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[–] 188 points 5 months ago (18 children)

I'm really loving the new game of MTG pretending to newly discover all of the things that everyone has known for years.

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  • [–] 141 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    I don't trust her at all. But it is nice to watch.

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  • [–] 67 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Oh, I totally agree. I have no idea where this is going, but it is certainly entertaining to watch.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think she's betting long term for when the orange baby dies and the implosion of his cult of personality takes a lot of the GOP with it. If that happens she can point to her new record and position herself as the return to sanity whilst also still being a republican which gives current and then ex-maga supporters an out without having to admit that their shitty morals is what got the petty petulant perpetual pants pooper into power.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Honestly a very solid strategy now that Georgia is purple. Especially if she is angling for a governor or senate position.

    I hate it, but I can recognize the strategy amd logic behind it

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

    Yeah, she seems like she is trying to 180 out of the cult but fuck this bitch. Even if she somehow managed to convince every idiot MAGA to leave, she has still done more harm than good.

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

    No matter what she does, she will always be the bitch that blamed forest fires on Jewish space lasers

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Honestly, while she's definitely irredeemable, I do think that Republican voters would've still fallen for all this shit without her, but some might stop believing because of her. It's easier to follow someone out of something like this than to make the trek alone. A lot of Republicans are finally feeling the burn and looking around for someone to break away first, and MTG might actually be that for some people. Good actions don't make up for bad ones, but I'll take what I can get.

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    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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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago
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    And she helped them intentionally for many years because brainwashing boomers and peddling fake news is precisely what she wanted to happen.

    Fuck her forever.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Exactly. It’s what got her elected, and reelected.

    The only possible good that I can see from this weird ‘turn’ of hers is that now that she’s speaking truth, perhaps some of the boomers she peddled fake news to will listen and never vote Republican again. Not going to hold my breath however.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    Calling it now: she's preparing to run for president.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    2015: it's going to be fun to see Trump try and fail

    2026: oh no MTG don't do it

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    [–] 32 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    She's still pissed Trump would not let her run for Senator in Georgia. The Democrats or Left hasn't forgotten the shit she said.

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    There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says "Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again." We've got to understand the nature of the regime we're dealing with.

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

    Ah yes. They're only brainwashing when it isn't in her interests. But when it is, she'll gladly join the propaganda.

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    [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    is this because she now can afford better food on the ex senator salary?

    got working brain again?

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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Magic the gathering fights back?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    You're gonna have to topple the regime that you helped build Margie, or it isn't good enough.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Basically the equivalent of Moscow Mitch turning around and saying the Supreme Court is cow toeing to fascism.

    These people make me wish god/hell was real.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I know who Greene is, but I honestly find it weird how they're referred to by their initials only. No other country would do that in a world news community, especially when the politician isn't even a major leader of any sort

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like she’s stopped dreaming in this apocalyptic lala land that conservative news portends to them and is finally starting to wake up.

    Nah, next week she’ll be back on Jewish space lasers.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    More leopards are metaphorically eating people's faces, and all that would probably lead to the downfall of Trump. Just saying.

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