Day: November 17, 2025

The Continuing Saga Of MTG

This situation is like a train wreck….I just cannot look away….

For several months this batcrap crazy has been bad mouthing the GOP and even Donny and he has been uncharacteristically silent on her statements…..but that changed over the weekend….

President Trump has publicly called it quits with one of his most stalwart MAGA-world supporters, calling Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “Wacky Marjorie” and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in next year’s midterms “if the right person runs,” per the AP. Accusing the Georgia Republican of going “Far Left,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social that all Greene had done in recent months is “COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” As for Greene’s purported irritation that he doesn’t return her phone calls: “I can’t take a ranting Lunatic’s call every day.”

The dismissal of Greene—once the epitome of “Make America Great Again,” sporting the signature red cap for President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address and acting as a go-between for Trump and other Capitol Hill Republicans—appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months, as Greene has seemingly moderated her political profile. The three-term US House member has increasingly dissented from Republican leaders, attacking them during the just-ended federal government shutdown and saying they need a plan to help people who are losing subsidies to afford health insurance policies.

In a response to Trump on X, Greene wrote that Trump had “attacked me and lied about me.” She added a screenshot of texts she said she’d sent the president earlier in the day about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, which she said “is what sent him over the edge.” Greene called it “astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level,” referencing next week’s US House vote over releasing the Epstein files. Writing that she’d supported Trump “with too much of my precious time, too much of my own money, and fought harder for him even when almost all other Republicans turned their back and denounced him,” Greene added, “I don’t worship or serve Donald Trump.” More on their spat here.

Now everything is back to normal…..she rages and Donny retaliates…..

How will this yanked support effect her chances of re-election next year?

Will she bring her back to her batcrap crazy ways of the past?

Will she continue to be a small voice of some sort of sanity in the GOP?

Watch this blog…..for I am sure there is more to come.

Now MTG is getting hate mail and threats from the MAGA faithful…..

Marjorie Taylor Greene says her escalating feud with President Trump is putting her in physical danger, reports Mediaite:

  • “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world,” she tweeted Saturday. “The man I supported and helped get elected.”
  • “As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump’s bills and agenda, his aggression against me which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone,” wrote Greene. “I now have a small understanding of the fear and pressure the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, must feel.”
  • As NBC News reports, Greene has broken publicly with Trump on a number of issues of late, including the release of the Epstein files and a foreign policy she says betrays his “America First” promises. Trump responded in force Friday and Saturday, denouncing Greene on this Truth Social platform as “wacky,” calling her a “disgrace” to the Republican party, and withdrawing his previous support of her. Meanwhile, some Democrats were reveling in the feud, notes Politico. “I’m here for you girl,” tweeted Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who has publicly sparred with Greene. “I told you not to trust him… all he cares about is HIMself.”

AS I was putting this post together more news broke……

Famously divisive GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday announced a striking shift in her political approach, vowing to abandon the “toxic” rhetoric that has long defined her public persona. The Georgia Republican’s pledge, made during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, comes amid a public feud with President Trump, who recently labeled her a “traitor”—a characterization Greene said could endanger her safety. “The most hurtful thing [Trump] said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me a traitor, and that is so extremely wrong,” Greene told Bash. “And those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger.”

Even so, her comments included what the New York Times refers to as an “olive branch” extended to Trump as she made clear she still supports him and his administration—though she did complain, per NPR, that Trump’s foreign policies are “not America first positions.” Greene acknowledged the criticism that she’s only objecting to Trump’s harsh rhetoric now that it’s been directed at her, calling that observation “fair.” She offered a public apology, saying, “Humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics; it’s very bad for our country.” Greene cited the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a catalyst for her reflection, admitting that she has contributed to a political climate that breeds threats and division.

Greene’s history is marked by inflammatory remarks, including support for violent Facebook posts about Democrats, offensive comments about the Holocaust, and personal attacks on colleagues. These incidents led to her removal from House committees in 2021 and her ejection from the House Freedom Caucus in 2023. Despite her past, Greene now says she wants to “put down the knives in politics” and is calling for greater kindness and unity: “I’m leading the way with my own example, and I hope that President Trump can do the same.” Of the root of their disagreement, she said, “Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files, and that is shocking.”

This back and forth crap is so much more entertaining than Dancing With The Stars…..

I continue to ask….WTF?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Roll Em Back—-Way Back

WE all have heard or experienced the high cost of food these days……well finally the problem has got some small amount of attention from Donny and the Thugs….

President Trump announced Friday that he was scrapping US tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits, and a broad swath of other commodities—a dramatic move that comes amid mounting pressure on his administration to better combat high consumer prices. “We just did a little bit of a rollback on some foods like coffee,” Trump said aboard Air Force One as he flew to Florida hours after the tariff announcement was made. Pressed on his tariffs helping to increase consumer prices, Trump acknowledged, “I say they may, in some cases” have that effect. “But to a large extent they’ve been borne by other countries,” the president added.

