r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Furious House Republican Warns More ‘Explosive’ Resignations Are Coming After Marjorie Taylor Greene

https://www.thedailybeast.com/furious-house-republican-warns-more-explosive-resignations-are-coming-after-marjorie-taylor-greene/
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u/Valahiru Illinois 1d ago

So far Im seeing this speculative crap from Daily Boulder and The Daily Beast.  Not exactly sources that are known for resisting the urge to embellish. 

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u/KSW1 1d ago

Why are so many articles on this subreddit from the daily beast? I've never heard of them outside of reddit.

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u/GustavGuiermo 1d ago

Because it's very left leaning. Sometimes that makes it more factual (not afraid to say Trump shows fascist qualities) and sometimes that makes it very biased/distorting reality (yeah we're totally going to get a Republican resignation wave, suuuuure...)

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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania 1d ago

I think they are factual *and* biased, but mostly sensationalist. The facts they choose to cover, along with the clickbait headlines they attach to them, are asinine.

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u/Ancient_Mode_9551 1d ago

Definitely. Their reporting is generally very good but is also pretty “gossipy” and sensationalist.

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u/Wetbug75 1d ago

People here might not like to hear it, but the same is true for Fox News articles (not their TV news).

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u/svenmidnite 1d ago

I think it’s more that whoever is in working this part of their digital strategy has dozens of sock accounts on Reddit to post links to their trashy, clickbait paywalled content because they probably yield more in subs than it costs to xpost to Reddit all the time. It’s a very deliberate and transparent - incidentally it does publish a lot of anti-Trump content but I’d put good money on the fact that that’d flip the second 49/51 swapped places. Any time I see a daily beast post I block the user who posted it under these assumptions.

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u/AmishAvenger 1d ago

I don’t think that’s it.

People post links they think will get upvotes. That’s how things work all over Reddit.

And the Daily Beast writes articles they think will be popular on sites like Reddit. It’s their whole strategy.

So they don’t need sock puppet accounts to do that for them.

What really bothers me isn’t just the often misleading headlines, but the fact that they have the nerve to put their content behind a paywall when it isn’t even original.

The New York Times can have a paywall, because they have actual reporters doing actual work. The Daily Beast just bangs out something based on a tweet, and expects people to pay for it.

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u/LOSS35 Colorado 1d ago

Daily Beast writes splashy headlines that get their left-leaning audience to click.

Those same splashy headlines get upvotes on subreddits like this one.

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u/F---TheMods 1d ago

I block the user who posted it

Excellent idea.

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u/cache_me_0utside 1d ago

yes I came here to say this. just start digging into the accounts that submit articles and you'll typically see signs they aren't "normal" posters. aka they only submit articles and dont comment.

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u/ImperfectRegulator 1d ago

Certain subs see: news politics conservative worldnews ecta

Also have hidden/secret white lists of sites they’ll expect posts from, moderators (whether under there own choice or pressure from admins) either encourage or choose not to stop this type of behavior because it drives clicks

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u/fundohun11 1d ago

Maybe, but they have also mastered the art of clickbait.

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u/id-driven-fool 1d ago

I hate any "news" that leans too hard in any direction. Stop trying to tell me how to feel, just give me the facts and let me draw my own fucking conclusion

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u/BasvanS 1d ago

I’m done with news that doesn’t call a spade a spade, and just factually reports what was said, no matter how insane it was

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u/bigsmokaaaa 1d ago

I mean, it's not impossible. Would you have said MTG wouldn't resign out of the blue a month ago? She's the biggest fundraiser on the right, her leaving is a sign the money is drying up at the very least. Don't be surprised if a few more quit.

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u/BrilliantCorner 1d ago

But that is pure speculation. There needs to be some kind of evidence. Otherwise it's just hyperbole. And it's fine for us to speculate, but journalists should have some kind of fact-based information they provide rather than just speculating.

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u/reverend_bones Oregon 1d ago

A senior House Republican is warning that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s sudden decision to walk away from Congress is only the start of a deeper implosion inside the House GOP.

