The MAGA fucknuts are too dumb and brainwashed to realize the shit they voted for.
No kiddin
Sorry folks… MAGA will NOT be WOKE. MTG has already been tossed, shredded and labeled misfit by king pedophile himself.
Keep dreamin’.
My favorite part of MTG turning on her friends is that it is all in response to being told she won’t be endorsed as a Senate candidate by the GOP. If she can’t have her fiefdom then no one can.
Not only her. The infighting became very apparent at some point before the '24 election when it looked like The Don might have to go to prison, or otherwise be unable to run. For a few weeks, they were all at each other’s throats.
And it’s getting hotter under the surface as Trump is getting too frail/senile to govern.
That’s the thing about authoritarians: they attract authoritarian followers (thought not exclusively). If the authoritarian at the top fails to recognize those of their followers that have the same traits and give them enough of a “fiefdom” to rule, then they betray. It’s one of the things that makes fully authoritarian rule fragile (most long-term successful dictators ensure they give enough power to the right people under them).
First Rule of Fascism: You can piss off your citizens, you can piss off your staff, but you absolutely cannot piss off your military leaders. They actually hold the power, and would have no problem just shooting you in the face, if the situation was dire enough.
Also, friendly reminder than Stalin died a horrible and painful death because he told his guards to not disturb him, and he lied there in a pool of his own piss until most of the day was gone. Extreme punishments for breaches of protocol come with a cost.
Or have them executed.
MTG and Gavin Newsom occupy the same spot on the political spectrum. Fuck em both.
mtg is way more far right than newsom, hes your protypical DINO, center right.
They are both anti-trans right wingers who worship Ronald Reagan and occasionally badmouth Trump. From my perspective they’re not that far apart
Actually MTG has spoken out against the genocidal human trafficking state of Israel Newsom is an Israel first politician
First sentence disagree. Second one hard yes.
I do think gavin would express the same sentiments as her if he thought it would increase his likelyhood to be president though.
Why would Jeffrey Epstein’s BEST FRIEND who FINGER RAPED CHILDREN try to Protect Jeffrey Epstein?
-Republicans who Do Their Own Research TM!
Wait, the orange child rapist doesn’t want the files of -just some of- those child rapes to be released? No way. Say it ain’t so!!
Dropped a bombshell? More like dropped some water in the ocean. This is obvious to anyone not burying their head in the sand.
Not on this side of the great information rift, no. But think of the people imprisoned inside the MAGA echo chamber. For them this may be news, and MJT and Rogan do have the potential to pierce the walls of their “conservative” media rubber rooms just enough for some fresh air to come through.
This is true, but it shouldn’t be :(
They’re on that side because they choose to be there. There could be a cure for cancer on this side and they wouldn’t care.
They absolutely WOULD care. If you cure cancer, you lose all the money being made to treat cancer, and THAT can’t happen.
I’m not defending or glorifying either of them. They’ve done tons of damage to the U.S. by spreading lies and division. What I’m saying is that they might prove useful idiots for a change, fracturing the MAGA cult just enough to allow the less brainwashed to come to their senses.
So freaking tired of these bombshell reports and then once you read it, it’s like no shit. I already knew that.
How many more bombshells to bring this scumbag down? I feel like we’re about 149 bombshells in and still nothing is happening
I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that nothing is happening. That’s not to say I don’t understand how you could think that. And I’m sorry I don’t mean to single you out. There’s a lot of this sentiment going around.
TV news and even most of our platforms algorithms are actively hiding the work that’s being done, the results being achieved, and a sense of doom is being injected into the discourse from every conceivable angle.
Here’s what’s actually happened in the last few weeks. Please copy and paste this list to help chill the doomer bullshit.
