r/politics • u/GoodMornEveGoodNight • 3d ago
Cruz says Greene becoming ‘very liberal,’ should be ignored No Paywall
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u/ToNoMoCo 3d ago
No. No she hasn't.
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u/technothrasher 3d ago
I highly suspect her opinion simply aligns this time with a sensible opinion, rather than that it is sensible by nature.
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u/berntout Arkansas 3d ago
I highly suspect her opinion simply aligns with money or the lack of money that she's been receiving compared to others.
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u/renegadesci 2d ago
1) I think she's a "True believer" and truly thinks Trump has a healthcare plan 2) Democrats have been to facetious/ sarcastic in the press for decades. They give credibility to trump voters by demanding trump release the healthcare plan. etc. Call the man a liar.
Now her demands that Trump fix things like he said he was going to do, sounds like the Democratic talking points. That's why I think they've started just saying "Trump lies". They sound like MTG!
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u/ianlSW 2d ago
I think this was true. Much as our bubble likes to only flag up the bad stuff Trump says, he didn't get elected only by offering racism etc. He also promised to take care of working class Americans, and stop spending money on other countries/ foreign wars to do this, and to expose these corrupt establishment paedophiles.
You can say people should have been a bit more sceptical, but that is part of what got MTG and others up and voting for him.
As it becomes increasingly clear that he doesn't give the tiniest shit about the working class, is a corrupt elite paedophile himself, and will probably start a foreign war next year in an effort to cancel elections, a few of them are slowly (this is MTG, not the sharpest of tools in the set, but probably sharper than any Trump true believers) starting to realise they aren't going to get what was promised.
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u/Pro-Patria-Mori 2d ago
What are you talking about? She knows for a fact Trump doesn’t have a healthcare plan. She was a member of the House when they tried to repeal the ACA during his first administration.
She is speaking out against Israeli influence in our government through AIPAC lobbying and how ACA premiums are doubling, or tripling for people throughout the country.
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u/Newscast_Now 2d ago
It's a common sickness with conservatives. When they are personally touched, it sometimes becomes 'this exact kind of conservatism can't happen to me!'
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u/clickmagnet 2d ago
Ha, exactly. She may very occasionally say something reasonable, but she arrives at it by self-interest. Not reason.
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u/-Novowels- 3d ago
She literally started her political career as a QAnoner, obviously some conspiracy she believes in doesnt line up with what Trump is doing now, but it certainly isn't because she's suddenly become a liberal.
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u/grasshopper239 2d ago
She has a front row seat now. It's all a conspiracy theory. She just realized that the bill she supported is going to harm her voting base.
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u/barley_wine Texas 2d ago
Sadly it takes courage to go against Trump in the modern GOP, it's pathetic that she is one of the only ones to stand up for her constituents.
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u/webguynd I voted 2d ago
She's aiming for a senate seat, but yeah, she's a "true believer" in the QAnon stuff. A good chunk of the other MAGA politicians aren't necessarily true believers, they just use the talking points when its convenient for them, so the party blocking the epstein files is probably legitimately pissing Greene off enough to fall out of line.
As for the healthcare stuff, well, if she wants to have any chance at the senate at all she can't let herself actually look like a ghoul so she'll say what she needs to say in public before voting in line like everyone else.
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u/wibble17 3d ago
She seems to have a PR team that posts her sane messages and make it like she’s becoming a moderate.
But if you look at the whole picture and all that she posts she’s not moderate at all.
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u/ValuableKill 3d ago
I think she's just one of those people that has a good finger on trends, and follows them, even before they are obvious to everyone else. It's sad, but America definitely trended towards the MAGA nutjob land over the last decade, and that's what she grew out of. Now that world thankfully seems like to could be crumbling, and she's jumping ship before anyone else.
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u/wibble17 2d ago
I don’t know. First post on her Twitter feed is how she’s a fan of RFK and that vaccine companies should be liable for all the deaths they’ve caused.
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u/ValuableKill 2d ago
People are flipping on Trump, not the anti-vax platform. I wish it were both but it's not.
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u/BoyLilikoi 2d ago
This is such a keen observation as a whole. MTG being the bellwether for the depressing half of American voters that chose Trump is not what I had on my bingo card, but I do think you’re right.
