Her split from Trump, 79, emerged after it became clear his administration was not going to declassify the so-called “Epstein files,”
Absolutely no reason to give Trump’s age but hilarious that the writer did
Her arguments are surprisingly valid. Even going as far as complaining that they aren’t passing bills but instead are relying on executive resolutions. It’s a weird time when MTG starts sounding relatively sane.
It’s a weird time when MTG starts sounding relatively sane.
MTG is a classic case of someone who just says what people want to hear in order to get the thing she’s after. She’s not remotely as stupid as people claim, just absent any real moral compass or sense of shame.
In this case, she’s breaking from the GOP because what they’re doing is clumsy, unpopular, and generally horrible for her constituents. And since she came up through the social media circuit (where popularity matters) rather than the corporate empty suit circuit (where you just get Pappa Elon to spend $40B on “my opponent fucks shrimp” negative advertisements in a gerrymandered district), she’s acting out of self-preservation.
The factions have been infighting for a while. They were so desperate to make Kirk the first shot in a war between right/left, because it was real the first high profile shot in a maga civil war.
This is what always happens in a power structure like trump cultivates without clear ranks out of fear the 2nd will replace him. Sometimes not till the leader is dead, but any time they seem significantly weak enough to not be able to hold off a challenger.
Once one starts making public moves like this, the rest are going to panic and start to differentiate in hopes of gaining enough support to take leadership.
Every one of them willing to burn some of it down to control.some.of it rather than none of it.
It’ll be like small scale collapse of USSR. The big danger is if someone gets the keys to ICE in a functional state and tries to take the country by force.
Exactly. Fascist movements are in many ways similar to cults. The skills of founding a cult are one thing, but the second generation leader needs a different set of skills. Cult leaders often don’t want to give a lot of power to the sort of person who can keep it going because that does weaken their position. I see many people who think they’re Brigham Young or David Cavendish among the magas, but I don’t see anyone who actually is.
DeSantis was the face of the suburban bigot faction but he made a power play and lost his influence for it, Mace seems to be vying for that position now. Vance is the major player in the technofascist camp, but they aren’t very popular. Greene seems to be heavily influential in the rural and social media brainrot spheres and should be used as a bellweather there, especially as it’s a particularly influential camp, but also nobody wants to put that faction in charge. The christofascist wing seems led by Johnson, but their leadership seems far more from the shadows than an amorphous movement. The neonazi (as in, will call themselves fascist) camp will back anyone sufficiently bigoted, but they seem willing to fight anyone who doesn’t give them everything they want except trump.
And so looking at that I have a hard time seeing any of these people actually getting the support of all the others. One of the trump kids will probably try a play for power, and they’re probably the most likely to actually get it, but while trump is in harmony with the movement as a whole, being someone who both drinks and pisses the flavorade, his kid would likely be someone struggling to hold the factions together under them. That’s not to say they can’t, more that they’re unlikely to be able to go on stage and ramble incoherently off the dome and have it become party doctrine
That’s a great overview of it. I think you’re right; as soon as Trump dies (and I do think it requires his death, not just leaving office), MAGA will fall on each other like wolves. This is why I’m not concerned about “who comes after Trump” because in choosing, MAGA will splinter and self-destruct. I’m actually concerned about actually getting there. If Trump dies (naturally is best), and the country isn’t completely destroyed, we’ll have a hell of a cleanup project, but I think it could be fixed in a generation or two.
The fact that MAGA potential heirs are starting their succession fight tells me that they know and are privately acknowledging that he’s not healthy and are trying to get a headstart in kneecapping the opposition.
It’s not too much unlike Obama. There’s going to be a power vacuum. I’m not saying Obama was a cult leader, but he was a cult of personality. He was able to rally the 3 major factions of the dem party behind him and bring in independents as well.
When he left, no one was left to pick up the pieces, and worse, he fostered so much animosity that we got the backlash that we are still dealing with today.
The left needs to rally and find their champion, just like the tea party did.
Yeah, when she starts making sense, we’re all in trouble
This truly is the weirdest timeline.
It’s hell. We died in 2020 from Covid. That’s why everything has gotten absurdly worse from that point.
Speak for yourself. I died when LHC created a black hole that swallowed Earth.
Those sexy hadrons touching tips. 🍆🍆
Lol
She drank the kool-aid.
This is what you get when you recruit ‘regular’ people into your fascist movement – they buy the bullshit that you’re ’for the people’ and ‘want to make things better for everyone’.
You get people who don’t know those are lies to appease the masses, and think you actually are for those things.
She really doesn’t understand what her party is for, and instead takes it for its facade. And she doesn’t understand this means she’s a circus clown.
Out of all the Republicans whose guts i hate, I think that I like MTG the best:
Classier than Lauren Bobert.
Hates Laura Loomer, and would beat the fucking brakes off of her if they got into it.
It’s not much, but I’ll take it.
I’m living a months long existential crisis because I now live in a reality where I share an opinion with the Jewish space lasers bimbo…
Good.
Also, the Epstein files.
Which she is also pushing for. WTF something wrong with the timeline
She’s batshit, but I do think she legitimately cares about protecting kids from predators.
I don’t like her, but I respect that when there really did turn out to be a secret cabal of child rapists at the highest level of society, she didn’t swap sides because so many of them are on her side of the aisle.
I’m also incredibly depressed that I find it remarkable that a member of the majority party wants child rapists to be held to account.
How can she fight the Jewish space lasers if she can’t work on legislation against them?
She didn’t just change her mind about the GOP’s, she has a new alliance with the JSLC.
I don’t get it…
Edit: is this a Jewish space lasers reference?
No, it IS a Jewish Space Laser. 🤣
All I see is Epsteins face
