Frank wrote on Oct 11
th, 2025 at 4:38am:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 10
th, 2025 at 2:58pm:
You know for certain that America is utterly and completely screwed when MTG is the only Republican who is talking sensibly.
You deranged maniacs have been vilifying this woman for years.
Now she is your hero.
Your despicable depravity is bottomless. You are slaves to your primitive girly emotions, old, smelly farts though you all are.
Despicable AND ridiculous. A bunch of old decrepit shhits acting like schoolgirls.
We don't operate like you, Fran.
The only reason she's suddenly questioning the official narrative is because it's finally touched her family. That's entirely on-brand for conservatives like her, and like you. You don't care about the pain and suffering Trump inflicts on others. In fact, for a lot of you, it's the appeal. It's the backbone of your support, as long as the people getting crushed are brown, gay, or trans, you cheer it on.
But the second the consequences land on your doorstep, suddenly it's an outrage. Suddenly government support isn't "socialism", it's something you're "entitled" to. Every time, it's too late. Every time, it just proves how selfish, short-sighted, and utterly devoid of empathy conservatives like her really are.
And yet, somehow, MTG, the poster child for frothing far-right hysteria, is now sounding moderate, simply because she's acknowledging objective reality. Biden warned them this exact thing would happen. She even shouted him down,
She's not a hero. She helped build this mess, and she owns it just as much as Trump does.
But the mere fact she's appearing on far-right media and, for once, telling the truth, is seismic. These networks have spent years carefully curating their audiences' worldviews, filtering out any inconvenient facts. Their viewers genuinely believed the government was being shut down so Democrats could give free healthcare to "illegals", when in reality, it was to stop Republicans from ripping healthcare away from legal American citizens.
And the states set to cop the biggest increases in premiums are all deep red:
West Virginia 387%
Wyoming 382%
Alaska 346%
Tennessee 320%
Mississippi 314%
Texas 289%
South Carolina 285%
Alabama 284%
South Dakota 235%
North Dakota 234%
LinkThese MAGA die-hards aren't encountering any of this information in their feeds. It's been completely scrubbed from their echo chambers, until now. And of all people to break that seal, it's Marjorie bloody Taylor Greene.
That doesn't absolve her. It doesn't redeem her. But if she's wobbling, she'll take a chunk of MAGA with her, and force an even bigger chunk to realise they've been lied to.
And I reckon that's why you're so rattled by this, Fran.