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What the fuck is up with this broken clock?!?
This broken clock has just been on fire lately... I still have to say it's not coincidence.
I think it's because she actually was stupid. Most republicans are smart opportunists, they don't believe anything they are saying, but they know what to say to rile up the crazy conspiracy theorists and get the votes, money and power to do what donors want.
MTG is one of the conspiracy theorists created by this rhetoric. she still believes in the democratic weather machines, still believes climate change is a hoax, but she's saying those things because she actually believes them, not because of a paycheck from Exxon. Which makes her very dangerous when she's given real evidence of actual conspiracies like, big insurance companies putting money to charge insane amounts of money, or an actual leader of Isreal committing a genocide, or an actual ring of elite pedophiles.
Bottom line the sellouts like Charlie Kirk and Patel etc... that can turn it on and off at will. IE "release the files now!", oh trump says he doesn't want them released, my bad "trust the government they know what they are doing".
She has no off switch... when she spouts a conspiracy nonsense it's because she believes it... which means they can't wave a bag of money or tell her "same team stop".
I think part of it is she isn't fully part of the GOP establishment. So when her opinion is different than them, she actually has the balls to vote her belief not party lines.
I expect more of this.
The party identity is based on opposition. Like a petulant child. It's connected to the conspiratorial thinking: "THEY are tricking us!"
Since there is no science and Truth is a personal, felt revelation, they cannot maintain a unified picture of the world
Yeah, maybe nobody is sure what she believes, but she does believe it and that's almost refreshing.
She can play off the "maverick/rogue" schtick
Doesn't mean she'll actually do anything that could hinder the Party.
She's a rabid dog pointed a useful direction for once. Let her go to work, just don't turn your back on her.