Marjorie Taylor Greene is now left of AOC
Marjorie Taylor Greene impressed everyone today, but that's only half the story.
This was not on my BINGO card. MTG has made the headlines today for this killer speech in the House of Representatives earlier this week.
We got a floor vote on cutting some of the Israel’s gross military aid. Obviously it failed, and that’s where I am picking this up.
Content of the Amendment
This is what was actually voted on “amendment numbered 114”,
114. An Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Greene of Georgia or Her Designee, Debatable for 10 Minutes Strike section 8067 (page 92, beginning on line 12 through page 93, line 13).
It’s one line: “Strike section 8067.” It’s appropriately titled — nothing incendiary. This is Section 8067,
Sec. 8067. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under the headings “Procurement, Defense-Wide” and “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide”, $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs: Provided, That of this amount, $60,000,000 shall be for the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Government of Israel for the procurement of the Iron Dome defense system to counter short-range rocket threats, subject to the U.S.-Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agreement; $127,000,000 shall be for the Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program, including cruise missile defense research and development under the SRBMD program; $40,000,000 shall be for co-production activities of SRBMD systems in the United States and in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements consistent with each nation’s laws, regulations, and procedures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement for SRBMD; $100,000,000 shall be for an upper-tier component to the Israeli Missile Defense Architecture, of which $100,000,000 shall be for co-production activities of Arrow 3 Upper Tier systems in the United States and in Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements consistent with each nation’s laws, regulations, and procedures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement for Arrow 3 Upper Tier; and $173,000,000 shall be for the Arrow System Improvement Program including development of a long range, ground and airborne, detection suite.
The tldr, this is what it looks like
60 Million Iron Dome
127 Million Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD)
40 Million SRBMD production
100 Million for Israel’s Arrow 3 production
173 Million Arrow System Improvement Program
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500 Million
And she wants to scrap that, saving the USA 500 million.
Reception
Seriously, again AOC butchered this?
They’re not all in the Epstein files. But that is how bought the US House of Representatives is. Now let’s give a shout out to those souls with backbone, principles, and a moral compass. It’s short, brace yourself.
The Democrats,
Al Green (rep for the most Jewish district in Houston)
Summer Lee
Rashida Tlaib
Ilhan Omar
And the Republicans,
Thomas Massie
What the f*
Can you believe it, 6 people voting for that simple amendment to save us $500 million? Here is a bold ass statement,
Marjorie Taylor Greene on the most important issue — literally World Peace and opposing the military industrial complex — is left of 207 Democrats, and every Republican except Thomas Massie.
And not just that, but to recap this was the headline when, in 2021, AOC was put to task on funding the Iron Dome. This time she didn’t even cry. We don’t even get crocodile tears.
Let’s compare the two,
AOC failed us on the vote. This time she didn’t even cry about it, and write a boring attempt to rationalize it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene surprised us on the vote
Marjorie Taylor Greene drove the defund-Israel vanguard in the house by putting forward the amendment
Hats off to you MTG. You get an Evan point for this one. I may even have to retire my Jewish space lasers.
Response from AOC
Probably written by ChatGPT with a prompt of “pretend your pro-Palestinian”
But seriously, give the Israelis money to produce missile interceptors, that'll literally enable them to safely conduct a genocide in a figurative Iron Dome! You can’t make this up.
I know MTG isn’t actually to the left of AOC on everything. And that’s an understatement. Comment below if you enjoy the headline.
Scientific Journal of Objective Truths and Proof 2025:7-18.0.1
Use Occam’s razor. Simple anti-semitism.
Also Massie isn't my representative, but I send him harangues frequently as he generally votes in ways that defy logic. My representative is the only Democrat from Kentucky Morgan McGarvey, a preening neoliberal baby-kissing piece of dirt. He talked about his kids needing NICU care in his campaign ads but told me "Israel has the right to defend itself " ad naseum in response to the IDF leaving NICU babies to die in Gazan hospitals.