Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly weighing a plot to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson before she retires in early January and is quietly gauging if she has the nine votes inside the Republican party to trigger a vote.

“Marjorie is approaching members to get to nine who will oust the speaker,” an anonymous source told MS Now. “And if we don’t get to work on codifying Trump’s agenda, anything can happen.”

The Georgia Republican previously tried to oust Johnson last year in protest at a foreign aid deal for Ukraine, and she has been a consistent critic of Johnson’s work throughout the second Trump administration this year.

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    I hope the cons all go Candace Owens v. Tim Pool on each other.

    “I cast THEE out! You are not the true MAGA! You are a heretic!”

    “No, you! I cast YOU out! I’m the true way of the America FIRST Shining Path and United Front!”

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      She never deserved to get known by those initials in the first place. Her name isn’t difficult to say. They were just envious of AOC and forced it.

      I always just called her Greene or Marjorie Greene. Hopefully it’s all moot now anyways and we can forget about her.

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        AOC was probably more out of necessity since white America can’t handle a simple pronunciation.

        Although mispronouncing Marjorie Greene would probably really piss her off. Rep. Greené

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          I thought it was hilarious when some RW jagoff was trying to get “Sandy” off the ground as far as how they talked about AOC. Probably around the same time they thought they were really coming in off the top rope with a flying elbow by sharing that video of her…dancing? During college?

          Both were bellyflops. Most people on the left just loved sharing those dancing videos because it made her all the more relatable? And, FFS, she is a smokeshow anyway, this just made that fact go viral…yeah, conservatives, you really made everyone in the United States quake in their shoes over this totally hot woman seen…now hold onto your pearls for this one… dancing during college. You’d think they were the town elders out of Footloose or something, LOL. Oh, oh, oh, I know, also this: call her SANDY, and emphasize that she had a working class job like a BARTENDER! BOO! HISS!!!

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    Its really too bad she is so stupid. If she had been a little smarter she would have kept her mouth shut and started storing up info to release just before they were about to do another nasty and terrible thing to the majority of americans. Sigh she is space laser stupid though.

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      She’s actually playing it smart.

      She knows that the midterms are going to be a blood bath for the GOP. She gets to collect her pension and sit on the sidelines. She’ll get a TV pundit gig and write a book.

      She’ll be in great shape to raise a lot of money in 2028.

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    She doesn’t have the votes. If she did, she would just do it, and nobody involved would leak it to the press first.

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    I’m not convinced she has the sway to bend a young sprout, but I’ve got my popcorn. I’m not a betting man, but if I was I wouldn’t bet on her.

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    Party infighting. A fascist feature.

    What fascinates me is that the Heritage Foundation seems to tolerate her dissent. Historically, party dissenters don’t live long. But my guess is that the Heritage Foundation knows we are in a society where capital punishment of political enemies isn’t accepted. They let Trump ramble about executing people that he doesn’t like because Trump isn’t ultimately important to their plans.