It actually was exceedingly weird to see Marjorie Taylor-Greene lined up against the rest of her species in the Kevin McCarthy Speakership war. When you have the “freedom caucus” out front and center, Gaetz, Banks, Gosar, Boebert, etc., you expect MTG to be right there with them. So, something seemed “off” in the fact that MTG fought so hard for McCarthy.
Anytime something is off in normal GOP behavior within their own habitat, Trump is usually the cause, and it’s almost surely the case here. Trump has Kevin McCarthy’s jewels in a jar in the storage room by the pool (Which the FBI dearly wishes they had included in the search warrant), so Trump wanted McCarthy as Speaker. Trump also has 100% ownership of MTG and provides her with promises of marriage or… whatever, her own space laser? to win her loyalty. And win it, he did.
So it was Boebert v. MTG. Without getting too stereotypical, it’s not our fault that the real fight started in the girlsroom (Women’s restroom), from The Daily Beast:
On the first day of Congress this year, Jan. 3, the mounting tension between Greene and Boebert reached its boiling point. According to multiple sources, the two women were nearly in a screaming match in the Speaker’s lobby ladies room just off the House floor.
A lot of musicians will tell you that the acoustics are better in a restroom, and so maybe both of them believed that their argument rang that much more powerfully in the restroom. Although, the most logical explanation is that these two are legacy “mean girls,” and they simply felt more comfortable fighting where mean girls typically fight, lest a teacher hear. Or, I guess it’s possible that there are so few Republican women in Congress that they were actually alone, or close to it, with Democrats using a separate one.
“Greene questioned Boebert’s loyalty to McCarthy, and after a few words were exchanged, Boebert stormed out,” a source familiar with the fight told The Daily Beast.
Seems almost civil. But that can’t be because you don’t storm out of a restroom from a civil conversation. Everyone in the hall will assume that you are leaving a heated battle, so you might as well have the actual heated battle. Besides, every Republican was in a heated battle during the period.
According to another source familiar, while in the bathroom, Greene asked Boebert, “You were OK taking millions of dollars from McCarthy but you refuse to vote for him for Speaker, Lauren?” “That’s when Lauren said, ‘Don’t be ugly,’” the first source said, before she—in the words of this source—“ran out like a little schoolgirl.”
Normally, I abhor references to Boebert dropping out of high school because she did so out of need. She wanted to have her baby – as is her right to her autonomy – and couldn’t afford to do both. But in this instance, the operative word “little schoolgirl” seems apt, given we’re talking junior high or freshman level. That would probably also explain why there was no hair pulled or punches thrown. That’s a “senior” level mean girl fight.
Were they smoking?
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The fact that it took Boebert 4 tries to get her GED is the real indicator of her intellect, not that she had to drop out of high school. Both women tarnish everything they come in contact with and their fighting is the only amusing thing about them.
I often say that she is not stupid because she dropped out of high school. She is stupid because she is stupid. Formal education is somewhat of a luxury that some just can’t afford but you’re obligated to educate yourself throughout your life.
True that, I also had to drop out of high school to have a baby, took the GED when he was 1 year old, graduated with a Masters when 50. Hard? yes, especially as a single parent, but knew it was important to lead by example for my child.
Thank you for abhorring references to her dropping out. I also abhor references to her GED and the number of tries it took her to get it. For several years, I supplemented my household income by administering the GED in a small college town. The GED actually comprises five tests in five subject areas, and they are not easy. If someone has to retake one or more of them, they do not get the same test form they previously failed, so they can’t just study what they missed. Additionally, they are not requird to be taken in a single sitting, so we cannot be sure, without more information, whether she actually made four separate tries (possibly only in one subject area) ar just sat four times taking one or two subjects at a time. In any case, I assure you that when someone passes the GED, after any number of tries, they have demonstrated that they know more than many high school graduates who passed with Cs. Even if you passed with straight As, there is probably at least one question on every test form that you couldn’t answer correctly. Also, very few pass every subject the first time, so there is a great deal of discouragement in the process, and it takes some determination to keep coming back after getting metaphorically knocked down.
When you think about it philosophically it kinda makes sense a bathroom fight (well, argument) started the soon-became-public breakup between these two former BFFs but let’s face it – at some point there was gonna be a breakup. Each wanted to be Trump’s gal in the House, the “face” representing all things Trump. The female one at least. But as the mantra from Highlander says, “There can only be one.” So the only question was when they’d go to war with each other. And maybe over what.
Still, a spat in the shitter kicking things off is just too funny for words! Grand entertainment, although once again I feel sorry for the poor folks at The Onion. It’s stuff like this, actual reality from the “You can’t make this shit up files” that makes them wonder how the hell are they supposed to compete with THIS kind of stuff?