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demmiblue

(38,793 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 07:38 AM Tuesday

This is from Marge Greene. You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats.

This is from Marge Greene.

You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats.

But the people who had no plan to deal with this crisis and still don’t want you to believe this is about “illegals.”

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-10-07T11:03:15.343Z
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This is from Marge Greene. You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats. (Original Post) demmiblue Tuesday OP
Marge keeps having flights into sanity. Irish_Dem Tuesday #1
Yeah, she's on the right side of this issue True Dough Tuesday #2
Yep. That is why I am calling them flights into sanity. Irish_Dem Tuesday #38
She must think she sees a pathway for herself to rise to the top of the GOP heap this way. tanyev Tuesday #6
If so, I think she's delusional. But ... Bluetus Tuesday #16
Trump blows her off because she isn't good looking enough for a woman and she's travelingthrulife Tuesday #25
It does seem like she has given up Bluetus Tuesday #34
Maybe not the heap-top TommyT139 Tuesday #30
Yes it could be a long shot gambit. MAGA doing the right thing. Irish_Dem Tuesday #39
Even a Blind Squirrel modrepub Tuesday #20
We don't see it happen very often with MAGA squirrels. Irish_Dem Tuesday #40
Ah, Marge calls for bipartisanship. no_hypocrisy Tuesday #3
I read her entire post somewhere else. It's funny that she starts it by bashing Obamacare tulipsandroses Tuesday #4
"No concern unless it affects them personally." Seinan Sensei Tuesday #19
Make no mistake, gab13by13 Tuesday #5
Wonder if the Tech Bros and MAGA will ever figure out that if you have no jobs, travelingthrulife Tuesday #26
Poor Marge hasnt been the same since trump Luz Tuesday #7
+1. She is jealous of the Trump Barbies dalton99a Tuesday #10
Too old for Donnie lonely bird Tuesday #15
Loonie Loomer's been working hard too! travelingthrulife Tuesday #27
*rump "Barbies"???? MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #33
Passes asshole based tax plan Johonny Tuesday #8
Wait a minute. Gimpyknee Tuesday #9
What the...? Trueblue Texan Tuesday #11
Its still kool-aid, its just made from purified water this batch, instead of donald trumps syphilis-piss. Volaris Tuesday #21
Americans can't even get free healthcare. Good luck getting folks to believe immigrants are somehow accessing that Arazi Tuesday #12
Marge dips her toe into the Cover Your Ass pool. No Barbie, you can't have it both ways. NBachers Tuesday #13
I will admit to a degree of humor... OldBaldy1701E Tuesday #14
Only when... E. Normus Tuesday #17
Marjory, Marjory, Marge..ory.... Is this really a shocking surprise to you? Did you not know... Ol Janx Spirit Tuesday #18
EVERYONE'S health care costs will go up. As premiums become more expensive, healthier young people wiggs Tuesday #22
seer poozwah Tuesday #23
Excuse me Bob_in_VA Tuesday #24
Rest of the Republicans keep on sleeping Champp Tuesday #28
She needs to switch parties. SSJVegeta Tuesday #29
Look at me!!! MorbidButterflyTat Tuesday #31
Just say it Maggot Traitor Greene ... you know you want to dweller Tuesday #32
I think she means, I'm lying my ass off. Let's take away her "scam" healthcare. 58Sunliner Tuesday #35
I think she feels the winds shifting. Joinfortmill Tuesday #36
+1 More of them will leftstreet Tuesday #37
Hell, perhaps someone can talk this woman into Universal Health Care. pat_k Tuesday #41

Irish_Dem

(75,904 posts)
1. Marge keeps having flights into sanity.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 07:41 AM
Tuesday

I am beginning to worry about her.
Must be some sort of MAGA breakdown.

True Dough

(24,671 posts)
2. Yeah, she's on the right side of this issue
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 07:42 AM
Tuesday

and wants the full Epstein files released.

But she's otherwise batshit crazy!

tanyev

(48,005 posts)
6. She must think she sees a pathway for herself to rise to the top of the GOP heap this way.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 08:20 AM
Tuesday

Bluetus

(1,646 posts)
16. If so, I think she's delusional. But ...
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:06 AM
Tuesday

this does seem to be an indication that at least one Republican is openly jockeying for position in the post-Trump era. Does she know something about his health or plans to remove him?

travelingthrulife

(3,443 posts)
25. Trump blows her off because she isn't good looking enough for a woman and she's
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:47 AM
Tuesday

a loudmouth blowhard, too much competition.