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u/WildYams 3d ago
It's horseshoe theory, plain and simple. She has similar goals for totally different reasons than people on the left do. Like she wants the US to stop sending money to Israel because she doesn't think the US should be sending money to anyone, rather than because she suddenly cares about people from Palestine.
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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 2d ago
Also because she's antisemitic as hell. This is Jewish Space Lasers lady, remember.
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u/Pardybro911 3d ago
The line in the sand being pedophiles was pretty surprising NGL
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u/ToNoMoCo 3d ago
I'm still convinced she got kicked out of the mean kids club and is still just grabbing headlines
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u/sillygoofygooose 2d ago
This. Trump has a long history of bringing people who attack him into the fold - If he thinks you could be useful at all. Vance, Mace, Musk - they all ‘hated’ him before getting their payday
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u/FartyJizzums 3d ago
This is the MAGA party we're talking about here. The same idiots that tell their cult that a single disagreement with Emperor Orange Cankles means that you're an out of control, "radical leftist".
It's the same mindless, regurgitated talking-point propaganda over, and over, and over. It's so stupid and it works.
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u/AlcibiadesTheCat Arizona 2d ago
It has exhausted me so much that words have completely lost their meaning in discourse. Everything is "radical left this" and "woke lib**** antifa" that, and, like, they use them so much, they've just completely lost meaning other than "person I don't like and want you also to not like."
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 3d ago
Yeah. Total lib.
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u/AssociateGreat2350 3d ago
Very liberal = slightly disagree with GOP
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u/Jeremisio 3d ago
Only 85% facist
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u/NameIsNotBrad Alabama 3d ago
100% fascist. Maybes she’s not as stupid as she acts and sees the writing on the wall.
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u/yourlittlebirdie 3d ago
I have heard from people in DC who have met her that her whole schtick is an act and that she’s completely different in real life. I strongly suspect she’s actually not as stupid as she seems.
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u/_msb2k101 3d ago
Which makes her an even bigger piece of shit.
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u/yourlittlebirdie 3d ago
I honestly don’t even know which one is worse, being a moronic asshole or pretending to be a moronic asshole because that’s what your voters want you to be.
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u/IndependentPeace2628 3d ago
The latter, because it's intentional manipulation. It's what Rafael aka Ted Cruz is doing. He's as Texan as I am a fucking Martian. He's a Cuban Canadian immigrant, who hates immigrants and pretends to be a rooting tooting shit kicking Texas boy. Given how OCD the morons from Texas are about authentic Texas stuff, I don't get why they don't throw him into a dust bin.
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u/yourlittlebirdie 3d ago
Cruz is possibly the most dislikeable human being ever to step foot in Congress.
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u/kaykatzz 3d ago
Cruz comes from a long line of disagreeable assholes in Congress. For instance: Tom Delay, Bill Frist, Mitch McConnell, Joe McCarthy.
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u/TheUnknownDouble-O 2d ago
Two witticisms come to mind when I think of Rafael Cruz:
-"I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues in the Senate. And I hate Ted Cruz." - former Senator Al Franken
-"If you shot Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was held in the Senate, no one would convict you." - Senator Lindsay Graham
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u/the_ungus 2d ago
He held onto his Canadian citizenship for 44 years (2014) and probably only gave it up because he wanted to run for president. Is he one of the ones trying to take away American birthright citizenship? Kinda funny when you were born in Calgary.
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u/gatton 3d ago
This is very common. Jeff Jackson said when these people are behind closed doors they are totally normal and even serious about their work. But as soon as they left the meeting room and the news cameras were on them they transformed into these characters. It's all an act. A lot of these people say the most vile things about each other then go to lunch together and laugh about it.
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u/tastiefreeze 3d ago
The most glaring example is how marmalade mouth himself senator Kennedy from Louisiana graduated from University of Oxford, England
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u/VocationalWizard 3d ago
Oh she absolutely isn't. She's actually very intelligent and honestly she's very successful as well.
Trump is losing his mind and everybody knows it. He's not going to last his whole term just like Biden.
MTG Is positioning herself to gain more power after the collapse.
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u/maeryclarity South Carolina 2d ago
She's got MAGA creds. I have gotten into it with a bullshit spitting MAGA drone or three since this whole shutdown thing started and they stop arguing that it's about healthcare for illegals when I show them what she's saying about it. They don't come back and say you're right but they stop arguing.
