M. Kelly
@emkelly.bsky.social
Unapologetic feminist. Trans ally. Black Lives Matter. Background biology/math. Special fondness for cephalopods, mycology, astronomy, & animals. Hobby cook & baker. I'll miss the country we never actually were but fuck it we ball.
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Here's my theory on her pivot
My take on Marjorie Taylor Greene is that she's an honestly dumb person with sincere beliefs, and those sincere beliefs are based on the myth of what Republicans and Democrats stand for.
She'll never be a Democrat, but she's starting to see exactly who the rightwing is, and it's disgusting to her.
She'll never be a Democrat, but she's starting to see exactly who the rightwing is, and it's disgusting to her.
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Here's my theory on her pivot
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In general I think professional
Republicans are cynical, knowing people, who enjoy operating in bad faith, or at least tell themselves it’s for a greater good. At the farthest fringes, though, there are loons and marks who do and say crazy, bigoted shit without necessarily being bad-faith actors. 🤷🏻♂️
Republicans are cynical, knowing people, who enjoy operating in bad faith, or at least tell themselves it’s for a greater good. At the farthest fringes, though, there are loons and marks who do and say crazy, bigoted shit without necessarily being bad-faith actors. 🤷🏻♂️
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
In general I think professional
Republicans are cynical, knowing people, who enjoy operating in bad faith, or at least tell themselves it’s for a greater good. At the farthest fringes, though, there are loons and marks who do and say crazy, bigoted shit without necessarily being bad-faith actors. 🤷🏻♂️
Republicans are cynical, knowing people, who enjoy operating in bad faith, or at least tell themselves it’s for a greater good. At the farthest fringes, though, there are loons and marks who do and say crazy, bigoted shit without necessarily being bad-faith actors. 🤷🏻♂️
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Exactly! Almost everyone else on the right never believed the Qanon stuff - they just used it and went along with it (even the people pushing it didn’t believe). MTG did. It’s reminds me of the scene from the Master when Joaquin phoenix realizes the cult is a con.
November 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Exactly! Almost everyone else on the right never believed the Qanon stuff - they just used it and went along with it (even the people pushing it didn’t believe). MTG did. It’s reminds me of the scene from the Master when Joaquin phoenix realizes the cult is a con.
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And we don’t want to admit that the combination of Facebook and GOP acceptance of Trump made her Qanon true belief possible. We prefer to believe people MTG are either manipulators or crazy. She’s putting a face to the human costs of being a MAGA diehard.
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
And we don’t want to admit that the combination of Facebook and GOP acceptance of Trump made her Qanon true belief possible. We prefer to believe people MTG are either manipulators or crazy. She’s putting a face to the human costs of being a MAGA diehard.
She's been absolutely odious in a hundred ways, but it's highly unusual for a right wing politician to voluntarily take in new information, publicly revise a position, and then apologize--and it was a real apology, too.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
She's been absolutely odious in a hundred ways, but it's highly unusual for a right wing politician to voluntarily take in new information, publicly revise a position, and then apologize--and it was a real apology, too.
Publicly breaking from Trump is still political suicide, but aside from that, she loved him, like LOVED him--remember her rubbing all over that cardboard cut out of him? I also remember her getting excoriated by the Auschwitz Museum for dumb remarks, going to the US Holocaust Museum and apologizing
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Publicly breaking from Trump is still political suicide, but aside from that, she loved him, like LOVED him--remember her rubbing all over that cardboard cut out of him? I also remember her getting excoriated by the Auschwitz Museum for dumb remarks, going to the US Holocaust Museum and apologizing
I've been getting crap all day for saying this. I can imagine her slowly coming to the realization that there's no plausible explanation for Trump's position on the Epstein files other than the obvious. bsky.app/profile/emke...
There was no truer believer than MTG--not just in Trump, but Jewish space laser, school shooting hoaxes, the whole right wing mountain of lies. If the Epstein files finally made HER realize that Trump's full of shit, and wonder if it was ALL bullshit, that can happen to a lot of other people too
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I've been getting crap all day for saying this. I can imagine her slowly coming to the realization that there's no plausible explanation for Trump's position on the Epstein files other than the obvious. bsky.app/profile/emke...
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Her journey is more reminiscent of the experience of ex-Scientologists rather than a political repositioning.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Her journey is more reminiscent of the experience of ex-Scientologists rather than a political repositioning.
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I genuinely see the same thing you do - MTG was a Qanon true believer and found Trump coverup of the Epstein files as shattering to her entire worldview. I think people are more cynical about it because they understand political ambition more than Qanon true belief.
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I genuinely see the same thing you do - MTG was a Qanon true believer and found Trump coverup of the Epstein files as shattering to her entire worldview. I think people are more cynical about it because they understand political ambition more than Qanon true belief.
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and it makes the moral outrage look selective at best and hypocritical at worst.
This country throws righteous fury at Epstein and it should but what about the states that let middle-aged men legally marry girls who aren’t old enough to drive? What about the judges who signed off on it?
This country throws righteous fury at Epstein and it should but what about the states that let middle-aged men legally marry girls who aren’t old enough to drive? What about the judges who signed off on it?
November 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
and it makes the moral outrage look selective at best and hypocritical at worst.
This country throws righteous fury at Epstein and it should but what about the states that let middle-aged men legally marry girls who aren’t old enough to drive? What about the judges who signed off on it?
This country throws righteous fury at Epstein and it should but what about the states that let middle-aged men legally marry girls who aren’t old enough to drive? What about the judges who signed off on it?
Just trying to imagine the torches and pitchforks if a woman said something similar about men. She'd be unemployable.
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Just trying to imagine the torches and pitchforks if a woman said something similar about men. She'd be unemployable.
My thoughts exactly.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My thoughts exactly.
Just needs an ethnic slur as a code name for her and he's good to go.
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Just needs an ethnic slur as a code name for her and he's good to go.