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Fri Nov 21, 2025, 11:17 PM Friday

Presidential-paunch-grabbing pol returning home to flaunt the wealth she accumulated in office

...waving it around in front of the 'good, regular, common Americans,' as she named her constituents in hter resignation statement, people in her district and state who her republican party majority has been steadily impoverishing with their politics and policies, as if her successful grifting is their reward for elevating her to that conning class of government 'reformers.'

The improbably, recently reasonable(?) MTG, who's been feuding with the president whose paunch she mimicked groping on a life-sized poster because she was famous and she could, announced her intention today to resign in January, sounding exactly like an abused spouse - literally saying she 'refuses to be a battered wife.'

Greene's intending populist exit from the stage, nonetheless, includes her voicing continued support for a 'new census counting only Americans;' babbling like an idiot about protecting 'unborn babies,' anti-vax and covid protections; and someone 'medically trans-ing minors' like she's still rocking the QAnon microchip she implanted in her own head.

Marge is going home to what she calls her 'good, common Americans,' after she says she's been' cast aside by MAGA in favor of Necons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class (meaning, I guess, that they cut off her maga mad money).

But it's really not them, it's you Marge.

She came into Congress with a campaign agenda so anti-American that her own party initially ignored her as she tried displaying maga messaging outside of her Capitol office. In a very short while, the entire party had adopted her circus act and she became the one of the lead clowns sniveling at the opposition like a rabid rodent.

Was it destiny or was it deliberate that three of the most performative republicans in the House, in the entire party, banded together to publicly rebuke Donald Trump for stonewalling the Epstein files and heralded in an almost solid majority standing up to their cult leader for the first time as Trump pretended to be leading the hunt against himself?

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a typical republican whose been left out in the cold by the utter falseness, and utter unpopularity of the republican agenda; once just a political feint, actualized against their very own party's voters by their demagogue president who is intent on playing out every conservative delusion to it's most destructive consequence like a true believer; something most republicans like Marge were only bullshitting about for their constituents; the good, common people where they live who they convinced were victims of everyone other then their own feckless, grifting selves.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's net worth has significantly increased since coming to Congress. As of October 2025, her estimated net worth is around $25 million, up from about $700,000 before she took office in 2021.

In one instance of grifting off of her office, Greene purchased up to $315,000 in stock from major companies and sold U.S. Treasury bills days before before Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs.

Capitol Trades reported:

From Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR:US) to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD:US) to Tesla Inc. (TSLA:US), Greene’s trades read like a curated list of this year’s biggest tech winners. But it’s not just the stock picks that make her portfolio interesting - it’s the scale of her gains and the sectors she’s been targeting, some of which sit squarely in the middle of heated national debates.

Greene’s buying activity ramped up in early April 2025, just as tech stocks were accelerating into a major rally. Several of her buys, like Palantir, AMD, and Dell, saw price increases north of 70%. Her top trade, a Palantir buy on April 8 at $77.32, has nearly doubled, with the stock now trading at $144.25, a whopping +73.8% gain.

She also doubled down on a few names, making separate purchases on back-to-back days. That strategy worked: AMD, for instance, gained over 80% from her first buy, and nearly 50% from her second.

Her performance this year stands out even among active congressional traders, many of whom have also leaned into tech. But Greene’s picks suggest more than luck - they hint at a thesis. She appears to be betting on areas with strong government backing and bipartisan investment interest.

https://www.capitoltrades.com/articles/controversial-bets-blockbuster-returns-greene-s-trading-year-unpacked-2025-07-03


A smart party would take advantage of this curtain-pulling series of votes simultaneously defying the president while bending him to their will, but republicans are already devolving into a panicked dash to embrace whatever interest brought them there, outside of covering Donald Trump's ass, and it's just going to be a disgraceful display of self-interested dissembling to hold onto whatever they can before the coming collapse of their carefully constructed, centralized regime.

Leave it to Marge to just pile all of her garbage out into the public square as she cleans out her congressional office and packs away all of the wealth she's accumulated for her lone self to take home to flaunt in front of the good, regular, common Americans who are steadily collapsing under the economic weight of everything she ushered into Washington; a republican-damaged economy that's now threatening to upend their hapless lives and livelihoods.

People in her district can come out to the public square and take their pick of whatever new messaging she's offering her constituents right now - maybe in the form of some taxpayer-funded missive that invites them to share in this exciting phase of her schizophrenic journey of political self-discovery; complete with a celebration of her newly wealthy self, telling them all how some people, other than the government she and her party have been in charge of and spending all of our money, are actually the ones to blame for them not getting theirs.
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Presidential-paunch-grabbing pol returning home to flaunt the wealth she accumulated in office (Original Post) bigtree Friday OP
And she's likely to get a cushy gig on Fox News or other RW media...she's set for life pretty much... wcmagumba Friday #1
crocodile tears lol msongs Friday #2
Bookmarking for more attentive reading later. niyad Saturday #3
Shades of Caribou Barbie: quit when the act gets old. yellowcanine Saturday #4
Recalculating... Recalculating... Recalculating... Hugin Saturday #5

wcmagumba

(5,279 posts)
1. And she's likely to get a cushy gig on Fox News or other RW media...she's set for life pretty much...
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 11:19 PM
Friday

Sux...she doesn't deserve it...

yellowcanine

(36,687 posts)
4. Shades of Caribou Barbie: quit when the act gets old.
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 06:29 AM
Saturday

Being in Congress was always a performance for her - on to big and better performances!

Hugin

(37,174 posts)
5. Recalculating... Recalculating... Recalculating...
Sat Nov 22, 2025, 07:34 AM
Saturday

At least Greene (surprisingly) gives a rationale for stepping down. It may not be the actual reason, tho.

Since Greene had just finished riding out the Epstein Files Release Goat Rodeo(tm). During which we can all rely on the fact that Tantrum Tito showed her his full unfiltered ass. She discovered who he really is and who the retrumplicans really are and to a MAGA True Believer(tm) that is some bitter sausage.

Quite simply Greene FAFO. She has had a close-up encounter with being treated based on who she is rather than what she’s done. It’s the misogyny, stupid.

No, she’ll never give up MAGA as it’s been very very good to her.

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