Stop the presses! As much as we can scarcely believe it, the conspiracy-mad Trump cheerleader that is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is actually having a bona fide face turn right now. We’re not kidding.
There have been signs of this coming for a while but – in a real caterpillar turns to butterfly transformation – Greene has had enough with the Republican Party’s complete and total submission to Israel and made a lengthy social media post calling out this evil and hypocrisy within her own party:
If America was being bombed day and night because of something horrific our government did, and many innocent Americans and American children were being killed and traumatically injured, and we begged for mercy, but the rest of the world said,
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
“Americans voted for their…(@RepMTG) August 23, 2025
She begins by asking Americans to imagine a world in which they’re the subject of genocide and the world simply ignores them, with the reasoning:
“Americans voted for their government so they deserve it, their government is bad so all Americans are bad, therefore this is what they get and must be done”
Green then goes into a lengthy questioning session, asking how you’d think and feel if your cities, homes, infrastructure, family, and children were being bombed into dust, and your entire country the victim of genocide. She explains:
“This is what is happening to Gaza where in spite of what we have all been told, many innocent people and children are being killed and they are not Hamas.”
Then, in what might be the single most pointed and accurate summary of Israel’s reliance on U.S. military aid a politician has given in decades (and that’s thoroughly depressing in its own right), she concludes:
“U.S. taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it.”
Better on Israel than AOC
Incredibly, saying that means Greene has just outflanked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on this issue, as the prominent progressive voted “no” on Greene’s bill to cut $500 million in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome.
Don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t put Green on the side of the angels. Though she’s absolutely correct that Israel’s ongoing genocide cannot be tolerated for a second longer, she can’t so easily brush away her long history of conspiracy-laden nonsense that’s perhaps irrevocably poisoned American political debate.
But, frankly, in a matter as serious as stopping genocide, I’ll take an ally where I can find it. After all, as a powerfully conservative politician, her saying this stuff hits harder than someone on the left. So, Marge, welcome to the resistance. And hey, God probably does love you a little more today for standing up for the desperate and needy.