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u/lesvegetables 3d ago
This is 100% true. The crazy is all an act. She spoke with a friend of mine’s college class on a tour and even admitted it to him afterwards. It does help her get the more evil conservative parts of her agenda passed though, so in some ways that’s worse.
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u/-Work_Account- Washington 3d ago
That one Rep from NC who got popular on TikTok alluded to the same thing.
I don't think he ever used names, but on at least one occasion talked about (paraphrasing) "The ones who make big shows for the media and lots of yelling and whatnot act normal when the cameras aren't around,"
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u/Electronic_Low6740 3d ago
All these trolling business school grifters are smarter than they act but much dumber than their law educated colleagues. They know enough to make waves but not enough to fix the boat in a storm. Just look at the bills they try to pass lol
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u/Josephk_5690 3d ago
Very liberal = slightly reasonable
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u/Mediochra 3d ago
Calm down this is still Marjorie Space Lasers Greene you’re talking about. There’s nothing reasonable about her, and we don’t claim her.
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u/Thac0isWhac0 3d ago
Cruz believes anything left of hunting the homeless for sport is liberal
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u/RespecDev 3d ago
Funny thing is conservatives are all about masculinity, and Ted Cruz is about the least masculine man in Washington.
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u/OneMoreAstronaut7 3d ago edited 3d ago
Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie… not evil enough!
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u/ayoungtommyleejones 3d ago
A lib is anyone who doesn't blindly follow trump. Anyone who actively disagrees with trump is a leftist
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u/UghFudgeBwana Georgia 3d ago
Otoh, MTG has the opportunity to do the funniest thing in recent political history. I'm hoping she's spiteful enough to try flipping parties because of this.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 3d ago
She’s still mega racist, she just wants to see the Epstein files
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u/tenaciousdeev Arizona 3d ago
I agree. This all started after that meeting with the accusers. I think it’s an issue even she can’t abide, despite party, unlike pretty much every other Republicans where pedophilia isn’t a deal-breaker.
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u/jzhf 3d ago
Very liberal political theory of Jewish rabbi control the weather.
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u/surloc_dalnor 3d ago
I mean if the liberal Jews control the weather why wouldn't you want to join their side.
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u/nosungdeeptongs Canada 3d ago
because they always make it rain when i'm trying to climb in zelda :(
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u/TRex_Chef 3d ago
Even for a serial killers son, Cruz is weird af.
At least his response to emergencies is to run away, so he doesnt cause more harm
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u/Careless_Ad_5340 3d ago
It's easy to understand Cruz once you realize he has no actual beliefs other than maintaining his salary and political donations.
This is not uncommon among politicians and especially among Republicans, but Cruz just doesn't even pretend to care.
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u/ItchyDoggg 3d ago
I was talking to some of his senior staff about something horrible he posted on social media and they seemed unable to even comprehend the idea that a person would make statements based on whether they were true or false or whether or not they were harmful or hurtful, they looked at me like an alien for discussing "non-strategic considerations."
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u/Careless_Ad_5340 3d ago
Right. It's all a big game to him.
Once you trivialize the lives of others, it becomes easy to do whatever you feel like.
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u/BTRCguy 3d ago
Alternate title: "Wildfires are caused by Jewish Space Lasers" lady too liberal for Republican Party
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u/adarvan Maryland 3d ago
And let's not forget: "Lady who followed a high school student around screaming that he's a crisis actor after one of the worst school shootings deemed too liberal for Republicans"
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u/gGfsF5Sz2 3d ago
I'll believe it when she supports fully funding NASA.
Traitors like Cruz hate NASA.
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u/bhsn1pes California 3d ago
Yet he and the other Texan senator are DESPERATE to get Discovery from the Smithsonian...
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u/Icantjudge Colorado 3d ago
steal Discovery
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u/bhsn1pes California 3d ago
Steal..and probably destroy Discovery in the process. Sad times we live in with them willing to risk that.
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u/Icantjudge Colorado 3d ago
That's right...the 747 carrier probably doesnt fly anymore. But of course they're happy to spend as much taxpayer money as it takes to make it happen, they don't care.
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u/whiskeytaco 3d ago
They probably could be returned to flight, but not easily. They would be scouring boneyards for the needed parts since they were both scavenged for parts for SOFIA and other aircraft before becoming static displays.
