Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently posted a long, relatively negative tweet critical of Donald Trump and her Republican colleagues in Congress. That may be surprising since MTG has been one of the biggest supporters and enablers of Trump and his corrupt, anti-American agenda in Congress. But even in her criticism, MTG gets a lot wrong.
I’ve included MTG’s tweet below along with my thoughts, as if we were in conversation. Of course, we were not actually in conversation. Generally speaking, MTG and I don’t run in the same circles.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: I represent the base and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy.
Me: MTG , you’re not wrong about this. Increasingly, the base of the Republican party is upset with Donald Trump. It’s no wonder. What he is doing currently and how he is doing it is unpopular with a majority of Americans, including a majority of Republicans. Having said that, I think you’re wrong about the lessons you’ve drawn from the unhappiness of your base.
MTG: I campaigned for no more foreign wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran. I don’t think we should be bombing foreign countries on behalf of other foreign countries especially when they have their own nuclear weapons and massive military strength.
And on top of that, now we are told that we have signed a deal for mineral rights in Ukraine, in order to pay us back for the hundreds of billions of dollars that we gave Ukraine and they used for money laundering, sold the weapons we gave them to our enemies, and their leader is a dictator who canceled elections, was involved of the first impeachment of Trump, and campaigned for Biden. Didn’t we learn our lesson when we went to war in Iraq and killed Saddam Hussein because of “weapons of mass destruction?” Did we ever find any? And did any of that oil over in the Middle East make us rich? The answer is no, we are $36 trillion in debt today. So why on earth would we go over and occupy Ukraine and spend an untold amount of future American taxpayer dollars defending and mining their minerals as well as potentially putting American lives at risk and future war? Why don’t we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago?
Me: Wow, there’s a lot to breakdown here. Let’s start with no more foreign wars. MTG, you may find this hard to believe, but we generally agree on this point. The United States should not be engaging in war on behalf of another nation. I assume the other nation you are talking about is Israel, right? I don’t know that we are on the verge of a war with Iran, but it would be a bad idea, no matter the reason we might engage in such a war.
Next, you’re view of the aid we gave to Ukraine is strangely skewed. First, it is right and proper that the United States, an ally to Ukraine, should give military and humanitarian aid to them in their defense against Russian aggression. For the moment, I won’t get into the accusations made by your own Republican colleagues in the House that you are a Russian asset who often parrots Russian propaganda and talking points, but it’s important to remember that such an accusation still hangs out there and has never been withdrawn. In the very least, you’re a stooge for Russia and your view of the war in Ukraine is not credible.
Second, we didn’t make loans to Ukraine, we provided them with aid with no expectation that they would pay us back. That’s how these things work. We did what we thought was right, not what we thought we could profit from. The transactional nature of your perspective on how we should relate to our allies is troubling.
Third, I’m troubled by your obsession with spoiling our natural lands—which you wrongly stated were confiscated—in order to mine for rare earth minerals. You fail to look into the future to see what damage such mining would do, your only concern for the here and now. Expand your view, Marjorie. The world will go on long after you are gone. Let’s try to leave them a country and a planet worth protecting.
Fourth and finally, why do you insist on spreading lies about Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. He’s not a dictator. He was overwhelmingly elected by Ukrainian voters. Also, he didn’t cancel elections. The Constitution of Ukraine provides for the suspension of elections during war, although I shouldn’t be surprised that you don’t know that. You don’t bother to read our Constitution. Why would you read theirs?
MTG: I also campaigned on accountability for the communist and tyrannical acts made by the government during Covid. Yet the Covid vaccine still has FDA approval even though there are millions reported injuries and deaths, and this mRNA vaccine is known to have horrific side effects and DOES NOT STOP PEOPLE FROM CATCHING COVID. And to this day, it’s still on the childhood vaccine schedule, why on earth is this happening? Hasn’t big pharma made enough billions and billions and billions of dollars on this lie?
Me: Seriously, is there any conspiracy theory you won’t champion? Let’s start with some hard facts. First, it was your boy Trump who made it possible for the Covid vaccine to be created in the first place. That’s not a criticism. It was by far the best thing he did during his first term. Your uninformed accusations about the dangers of the vaccine, especially since what you claim has been debunked completely, should embarrass you, if in fact you had the ability to generate embarrassment. Like any drug, the Covid vaccine has side effects. But they are not horrific nor are they widespread. It’s also true that it is not 100% effective in stopping Covid. But what you fail to mention or understand is that the vaccine reduces both the risk and severity of Covid. If you don’t want to get the vaccine, don’t get it. I don’t care. But stop spreading lies about something you clearly don’t understand.
