@lowtide MTG? Is on a revenge tour and has turned on the status quo GQP... she saw the writing on the wall early on and began her MAGA disengagement. (I am in her district). She has really changed her tune... now she is " working for my constituents" and returning to her QAnon pre- Political office obsession with pedophiles.
She is the blonde woman who will bring him down. Standing in Congress and reading ALL the names... if he doesn't " disappear her first. She knows where skeletons are buried.
She is the blonde woman who will bring him down
Who would have thought a couple of years ago this could be true?! But it sure looks like that could happen now.
What a crazy time to be alive!
I went out for a smoke earlier tonight, and just as I got out the door, I literally said the words "There is an arms race". That made no sense to me, and there was nothing to immediately clarify it, but I did a little focus exercise to see if there was more behind it. What I was given to understand is that there is or will be a "war" (not a hot war) between the US and another country (I felt China, but that may be just my mind injecting the obvious) in a third country wherein the US loses badly and China (?) comes out looking like the hero. This situation felt like it was happening in a South American country.
Upon even further reflection, it seemed to be an economic "war" in which the US comes off with not even the short end of the stick - more likely just a small sliver or splinter of it. This could be referring to the situation in Venezuela or possibly Colombia, I don't know.
Or maybe my brain is just on the fritz. ;-)
I don't believe MTG takes t down. I feel the blonde woman is the survivor who spoke out ths week.
MTG sees the writing on the wall. She doesn't want to lose her job. She's banking on the short memories of people.
I honestly don't know if these are predictions, or observations, but I'll leave them here.
The House members' time away during the shutdown had a "leavening effect". Their bonds are loosening. They see the country and policy effects more clearly and will no longer be blind followers.
MTG either becomes more mainstream Republican or switches to Independent.
I'd call them excellent insights, gifted perceptions, which puts them both in the categories of predictions and observations. But deep observations, @lowtide.
The shutdown was T's doing, and as you have deftly pointed out, the shutdown has cost him, not only in plunging his popularity to new lows, getting more dems elected in the recent election, and loosening the republicans' bonds with their chief. He's now using his most likely response, threat of political annihilation to any GOP politician who dares stand up to him.
Yesterday I looked closely at MTG’s brief rebellion against T and her attempt to act like she was shifting the far-right back toward serving struggling Americans—her own hurting district and the girls exploited by Epstein. A “video” playing in my head told me she’d flip back fast and kiss the Fuhrer ring, and she did. Many of you probably expected it, but my hopes had been raised and I didn’t want to let go of those hopes.
My insight that she'd reverse course and kiss the ring came from both the cards and from watching her on Bill Maher earlier last week, where she spoke passionately about poverty, lack of healthcare, and Epstein’s victims—only to suddenly declare her love for the president. The audience went silent. Those two positions can’t coexist. Still, I wanted to believe her compassion, so I questioned myself, then threw cards: first card showed a Fire Queen—powerful, a champion of women—then underneath: a second card showing the vulnerable handmaiden, power masking subservience.
I didn’t post it because I was so disappointed at what I "saw" and needed to recover first. But I kept seeing that character is destiny, and too many of them are followers, not leaders—Speaker included. Too many were elevated as puppets, lacking bravery, grounding or conviction. They chase power and attention, not moral clarity. I am not sure where she fits in all of this. I feel conflicted about her. Really the child in her is what I see. Overly enthusiastic about Maga, and defiantly rebelling, only to realize they are much more powerful than she is.
As for the movement I see coming, the positive growth in humanity: I have returned to the deeper truth I’ve seen forming all along: real change is imperceptible at first, like a butterfly in its chrysalis. Humanity isn’t fully ready for the transformation we need to reclaim the freedom our ancestors fought for—but it is coming. It’s growing inside us.
Real change will rise from the grassroots. It will take time—time for enough people to be fed up and brave enough to challenge a rogue commander with the world’s strongest military. But once it reaches critical mass, it will accelerate and seem to happen overnight.
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Yeah I'm not surprised. Heck even AOC said that and she didn't base her comment on predictions (obviously not knocking that, but I think actions speak louder and such).
That said, 'rebelling' in a thing like the files is useful and helpful. Little things right.
But yeah, I never really saw her as a strong independent women and more as a sycophant, and honestly people are going to get tired of that. Especially in the coming year when actions done here now hit the wallets.
Also "But once it reaches critical mass, it will accelerate." this is soooooooooo very true. We see it all throughout history.
The issue we have as the United States of America is that we are so big. So what might reach critical mass in say a European state easier takes longer for us. Its no good for just (say) California or New jersey to reach critical mass, you need a large part of the country. And that is not as easy with how big we are.
Things like the election help. Things like the shut down help. Things like the files help. I'm sorry for the people it harms along the way, truly sorry, but on a 'broad' level those things help push the critical consciousness forward.
@jeanne-mayell This is such wise insight, Jeanne. I’ve been watching clips of MTG and you’re so right. She comes so close to the light of truth and then scurries back into darkness, where her political fortunes were forged. May she grow in wisdom and have the courage to understand what is truly good and true and then to claim that as her own.
I have returned to the deeper truth I’ve seen forming all along: real change is slow, like a butterfly in its chrysalis. Humanity isn’t fully ready for the transformation we need to reclaim the freedom our ancestors fought for—but it is coming. It’s growing inside us.
I learned recently that after the caterpillar goes into the chrysalis, most of its body turns into a cellular liquid (except for parts of the trachea, gut, and central nervous system). From this the body, wings, legs, etc. of the butterfly are formed. It's an intense and demanding reinvention of a self.
For me this is a reminder that human transformation isn't about making a few cosmetic changes, but really feeling/experiencing things at a more fundamental level and from that taking action in the external world. For better or worse, humans often undertake their own transformation process through suffering or hardship, our version of the chrysalis, I suppose.
Many of us will need to experience this kind of transformation in order to get to the world that Jeanne and others have seen ahead of us, where humanity comes together in solidarity to address the climate crisis and build a kinder, more equitable world.