Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly weighing a plot to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson before she retires in early January and is quietly gauging if she has the nine votes inside the Republican party to trigger a vote.

“Marjorie is approaching members to get to nine who will oust the speaker,” an anonymous source told MS Now. “And if we don’t get to work on codifying Trump’s agenda, anything can happen.”

The Georgia Republican previously tried to oust Johnson last year in protest at a foreign aid deal for Ukraine, and she has been a consistent critic of Johnson’s work throughout the second Trump administration this year.

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    2 hours ago

    I’m not convinced she has the sway to bend a young sprout, but I’ve got my popcorn. I’m not a betting man, but if I was I wouldn’t bet on her.

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    Its really too bad she is so stupid. If she had been a little smarter she would have kept her mouth shut and started storing up info to release just before they were about to do another nasty and terrible thing to the majority of americans. Sigh she is space laser stupid though.

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      She’s actually playing it smart.

      She knows that the midterms are going to be a blood bath for the GOP. She gets to collect her pension and sit on the sidelines. She’ll get a TV pundit gig and write a book.

      She’ll be in great shape to raise a lot of money in 2028.

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        As I say each time, as someone that grew up in her district, the most frustrating thing about her is that I know she’s very very savvy. She’s not smart but she’s very effective

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        Indeed, it’s less about actually ousting these people. It is about being seen as trying to do so.

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    She doesn’t have the votes. If she did, she would just do it, and nobody involved would leak it to the press first.

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    Party infighting. A fascist feature.

    What fascinates me is that the Heritage Foundation seems to tolerate her dissent. Historically, party dissenters don’t live long. But my guess is that the Heritage Foundation knows we are in a society where capital punishment of political enemies isn’t accepted. They let Trump ramble about executing people that he doesn’t like because Trump isn’t ultimately important to their plans.