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1 minute ago, The Dog said:

Get the lettuce ready once he passes some stuff MAGA will shank him just like they did McCarthy.

Any attempt to keep the government open = death knell for him. Ukraine aid = death knell. 

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30 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:


 

Give that man (who is in the closet) some credit; this is the most planning the got has done since 2020 and actually listed what they want to do 

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For the sake of my mental health, I should stop reading the news as the resumes of the prospective GOP speakers as their names are put forward for consideration.  Scalise who proudly called himself "David Duke without the baggage."  Jordan who covered up sexual abuse and shows relentless fealty to Trump and hostility to functioning government.  Now Johnson who repeatedly propagated election lies, filed briefs to overturn a fair election, and wants me to live in his theocracy. 

It's all just so fucking gross.  We see who they are in their presidential "debates" where none of them is willing to criticize Trump, except for the guy who enabled Trump from the inside for years and years, right up until the moment that he made his own power-grab calculation to be the "anti" vote (now polling at around 3%).

I know I'm just observing what's been obvious for the past 8 years and counting, but it's disheartening to see it on display.

I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for Romney or McCain - guys who I just disagreed with on most issues, but at least I didn't have to wake up every morning and see stories of them covering up sexual abuse, plotting to overthrowing democracy, trafficking teenage girls with Venmo payments, vaping and getting to second base in a theater where families are watching musicals, or having a completely forged identity.  

I still believe that none of this would be possible - and have vigorous party-wide support - without relentless right-wing propaganda that presents itself as news.

37 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:


 

LucidSportsFan: 2015-03-15

37 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:


 

October - November 2023

            6. return to legislating.    lulz. Welcome back, i guess.

October - December 2024

            1. EXPAND OUR MAJORITY.    you buried the lead, Mr. Johnson.

54 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

Making Johnson the speaker is a gift for the Democratic Party. I would say it’s equal to not having a speaker.

I sure hope so, part of me is glad this sociopath is getting the absolute worst job in America.  Watching him navigate the Trump trials politically will be the high wire clown act of the century. 

5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I sure hope so, part of me is glad this sociopath is getting the absolute worst job in America.  Watching him navigate the Trump trials politically will be the high wire clown act of the century. 

That and the Speaker is routinely one of the more hated people when polling the public 

1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I sure hope so, part of me is glad this sociopath is getting the absolute worst job in America.  Watching him navigate the Trump trials politically will be the high wire clown act of the century. 

He can’t fundraise for the entire party, his beliefs are poison for his party, he doesn’t have the experience or chops to handle the position, and he offers zero cover for GQP candidates trying to distance themselves from trump. This is going to be a complete disaster for the Republican Party.

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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

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I mean, you can tell Scalise is a white supremacist just by looking at him. 

This nomination speech is fucking nauseating

21 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

Give that man (who is in the closet) some credit; this is the most planning the got has done since 2020 and actually listed what they want to do 

Has he released his position on Hunter Biden's dong  (other than hopeful for reverse cowgirl)?

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Let me get this straight:

  1. Emmer beat this guy fair and square in the conference vote
  2. Far right immediately says no way to Emmer
  3. Everyone who voted for Emmer over Johnson ("moderates" lol): "ok, that's fine"

Wow, what backbone. What principles. I'm in awe of their steely resolve.

so lets not talk about the nomination. Let's talk about the President. She is definitely a Karen and has a NextDoor account. 

Just now, tokamak said:

Let me get this straight:

  1. Emmer beat this guy fair and square in the conference vote
  2. Far right immediately says no way to Emmer
  3. Everyone who voted for Emmer over Johnson ("moderates" lol): "ok, that's fine"

Wow, what backbone. What principles. I'm in awe of their steely resolve.

The modern GQP

58 minutes ago, tokamak said:

C'mon dude. You know exactly how that would play out.

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Fox News: "Democrats are cutting YOUR Social Security!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

People in the FN (or the more deplorable networks) bubble are unreachable, but they aren't sufficient to win jack shit. An actual cut to SS is the end of the GQP as a viable national party. Now, a new center-right leaning party that peels off folks from the Dems is a possible result, but that might take an election cycle or two for that to shake out. We're overdue for a party coalition shake-up. The current "system" has arguably existed since Nixon's southern strategy. The previous systems all lasted 30-40 years. 

"This man has my support for Speaker because we both come from places near a coast" may be one of my favorite political justifications of all time.

The good news is the moderate Republican myth dies.

So he's going to fail to get 217 and we do this whole charade again tomorrow?

1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

So he's going to fail to get 217 and we do this whole charade again tomorrow?

Nope, they have chosen him as the nominee

2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

So he's going to fail to get 217 and we do this whole charade again tomorrow?

 

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2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

So he's going to fail to get 217 and we do this whole charade again tomorrow?

