“No” - Mike Johnson mumbled with trumps lil Pepe in his mouth
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I'll be honest, MTG hasn't been relevant for years, could care less about here now. Not going to waste my time on a useless piece of excrement.
"MagicTheGathering turns on Trump..."
I play Epstein's island and tap that and three swamps to create three child tokens which I sacrifice to Donald Trump: child rapist giving it +3+0 and unblockable by white creatures until end of turn, and then I tap one blue mana to use Donald Trump: Child rapist's ability above the law, which gives Donald Trump: child rapist flying until end of turn, and if an opponent takes damage from Donald Trump: Child Rapist, create one child token for each damage caused by Donald Trump: child rapist. I swing for three. You take three damage. Pass the turn.
This is hilarious until you realise there is nothing Hasbro won't franchise
Release the Epstein Files!
That'll fix it for sure. I'm positive they take her opinion seriously...
No, but it's better than what she was doing. And hopefully it'll show more Republicans that they can break ranks with MAGA too.
Granted.
But she's got a huge hole to dig herself out of. Let her start with this and move on to apologizing to the people she baselessly attacked for personal gain,, publicly supporting legislation that helps people, supporting the people who've been hurt by the policies she helped enact, and voting against her party when it'll help her constituents and not just her lobbyists. It's political suicide, but it's the right thing to do.
I'm not convinced she's breaking ranks even. Her career is based around the idea that any attention is good attention. She's been out of the spotlight for a while, and really has nothing to offer the nation orher than a willingness to say whatever egregious bullshit gets the cameras back on her. I don't have a lot of hope that she'll be a bellweather for any trend.
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.
You either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become a hero.
...wait a second.
God, this timeline is fucking weird.
She'll be the next McCain. How much money would you pay to have him or Romney right now? What a fucking timeline.
The Mitt Romney that told Biden to preemptively pardon Trump?
Yes.
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.
Don't fall for it
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.
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.
Yes, I agree. I‘ve long said that Greene (and Boebert) are what you get when someone who actually believes this shit gets into power.
I don‘t follow this stuff closely enough to know how this article fits into her history, but the Epstein stuff is completely consistent. And, while I don‘t agree with 99% of her principles, it actually shows her to be more principled than most of Trump‘s followers, who were fully against paedophilia when Pizzagate was a thing, but who now seem to think that it‘s no big deal and that every man would fuck a pre-teen if given the opportunity to do so.
Boebert was literally pulled from a casting website. She doesn't believe shit.
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.
I grew up in a close enough to her district that my hometown might get gerrymandered into it at some point. This is the correct take, and I say that because of how many women I know from the area that are exactly the same. Not the sharpest tools in the shed, hell I’d say among the dullest, but they believe in protecting children above all else.
I don’t like Greene one bit and generally think she’s a bad person, but she does believe in something, which is more than I can say for Trump who only believes that he should have power
And desperation. When someone flips that floppy it becomes quite apparent.
The factions have been infighting for a while. They were so desperate to make Kirk the first shot in a war between right/left, because it was real the first high profile shot in a maga civil war.
This is what always happens in a power structure like trump cultivates without clear ranks out of fear the 2nd will replace him. Sometimes not till the leader is dead, but any time they seem significantly weak enough to not be able to hold off a challenger.
Once one starts making public moves like this, the rest are going to panic and start to differentiate in hopes of gaining enough support to take leadership.
Every one of them willing to burn some of it down to control.some.of it rather than none of it.
It'll be like small scale collapse of USSR. The big danger is if someone gets the keys to ICE in a functional state and tries to take the country by force.
Exactly. Fascist movements are in many ways similar to cults. The skills of founding a cult are one thing, but the second generation leader needs a different set of skills. Cult leaders often don't want to give a lot of power to the sort of person who can keep it going because that does weaken their position. I see many people who think they're Brigham Young or David Cavendish among the magas, but I don't see anyone who actually is.
DeSantis was the face of the suburban bigot faction but he made a power play and lost his influence for it, Mace seems to be vying for that position now. Vance is the major player in the technofascist camp, but they aren't very popular. Greene seems to be heavily influential in the rural and social media brainrot spheres and should be used as a bellweather there, especially as it's a particularly influential camp, but also nobody wants to put that faction in charge. The christofascist wing seems led by Johnson, but their leadership seems far more from the shadows than an amorphous movement. The neonazi (as in, will call themselves fascist) camp will back anyone sufficiently bigoted, but they seem willing to fight anyone who doesn't give them everything they want except trump.
And so looking at that I have a hard time seeing any of these people actually getting the support of all the others. One of the trump kids will probably try a play for power, and they're probably the most likely to actually get it, but while trump is in harmony with the movement as a whole, being someone who both drinks and pisses the flavorade, his kid would likely be someone struggling to hold the factions together under them. That's not to say they can't, more that they're unlikely to be able to go on stage and ramble incoherently off the dome and have it become party doctrine
That's a great overview of it. I think you're right; as soon as Trump dies (and I do think it requires his death, not just leaving office), MAGA will fall on each other like wolves. This is why I'm not concerned about "who comes after Trump" because in choosing, MAGA will splinter and self-destruct. I'm actually concerned about actually getting there. If Trump dies (naturally is best), and the country isn't completely destroyed, we'll have a hell of a cleanup project, but I think it could be fixed in a generation or two.
The fact that MAGA potential heirs are starting their succession fight tells me that they know and are privately acknowledging that he's not healthy and are trying to get a headstart in kneecapping the opposition.
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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.
Yeah, when she starts making sense, we’re all in trouble
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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
Trump could not stop talking about people’s age and how that made them “unfit to lead”. He was right for the wrong reasons, but the main thing is that it’s very funny how easily all his words can be turned back on him.
Trump says Trump is too old to be in power.
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
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.
Sounds pretty plausible. And in the past when there was decorum, the too-sincere just got quietly sidelined I imagine, wondering why they never seemed to get anywhere despite their loyalty and fervor. But today, when the party communication strategy is explicitly "carnival barker but a mix of vicious lies and middle school insults", welp, those zealots not only avoid being dealt with quietly, they get a platform, cuz they already had one, and it's one that rests on the larger platform where every heinous unsayable thing has already been publicly screeched, and also subsequently forgotten.
I hope she goes nuclear lol, she's gotta have some good dirt right?
How can she fight the Jewish space lasers if she can't work on legislation against them?
She didn't just change her mind about the GOP's, she has a new alliance with the JSLC.
Mazel Tov
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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.
Classier than Lauren Bobert.
Pretty low bar...
And maybe you weren't aware of the shit with the personal trainer?
Pretty low bar...And maybe you weren't aware of the shit with the personal trainer?
I haven't. Is that the guy that she was giving a handy to in a public theater?
Oh wait, that was Bobert.
She had an affair with her physical trainer a while back. I forget the details, and I don't want to spend time reading about her so...
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...
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.
Good.
Also, the Epstein files.
Which she is also pushing for. WTF something wrong with the timeline
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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"Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf"
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