She has tried so hard to win his heart!

Bluetus

(1,646 posts)
34. It does seem like she has given up
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 12:14 PM
Tuesday

trying to be Trump's fav girl. Seems like Ivanka has given up that gig too.

TommyT139

(1,981 posts)
30. Maybe not the heap-top
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:10 AM
Tuesday

...but it's easy for anyone to see that in a close vote, the ones who have distanced themselves from the herd end up getting more leverage. She's found an outlier vantage point that doesn't piss off her base, and so is making the most of it.

But that kind of leverage only works if she threatens to use it, not if she actually does. That final card can only be played once.

Irish_Dem

(75,904 posts)
39. Yes it could be a long shot gambit. MAGA doing the right thing.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 03:24 PM
Tuesday

Will it work to impress the cult?

IDK.

tulipsandroses

(7,984 posts)
4. I read her entire post somewhere else. It's funny that she starts it by bashing Obamacare
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 07:44 AM
Tuesday

Then talks about how much premiums for her adult kids will increase. No concern unless it affects them personally.

But I’m still happy she is talking about it.

gab13by13

(30,006 posts)
5. Make no mistake,
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 07:51 AM
Tuesday

renewing the Obamacare subsidies is just a baby step, is not nearly enough to protect everyone's healthcare.

All of our premiums are going to rise, Medicaid will be gutted and people thrown off coverage, Medicare will also see drastic cuts.

I have a sneaky feeling that Congressional Democrats will agree to a watered down protection of healthcare to reopen the government.

I better schedule my 2nd knee replacement now.

travelingthrulife

(3,443 posts)
26. Wonder if the Tech Bros and MAGA will ever figure out that if you have no jobs,
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:49 AM
Tuesday

you can't buy their junk.

Luz

(872 posts)
7. Poor Marge hasnt been the same since trump
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 08:41 AM
Tuesday

snubbed her on that tarmac. She thought she'd be in the inner circle, but she just doesnt have that "mar-a-lago" look.

A woman scorned, ya know.

lonely bird

(2,571 posts)
15. Too old for Donnie
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:00 AM
Tuesday

Expect Melania to get kicked to the curb at some point. Leavitt and Habba have been auditioning for the position.

Gimpyknee

(856 posts)
9. Wait a minute.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 09:17 AM
Tuesday

Didn’t I just hear Speaker Johnson say Republicans are more concerned about improving healthcare than Democrats?

Volaris

(11,121 posts)
21. Its still kool-aid, its just made from purified water this batch, instead of donald trumps syphilis-piss.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:30 AM
Tuesday

Arazi

(8,424 posts)
12. Americans can't even get free healthcare. Good luck getting folks to believe immigrants are somehow accessing that
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 09:26 AM
Tuesday

Everyone in the US knows there’s no “free healthcare” for anyone.

Literally personally everyone knows that fact from lived experience every goddamn day.

Why the GOP thought this ridiculous lie would pass the smell test - even for the cult that’s motivated to believe any bullshit - is pretty crazy.

OldBaldy1701E

(9,265 posts)
14. I will admit to a degree of humor...
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 09:40 AM
Tuesday

Reading that this tool is saying that she is 'carving her own path'.

She has not had a single original thought since her birth. She has been the poster child for 'sycophant-ism'.

The fact that she has now figured out that her base is not as happy with her worship of the orange gibbon does not excuse her earlier attempts to be a complete tool.

Sure, we can applaud her for the position, but her history as a 'whichever makes the most people mad' practitioner just does not disappear because she got one thing correct.

E. Normus

(104 posts)
17. Only when...
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:08 AM
Tuesday

it impacts them or theirs do they care. I don't think she just figured it out. Well hmmm....So her adult kids might come to her to make up the difference is what has caused the turnabout. Millions will have to drop health insurance which will cause an increase in non emergency emergency room visits. All while claiming that ending the ACA subsidies will somehow stop emergency rooms from treating health emergencies to people regardless of legal status or ability to pay, which is the law! All of their "solutions" are really agendas. And their fake empathy is disgraceful.

