Marjorie Taylor Greene Resigns from Congress

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I've been on this Marjorie Taylor Green thing for just
a little while. When she first started kind of going
up and button up against Trump, I found that strange
because everything that we've heard from Marjorie Taylor Green has
been this very loud, very obnoxious, very polarizing just I mean,
she basically took Donald Trump's campaign strategy in twenty sixteen

(00:23):
that he won the presidency on, and then like four
years later, decided she wanted to get involved in politics
in Georgia. And then she shows up and ends up winning,
and she goes into Congress and she's doing all these
social media videos and she has all these crazy ideas,
and most everybody who's an independent or somebody on the

(00:45):
political left hated her, I mean hated her. There's there
was not a lot of redeeming qualities of Marjorie Taylor Green,
even if you like just you'd watch her behavior and
her yelling and interrupting Joe Biden during his State of
the Unions and stuff like it. Just but all of

(01:07):
a sudden, this year twenty twenty five has been the
year that Marjorie Taylor Green is really backed off of
that persona and she has gone on the view she's
gone on CNN lately. She has been pushing for the
release of the Epstein files. And now all of a sudden,
there's a bunch of Democrats that are saying stuff like
what Bill Maher said on his show as he was
talking this past weekend after learning that Marjorie Taylor Green

(01:29):
was resigning from her spot in the House of Representatives.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia was here recently, and I
was amazed by the number of people who reached out
after the show to say, Wow, I kind of like her. Yeah,
that's been my line for a while. Everyone's a monster
to you talk to them.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh good point. Think about this on Mom Donnie situation
and what we learned between Trump and Mom Donnie on Friday.
As soon as you start hearing Donald Trump talk about
Mom Donnie or he talks to Mom Donnie, all of
a sudden, they're real people. And now, all of a sudden,
you probably look at him a little bit different. Even
if you still think that he's a communist or you know,

(02:10):
islammicgradical who somehow got to the mayor's seat of New
York City, you probably feel at least somewhat different about
him after you heard Trump talk to him and talk
about him. Well, Marjorie Taylor Green had this announcement, and
we're not going to play the entire thing, but it's
a long statement that you put on X and this
came basically right after we had gotten off the air

(02:33):
on Friday. We'll play some of this. We'll get to
her official statement in writing and why she's doing this.
Here's Marjorie Taylor Green.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Hi, everyone. I've always represented the common American man and
woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which
is why I've always been despised in Washington, DC and
just never fit in. Americans are used by the political
industrial complex of both political parties at election cycle after
election cycle in order to elect whichever side can convince

(03:05):
Americans to hate the other side more, and the results
are always the same. No matter which way the political
pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for
the common American man or woman. The debt goes higher,
corporate and global interests remain Washington's sweethearts. American jobs continue

(03:26):
to be replaced, whether it's by illegal labor or legal labor,
by visas or just shipped overseas, small businesses continue to
be swallowed by big corporations. Americans hard earned tax dollars
always fund foreign wars, foreign aid, and foreign interest, and
the spending power of the dollar continues to decline. The

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average American family can no longer survive on a single
breadwinner's income, as both parents have to work in order
to simply survive. And today many in my children's generation
feel hopeless for their few and don't think they will
ever realize the American dream.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
All right, So just the first part of this. She
hasn't said anything about resigning yet. She's gonna get to
that in a second. But you hear the things that
she finds herself caring about a lot, and those aren't
necessarily different than I think a lot of Republicans. But
it's the fact that she has challenged the current administration, saying,

(04:23):
you said you were going to help solve this problem,
and nothing has been solved. That's what she's saying. And
then her saying that my kids and my kids generation,
you know what, they're not seeing the life the way
that I am. Is there a chance Marjorie's getting to
a point in her life where she realizes I don't
want to just be the angry you know, table flipper

(04:47):
in Washington, DC anymore? Or is there something else that
gave her the motivation to do all of this. We
will touch on that in a second. Here's more for Marjorie, and.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
That breaks my heart. I ran for Congress in twenty
twenty and have fought every single day, believing that make
America great again meant America first. I have one of
the most conservative voting records in Congress, defending the First Amendment,
Second Amendment, unborn babies because I believe God creates life
at conception and I love to fight for the little guy. Strong,

(05:19):
safe borders. I have fought hard for that. I've fought
against COVID tyrannical insanity and mandated mass vaccinations, and I've
never voted to fund foreign wars with your hard earned
tax dollars. However, with almost one year into our majority,
the legislature has been mostly sidelined. We endured an eight

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weeks shutdown wrongly resulting in the House not working for
the entire time, and we are entering campaign season, which
means all courage leaves and only safe can pain. Reelection
mode is turned on in the House of Representatives during
the longest shutdown in our nation's history. I raged against
my own speed and my own party for refusing to

