The position puts her at odds with some on the left, such as Rep. Ro Khanna, another potential 2028 contender, who said he wants to find “common ground” with people like Greene.
In a conversation Friday at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics moderated by David Axelrod, the onetime political strategist to President Barack Obama, a student asked Ocasio-Cortez whether she stood by past remarks that there were “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers at the core of the House of Representatives caucus” and, if so, why she worked with some of them.
Ocasio-Cortez did stand by them and said she wasn’t scared of reaching across the aisle, holding up her work with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. But she set a clear boundary.
“I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven bigot and antisemite, on the issue of what is good for Gazans and Israelis,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don’t think it benefits our movement in that instance to align the left with white nationalists. I don’t think it serves us.”
Why is it that during every MTG interview from a mainstream journalist, wherein MTG criticizes Trump for doing something illegal, the journalist NEVER asks her (or any Republican congressman in a similar situation) the very basic fucking question…
So… as the party in power… what the fuck are you going to do about it?
On November 21, 2025, Greene announced that she would resign from her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, with the resignation going into effect on January 5, 2026.[162][163] Greene said that Trump attacked her over her support for the anti-AIPAC organization Track AIPAC and the release of the Epstein files.[164] In mid-December, BBC News summarized the Trump–Greene feud as beginning with “her backing of a full release of the government files connected to the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex-trafficking case – long a source of conservative conspiracy theories. It broadened, however, into a critique of Trump’s Middle East policy and accusations of his failure to address cost-of-living and healthcare concerns for low-income American voters.”[165]
Resign, apparently. Which is great for her - now she can criticize Trump, but can’t be expected to do anything about anything he’s doing.
I think MTG is the republican party hedging their bets
They know they are going to suffer the biggest landslide in history at the next election, they elected a conman and openly conned the country.
If MTG offers a softer more dem-lite vision then she may well take some of the floaters, Indies and undecideds. The GOP won’t be able to campaign with trump politics so they will need to mirror the democrats to win a few votes.
You are overconfident. The shock and awe on Reddit when Trump won last election was palpable. After months of reading Democrat puff pieces, the users were left dazed and confused. They didn’t understand how it was physically possible.
In truth, Trump was elected because he had popular policies. He has and is continuing to makes moves that help a large swathe of the public. Democrats need to pull to the center if they want to win. They need to avoid or counter the two issues that were the focus of Republican marketing spending.
I kinda suspect those voting machines in the swing states had something to do with it too.
The only “help” he gives the public is the ability to be openly hateful without fear of social backlash.
…this isn’t true. He focused heavily on the working class with policies such as immigration and the reduction of overtime taxes.
These are people that would have traditionally voted Democrat. He somehow managed to swing the election without marginalizing middle and upper class voters. This is surprising; the upper classes benefit disproportionately from increased immigration.
The focus on immigration has resulted in massive losses for the agriculture industry, driving up food prices and putting small farms out of business. So much for the working class. Not to mention all the tariffs making everything else less affordable.
His messaging may promise sunshine and rainbows for the average American but his actual impacts in office have been nothing short of catastrophic. The people who still buy into the messaging are morons, bigots, and the willfully ignorant making a quick buck.
I agree! Yet Another based take from AOC!
Marjorie Taylor Greene is bat shit insane, or at least she doesn’t mind acting like it. She is as untrustworthy as any lying reality denying MAGA idiot.
she’s right; her last bill was a bill criminalising trans people and she broke with trump because trump wasn’t racist enough.
Why would anyone trust MTG?
MTG is a truly odious individual with shit for brains and extremely offensive views and zero practical prescriptions for any of America’s problems. She should fuck off into private life.
Republicans who acknowledge the war in Iran is wrong are moving to our position. We won’t trust them to lead us, but if they have influence over their party, then I think it’s beneficial to show that to their supporters and get them on the side against genocide, illegal wars, and war crimes. I believe Ro Khana realizes this is an issue that can unite the country in the same way the Epstein files has. If we are winning over the right and bringing them to sanity on a single, gigantic issue, that is a good thing.