He’s gotten Buck, Bacon and Burchette. He’s going to get it. Only 1 GOP absent today and 3 Dems. Doesn’t even need 217. Needs 215

Let me be the first to congratulate new Speaker of the House...  Mike Johnson.

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Ok, well that was a fun couple of weeks.  Now back to your regularly scheduled fuckery.  

Buck really held to his principles on 2020 election deniers. What a joke!

4 hours ago, Captainant said:

Also notable is that both brexit and this shit were heavily underwritten by russian propaganda and disinformation absolutely dissolving the idea of objective truth and a common set of facts. It's the same intellectually disengaged and rhetorical grievance filled shitty arguments both here and in the UK. 

To be completely fair, that's been the case since the 1910s. There's always been this pretty active minority who were whole-hog against objective truth and reality. It had a very solid foothold here. Russian propaganda just gave it the itsy bitsy tiny push it needed to go completely off the rails.

clearly some deals were struck to get him over the line. 

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Dana Bash:  Why Mike Johnson?

Ken Buck:  Because he has the least enemies within the republican party.

Dana Bash:  Well that's a ringing endorsement.

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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Ken Buck:  Because he has the least enemies within the republican party.

The fewest

Would have been funny if Johnson had voted for Jeffries. Was never going to happen, but I would have laughed. 

2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

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Accountability: the Watchword of the GOP

I'd like to cuff that smug smirk off his lying face.

This is the game. Does this pasty gang of degenerates look like they're interested in playing politics? No. They're in the war against the republic. They actually laughed at a reference to the insurrection then shouted down the questioner.

Maybe I'm off the deep end, but I think the political discussion on this thread about the implications of who gets elected speaker from this bubbling cess pool are sort of stuck in the past. There are no GOPs (maybe a few, I guess) at all interested in becoming more moderate. 

These are defenders of rebellion. The do so in the clip above. These are constant liars. These people have no policy agenda other than painting Dems as dangerous enemies of the country and collecting on the fear and hate they create. And they don't give a fuck about the interests or health of this country.

The US would not miss a single one of these weasles who might emigrate away to another country or an incinerator somewhere. Not a single person in that picture is worth the skid mark on a homeless man's underwear. 

So dealing with them or hoping for something good from them is futility. The only answer is removing them from power. Peaceful means remain available.

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I don't think anyone here expects a Speaker to be approved that's worth a damn. More to the point, I don't think anyone here expects the GOP to approve a Speaker.

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25 minutes ago, tokamak said:

Wow, what backbone. What principles. I'm in awe of their steely resolve.

That’s the thing.  In that party you either get steely resolve or unity, it’s not possible to have both.  You either have principles with a splintered party full of chaos or you have a united party with a complete lack of moral character.  
 

“That’s some catch, that Catch 22.”

2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

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But he looks nice and smiles so the shit ass media will eat that up 

Oh, so he's CRAZY crazy

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The congressman who represents northwest Louisiana said Tuesday that California atheists are trying to spy on Christian student groups at a Bossier Parish high school.

U.S Rep. Mike Johnson, the first-term Republican representing Louisiana's 4th Congressional District, claimed that what he described as "atheist litigation groups" in California were trying to get hidden video of Christian student activities at Benton High School.

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1 minute ago, Zonahorn said:

 

Dave's got a schtick, I'll give him that.

14 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

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I don't think anyone here expects a Speaker to be approved that's worth a damn. More to the point, I don't think anyone here expects the GOP to approve a Speaker.

...ok I was a little behind the times when I wrote this things move fast and i'm old ok???

It really does cement in stone that the Moderate Republican Party is gone, forever. Very scary.  

190+ votes for Johnson. No R has voted for anyone other than Johnson. He has this sewn up.

This is the best the R's can do - a nobody from Louisiana that parrots the far right line but does so with a smile (which apparently is something to brag about for the R party). 

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2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

It really does cement in stone that the Moderate Republican Party is gone, forever. Very scary.  

 

Yeah.

 

2 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

190+ votes for Johnson. No R has voted for anyone other than Johnson. He has this sewn up.

 

The moderates have either resigned themselves to the fact maga is fully in control now, or have resigned themselves that they more than likely will lose the house next fall, no matter who sits in the chair.

 

 

Fuck this shit.  We should go all trappers law on the Republican Party. They are insane.  

48 minutes ago, tokamak said:

Let me get this straight:

  1. Emmer beat this guy fair and square in the conference vote
  2. Far right immediately says no way to Emmer
  3. Everyone who voted for Emmer over Johnson ("moderates" lol): "ok, that's fine"

Wow, what backbone. What principles. I'm in awe of their steely resolve.

Agree, seems like a pretty big flex by the MAGAt caucus

CSB: my mom and dad were  classmates with and graduated in the same class from the naval academy as representative Sheryl

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