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    “Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” she said.

    But the current President is one of those rich powerful men raping the trafficked. What did she expect would happen?

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      American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men,

      I’m wondering if that is a description of herself?

      Maybe that’s why this issue is her line in the sand?

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    I don’t think even she is so stupid that she is just now realizing that the Republican Party is…full of Republicans.

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      nah she wants the sexism removed but wants to keep racism and bigotry intact. No one told her its a package deal.

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    “Do I have to stay until I’m assassinated like our friend Charlie Kirk. Will that be good enough for you then?” she wrote

    Sounds like she’s just discovered the “find out” part of “fuck around” might possibly apply to her, so she’s out.

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      She bailed exactly as her pension matured. She’s gonna try for a presidential run as a third party outsider.

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          Some guy once said “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

          The concept behind the proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is found in the ancient Sanskrit treatise Arthashastra, attributed to Kautilya (also known as Chanakya), a political philosopher and advisor to the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta I.

          This treatise, dating to around the 4th century BC, outlines statecraft, military strategy, and economic policy, and it formalizes the strategic idea that a ruler’s enemy is the natural ally of a neighboring power that is itself threatened by the same conqueror.

          Specifically, Kautilya describes a king whose territory borders that of an enemy as a natural ally of the conqueror, because they are separated from the conqueror only by the enemy.

          This strategic framework, known as Rajamandala or the “circle of kings,” was used to inform foreign policy and alliances in ancient India.

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          It doesn’t. She’s an asset for someone with money every politician I know of is. Don’t trust a single one, use them and throw them away like single use packaging.

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      In fairness, we would all do it this way. Would you stop a week short? Fuck no, I worked for that.

      I don’t like her and I don’t like nearly everything she’s done, but this is the most honest way people in congress make their money. I’d be more angry about most of the other ways.

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        She’s also worth 21 million dollars now, when she entered congress she was worth less than half a million. Her stock trading game has rivaled Nancy Pelosi’s since she entered office. This should be the bigger scandal. It’s not because it bipartisan.

        Honestly, —assuming there’s no fuckery here, which in fairness is a bold assumption— I kind of respect the resignation. She fucked us, got her bag, and fucked off. That’s far better than her becoming a fixture of Washington for the next 50 years.

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    “Typical of Republican men telling a woman to ‘shut up get back in the kitchen and fix me something to eat.”

    Wait, so as far as I understand she wants the sexism removed from republican party but wants all the other stuff like racism and bigotry to remain? I am sorry dear, they come as a package, drown in the shit hole that you fought so hard to protect.

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      She does seem to genuinely believe in protecting kids… But she has an extremely warped idea of what that entails. The Epstein thing has been an obvious wedge between her and Trump, because it’s one thing she has dug her heels in and refused to drop. Because (again) she does at least seem to care about protecting kids. And she sees the Epstein stuff as an obvious “if you protect the files, you’re protecting pedos” signal flare. Broken clocks, I suppose. At least she has shown that she hasn’t been willing to budge on this one specific issue.

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      Wait til you hear what the Latino republicans want, and the gay republicans… Turns out the bigotry party has bigots of all flavors

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    For anyone trying to figure out what the angle is, MTG is trying to become the face of the American TERF movement. She’s going to milk that for years (if it catches on). Expect a book about the horrors she endured as a brave woman in the Magasphere.

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      I don’t know if right-wing radical feminism in America is necessarily going to be trans-exclusive. Transmedicalist if it isn’t, for sure, but there are plenty of right wing grifters who also happen to be trans women.

      The mainstream facist right already have transphobia cornered as a brand, so being trans-inclusive might be key to turning some discontent into a real political movement.

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    I really hope that she is immediately plunged into irrelevancy when she leaves office. Id prefer to never have to hear her speak or see her over bleached teeth again, if possible.

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        Dig a little deeper into her reasoning behind everything she’s complaining about, and you’ll lose that forgiveness, fast. She’s still blaming immigrants for all of America’s problems…she’s just also tacking some additional blame on businesses that exploit immigration policies for the cheap labor.

        At the end of the day, her issues are more that Republicans are being disingenuous about truly wanting to get rid of all the brown folks.

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        Forgiveness can only be granted after an honest apology, acknowledgement of the harm caused, and an honest effort made to undo those harms.

        Her acknowledging the harms that those surrounding her are causing is a step in the right direction, and a step towards forgiveness. But oooh boy does she still have a lot of aplogizing to do and acknowledging the harms that she herself has caused. Not to mention that her current plan isn’t to undo those harms but wipe her hands clean of it all.

        Forgiveness is only on the table once she starts championing the causes of the black, hispanic and trans peoples she has victimized.

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        No, not forgiveness. She knew what she was doing and this world is worse for her doing it. I’ll gladly never say another bad thing about her as soon as she disappears into obscurity and never speaks publicly again.

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        Fuuuuuuck no. I’m done with this turn the other cheek bullshit. These assholes rape everything around them, then when they get rich they are like “Can we like… just debate, bro?”

        Anyone that wants forgiveness needs to first fully acknowledge their wrongdoing and then earnestly apologize. This “both sides” bullshit she’s spewing ain’t it.

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    Oh I haven’t suffered enough for you while you post all day behind a screen?

    I wish this vile woman would take a long tour of the Acme anvil factory on floor cleaning day.

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    I can’t tell if her grift got bigger, or if she realized the people serving her kool-aid aren’t drinking it.

    Probably both.

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    In recent months, the GOP Congresswoman has publicly broken with her party over the war in Gaza, health care subsidies, and the handling of the Epstein Files.

    What exactly led her to choose the Republican party?

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    Really funny watching this “American clown reality TV show”. I just wish it didn’t affect the rest of the world.