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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
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.
Just not brainwashing them how she wants it done, the “Jewish Space Laser” lady.
Something something broken clock
Ah yes. They're only brainwashing when it isn't in her interests. But when it is, she'll gladly join the propaganda.
Can't say she's not qualified in the matter.
More leopards are metaphorically eating people's faces, and all that would probably lead to the downfall of Trump. Just saying.
I'm really loving the new game of MTG pretending to newly discover all of the things that everyone has known for years.
I don't trust her at all. But it is nice to watch.
I don't trust her, but I don't think we need to to use her. This could be honest, or it could be just a tool she's using. It doesn't matter. It has the same effect of being a thing we can point to to say even she realizes it.
Oh, I totally agree. I have no idea where this is going, but it is certainly entertaining to watch.
I recall saying the same thing on June 16 2015. If I had only known then what I know now.
She either made a ton of fuck you money and bailed out (like so many do in politics), or she's trying to cynically change her image to be able to win elections in Georgia.
So, you really think she ballsy enough to try a political bounce-back moment? Especially in Georgia?
I mean… She might be stupid enough…
I think she's betting long term for when the orange baby dies and the implosion of his cult of personality takes a lot of the GOP with it. If that happens she can point to her new record and position herself as the return to sanity whilst also still being a republican which gives current and then ex-maga supporters an out without having to admit that their shitty morals is what got the petty petulant perpetual pants pooper into power.
Honestly a very solid strategy now that Georgia is purple. Especially if she is angling for a governor or senate position.
I hate it, but I can recognize the strategy amd logic behind it
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.
No matter what she does, she will always be the bitch that blamed forest fires on Jewish space lasers
Magic the gathering fights back?
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.
Snopes: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Said 'Jewish Space Lasers' Caused California Wildfires?
Documented Record of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Racism
Protesters were stun-gunned and arrested at Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall
Greene later said police had "conducted themselves in textbook fashion" and praised them for removing the protesters, saying "that's exactly what I wanted to happen."
Marjorie Taylor Greene Attacks Ilhan Omar, ‘Jihad Squad’
Marjorie Taylor Greene Complains About ‘Socialist’ Medicare
Greene’s ahistorical claim that the Nazis were socialists
Marjorie Taylor Greene, white nationalist whisperer, echoes Kremlin’s Nazi claims
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.
hey don't compare us muppets to maga like that
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.
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.
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.
Hopefully she runs for president and spoils the R vote. That would be glorious.
Please let it happen, it would be so fucking funny to watch her get bit by the misogyny she glibly fed.
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.
I don’t care why she’s doing it, someone prominent in MAGA calling them out might help other MAGA leave the cult.
I lack faith in the DNC not to be stupid and fall for her bullshit.
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.
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.
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.
Calling it now: she's preparing to run for president.
2015: it's going to be fun to see Trump try and fail
2026: oh no MTG don't do it
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
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.
You're coming a looooong long way.
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..
is this because she now can afford better food on the ex senator salary?
got working brain again?
Be not fooled
There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says "Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again." We've got to understand the nature of the regime we're dealing with.
You're gonna have to topple the regime that you helped build Margie, or it isn't good enough.
