Caught up to Tucker Carlson and watching the episodes with RFK Jr's wife and MTG back to back was quite amusing. In the same way that Cheryl Hine's episode made me view her more positively, MTG's episode did the exact opposite.
I have no idea if she actually is, but she comes across like a midwit in the episode. How hard is it to understand that you can separate liking or disliking someone as a person and disliking them for the quality of their work?
Being principled can be a great thing as a person, I want my friends and family to be principled, I want my spouse and children to be principled, I want to be principled as well.
But that's very different from carrying that to such an extreme that it interferes with your job. His job is supposed to be representing his constituents in congress. He keeps voting no on things that they voted in by voting for Trump. This doesn't mean he has to blindly vote yes to everything Trump puts forward, but he's voting no on principle on things that would genuinely help his constituents and the country as a whole.
He could be the nicest guy in the world but if he keeps voting against wildly popular things on "principle" he should expect to be primaried and he shouldn't be surprised when his nitpicking and constant no voting pisses Trump (and people in favor of trumps agenda) the fuck off.
There's only so much time in the term, no possibility for reelection, and only so long before the midterms. If he really wants to be a successful republican he needs to at least not prevent Trump from getting things done. Sure, if there's something egregious, point it out specifically and suggest an improvement. But does he do that? Hardly ever if at all, just smugly rests on his laurels about muh principles over shit that is truly just retarded sometimes.
MTG also bragged about he doesn't always vote no, because he voted yes on raising the debt ceiling... in return for a 1% reduction in spending. She seemed to think this was a genuine accomplishment and something to celebrate. It is so fucking pathetic I was genuinely disgusted. Where the fuck are the principles now? Where the fuck were they when he voted yes on a bunch of Biden bullshit over the years? Why do these principles only seem to rear their head when it comes to furthering Trump's agenda that people fucking voted for?
Again, I'm not saying vote yes on everything either. But the question should always come down to:
1) Does voting yes potentially cause long term issues down the line that could damage the country?
1b) Can you ask for this part to be tweaked ahead of time to prevent this instead of voting no?
2) Does the reason you're voting no have any real consequence or is it just imperfect in the way it's almost always imperfect or furthering a status quo that is distasteful but largely benign or still being worked on in the longer term plan?
3) Does voting no hurt the country and contradict the wants of the people, particularly those who voted for you?
4) Is what you're demanding on principle realistic or even possible to achieve? For example demanding something be removed that would cause the bill to fail due to votes flipping no with it gone, particularly dem votes.
Everybody has colleagues that are great, nice, genuine, well meaning people that despite all of that are just not that good at their job. If you're a principled salesman and you're so principled, or not smart enough to figure out how to sell in a principled way, and it prevents you from selling anything maybe you just shouldn't be a fucking salesman and should fuck off and go do something else.
