Politics & Government

What may (or may not) happen in WNY politics in 2024

Okay, the break is over.  Just a week after Election Day 2023 the schedule for 2024 is starting to fill up.  It could turn...

Home ownership by Blacks in Buffalo has flatlined

Despite a plethora of programs encouraging Blacks to purchase their own homes, the ownership rate for African-Americans in Buffalo has barely budged over the...

Election 2023 is in the books

Results from the 2023 elections seem to prove that the more things change, the more they remain the same.  Voter turnout was low.  The...

More state money for embattled industrial park

The state is investing an additional $56 million in the STAMP industrial park to finance the completion of infrastructure projects that are the subject...
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Headlines for October 27, 2025

Venezuela Denounces the U.S. for Docking Warship in Trinidad...

Did Mike Johnson say Republicans aren’t ‘in charge’ of the government?

In a video shared online, the House speaker is heard saying, "[Democrats] keep saying Republicans are in charge of the government. We aren't."

Deone Walker: “Keep Doing Us” | Buffalo Bills

Deone Walker met with the media after...

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for government ‘overthrow’: ‘It rapes you every single day’



Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested that "forgotten" Americans should "overthrow" the government.

During a Wednesday interview with a podcaster named Shipwreck, Greene said the American people "have forgotten their power."

"I call them the forgotten American man and woman," she explained. "That is the largest group of Americans. And I think, in my opinion, that is the most powerful group of Americans."

"They could rein in their government like that. Not only could they rein it in, they could overthrow it," she remarked. "That's about 100 million Americans, right?"

"Let's say 100 million Americans that say, f-- you to the government and refuse to pay their taxes. This is how to do it."

Greene insisted that "the federal government has [screwed] you over."

"It rapes you every single day," she insisted. "Social Security, you pay in and your Social Security check, and your employer matches it for all these years, and you retire and you get like a diddly $1,500 a month. I mean, that is such a pathetic joke."

"So when I tell you, look, I am dead serious about the American people," the lawmaker added. "If they really wanted to, everybody I work with, all of my colleagues, everybody in the government, they would be terrified to talk to a lobbyist or talk to a foreign government or they would be terrified to, to step out of line if the American people got serious about forcing Congress and the Senate and the administration, no matter who's serving, to serve them, serve the people."