Why is a president who pledged to put “America first” handing a $40 billion bailout to Argentina while quadrupling Argentine beef imports to undercut the price of beef produced by U.S. ranchers at the same time his tariffs have destroyed U.S. soybean sales to China, thereby enabling Argentine soybean farmers to sell to China instead?
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has absolutely no clue.
The Georgia Republican continued her surprising tour of pushback against Republican nonsense with an appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show Wednesday, where she called the bailout “one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen.”
She has a very specific ideology, and the bailout disagrees with it. She’s an awful human being and I hate all the things she says and does, but at least she’s somewhat consistent about her stance?
The upsetting side of this is that it means MTG actually believes in things beyond her own self enrichment, which is a good quality, and means I have to begrudgingly give her a modicum of respect for it because it makes her vastly more human than most of the rest of the ghouls in the GOP/MAGA
To keep in mind that another true believer is RFK Jr. While a true believer in some ways can be less vile, they still can be even more dangerous than the ones running a con.
A conman is a better conman when they believe their own schtick.
I think it is far more likely that Trump has been pissing off Russia, and that’s why all his puppets in congress have all of a sudden started talking about what a bad idea Trump is, and the Epstein files. She doesn’t give a shit about things as far as I can tell.
I would recommend giving her credit for a few good talking points. Hold off on the respect, though. I doubt she’s come that far.
I’m not convinced. If her kids weren’t facing higher health care costs she probably wouldn’t care about it. Republicans have time and again shown that they’re incapable of supporting issues that don’t directly affect them. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a farmer that she knows personally who’s been affected by diarrhea don’s policies.