Ol Janx Spirit

(417 posts)
18. Marjory, Marjory, Marge..ory.... Is this really a shocking surprise to you? Did you not know...
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:09 AM
Tuesday

...that these premiums were going to be "DOUBLING" (and more in many cases) when you voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill that set all of this in motion? It was in the damn bill. Did you not read it; not believe it; not think it would actually happen; or just fail to comprehend what Democrats were telling everyone about what would happen if you passed the reconciliation monstrosity along party lines?

Republicans in leadership haven't given you a plan to help Americans deal with their health insurance premiums precisely because it was their plan to allow the subsidies to expire in the first place to help pay for tax cuts for billionaires Marge. Very soon we will have the first trillionaire, but I bet there will not be a plan to have them help pay for anything in the U.S. budget will there Marjory?

And "all insurance is a scam"? I would note that us on the left never wanted the ACA to be an insurance program. We wanted a single-payer system that did not funnel billions into the pockets of middle-men, but I wonder who would not let that stand? You get what you can get and the ACA was far better than the system we had in place, but it obviously did not go far enough and has failed to be able to protect itself from the political vultures circling overhead at every turn.

So please tell us what your Faux News-addled brain sees as a good plan going forward--because your party's plan all along was to have these subsidies expire and premiums explode to deal a death-blow to the ACA. Do you want to claw back some tax cuts to reinstate the subsidies; do you want to just reinstate them and add to the debt and deficit; do you want to see us shift to a single-payer system; do you want to require employers to pay people enough to afford healthcare; do you want to require health systems to eat more costs and pay providers less? What's YOUR plan there genius? Because as far as I can tell, the plan from your leadership has always been to let anyone that can't afford to belong to a country club to die in the street.

wiggs

(8,479 posts)
22. EVERYONE'S health care costs will go up. As premiums become more expensive, healthier young people
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:35 AM
Tuesday

will leave the system...leaving those who need more care in the pool. The healthier group and larger pool are needed for the system to work.

Plus...less preventive and routine care will ultimately mean sicker patients and more costly solutions.

Plus...they are cutting Medicaid and Medicare. Higher costs for more people.

GOP has put forward ZERO proposals to help...instead they will break it. Even though polling seems to indicate that the public understands to some degree, this is about much more than just ACA subsidies and MSM/dems can do better at explaining, especially in the face of GOP lies.

poozwah

(371 posts)
23. seer
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:43 AM
Tuesday

marge is slowly leaving the dark side. i believe that she, like most politicians, is a strong believer in polls and her polls are most likely telling her that georgians want health care. they also want republicans to keep their promise regarding the epstein files. she is most likely tired of the house of representatives and wants to move on to other and higher political office. earlier polls showed that she would fare poorly in a senate race in 2026, but a move to the center may change that.

Bob_in_VA

(111 posts)
24. Excuse me
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:45 AM
Tuesday

but isn't this the same woman that just recently said that she voted for that POS without having read it first? Gee, what a practitioner of due diligence she is.

Champp

(2,268 posts)
28. Rest of the Republicans keep on sleeping
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:51 AM
Tuesday

so afraid to be woke - awake enough to see the ugly facts of Trump's Fascist Crime Wave. They just keep on sleeping as their Dark Republican Lord demands. So cowardly.

SSJVegeta

(1,673 posts)
29. She needs to switch parties.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:52 AM
Tuesday

Like yesterday.

Shes been very slowly figuring out that her values truly dont align with the party she represents but seems too stubborn to fully acknowledge she was duped by all the fake news and propaganda that consumed her.

People can change and completely denounce their past behavior and actions, then resolve to make up for them. I hope she does this.

MorbidButterflyTat

(3,736 posts)
31. Look at me!!!
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:34 AM
Tuesday

Look at me!! Look at me!! Look at me!! Look at me!! Look at me!! Look at me!! Look at me!! Look at me!!

LOOK AT ME!!!!!!

dweller

(27,273 posts)
32. Just say it Maggot Traitor Greene ... you know you want to
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 11:38 AM
Tuesday

Say “ : "I want to be good because i want to prove to God so i go to that next step, “ right?





✌🏻

leftstreet

(37,498 posts)
37. +1 More of them will
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:36 PM
Tuesday

Trump's greatest legacy will likely be creating unprecedented chaos and strife within the GOP

Rats do weird things while jumping off sinking ships

pat_k

(12,011 posts)
41. Hell, perhaps someone can talk this woman into Universal Health Care.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 09:27 PM
Tuesday

If private insurance is a "scam," perhaps a savvy person can push the right "MTG" buttons to get her on board with universal health care.

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