Mockery as Nancy Mace debuts new tattooed look on YouTube: 'We're living in a simulation'

Former Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace was roundly mocked on Sunday after she debuted her new tattooed look on her YouTube show.

Mace appeared on her program, "Get Maced," in a sleeveless shirt revealing at least nine new tattoos she's gotten since losing the South Carolina Republican primary for governor, The New York Post reported. Mace said the new tattoos gave her "the pain that I need to feel" after leaving Congress. She also described her transformation as a way to "reclaim" her identity, according to the report.

Mace's new look, and her explanations for it, were roundly mocked on social media.

"We’re living in a simulation," Shannon Watts, a Democratic activist, posted on X.

"Nostalgia for those lost days when Congresspersons at least made some attempt to suggest that they were in the service of US citizens & not self-exhibiting as unemployed actors eager for any sort of publicity," author Joyce Carol Oates posted on X.

"I told you all for years, this b---- is crazy," Brendan Dilley, host of "The Dilley Show," a politics and entertainment podcast, posted on X.

"She’s one step closer to dying her hair blue and getting a nose piercing," Mike Nellis, a Democratic strategist, posted on X.