MTG is a true MAGA. True MAGAs believe in the cause, not necessarily its leader. MAGA believes in the child pornography conspiracy run by Democrats. That's why she broke with Trump on Epstein. True MAGAs are isolationists so MTG is against the Iran war. You have to hand it to MTG. At least she's sticking to her guns. But AOC is correct to not make peace or trust a true MAGA. Especially one that went after AOC and wanted to do it physically.
I await the day this bitch goes away. These people aren't redeemable. No republikkkan is redeemable. It must be painful to have to work with them occasionally.
I feel dirty working with my Republican coworkers on non-political stuff. I can't imagine how filthy it must feel to have to work with them in Congress.🤢
LOL, Glenn Greenwald still thinks he’s relevant. How quaint.
Empty G may have flounced from MAGA because the dementia patient stomped on her ambitions, but she’s still a conspiracy-addled right-wing extremist looking for shortcuts to power. Nobody should trust her.
Anyone who believes that MTG has changed is fooling themselves. If anything her stance on Epstein is merely grandstanding. As Sheriff Taylor once told Barney, “Don’t help me boy”.
On July 12, 2022, the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol publicly named the following as Congressional leaders of the Republican Insurrection:
Darth Maul might help you out against a common enemy, but at the end of the day, he's going to betray you and backstab you at the earliest convenience because he's still a Sith Lord.
Same thing with MAGA Republicans who have waited this long to turn against Trump and only because he's finally hurting them.
One of the things we need to remember, as we look at the ranks of people criticizing AOC for not wanting to trust or work with Three Names (who, let's again point out, STALKED her...and has stalked others like David Hogg)...is that professional credulity requires a lack of accumulated memory. In order to give bad-faith actors the benefit of the doubt for clicks and clout, you have to forget a lot of things.
This is the same sort of reason why a number of "reporters" covering America's Pilonidal Cyst don't preface his statements by pointing out he's a liar who says lots of things. He generates content and thus escapes actual scrutiny.
Three Names will benefit from this as it's quite a nice "story," it's a cool redemption narrative for a monstrous person. Kinda like how it's a "cool story" how Fetterman is a "moderate" who bucks his party.
"Ocasio-Cortez did claim in the 2024 Democratic National Convention speech that Harris was “working tirelessly to secure a cease-fire in Gaza and [bring] the hostages home,”
And since she didn't win the election there es no way to prove she WASN'T working for that
Always remember, Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clout!). So you can say whatever bad-faith shit you want about Democratic figures and you'll get plenty of people happy to gobble it up.
Murc's Law was one of the most eye opening 'laws' I've run across...There needs to be a book written on it...Its one of those things that's been running as background noise for SO long that no one really noticed it...but once you 'see' it, you can't unsee it. Its breathtaking in its explanatory scope...
"He wrote, “AOC emphatically condemns policies only when Trump and the GOP do them"
There IS no better 'blind' metric to go on than being against what Trump and the GOP do. Name ONE goddamn thing that the GOP and/or Trump 'stands' for that deserved our consideration and support
We aren't seriously calling Glenn Greenwald "left" are we? And why would we listen to anybody who thought it would be great for Dick Darth fucking Vader's daughter to campaign with Kamala? Sorry, no, MTG is not welcome in the tent.
Greenwald was never a progressive, it just suited his purposes to let people think he was. He’s more of a libertarian crank with an affinity for white supremacists.
Well, I never said he was progressive in the AOC/Bernie sense of the word. But you’re correct he has long held civil-libertarian positions that aligned with the left especially on surveillance, war, and press freedom, while also bashing the left itself (this particular critique is more about AOC tactics than politics). A more accurate critique IMO is that his alliances and emphasis have radically shifted in ways most of us now see as pretty selectively anti-establishment and self serving.
Glen kicked off his legal career defending a literal church of white supremacy. Keeping that in mind makes everything he's done since a lot easier to understand.
Pretty sure he did that on free speech grounds, not on the merits of racism-he was an attorney who focused on first amendment issues. (He's not the only one, the ACLU defended Rush Limbaugh after all). When your position is that free speech is absolute, you wind up defending some really unsavory characters.
MTG is a true MAGA. True MAGAs believe in the cause, not necessarily its leader. MAGA believes in the child pornography conspiracy run by Democrats. That's why she broke with Trump on Epstein. True MAGAs are isolationists so MTG is against the Iran war. You have to hand it to MTG. At least she's sticking to her guns. But AOC is correct to not make peace or trust a true MAGA. Especially one that went after AOC and wanted to do it physically.
>> Glenn Greenwald posted a lengthy diatribe on social media that spun Greene as a principled actor and Ocasio-Cortez as a partisan opportunist.
:D :D :D
Ah, man. I'm old enough to remember when he was Glenzilla, the guy who wrote lengthy screeds on Salon.
Random: AOC's Level of Idiocy Has No Bounds and is Frightfully Discomforting to Watch.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/aocs-level-of-idiocy-has-no-bounds
MTG has done one thing right. Great.
She’s done a thousand things wrong.
Posts like this remind me why I don't read or pay attention to "social media" (tag line, it ain't social).
