• Decoy321@lemmy.world
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    Why are we bothering to continue giving her the attention? Sharing this nonsense only helps her.

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      She has real power. She is on committees and she is pretty much singlehandedly keeping McCarthy in the speaker’s chair. Ignore people like her at your peril, because they won’t go away, they’ll just keep getting more powerful.

      If you think she’s bad now, wait until she gets into the Senate. Or gets a cabinet position in the Executive Branch.

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        She is talking about Trump all the time because once he is out of the news she is toast. She made no allies in the party, seen as an ineffective representative and will lose the nomination once someone more crazy wants to challenge her in a primary.

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          And her being replaced by a bigger whack job is somehow better?

          And don’t underestimate her allegiances. Say what you will about Kevin McCarthy, but he’s still Speaker of the House. He may not have the full support of the GOP, but he had plenty of allies and clout before MTG came along. And there are plenty of Republicans from both chambers that have absolutely no problems with her policies and like the idea of her being a lightning rod keeping the negative publicity off of them in public while quietly maneuvering behind the scenes. They want her around even if it’s only in a “useful idiot” role.

          MTG’s incessant attempts at impeaching Biden are an example. She is the one constantly in the press demanding Biden’s impeachment ad nauseum. She is the one that takes the brunt of the political heat for her position. And she loves every minute of it. But look how much support impeachment has behind the scenes. Not a full majority, but a growing number of GOP politicians are glad to work behind the scenes to make that a reality while letting her absorb all the consequences for it.

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    every time I see MTG I have a moment of “what the literal fuck does a card game have to do with this?”

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      You face off against an ugly monster who for some reason has powers even though they look like a stack of shit with teeth

      Applies to both, really

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    Republicans went from Nixon to Reagan to George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, and finally to Trump, Pence, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Lauren Bobert… It’s like they are deliberately trying to elect stupider people every year.

    At this rate, by 2032 the Republican presidential nominee will be just be a brick with a Hitler mustache glued to it.

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    I wish instead of Ric Flair in drag with bad opinions, we had actual Ric Flair in her seat in congress.

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    If the press had any balls, they would demand she define communism. They aren’t demanding that and they aren’t demanding any of these assholes define what woke means either.

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    Please please please stop giving this dipshit attention. Thats all she really wants. Shes pissed trump is getting all of the attention right now so she continues to say stupid and outlandish shit with no understanding of its meaning, solely because it gets her in articles like this. This dumb removed needs to fuck off already.

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    US right wing thought process:

    Anything they disagree with = Communism (the USA calling “commie” sounds straight from the lips of General Jack D Ripper to outsiders.)

    Anything they agree with = Democracy

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      Actually right now even democracy is considered a dirty word, they even say that US isn’t democracy, but a republic (ignoring what republic is).

      They already started conditioning their minions, that dictatorship isn’t really all that bad.

      The ironic thing is that the primary reason why communism is bad is that it normally comes together with totalitarism, and that’s what they essentially arguing for.

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      They like to throw “woke” around too.

      “What am I mad about today???..hmmmmm…books!..books are woke!”

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    Her entire political career is based on saying loud dumb shit, no policy, no progress just REEEEE. She’d disappear tomorrow if everyone decided to stop paying attention to her

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the goal. While everyone’s listening to her deranged rambling, the other scumbags are probably scheming in the shadows.

      Ignoring her would definitely be the best thing.

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      Sign me up either way. I’ll gladly take democratic ownership of corporations over our current stage of managerial feudalism anyday.

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        Communism definitely has its own set of advantages and disadvantages, but the Republican Party just label everything they don’t like “communism” and “socialism.” Sometimes they even throw a “radical” in there. Words have lost all meaning.