• erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The problem for Truss is that she is too incompetent to even be employed here. From the article regarding her attempts to be embraced by CPAC…

    She may also have misjudged the sympathies of her audience. Though touting herself as an outsider who spoke truth to unaccountable power and paid the price, her critics on the far right point out that she is also the ultimate insider, whose route to the top involved a series of ministerial roles in the Cameron, May and Johnson administrations, including as minister for women and equalities, where she championed LGBTQ+ rights. She opposed Brexit in 2016. She was once a Liberal Democrat. Raheem Kassam, former UK editor of Breitbart news and a one-time Ukip policy adviser, now based in the US, called Truss’s appearance at CPAC “one of the most transparent and pathetic grifts going”. Jack Montgomery, writing in the National Pulse, noted that as foreign secretary Truss had made it clear there could be no deals and no compromise with Putin over the invasion of Ukraine. That, for many in the Maga movement, is the equivalent of being a signed-up member of the Joe Biden/CIA/Nato conspiracy. “So no,” Montgomery wrote, “Liz Truss wasn’t ousted by the deep state. Liz Truss is the deep state.” If there is a global reset coming in Washington, Truss seems unlikely to be a part of it.

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      Yeah that’s quite funny.

      I would be tempted to read that as an admonition for failing them when she held office and recognition she is not very useful now.

      I say that because the people that wrote this well know that 90% of the “maga movement” is a grift, entirely transparent to anyone capable of critical thought.

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      Yeah that’s quite funny.

      I would be tempted to read that as an admonition for failing them when she held office and recognition she is not very useful now.

      I say that because the people that wrote this well know that 90% of the “maga movement” is a grift, entirely transparent to anyone capable of critical thought.