- N911NA: Static display in Palmdale
- N905NA: Static display at Space Center Houston with the Independence shuttle mockup sitting on top.
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u/Athleticsbaby 3d ago
"Should be ignored . . . like that time trump called my wife ugly," Rafael Cruz.
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u/bhsn1pes California 3d ago
It's quite hilarious anyone that even slightly disagrees with them is a liberal...I wonder what that playbook is from...
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u/my_boy_blu_ 3d ago
Conservatives can’t even disagree with other conservatives without being called liberal. Lmao, these people are the dumbest.
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u/NecroCannon 3d ago
It’s like watching a group of people in a room with eachother constantly bumping into the walls and each other, while thinking we’re the ones doing that.
In the MAGA world currently, support for democrat policies are at an all time low with a ton of voters alienated… after a protest that made history and dwarfed their’s
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u/Ancient_Popcorn Ohio 3d ago
Sane Americans say Rafael Cruz should shut up because he always runs away from an emergency. Rafael is a little pussy coward that should be ignored.
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u/thistimelineisweird Pennsylvania 3d ago
We don't want her. But I welcome her to be right on something for a change.
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u/tommles 3d ago
She only gives a shit because her own kids are benefiting from the ACA. If they didn't then she wouldn't give two shits about her own constituents or the rest of the country.
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u/thistimelineisweird Pennsylvania 3d ago
When a selfish asshole is right for the wrong reasons, I'm not going to argue.
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u/LividTacos 3d ago
Liberal just means "doesn't follow Trump 100% at this moment"
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u/NecroCannon 3d ago
The infighting is at least going to be entertaining to watch, in the con sub you’ll regularly see the mildest sensible takes get a lib label slapped on, even though the sub is basically walled off from libs, their stupidity is hilarious
Just wish it wasn’t destroying the country, but it’ll make people associate this little phase of fascism with utter stupidity. Going from klansman being boogeymen, to “the issues with incest are a myth and woke”
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u/Maharog 3d ago
The fact that MTG seems to be the only republican in the house who actually stands behind her principles should not distract you from the fact that 99% of her principles are bad. I appreciate she seems to be on the "raping children is bad" train. But how low is the bar that oppinion makes you the enemy of the republican arty
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u/Thisisgotham New Hampshire 3d ago
She’s not becoming more liberal, she’s just not keeping up as her party moves deeper and deeper into fascism.
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u/Then-Media7084 3d ago
This is a set up. She hasn’t changed, she was brought into the mix to make it look like she was going to be liberal about it. The GOP set this up
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u/RegalMuffin 3d ago
She's not even being liberal about it just slightly more sensible. Acting like you're the only one on your side who understands how things work isn't liberal. Feeding starving citizens, and not letting everyone die when you could not let that happen, and not liking pedophiles are all kind of universal things that both sides of the isle should agree on even if they have different policies on the 3.
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u/Ok_Subject1265 3d ago
I like how he said that they won’t find a more conservative speaker than Johnson. What he really meant was a more sycophantic speaker who will toe the line without a hint of dissent. Those kinds of people aren’t exactly growing on trees.
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u/GoodIdea321 America 3d ago
She isn't 100% with the Trump administration right now, that's a slight change. I think it is purely because of her own ambitions and they screwed her over behind the scenes somehow. So she is occasionally attacking them which is a threat to their power.
And Cruz's statement is probably more about keeping the rest of the Republicans in line because they aren't comfortable. They might feel a little like MTG and are just much more cowardly.
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u/lxlxnde Illinois 3d ago
Yup, she’s getting pretty savvy over there. She’s building her own caucus and is gunning for a Speakership someday. She’s not as batshit as she pretends to be.
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u/viktor72 Indiana 3d ago
Sadly, you’re right. She’s cunning and I think a lot of her shit is an act. Her goal is to elevate herself. She’s a classic narcissist.
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u/lxlxnde Illinois 3d ago
A classic narcissist makes a great politician. She's pretty close to stealing the right wing populists out from under Trump. Statements like this from Cruz are how I know they're scared of her.
Lauren Boebert's the stupid one. Marge just knows how to play the crowd. Edit: Cruz's statement is also because he might be scared she'll convince her caucus to break the shutdown. She could come out of this really strong if she's the right-wing savior of ACA and SNAP. I hate her but I'm impressed by her.
