Release the files
No slight is too petty to be used as an opportunity to stab another legislator in the back. The Epstein leaks are flashy news but way overkill for workaday congressional vendettas. Anything at all will do.
Let them fight.
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Kinda tells you all you need to know about MAGAts. There is no bottom.
There have been plenty… that’s a big part of the problem.
Well there is Lindsey Graham.
What’s the opposite of a “power” bottom? Like a flimsy bottom. Or clean coal ass. Idk
Dead Fish Bottom.
With his little lady bugs
Every time I repress this, and I always have to feel like I’m discovering what this is for the first time.
Going to my happy place in 3…2…1…
You know, I should’ve realized that I didn’t want to know. Now I’ve added another item to the long list of things I can’t unlearn.
Now I need someone to explain.
Lindsey Graham has been rumored for years to be closeted gay; the “ladybugs” thing specifically comes from a satire story (full text here) where Graham calls the moles on his taint his “little ladybugs”.
How do you realize you have moles on your perineum I cannot see mine.
We have the technology.
Mirror
Or your partner can inform you 🤷🏻
Damn it @[email protected] I didn’t need to read that.
Good job [email protected] make them read more weird shit
Hey, I’m just trying to do the lord’s good work here by asking questions.
In the article you didn’t read:
It’s too simple to reduce Mace, Greene and Massie’s loss of power to the Epstein files.
Never change, Lemmy.
Funny, nobody accuses me of defending pedophiles because I’m not a pedo defender. It’s really not that hard to not defend pedophiles.
The article is wrong
- MTG resigned despite no obviously threatening primary challenge.
- Boebert is running uncontested in the primary.
- The article notes of Mace: “Mace’s incessant political attention-seeking and often-bizarre behavior might well have alienated primary voters as much as the Epstein saga.”
- And notes of Massie: “Both Greene and Massie were bucking Trump on plenty of other things, too.”
Like it’s clear at least Massie is gone because he went against Trump and probably Mace too, but using a sample size of four to say “Yup, it’s the Epstein files” is obviously unsound.
The article is correct on the grounds that it is too simple to reduce it to that singular cause.
The MTG resignation is just such a fucking unforced L on her part. Like, she had the right rallying around her. She could have been their Coo-coo-for-coco-puffs replacement for when the cholesterol eventually does its job. She probably could even have bilked over the remaining TYT and Jimmy Dore fans to her cause.
But at the end of the day I think its about Trump and loyalty to Trump. We’re seeing it across primaries too; the reality is that actually, the “MAGA” part of MAGA aren’t particularly engaged in electoralism. “America First” represented expanded voter-ship into demographics which didn’t typically vote; so its not particularly surprising when they don’t vote in mid-terms. And if you follow RW media, Trump has fallen quite far out of favor, although you’ll see much mental gymnast-icking. And you see it in the exit data on the mid term primaries. Democrats are out-showing-up Republicans 2:1, compared to typical turnout.
So there are a few things going on:
1: Trump is still firmly in control of the party.
2: The party is falling out of favor with their activist base.
3: Republican equivalent of ABWD are still showing up, but the part of the Republican party that put Trump into power appears to have lost interest largely because of US support for Israel and the war in Iran.
This all points further to support the thesis that Trump won’t allow free and fair elections. Because there is a real divide within MAGA/ America First right now.
She wanted a Senate run and Trump wouldn’t endorse her. Her moves since that and the Epstein stuff are out of spite for him and she’s coordinating with other Republicans as to not hurt their cause as a whole and burn bridges. She’s not gone yet unfortunately.
I suspect that this is why Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned - because Trump is petty and vindictive, and was sure to do everything he could - and everything he could cajole his rich cronies into doing - to destroy the Republicans who dared to try to make an issue of the fact that he’s a statutory rapist.
I thought she resigned right after her pension benefits were secured
Maybe that’s just a big coincidence
I’m sure that’s not an accident but I doubt it was the point. She had (and likely still has) greater ambitions than that.
Also a regular rapist.
Also a regular rapist of children. Those minors were forced into sex under duress; AND were underage.
There is also testimony that he was part of the murder of an infant which was then dumped into Lake Michigan.
Looks like they finally solidified the pedophile base under the far pro-pedophile wing.
I feel so bad for the onion these days. Where’s the satire?
The files have not been released…
I appreciate their sacrifice on many levels
AIPAC has our country occupied by traitors and pedophiles
People who follow Trump or the Republican agenda are brain-damaged or users. Do these people enjoy being racist/bigoted/misogynistic assholes? That is not the point. They control. It is intoxicating to control.
trump signed the bill himself, no doubt in some genius deflective move.
“Job”…
I cant believe Magic the Gathering is in a lineup with semi normal looking people.
*encouraged/pressed for. They didn’t force anything. The Epstein files are not fully released.
I’m sorry, but language fucking matters.
Yup yup. Also, no job true, but still have pension.
Did Nancy Mace get the over 5 years to vest?
By the time November rolls around and everyone has endured 5 more months of greasy orange bullshit, I would not be surprised if one or more of these seats goes Democratic.