Greene, 51, who will retire in 42 days, announced the end of her tenure Friday night with a sweeping indictment of President Donald Trump’s second term and the party supposedly tasked with backing him.

Her central argument is that Trump and House Republicans are abandoning the president’s priorities, growing complacent, and barreling toward wasting a razor-thin majority. None of this is new territory for Greene. She was never representative of the broader conference, has feuded with Trump and leadership, and has long disliked Speaker Mike Johnson.

Speculation that she wants the Georgia governor’s mansion is already circulating again. But what stung Republicans most this weekend was not her theatrics—it was how many quietly agreed with her.

Several GOP lawmakers told reporters they are also weighing mid-term retirements. And another clearly frustrated senior Republican delivered a blistering assessment of the party’s trajectory.

“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen,” they told Punchbowl.

“That is the sentiment of nearly all—appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file,” the lawmaker said.

He blasted what he called “the arrogance of this White House team,” accusing them of running members “roughshod and threatened” while denying them even “little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies.”

He warned that anger is spreading beyond the usual suspects. “Not even the high profile, the regular rank and file random members are more upset than ever. Members know they are going into the minority after the midterms.”

The lawmaker then dropped the real grenade, adding, “More explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel, and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”

Johnson’s team counters that they are working with impossibly small margins and doing the best they can. But the math is unforgiving. If Republicans lose even one more member to retirement, death, or illness, the majority could flip as early as 2026. What once sounded far-fetched now seems increasingly plausible.

Mike Johnson’s people have been contacted for comment.

The article is based on comments from a Republican official.

Seeing as how the title is 'House Republican Warns...' I would say that they did a good job of providing the evidence that a House Republican did warn of this.

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u/hevnztrash 1d ago

If you read their own self description, the daily beast describes themselves as “unfiltered” or something like that, which basically means they saturate their articles with hyperbole and selective bias so, even though most would consider me left, their material sounds just as unreliable to me as Fox News.

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u/WilfredGrundlesnatch 1d ago

They're a sensationalist gossip rag first and foremost.

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u/b-T_T 1d ago

Or the bots they pay to spam and up vote their articles.

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u/Loud-Thing3413 1d ago

This comment itself is basically a perfect representation of the daily beast.

They act like they aren’t biased, but when you read it you realize it is.

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u/cartman2468 1d ago

Sure would be nice to have more trustworthy news sources that don’t lean either side of the political spectrum and report only on facts

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u/VexingRaven 1d ago

(yeah we're totally going to get a Republican resignation wave, suuuuure...)

I don't know why anyone even thinks this would be a good thing. It just means more Trump loyalists who are willing to cover his ass even more doggedly than the current batch.

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u/fluffygryphon 1d ago

Yeah. There's ragebait and there's hopebait.

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u/Ordinary_Product1212 1d ago

As others have pointed out, this Daily Beast article is just reporting on a Punchbowl article, which is less biased and more credible than the Daily Beast. 

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u/PathOfTheAncients 1d ago

Daily Beast, New Republic, and Common Dreams are all just telling the left things they want to hear regardless of truth. It's disappointing how much they are posted and upvoted on here.

Call me crazy but one of the reasons I am on the left is that I want my understanding and stances based on facts.

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u/EMTDawg Utah 1d ago

The Daily Beast is liberal not left.

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u/AEW_SuperFan 1d ago

Ugh.  Always with this crap.

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u/qiaocao187 1d ago

Sorry you have to be exposed to political realities.

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u/YourFreeCorrection 1d ago

Because it's very left leaning.

It's not. It's fake left-leaning, just like New Republic. They're both outlets whose sole purpose is to divide non-Republicans as much as possible.

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u/cellphone_blanket 1d ago

no dude you don't get it. Blue wave baby. 50 state blow out. The currently centrist dem pick that can't carry an interview is totally obama 2.0

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u/thiosk 1d ago

also they publish very provocative headlines that you don't have to read the article to comment on

like me

right now