Stop trying to follow the logic here, because that never occurredto her when drafting this post. This is all political kabuki. She can see clear as day that Trump’s cohort are burning through what little political power they have remaining and will soon be ousted, and she’s positioning herself as the sane conservative candidate by distancing herself from their most extreme decisions/policies. When the dust clears she’ll have a head start campaigning for whatever office she wants.
Make no mistake, she’s a true believer in all the shit that got us to this fucked up situation we find ourselves in. The first part of her post is just the “normal” kind of extremism that seems blase compared to the firehose of daily scandals coming from the WH every day.
Agreed. She’s just grasping at any little tiny bit of attention left. She’s in desperation mode
What she is saying and the fact she’s saying it publicly is actually very important. She’s showing others who follow(ed) Trump uncritically that it’s possible to hold conservative values and still call out the egregious actions of the Trump administration and the performative propaganda they use to justify them. The fact that she was part of the problem makes her actions even more important.
I’ll never understand why people give the shittiest people alive attention like this. MTG is a poser, nothing she says is worth consideration.
Instead, let’s share what people who are fighting for justice are saying.
Yeah because she wasn’t complicit in any of it.
“Even a broken Hitler is right twice a day.” /s
I’m of the opinion that a broken Hitler needs to be kicked some more.
So you’re saying that you were a complete asshole on purpose and not because you’re an idiot? Interesting.
She’s still an asshole. She’s fine with all the other stuff happening just like all the rest of the Republicans.
People in cages? Killing people on boats? Dismantling the government? Installing a dictator?
Fine.
Me paying more for groceries and gas because war?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
I think she actually fell deep into Pizzagate, maybe due to actual concern about a pedophile ring, heard about the Epstein files, made it her whole thing, and then when Trump buried them so hard it finally actually turned her a little bit. Then she got death threats from Trump supporters for even slightly criticizing him, and that turned her hesitance into full-on rage.
For better or worse, her whole thing is being some sort of populist crusader against the shadowy cabal of pedophiles. She’s just figured out that Trump is part of that shadowy cabal. It’s still “me taking on the hidden secret conspiracy” as her whole thing.
Yeah, I suspect that she’s fundamentally a true believer in what she says, and I think that’s why her party finds her hard to work with. She’s headstrong, sincere, bigoted, insane, and pretty gullible. She seems to have grown disillusioned once she realized a lot of politicians on her side aren’t like her.
I agree with her, but she said everything but the fact that Trump is trying to illegally silence and deport a political enemy. That’s the extremely dangerous thing that’s currently happening.
I see Lemmy is still doing this MTG image rehabilitation. Fucking hell.
Critical support
Margarine Tallow Grease, if you are for the 2A, you know what to do
LMAO! Just the picture of that guy is enough for me to recognize it
Heartbreaking
This looks and reads like when someone copied someone else’s homework.
Shut the fuck up, Marge, you’re one of the people that enabled this shit.
She only knows how to oppose. Once she got elected and had actual power she was like the dog who caught the car.
Agreed. Maybe others who don’t do that should start using her words more. Maybe she could sale her speeches now? If she says stuff like this she could make good money.
I hate that I’m reading this and agreeing. This woman is a fucking monster but i sure can’t argue with these points.
It means that things are that bad. That people not caught up in literal cult-like behavior are livid over all of this, even of their disagree on nearly everything else.
You’re not agreeing with her, she’s agreeing with you - as it is her world view that’s changed, while yours has remained consistent.
Re-read the damn tweet lmao. Her view hasn’t changed on anything, she still supports all the shitty things she did before, she just doesn’t want her bills going up or for her family to receive death threats from her own party.
And also if she was the monarch instead of the current one, she absolutely would have done the same as Trump is doing right now.
Don’t worry, she isn’t the one who had these thoughts. You aren’t actually agreeing with her, she just said something that someone wrote for her that you happen to agree with.
I mean, it’s the same kind of rhetoric trump was spouting ten years ago. It’s meant to pander to a wide demographic who’s “sick of the status quo”.
The problem comes when they get the power they promise they’ll do something with, but they decide to enrich themselves instead.
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