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MTG turns on Fox News: Ex Rep says channel is ‘brainwashing boomers’ and peddling ‘fake news’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 114 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

Am I the only one who is really uncomfortable with this MTG PR-blitz this year? She is obviously trying to rehabilitate her image ahead of an upcoming political push, but she is truly a monster.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I don't think she is trying to rehabilitate her image. I think she was a MAGA and Qanon true believer, and she's genuinely only just now figured out that they were lying criminals. She's still 100% on-board with the hateful, bigoted, totalitarian christofascism; she just no longer trusts Trump's faction to lead it.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    She wasn’t allowed in on the grift. So she big mad.

    I do think she’s hoping for some comeback in the midterms as she “exposes the scam” to others as dumb as herself.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago*

    I do think she’s hoping for some comeback in the midterms

    The trouble I have with the argument that she's planning a "comeback" is that she only needs such a thing because she resigned in protest in the first place. She could have just... not done that, continued to criticize the regime (or hell, switched parties if @teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 's argument about her being "to the left of most of the democratic fucking party" is to be believed), and been in a better position. Yet that's not what she did.

    I have no idea what her plan is, and to be honest, I think that's because the most likely explanation is that she's simply a genuine idiot and doesn't have one.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    She is anticipating that sooner or later trump will fuck up so badly that republicans will look for a saner leader. She wants to appeal to all the political conservatives - as distinct from the maga muppets - who currently feel disenfranchised. She's setting herself up for a presidential run. It's quite cunning really.

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