Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Sounds Like A Democrat Lately

What A Day

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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As the government shutdown chugs along, cracks form within the GOP. The biggest crack? Georgia Republican Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene. She's starting to sound more and more... like a liberal? This is part of a trend for MTG. In the last few months, she’s referred to the horrors taking place in Gaza as a, QUOTE, “genocide” and offered an amendment to cut defense support to Israel. To speak more about Marjorie Taylor Greene's moment, we talked to Annie Karni. She’s a congressional reporter for the New York Times who profiled Greene in September. And in headlines, Israel’s fragile ceasefire shows early fissures, Obama reemerges to endorse prop 50, and James Comey scores a blow in President Trump's DOJ case against him.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, October 15th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today?
0:06.3	The show celebrating that Open AI has finally answered our biggest question about the biggest technological advance of our lifetime.
0:13.6	When will AI get super horny?
0:17.0	According to CEO Sam Altman, the answer for ChatGPT is now for, quote, verified adults by adding erotica.
0:25.4	Because as I've always said, wouldn't it be so great if the app that helps college students cheat on history tests also sexted them?
0:39.7	On today's show, Israel's fragile ceasefire shows cracks as nine Palestinians are killed in Gaza
0:45.1	as of this recording, and Israel cuts humanitarian aid.
0:48.8	And former President Barack Obama throws his weight behind an upcoming ballot measure to check
0:53.0	Trump's power.
0:55.1	But let's start with Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Green. When Green entered Congress back in 2021,
1:01.1	she did so as a conspiracy theorist who believed that the September 11th attack on the Pentagon was a hoax.
1:06.6	And in 2022, she spoke at a far-right political conference hosted by white nationalists,
1:10.9	leading to calls for the GOP to disavow her entirely.
1:14.4	But in 2025, Green is sounding more like a liberal.
1:19.4	Here she is discussing how Trump has not made the economy great again, like, at all.
1:24.6	The job market is...
1:25.9	Job market is still extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up.
1:32.1	Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Car insurance goes up every year. People's
1:36.9	homeowners insurance goes up. Rent is going up. People, young people have no hope of buying a home.
1:46.2	That's from a recent episode of the Tim Dillon show, where Green also went after the Trump administration over the Epstein files.
1:51.5	She even railed against her fellow Republicans in Congress for the government shutdown,
1:55.7	sexism, and for lacking any kind of a plan on health care. This is part of a trend for MTG.
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