I can't pretend to understand the endgame of Republicans like Greene and Boebert

[Miles Archer]

Race to the bottom? You bet.

Pandering to Trump's Q / MAGAt base? Ditto.

But this incessant ramping up of the rhetoric, becoming more loathsome as each day passes...

You have Republicans who pull out the can of crazy whenever there is a vote, or a major headline issue, but Green and Boebert are both so starved for attention that they yell "FIRE IN THE HOLE" on the quietest days.

My career background is in Marketing. I am familiar...sadly...with the "No such thing as bad publicity" thing.

They're not alone...Madison Cawthorn seems to be reaching for the same brass ring as Greene and Boebert.

So what is their endgame?

[CrispyQ]

1. You called it--attention starved. Just like the Con. Any attention is better than no attention.

Somehow, getting attention from others validates themselves. Sad, empty people.

[JuJuChen]

2. This....

this is their endgame

[Tadpole Raisin]

3. Grift. Power.

[tblue37]

4. They fundraise off their outrageous rhetoric.

[empedocles]

7. Searching for markets that need extreme behaviors from a Congressperson for

self verification?

[modrepub]

5. Monetizing Outrage

Lots of dopes willing to Venmo them $ at the drop of a hat.

[Earth-shine]

6. Play the game, for as long as it lasts. No endgame.

Any endgame that would occur based on their principles would result in the destruction of society as we know it.

[pamdb]

8. endgame

White trash don't usually have an endgame.

[Bev54]

9. No end game they are there specifically to create chaos

and undermine the government institutions.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. No endgame. Just a game to be played by them. nt

[Autumn]

11. Their endgame is to get wealthy. Nothing else.

[Johonny]

12. The money people make off the MAGA idiots is unreal

The goal is to get as much attention as possible and a huge following and them bilk the morons for the rest of their life. FOX news always needs talking heads. Heck so does CNN etc ...

There's a gravy train for the loudest and most willing to play the clown for the media (social and otherwise.)

[themaguffin]

13. It's ALL grifting. 100%.

[mcar]

14. Trying to make as much money as they can?

Auditioning for their OAN jobs?

[Mysterian]

15. A dictatorship

They are fascists. Seems pretty simple to me.

[MissMillie]

16. fundraising

The lower they stoop, the more their "Godly," "Christian" constituencies donate.

[struggle4progress]

17. "I'll do anything for attention"

[PSPS]

18. "The outrage industry." That's been the hot mass market since "The Morton Downey Jr. Show"

With everyone having their own "channel" now on social media, it's the same race to the bottom. Out-crazy your "competition" to get them click$ and money.

[Scrivener7]

19. No endgame. It's the pathological approval- and attention-seeking of the monumentally insecure.

[cbabe]

20. Tantrums are fun.

To paraphrase James Lee Burke Robicheaux novel:

Your momma raised little tittie babies that the rest of us have to take care of.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Fund-raising grifters who love attention.

This is their end game.

[ibegurpard]

22. They have no endgame

The fascist autocrats who have stoked their anger and use them as pawns have an endgame of destroying democratic self-governance and replacing it with a form of feudalism.