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dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

MTG turns on Fox News: Ex Rep says channel is ‘brainwashing boomers’ and peddling ‘fake news’

www.independent.co.uk

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MTG turns on Fox News: Ex Rep says channel is ‘brainwashing boomers’ and peddling ‘fake news’

www.independent.co.uk

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The former Trump loyalist has been a regular guest on the MAGA-leaning network over the years but lashed out at its coverage of the war in Iran
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  • HollowNaught@lemmy.world
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    I know who Greene is, but I honestly find it weird how they’re referred to by their initials only. No other country would do that in a world news community, especially when the politician isn’t even a major leader of any sort

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      It’s a bit of a trend in US politics.

      JFK = John F. Kennedy

      AOC = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

      MTG = Marjorie Taylor Greene

      I think it has more to do with the US preferring to use the second name initial as an identifier, like with George Bush and George W. Bush. Three letters just roll off the tounge better, while everyone know who is meant. Of course, with AOC it’s not her second name but a classic Spanish doubled surname. Though it couls be from somewhere else, too. Idk what countries all have doubled surnames.

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        deleted by creator

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Just not brainwashing them how she wants it done, the “Jewish Space Laser” lady.

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    Something something broken clock

  • x00z@lemmy.world
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    Ah yes. They’re only brainwashing when it isn’t in her interests. But when it is, she’ll gladly join the propaganda.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      Can’t say she’s not qualified in the matter.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    More leopards are metaphorically eating people’s faces, and all that would probably lead to the downfall of Trump. Just saying.

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    Magic the gathering fights back?

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m really loving the new game of MTG pretending to newly discover all of the things that everyone has known for years.

    • RamenJunkie@midwest.social
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      Yeah, she seems like she is trying to 180 out of the cult but fuck this bitch. Even if she somehow managed to convince every idiot MAGA to leave, she has still done more harm than good.

      • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        No matter what she does, she will always be the bitch that blamed forest fires on Jewish space lasers

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          Honestly, while she’s definitely irredeemable, I do think that Republican voters would’ve still fallen for all this shit without her, but some might stop believing because of her. It’s easier to follow someone out of something like this than to make the trek alone. A lot of Republicans are finally feeling the burn and looking around for someone to break away first, and MTG might actually be that for some people. Good actions don’t make up for bad ones, but I’ll take what I can get.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        It’s more like a 120. She’s reversing course on a lot, but she’s still awful on quite a bit.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      She’s on her Megan Kelly arc. I bet we’re going to get a hagiography tell-all book or One Woman’s Struggle Lifetime Movie about her in another year or two.

      • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I’d give it 6 months, she’s been speed running it

    • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      What’s really funny is that Magic seems to be doing the same thing lol

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    Am I the only one who is really uncomfortable with this MTG PR-blitz this year? She is obviously trying to rehabilitate her image ahead of an upcoming political push, but she is truly a monster.

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    Marjorie Taylor Greene tripled down on her Holocaust narrative, saying Nazis were the ‘National Socialist party’ of their time like the Democrats are now

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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      She is anticipating that sooner or later trump will fuck up so badly that republicans will look for a saner leader. She wants to appeal to all the political conservatives - as distinct from the maga muppets - who currently feel disenfranchised. She’s setting herself up for a presidential run. It’s quite cunning really.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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        hey don’t compare us muppets to maga like that

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      I don’t think she is trying to rehabilitate her image. I think she was a MAGA and Qanon true believer, and she’s genuinely only just now figured out that they were lying criminals. She’s still 100% on-board with the hateful, bigoted, totalitarian christofascism; she just no longer trusts Trump’s faction to lead it.

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        She wasn’t allowed in on the grift. So she big mad.

        I do think she’s hoping for some comeback in the midterms as she “exposes the scam” to others as dumb as herself.

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          I do think she’s hoping for some comeback in the midterms

          The trouble I have with the argument that she’s planning a “comeback” is that she only needs such a thing because she resigned in protest in the first place. She could have just… not done that, continued to criticize the regime (or hell, switched parties if @teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 's argument about her being “to the left of most of the democratic fucking party” is to be believed), and been in a better position. Yet that’s not what she did.

          I have no idea what her plan is, and to be honest, I think that’s because the most likely explanation is that she’s simply a genuine idiot and doesn’t have one.

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        You say that yet her positions she has come out for put her to the left of most of the democratic fucking party.

    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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      Hopefully she runs for president and spoils the R vote. That would be glorious.

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        Please let it happen, it would be so fucking funny to watch her get bit by the misogyny she glibly fed.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    You’re coming a looooong long way.

    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
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      Everyone in politics already knows, they just don’t have an incentive to state the truth when they’re in the group.

      Now, It’s just rats escaping a sinking ship. You can SA minors, but you can’t fuck with rich peoples’ stock portfolios…

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    She’s still pissed Trump would not let her run for Senator in Georgia. The Democrats or Left hasn’t forgotten the shit she said.

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      I don’t care why she’s doing it, someone prominent in MAGA calling them out might help other MAGA leave the cult.

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      I lack faith in the DNC not to be stupid and fall for her bullshit.

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        I have faith in the DNC to welcome her with open arms when she announces she wants to run as a Democrat for the spot Trump denied her.

        I also have faith that the DNC will do a surprise Pikachu face when she turns out to still be a batshit crazy Republican and bites them in the ass.

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    And she helped them intentionally for many years because brainwashing boomers and peddling fake news is precisely what she wanted to happen.

    Fuck her forever.

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      Exactly. It’s what got her elected, and reelected.

      The only possible good that I can see from this weird ‘turn’ of hers is that now that she’s speaking truth, perhaps some of the boomers she peddled fake news to will listen and never vote Republican again. Not going to hold my breath however.

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    Calling it now: she’s preparing to run for president.

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      2015: it’s going to be fun to see Trump try and fail

      2026: oh no MTG don’t do it

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        I don’t think we have as much to worry with her, remember she’s a woman and we know how much America hates that

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          Remember that underestimating trump is what led to a lot of the pain we are feeling now. I would try not to make the same mistake again less than a decade afterwards.

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      image

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      • eestileib
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        Wow what a glow up, I love the fangs!

        • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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          Yeah, that second picture is gorgeous. What a transformation!

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      For which party?

      • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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        She’s still a very right leaning Republican. Just been calling out the BS for attention recently.

        • pedz@lemmy.ca
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          Yeah. It was a bad attempt at a joke about how the Democrats in the US seem to ever slowly move to the right. Probably to attempt attracting a broader spectrum of voters, but it has the effect of making their policies not so distinguishable from any other right leaning party, just not as radical as the Republicans. And MTG moving from radical to somewhat sensible means she may soon reach a point very close to some Democrats.

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        Where ever the grift is the strongest.

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      You may be right because I’ve seen people calling it for a few months now.

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        I reaaaallly want to be wrong lol

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    is this because she now can afford better food on the ex senator salary?

    got working brain again?

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      “Again” implies she ever had one at some point in the past.

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      I would wager it is because her source of power cut her off, so now she will do whatever she can to reclaim it.

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    You’re gonna have to topple the regime that you helped build Margie, or it isn’t good enough.

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