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Then Marjorie Taylor Greene puts the dagger in. Here's what she writes the White House and Republicans are meeting to try and figure out messaging going into the midterms and State of the Union next week. If you had put America first from the start instead of your rich donor class and foreign policy, you wouldn't have to strategize on how to gaslight Americans. If you had not called the Epstein files a hoax and treated the Epstein survivors, rape and trafficking victims like they didn't exist, and if you would release all the files and put your rich, powerful friends in prison, then Americans might actually listen to your messaging. Since you are since you all are on the struggle bus, I'll give you an American first tip that you all don't know about and are continuing to ignore. Especially since the President is coming to my former district on Thursday. Approximately 75,000 households in my former district had their health insurance double or more on January 1st of this year because the Affordable Care act tax credits expired and Republicans have absolutely failed to fix our health insurance system that was Destroyed by Obamacare. 75,000 households equals hundreds of thousands of people in Northwest Georgia whose health insurance doubled literally last month. Many drop their policies and no longer have health insurance. And that's on top of everyone else who complains daily about the absurdly high cost of health insurance. It affects everyone except the billionaires running the White House administration and Congress whom all have a very nice affordable government health insurance plan. And no, Trump Rx doesn't fix this. So that's not your messaging answer. I'm talking about younger, healthier people and families not on meds who can't afford to pay $1500 to more than $2000 per month just for their monthly health insurance premiums, not including seven to $10,000 for a deductible before they're ridiculously expensive health insurance policy kicks in. A truth social post or Trump video isn't fixing this either. Speaker Johnson claimed he had the Republican plan during the eight week shutdown in the fall, then carried on and has done nothing proving he lied once again. And don't go on Fox News crying about the filibuster. Everyone knows it's a stupid self imposed rule. That is absolute bullshit. The Senate only uphold filibuster to keep the unit party in power and to protect the big powerful industries who pay the lobbyists and fill everyone's campaign coffers. Messaging won't fix this. Delivering America first results for regular Americans is your only chance and going into another foreign war like with Iran makes it all worse. Only people, mostly boomers, spoon feeding Fox News propaganda will cheer that on and release all the Epstein files and stop protecting pedos. You ruined everything by covering up for them. And stop the bullying, harassment and name calling. It's immature, childish and tuning so many people away. Real leaders don't act like this and it's a horrible example set on the world stage. This isn't the behavior we want to teach our children. America would be better off if our government just did its job and was seen and not heard. Everyone is sick of politics contaminating and ruining everything. Life needs to be enjoyed without political domination and fighting. It's exhausting. There's one thing I know about Georgia's 14th these people will elect their representative on their own and most of them hate government anyways because the government has caused most of their problems with decades of pitiful America last selfish decisions. And you can call me all the petty names you want. I don't worship a man, I'm not in a cult and I refuse to fight for a team that refuses to win. Jesus is my savior and I know that he has already finished it and I'm good with that. All of this garbage and is fake anyways. Bottom line, deliver real results for the regular American people because respect is earned, not given. Then she posts this video of Sean Ryan. Sean Ryan was a right wing podcaster and here's what he just posted and Marjorie Taylor Greene repost this. Here, play this clip.

Donald Trump (10:54)

I've been pretty quiet about Pam Bondi in front of Congress the other day talking about how the dow's up to 50,000. Nobody gives a because what you should be talking about is how you are going to investigate and prosecute any pedophiles they're running around on Epstein island that you're affiliated with. But we didn't talk about that, did we? Oh, and what's the excuse? What was the excuse? Oh, if we prosecute everybody the whole system would go down. Well you know what that sounds like you Know what that sounds like? That sounds like how Trump ran his campaign. Let's drain the swamp. Doesn't that sound a lot like draining the swamp? It actually is drained the swamp, served up to you on a fucking silver platter. But you're not going to take it, are you? You're going to protect pedophiles. You're going to protect pedophiles rather than go after them and hope that everybody's happy that The Dow hit 50,000.

Political Commentator (11:56)

And then Marjorie Taylor Greene post this video of a guy by the name of Bobby Sauce. And here's what he had to say as well. Here, play this clip.

Political Analyst (12:06)

I do love this new line of attack where it's like you're a Democrat if you don't Deep Throat MAGA slop as it relates to the Epstein files or Thomas Massie or the like. It's like my brother in Soggy Brain. We're not doing the, we're not doing the Republican Democrat thing anymore. A lot of us moved past that. You understand? It's like if, when you do child, when you do child diddling, when you do cover up, when you do nefarious organizations around the entire globe getting covered up, we don't care if you got an R or a D, that that time has passed. Just because you vote on the right and generally agree with the vast majority of policies on the right doesn't mean that everyone on the left or everyone that is a Democrat is wrong all the time. If someone says something that is correct and true and timely and just, the D and the R doesn't matter, that's the type of oatmeal brain binary boomer slop style thinking that lets the real things that matter slip through the cracks while we focus on all the things on the fringe edges.

Political Commentator (13:00)

So as Marjorie Taylor Greene alluded to, Donald Trump will be giving a speech in her district, Georgia's 14th, as his way of saying, gotcha, Marjorie. Look what you did, Marjorie Trader. You turned your back on the MAGA movement. And let me be clear, I'm no Marjorie Taylor Green fan or apologist. And her saying this doesn't erase all of the years of hate and lies and things that she done and she did, in my opinion. But she's saying, look, I voted with you most of the time. And where we disagreed was where I said, you can't cover up for the pedos. And then you said, you need to cover up for the pedos. And if I want to remain in the cult, you said that, that Marjorie would have to cover up for the pedos. Also, Marjorie says, I don't want to do that. And Trump said, well, then you're out. You're out of MAGA because MAGA covers up for pedos. Then Marjorie said, well, then I don't want to do that. And then Trump said, you're a traitor. Get the hell out. She said, well, I guess I'm out. That's it. I mean, that's what happened. I mean, objectively, that's what happened. You know, she was as loyal of a foot soldier to Trump in every regard, except when it came to covering up child sex trafficking. And that's where Trump and MAGA were like, ah, that's what, that's kind of what we do in Maga, right? We hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks so much for watching.

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