(06:02):
proactively work diligently to pass the plan to save Americans
healthcare and protect Americans from outrageous, overpriced and unaffordable health
insurance policies. The House should have been in session working
every day to fix this disaster, but instead America was
force fed disgusting political drama once again from both sides

(06:23):
of the aisle on television every single day.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, So there she is, and we got more here.
She's going to make the announcement that she's going to resign.
She's not raging again stuff that didn't happen, and she's
not unveiling a bunch of stuff that was behind the scenes.
This is stuff that she was out on television talking about.
This was the stuff that we knew was going on

(06:47):
the government shut down. We are nearly a year into
the majority here, and do you feel like everything has
been done the way that you wanted it to be done.
You know what else we learned this weekend that Doge
no longer exists. Remember that, remember Doge? And like this
was going to be a new government agency, and it
was gonna have some permanence, and it was going to
literally be in here just trying to sift through waste

(07:09):
and you know, fraud that is like deep in the government.
To save people millions of dollars, billions of dollars, maybe
trillions of dollars. It didn't really do much of anything. Yeah,
I cut some programs. It costs people their jobs, a
lot of people's jobs who they ended up offering them

(07:30):
their jobs back for different reasons. Elon Musk had a
really public falling out with Donald Trump after just a
few months of being on the job. And Doge did
have an expiration day. Remember it was supposed to expire
and be gone forever next summer. It almost made it
halfway there. It just it stopped becoming a thing that

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people were paying attention to. And I gotta be honest
with you, that is a good example of kind of
the seeming confusion and inconsistency that we've seen so far
this year. And this needed to be a year where
Republicans got a ton of stuff done and really haven't
been able to do as much as they would have
liked to do. Donald Trump, I think has done a
pretty good job of trying to get what his agenda

(08:16):
is and get it off the ground. But the big
beautiful bill and those are like not the same. Those
those are. That's exactly why Elon Musk started to get
mad at Donald Trump. You brought me in to clean
this stuff up, and now you're building in like five
trillion more dollars of taxpayer debt potentially in the future
with this gigantic bill. Had a government shutdown, they didn't

(08:37):
work for Base the two months. You know, you wasted
two months of your majority in the House in the
Senate because we were stuck in a government shutdown. A
lot of stuff to be griping about. And I'm hearing
everything she's saying on that, you know what I'm saying,
and uh, you know, it takes some courage for whatever
it's worth to break rank with the people in your

(09:00):
own party in twenty twenty five for any reason, but
especially this much, this many times. When Marjorie Taylor Green
announced that she was resigning from Congress effective in January,
we haven't got to that part. We're playing her statement
here and kind of talking about different things that you're
saying and what it means. So let's go ahead and

(09:20):
jump back into this. Here's picking up where we left
off Marjorie Taylor Green in her big video announcement about
her resignation. We haven't gotten to that point yet, and
then we'll start figuring out why she's doing this and
what this means going forward for the Republicans across the country.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
My bills, which reflect many of President Trump's executive orders,
like calling for a new census counting Americans only to
draw new districts, making English the official language of the US,
making it a felony to medically trends a minor, and
other bills like eliminating capital gains taxes on the sale
of your primary home and eliminating H one bvs just sit.

(10:01):
They all sit collecting dust. That's how it is for
most members of Congress. Bills the speaker never brings them
to the floor for a vote. Many common Americans are
no longer easily convinced by paid political propaganda spokespersons and
consultants on TV and paid shills on social media, obediently
serving with cult like conviction to force others to swallow

(10:24):
the political party talking points because they know how much
credit card debt they have they know how much their
bills have gone up over the past five years. They
actually do their own grocery shopping and no food costs
too much. Their rent has increasingly gone up and up.
They have been outbid by corporate asset managers too many

(10:44):
times when they put in an offer to buy a house.
They have been laid off after being forced to train
their visa holding replacement. The college degree they were told
to earn only left them in debt with no big
six figure salary. They see more homeless people than ever
on their own community streets. They can't afford health insurance
or practically any insurance, and they just aren't stupid. These

(11:09):
are the people I represent and love because that is
who all of my family and friends are, Common Americans.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
All right, Wow, that's a bit of a scorch durf
statement there by somebody who has no reason to be
pleasing anyone, going after Speaker Mike Johnson, going after Donald Trump,
going after Republicans, and she's speaking on behalf of her
people in the fourteenth Congressional District of Georgia and regular

(11:39):
people around the United States. If you wrote down all
the things that she just said there, I think most people, look, Yep,
that's a problem. Yep, that's the problem. Yep, that's a problem.
Ye that's a problem. Yet we still support these politicians.
We still support these politicians that have this system that
has been in place for years and years and years.
And it took Marjorie about five I have six years

