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.”
Should be obvious
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.
Some moron on here yesterday said they trust Magic Taylor Green more.
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.
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.
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.
The fact that she even had to say it to remind people is completely insane
She hasn’t changed. She joined MAGA for greedy and selfish reason, and she left for the same reasons. She will knife anyone left of her in the back the moment it becomes benificial.
MTG says whatever MTG thinks will benefit MTG the most. End of story. She has no morality at all other than what will conveniently serve herself first.
Empty G is still full blown MAGA, she just recognizes that Trump is heading for the exit soon, and as in all Cults of Personality, there is no #2. She’s angling to be the new MAGA leader, attracting those who have soured on Trump, as well as weak-willed Trad Dems, to give her an edge over those that only draw from MAGA.
Don’t fall for it, she’s still the same psychopath she’s always been. Hating Trump is a low bar, she’s going to have to do better than that.
I don’t think it’s all that nefarious.
I think she was a true believer up until she started forcefully being exposed to all the info and having good reason to pay attention to it.
And it’s not hard to figure out that it’s all bullshit.
Regardless, she’s still the “Jewish Space Lasers” person, and I don’t see why Democrats would be tempted to trust her on anything.
Greene just doesn’t care about holding her job enough to carry Trump’s bullshit once she recognizes it as bullshit. That’s why she’s going to be out of politics like every other Republican who wouldn’t carry Trump’s bullshit and therefore are no longer in office.
Nah, she’s STILL a true believer, she’s just separated MAGA from Trump, which is something very few politicians have done publicly, and very, very few voters have done.
It’s going to backfire. If MAGAs can’t vote for Trump, they’re going to want to vote for whoever Trump endorses, and it ain’t gonna be her.
It’ll be easy to prove me wrong. I just don’t think she’s that ambitious. She’s already got hers, right? I, personally, gave her thousands of dollars (sold index funds as she bought on insider knowledge), and she has healthcare for life.
Yeah, well said
I agree! Yet Another based take from AOC!
Ducking Fuh.
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.
Why not? I don’t think we’ve ever been burned by unskeptically welcoming conservatives into the progressive movement.
(/s, obviously)
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.
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.
You don’t have to trust MTG in order to work with her across the aisle to sign legislation putting an end to funding Israeli genocide. The two things can be true together.
This is an infuriatingly divisive lib take by AOC, and sadly further evidence she’s just not ready for a presidential run. I truly hope she reconsiders and goes after Chucklefuck’s senate seat instead, it would do way more good for the movement that way.
MTG is no longer in congress, so there is no reaching across the aisle to sign legislation. She quit literally the day her pension became vested.
MTG was in congress when she drafted a bill to reduce military aid to Israel, and AOC voted against it.
To other users reading this: This user tends to argue in bad faith and I’d advise tagging them accordingly, but I’ll just clarify for the record:
AOC voted against that bill because it actually enabled offensive bombs to continue while gutting defensive Iron Dome measures. AOC has long been a proponent of defensive measures that protect civilian life, independent of national flags. However, given the latest number of loopholes that Israel has used, AOC has as of April 1st adjusted her position to refuse ALL military aid to Israel.
Cash is fungible. Israel doesn’t care what it’s earmarked for, giving them money further enables the genocide. The important thing is that the US attempt to apply leverage by reducing what we give them.
My positions on Israeli genocide and the shameful involvement of the US, due to our government being captured wholly by Israel, have been consistent throughout.
It’s funny you make this claim however. The bad faith argument was from AOC claiming that she had to vote no because of offensive weaponry, when in fact she did so because her esteemed colleagues told her to heel. After the vote, she changes her position. Interesting.
In fact she did so because her esteemed colleagues told her to heel. After the vote, she changes her position. Interesting.
Speculative.
Perhaps. But just to put a fine point on this matter - I am glad that AOC came around to the correct position on whether we should continue funding the terrorist nation state of Israel, in that we absolutely should not. They are literally using this money to buy off our politicians so that they don’t work for us, instead they work for Israel. It’s wrong in every possible way.
I sincerely hope this is how AOC will vote regarding bankrolling Israel in the future, regardless of whether the authors of said bills have an R next to their name, or whether she perceives them to be a hypothetical future opponent in a presidential race.
So I take then you know that was the only issue the bill addressed, with no riders, so you’re certain it should have passed. The MTG bill definitely didn’t fund any wacko conservative garbage, right?
Well, no. Pretty much the only bills that get passed in modern era Congress are omnibus budget bills. MTG’s Israeli funding reduction was a specific amendment to one such bill, which AOC chose to vote against.
