• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    I think people like her, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Karoline Leavitt are starting to turn because they have inside knowledge and know that the MAGA thing is going to crack soon, presumably because either the Epstein files or Trump’s health are worse than the public knows (personally I suspect it’s the latter, because that’s the one thing Trump can’t really weasel out of) and they want to appear to have distanced themselves from the crazy before it all happened.

    I’ve been saying for a while that a few years after Trump dies, you won’t be able to find anyone who claims to have supported him and I think potentially this is the beginning of that.

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      3 hours ago

      I’ve been saying for a while that a few years after Trump dies, you won’t be able to find anyone who claims to have supported him and I think potentially this is the beginning of that.

      As the Professional Left keeps saying - “burn the lifeboats” - they just had an episode talking about how Marge seems to be the very first who is constructing that lifeboat. Just like all these fuckers did after W’s fantastic flameout.

      Looks like Fuentes is also doing it, too - although it’s the darker path as compared to the made-up teabagger (their original name)/ “tea party” movement, and it involves “graduating” from “maga” to “America first” and he has hats to sell everyone, just like Donvict did…

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      6 hours ago

      Maga is a personality cult centered around an 80 year old man with obvious health issues.

      Everyone sees the writing in the wall, like Alexander’s generals after he drank himself to death, they’ve got to carve out their own fiefdoms from the corpse of his empire.

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        3 hours ago

        Maga is a personality cult centered around an 80 year old man with obvious health issues.

        Part of me really does wonder what all these asshole cult members and/or those vying to build their own little cult after he’s gone will do if he were to die in the WH while that stupid ballroom is still nothing but an AI-generated set of plans. What are they going to do with really egregiously out-of-touch and stupid things like Donvict’s ballroom?

        They seem to have zero platform, really. It’s just trying to own the libs, enrich Donvict, strip the country for parts, enshrine corporatism and coddle the already ridiculously rich.

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          32 minutes ago

          They seem to have zero platform, really. It’s just trying to own the libs, enrich Donvict, strip the country for parts, enshrine corporatism and coddle the already ridiculously rich.

          Conservatives couldn’t give a fuck about policy or outcomes. It’s all vibes and emotions to them.

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          2 hours ago

          The other comparison the Professional Left podcast makes - and it’s more apt than ever for the Confederates - is the notion of the Nazis burning their uniforms as they fled the battlefield and lost the war.

          These people are going to construct alt versions of the Republican Party, call it something else, most likely, but still run Republican Party candidates. Terms like “maga” and “America first” and “teabagger/tea party” are of course meaningless terms that can be made to stand for virtually anything.