(12:02):
to realistically understand what was and wasn't happening and decided
to leave or or maybe the more likely scenario is
that Marjorie felt like she was doing everything she could
to get the promotion she wanted for her own political
ambitions by running for either a Senate seat or the

(12:25):
governor spot in Georgia and was told no by the
Trump people. But the administration, the people he put himself around,
said no, Marjorie, we don't want you to be doing
any of that. You just need to stay in the
fourteenth Congressional District and we appreciate what you're doing there.
Is that what created this did Marjorie Taylor Green get

(12:47):
told that your ambitions are not going to be fruition
or come to fruition with Donald Trump as President of
the United States. Imagine being so loyal to your employer,
so loyal to your boss, doing everything you can to
be useful, and then when a promotion comes up for you,

(13:10):
you could passed over for it for any given reason.
You're not going to be super happy about that, and
that's probably going to change your attitude going into work. Now,
we still have about half of her statement here, and
again she hasn't announced that she's We haven't gotten to
the part where she actually announces that she's leaving Congress.
But we're going to get to that here in the
first segment of the next hour, and then we're going

(13:30):
to continue our speculation of what this means moving forward. Now,
what's her motive? Only she really knows that, But you
want to know something. I think it's important for us
to try to figure out is this salvageable? Not just
you know, you have somebody who is a staunch supporter
of Trump now leaving Congress. What's going to happen next.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
I've been blessed to represent the fourteenth District of Georgia
for five years.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
That is filled.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
The district is filled with some of the most wonderful,
kind hearted, god fearing, patriotic, hard working people you will
ever meet, good regular common Americans. I've worked hard to
bring taxpayer dollars back home to help district needs. I
impeach Biden's Secretary of Homeland after watching my constituents die

(14:16):
as he facilitated dangerous open border invasion into America. And
I led the effort to defund hard left politically bias
NPR and PBS and the corrupt USAID. And I did
that as chair of the Doge Subcommittee. I have fought
harder than almost any other elected Republican to elect Donald
Trump and Republicans to power. I traveled the country for years.

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I spent millions of my own money. I missed precious
time with my family that I can never get back.
And I showed up in places like outside the New
York Courthouse and collect Pond Park against a raging leftist
mob as Trump faced Democrat law fair.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Meanwhile, go ahead and pause it. There, I'm what she's saying.
Here is the every reason why, no matter how much
I generally dislike a lot of theatrical like look at me,
look at me politicians, This is why I have respect
for people who are willing to have this as their life.

(15:17):
You really are just in it. There's no you don't
get to shut this off. You don't get to be like, yeah,
you can take a trip, you can go on vacation,
they give you a few weeks off every year. Sure,
but you're hearing about it on social media. You're hearing
about all sorts of stuff on social media. You can
go even to your home, and most of the time,
unless you live in a very quiet district or in

(15:38):
a quiet place, you're gonna be bombarded with people, no
matter how friendly you're hoping to be. That's a difficult thing.
And for somebody like Marjorie Taylor Green, who did not
come from a political background, that probably would be my assumption.
It's probably a bit of a change up for her.

(15:58):
It was probably something that she felt in her heart that,
you know, like man, I wanted to do this, but
after a few years of doing this, she probably lost
a lot of the passion for it to begin with.
That doesn't necessarily fully explain everything that we're going to
get into about this decision and her attitude change. We
will get to that, but I do think it's worth
mentioning that. I think it's important to note that that's

(16:23):
got to be a factor here too, where she's just like, man,
I'm wearing myself out in for what besides the millions
of dollars which we will also get to all right,
more from Marjorie Wow.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Most of the establishment Republicans who secretly hate him and
who stabbed him in the back and never defended him
against anything, have all been welcomed in right after the election.
And I will never forget the day I had to
leave my mother's side as my father had brain surgery
to remove cancerous tumors, in order to fly to Washington,

(16:55):
DC to defend President Trump and vote no against the
democrats second impeachment in twenty twenty one. My poor father
and my poor mother, it was way too much for
all of us. Through it all, I never changed or
went back on my campaign promises and only disagreed in
a few areas, like my stance against H one b's

(17:17):
replacing American jobs, AI state moratoriums, debt for life, fifty
year mortgage scams, standing strongly against all involvement in foreign wars,
and demanding the release of the Epstein files. Other than that,
my voting record has been solidly with my party and
the president. Loyalty should be a two way.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Street, all right, So just real quick, if there are
places that will grade like liberty scores, Like if you
look up liberty scores, they'll do a good job of
kind of saying how conservative is a person's voting record.
She's got one of the highest ones, for whatever it's worth. Like,
has she been quite disagreeable this year with Republicans on
different things? Yes she has. Has she also still been

