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Author: wzambon 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Johnathan Last on MTG
Date: 11/17/25 2:35 PM
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For a couple years now I’ve said that Marjorie Taylor Greene is the kind of person I could connect with. Now that everyone else is falling in love with Marjorie, I should probably unpack this idea.

Remember that insufferable Elizabeth Gilbert memoir, Eat, Pray Love? In the book the author, a fantastically lucky, successful woman looks up one day and realizes she’s deeply unhappy. So she divorces her husband and goes on a journey of self-discovery to Italy, India, and then Bali.

I think you can read MTG’s life a little bit like that—except that her journey of self-discovery went from Crossfit, to Facebook, to MAGA.

No, really. We’re going to do this. So strap in. I promise you’re going to hate it.

Marjorie Taylor was born to a wealthy Catholic family and got married in 1995, a year before she graduated from college. She had three kids. She went to work for the family business. And at some point in the mid-2010s she seems to have realized that she was unhappy. She wanted to change her life.
She got really into Crossfit. Then she started getting really into politics, via Facebook. Then she ran for office. Then she and her husband got divorced.
Along the way, MTG seems to have been disappointed by many of the traditional pillars she had expected to rely on in life. She left the Catholic Church out of disgust for the way it handled child sexual abuse by priests. Her career and marriage weren’t fulfilling. She was in the grind of her thirties and wondering, Isn’t there more?
Maybe if MTG had lived in Manhattan in the mid-2000s she would have gone to Italy and luxuriated in food. And then to India searching for spirituality. And then Bali looking to get laid. Like Elizabeth Gilbert.
But it was 2011 and MTG lived in exurban Atlanta. So she quit her corporate job to open a Crossfit gym. Then she got sucked into the Facebook algorithm. And then, when Donald Trump happened and started wrecking all the same institutions that had disappointed her, she jumped into MAGA.

Am I saying that MTG becoming the first QAnon member of Congress is just like the moment in Eat, Pray, Love where Gilbert marries the Brazilian businessman she meets in Bali because she thinks she’s finally found happiness?
Yes? I think that’s exactly what I’m saying?
Especially because, in real life, after Eat, Pray, Love was published, Elizabeth Gilbert realized that the Brazilian guy didn’t deliver happiness either. And she divorced him, too.

I’m sure you don’t need me to spell it out, but…….


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Author: UpNorthJoe   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Johnathan Last on MTG
Date: 11/17/25 4:17 PM
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I ain't buying the MTG transformation. I've watched a few of her recent interviews,
and she is speaking like a rational human being, so I salute her for that. But I
have a wretched memory of her and Blowbert carrying on like fools at a State of The Union speech that Biden did. Also watched a vid of MTG stalking on the streets a
young high school grad who had publicly came out against gun violence, after he had lived thru a school shooting. This was some years ago, pre Congress MTG, but she came
across as a scary lunatic. Also watched her address some rural Southern voters a few years ago, covid year, in which she cracked wise about how if Biden was gonna send
healthcare workers into her area to administer covid shots, that herself and everybody
like her would be demonstrating their 2A rights on them.

My thought is that MTG is a chameleon. I need to see her stay rational for basically
the rest of her life before she's gonna convince me that she's sincere.
Color me skeptical of MTG.
Rumor is that she wants a Senate seat in Georgia, and for that to happen she would
have to convince non MAGA people to vote for her, hence the remarkable transformation.
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