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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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.”

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[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 97 points 10 months ago

Alternate realities are converging. The timeline has been corrupted.

[-] Red_October@piefed.world 75 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure the whole timeline is on the verge of total collapse. We're all gonna wake up and it'll be December 31, 1999, and we'll have to try again.

[-] Exeous@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

Wish please yes

[-] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

I would sign up for that event.

[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry, there were limited places available, you're not on the list. Better luck next universe.

EDIT: listen people, please stop writing us. If you have to ask whether you're on the list, you're not on it.

[-] wavebeam@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Just the idea of that is making me hopeful somehow. Do I get to keep my consciousness from this run like in the book Replay?

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Maybe we’ll do better this time? Who am I kidding, somebody warm up the freedom fries

[-] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 10 months ago

2 X (Y2K) = ?

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

She was promised something and was personally grifted. It's the only explanation.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Keep in mind she wasn't in the inside of politics until the Biden term. It could be that she was a true believer in the talking points that everything wrong was the Democrats fault and that maga would "drain the swamp" if they just had a chance. His first term the kept claiming deep state and dem inference. Now she can't help but to see how it is and his second term is so much more openly corrupt.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

It's this. She was a true believer, and now she's discovering reality.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 10 months ago

Why is the crazy Jewish space laser lady making sense right now? Is reality breaking down?

[-] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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?

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 41 points 10 months ago

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

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

A conman is a better conman when they believe their own schtick.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

believes in things beyond her own self enrichment

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.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

She's getting her news from a real news source and reality, not just fox news and right wing propoganda is my guess.

[-] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

She's an attention wh*re starved for relevance.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Whore, you can say whore. Your mommy isn't going to come out of the shadows and discipline you.

[-] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

.ml censors it and just shows the word "removed." So it's not my mommy, it's my server.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Get a new server brother.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

Move off of .ml. it's got to be a rite of passage for new lemmy users these days

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Grownups can also choose not to.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Use the fucking word or don't use the cunting word. For the love of fucking god. Stop normalizing this stupid fucking self censorship horsehit you fucking shitty dirt cunt frog queefs.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Dude I hope this is the stupidest shit you argue about this week. Because this is a dummmmmb thing to be worked up about.

Using curse words doesn't make you a big boy, or some sign of maturity.

[-] edible_funk@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

There actually is a positive correlation between casual use of expletives and intelligence, including emotional intelligence. So it's definitely associated with big boys and can be a sign of maturity.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

DID YOU HEAR THAT YOU FUCKING DROOPING SHIT TAXIDERMIST? IM FUCKING SMART AND SHIT. 1+1=5. TARIFFS ARE A GREAT IDEA. WE NEED TO ABANDON THE MODERN WORLD AND JUST START FARMING KALE. KALE FARMS FROM SEA TO CERULEAN FUCKING SEA. SO. MUCH. FUCKING. KALE.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Again: use them or don't. I have no issue with either of those. What I have issue with is the middle ground.

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Doesn't matter.

She's been 100% on his side leading up to the collapse of US democracy and the genocide of minorities on US soil.

Yet another passionate Nazi that only started being critical of Hitler when they finally got what Hitler promised them to their faces but somehow it wasn't what they expected.

She's still 99% gargling his balls

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has absolutely no clue.

She hasn't had a clue about anything for many years.

She might be one of the grossest things I've seen myself.

[-] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 23 points 10 months ago

Don't you dare make me agree with MTG...

[-] Sabin10@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Well you don't have to but then you are agreeing with Trump. Everything is weird.

[-] HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth 17 points 10 months ago

Is Argentina not full of escaped nazi decendant? Maybe trump want access to all the nazi memorabilia for his new peod dungeon/ballroom

[-] noodles@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago

This is my theory, less that he wants access to memorabilia and more he heard that Nazis fled there and survived and he's hedging his backup plan

[-] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

... I never thought I’d see a day where I agree with MTG on so many things…

[-] pixeltree 13 points 10 months ago

I'm here for the redemption arc tbh

[-] edible_funk@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The J6 pipe bomber cannot be redeemed, but I hope the infighting takes a lot of them down.

[-] prole 8 points 10 months ago

So a broken clock can be correct more than twice a day?

[-] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

If she would run for president and win against a rerunning Kamala Harris, that would be funny.

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