Peter Rothpletz on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s war on MAGA, the knives out for Chuck Schumer, the legal threat to gay marriage, and the soon-to-be skyrocketing price of pasta??
Loved the newsletter thank you for helping me stay informed. Just a small feedback. Let's try not to use mental health terms like manic when trying to describe something as as crazy or cuckoo. It just further adds to the stigmatization of certain mental health disorders. Thanks!
If you want to get a real sense of MTG you should watch her recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.
It is true that at the moment she sounds more sane than the likes of the Republican establishment.
But she's still got some MAGA bona fides:
1) Her declining support for Israel is part of a broader America-first agenda of not sending any money abroad to foreign nations.
2) Even though she criticises Trump favoured policies, she is still praising Trump in public.
3) She wantes Republicans to tackle the healthcare and food insecurity issues during the shutdown BUT she explicitly says that the root cause of high healthcare costs in particular is paying for the healthcare of illegal immigrants (even though they don't qualify for anybody the healthcare programs).
MTG hasn't changed. I think she knows that the gig is up with the release of the Epstein files. That train has left the station and you can't bring it back. She has known what the GOP has been about for a long time. She knows Trump is in the files. She's getting ahead of it to keep her job - bread and circuses for her base. Her choice: loyalty to the leader or loyalty to herself to keep her cushy job? She will always choose herself.
Media and the left are doing to MTG what they did to Donald Trump in 2014-- "Wow! look at that." ...taking up space in our brain and normalizing. Please, not here, too. ... that is unless you're interested in a 2028 presidential contest where MTG and space lasers are front and center. Great for clicks and even for the media's need to feel they're giving everyone a fair break -- very, very bad for democracy, civic life in the town square, our mental health and so so much more. Please stop.
“Given Trump’s historic unpopularity, given the fact he’s done effectively nothing to address inflation or the cost of living crisis or the nigh-existential threat”.
Did you mean that his policies and tariffs has significantly worsened the inflation??
That’s so cool. As part of their big win on the Shutdown the 8 untouchable Dem turncoats, as directed by Schumer, agree to send up to $8mm of our taxpayer dollars to Republican senators as a reward for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow our democratic process in 2020. Plus it’s maybe even better since they are really, no doubt, preparing to collect even more on all the phones that will need to be searched after the 2026 election. Schumer’s a genius for thinking to include that, as part of the big win. Don’t even remember him celebrating those terms as part of his ultimatum to MAGA after he sat down with Jeffries for the Trump 2028 hat photoshoot. The wins are so big he has to keep them secret so we just don’t celebrate too hard.
MTG is what representative democracy can look like - she showed up sure the government was corrupt, believing it was the ‘dems, libs, deep state’ etc. and then got a taste of reality - it’s actually what I’d dared to hope for from trump but he’s too far down the ego driven can be bought path. Send more average Americans to congress who don’t take special interest money and we’ll get more transparent govt whether you agree w their politics or not
Shape shifters are common in folk tales across the world. So MTG may be the latest manifestation of Ms Coyote, a star in the art of shape shifting with a long, long history in North America.
Love this newsletter. Thanks for a fun and informative read!👏
Aww, thank you Kelly!
Thank you Peter! Great read!
Great newsletter! Thanks, Peter!!
Thank you, Lena!!
Thank you for the news of the world, awful as it is. This newsletter is very important.
Thank you, Gayle!!
Loved the newsletter thank you for helping me stay informed. Just a small feedback. Let's try not to use mental health terms like manic when trying to describe something as as crazy or cuckoo. It just further adds to the stigmatization of certain mental health disorders. Thanks!
Look at MTG net worth maybe
it’s about the money
If you want to get a real sense of MTG you should watch her recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.
It is true that at the moment she sounds more sane than the likes of the Republican establishment.
But she's still got some MAGA bona fides:
1) Her declining support for Israel is part of a broader America-first agenda of not sending any money abroad to foreign nations.
2) Even though she criticises Trump favoured policies, she is still praising Trump in public.
3) She wantes Republicans to tackle the healthcare and food insecurity issues during the shutdown BUT she explicitly says that the root cause of high healthcare costs in particular is paying for the healthcare of illegal immigrants (even though they don't qualify for anybody the healthcare programs).
MTG is still an awful person.
MTG hasn't changed. I think she knows that the gig is up with the release of the Epstein files. That train has left the station and you can't bring it back. She has known what the GOP has been about for a long time. She knows Trump is in the files. She's getting ahead of it to keep her job - bread and circuses for her base. Her choice: loyalty to the leader or loyalty to herself to keep her cushy job? She will always choose herself.
Media and the left are doing to MTG what they did to Donald Trump in 2014-- "Wow! look at that." ...taking up space in our brain and normalizing. Please, not here, too. ... that is unless you're interested in a 2028 presidential contest where MTG and space lasers are front and center. Great for clicks and even for the media's need to feel they're giving everyone a fair break -- very, very bad for democracy, civic life in the town square, our mental health and so so much more. Please stop.
“Given Trump’s historic unpopularity, given the fact he’s done effectively nothing to address inflation or the cost of living crisis or the nigh-existential threat”.
Did you mean that his policies and tariffs has significantly worsened the inflation??
That’s so cool. As part of their big win on the Shutdown the 8 untouchable Dem turncoats, as directed by Schumer, agree to send up to $8mm of our taxpayer dollars to Republican senators as a reward for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow our democratic process in 2020. Plus it’s maybe even better since they are really, no doubt, preparing to collect even more on all the phones that will need to be searched after the 2026 election. Schumer’s a genius for thinking to include that, as part of the big win. Don’t even remember him celebrating those terms as part of his ultimatum to MAGA after he sat down with Jeffries for the Trump 2028 hat photoshoot. The wins are so big he has to keep them secret so we just don’t celebrate too hard.
MTG is what representative democracy can look like - she showed up sure the government was corrupt, believing it was the ‘dems, libs, deep state’ etc. and then got a taste of reality - it’s actually what I’d dared to hope for from trump but he’s too far down the ego driven can be bought path. Send more average Americans to congress who don’t take special interest money and we’ll get more transparent govt whether you agree w their politics or not
Shape shifters are common in folk tales across the world. So MTG may be the latest manifestation of Ms Coyote, a star in the art of shape shifting with a long, long history in North America.