Greene said she’s “not a fan” of Obamacare but complained that her “own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE” if Congress ignores the issue.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., broke with her party Monday evening by calling for action on expiring Obamacare subsidies to avoid premium hikes, adding a prominent MAGA voice to the cause led by Democrats.
In a long post on X, Greene, the far-right MAGA firebrand, made it clear she was not in Congress when the 2010 law passed.
“Let’s just say as nicely as possible, I’m not a fan,” she wrote. “But I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district.”
kayfabe
don’t be a fucking mark
Is she up for election soon? I think she’s just baiting naive voters.
either that or her check hasn’t come through yet.
I’ve seen this before?
because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE
Fucking conservatives cannot care about something until it directly affects them.
Yes, but, at least we have that? Also, with the house 50/50, having any sitting representative defect would be big.
There’s still hope. We also have top brass in the militaries scoffing at Hedgweth, the midterms coming up, and even Trump possibly recognizing that Fox News is lying to him. Plus the lawsuits delaying deployment of our militaries into the cities.
There is still hope, and no one can predict the future.
No because the way conservatives work is that they’ll complain only when things happen to them, and then completely shut up about it once they realize their side doesn’t care. They’ll take having things worse over speaking out against their own party. They are a cult and are not able to think for themselves.
If cult says double premiums are a good thing, they’ll privately grumble and then take it on the chin.
That’s how they used to work. My dad decided to vote in a government that directly harms me and my siblings. Sad to see MTG being a better parent
She’s all talk but I promise you in a couple days she won’t mention this again at all.
I don’t know if this is entirely true. Have you heard about MTG rallying against healthcare cost increases?
A lot of R’s are just sports fans for their team. They only care about things that affect them because that’s the only way they can understand issues, lacking any sense of empathy necessary to “imagine” scenarios other people might be living with.
This moronic ape lady finally understands one of the issues. Might as well applaud her and hope others follow.
You’re correct but they fall in line. If the rest of conservatives are quiet and don’t care, they’ll accept the changes even if it hurts them. They’ll just blame “the liberals”. Just like they’ve always done.
This this this. Show me a conservative that a) can understand that different people are affected by different things at different times, b) that people in government need to accept (a), and c) that they aren’t the main character, and I’ll show you Half Life 3.
She’s somehow well on her way to being one of the most reasonable republicans in congress and I never saw it coming
She’ not. She’ll always be a weasel.
Don’t ride the scorpion’s back just because it’s headed the same direction as you.
Oooh! I like this!
It does makes sense though, Greene has principals even if they are deranged. This means that as soon as the Republicans became opposed to her she basically defaulted to being against them.
Heartbreaking: Worst person you know just made a great point.
It’s more heartbreaking when they make a novel point about something that makes you realize you were on the wrong side because what you were focused on was less important than what they brought up.
When they just agree with what you already thought, it’s weird, for sure.
The affordable care act has been garbage since day one. We pay more for care than anyone else in the world. Time to completely remove profit from healthcare in the US. A bandaid to Obamacare isn’t worth the time.
Blaming a bill (that was railroaded and made worse by republican concessions) instead of corrupt people and billionaires is crazy.
Obama had a supermajority for the first two years of his term. Obamacare didn’t have to be what it is.
Lieberman.
I disagree. You’re not going to hammer out an alternative before millions of people lose coverage. Keeping it from getting worse while coming up with a replacement should be a prtiority.
I’ve gone many years without coverage and paid for minimal care with negotiated smaller cash payments up front. Then I was forced to pay for insurance with a massive out of pocket and had no care at all for the first handful of years of the ACA even though I technically finally had “insurance”. The system is so broken we need to finish breaking it and build it again without profit. I lived without care for over a decade, people can go a few months.
There are literally millions of people that would most likely die if they went without care for “a few months”
Not to mention, what is a few months? Its been nearly a week and these people cant even restart the government. A few months of further negotiation would probably be 24 months or some shit
You survived so everyone else should too? That’s ridiculous and self-absorbed.
Did you have cancer? Or diabetes? Heart disease? Were you in a car accident? Asthma? Back problems? Osteoperosis?
Because some of the people you just said you want to remove medical coverage for will have those problems.
You’re lucky you survived without coverage. They might not be.
