• Harvey656
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    Off topic: she needs a new name, i keep reading MTG as magic the gathering.

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      I call her Howler Monkey #2.

      (I also call Boebert Howler Monkey #2. I don’t want to give either of them the benefit of being #1… and I can’t keep them straight anyhow.)

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        2 b cost, Human Politician. Haste, 1 any tap, grow warts on target creature, if said creature is a black ‘orange Politician’, you may vote to release the epstien files. 1/1.

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      Marjorie, the Traitor is a 1/1 with deathtouch. When she enters the battlefield, all players lose 2 life.

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        A+

        Edit: for those of you that might not get it, in this case Majorie, the Traitor would be part of a Green deck (well, it could be mono green deathtouch but it’s probably green/black deathtouch).

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    Back in the day, George HW Bush came out hard against Ronald Reagan’s economic policy in the 1980 GOP debates. He called the idea of cutting taxes for the rich 'voo-doo economics." Later at the Convention, Bush was chosen to be Reagan’s Veep.

    My guess is the MTG smells blood in the water and is positioning herself to be the ‘loyal opposition’ to Trump.

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      This is absolutely what is happening. She is the current rotating villain for the GOP. She’s “allowed” to go against the party line and become a villain to a subset of their voters and to make “independent” voters think there is still sanity in the party.

      I don’t trust this woman at all. She enabled all of this. She has to do a lot more than this to redeem her behavior and voting record.

      Remember when she harassed David Hogg before she was in office? She has no shame, she deserves no forgiveness for so little done in good faith.

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        voters think there is still sanity in the party.

        Gotta say though, surely they didn’t need to pick the “Rothchilds are using space lasers to start wildfires” and “Yes they can control the weather” person to be their “voice of sanity”.

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        Ahem. Fuck that cunt. The news “sanewashing” of the space lazer lady is fucking insane. She has zero business being in politics. But my god does the US not realize how fucked it is before it’s too late.

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      For now, at least, I think it’s that they don’t want to be Kirked. Trump gets SS protection, but they don’t, and I’m honestly a little surprised nobody took a shot at the power behind the throne when they had the chance.

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        Admin officials are very much underlings. The power behind the throne is the bank accounts of other billionaires that are also in the Epstein files.

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          Maybe when the President isn’t a geriatric dementia patient, but in this case I think Steven Miller is directing policy more than Trump is.

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            They’re paid for workers, doing what they’re paid to do. Trump isn’t the one directing them, he’s just a middle man collecting the profits.

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              I feel like you don’t know who Steven Miller is. Think Heinrich Himmler.

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                He didn’t get there by magic. He was placed and supported around Trump.

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    MTG doesn’t need a redemption arc, stop reporting on her