In some respects, the Georgia congresswoman is almost starting to sound like … Bernie Sanders?
  • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
    31·
    5 days ago

    “I didn’t see hell be unleashed on Israel. We didn’t see a single bomb fall on our heads, on our neighborhoods, on our homes. We didn’t see anything happen here like has happened to Gaza now for months and months and months. We didn’t see children and toddlers being blown to pieces. We didn’t hear about these horror stories … but this is a lie that we’re constantly told over and over and over again, that we have to hate these people in the Middle East, that we have to hate these foreign countries.”

    This timeline is broken if she is saying this.

    • Snot FlickermanEnglish
      36·
      5 days ago

      It’s not broken, it’s actually entirely consistent. No conservatives actually ever have any consistent beliefs other than “what will benefit me in this moment.” She sees support for Trump faltering and she is banking on being “one of the good ones.”

      While wearing a fur coat she heckled Biden at his state of the union address because he had the audacity to say that Republicans wanted to cut medicaid, medicare, and social security. She voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill. She supported all of this every step of the way and now she only speaks her mind because she knows it is safe to do so because she is completely impotent in the face of a shut down government. It’s safe for her to be the rotating villain for the conservatives because she doesn’t have to follow through on any of these viewpoints, she just has to voice them. Once it becomes something she has to follow through on, she will go back to being her old horrible self. She will fall in line like they all do.

      Do not be deceived by this.

    • Marcela (she/her)Banned
      4·
      5 days ago

      I cam here to say this. Who knew that this asshole would be the first one to betray the tyrant? She is a wildcard alright.

      And she just demonstrated more of a spine than the majority of Democrats. /halfjoke

  • 6stringringer@lemmy.zip
    2·
    5 days ago

    I think she’s smart enough to know how dumb she’s been. She is fleeing disaster & tryna save her her own buttocks.

  • AlecSadler
    2·
    5 days ago

    Is she at risk of losing her seat? Why the sudden change recently?

    • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      MTG is not stupid. She’s manipulative, knows how to sway a crowd, knows how to read the room. She’s incredibly intelligent, just for the other side. Her own self-preservation instict is kicking in and she’s quickly realizing that her rich constituents not only do not care about her success, but that her working-class constituents aren’t taking Trump’s abuse lying down.

      Everyone says she’s a rat leaving a sinking ship, and that may be true, but it is the correct play in her position.

      • 6stringringer@lemmy.zip
        1·
        5 days ago

        Correct. MTG had one too. It however was her accidentally brushing a backhand across her dates lap. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d never have noticed the ”job”.