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MTG needs to do the right thing and go live in Russia where she belongs

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Put her on a rocket and shoot it into space

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Just tell her she’s there to install the border lasers.

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She can go out there and destroy the Jewish space lasers

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Oh man if mtg was jessie who would be james in that version of stupid team rocket?

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She’s just trying to keep the government dysfunctional. She needs to go live with her employers in Russia.

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Believe it or not, this is American politics. Not everything goes back to red scare propaganda about Russia infiltrating the US.

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You’re right. Not everything.

But this is.

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a convenient cop out is what this is. You think someone as dumb as her could really keep a secret like that? You think she’s smart enough to have Opsec standards? You really believe she’s using burner phones and dead drops to communicate with Moscow? She can’t read above a fifth grade level and she’s outsmarting the three letter agencies and secret service?

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Yeah, I can’t believe anyone would dare try to like the Republican party to Russia. Next thing you’ll see is people claiming that Republican politicians flew to Moscow on July 4th, but that’s just a crazy accusation that is too crazy to be believable.

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I guess senate majority Leader Chuck Schumer must be a Chinese communist then, right?

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No, it’s not innocence. Look at the instance they’re from. They just have to come to Russia’s defence every time.

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I’ve yet to see any evidence presented of Russia bribing politicians. It wouldn’t even fit their playbook. Have you read Foundations of Geopolitics?

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6 points

True, but in this case it certainly does.

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You think she understands the ethnic details of people in Ukraine and just happens to have formed an opinion that agrees with Russia?

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1781069691005419854

I don’t think she can even pronounce transcarpathia.

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Nope, she’s pretty dumb, I doubt she knows what those words even mean. Wonder why they’re not tapping her phone like they do to normal citizens who have committed no crimes. They might find out where she’s getting these ideas.

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Magic The Gathering needs to take her own advice.

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17 points

Too high upkeep, just discard it

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She’s caught between a rock and a hard place if the rumors of 2 R’s being ready to walk (if Johnson is ousted) are believed on capital hill. Her twitter follows won’t be satisfied unless someone motions to vacate but if they cause the majority to change their donor money is going to dry up even more than it already has.

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Her real problem is actually a little different. If she introduces a motion to oust, the Democrats will just vote against it this time. They ousted McCarthy because he went and betrayed them plus threw them under the bus, so they had no reason not to hope for a different speaker. Johnson kept his end of the bargain and doesn’t go out of his way to fuck them over, so they have no reason not to reward him and keep him in power. Thus, if she introduces a motion to vacate, she and a couple other crazies vote for it and the whole rest of the House votes against it, revealing her to be even more of a joke than she’s already become.

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It does feel different this time. Even if traditional Republicans bend the knee to Trump and his extremist voters, we’re all sick of these sickening new levels of dysfunction. Notice I didn’t say they would do the right thing for the right reasons…

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However the will do right things for right reasons.

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so they have no reason not to reward him and keep him in power.

They have dozens of reasons to want him out.

The Dems would be foolish to intervene and prevent the GOP continuing to bludgeon themselves. If the right end to avoid the shit show caused by their own party, they should vote in a Dem speaker, even if a minority party representation.

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If I said what I believe it is that MTG should do in order to do “the right thing” I’d be censored.

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She’d probably end up missing and hitting someone else.

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Considering the size of her brain, I would be surprised if she missed

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This was a great comment. I genuinely laughed and I’m still smiling as I thank you for it.

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(Sigh) - Removed, advocating violence.

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The definition for advocating violence seems surprisingly strict. I don’t recall the content of my removed posts, but I don’t think a reasonable person would consider any or at least most to be true calls for violence.

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