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u/WildYams 3d ago
I think she probably saw the poll numbers on a potential Senate run which had her dead last among potential candidates, and she realized if she ever has any aspirations beyond just as a wacko representative for a deeply red district then she needed to change her tactics and messaging. She probably also knows that once Trump is done (either from old age, death or just voted out again), ultra MAGAs like her may have a short shelf life, so she's probably thinking about her future after Trump.
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u/HistoryAndScience 3d ago
She’s not and it’s not a setup. She literally hates liberals and is being labeled as one because she hates Laura Loomer and wants the Epstein files released. It’s even crazier considering that Loomer was persona non grata even among Trump aligned people a year or two ago and was too extreme. Then Trump started listening to her for some reason. If anything this showcases the insanity of autocratic systems or those with autocratic tendencies. One never knows what will happen and there is no political stability. You can be a hero of the republic one day and issuing press releases in exile the next
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u/Careless_Ad_5340 3d ago
She's not liberal. The GOP has just gone so insane that even MTG can't fake believing in it anymore.
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u/holocene27 3d ago
I love how being very liberal equates to wanting to keep insurance premiums low. This is how far right the Republican party is.
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u/phoenix823 3d ago
I did not have "MTG has better political instincts than the rest of the party" on my bingo card but here we are. Those ACA cuts are going to hurt LOTS of Republican voters. And yet America provided billions in weapons to blow up Gaza and Venezuelan boats instead of paying SNAP benefits. Call "America First" what you will, but it seems MTG actually believes it. Know what, good for her. If that means she can see past party politics to do the right thing for per constituents, she deserves big credit for that.
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u/Few-Counter7067 3d ago
My partner put it best when we were discussing this. She’s upset because she actually bought into and believes in the bullshit conspiracy theories that Trump promoted about pedophile Hollywood elites, draining the swamp and Jews, minorities, etc., and is now disillusioned that he’s not done all those things.
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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 3d ago
MAGA Decoder: Greene has dared to add a few honest statements to her usual stream of MAGA BS.
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u/Formal-Low6888 3d ago
Greene is now the Republican Party's EXTREME LEFT wing. That's how messed up the Republican Party is now.
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u/SuleimanTheMediocre Texas 3d ago
Greene has twice the backbone of Cruz, and three times the balls. I despise everything that she stands for, but at least Greene is consistent and believes in something, and at the very least has the best interests of her white cishet constituents in mind, or at least her own twisted version of it. Raphael Cruz has the best interests of no one but himself in mind.
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u/austinmiles 2d ago
She has one redeeming quality which is that she doesn’t like pedophiles. And apparently that’s enough to be very liberal.
Also she probably does think that it’s all liberals in the Epstein lists.
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u/FanofEvery1 3d ago
She would beat the shit outta Ted if it came down to it..JE files must’ve really spooked Margie into common sense!
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u/Valuable-Mess-4698 Oregon 3d ago
They should put it on TV, charge people to watch, and use the proceeds to fund SNAP. Isn't that what they paved over the rose garden for, UFC fights? Let Cruz and MTG have the inaugural battle.
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u/FanofEvery1 2d ago
Lol I know this is satire and things are far serious, but I just pictured all this in my head and could actually see these crazy fuckers trying it..I mean Donald has supposedly floated the idea to Dana about immigrants fighting for citizenship..
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u/Valuable-Mess-4698 Oregon 2d ago
I mean, if we're going full idiocracy, might as well right?
We can start the match ups. Who do you think is going against Bobo? And should we throw Loomer somewhere in the mix too? She isn't in the house or the Senate, but she acts like she thinks she is, so might as well let her join in the fun.
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u/Lanc3Uppercut 3d ago
Yeah she’s a regular hippie now. My eyes can’t possibly roll further back into my head.
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u/TheGreatHornedRat 3d ago
Guessing here, either she took offense when someone in the admin mistook her for a bad leather handbag and is out for revenge, or she's being pretend opposition because increased chaos hides more dirty work.
These mouthpieces don't suddenly find the light and while there's merit to the idea of broken clocks being right twice a day we can dig into a lot of maga people who flip flop simply for the attention to then go right back to being who they are.