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more one of the more conservative voting records that exist
in Washington, DC, Yes she has. Now, I don't I
couldn't off the top of my head tell you the
demographics of the Georgia fourteenth Congressional district. But what I
can tell you is if you're looking at her and
you're just comparing her liberty score to other people's liberty scores,
she is truly one of the most conservative people in Congress. Okay,

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more from Adorie.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
And we should be able to vote our conscience and
represent our district's interests because our job title is literally representative.
America first should mean America first and only Americans first,
with no other foreign country ever being attached to America
first in our halls of government. Standing up for American

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women who were raped at fourteen years old, trafficked and
used by rich, powerful, men should not result in me
being called a trader and threatened by the President of
the United States, whom I fought for. However, while yes hurtful,
my heart remains filled with joy. My life is filled

(19:08):
with happiness, and my true convictions remain unchanged because my
self worth is not defined by a man, but instead
by God, who created everything in existence. You see, I
have never valued power, titles, or attention. In spite of
all the wrong assumptions about me, I do not cling
to those things because they are meaningless and empty traps

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that hold too many people in Washington. I believe in
term limits and do not think Congress should be a
lifelong career or an assisted living facility. My only goal
and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party
accountable for the promises it makes to the American people
and put America first. And I have fought against Democrats

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damaging policies like the Green New Deal, wide open, deadly
unsafe border policies, and the trans Agenda on children and
against women. With that has brought years of non stop,
never ending personal attacks, death threats, law fair, ridiculous slander
and lies about me that most people could never withstand

(20:14):
even for a single day.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
All right, and this is nowhere. We're getting to the
nitty gritty, and she's about to, you know, say in
the video that she's going to make the announcement. And
we'll get to this in a second. I do want
to just outline this really quickly. The idea of you're
either all the way in or all the way out
with Trump. I think that exists for people in the
political party. But I also think you have opened yourself

(20:36):
up to be a bit of a target when you're
as loud about your position either for or against, like
Marjorie Taylor Green was, like Thomas Massey is on the
other side, if you are loudly in support of Donald
Trump and you're you know there, and you're cheerleading him on, Yeah,
he's going to love you until you want to step

(20:57):
out of that train track, right you want to say, actually,
I have a disagreement on one of these things. If
you open that door and you say that, that does
put you in a pretty dangerous situation with the populist
like Trump, because he really wants to surround himself with
the people who has he has all the allegiance for,

(21:18):
and that's something that we know. He's also attracted I
think to people who are charismatic and people that he
wants to hang out with. Honestly, you want to talk
about the thing with Mom Donnie that we didn't really
get to. The more you look at it, the more
it's just like I think he just sees some of
himself in zor Mom Donnie. Maybe not with all of

(21:38):
the political viewpoints, but the charisma and the fact that
they're New York guys, the fact that they're Metropolitan guys.
When Donald Trump was his age, he was a Democrat.
For whatever it's worth, I think he would love to
just hang out with this guy, be seen with this guy.
He's like, this guy's impressive to me, he's an impressive guy.
You go to a CEO's business or something. You look

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the part, you dry up, you're charismatic, you look great,
you're well groomed, you smell good. That guy's gonna be like,
you know what, I kind of like that guy. It's
a bit different than you know. You come in and
you look fairly disheveled, and you don't speak with confidence,
you don't have that strong handshake. Trump loves people like that.
So even if you want to oppose him. There's a
way to do it that you can survive and at

(22:20):
least keep him from wanting to bury you. Marjorie went
a few levels further, and Donald Trump wanted to get hurt.
Like He's like, we're gonna primary you. We don't want
you anywhere near us anymore. It's quite the turnaround from
somebody who was one of his most vocal supporters. We'll
get to the end of there's just a couple of

(22:41):
minutes left of Marjorie's statement here. When we get done
with that, we will take calls. I got emails coming
in about this, and we need to start thinking about
not only what this means for Marjorie, but what this
also means for the Republican Party. Will there be others,
Will there be other people who are Republicans that say,
you know what, I can't work with this president, I

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can't work in this Congress. Well, what's this going to
mean next? What does this mean about who we can
or cannot trust? What does this mean about Marjorie? Which
is the real Marjorie, the Marjorie we saw in the
first four years that she was in office, or the
Marjorie we've seen this year, standing up to Republicans, trying
to hold them accountable, and seemingly being willing to talk
to people on CNN in the view, where otherwise in
the past she would just be doing these crazy antics

(23:26):
on social media for attention and trying to bury these people.
It's interesting the evolution of this woman, and I think
that's one of the reasons why it's worth talking about
because she was such a pro Trump person. Her bio
on Twitter still is pro trump like. It still says
pro Trump on there. So here you go. Now that