- Multiple deep-red state legislative seats flipped Democratic in special/off-year elections
- Texas State Senate SD-9 flipped (Trump +17 district)
- GOP margins collapsing in seats previously considered “safe red”
- Greg Bovino removed from Border Patrol leadership after Minneapolis backlash
- ICE ended / wound down the Minneapolis enforcement surge (per DHS statements)
- Federal courts repeatedly blocking or pausing Trump-aligned immigration actions
- DOJ forced into written explanations to Congress over Epstein file handling
- Pam Bondi Judiciary hearing exposed internal contradictions and GOP fractures
- MAGA figures publicly breaking with Donald Trump over Epstein disclosures
- House Judiciary and Oversight escalating demands for documents and testimony
- Hundreds of active lawsuits challenging Trump-aligned executive actions
- State AGs successfully freezing federal funding cuts through injunctions
- Courts increasingly intervening before policies take effect rather than after damage
- GOP forced into defensive posture instead of agenda-setting
They have 0 momentum right now. The ground is actively crumbling beneath them. The outlook isn’t as bleak as our media sources would want us to believe.
One more thing to add is that historically the outcomes of these kinds of tension are literally never what anyone predicts. Never the authoritarians, never the people fighting for their rights. What outcomes follow always have everything to do with how hard those continuing to fight fought.
The reason the news has us believing we’ve made no progress is because we’re winning a class war.
Thank you for bringing light into a dark time for many.
I’m not American but I still want to see the fascists fail, not just because I don’t want anyone to suffer through it, but also because if those fuckers are successful, it could start another wave of increased far-right popularity here, last one was about a decade ago.
NIce summary, and nicely timed. Keep pushing friends! The tide is turning, but that’s not passive, it’s from our actions. Take a breath, do your self care, help those whom you are able, and keep pushing onward.
Someone got their claws into MTG to have her come out as a dark horse candidate aiming to disrupt a JD Vance presidency. She would be the candidate in this scenario. She is being positioned to be the candidate that “saw through the bullshit and is on normal conservatives’ side”.
It very likely will work.
That may be the case. But AOC is on record saying MTG is just acting out of rage due to the fact that Trump personally killed any chance of her becoming a Georgia senator. Apparently that was the straw that broke the camel’s back resulting in the current incarnation of MTG.
It may work but it’s not likely to. Marj is/was too much of a whack-job and she’ll have a harder time becoming seemingly “sane” again. I hope you are wrong at any rate.
I said same about trump in 2024 but if people dont vote against crazy you get the crazy.
Dont stick your
dickballot in crazy
Wow. What a shocking bombshell.
This entire political party is fucking insane. It’s telling that this numbnut is spreading the most reasonable message from their camp at the moment. The U.S. is so fucked. And it’s pathetic how most people don’t rebel. Now they say “wait for the next vote”, but there won’t be a proper vote. Your government are a bunch of pedophiles protecting themselves and each other by holding onto their power. Ah, will write nothing more. It’s not doing anything anyway.
She’s just another grifter who sided with Trump when it benefitted her. Now’s she’s trying to benefit from their disassociation. Like all those former Trump staffers who have “seen the light” and are who are now MSNBC pundits selling their books on TV.
MTG represents the post-Epstein MAGA movement. All the fascist policy, none of the Epstein baggage. She is extremely valuable to the movement pivoting around the pedophilia.
It seems to me to be a good thing if MAGA is fracturing? I’d be more concerned if they were unified in hiding behind one scapegoat, to avoid repercussions from the Epstein files
Yes, it is a good thing. But the rat won’t drown itself, so it’s looking for any line to safety.
They are winning, these rejections and condemnations of maga defectors all treat them like WW1 countries that unconditionally surrendered, not the victorious party seeking to put a permanent fix in. Rats drown? Hardly. She would’ve been fine if she didn’t speak out. She’s not fine because she did speak out.
And right wing influence operations come onto our communities and trash her, to reject defectors because of lack of purity.
Yeah, she’s pissed because she realized she’s expendable rather than a main character.
Too bad she’s a woman. That won’t respect her enough to follow her. She’s should get her husband to say exactly what she said. Then they’ll listen.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing. The fact is, she is still a smarmy lunatic who supports fascism, even if she dislikes Trump personally. The left elevating her as a “reasonable centrist” gives her power and its power she would giddily abuse if given the opportunity.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Full disclosure, this was a response to a deleted comment lol
Also, does anyone know why Connect for Lemmy is highlighting almost every comment bright purple?
You can go to Settings -> Comment customisation -> Highlight new comments to get rid of the purple backdrop. However, it didn’t do this before with the setting enabled, so it seems like a bug to me…
