Posted on 05/04/2025 7:09:47 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unloaded a heap of criticism Friday on recent actions and inactions by the Trump administration and fellow Republicans, bringing up the Ukraine minerals deal, talks with Iran, and more — while being sure to not criticize President Trump personally.
“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,” Greene said Friday in a lengthy post on the social platform X.
“I campaigned for no more foreign wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran,” Greene said, in reference to ongoing talks with Iran over its nuclear program. A fourth round of talks that was slated to take place in Rome over the weekend has been postponed.
“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,” Greene said.
She then turned to the minerals deal the U.S. signed with Ukraine this week, which would give the U.S. a share of Ukraine’s natural resources if the U.S. sends more money to Ukraine as it fights off a Russian invasion. Greene argued that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “is a dictator who canceled elections” — which was due to the war — and was “involved of the first impeachment of Trump.”
“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?” Greene said. “Why don’t we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago?”
The post from the firebrand Georgia congresswoman is striking given that she has been one of Trump’s most vocal and prominent supporters.
Greene also lamented that the COVID-19 vaccine “still has FDA [Food and Drug Administration] approval” and wondered if “those vicious attorneys and judges” who worked “against the American people in the last four years” would be “held accountable for the lives they ruined.”
She also took aim at Republicans in Congress, wondering when there would be a vote on budgetary recessions to codify actions by the Department of Government Efficiency and saying there is enough “outrage and moral courage to dispose of this treason” by “rogue judges” blocking Trump actions.
“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,” Greene said, implicitly dismissing the idea of Trump seeking a third term in 2028, which would require a constitutional amendment.
I think my crazed representative MTG could take Bobert in a cat fight!
Just like Rand Paul, MTG is more concerned with how she looks than moving MAGA forward.
Under a different administration, that statement has ambiguous meaning. This one: I hope that means effective orders for actions lacking to-date and reviewing his cabinet/staff picks pursuant to the most important goal of all: Mid terms.
If that is achieved, I can wait 17 months for the most biting actions to take place. After that, my other hand fills fast.
Rising interest rates counter inflation. Volcker raised rates to double digits in the 1980s to defeat inflation.
Friedman’s adage “inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon” makes the same point. Rising rates slow down growth of the money supply.
She speaks for herself, not for the base.
Give Israel a few dozen bunker busters, Thermobaric bombs, and let the bombing begin.
The firebrand Georgia congresswoman’s words are striking given
that she’s been one of Trump’s most vocal and prominent supporters.
Trump never said his supporters cant speak up wrt their heartfelt concerns.
I’ll put your take into the mix of how I look at this situation, thanks.
Until after we get it up and running and they decide they want it back.
She’s quite right to support domestic production of rare earths.
However, Trump is right in trying to get Ukraine to pay something for the massive help it gets from the USA.
As for bombing Iran, I’m opposed. Iran must fix itself internally. Iranian technical support personnel outside of Iran doing bad things should experience Trump’s wrath.
She is of that certain stage in a woman’s life. Let’s just ignore her out of charity towards a friend in a difficult spot.
“Give Israel a few dozen bunker busters, Thermobaric bombs, and let the bombing begin.”
We can’t fix Obama’s mistakes by explosive force. At best we can talk Iran out of an expensive program.
“Of greater value is Ukrainian expertise with cheap drone technology in the war zone. That knowledge is a threat to the MIL domestically since tanks and even fighter jets are threatened by the cheaper drones.”
A few people fly drones in my neighborhood. They seem to make a lot of noise, but are hard to spot with my poor eyesight. I think drones are susceptible to coordinated automated shotgun anti-drone systems.
The House Republican AOC.
You don't need to remind me of Volker, and what he did was successful. HOWEVER, our debt to income ratios are now wildly different, as is our manufacturing base. Unless we can crunch spending (which doesn't look likely, as DOGE didn't find that much yet) higher interest rates will push the amount of borrowing to cover refinancing short term borrowing. It's the ol' debt to death spiral.
Trump is trying to push our asset position with opening the mineral estate, yet creditors' demands to secure the debt will remain, and it is that same mineral estate which was long ago promised as debt security.
So I don't see this situation as entirely equivalent. The higher rates have taken off the top. We must face things as they are now, not as they were 45 years ago. We've got factories, mines, and chemical plants to develop, and that's going to take cash.
That’s funny! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
“Trump’s attempts to negotiate with Putin to end Putin’s war of aggression have been embarrassing, to be frank. Maybe now his base will understand that the war will end when Putin is defeated in Ukraine and not before.”
Russia isn’t going to be defeated in Ukraine no matter how many US toys the DC warmongers send to Ukraine.
Russia pretty much has the pro-Moscow territory once part of Ukraine. It is as gone as the Panama Canal.
At this point, the Russians are willing to do a peace deal. However, future military success might encourage the Russians to swallow up all of Ukraine.
I’m not an MTG fan or follower - every time she pops up she strikes me as a dope - but, like I said, I don’t notice much of what she does.
That having been said - I think DJT has done an incredible job against odds that would have already beaten a lesser man, and people who expect miracles in record time are, on the whole, working against the team.
Looking at you, MTG.
Indeed. That sums up my prior comments rather well.
As much we all want that war to end , a lasting peace can't be rushed. Putin doesn't want the war to end before his goals have been met, and Russia may well collapse, as it did in 1917, before Putin can reach his goals. Then a lasting peace can result.
I disagree. Most here fail to grasp that Putin is not the worst of what could be.
If this is mishandled badly, we could face a scenario under which a military/radical-led Russia embraces China, they align behind Iran and suddenly we are in a new dynamic. All of this, of course, in line with Chyna's long-term ambitions (imho, according to plan, and I'm sure ds is watching with glee).
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