Yes I have had a bunch of conditions and still do. Deadly. Paralyzing. Blinding. Bowel destroying. Heart destroying. And more. I still haven’t been to the dentist in 25 years. I’ve been to the doctor once in that time.
You know what, I am for everyone getting care. But not until everyone can get care. Don’t ask for me to help pay for care for others when I can’t afford care myself. Until I can receive care too, my answer to paying for others’ care is solidly no.
Yeah, for sure, man, everyone believes you have a bunch of deadly, debilitating issues that you’ve allowed to go mostly untreated for 25 years. Those sure are deadly conditions, you know, the conditions that you can ignore for decades.
I mean, just living will kill the shit out of you. I don’t guess that there is a deadlier condition than being alive.
Survivorship bias AKA the Gambler’s Fallacy.
The “burn it all down” thinking is how we have so many Trump voters.
It all needs to be burned down. This isn’t a uniquely American issue, as the cracks are becoming impossible to ignore across the entire western world, but the right wing here and abroad are the only ones advocating the the dissolution of our broken systems. The problem is that they want to build everything back up to benefit exclusively the wealthiest in society, while the liberal centerists who are the main opposition want to continue to slap bandaids on what is clearly a lost cause. The far right will continue to gain ground and pulverize everything in their path if the mainstream “left” (Democrats/Labour/Liberal/Rennasisance/SDP/Civic Platform etc) continues to operate as is. Radical change is coming, but the liberal parties are too busy trying to ensure that change doesn’t come from the left.
America is probably the most difficult to change since the Democrats have lost just about all credibility nationwide, but France is a perfect example of what i am trying to explain. Macron’s centrist Rennasisance party has clearly lost public support, since every prime minister he appoints gets bullied out of power by both the leftist alliance and National Rally. He has to chose one to make concessions to, but refuses to enter talks with the Left Block, and any agreement with National Rally would put Len Pen in charge. Until these centrist parties start to actually address the issues their citizens are facing, said citizens will continue to flock to parties that are promoting radical change, regardless of what that change entails.
Well the imperfect has completely failed me pretty much my entire life. If it needs to fail more people to get it fixed, I’m okay with that.
There are other people whom the imperfect is serving far more than nothing. I doubt they’re “okay with that” or they’d be wrong to lack faith in your approach.
The affordable care act has been garbage since day one.
Yes. The GoP stymied it at step1 of 50.
We pay more for care than anyone else in the world.
Yes. Your people do, your clinics do. This is a supply-side problem that single-payer clamps down on hard: adjust pricing or get no business.
Time to completely remove profit from healthcare in the US.
Absolutely.
A bandaid to Obamacare isn’t worth the time.
Don’t abandon the effort at the first failure of the first step.
We need step 2 and 3 and 4 and…
Although the Canadian system is being polluted and poisoned by mercenary care access and currently under threat due to so many doctors noping out of being threatened by antivax hillbillies, the Canadian system is normally effective, supported by taxpayers fully, and the average Canadian pays 1% less income tax than an American at the same income – even with healthcare in there. It scales with income, and I’m proud to be making enough that I can support someone who pays nothing.
20% of us are on free basic dental care too. It’s new and beta, but it’s got potential.
The ACA passed with zero Republican votes. The reason the ACA is garbage is not because of Republicans. It is because of bought and paid for Democrats. They’ll never give us health care without profit, your step 3 or 4. The people need to seize it.
The wool is slowly lifting from her eyes.
No it isn’t. This is typical for the conservative mindset, they are against rights and helping others until an issue touches them or someone close to them personally, they they agree with liberals, but just on that one thing.
If she had a niece or nephew come out as trans she’d suddenly be announcing “hey maybe we don’t have this banning trans people from school sports thing right” because it’s no longer someone else’s problem.
I mean yes, but this is still interesting because, unlike the other ghouls, Green seems to… believe in something?
You know, you might be on to something here. MTG acts like conservative VOTERS, who are real people who just only feel empathy for those they know personally. Compared to conservative POLITICIANS, who I am convinced are lizards who know only fear and reward, MTG is dangerously one of the real people.
I would need more data points to draw conclusions. I will say the Epstein files part was surprising. We’ll see where she goes on that issue.