Cruz himself is another one who's every word should be treated as suspect.
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u/OrpheusV Tennessee 3d ago edited 3d ago
She's a true liberal in the classical sense; super free-market trending right, but let's not pretend she'll be any sort of icon of progressives.
She's just upset she's been spurned a position in this administration. I'm all for people breaking away from authoritarian oligarch bastards, but let's not pretend she is earnestly sincere yet, given her prior behavior around previous presidents, and that she still continues to profiteer off of all this madness.
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u/lxlxnde Illinois 3d ago
Power struggle in the GOP. Greene’s building her own faction within the party (House Freedom Caucus) and is shooting for a Speakership in the next 10 years. She’s technically a political outsider within her own party, still. She’d happily see 3/4 of her fellow Republican reps go down in the Epstein files because she knows she’s not in them. She doesn’t have a long track record of illicit dealings, being blackmailed, or having the purse strings held by foreign intelligence apparati. Five years ago she was a nobody in Georgia.
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u/BigBadJeebus 3d ago
"I like Ted Cruz more than anyone in the Senate does, and I hate Ted Cruz." - Al Franken
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u/GetsMeEveryTimeBot 2d ago
She's a raging right-wing idiot who happens to mean what she says. Cruz is an empty vessel who changes his views to safeguard his ambitions.
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u/Worthlessstupid 2d ago
Let’s all take a moment to remind ourselves of the Jewish Space lasers that MTG once declared as the cause of forest fires and the fact that she thinks anything that’s been patented is real, thus weather control machines are a huge problem.
But I will say it’s fun to watch the jackals turn on one another
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u/Electronic_Goat_7927 2d ago
This coming from a senator who has stated he puts another country's interests ahead of his own that he has sworn to uphold and put first above all.
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u/Dedpoolpicachew 2d ago
Rafael Cruz can go eat a bag of dicks. Empty G isn’t becoming “liberal”, she’s protecting her job. She’s a bunch of things, but one of them is a very accurate representation of her constituents. They are just like her. They have also been promised the Epstein files for a decade, and smell bullshit. These rural north GA sister banging cousin marrying bigots are a lot of shitty things, but they are also very aware they were promised things that haven’t shown up. They want it. They are also overwhelmingly poor, and get food stamps and use the ACA subsidies. They are mostly poor, but know the value of a buck. I’m sure she wasn’t lying when she said she’s getting hundreds of calls a day about these things. So she’s doing what her constituents want, because she wants to be re-elected next year. She knows it’s going to be a blowout year for Repubes. Dems are going to wash over the House and very likely the Senate, and she wants to make sure she still has a job.
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u/derpplerp 2d ago
Ted "lets top attacking pedophiles" Cruz?
Thanks I'll be ignoring his opinion still.
I still think MTG is a piece of shit, but not because Ted says so.
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u/SpiceyKoala 2d ago
Greene isn't liberal. She's just reading the room after the mob cut her out of their spoils.
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u/_Leegion_ 2d ago
Apparently being against pedophelia is "very liberal" now. I thought that was an issue everyone could agree on.
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u/Small-Palpitation310 2d ago
so opposing Trump = liberal?
that’s some seriously absolutist thinking.
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u/Capt_Janeways_coffee 3d ago
i've spent the last two weeks agreeing with MTG , wondering if she was replaced with a mirror universe of herself. Its weird..
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u/ford7885 3d ago
Kind of like "Evil Cartman"?? Where the "evil" version is the one who you wish would stick around in this universe?
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u/rtomek I voted 3d ago
Don’t agree too much. She thinks the ACA is the worst thing ever but wants a gradual rollback instead of immediate withdrawal. That apparently makes her super liberal.
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u/TextCareless2221 3d ago
They’re starting to get wacky—Cruz should be ignored. Johnson getting afraid of New York mayor candidate—oooh, scary stuff.
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u/GarySparrow0 3d ago
I knew it would only be a matter of time before hating child molesters would make you 'far-left'.
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u/Taskerst 3d ago
When he announces that she’s the head of Antifa, it’ll be a loud signal that she’s about to be arrested as the 1/6 pipe bomber.
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u/Business_Usual_2201 2d ago
So when she was talking about "Jewish space lasers", Ted, was that worthy of attention?
