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K1052

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Looking like the R moderate fold is headed to completion. Jordan probably going to be speaker, for all the good that's going to do.
 
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MrSquished

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Looking like the R moderate fold is headed to completion. Jordan probably going to be speaker, for all the good that's going to do.

well, as if we needed more proof that the entire republican party is a waste of decency and time. For a moment I thought there would be a small core of Republicans that would stand up for decency and honor, instead they are showing they have none. Even myself, who knows how evil the Republicans really are, was fooled into briefly thinking there would be enough to take an actual decent stand for something for once.

I was wrong.

The republican party is the enemy. Full stop. Every single last member.
 

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Knives out for the people at the top. Gym has no small number of skeletons in the locker room shower closet.
 
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SteveGrabowski

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Could you imagine if this were Ted Cruise in this situation in the house? Al Franken was on the YMH podcast some months ago, and when they asked him "who is the most disliked person in Congress," Franken blurted out OH TED CRUISE before they could even finish the question. He told a handful of awesome stories, involving himself and other GOPers, like Lindsey Graham (apparently Franken likes Ms Lindsey, personally), just trashing on Ted Cruise, and especially to his face. I think it was one of the GOPers that asked Franken to write some Ted Cruise jokes for her at some fancy dinner event. They even workshopped with Ted Cruise about how much shit they could pile on him, which he apparently enjoys, especially because he never seems to understand the jokes, haha.

And it's not a partisan opinion--literally everyone that has met Ted Cruise in life, especially in politics, absolutely hates that piece of shit. Apparently even his gaslit voters in Texas hate that horse manure if they ever have the misfortune of ever meeting him.

I'll never forget John Boehner: "I've never met a more miserable son of a bitch in my life than Ted Cruise."
Doesn't his own daughter hate him?
 
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MrSquished

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That'd def fair for some of them and the ones that actually sort of are have spines made of jello.
Yeah at this point if even I had a sliver of hope for the Republican party to come out of this mess with a bit of decency, and that's done. That party is just pure evil. If your spine is made of that much jelly to collaborate with the nut cases, Well you're all in the same boat now.
 
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I think they HAVE TO in order to prevent a Jeffries win (depending on # voting).
Problem is that a good amount of Republicans don’t want to reward the shit heads as in the party by electing “their” guy. They feel it’s rewarding the part of their party that caused this chaos.
Going to be interesting where this vote goes.

I predict it will fail and they will pivot towards making the temporary Speaker effectively the speaker by giving more power to him and he will effectively be the speaker sans title and they don’t have to be concerned about the terrorist part of their faction burning everything down.
 
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MrSquished

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Problem is that a good amount of Republicans don’t want to reward the shit heads as in the party by electing “their” guy. They feel it’s rewarding the part of their party that caused this chaos.
Going to be interesting where this vote goes.

I predict it will fail and they will pivot towards making the temporary Speaker effectively the speaker by giving more power to him and he will effectively be the speaker sans title and they don’t have to be concerned about the terrorist part of their faction burning everything down.

Reports are it is down to 10 or less holdouts. They will cave. You really think 5 republicans are going to hold the line for decency? It would have had to be quite a few more, and it's clear the GQP is 99% corrupt shitty people.
 

Indus

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Reports are it is down to 10 or less holdouts. They will cave. You really think 5 republicans are going to hold the line for decency? It would have had to be quite a few more, and it's clear the GQP is 99% corrupt shitty people.

It's the MAGA trump party.

No point pretending.. or you're in denial.

And it seems clear.. they don't want America.. they want Trumpistan.

Incoming shutdown lasting till next election proving America is broken and a national divorce should happen.

My fear is dems won't allow it so the pain will last a whole lot longer!
 

Muse

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Looking like the R moderate fold is headed to completion. Jordan probably going to be speaker, for all the good that's going to do.
Steve Schmidt excoriates Jordan and the 212 Rs of The House:

 
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Muse

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lol.. Lincoln Project strikes again! (Steve is a founding member)

"The Republican Congress isnt capable of running a Coffee stand much less the US govt"
A stinging point he makes early on is that Jordan as Speaker would be 2nd in line for the presidency and he's utterly incapable of assuming its responsibilities. His actions & reactions in time of crisis would certainly be catastrophic.
 
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Pens1566

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I have to think this is a really big risk on his part. He's not guaranteed to get the # of votes he needs. And it increases the target on his back related to the OSU locker room shenanigans. This might be a great lesson in "stay in your lane".
 
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Muse

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Reality is the House is a classic case what a lack of diversity gets you. Why do you people hate it so much
I had to read that a few times to figure out what you were saying. Evidently you mean diversity, why do the Rs hate it. Well, thinking, people who are out there on the diversity scale tend to shy away from those who do not embrace diversity, eh? Common sense. Therefore the Democratic Party, those who represent and those who vote for their candidates are more diverse.

Where I live almost nobody votes R! I have never in my life. It's hell of diverse here, so much so that I have the sense that everybody is in the minority, unless you lump together various constituencies.
 
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