• Devolution@lemmy.world
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    Night of long knives? MTG will be the first because she is not toting the line of Der Fuhrer, despite her being an awful person who deserves to be in the 9th layer of hell.

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    You either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero.

    …wait a second.

    God, this timeline is fucking weird.

  • defunct_punk@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Her split from Trump, 79, emerged after it became clear his administration was not going to declassify the so-called “Epstein files,”

    Absolutely no reason to give Trump’s age but hilarious that the writer did

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      The daily beast does this like all the time.

      They’re not very good journalists by any stretch. But journalism in general kinda sucks now so eh

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    Her arguments are surprisingly valid. Even going as far as complaining that they aren’t passing bills but instead are relying on executive resolutions. It’s a weird time when MTG starts sounding relatively sane.

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      Given the insane positions she’s taken over the years I’m guessing she’s just jumping ship and hoping she doesn’t get ejected in a blue wave or worse.

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      It’s a weird time when MTG starts sounding relatively sane.

      MTG is a classic case of someone who just says what people want to hear in order to get the thing she’s after. She’s not remotely as stupid as people claim, just absent any real moral compass or sense of shame.

      In this case, she’s breaking from the GOP because what they’re doing is clumsy, unpopular, and generally horrible for her constituents. And since she came up through the social media circuit (where popularity matters) rather than the corporate empty suit circuit (where you just get Pappa Elon to spend $40B on “my opponent fucks shrimp” negative advertisements in a gerrymandered district), she’s acting out of self-preservation.

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        I don’t actually think that. I have followed her through her entire political career and I truly think that she believes everything she says and does 100%. She was posting insane QAnon shit way before she had a political career, and she has been shockingly consistent on a lot of issues. She has turned on Trump precisely because she isn’t just an opportunist whose views depend on which way political winds are blowing. It’s like Mitt Romney. The dude is completely terrible and I disagree with him on basically every possible issue but because he has a moral compass, even if it’s one I almost completely disagree with, he is at odds with the Trump admin. I believe Rep. Greene is the same. She has some kind of moral code she believes in (even if such moral code is completely stupid and terrible), and so she is necessarily at odds with the Trump admin, which is the embodiment of amorality and selfishness above all else.

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          Exactly. This is a lady who quit the Catholic Church and was re-baptized as an evangelical just because she was so disgusted by the child sex abuse scandal. This is a hill she’s willing to die on — willing to kill on, even.

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    She drank the kool-aid.

    This is what you get when you recruit ‘regular’ people into your fascist movement – they buy the bullshit that you’re ’for the people’ and ‘want to make things better for everyone’.

    You get people who don’t know those are lies to appease the masses, and think you actually are for those things.

    She really doesn’t understand what her party is for, and instead takes it for its facade. And she doesn’t understand this means she’s a circus clown.

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    Out of all the Republicans whose guts i hate, I think that I like MTG the best:

    Classier than Lauren Bobert.

    Hates Laura Loomer, and would beat the fucking brakes off of her if they got into it.

    It’s not much, but I’ll take it.

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      I’m living a months long existential crisis because I now live in a reality where I share an opinion with the Jewish space lasers bimbo…

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        I’m living a months long existential crisis because I now live in a reality where I share an opinion with the Jewish space lasers bimbo…

        The idiot enemy of my enemy is my idiot friend.

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        She’s batshit, but I do think she legitimately cares about protecting kids from predators.

        I don’t like her, but I respect that when there really did turn out to be a secret cabal of child rapists at the highest level of society, she didn’t swap sides because so many of them are on her side of the aisle.

        I’m also incredibly depressed that I find it remarkable that a member of the majority party wants child rapists to be held to account.

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        shes batshit insane, but she comes from saying what constituents want to hear and not the party line.