Marjorie Taylor Greene Came Close to Getting the Joke

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2025/11/24/marjorie-taylor-greene-came-close-to-getting-the-joke/

Marjorie Taylor Greene Came Close to Getting the Joke
November 24, 2025 at 7:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard

David Frum: “When Jack Abramoff dominated Washington lobbying in the 1990s and early 2000s, he observed that there were two kinds of people in town: those who ‘get the joke’ and those who don’t.”

“Those who got the joke understood that all of the city’s talk of ideas and principles was flimflam to conceal self-enrichment at the public’s expense. Those who didn’t, didn’t…”

“Greene didn’t get the joke. Elected to Congress in Georgia in 2020, she became one of the loudest voices in American life for crackpot conspiracy claims: Pizzagate, QAnon, 9/11 trutherism, and a fantasy that California wildfires might have been caused by space lasers controlled by Jewish bankers. She repeated 2020-election denialism and promoted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda about his war on Ukraine.”

“For a long time, Greene’s seemingly fathomless gullibility qualified her as a MAGA leader in Congress. But the gullibility actually did have a limit. Sometime after her election, she began to realize that she’d been made a fool of.”

[tanyev]

1. That's assuming she's being sincere now.

An assumption I am not ready to make.

[Bengus81]

4. She's a fucking phony. Wish we're seeing the last of her but no..........

[NewHendoLib]

2. She IS the joke - one of the many MAGA jokes (that are not at all funny)

[Easterncedar]

3. Umm, except for her making millions on the way

I am not sure she was just gullible.

[Raven123]

5. Her wealth predated her election according to previous posts

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20825063

[Easterncedar]

7. Thanks.

[Raven123]

6. I honestly would like to know what information got through to her.

[GopherGal]

8. Seems more likely that AOC is right

and it's merely the thwarting of her personal ambitions that opened her eyes.
When the melon felon wouldn't let her become senator, she soured on the whole movement.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

9. She's a kook. Full stop.

[Aristus]

10. She wasn't made a fool of. She IS a fool.

It's just that now, everybody knows it,