I don’t trust inbreds.
If the DNC goes anywhere near MTG, they should be sued for… something bad.
I don’t trust MTG, but I also don’t trust AOC!
Yeah by some amazing miracle if these two women were in a presidential race then on election day, I would make sure I sit at home and not vote for anyone. Both are completely untrustworthy, exactly the same. /s
So she was willing to endorse Joe Biden at the peak of the genocide but working with a Republican goes too far? Can it be any clearer AOC is a grifter?
i’m sorry do you think biden is president of israel or something?
More like president for Israel, and he did it for free. They didn’t even have Epstein files on him, he just did it for the love of Zionism.
Yeah this doesn’t really excuse AOC’s poor positioning on Israel while a genocide was happening. This is a complete strawman on AOC’s part and the hogs are just eating it up. And thats a problem because instead of working to improve her own political instincts on this issue, she’s enlisting a terminally online army of sportsfans to white-knight for her.
The fact is AOC did bad on Israel and funding Israel while a genocide was happening. A blind dog like MTG finding a bone eventually has no bearing on AOC doing very poorly on these issues. And judging by the ratios in this thread, the hogs have spoken.
I interpreted AOC’s refusal to support Taylor-Greene’s proposal to cut funding to Israel as a personal grudge not based in what may ultimately do good, but rather refusing to give someone she despises on a personal level any sort of credit. I am saying this as a criticism, not an excuse.
I would support the devil himself it meant less funding for Israel. If you don’t want to give the right any victories on Israel, then push the left to be better! But tbh that doesn’t even really strike me as AOC’s real reasoning, I just think she really hates MTG.
100% and my view of this threads is just the hogs eating it up.
AOC was wrong with her votes and her making this about MTG instead of about stopping genocide: its not gonna work.
AOC voted against MTG’s amendment, but then voted against the full bill. I really fail to see the issue voting against amending a bill that you’re against in its entirety.
Edit: the amendment got a total of 6 votes in favor
Its just another signal of AOC’s bad political instincts. Its not like Ilhan got this vote wrong. Al Green didn’t get this vote wrong. And implicit in what AOC is saying here is that these other members of congress shouldn’t have voted to support the resolution.
AOC just got the vote wrong and no amount of her shit around “I care about results” excuses her getting outplayed on this issue. And to me thats the bigger conversation, which is, how are AOC’s instincts on issues? Does she end up on the right things first or does she, like you said, vote against an amendment to defund Israel, and eventually got it right.
Voting on a bill to defund Israel doesn’t mean you are joining a make-out session with MTG. This is about getting things first time right, and AOC straight blew it here.
Some good dropsite coverage on it here: https://inv.nadeko.net/embed/X3RatYjFSj8?t=320
AOC explained why she voted against the amendement as well on Twitter. Because she wanted Israel to receive American weapons.
Should be obvious
Some moron on here yesterday said they trust Magic Taylor Green more.
I’d think it would be obvious as a general principle, and I’m kind of surprised that AOC’s position is more strict: Don’t trust MTG on Gaza or Israel.
Should just be in general for sure. But i feel like people dont realize that MTG is just against israel becausing she is a raging racist who thinks the jewish cabal is running the world with space lasers.
What is worse, working with someone who believes in space lasers or supporting Israel?
What’s obvious to me is that our president is a pedophile and a x34 felon. Saying something is obvious, doesn’t take away the possibilities. We live in a post-truth society where the idiot who screams the loudest has the most listeners.
No shit, Sherlock. I’m not mad at AOC for stating the obvious. I’m mad that she has to in the first place cos Democrats are fucking stupid. Not as stupid as Republicans, but still stupid.
Chuck Shumer said something but everyone fell asleep half way through
No worries AOC will endorse Schumer anyways. His job is to keep the left pro Israel after all.
Their apologists just don’t get it as well. Dems need to stop talking big and be big. Stop saying you’re the resistance and not verbally flogging the people who vote Trump appointees or funding of ICE. They need to stop portraying themselves as a weak party against the Republicans.