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that whole thing has fallen apart on her, here are
the last couple of minutes of her message to the
fourteenth Congressional District of Georgia and America.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
It has been unfair and wrong not only to me,
but especially to my family, but it's been wrong to
my district as well. I have too much self respect
and dignity. I love my family way too much, and
I do not want my sweet district to have to
endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the

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President that we all thought for only to fight and
win my election. While Republicans will likely lose the midterms
and in turn be expected to defend the president against
impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars
against me and tried to destroy me. It's all so
absurd and completely unseerious. I refuse to be a battered

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wife hoping it all goes away and gets better. If
I am cast aside by the President and the MAGA
political machine and replaced by Neo Khn's big pharma, big tech,
military industrial war complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor
class that can never ever relate to real Americas, then

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many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.
There is no plan to save the world or a
four D chess game being played when common American people
realize and understand that the political industrial complex of both
parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected

(25:21):
leader like me is able to stop Washington's machine from
gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that
they common Americans, the people, possess the real power over Washington.
Then I'll be here by their side to rebuild it.
Until then, I'm going back to the people that I
love to live my life to the fullest as I

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always have, and I look forward to a new path ahead.
I'll be resigning from office, with my last day being
January fifth, twenty twenty six, and I look forward to
seeing many of you again sometime in the far. May
God bless you all and make God bless America.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Marjorie Taylor Green officially announcing her resignation on social media
on Friday. She has an official statement out, am I
gonna read that it's a kind of redundant compared to
everything that we just said. But I do think that,
for whatever it's worth, this was a president that wanted
to drain the swamp, and here she is saying that
she sees the swamp and does not want to be

(26:25):
a part of the swamp. She's gonna just ski daddle
because it's a good point, right. So let's say she
wants to stick around. She knows Donald Trump's gonna try
to put up a primary opponent against her. They're gonna
put a ton of money into that race because they
want to try to get her removed. That's gonna be
damaging to her, It's gonna be damaging to the district.
It's gonna be damaged to Republican politics in the district.

(26:48):
Anybody who has supported her. It's gonna be damaging to them.
It's gonna be tough for her family. I mean to
gain what even if she wins, then you spend another
two years with the president that hates you. I think
this was probably her best option if she wants to
have a happy life. She's fifty one years old. By

(27:10):
the standards of the age in which many people are
getting into politics or having success in politics, she is
still a young person. I don't know what she wants
to do. There were rumors that were circulating that she
wanted to become president potentially. We've mentioned that a couple

(27:31):
of times. Is is she kind of positioning herself to
be America's favorite Southern aunt with her kind of attitude
change in the way that she's talking in front of
the camera now showing up on the view, showing up
on you know, CNN, and trying to explain herself, explain
what she was for the last four years before she

(27:51):
kind of had some of this stuff and recognize some
of this stuff. Is that what she's hoping to do?
Is she also hoping to, you know, position herself for
a media career. Potentially, maybe she gets a podcast, maybe
she has a TV show. You know, she's a high
profile individual. If she gets told, hey, Marjorie, we can

(28:12):
set you up a little studio in you know, in
Georgia wherever you'd like, and we can make that happen
for if you want. You know, she she wants to
have her voice heard on a daily basis about things
that are happening in American politics. She's going to have
an outlet to do that. January fit's an interesting day too,

(28:33):
because her pension kicks in on January third, so she
officially like her waiting that long. And I don't I
don't think that's a huge gotcha moment, right Like if
you were in that situation and you're like, hey, if
I can last another six weeks in this hell hole
of a job, no matter what your job is, and

(28:54):
I can get to like this thing that either gives
me a bonus or gets me, you know, a pension,
or gets me to retirement or whatever you're getting there,
you're not too self proud to say, oh, you know,
let me let me not get this thing that my
longevity has allowed me to get. Now you could say, well,
she's only been there for five years, yes, but still

(29:17):
come on, guys, there's zero people, absolutely zero people who
are a functioning individual who in Congress. In your own job,
you generally are not thinking out of Like when you're
thinking in your brain about what you want to do, subconsciously,

(29:43):
you're also going to be doing things that are in
your best interest. And I think everything that she's doing
here is in her best interest. It just is reading
like she's trying to trick people, when I don't really
think that that's what's going on here. There are a
lot of other people who are speculating that this is

(30:04):
the first of potentially multiple interesting congressional resignations that people
might be needing to expect by the turn of twenty
twenty six. I'm not sure I'm on board with that, because,
like I said, you're kind of punting quite a bit
of power, quite a bit of ambition by just leaving Congress.

(30:25):
But if you're Thomas Massey, do you enjoy being combative
with this president of the United States knowing you're gonna
get primaried hard in twenty twenty six. Does it make
sense to hang around or does it make sense for
you just to bow out and let Donald Trump and
the constituents do what they need to do, because if
you lose, you're destroyed. If you try to run and

(30:46):
you lose, then what happens to you? It makes no sense.
This is politics, one oh one. So much for draining
the swamp. For whatever it's worth. It's three twenty seven.
George has been on hold. I want to get to
this call before we hit the commerci shall break here, George,
Thank you so much for calling in today. What do
you think about this?

