Tag Archives: Marjorie Taylor Greene

MTG abandons Trump; more Republicans will follow

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It’s happening, folks. Trump’s once-loyal followers are seeing the man behind the curtain. He’s not a wizard. Not a leader. Certainly not a Christian. They’re seeing an insecure, narcissistic hypocrite who knows he’s failing but has no capacity to admit it or to change.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the most recent Republican leader to jump ship. She’ll resign from the US House next week, but she’s not going out quietly.

Greene’s recent 60 Minutes interview (which Charles and I discuss on the first segment of this week’s; program) was followed by an interview with Robert Draper in the New York Times, in which she admits, “After Charlie [Kirk] died, I realized that I’m part of this toxic culture. I really started looking at my faith. I wanted to be more like Christ.” Continue Reading →

The new leader of the Trump resistance

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Over the past ten months, President Trump has moved with alarming speed toward solidifying his complete control over the federal government.

Yet millions of Americans continue to speak up, act out, and refuse to be silenced, even as some big institutions (media, universities, law firms, corporations) have buckled.

No institution has buckled more completely than Congress, with Republicans conceding to the President their Constitutional role as an independent and equal branch of government.

But back in the summer, that started changing. Just a little. But enough to be noticed. And the primary agent of change?

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. Continue Reading →

A deep dive into the genocide in Gaza, with Maria Reveiz

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If Democrats running for Congress hope to win in 2026, they MUST take a strong stand against Israel’s attempted genocide.

Here’s a bit of our dialogue:

MARIA: I have so much rage inside of me. I’m less angry at the Republican Party because I never expected anything from them. In fact, I’m slightly optimistic with what I hear from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[After Greene called Israel’s assault on Gaza a genocide, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee attacked her. Greene’s response, again to her credit, was to say, “AIPAC needs to register as a foreign lobbyist because they’re breaking US laws by donating to members of Congress and taking them on a fully funded trip to Israel.”]

ME: Are there any Democrats in Congress who’ve called what’s happening in Gaza a genocide?

MARIA: Only Rep. Rashida Tlaib. I feel so personally betrayed by the Democratic Party. You saw how active I was. I went to every presidential candidate and talked about Gaza. I hosted Democratic candidates at my venue, and even let them have functions for free. Continue Reading →

Does America need a divorce, or just marriage counseling?

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Des Moines Area Community College poli-sci prof, Jeffrey Weiss, thinks so. He’s written a piece called We the people, to dissolve an imperfect union, grant a divorce to the United States of America. You oughta read it.

Weiss also makes his case on this week’s Fallon Forum. We discuss dividing the country along the Mississippi River — Republicans on one side, Democrats on the other. I ask tough questions like, “Who gets the nuclear weapons?” and “Won’t it just devolve into another violent civil war?”

Really, someone oughta organize a debate for us.

I’m not for divorce. I’m for marriage counseling. Let’s talk through our differences and brainstorm solutions. I believe that most Americans want to persevere and continue this grand experiment to build a more perfect melting pot of freedom, justice, and democracy. (I know, we still have a long, long way to go.)

As Kathy said to me after we recorded the program, “When a relationship is so bad that one party recommends ending it, both parties might suddenly wake up to the reality that splitting up would be harder than taking steps to make up.” Continue Reading →

War in Ukraine: No easy answers

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CO2 PIPELINES. Rep. J.D. Scholten and I discuss legislation to restrict eminent domain. That conversation starts at the 30-minute mark of this week’s program. Legislation is moving in the Iowa House, and if you’ve got an opinion, now’s a great time to contact your rep and senator.

UKRAINE. There are no easy answers when it comes to ending the war in Ukraine. The predicted “new phase” of the war could even increase the risk of a nuclear exchange. Jeffrey Weiss and I discuss that.

I also ask Jeffrey how seriously we should take the resolution proposed by congressional Republicans to cut off military and financial aid to Ukraine. My own take: not very — though it probably won’t be retracted as was the letter from House Democrats to President Biden last October.

As Jeffrey sees it, there are a couple big-picture issues to keep in mind: “The US is spending close to a trillion dollars for the military-industrial complex and has a permanent war economy. The only people in the world who don’t know this are the people of the United States. Regarding this war specifically, one of the key questions we have to ask is what’s in the best interest of the people of Ukraine.”

MONOPOLIES. J.D. Scholten is tackling a problem that needs a bi-partisan fix. We discuss how Ticketmaster, Smithfield, Major League Baseball, and other corporate monopolies get away with gouging consumers due to weak anti-trust laws. Unless we do something, “the wealthy are going to get more wealthy and they’re leaving the rest of us behind,” says J.D. Continue Reading →