It’s fun that an undocumented MAGA non-citizen thinks she gets to make that decision.

Turkey. Christmas.

Definition of absurd

"...lots of these people don't deserve to be here." "And are any of these people taking part in this conversation right now?"

Thing is, she's terrified and thinks she daren't say anything against Trump that might be broadcast. It could be worse for her or her family. I don't think captives in the concentration camps would have been contradicting their jailors much either.

It’s amazing what the human brain will do itself to survive.

“I don’t blame Trump, I blame Biden,” says her husband. 🙄

Indoctrinated.

Racists gonna racist.

It’s a cult

Absolutely brainwashed…

This is a whole new level of stupid that defies any explanation I can think of.

She’s hoping Trump sees this and has her released. She’s that stupid.

How does she know whether they “deserve” to be in the US?

and that Marie is how you see a cult in action

“The Leopards would never eat my face” says the person whose face has already been chewed off.

She’s in the wrong institution …. 🙄

Make American Groupies Again

'Devout'

Would be interested to read a followup in a couple months.

Give her a month or two

If she's lucky Trump will deport her to country she's never even been to.

Voter doubles down and offers to eat own face to save leopard effort.

Iranian monarchists stay monarching

😱😱😱

I think all journalists go on a learning curve to discover that telling it straight is often the best way - and this should be handed out in journo school to show why

Stockholm syndrome.

Mojave madness.

I prefer Mojito madness.

Make it make sense 😳

Turkeys voting for Christmas

It’s religious veneration of leaders for some people, rather than mere political allegiance-and it’s not a small number these days.

Ah, but she knows Trump didn't mean people like her. Just the people she thinks are bad. It is all a terrible misunderstanding and Trump will fix it...

If only the tsar knew what was happening etc etc

I’m gonna fixate on a slightly different part than everyone else: the fact that she thinks “being here” is some big reward, like “here” is a good place outside of some level of access to consumer goods

So is that an admission that she is dangerous?

Being brainwashed at this level is completely nonsense. A cult remains a cult.

That’s one word for him.

It's right that the Leopards should eat my face and I willingly present my face for them to consume, is the maddest of all the takes.

Their approach seems totally rational to me. In the interview I saw the husband looked desperate. As a convicted foreign criminal she is at high risk of deportation. They are at the whim of an uncaring, brutal system. Their best hope of reprieve lies in an appeal to the Tzar.

"We have to trust the process," I say as I am thrown into the sea

Hey, her identity is *aspirational*

Very BBC to hunt down the most anomalous Trump supporter. They usually go to the bluest of blue states, find the only Trump supporter, and make that the story.

Woke right in pure essence

If only Stalin knew, he would free me.

That's it, exactly

Cult

Darkly funny that she points to having US citizen children as a reason she thinks she might be protected, given Trump's deranged obsession with ending birthright citizenship.

>> "I'm not deportable to any country," Arpineh told the BBC from the detention facility. << Adding “delusional” to the list.

*heavy sigh*

MAYBE I LIKE HAVING MY FACE EATEN BY LEOPARDS!

Sounds pretty Culty.

That we've survived this long as a species is enough to make me rethink...my entire cosmology.

In fairness, things that would be insane to other animals - "Let's leave our current hunting grounds behind and explore over the next hill," - is arguably key to our spread over the planet. This insanity just sometimes manifests as commitment to the bit beyond reason.

Turkeys, Christmas and all that.

“I myself am a terrible person” she continued, probably

All awful, but how in a supposedly advanced western state can it be possibly for people to be held in state confinement and no food be provided, and medical treatment be withheld…

I suspect that initially, lots of Germans were in support of the concentration camps in the 1930s.

Speaking from her hospital bed, local voter Beau Visage professed unwavering support for the Leopards Eating Peoples’s Faces Party, as the nurses tended to her leopard-teeth face-wounds…

My ship is sinking but if I tie myself to this big old anchor my loyalty will save me.

this is Waco levels of cult

"I have cars" is the most American legal defence argument possible.

It's up there with the Huffman family, who moved to Russia because of Fox News propaganda to get away from western propaganda

Bested by the black lady who moved to Russia because racism in the US only to get recently punched up for being black and ignored by the police in Moscow.

Christ...

So many things wrong here (leopard, faces, etc) but I find the word "devout" quite chilling in this context.

I'm - generously, I imagine - allowing for the possibility that she knows the calls are recorded and that currying favour to the media might help ICE take leniency on her.

"Marvellous people the Romans. They only hung me the right way up this morning"...

Incomprehensible. Genuinely. Do they think they are different to the people being rounded up? Or do they think they themselves deserve to be rounded up? The latter is an impressive degree of self loathing, the former an impressive lack of self awareness.

You missed that SHE IS IN FACT LOCKED UP

I'm starting to revaluate Darwinism