, all the way to being defeated at the polls, compared to those who virtue signal thru resigning, rather than staying on and fighting, down to the last election they face..

It's my belief that MTG looked at the polls and decided she was on the wrong side of the Epstein fallout. How soon we forget her rants and antics against the left. Her current behavior is just cleaning up the image for her next gig.

“She’s carefully timing her departure just 1–2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office.”

“She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she’s STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes!”

- AOC

The part about her congressional pension doesn't surprise me one bit.

I believe she has a plan, I’m just not sure what it is just yet, but her whole rebranding tour has something behind it. I don’t trust that the leopard has changed her spots!

16 hours ago, BobDylan said:

I was really surprised to hear this news, since I figured she was angling for a presidential run later on, with her recent stands against THE LYIN' KING. Now I don't know what she's thinking. So I'm curious what the other members think.. I'm assuming she thought she would lose the primary, against a THE LYIN' KING backed challenger.. I was really hoping she would read the whole client list from the Epstein survivors, on the floor of the US House, as she said she would do, before she leaves congress. But now I really doubt she will do it before she leaves. Which is a pity, because that is the one forum where it would be immune from any lawsuits for defamation, since congress is exempted from that during floor speeches..

I am suspicious of MTG’s motives. At first I felt she feared for her life with all the death threats but now thinking she resigned for selfish motives (money) after reading AOC’s comments.

I'm with you, always follow the money, as they say, when you're looking for people's motives and agenda in politics. Very few congress critters are in DC to actually serve the public and do some good, the rest are there merely for the power, the privilege, and most of all, the money... BTW, I love your username, as I too am very happily retired, wish I'd been able to even sooner..

Yes, words I never, ever thought I would say this past month, "I'm actually beginning to like MTG" - coming out in defense of the women used by Epstein; calling out both parties for name-calling, etc. Then to see her suddenly pivot and resign? Finally, a "strong" MAGA person pushing back, then she resigns. WTF for sure...

But there's hope - Newsom continuing to troll the Orange Blob, standing up to the Bully with his own rhetoric. When Michele Obama said, "When they go low, we go high", it was a catchy line, but not realistic. The only way to stop a bully is to have some healthy boundaries and push-back, as the 5 Democrats just did re: reminding the troops not to follow through on orders that are unconstitutional.

The only way to stop a bully, or a Nazi, is to punch them in the face. Period.. So far, that's the diff between here and reddit.com, where I would get banned for saying that...

there is a 2nd, logical, scientifically proven way to stop a bully, just as there is a better way to stop crimes, poverty, health problems, etc.. PREVENTATIVE measures. Deal with the adverse conditions that create bullies, poverty, disease, etc.. Bullying is a mental ill -- an imbalance. Prevention is a longer path, for sure, but "kicking" the can down the road is more of a reaction, than a solution.

a healthy, productive goal for society is to stop producing lyin' kings and M T Greens

Agreed, V3, I'm a socialist and for all that you said. The problem is, what to do with bullies and Nazis once they are already formed? Asking them nicely to behave differently accomplishes nothing, and is simply laughable. The only thing that works at that point is force and punishment, and making them too scared to continue doing what they've been doing, if not incapacitating them. So far, the Dems mostly seem to have been sticking to wringing their hands, asking nicely, and writing sternly worded letters. No wonder most people see them as a joke, and weaklings... Kicking the can down the road, has been the policy of both neoliberal major parties in America, leaving the working class behind, abandoning them and the poor, and no wonder the justified anger, resentment, and grievances of the working class were allowed to boil over, until they were easy prey for a con man like THE LYIN' KING. So here we are...

yes, BD, to be clear, punishment, or my favorite word -- JUSTICE must be applied when someone acts out on their emotional imbalance to the detriment of others. I will not be satisfied until this human defect and his accomplices are behind bars -- and unlike Gis Maxwell, with not a single puppy and only a few squares of toilet paper among the lot of them!

“I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it...If you fell for those headlines, you’re still being lulled everyday into psychosis by the Political Industrial Complex” - MTG

Well whatever she is doing, she cashed in on the insider trading going on with this administration.

Her, as well as Nancy Pelosi and other Dems in congress. Both parties these days are corrupt as hell, and cash in with insider trading, from their inside info they have about upcoming govt. policies, from the info that only congressional committee members have access to..

The news was sure becoming interesting regarding MTG. It started with her support of releasing the Epstein files then added her thoughts on the health care debacle. I saw an interview where she was asked if Grijalva should be sworn in (when the gutless speaker was blocking it). MTG didn't hesitate to say she should be sworn in immediately. So many Democrats were like "What is going on? I'm agreeing with MTG?"

She could have had her moment of courage and become a Liz Cheney. She proclaimed she wouldn't be a "battered wife" to Donald THE LYIN' KING. But instead she let him win. I will never be a fan of hers but for some odd reason, I feel as if she could have made a difference if she stayed through the rest of her term.

MS NOW

Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene still doesn’t understand...

Anthony L. Fisher: The retiring Georgia Republican’s “60 Minutes” interview showed the emptiness of her apology for contributing to “toxic politics.”

In 2023, Rep. Balint submitted a House resolution calling for Greene’s censure noting that she:

“… has repeatedly called for violence against elected representatives and their families”

“… said that the mask mandate in the House of Representatives was akin to Jews being ‘put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany’”

“… tweeted that ‘Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s [sic] forced Jewish people to wear a gold star’’

“… posted a tweet [Sept. 2022] comparing President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler that said ‘Joe Biden is Hitler. #NaziJoe has to go’”

“… said [July 2021] that if she was ‘in charge’ she would ‘kick out every single Chinese in this country that is loyal to the CCP. They would be gone’”

“… tweeted [Nov. 2022] that an LGBTQ California State Senator was a ‘communist groomer’”

“… posted that Muslim-American Congresspeople were not ‘really official’ because they didn’t take the oath of office on the Bible” and referred to them as the ‘Jihad Squad’”

“… said [Dec. 2022] that if she had organized the January 6 attack on the Capitol, ‘we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed’”

“… displayed graphic pornographic images during an official committee hearing [July 2023] that she claimed depicted a member of President Biden’s family”

additionally, after the bloody ear incident, she said:

“We are in a battle between GOOD and EVIL. The Democrats are the party of pedophiles, murdering the innocent unborn, violence, and bloody, meaningless, endless wars. They want to lock up their political opponents, and terrorize innocent Americans who would tell the truth about it. The Democrat party is flat out evil, and yesterday they tried to murder President THE LYIN' KING.”

what does all of that tell us?...

i believe MTG's record and recent turn demonstrates, not that she is insincere or conniving, but that she is, like so many MAGAS, emotionally damaged, paranoid, and fearful. To put it another way -- nuts.