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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

There is nothing so wonderful to watch but a messy divorce between MTG and GOP. No punch that hits is wasted.

Keep the popcorn machine on standby, it's going to be entertaining.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What person with a brain is whispering good things to say to MTG? Keep it up, maybe she learns something.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 5 points 56 minutes ago (4 children)

Lol what has happened, is she off her meds and seeing clearly wtf

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 36 minutes ago

MTG entered office as a 'the establishment is corrupt, all the conspiracy theories are real' under Biden.

Now that 'her team' has won, now the establishment is all corrupt and there's tons of actual conspiracies... So in a way, she's actually shockingly consistent..

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 33 minutes ago

She's a Qanon die-hard first, Trump supporter second. A portion of the Qanon faction has started to break with Trump over the Epstein stuff.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 49 minutes ago

She actually got exposed to the horrors of her government on Instagram and began questioning a lifetime of brainwashing. She's not exactly and intellectual leftist, but a big crack was formed.

This is why the US bought TikTok, to eliminate access to non US propaganda.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

She is doing the grift where she correctly names all the problems to get people to think she understands them. But her solution is to vote for Trump harder.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 hours ago

Trump will reap what he's sown by having not picked her for a cushy cabinet position. She loved him, dammit!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There is no harsher enemy than a disappointed lover. MTG and GOP will be a seriously messy divorce, and I'm keeping the popcorn machine on standby. This is going to be FUN.

[–] joker125@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago

I live in her district. I call her office every day pushing the Epstein files. I’m doing my part.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 11 points 7 hours ago

She's not the worst person I know. She's in the top ten, but not the worst.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

This is the problem with social media. Everyone is trying to get worthless internet points by riffing on the popular "The worst person you know...." meme. Meanwhile, no one is talking about the actual robbery that happened in plain sight just a few days ago that she is talking about.

The Crypto flash crash of October 10th was nothing short of out in the open corruption that vaporised billions of dollars in seconds. A crypto bro, Konstantin Galish killed himself after losing tens of millions that didnt actually belong to him. And all of it was triggered by well timed tweets by the paedo and chef, Donald Drumpf.

Heres a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ddxotpMZM

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 25 points 10 hours ago

Man she really didn't realize he was like this huh? She was just here for racism not the fascism, what a fool

[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My perverted mind thought this is a dominatrix in the thumbnail

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

You'll never know unless you ask. I could believe it.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 28 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

She's the sacrificial Republican this time around.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

She is likely going to maneuver into Speakership. She knows Trump isn't lasting and this version of Greene she's putting out will demolish Vance.

She's playing to win a longer game.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Admittedly, I'm a little impressed. She's smarter than I thought. I still don't like her, but I'm not going to say that I hate her anymore.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Her creeping through AOC's mailbox before she was a politician keeps her well in the 'nope' camp for me. She's proving herself more dangerous right now IMO.

[–] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 4 points 13 hours ago

She drew the short straw

[–] Unattributed@feddit.online 27 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

What timeline are we living in where MTG is actually starting to talk sensibly about some of the bull-puckey that Trump is pulling?

Don't get me wrong - she still is not a good person, in fact she is downright despicable on many levels. But crap, she's actually talking against Trump on two issues now.

But, honestly, I doubt her sincerity on the tariffs issue. It's most likely that she's concerned that the businesses that have been stuffing her pockets for years won't stuff her pockets anymore.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

I think that unlike some others in the maga leadership, she was a true believer. She believed in all the most dubious deep state conspiracy theories. She thought this movement was about purging deep state corruption, and replacing it with some more meritocratic system. A big old dose of racism in there but with her rationalizing it with convenient conspiracy theories.

Now she's faced with more blatant objective evidence of conspiracies. So she gets turned a bit by the betrayal.

Over a long enough time span, I think MTG is doomed to always, eventually turn against whomever is ostensibly "in charge". She'll go for conspiracy theories and of course the people in charge are to blame.

[–] joker125@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

She’s pivoting. The writing is on the wall for trump. She wants to be speaker of the house and run for potus in 28.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

She knows two things well: 1: the Trump base and 2: that Trump ain't lasting much longer.

[–] Gt5@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

More than two - Israel, Epstein files, ai regulation, healthcare and influencer transparency before this.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 134 points 1 day ago (8 children)

If I’m giving her the absolute benefit of the doubt, it just feels like she was an uneducated conservative parent who fell for Trump, and only just lately has she actually woken up to what he’s about.

It’s probably not as good as this though.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I like to think she was just some lady who got hit on the head by a falling coconut, and that turned her into the cartoon character she was when we all met her, and since then she recently got hit by another coconut and now this is who she is.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

na… she’s an opportunist… coconuts have no role in this shit show. she will follow the populist winds to oblivion

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Maybe she’s like a reverse John Fetterman. She was a MAGA fascist but then had a stroke and became a rational person. Opposite of fetterman.

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 84 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think she’s distancing herself from anything Epstein while she still can.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 74 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right. I think she’s putting her money on Trump failing so she can run for president and say “see, I stood up”

Which is a brilliant move, if project 2025 fails.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 46 points 1 day ago (16 children)

If she splits the Vance vote then she will be doing the Lord's Work

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

Vance is not running in 2028, it will be Donald Trump Jr. They won't even need to change the hats.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 51 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

MAGA loves MTG. She's positioning herself to take over after Trump dies. She basically needs to prepare ammunition to attack other contenders with.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 30 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

She could always go all out on a wedge issue: Release the Epstein files.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 10 hours ago

She did exactly that.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

She is one of the three Republicans who have signed the discharge petition to force a vote on bill to release the Epstein files. (Bobert is another one, go figure.)

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 16 points 21 hours ago

To be fair, she has kept on it, although just a bit quieter the last couple of weeks.

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[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 40 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It is so strange to keep stumbling across things this dumb cunt says that I agree with.

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 44 points 1 day ago

Who else is taking bets that soon a "leftest trans Antifa" will shoot at her with bullets "engraved" with marker that say "anti-anti-crypto" and "anti-anti-pedophile"?

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