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Hey? Brother? They're all in the swamp necked beef, including her.
All you got to do is look at five years
ago she went into Congress, but the net worth of
seven hundred thousand dollars, she's got one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars year job. She's worth twenty five million dollars.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
What happened? You stole everything wasn't nailed down for five years.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
So get off your high horse. Everybody there, no matter
what party, is a friggin thief.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yep. Yep. Hey, George, I appreciate the passion on this.
Thanks for calling in. Man later, bro, Yeah, he is,
He's right. Everybody's on a high horse. She has made
quite a lot of money while she's been in Congress
for different reasons. Now where that money's come from. Is

(31:53):
she more innocent than anyone else? Yeah, I mean like
you couldn't say that. I don't think there's anybody out
there that's going to be, you know, going to bad
for her when it comes to the rules of true
She talked about term moments and things. It's like you
can say that when you're not planning to be there forever.
I agree. I don't think there should be career politicians.

(32:13):
I think that people are going to be apt to
get a lot more done if they're not constantly just
trying to stay electable see Schumer, see Pelosi, etc. It's
a better America, healthier America if there's going to need
to be more candidates that come through all these different
districts and positions and allow other people to have a

(32:34):
seat at this table instead of you using and abusing
your position, as you know, career politicians for whatever it's worth.
So I get it. So her saying term moment's sure,
it's easy for her to say when she knows she's leaving.
But people in Congress are not going to vote to
outlaw trading on Wall Street no matter what they do

(32:55):
or do not know because it goes against their best
personal interest. It is just common sense. You're not gonna
vote for something that's going to take potentially millions of
dollars out of your own pocket. Everybody else is doing it.
That's that's what you're hearing. And it is swampy, and
you're right. She's not innocent by any means when it
comes to that stuff. There was a football game, wasn't there.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
How many how many of you guys remember that football game?
Do we do we bring memories back on that or
do we.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Just punt punt on the football game? Look forward, not back?

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Did we just turn our heads and act like we
didn't see it? Like somebody familiar in the grocery store.
We just ducked to the other aisle and avoid the
confrontation of it.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Not gonna, not gonna look up, not gonna look.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Not yep, turning away, Uh, next aisle.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, I think Uh, I think it's a good Uh,
it's a good point. We'll see. We'll probably need to
unpack it at least a little bit with Sean Callahan
the five o'clock hour. AnyWho. Marjorie Taylor Green resigned from Congress,
and we uh, I mean, there there's a lot of
people in my inbox saying I just need to break

(33:59):
from pauls Now because they don't know what to think,
they don't know what to believe, they don't know what's good,
you know, like clearly so does Marjorie. Well that's it. Well, right,
so she needs a break from politics. But this is
like kind of a harbinger effect of what are we
doing here? Over a single weekend, over a seventy two

(34:20):
hour span, Donald Trump fraternized with a guy he had
called a communist and a guy who had called him
a fascist fraternized with him to the point where you
couldn't quite understand or figure out where the lines were.
And he was asked, point blank, would you be comfortable
living in New York City if Zoraman Donnie was your mayor?
And Donald Trump, of all people, point blank said yes

(34:43):
I would. After meeting him, Yes I would. Wow. Okay,
Marjorie Taylor Green, who was about as loud a Trump
cheerleader post twenty twenty that we've had, this is, you know,
a quite an interesting scenario, and she resigns from Congress.

(35:04):
Her not only did the Donald Trump Marjorie Taylor Green
relationship sour and she really, I mean she is a Trumpian.
Everything that she said or did throughout her campaign when
she wanted to get into politics, she is a product
of Donald Trump, straight up. And then he turns on
her after she kind of turns on him, and now

(35:27):
she's resigning from office. And then we find out over
the weekend that, oh, yeah, Doge, it just doesn't exist anymore.
We haven't heard anything about it. Elon Musk left months ago,
but now like it didn't even make it halfway through
its lifespan and what it was supposed to be, and
with the big beautiful bill here, I mean, what saving
did we do? I mean, we ran this entire campaign.

(35:48):
Donald Trump was just gonna like zap out a lot
of our national debt stuff, and which, by the way,
I can consistently am saying, and other people think that
I am stupid for thinking this until you show me
who we owe money to and win. I don't think
this national debt thing, it's not going away. It's gonna

(36:11):
consistently be used for campaigns, people saying, oh, we got
to nail the national debt. That's my platform. We are
going to start taking out this national debt. Man, we've
been talking about this for like forty years now. When
the when the national debt was just like four trillion
dollars the election of nineteen ninety two, Ross Perrot, that

(36:36):
was his big platform. You know, he was a likable
third party guy, but like the whole he was like,
we're going to tax you because we need to eliminate
this debt. Now, obviously he didn't win, and but and
for whatever it's worth, Bill Clinton did a pretty good
job during the nineties of not letting it grow too much.
But we've just let this thing get completely out of hand.