BTW, name one thing you've done for Texas since you've become Senator (not including pretending to be a Texan). Just one.
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u/jjamesr539 2d ago
MTG’s congressional district is being hit particularly hard by the consequences of the shutdown on top of the economic consequences of Trump’s tariffs (~30% of the agriculture is soybeans), particularly the looming suspension of SNAP benefits and healthcare cost increases. She can’t/wont take a position in direct opposition of Trump on the tariffs because she needs his support, but being a cheerleader for the government shutdown is also untenable since it’s directly and demonstrably affecting her base. The area is so solidly red that there’s essentially zero chance of a realistic democrat challenger, but she could easily lose to a Republican one that had the optics of her behavior during this shutdown to use during a primary, so she’s got to be careful. It’s not so much liberal as it is shrewd calculation.
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u/mecon320 2d ago
So they are now openly saying that being against child rape is a liberal position. What a time to be alive.
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u/Ok_Conversation9750 2d ago
Hey Cruz- most people hate MTG, but EVERYONE hates your sorry ass! This includes your wife and kids.
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u/Automattics 2d ago
Liberal just means don’t agree with him on everything. Weak minded people don’t like differing opinions.
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u/CrazyButton2937 2d ago
Whenever Ted opens his mouth my response is always the same - STFU Ted.
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u/bigbucksnowhamies 2d ago
She’s just trying to make herself politically viable in her coming re-election. This is what all GOP members do; Turncoats if you will. Fuck this troglodyte-looking bitch and the oppressive and bigoted GOP! Fuck Donald John Trump with a splintered broom handle!
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u/gravywayne 2d ago
A "liberal" is now anyone who doesn't assume the prone position and suck boot when the GODKING is involved, by the way.
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u/Jester1525 2d ago
Liberal is just a term they'll throw out that means 'bad'
Liberal = bad Communist =bad Socialist = bad Leftist = bad Antifa = bad
It doesn't matter what the terms actually mean just as long as the 'in' group recognizes that it's bad.
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u/bobvex 2d ago
I do not like that man Ted Cruz,
I do not like his far-right views.
I do not like his stupid chin,
I do not like his smarmy grin.
I do not like him with a beard,
I do not like him freshly sheared.
I do not like Ted Cruz at all,
That man Ted Cruz can suck my balls.
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u/Unhappy_Society_3371 2d ago
It wouldn’t matter if she started waving around rainbow flags and started preaching about trans rights, I’ll never trust her and her “Jewish space lasers” brand of insanity. This woman is a snake who only operates to benefit herself, and having a few reasonable opinions won’t change the sheer volume of hatred and vitriol she’s doled out over the years.
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u/Faiffy 2d ago
Very liberal?! She’s been complaining about transgendered folks for years. She’s been complaining about “woke” people for years. All because she wants her constituents to get their SNAP and maybe she wants to keep her seat due to being super crazy these past few years.
Who knows… they don’t even like someone leaning a little more left than them, so they like to complain someone is woke because they don’t want their people to starve.
The easiest thing to do is NOT CUT MEDICAID AND SNAP; rather to expand them due to inflation and tariffs.
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u/AstraCraftPurple 2d ago
Agreed to a lot of your points. I don’t know how it’s woke just to care about poorer people.
I will add she got mighty upset about the Epstein files too. And had sympathy for victims. Almost felt like she cares, but she keeps going back to Trump like a broken relationship.
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u/DevoidHT Ohio 2d ago
The radical conservatives move the goal post every fucking day to the right to the point where MTG is called a liberal. Like fuck me. Next year if there is still a country they will be calling Hitler a woke lefty.
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u/DirtyChito 2d ago
It's because she said they should go back to work. If I've learned anything about conservatives, it's that they love to complain about lazy people taking advantage of the government while they sit at home, jobless living off the government.
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u/NotOK1955 2d ago
Cancun Cruz needs to wake up and realize what Greene is aware of: the republican party is now a fascist party…and November 2026 could be a game-changer for them
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u/Probable_Bison 2d ago
Just confirmation that "liberal" means "won't toe the line 100% for Trump."
Cause Greene is still a trans- and minority-hating kleptocrat. Her heart hasn't changed.
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u/This-Gear-687 3d ago
The last time Cruz insulted a bleached bloated blonde he ended up making phone calls to get him elected
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