What's going on with MTG?

[iemanja]

First Israel and Gaza and now supporting ACA subsidies. And, thanks to Bernardo de la Paz for reminding me, her demands to release the Epstein files. Is she sick? Having a midlife crisis? What’s going on?

[newdeal2]

1. I think she got pushed out of Trump's orbit by Loomer

Now she has to carve out a new path because she has bigger ambitions than being a House rep.

[iemanja]

5. That makes sense.

[FHRRK]

8. Yup

Can’t be a Senator if she stays bat shit crazy.

And tRump screwed her, she kissed his ass and didn’t get a DC job.

[Buckeyeblue]

21. I think she wants a leadership position

And is carving our a slightly different path. It's interesting that she is pushing for the Epstein files to be released when it seems as if they are probably damaging to Trump and maybe very important donors.

My guess is that there are other republicans that would prefer to keep the ACA funding in place but they are too chicken shit to challenge Trump.

She could use the Epstein files as leverage. Funding ACA and we forget about the Epstein files. Seems like a Trump move thrown back at him.

[Silent Type]

2. I've seen speculation that she has relatives who need coverage, and they'll call her for financial help.

But no credible citation, just speculation.

[Dulcinea]

24. Her adult kids' premiums will double.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/2025/10/shutdown-fight-shows-gop-still-has-no-alternative-to-obamacare/

[RockRaven]

3. A combo of blind squirrel and nut, and selfaware wolves.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Not to forget her stance on the Epstein files. . . . nt

[iemanja]

6. Yes. Thanks. I'll add that.

[RT Atlanta]

7. seriously ill?

Maybe she's seen the light? had her ghost of Christmas moments?

[unblock]

9. She hasn't been the same since jasmine crockett's "Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body" snark

[H2O Man]

12. Classic!

[live love laugh]

13. B6 for short

[CatWoman]

40. LOL

you know, you're right??

[tinrobot]

10. She knows which way the wind is blowing.

And is trying to get away from an impending GOP collapse.

[rubbersole]

14. 100%.

I bet she saw tsf in an unguarded up close moment - decided to jump off the crazy train before Laura Loomer suggested to donnie that he make her the ambassador to Greece or something.

[H2O Man]

11. Recommended.

It may be that she is positioning herself for 2028. This would include the option for being the VP on the ticket. Such behaviors will become more common among other maga cult officials.

[womanofthehills]

36. On X she is often being discussed as VP possibly

She’s aligning with the young Republicans. Now that over 55% of Republicans under 30 are against the genocide.

[H2O Man]

39. Interesting.

Another factor I keep in mind is that she thinks the felon had committed to giving her a top spot in his second administration, then went back on his word. That's similar to NYS's "family" business's very own Elise Stefanik, the almost ambassador to the UN. The felon saw that she had gained weight since coming to Congress, and told people he didn't want a "fat lady" representing him. Hence, the lie that he needed her to hold that seat. While she doesn't have an apetite for publicly disagreeing with the felon -- like she did when she first came to the House -- she decided to run for governor, without discussing it with the felon. She, too, felt betrayed by the felon, and has political ambitions that include being the next VP, and eventually president.

[SSJVegeta]

15. She's slowly coming to terms with actual things that are happening and might actually be principled enough for that to

Matter.

She was a brainwashed looney tunes who has been acting on misinformation for decades. The wool is slowly coming off from over her eyes and because she might be a good person deep down inside, she is suddenly able to start making common sense decisions.

This is contrasting with the vast majority of her colleagues who never took anything for face value, knew everything was lies and still went with it because they are power hungry pieces of shit.

Time will ultimately tell.

[iemanja]

16. Chris Cillizza has a video on this very question

https://m.

[StoolPigeon]

17. Rat deserting sinking ship

[ScubaDave]

18. Moral Courage

The Republican Congress and Senate is comprised of idiotic fools, cowards, traitors, liars, crazies and scumbags. There is nothing redeeming about their willful ignorance, indifference and self-serving greed. She is still one of them. But something seems to have changed. She doesn't just disagree with Trump on Isreal/Gaza, she speaks passionately against the obvious Genocide taking place and actually seems to see and understand the horror. It wasn't Chuck Schumer or any of our other feckless democrats that introduced a bill to defund Isreal's iron dome instead of helping pay for the atrocity. She doesn't just prefer the Epstein files to be released, she is actively fighting for the victims and not wavering in her demands to release.