  • Trump has built his second term around imposing steep levies on goods imported into the US in hopes of encouraging domestic production and lifting the US economy. His abrupt retreat from his signature tariff policy on so many staples key to the American diet is significant, and it comes after voters in off-year elections this month cited economic concerns as their top issue, resulting in big wins for Democrats in Virginia, New Jersey, and other key races around the country, the AP reports.
  • Inflation—despite Trump’s pronouncements that it has vanished since he took office in January—remains elevated, further increasing pressure on US consumers.
  • The Trump administration has insisted that its tariffs had helped fill government coffers and weren’t a major factor in higher prices at grocery stores around the country. But Democrats were quick to paint Friday’s move as an acknowledgement that Trump’s policies were hurting American pocketbooks.
  • “President Trump is finally admitting what we always knew: his tariffs are raising prices for the American people,” Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer said in a statement. “After getting drubbed in recent elections because of voters’ fury that Trump has broken his promises to fix inflation, the White House is trying to cast this tariff retreat as a ‘pivot to affordability.'”
  • Trump signed an executive order that also removes tariffs on tea, fruit juice, cocoa, spices, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, and certain fertilizers. Some of the products covered aren’t produced in the United States, meaning that tariffs meant to spur domestic production had little effect. But reducing the tariffs will still likely mean lower prices for US consumers.
  • Trade groups praised the move and urged Trump to roll back more of his tariffs, the Wall Street Journal reports. “It’s certainly a step in the right direction, but it’s important to recognize that the pain that American working families and businesses feel from tariffs goes way beyond coffee and bananas,” said Jake Colvin, president of the National Foreign Trade Council.

He said the ‘tariffs, in some cases, contributed to the high cost’ (paraphrase)….this from a stable genius that is a whiz kid in economics and he did not think it would effect the prices?

Now how many of you think this will bring food prices more in line?

If the distributors do not lower prices what will be Donny’s retribution?

To say I am not impressed is an understatement.

How About you?

But wait!   Remember that Uncle Don cut a deal with Argentina for beef and that should start bringing prices down…..right?

Beef prices have been giving Americans sticker shock at grocery stores lately, and they are poised to reach even more stomach-churning levels next year, according to Omaha Steaks CEO Nate Rempe.

“So we are headed for what I’m calling the $10-a-pound reality by third quarter of ’26,” he predicted. “Families are going to see $10-a-pound ground beef in the grocery store.”

According to the latest consumer price index data, the average price of ground beef was $6.323 a pound in September. That’s up 14% since January and 26% from January 2024.

If ground beef hits $10 a pound, the price would represent a 58% surge from September’s level.

https://fortune.com/2025/11/15/beef-prices-outlook-inflation-cattle-herd-supply-demand-trump-tariffs/

So that much hyped deal will do little to lower beef prices if the article is correct.

Once again Donny proves a stable genius he is not.

And finally the excuse for higher beef prices….hint it is Biden’s fault…..

Scott Bessent was ridiculed for suggesting skyrocketing beef prices have nothing to do with MAGA’s economic policies and everything to do with a supposed invasion of cows across the southern border.

The Treasury Secretary expounded his wild theory during a Sunday sit-down with Maria Bartiromo over on Fox News. The host described the crisis to Bessent, asking for his take on “ten dollar… meat, a pound!”

Arguing the beef industry is in “a perfect storm” that the White House “inherited” from the Joe Biden administration, the secretary shot back that rising costs are a direct result of migrants entering the U.S. from Latin America.

WE knew someone would use that dodge eventually, right?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

They Have No Idea

The US just recently carried its 20th strike on a ‘narco boat’ and saved the US from a flood of drugs that will destroy the very fabric of our society.

I have been asking how do they know which boats to strike?

And now a ‘secret’ memo has been leaked…..they have no idea who they are attacking.

A secret memo from the Department of Justice that green-lights U.S airstrikes on alleged “drug boats” reveals that the justification for such force is based entirely on assertions made by Donald Trump.

The U.S. military has carried out a series of strikes targeting so-called “narco-terrorists,” with the White House criticized for not providing a specific legal basis for its actions.

The attacks on small boats in the Caribbean began on September 2 and have since expanded with assaults on the eastern Pacific, killing at least 80 people in 20 strikes on alleged smuggling craft.

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This contrasts with human rights groups and experts on international law who have warned that the strikes are illegal, with the governments of both Venezuela and Colombia accusing the Trump administration of engaging in extrajudicial murder.

On Tuesday, the U.K. ended regional intelligence sharing with the U.S. after expressing disapproval of its actions. U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have pressed the administration for more information about who is being targeted and the legal basis for its conduct.

Per The Times, the memo begins by reiterating claims made by the White House, including that drug cartels are deliberately trying to destabilize the Western Hemisphere and murder American citizens.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/drug-boat-strikes-venezuela-trump-memo-b2865573.html

Apparently if Donny says they are doing bad then they deserve to die.

I still ask since these small boats cannot make it to the US they must be dropping off to a vehicle they will make it to our shores…..if so why not wait and take out the large load and stop killing anyone in the water with a small boat?

Then a report of some hint from Donny…..

President Trump said on Sunday that the US “may be having discussions” with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, suggesting his administration has not entirely cut off diplomacy with Caracas as previous reports have said.

Trump made the comments when asked about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement that the State Department would be designating the so-called Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization,” though the group doesn’t actually exist.

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Trump then suggested that the US and Venezuela are talking.

“It allows us to do that, but I haven’t said we’re going to do that, and we may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out, but they would like to talk,” he told reporters.

Maduro has made clear that he’s willing to reach some kind of deal with the US and sent a letter to Trump after the US began bombing alleged drug-running boats in the region. In the letter, the Venezuelan leader urged for diplomacy to resolve any issues and said he was ready to talk to Trump’s special envoy, Ric Grennel, at any time.

(antiwar.com)

Is this manure or just a n attempt to deflect on his awaiting plans for land based attacks?

Just wondering.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”