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196 points

Really wild to see MTG appear to be on the correct side twice in a week. I wonder what the goal of the party is aside from distancing themselves from a losing candidate.

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I think she woke up and realized a government shutdown right before an election caused by ineffectual republican leadership might hurt them in the down-ballot. Or we woke up Sunday on the next timeline because the earth exploded, and everyone died Saturday night. It’s been a crazy week and it’s only Tuesday.

Edit: looks like a shutdown before the election due to ineffectual republican leadership is back on the menu boys.

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I mean yeah that’s sound political strategy, but you’re telling me MTG woke up and possessed the self reflection necessary to realize that?

I think it’s more believable that we all died.

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19 points

Me too lol

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9 points

Mitch McConnell made a statement of how stupid and damaging a shutdown would be for them. I would bet she is just listening to the wise turtle.

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5 points

Can confirm, am dead.

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40 points

I think this is absolutely the correct interpretation of this. Shutting down the government because repubs don’t want to play ball weeks before an election is only likely to hurt their chances.

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34 points

Yeah but they do this every election year, and their supporters never care

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I think you’re putting far to much faith in people willing to vote ®, their base would vote for them even as their families are sent to labor and death camps, while undecided and ‘independent’ voters will cast their ballot entirely on the last headline or 72 hours.

To me this reeks of Greene and other Magots realizing their wing of the party is imploding and will have to find a place in what ever GOP comes out the otherside of this election and the next midterm. Trump’s decline makes it pretty obvious they need someone else’s coattails to grab onto and rally around, so she’s trying to be the loudest voice in the room to be part of the new power structure if not the face of it.

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This is exactly it. Shutdowns are not popular, if they shutdown the gov before the election it is going to cost them significant votes. They are already worried about the impact of Trump on down ballot candidates, a shutdown will almost certainly cost them seats. This is MTG expressing her panic because she realizes how stupid the GOP is behaving with an election about to happen.

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35 points

What surprises me the most is that out of all the Republicans, it’s her that realizes how stupid this is.

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Or she’s jealous that someone else is fucking Trump so she’s causing problems.

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2 points

Have we been absolved of Harambe?

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It makes logical sense for a person to draw this conclusion, but MTG is famously an idiot, so that’s what’s baffling. What convinced her to change her tune?

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3 points

The checks stopped clearing?

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3 points

No way she is involved in the Russian election interference case and is trying to pull a tim pool

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2 points

I vote for this!

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I SAW IT ON THE TV!

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2 points

I must have slept through it.

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59 points

Putin said he wants Harris to win, she took that literally 😂

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21 points

haha. beautiful

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Putin consistently underestimates women. He was happy Hillary was secretary of state until she gave vocal support to the Ukrainian Revolutions in 2014 that ousted his puppet. He assumed CIA was pulling her strings or operating through her so tried to burn that bridge. Trump was a resounding failure at implementing long term policies to benefit Russia, so now he’s banking on Harris being passive in foreign policy.

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She might’ve been hit by a stray neutrino or something? Flipped a random bit?

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25 points

LOL how many bits is MTGOS anyway…

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10 points

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6 points

2-bit

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21 points

Is she trying to distance herself from the maga side of the party after seeing the polls predicting a big defeat this election?

Very strange to see.

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21 points

My spitball theory is that she sees this new Loomer person coming to eat her lunch as token crazy maga lady, so she’s trying to get off her sinking ship.

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Loomer is Trump’s side piece

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Priority #1 is always to remain elected so that you can stay “on the take”.

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9 points

She doesn’t want to miss a paycheck.

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18 points

Congress always gets paid. They’re “essential.”

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I wonder if there’s any way that could be changed by executive action? If the government gets shut down, Congresspersons don’t get paid. Their aides and support staff are essential because they do the real work, but they don’t get paid until they pass a budget…?

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