As a liberal democrat it is amusing and disheartening to see MTG and her diseased brain more accurately perceive, more truthfully articulate a position against the Gaza Genocide than our senate minority leader. Why do I think we can count on her not to cave on healthcare more than some of the turds in the Democratic Party that caved on the first opportunity to shut down the government. Dare I call it what RFK articulated as Moral Courage?

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Someone said that her kids get the ACA subsidies, so now it's personal

I have no idea if that's true or not - seems believable, 3 children probably in their 20s.

[TheBlackAdder]

23. Why's that moocher multi-millionaire throwing her kids on the ACA marketplace anyway?

[Takket]

20. Maybe the brainwashing is wearing off and she's coming to the realization her entire life devoted

To right wing propaganda has been a waste?

Nah.

[Vinca]

22. Her adult children are facing huge hikes in their health insurance premiums.

Same old story - if it affects them, it matters.

[Swede]

25. She was visited by three ghosts?

nt

[Bmoboy]

26. From under the bus

Trump put a spike in her plan to run for Georgia governor.

[randr]

27. There is a place where the far right and far left

come together on the other side of the circle. A place where it is recognized we are just coming from a different point of view.

[sop]

28. Internal polling, and a whole lot of angry constituents calling her office.

After burning so many bridges in DC, I suspect she's planning a run for governor.

[akbacchus_BC]

29. She is so fake! Hanging her mouth where the soup is leaking I guess. Most Dems are not taking her seriously

as is their prerogative. I can't stand her.

[Alice Kramden]

32. "Hanging her mouth where the soup is leaking"

Made me laugh

[Eugene]

30. a far-right populist who draws the line at screwing over her kind of people

It's all consistent in a wacky manner: a fear of Israel with deep distrust of Jews and the business elite. Alleged Mossad operative Jeffrey Epstein ties it all together with a nice bow.

[Torchlight]

31. I think she's just feeling irrelevant lately and wants to make noise nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

33. She's Feral

Not your typical political animal, not groomed and socialized. To those who like her, that is a big part of her appeal. She stands out by being outrageous and not easily domesticated by any so called elite structure, including the Republican Party.

A big part of her is garden variety calculating, trying to raise her profile and climb up the right wing political ladder, but when push comes to shove she is just as likely to go with her gut, since in large part that is how she garners attention. She is a classic loose cannon in other words.

[Shrek]

34. She knows Trump is a lame duck

She's trying to establish an identity so she has a "lane" once he's gone.

[uponit7771]

35. At best it's her grown children's future she's concerned about

[MineralMan]

37. MTG Is Insignificant.

She has always been so. She is a clown who is trying on some different makeup, but she is the same clown she has always been. Pay her no mind.

[IzzaNuDay]

38. I don't believe her current persona!

She knows she could be dead meat come the midterms. She’s trying to sound “normal”
so at least having a chance to win in 2026. If she wins again, she’ll be back to her original delusional self.

To her district constituents: don’t take the bait, vote her ass out!

[obamanut2012]

41. Three things

1. She wanted to run for GA Senator, and Trump said no, and he wouldn't endorse her
2. She was not given any Cabinet or WH position
3. She is a true CT/Qanon nut, and the Epstein files are her Roman Empire

[beaglelover]

42. I know. I"m starting to like her. LOL

[PurgedVoter]

43. All you have to do is look at the current state of Russia to see where Krasnov will take us.

Maybe MTG has noticed what happens in a dictatorship's machine and has caught on that the gears will catch her pretty early on. Well before any of us get rounded up, the long knives will be out for the blood of those who helped get us there but have become inconvenient on the way.

The 1% are short sighted if they think a dictatorship is going to let them save money on taxes. Anyone looking at the dictatorships of the world should be able to see where their freedom of movement, advancement and ability to retain and pass wealth to the next generation are going to go if and when we lose our democracy.

If we do lose our democracy and then manage to get it back, once again the 1% are not going to do well. Probably better than if the dictatorship continues, but not as well as if they had stayed out of politics and just paid their taxes.

[live love laugh]

44. She is honing her performative chops. She's got more range than I imagined.

[purr-rat beauty]

45. Midterms are coming

That's what happened to her

She's an inside trading, J6er enabling, racist, elitist, trump sucking hyena

[Initech]

46. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if she defected from MAGA.

Even some of the most die hard grifters in the MAGA cult are going "WTAF" with this administration.

When the real shit hits the fan, we'll see who the real loyalists are, and who's just a grifter.

Marge is definitely a grifter. She does it for the power and the status and that's it. She will turn on them to save her own ass.