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[–] [email protected] 267 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

A broken clock...

Happy that this particular lunatic is right on this particular issue.

[–] [email protected] 159 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I'm going to guess that Russia doesn't want us to enter the war.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Probably. Tucker Carlson is saying the same thing, so their handlers are telling them “nope, we don’t like that”.

[–] ApathyTree 19 points 3 weeks ago

Mmm I can’t wait to see the unintended consequences of that backpedaling.

God I hope there are some..

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm guessing everyone with a brain doesn't want the US to go into Iran. It's like these people didn't learn anything from the last quarter century (and Vietnam before that).

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Learn things? With our education system??? Buddy! What do you think this is??? A different country? Who's this other country you're thinking about??? They sound like someone we need to go to war with! Do they have oil?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not to mention the terrain of Iran would prove an order of magnitude more difficult to overcome. Afghanistan was already very difficult for our military, imagine MORE mountains

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, huge country, difficult terrain, largely homogeneous culture that goes back to the Persian Empire, homegrown weapons industry that can build their own drones and missiles. This is going to be more difficult by orders of magnitude.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Brainwashed by what, MTG? Is it the Jewish space lasers again?

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

This is a ''The worst person you know just made a great point.'' moment, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day"

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That was not on my bingo card

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

What exactly is this woman’s platform?

[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"brown people can fuck off and deal with their own brown people shit"

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You should print this on a bumper sticker and sell it in Texas.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Man I would be so rich if I just didn't have a moral compass

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

"Keep me in power and, more importantly, the spotlight"

She's an attention whore. Nothing more, nothing less. It's why she married her pedophile husband: he gave her attention when she was underage.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Before you get too excited, this was an interview with OAN, and that she thinks people should be paying more attention to OAN

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Kinda. MTG is ragging on Fox News, sure, but she's also both-sides'ing media outlets on the left with her full quote:

We have propaganda news on our side just as the left does

She's fishing for people to agree with her which legitimizes her claim that left-leaning news networks are just as untrustworthy as Fox News, which is an untrustworthy news outlet, but she doesn't say shit about Breitbart or OANN or any of the other right-wing superspreaders of misinformation.

So, she is a broken clock that's currently pointing at the correct time, but she did it in a way to sneak in an untruth or two in there hoping that people would pick up on that and amplify the message.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I oppose war in Iran because war is detestable.

You oppose war in Iran because you want troops in California instead.

We are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago

We’re in the clown dimension.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

[while] Speaking to former Rep. Matt Gaetz on OAN

😑

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You know things are really fucked when you find yourself saying "hell yeah" to statements by mtg and tucker

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Russia is pro Iran so it wasn't entirely unexpected.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great point

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Saw polling where even Trump voters only have 25% support for attack on Iran, and majority of all demographics oppose by over 50%. There is a huge disconnect between zionist supremacist media and politicians, and American people. Not just war, but marjority of Amercians have unfavourable view of Israel despite absolute political/media dominance to "educate them".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

Polls also show overwhelming support for social security and taxing the rich, the GOP don't give af and the R voters won't change how they vote over this.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A republican being anti-Fox News? That's a bold strategy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I have heard some people refer to Fox News as being, and I quote, "liberal."

In fairness, these people are part of the MAGA crowd, so I assume they can't actually read and have no idea what the word "liberal" means.

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When I hear someone like MTG say something like this my first thought isn’t “Oh, she’s finally figuring it out!” No. It’s “What fucked up way does she think people need to be brainwashed to align more with her brand of shittiness?”

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

I thought this was a SNL skit with a joe biden character on the left.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Even a broken clock is right twice a day or however the saying goes.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wtf is Matt "Statutory Rape" Gaetz doing there?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

Yesssss. Eat each other.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

you mean the war started by the spoiled child state enabled by the USA?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You know, I was pretty adapted to this whole "dumbest reality" thing. I thought I had a good handle on it.

Now I'm agreeing with Bimbo Spacelasers on a political stance... I'm literally having an existential crisis to that.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

And just whose fault IS that, Marjorie?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Well, duh, otherwise you'd never have been elected you moron.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Holy shit, sanity from MTG?? WHAT PLANET IS THIS

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"We have propaganda news on our side just as the left does"

Greene claimed that since Carlson was fired from "neocon network Fox News, he has more popularity and viewers than ever before" and that "he unapologetically believes the same things I do."

Yeah, nah.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago
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