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Her voter base of Joe Rednecks don't have a passport, and stopped paying attention to the wherabouts of their birth certificate once it got them their first gun.
Voter suppression suddenly doesn't feel so good, when it puts your seat on the line...
OK, I'm selling everything and moving to a cave in the mountains, because if MTG is going to act sane for 5 minutes in a row, then some serious shit is coming down
Like a rat fleeing a sinking ship.
This headline is easy to read wrong -- my brain grouped the subject of this headline the other way at first. I read, "Marjorie rages at (Mike and calls to fund government)" rather than "Marjorie (rages at Mike) and (calls to fund government)."
Selfish snake switches sides when her own side starts to lose pressure. Nothing strange here
Seems like we've reached the point where most voters realize that virtually all government shutdowns have been the Republicans' fault.
It’s probably because preceding each shutdown they loudly proclaim that they will shut down the government and blame the dems… and then they do…
Now is the time Dems must insist on border security bill and negating presidential immunity as a must for passing the budget
I genuinely hope this is due to therapy and/or medication. I'm willing to wipe the slate for someone putting in real effort who just needs some sort.
But should she burn any fucking bridges after this...
MTG hasn't suddenly grown a ethocortical gland. She's getting polling numbers that scare her, and she wants to win reelection. Georgia is turning purple for a variety of reasons, and a government shut down would be bad for her campaign.
I haven't seen polling specifically for her district but, while Georgia is very purple (and has been since like 2014), her district is gerrymandered to hell and back to not be anything other than red. I think I saw that it's one of the deepest red districts in the country.
Deep red refers to voter registrations. It's generally a very good indicator which was they will go, but this election is anything but politics as usual.
I'm not privy to her internal polling, but I'll bet she saw numbers than people in her district are concerned about Trump, see a lack of leadership in the GOP, and are considering staying home rather than show up for her. Angry people show up to vote, and if enough people say they are going to vote Trump out, then she doesn't want to be on his boat when it happens.
Another possibility is that she's testing the waters for a Senate or Governor run in 2026. She doesn't need to move towards the center if she can bash people to her right. It makes her look reasonable and conciliatory without actually being either one.
Either way, she's not doing this because of principles. She's doing it for personal benefit, because she's a conservative.
What.
The.
Fuck?!
Someone else in the thread posted this which nails it: https://lemmy.world/comment/12412369
No, that part I get.
It's the worst person you know having a rational argument.
That's just throwing me, I just can't wrap my head around it.
Uh has anyone done a brain slug check recently?
Sometimes when the slug wiggles a certain way it causes a normal thought to drip out.
Yeah, hers must have starved.