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Ocelot II

(131,242 posts)
1. It's interesting that the only GOPers on the side of the victims are women,
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:12 AM
Sep 2025

MTG, Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace.

sir pball

(5,352 posts)
5. Maybe, maybe not. They are Us, after all.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:28 AM
Sep 2025

I totally understand how easy and comforting it is to dismiss Them as something entirely different, but They really aren't. They're just as human as we are, certainly with a very different mindset, but with the same spectrum of thoughts and feelings. I certainly can't dismiss these people being genuinely invested in this issue, even if I would disagree with virtually everything else they say.

It's like MTG's recent talk of Gaza, which a lot on the left have dismissed as Performative Pandering without the slightest consideration she might have some spark of care…it reminds me of a Pratchett quote I try to remember when I feel inclined to simply dismiss the opposition as Them:

You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,744 posts)
9. YES, they are play acting, of course they are!
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:37 AM
Sep 2025

The Howler Monkey twins don't give a damn about those women.

What's that saying always posted here? When someone shows you who they are...etc.

Volaris

(11,796 posts)
13. Right she thinks this will out a bunch of democrats.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 01:23 PM
Sep 2025

Here's the thing tho: WE know, trumps name is in there. She can believe whatever the hell lunacy she wants, as long as she votes for the damned discharge petition.
This is an example of Bannons maxim of 'no enemies to my right', put to good use by those of us who want the TRUTH.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,744 posts)
7. I had the same reaction
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:33 AM
Sep 2025

What is that creature doing there? She never misses an opportunity to get her ugly mug on camera.

Why do people call it "the list"? A list of names is not really evidence.

It just seems minimizing to me.

CentralMass

(16,994 posts)
8. Although i believe she recently made some statement about believing Trump's innocence on this.
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:33 AM
Sep 2025

Takket

(23,803 posts)
11. don't be fooled by them
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:15 PM
Sep 2025

The only reason why they are here is because they still think the Epstein files are all about Bill Clinton. They will soon be brought to heel by drumpf and the gop

Onthefly

(1,379 posts)
12. Be truly skeptical of her and Bobert's presence
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 12:30 PM
Sep 2025

They are in place to run interference for orange daddy. They will pretend to care but will sabotage efforts of these determined women to get names and facts to congress and the public.

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