Three of four Republicans who forced the release of the Epstein files are now out of jobs

Lindsey Graham has been rumored for years to be closeted gay; the "ladybugs" thing specifically comes from a satire story (full text here) where Graham calls the moles on his taint his "little ladybugs".

Damn it !gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world I didn't need to read that.

You know, I should've realized that I didn't want to know. Now I've added another item to the long list of things I can't unlearn.

The MTG resignation is just such a fucking unforced L on her part. Like, she had the right rallying around her. She could have been their Coo-coo-for-coco-puffs replacement for when the cholesterol eventually does its job. She probably could even have bilked over the remaining TYT and Jimmy Dore fans to her cause.

But at the end of the day I think its about Trump and loyalty to Trump. We're seeing it across primaries too; the reality is that actually, the "MAGA" part of MAGA aren't particularly engaged in electoralism. "America First" represented expanded voter-ship into demographics which didn't typically vote; so its not particularly surprising when they don't vote in mid-terms. And if you follow RW media, Trump has fallen quite far out of favor, although you'll see much mental gymnast-icking. And you see it in the exit data on the mid term primaries. Democrats are out-showing-up Republicans 2:1, compared to typical turnout.

So there are a few things going on:

1: Trump is still firmly in control of the party.

2: The party is falling out of favor with their activist base.

3: Republican equivalent of ABWD are still showing up, but the part of the Republican party that put Trump into power appears to have lost interest largely because of US support for Israel and the war in Iran.

This all points further to support the thesis that Trump won't allow free and fair elections. Because there is a real divide within MAGA/ America First right now.

She's not dumb dumb, but her batshittery overrides her average level of intelligence to make her basically act the same as dumbasses

I haven't followed Massie and Mace very closely, but MTG and especially Bobo are dumb as fucking rocks. But even if they finally realized they were supporting pedos (and it only took them literal years to realize it because again, I can't say enough how absolutely brain dead they are), it's not like they've come around to the good side. Marge is mad because Dump lied to her, but it's not like she's changed her views on being a huge racist piece of utter garbage. She's never recanted about how (((the Jews^TM))) control the weather, or that she was wrong about blaming innocent people for pizzagate. Boebert married a guy who took his dick out in front of teens and she also promotes white nationalist talking points.

They're like MAGA voters who are against the Diarrhea in Chief. They kick up a fuss like little piss babies because their feefees got hurt or they can't afford their gas because Donny Diapers pushed the missile button, but they'll never vote for them queer loving dems. I try to have understanding because your intelligence level isn't something you can control, but it's hard to muster up the sympathy to soothe someone who's crying after they just finished whacking both me and themselves in the face with a hammer.

Well. There’s an increasing number of republicans that are no longer republicans.

The Nazis masks are off because he has nothing to lose.

So I don’t think he could, but also he’s going to fuck shit up and that doesn’t matter.

A fairly large number of MAGA types believe him when he says he’s not in it, and it’s all just a set up. To be clear, my grandma lives is Missouri and if you go to watch the news, the least right wing is fox and there pretty much is no not-right wing; so they’re very heavily propagandized.

(Right related to US politics. I know we don’t have a real left wing group here.)