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dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 12 hours 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

dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 12 hours ago
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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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    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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    You’re gonna have to topple the regime that you helped build Margie, or it isn’t good enough.

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      Basically the equivalent of Moscow Mitch turning around and saying the Supreme Court is cow toeing to fascism.

      These people make me wish god/hell was real.

      • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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        Kowtow, and yeah, these malevolent fucks all need to burn in this reality instead of hoping for the next. The drive for power is so strong that any alignment will be feasible until it is wrenched away from them. Then “whatever it takes” is on the menu to maintain relevancy and attempt to clutch power right back.

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          Kowtow

          Woah that’s a Chinese phrase?? I assumed it was some leftover rancher jargon.

          • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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            Yeah, it’s wonderful the intermixing of our languages and cultures that has provided such range for communicating. I love that you had a word in your vernacular that you perhaps hadn’t read yet, but knew it applied and brought it out in the conversation.

            I had the opposite happen to me once where I read “ciao” so many times, but hadn’t connected it with the right pronunciation.

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              This is actually a first for me. Like usually it’s words I’ve read but didn’t know how to pronounce. Barring generic spelling errors I’ve never known a word that was spelled so differently than I’d assumed.

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

    got working brain again?

    • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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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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      “Again” implies she ever had one at some point in the past.

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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.

    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’

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    Greene’s ahistorical claim that the Nazis were socialists

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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      I don’t trust her at all. But it is nice to watch.

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        Oh, I totally agree. I have no idea where this is going, but it is certainly entertaining to watch.

        • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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          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.

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            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

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        I don’t think that she thinks ahead at all. No conniving, just reactions.

        • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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          Definitely

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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.

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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.

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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.

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        I’d give it 6 months, she’s been speed running it

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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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    What!? No way! I’m so surprised about this. I didn’t expect this at all. I am completely flabbergasted and bewildered.

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

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      image

      • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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      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.

    • pedz@lemmy.ca
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      For which party?

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        Where ever the grift is the strongest.

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

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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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    Be not fooled

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      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.

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    Sounds like she’s stopped dreaming in this apocalyptic lala land that conservative news portends to them and is finally starting to wake up.

    Nah, next week she’ll be back on Jewish space lasers.

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      She’s still on the Jewish Moon Laser, she hope that the Democrat don’t remember or don’t care and offer her a seat at their table

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    Thanks, Midge, but you can still fuck off.

  • fox2263@lemmy.world
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    Yes marge. Yes indeed

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    Out of everything that leaves his mouth around 5 % is true, the rest is nonsense or just plain lying.

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      His?

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