MTG: I also campaigned on accountability for all the law fair that was waged against the American people in the past four years. What about all the people that were locked up in jail and the abuse that they went through? And when are those vicious attorneys and judges ever going to be held accountable for the lives they ruined?
Me: Sorry, that massive eyeroll was not meant in a personal way. Let’s start with the term “law fair.” It’s actually “lawfare.” If you’re going to talk about a subject, even if all you are going to do is lie about it, you should at least learn to spell it.
Of course, you’re talking about the January 6 defendants who you claim were unfairly prosecuted and locked up by “vicious attorneys and judges.” Marge, you seem to forget that we all saw what the January 6 insurrectionists did. It’s all on video, including on video shot by the insurrectionists themselves. Many, if not most, of the people convicted of crimes on January 6 pled guilty to the charges against them. Your base isn’t as stupid as you think they are. They saw what the insurrectionists did. That’s why the majority of people in this country—including Trump’s own vice-president—think it was wrong for Trump to pardon all of the J6 insurrectionists.
MTG: And I campaigned for an end to waste fraud and abuse of the American people’s harder tax dollars. I believe the DOGE mission is one of the most important things happening today in our government, and yet where are the rescissions that we should be voting on in Congress?
Me: “Harder tax dollars?” Perhaps you should proofread your tweets before vomiting them out into the cybersphere.
I’ll give you this, you are correct that Congress should be voting on the rescissions being made by Elon Musk and DOGE. Congress appropriated that money and it is only proper (and legally necessary) for Congress to rescind the spending. DOGE does not have the legal authority to do that. So, we do agree on this one point.
MTG: And one of the biggest issues in the nation that I have fought for, and early on I was one of the only ones that took a loud screaming stand against, is the evil transgender assault against our children. Most normal people in this country can’t even comprehend how it’s allowed to happen to kids who by law can’t even get a tattoo, drive, or vote. And how did so many of our teachers turn into the predators themselves that groom children with gender lies? This should be an all out effort by Republicans to end this insanity.
Me: No! No! No! You’re living in a fantasy world. Not only is this not “one of the biggest issues in the nation,” it is not an issue deserving of Congressional oversight. There is not “transgender assault” on our kids. If you truly believe this, please point out where it is happening. The transgender issue is red meat for your base, but in reality, it just isn’t much of an issue.
I especially take exception to your claim that “many of our teachers turn into the predators themselves that groom children with gender lies.” You are just flat out wrong with this claim. The vast majority of our teachers are underpaid heroes who are doing an extraordinarily difficult job under increasingly difficult and dangerous circumstances, made all the more difficult and dangerous because of ignorant people like you who spread lies for your own benefit. You and people like you need to stop the baseless attacks on our teachers.
MTG: And look at the extreme nature of our rogue judicial system that is so defiant that there are judges that defy our nation’s laws and block the deportation of literal enemies of the United States of America. Where is the outrage and moral courage to dispose of this treason? Sadly not in Congress.
Me: MTG, does your ignorance know no bounds? It’s clear that even though you serve in Congress, you do not have the slightest idea what the Constitution says or how our system of separation of powers and checks and balances is supposed to work.
Judges are not preventing the deportation of “literal enemies of the United States.” All judges are saying is that anyone you want to deport first has to be given due process in order to determine if they are truly enemies of the country. You see, that’s how our system works. We don’t allow people like you to determine who should stay and who should go. We have courts who make that determination by applying the laws that you in Congress pass. It’s all written out in the Constitution. You should read it. I think you’d find it fascinating.
MTG: And what about election integrity? This should be the most important issue that the Republicans aggressively fight to protect because without secure elections protected from illegals voting and protections from stealing our votes, the American people have lost their power.
Me: Let me turn that question around on you. What about election integrity? What are you even talking about? There are already laws against illegals voting in our elections. There is also research done that shows that illegals are not voting. In fact, election fraud of all stripes is largely a problem that exists only in your mind, not in the real world.
Think it through. Why would illegals try to vote. They face the prospect of arrest and deportation if they even try. Why would they take that risk? And if they did, how could they coordinate their efforts well enough so their votes made an actual difference, swaying the outcome of the election? Again, you are focusing on a problem that simply doesn’t exist. It’s just more red meat for your base, an attempt to generate outrage among your low information supporters, making them believe that the power of their vote is diluted by illegals voting. But it’s a lie. It simply isn’t happening.
MTG: When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base. And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that.
Me: Are you sure he’s not on the ballot in the future? He claimed he’s running again in 2028, the Constitution be damned. Oh, yea of little faith.
Also, please don’t refer to yourself in the third person. Even for you, that’s cringey.
