Posted on 07/30/2025 5:22:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I’m not a big fan of political labels. They invite people to put you in a box, and the only box I want to be in is one labeled “open-minded.” I don’t think anyone has a monopoly on the truth.
But anyone who takes a look at my résumé — I worked at a top Democratic Party-aligned think tank and a left-leaning political action committee, where I helped Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats win elections — would acknowledge that over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time in the progressive movement.
And yet, for the past week, the politician I find myself most impressed by is my own congresswoman here in Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Wait — that Marjorie Taylor Greene? The one known for embracing so many bonkers conspiracy theories and making so many incendiary remarks that House Democrats took the rare step of booting her off all committees a few weeks after she took office in 2021?
Yes, that Marjorie Taylor Greene.
It would be easy for me to assume that Greene, like all MAGA Republicans, is incapable of finding common ground with a constituent like me. But I would be wrong.
Because in the past week, she became the only Republican in the House of Representatives to condemn her colleague, Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida), for telling Israel it should “starve away” in Gaza, whose population includes more than 1 million children.
Reflecting on Fine’s remarks, Greene wrote that she “can only imagine how Florida’s 6th district feels now that their Representative, that they were told to vote for, openly calls for starving innocent people and children.”
Then she went further, voicing a truth that is almost unsayable in the modern Republican Party.
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that...
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The Left will applaud anyone who turns against Israel or God.
I think a lot on the right conflate those two.
Zaid Jilani would be the first to behead MTG, if he could.
NEVER trust a Mooselimb, NEVER!
She is not turning against Israel or God. Unless you are suggesting Rep Fine has a direct line to the Almighty.
(snort) 😁
He is all for MTG when she condemns a Republican.
Zaid Jilani from Anystate, your brains are falling out.
Of course a left-wing jihadist loves the Jew-hating Crossfit retard MTG.
For shame, for shame, for shame!
It is obvious that for Congressman Greene that (((we)))) are starving a bunch of orgiastic murderer types and shooting off our Jewish space lasers to start forest fires in California,.
The turn toward Nazism on parts of the Right is completely loathsome.
“I think a lot on the right conflate those two.”
Exactly. A bizarre new form of Idolatry which is almost exclusively American.
Any Republican that gets that kind of support from a leftist is doing something wrong and will not get my support.
Supporting Israel is NOT idolatry. And I don’t see anyone conflating God and Israel. That sounds like a typical leftist smear.
God is not only supporting Israel, but protecting them too, and WILL keep all His promises that He made to them.
I find it unconscionable, too, that people like MTG is believing the lies and propaganda coming from the left about the alleged *genocide* and *starvation* of muslims in Gaza, when the ones keeping the aid from the people is hamas, and Israel is going out of its way to protect the civilians by WARNING them when they’re going to bomb a hamas stronghold in a neighborhood or so specifically targeting vehicles that they hit a specific car on the freeway or destroy a mule pulled cart without injuring the animal at all.
That is NOT genocide.
“I find it unconscionable, too, that people like MTG is believing the lies and propaganda coming from the left “
MTG is a dolt; she’s low IQ, and not a Christian if she’s dissing Israel — which she is. If she IS a Christian and dissing Israel, then she needs to actually pick up a Bible and study it before opening her yap.
I guess if I got swatted 6 times, I believe my thought patterns would be revised.
When the left is celebrating you, then you know you are doing it wrong...
The one thing the extreme right and left have in common is they hate Israel and Jews.
Almost exclusively Boomer American.
Israel is losing a lot of friends among younger Americans. Young leftists see Israel as nation of white settler colonizers and young right-leaning Americans increasingly see Israel as a nation who controls American foreign policy while blaming liberal American Jews in positions of power and influence for all of our social ills.
Send her on a plane to Gaza for an inspection tour.
Israel is losing a lot of friends among younger Americans. "
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That's what happens when the entire Education system has the narrative of "Evil White colonists and settlers genociding noble, innocent brown indigenous populations".
Then that frame gets applied to Gaza and... they get bit by their own dog
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