(37:00):
We're talking forty trillion dollars. So what's the story there?
Does anybody really care about this? They just say they
care about it when they run for an election. Well,
nothing's been done about it. And the Doge thing, for
whatever it's worth, like it was doing some stuff and
I'm like, oh, yeah, eighteen million dollars here, you know,

(37:23):
six hundred million dollars over here, A sweet, that's awesome.
We're saving some money. A couple billion dollars here there
or whatever. You know what you want to know how
much that it's going to take for us to start
digging ourselves out of this hole of the national data.
If that's what we really care about, we're not even
putting drops in the bucket. And now those doesn't exist anymore.
So whatever waste fraud and you know, whatever whatever they

(37:48):
said it was, you know, they've they've essentially got rid
of all of it. Were led to believe, or maybe
it just wasn't as effective as they wanted it to be.
I don't know, but it leads you to leave what
has actually happened here and just in the last three
days between mom Donnie and his meeting with Trump, between
Marjorie Taylor Green and her resignation from Congress, and the

(38:13):
information that we now have that dose just isn't a
thing anymore. It really tells you that we're kind of fools.
You know, has anybody called you a sheep? Is there
anything worse than being called a sheep? I've heard the
phrase multiple times, And have you been called one yourself?
Has somebody been like you're just a sheep? Yes, I'll say, yes, okay, sheep.

(38:38):
This is why I like I did the people. I
did this segment with my friend Jeff Angel. I think
we're due for another one calling unsheaped the people. And
he's a political analyst, he's a talk show host. He
can see things because he wasn't elected official for quite
a while in angles that I don't really see them as.
But we try to unsheap the people because it's important
for you to be able to challenge your own opinions.

(38:59):
And I know a lot of people don't like doing that.
But when you don't challenge your own opinions, you find
yourself following your politician around, following your party around, following
your political movement around, and whatever they say you should
think or believe, at any given point, you're generally going
to agree with them, Okay, And that is being a sheep.
You know, the sheep follows the shepherd all day long.

(39:22):
A sheep doesn't have critical thinking skills. A sheep isn't
finding itself in a position which like, so should I
go here or should I go there? It doesn't have
to think like that. It literally exists, It lives, It breathes,
it eats, It doesn't want to get eaten. It looks
to the shepherd or the sheep dog. Okay, now I'm

(39:44):
not saying everybody's a sheep. Obviously, I'm not, but the
term itself. You have to ask yourself, Am I thinking critically?
Do I feel like I can challenge the people when
I disagree with them? Am I blindly agreeing with either
Donald Trump or Marjorie Taylor Green? Or my blindly agreeing
with Jim Pillen? Am I blindly agreeing with? You?

Speaker 5 (40:04):
Know?

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Enter your political person here. You know, if you're a Democrat,
Am I just agreeing with Barack Obama? Do I always
just find myself agreeing with Kamala Harris. I hate to
break this to you, but there should never be a
reason you would ever agree one hundred percent with anybody
in politics, because you should be thinking independently. You can

(40:25):
still support these people, that's fine, but just following them
around blindly, be like, oh, well, I'm on this person's
side because that's my leader. I voted for them, and
then we find ourselves here A year later, Doge hasn't
done what it said it was going to. Elon Musk
had a very public divorce from Donald Trump. They've since

(40:45):
mended that fence a bit, but he was, you know,
the Epstein file thing, all all this thought about, all
this transparency, and then all of a sudden, the Epstein
File thing goes to complete other direction. Over the summer,
you see people like Marjorie Taylor Green and other Republicans saying,
we're not doing what we said we were going to do.
This big, beautiful bill is supposed to add up to
five trillion dollars to our national debt. All this stuff

(41:07):
did you vote for?

Speaker 2 (41:08):
That?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Was that what you like thought you were voting for?

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Now?

