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[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 138 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MTG is known for her extra-marital affairs which got her divorced.

It’s literally always projection with these losers.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Eww, there's multiple people who want to have sex with MTG‽

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shes rich. Handed some construction buisness by her parents/grandparents. Apprently also owned the gym where most of the people she was fucking worked out.

So like most shitty people : money.

[–] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 34 points 1 year ago

That's not a kink, that's a cry for help.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate both of these cunts, but what's wrong with having bunches of sex? It's not like Boebert is married.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 107 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're not supposed to enjoy sex if you're a Republican.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

You’re not supposed to enjoy sex if you’re a woman.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to enjoy if you're a Republican

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 28 points 1 year ago

No time for happy. Only angry and afraid. —Republican Manifesto

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

You're supposed to stop and shame everyone else's enjoyment.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You're not supposed to Republican.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Nothing wrong with it but maybe she shouldn't have joined a club where the members have a pathological hatred of women.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TWO trailer park girls go round the outside,

round the outside,

round the outside...

Waiting for one of them to challenge the other, "Cash me ousside, howbow dah?"

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A reference in a reference. Reference-ception

And then a third pop culture reference thrown in at the end. A triple whammy

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then he spent the next 7 years sucking Trump off.

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IDK. If you read the tweet in a BDSM light it all becomes clear...

I don't think that's what he meant, but it's funnier

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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Whenever I see MTG I think Magic the Gathering and get very confused

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[–] jumbodumbo@lemmynsfw.com 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Magic the gathering is doing WHAT?!?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a new mechanic, trash a whore card puts it on the bottom of your discard pile, but if there are enough non-whore creatures above it in your discard, it gets resummoned, tapped.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yemmly@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

I’m pretty sure she meant it in a collegial sense, as in “peer” or “fellow traveler”.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lmao, she also called her a "bitch/ little bitch" for "copying" her articles of impeachment. Boebert defended herself by saying she never read it, which is also hilarious, because she voted on it.

"According to two sources that saw the exchange and a third familiar with the matter, the back and forth began when Boebert approached Greene—then seated in the chamber—and confronted her over “statements you made about me publicly.” All three of the sources said Greene called Boebert a “bitch.” One of the sources said Greene called her “a little bitch.”

According to two of the sources, Greene then stood up and alleged that Boebert “copied my articles of impeachment,” to which the Colorado lawmaker fired back that she hadn’t even read Greene’s resolution."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-boebert-a-little-bitch-on-the-house-floor

I would PAY to have good c-span footage of that.

[–] spider@lemmy.nz 23 points 1 year ago

Boebert defended herself by saying never read it, which is also hilarious, because she voted on it.

This is actually believable.

[–] Additional_Prune@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Hateful people sometimes get tired of hating scapegoats and take some time to hate each other. It's like high school mean girls picking one of their own off from the herd.

[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are we giving these two attention

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that make her the pot or the kettle?

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pot. The origin of the saying is a cast iron pot sees its own reflection in the shiny, stainless steel kettle and sees all black (the cast iron).

So it's really projection. Calling out others what you see in yourself.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's an interpretation from 1876, but the expression is much older than stainless steel. Originally it's not that the kettle isn't black, it's that the pot is equally sooty from the ashes they both sit in. Which is a better fit for MTG and the Boeb, both tarred by the filth of the GOP.

From Wikipedia:

Origin

The earliest appearance of the idiom is in Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation of the Spanish novel Don Quixote. The protagonist is growing increasingly restive under the criticisms of his servant Sancho Panza, one of which is that "You are like what is said that the frying-pan said to the kettle, 'Avant, black-browes'."[3] The Spanish text at this point reads: Dijo el sartén a la caldera, Quítate allá ojinegra (Said the pan to the pot, get out of there black-eyes).[4] It is identified as a proverb (refrán) in the text, functioning as a retort to the person who criticises another of the same defect that he plainly has. Among several variations, the one where the pan addresses the pot as culinegra (black-arse) makes clear that they are dirtied in common by contact with the cooking fire.[5]

This translation was also recorded in England soon afterwards as "The pot calls the pan burnt-arse" in John Clarke's collection of proverbs, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina (1639).

Wiki goes on to give the 1876 example, with the shiny kettle, as well.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

From Don Quixote! TIL

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I am now gonna start calling people burnt ass.

They will be confused. It will be glorious.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can’t they just fuck and put it up for sale all ready

[–] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t watch it even if you pay me, but I will fight to my death to protect your right to watch.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the words of Londo Mollari: Ladies, ladies please...continue.

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[–] creamed_eels@toast.ooo 13 points 1 year ago

Lmao they’re both doing the pick me dance

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I think Marge is just jealous about Qbert. A lot of Karen energy here. I bet anything Marge would have loved to be taken to the same show and do some dry cranking of her own.

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Large Marge is projecting

[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Sporkfoot throwing shade on Hoebert? That's like shit insulting puke.

[–] twisted28@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is one reason why the culture war is a joke. These people may claim to be “Christians” and morally superior but the reality (which is glaringly obvious and well known) is these people are immoral trash. No integrity whatsoever. It would be more believable if these people were actually decent.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Now with the chair, Marge! And drag her into the mud pit like in the good old days of your hometown rodeos

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