I’m sure the rest of what got passed had all sorts of whacko conservative garbage within, because they control the entire federal government at this time. This is likely partially why AOC voted against the actual bill as well.
That said, if you consider Israeli control of the US government an existential threat, which I do, then that makes it even more important to find opportunities to work with the conservatives in power to curtail Israel’s influence, which MTG’s amendment would have done.
AOC could have had her cake and eaten it too, by voting to pass the amendment to remove some funding to Israel, and then casting a performative nay vote for the overall budget bill.
So yeah, I’m disappointed that she chose partisan politics above achieving an impactful, measurable result. But that’s liberals for you. The only reason I care is because I hold AOC to a higher standard than most of them, because she is by far the closest to representing my own values in terms of her actual voting record and what she claims to believe in.
It’s honestly both striking and funny to me that someone who had denounced Harris under this same purity test now suddenly is saying the left should work with fascists because there is common ground.
lol wow. Just wow.
I guess that’s single-issue tankies for you.
Ok well MTG isn’t running for president, nor would I vote for her if she did because like AOC, I don’t trust her at all.
However, when she drafted a bill to reduce aid to Israel by 500mil, AOC voted against it. AOC claims she is about results, but then does her own purity tests like this which further enable genocide. It is damaging, divisive, and disingenuous of her to do so.
AOC voted against the amendment that MTG proposed to a funding bill. AOC then voted against the full bill when it came up for a vote.
Edit: the amendment got a total of 6 votes in favor
Harris under this same purity test now suddenly is saying the left should work with fascists because there is common ground.
Harris introduced legislation to defund Israel? When did I miss that?
I wouldn’t trust MTG with a squirt gun at a swimming pool. Yes we all make mistakes and say and do dump things. Yes she has turned her back on Donny and maga but I do believe the minute he dies she will try to recapture the maga movement and mold it in her favor. And when this fails she will just grift another hatful movement. Yes she is still speaking out about Epstein which I will give her credit for but other than that stfu bitch. When we get our country back or what’s left of it you will still go to prison for all the crimes, lies, and pain you caused people. We will at least make sure your last meal is tasty Marge.
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.
Trust? Trust what? Agree with her when she says something we agree with? I disagree. And I also don’t trust Cortez. But I don’t have to, we aren’t voting MTG into the presidency here, we are supporting or rejecting her defection to the good guys, because half the left are sheep that Israel plays like a fucking fiddle.
I’m talking about you all.
MTG supported Israel right up until Trump ruined her reremovedtion in the party. She wasn’t remotely shy about her support either. Now she doesn’t? I mean we can support her current disdain, but she’s obviously not authentic in her stance.
And AOC endorsed Joe Biden. What is your point? This is not about trust. This is only about opposing Israel.
MTG supported Israel
Dunno why she supported them in the first place, what with them being the number one manufacturer of space lasers she was so scared of.
Because fascists, at least at the time, viewed support for other ethnostates as a means to an end for their own goals. Their opinion turned on a dime because it was no longer a popular and largely positive example of an ethnostate working, at least in the mind of Americans, who she wants to appeal to.
I believe she is authentic, she was a true believer.
Regardless we need to win over more people, including and especially in red country. Rejecting defectors is something the administration and their allies pay influence agents to get us to do.
“This grifter wants to defect, so you need to visually be seen supporting them so that their patsies know they can defect too” Bro, she’s a grifter, which is why she’s not let into the club. Don’t scam people for personal gain and of course you’re welcome. We don’t need to be idiots about this.
I don’t agree at all, and think you are being played by the right wing/Israeli superfans.
You don’t get in bed with antisemites because the zionists conflated zionism with semitism. It’s not goddamn rocket science.
You’re literally falling for the same shit that communists did when they helped elect Hitler into power.
The fact you use that terminology makes me question your understanding. You do realize Arabs are semetic?
Yeah, no fuck. You got an actual argument or you just wanna point out obvious shit?
“Question your understanding” says the fuck trying to clean up MTG’s image for free
Edit: “Zionists conflated zionism with semitism” was a clever way of saying “zionists claim that criticizing zionism is antisemitic”.
You do not win over people who are delusional by playing into their delusions, you acknowledge their delusions and explain it in another way. These people who believe thousands of lies from talking heads mostly got there by not being forced to acknowledge their shortcomings, whether it be about their tribalism, paranoia, guilt, or outright bigotry, it was because those views preexisted and were coddled. Most of the people who want to reach out to conservatives so bad can only fathom doing so by throwing the smallest victim under the bus. Fuck that