Speaker 1 (41:13):
I think Donald Trump is doing a good job as
President of the United States. I want that to be
clear too. I think the foreign worst thing. I have
no problem with him trying to get involved and in
these wars without our people having to go and fight
these wars. A peaceful world is a good world. And
you know what, a peaceful world doesn't exist without a
strong United States of America militarily. And that's important that

(41:34):
to me, while I care about my wallet, that was
number one. I need to make sure that we're not
gonna get thrown into another world war. But there are
plenty of other things that you can say, we're not
exactly doing what you said we were gonna do on this,
and you're starting to see that manifest itself with this
Marjorie Taylor Green situation and Donald Trump going on social
media and basically attacking her and giving her bad nicknames

(41:56):
and saying that we're gonna, we're gonna primary her and
we're gonna get her out of there because she doesn't
agree with us anymore. This is the nasty part of
American politics. And we sit here and we eat this up,
we rub our hands together, We're like, oh, yeah, I
love this drama. I can't wait to go vote for
these people. And then the stuff that we vote for
them to do it actually does affect our lives. And

(42:16):
then they don't do what they said they were going
to do. So what gives Are we happy with that?
Are we pleased with that? Is there anything that we
would like to change on that? Or are we just
still too excited to just blindly support whomever this is.
It's populism at its finest, and that's Mom Donnie, and
that's Trump. People have on both sides just like, Oh,

(42:39):
I gravitate toward this incredibly charismatic person because what they
say makes me excited, I feel things, and then you
just accidentally start finding yourself agreeing with everything that they say,
or even if the general population has a different perspective
on maybe a certain specific topic. Sometimes the candidate you
see this with Chuck Schum starts to manipulate his own perspective.

(43:03):
This is what makes him an electable guy. Oh they
think this now, I'm gonna think that now. And he
kind of like finds a way to beat him to
the punch a little bit, and all of a sudden,
his people are like, yeah, Chuck Schumer, he's still on this.
He hasn't burned those bridges with his people because he
has continuously found ways to fool them to stay in
office for as long as he can. And I got

(43:25):
to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, it's not the right
way to govern. That's just how I see it. I
find her new persona to be kind of leaning more
toward like what I suggested, if she wanted to get
into the media, wanted to get into podcasting, and maybe
in six eight years decides she maybe wants to put
her toes back in the political waters when she's still
in her fifties. She'd still be in her fifties at

(43:46):
that point. Kamala Harris just ran for president of the
United States. As I mean, she wasn't an unknown, but
she's she wasn't involved in federal politics before until she
was the vice president. She's sixty. She was sixty years old. Hey,
Marjorie Taylor Green's like ten years younger than her. So
she has plenty of time if she wants to get
back into the political realm. She can wait this Trump

(44:09):
thing out. And if she can get through, you know,
her kids kind of getting out on their own in
a lot of different ways. And you know, I write,
but she can totally rebrand herself as America's favorite southern
aunt who's going to make you some pumpkin pie and
set next to you on the sofa and explain to

(44:29):
you what America needs to do in certain situations. She
can do that, and I think it would be pretty effective.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
She just.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
It will take time. But that doesn't mean what she
was or was, Like, what's the real Marjorie? Because she's
faking one of these two things, the way she was
for four years or the way she is now. Adam said,
she disagrees with the Republicans refusing to subsidize Obamacare, and
now she's taught taking her ball and going home. Yeah,

(45:00):
that sounds exactly what a nut job would do, just
like how she's acted this whole time she's been in
the public spotlight. Yeah, so that's my thing. And I
responded to Adam here because I don't want to make
it sound like I'm just like a big Marjorie fan.
Now I'm not. I find her transformation quite interesting. But
I've been on here since I got this show, and

(45:22):
she's been a person that I've just rolled my eyes
at consistently. It's like, what are you achieving, Marjorie? What
are you trying to achieve? And you could still ask
those things, but at least it sounds like she's got
a backbone and a conviction now that she's standing up
to Donald Trump. So I essentially said, she's trying to
position herself for the future. But like, let's be honest.

(45:42):
Can we trust Trump and the way Trump thinks? Do
we know Trump's politics? Do we know where he stands
on stuff? Would you in a million years have thought
that Donald Trump in twenty twenty five would welcome a
self proclaimed democratic socialist mayor elect from New York City
into the White House and be like Patentam and like
how having like a jolly old time and looking up
at him and laughing with him. And saying that he

(46:04):
respects him and he thinks he's gonna do great. Come
on now, we'd have no idea, right, who do you trust?
Susan says. The thing Marjorie Taylor Green is sly like
a fox. How'd she go from that net worth? It's
been reported from abround seven hundred and fifty grand to
twenty five million in her five years in office. I'd

(46:24):
like to think she's being sincere, but giving all of
her vile, hatred and rhetoric over the years, I find
it hard to buy. Well, guess what it's either she
was faking it for four years to try to act
like Donald Trump because it got him all that power
as president of the United States, and she wanted to
see if she could get up to senator or governor
or whatever. Or she's faking it now and she is

(46:45):
really unhinged. It's hard to know because I don't know
her personally. I didn't know what she was like ten
years ago. I didn't know what she was like twenty
years ago. What I do know is we're about to
see what she's like when she's no longer in politics,
and what her rhetoric looks like. Because I think she's
probably going to be in the media in some way.