But I do recognize the Greenwald dude as the fuck wit who said Trump would keep us out of foreign wars and entanglements. Paraphrasing there...
Wow.
I await the day this bitch goes away. These people aren't redeemable. No republikkkan is redeemable. It must be painful to have to work with them occasionally.
I feel dirty working with my Republican coworkers on non-political stuff. I can't imagine how filthy it must feel to have to work with them in Congress.🤢
LOL, Glenn Greenwald still thinks he’s relevant. How quaint.
Empty G may have flounced from MAGA because the dementia patient stomped on her ambitions, but she’s still a conspiracy-addled right-wing extremist looking for shortcuts to power. Nobody should trust her.
One thing I desperately wish people would get through their fucking heads:
The enemy of my enemy is *NOT* ALWAYS my friend.
Anyone who believes that MTG has changed is fooling themselves. If anything her stance on Epstein is merely grandstanding. As Sheriff Taylor once told Barney, “Don’t help me boy”.
At least Barney meant well...
Just a reminder:
On July 12, 2022, the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol publicly named the following as Congressional leaders of the Republican Insurrection:
Brian Babin (R – TX);
Andy Biggs (R – AZ);
Matt Gaetz (R – FL);
Louie Gohmert (R – TX);
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗲 (𝗥 – 𝗚𝗔);
Andy Harris (R – MD);
Jody Hice (R – GA);
Jim Jordan (R – OH);
Scott Perry (R – PA).
Darth Maul might help you out against a common enemy, but at the end of the day, he's going to betray you and backstab you at the earliest convenience because he's still a Sith Lord.
Same thing with MAGA Republicans who have waited this long to turn against Trump and only because he's finally hurting them.
And they aren't, really. Just ask Bill Cassidy.
One of the things we need to remember, as we look at the ranks of people criticizing AOC for not wanting to trust or work with Three Names (who, let's again point out, STALKED her...and has stalked others like David Hogg)...is that professional credulity requires a lack of accumulated memory. In order to give bad-faith actors the benefit of the doubt for clicks and clout, you have to forget a lot of things.
This is the same sort of reason why a number of "reporters" covering America's Pilonidal Cyst don't preface his statements by pointing out he's a liar who says lots of things. He generates content and thus escapes actual scrutiny.
Three Names will benefit from this as it's quite a nice "story," it's a cool redemption narrative for a monstrous person. Kinda like how it's a "cool story" how Fetterman is a "moderate" who bucks his party.
I'm thoroughly over redemption arcs. The one in avatar the last Airbender was good, but that was a cartoon. In real life they never seem to work out.
"Ocasio-Cortez did claim in the 2024 Democratic National Convention speech that Harris was “working tirelessly to secure a cease-fire in Gaza and [bring] the hostages home,”
And since she didn't win the election there es no way to prove she WASN'T working for that
Greenwald is SUCH a mewling little shit stain
Always remember, Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clout!). So you can say whatever bad-faith shit you want about Democratic figures and you'll get plenty of people happy to gobble it up.
Yup!
Murc's Law was one of the most eye opening 'laws' I've run across...There needs to be a book written on it...Its one of those things that's been running as background noise for SO long that no one really noticed it...but once you 'see' it, you can't unsee it. Its breathtaking in its explanatory scope...
"He wrote, “AOC emphatically condemns policies only when Trump and the GOP do them"
There IS no better 'blind' metric to go on than being against what Trump and the GOP do. Name ONE goddamn thing that the GOP and/or Trump 'stands' for that deserved our consideration and support
NOT
ONE
FUCKING
THING
Glen Greenwald can eat shit
We aren't seriously calling Glenn Greenwald "left" are we? And why would we listen to anybody who thought it would be great for Dick Darth fucking Vader's daughter to campaign with Kamala? Sorry, no, MTG is not welcome in the tent.
He's a guy, kind of like RFK Jr or Matt Tiabbi, who went so far left he started going right. Weird phenomenon.
Greenwald was never a progressive, it just suited his purposes to let people think he was. He’s more of a libertarian crank with an affinity for white supremacists.
https://newrepublic.com/article/116253/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald-julian-assange-what-they-believe
Well, I never said he was progressive in the AOC/Bernie sense of the word. But you’re correct he has long held civil-libertarian positions that aligned with the left especially on surveillance, war, and press freedom, while also bashing the left itself (this particular critique is more about AOC tactics than politics). A more accurate critique IMO is that his alliances and emphasis have radically shifted in ways most of us now see as pretty selectively anti-establishment and self serving.
Not to mention, he is just insufferable.
Funny how Glennie has "forgotten" that MTG stalked AOC.
Glen kicked off his legal career defending a literal church of white supremacy. Keeping that in mind makes everything he's done since a lot easier to understand.
Pretty sure he did that on free speech grounds, not on the merits of racism-he was an attorney who focused on first amendment issues. (He's not the only one, the ACLU defended Rush Limbaugh after all). When your position is that free speech is absolute, you wind up defending some really unsavory characters.
He's also said that he did it because he really hated the people bringing the suit against the klansmen.