She believes in being in headlines every day. Nothing else matters to her.
She’s planning to run for President. And she is much more in touch with popular sentiment than Trump, who doesn’t care about elections anymore.
Republicans: when MGT is making more sense than the majority of you, you know you done fucked up.
She’s a very clever politician. She acted all wild, crazy super-MAGA when Trump’s popularity was waxing and she needed to build popularity in her very red home state. Now she’s got her seat more-or-less locked in and she is preparing for a run for president, so the insanity is toned down quite a bit and she is expressing views that have quite a bit of national popularity.
I was going to say… what wasn’t on my bingo card, is MTG acting… fucking sane, almost consistently at this point.
Healthcare, Epstein files, hell she actually did better on not giving weapons to isreal than AOC…
Was she actually that ignorant and stupid when she started, but because it was ignorance and not corruption… she can actually learn? Or maybe she actually had some kind of mental illness, and she’s secretly getting it treated now that she has government level healthcare?
I know that more likely than not the shoe is going to drop… but it’s like she’s magically changed from Sarah Palin to John McCain.
Let’s not sane wash the space laser lady. . .
Agreed, she’s batshit crazy… but I have to say crazy and stupid, is actually an improvement from the normal of morally bankrupt.
Are leopards eating her face?
Her children’s faces, apparently.
Hope the leopard is hungry, there are a lot of faces needing a trim.
Something sure is
What the fuck is up with this broken clock?!?
This broken clock has just been on fire lately… I still have to say it’s not coincidence.
I think it’s because she actually was stupid. Most republicans are smart opportunists, they don’t believe anything they are saying, but they know what to say to rile up the crazy conspiracy theorists and get the votes, money and power to do what donors want.
MTG is one of the conspiracy theorists created by this rhetoric. she still believes in the democratic weather machines, still believes climate change is a hoax, but she’s saying those things because she actually believes them, not because of a paycheck from Exxon. Which makes her very dangerous when she’s given real evidence of actual conspiracies like, big insurance companies putting money to charge insane amounts of money, or an actual leader of Isreal committing a genocide, or an actual ring of elite pedophiles.
Bottom line the sellouts like Charlie Kirk and Patel etc… that can turn it on and off at will. IE “release the files now!”, oh trump says he doesn’t want them released, my bad “trust the government they know what they are doing”.
She has no off switch… when she spouts a conspiracy nonsense it’s because she believes it… which means they can’t wave a bag of money or tell her “same team stop”.
I think part of it is she isn’t fully part of the GOP establishment. So when her opinion is different than them, she actually has the balls to vote her belief not party lines.
I expect more of this.
The party identity is based on opposition. Like a petulant child. It’s connected to the conspiratorial thinking: “THEY are tricking us!”
Since there is no science and Truth is a personal, felt revelation, they cannot maintain a unified picture of the world
Yeah, maybe nobody is sure what she believes, but she does believe it and that’s almost refreshing.
She can play off the “maverick/rogue” schtick
Doesn’t mean she’ll actually do anything that could hinder the Party.
She’s a rabid dog pointed a useful direction for once. Let her go to work, just don’t turn your back on her.
Did I……did I just agree with MTG?
[runs to check the current temp in hell]
No, that’s alright. You see, it’s affecting her now, so now she cares. It’s always the same.
She’s also been a firm advocate for Epstein’s victims and has repeatedly called for releasing the Epstein files.
She believes the worst conpiracy theories and she’s a terrible bigot, but the difference between her and her peers is that she actually believes the things she says she believes. She’s not just grifting for profit. She ran on a platform of being against child sexual abuse, and she’s still against child sexual abuse.
This is somewhat less notable, as it’s the usual Republican “but this affects ME now”, but she is actually different from the other Republicans in Congress because she has principles that she sticks to. Many of them are horrible principles, but they’re principles nonetheless.
Upside down world
The grunts emitted by the Neanderthal is making more sense than usual.
Please don’t insult Neanderthals like that. Evidence shows they were peaceful and comparatively intelligent.
And cared for their fellow thals.
Yeah fair, the trouble with her DNA probably has more to do with a long succession of far too closely related ancestors.
If there was ever a sign we need to check our carbon monoxide detectors, here it is.
Have the day you voted for.
