• TheFogan@programming.dev
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      I mean it’s a trippple doom for her. She’s a woman, she’s half way shedding maga siding with dem’s on the epstein files, and on protecting healthcare, and she has a history of being outright crazy in multiple directions.

      In short, I don’t think her recent forays into sanity are going to erase the stain the R party has on it now, nor erase her claims of weather controlling machines and space lasers to earn any support from the left.

      Then to court maga… obviously they’d need to be less sexist, and she’d need to seem more… on trumps side.

      I think AOC’s comment is probably right, she got snubbed for senate seat by trump… and now she’s pissed and wanting to break that glass ceiling.

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        I don’t think her recent forays into sanity

        Her insanity and bigotry syncing up with some key issues isn’t “sanity”. It’s random chance.

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          I can give that on Isreal, she takes anti-semitism without the caveat of “except the ones that are in power commiting a genocide”. The release the epstein files, and protect healthcare, is either she’s actually concerned about helping people or punishing bad guys… or she’s just pissed off with something in her party and is playing a contrarian to get something she wants (which yeah, I’d lean more towards the second, but general bigotry doesn’t quite explain those 2).

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      I think you’re underestimating the potential power of “vote for a woman to own the libs and show them we’re not sexist. They’re stupid!”

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    I’d like to laugh, but I did that with Trump and he got elected twice. Never know who fools will elect to lead.

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      Trailer Grease has none of the pull the orange turd has, though. Most of MAGA considers her nuttier than squirrel shit and would NOT vote for her.

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    I hope so. MAGA Republicans aren’t going to vote for a woman for president. I have a feeling it would be a humiliating experience for her.

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      You know how on the TV there’s this type of a character that’s like a female head of a crime family that has to be smarter and stronger than the men and everyone is scared of her and respects her? MAGA would vote for a candidate like that. They don’t like womanly women that are educated and attractive. A strong, christian motherly figure? That’s a different story.

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      MAGA Republicans are so stupid they will believe MTG is not a real women and still vote for her. All you need is a bit of propaganda on Fox.

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    Explains why she’s said a few somewhat reasonable things lately as opposed to before when all she said was batshit crazy garbage.

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        Article mentions she’s seemingly trying to court anti-Trump people by going on stuff like CNN. Guessing the “real MAGA” thing means trying to “improve” America instead of just being part of a cult (even if her understanding of what would improve the country is radically different from mine).

        Anyway by reasonable I meant she wasn’t talking about the Biden admin controlling the weather with space lasers to destroy Republican communities and was instead going against most Republicans for stuff like the Epstein files and so on.

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    If she becomes the first female president, I’m probably going to off myself. High likelihood. Nonzero.

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      NO NO NO!

      she’s a great candidate! let’s boost her so that she beats all the other Rs so that the Ds win!

      oh, we tried that? and what happened? oh, wow. maybe we shouldn’t do that this time.

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    I would love MTG to be the Republican nominee. That would guarantee AOC in a head to head match up.

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      You over estimate Americans. People said this shit about the orange goblin. This concept of let their dumbest most pathetic candidate rise to the top so we can crush them no longer works.

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        I literally and unironically laughed out loud the first time I heard that Donald Trump was running for president. I didn’t think it could possibly be genuine, but here we are.

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    If a new “real maga” comes out of the current maga and allows the movement to reset its image of economic failure and child sexual abuse I’m gonna be fucking pissed.

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      Then be pissed, because Trumpism was never going to go away on it’s own, and is only going to get worse and more powerful with time.

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      The “tea party” did the same thing for conservatism. The “tea party” thing morphed into the “maga” thing. The “maga” bullshit will likely go through a re-branding if Taco flames out anything like W did.

      Imagine if we had a media that actually pointed out that all this bullshit was going on and not letting the Nazis burn their uniforms and pretend they never heard of W, or Pedonald, and certainly were never part of this Republican Party thing, they are just “independents” who are “taxed enough already”, LOL.

      Imagine if, instead of that - we had a media that didn’t feel the need to be needlessly “objective” in the face of massive amounts of lying, and instead, pointed out that all these people are Republicans. That “tea bagger/tea party” == “maga” == “alt right” == conservative == Republican.

      It’s all the same awful people with basically the same agenda: steal money from the lower and middle class, give it to the parasitic class of elites, crush labor and let corporations rule, while using racist/misogynist policies and rhetoric to get just enough morons to vote for them. I wish we had a media that would not be shy about rigorously pointing this out and every opportunity, but most of our media is run by the very same corporations that wish to rule…

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    I mean, she is a better representation of what republicans and MAGA actually say they are. When you really dig in to what they believe they would never vote for Trump if they weren’t indoctrinated into a cult that he created. He’s literally against everything they stand for when you go past the surface but they are so blinded by owning the libs that they don’t see it anymore. Remember before the election last year and every republican, including voters, said that Trump was poison and that they would never support him again? They know this deep down even if they won’t admit it. They just either don’t care, want something out of it, or are genuinely blind to him fucking everyone over. MTG used to be one of the hardcore believers and I genuinely think was brainwashed and is slowly starting to realize it.

    But to be clear, I still think she is a garbage human. I just believe that deep down this is the candidate they’d actually want if they weren’t so deep in the propaganda from their Dear Leader. She would actually do republican things and not just use it as a guise to become a dictator.

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    This sounds ridiculous of course.

    But so did a Trump run, it used to be a joke when he put his hat in.

    No one is laughing now.

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    Yeah, that tracks with her recent walking back of her Qanon shit posting.

    I am also unsurprised that The View has helped her along with this effort. 😒