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Wayne Knight posted:McCarthy should send enough of his votes home such that the HFC crazies have to decide between a republican speaker or a democratic one. This is what he would do if he had balls.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Compromise candidate beginning to be floated publicly by a completely unsurprising person This is a miscalculation on her part. I lived in Anchorage and R&D coalitions do work in Alaska, but it's because Alaska has its own identity separate from the lower 48, so national parties don't matter as much as someone's reputation. That's not something you can just drop in and automatically make work in the U.S. Congress.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:McCarthy has no path to speaker and he will be the last person in Washington to realize this look at this guy discounting the meteor scenario
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Robviously posted:Honestly the HFC probably prefers Jeffries because they can at least argue that they "need to fix things." They ran on changing the culture in Washington and now they are the culture in Washington. They know that they need to keep the frenzy going to survive but that doesn't square the circle when it comes to a functioning government. They are a cudgel and know they need someone to keep swinging at. Or they actually believe the poo poo they're advocating in which case just lol. I can't emphasize enough that the HFC is basically the most fascist part of the Republican party and in no way will ever side with the Democratic Party on anything to give them any power whatsoever.
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So the breaking news deal was an agreement to continue humiliatingly McCarthy? Truly the king of negotiators.
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Anyone remember the Looney Tunes cartoon called "Early to Bet"? The gambling bug after putting the cat through hell from losing at Gin is like, "He can't lose ALL the time, or can he?" Yeah this is that. 
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-Blackadder- posted:This is a miscalculation on her part. She's signaling, almost certainly with leadership's agreement, that there are options other than McCarthy, Jeffries, or an unending hostage crisis instigated by the HFC.
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Ha, the clerk was like, “what is this BS, are you nominating someone or just giving a speech?”
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Piell posted:https://twitter.com/G_Slattery/status/1611135448428208129?s=20&t=NpH_Rw-1tpvKIbGycoYVbw Breaking news I'm only going to poo poo PART of my pants
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Piell posted:ANOTHER VOTE Reloading on x-com without realizing I set the random seed generator to fixed.
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Fox News' main headline in all this is "Dems keep handing votes to Jeffries who also has a history of denying elections". loving shameless.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I can't emphasize enough that the HFC is basically the most fascist part of the Republican party and in no way will ever side with the Democratic Party on anything to give them any power whatsoever. But there is a nonzero chance of them handing Democrats power through sheer stupidity and unforced errors. Like they could lock their colleagues in the bathroom for some kind of tortured metaphor that only makes sense to them and accidentally give the Democrats a temporary majority. And don’t you dare say this scenario is too stupid to happen after everything we’ve seen. Sure it won’t happen, but we now live in a world where it’s plausible.
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Lmao what the hell was the point of him saying that none of his constituents want to balance the budget
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Caros posted:Reloading on x-com without realizing I set the random seed generator to fixed. Thinking you're playing a Bethesda game when you're playing an Obsidian game.
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HPanda posted:But there is a nonzero chance of them handing Democrats power through sheer stupidity and unforced errors. Or a few of them leave thinking that voting was done for the day and want to get ready for their appearance on Fox/OANN/*Insert other right-wing propaganda machine here*.
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"I've had literally zero of my constituents asking me to cut spending. That's why we need to cut spending" is literally a thing this guy said
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And then what happened? Expelling the progressives was a great move, no bad consequences.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I can't emphasize enough that the HFC is basically the most fascist part of the Republican party and in no way will ever side with the Democratic Party on anything to give them any power whatsoever. It depends on how you mean it. They won't vote for Democrats, but they probably would prefer Jeffries winning to McCarthy. In the first case they could give speeches about how the failing swamp Republicans threw the house to the Democrats instead of accepting the Trump movement and in the second they would look like losers. They just wouldn't do anything to make it happen. The divide in the Republican party isn't really over how far right you should be, it's more like the extent to which a member of congress has the same job as Ben Shapiro. edit: I mean the freedom caucus did just give Democrats two house seats by primarying the moderate incumbents with nazis.
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Ravenfood posted:Fox News' main headline in all this is "Dems keep handing votes to Jeffries who also has a history of denying elections". Am I right in assuming that the election or elections that he denied involved The Decider?
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Youth Decay posted:This is what he would do if he had balls. Or any cunning
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Gyges posted:She's signaling, almost certainly with leadership's agreement, that there are options other than McCarthy, Jeffries, or an unending hostage crisis instigated by the HFC. Hopefully. If Jeffries didn't give a speech to the freshmen that included, "if this is your first year in the U.S. Congress, then welcome to the U.S. Congress, keep your mouth shut until you've been here at least another year", then he's not doing his job.
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as his former constituent I must say that Good is an rear end in a top hat he also has big JEB! energy
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Let's have some applause for that! two people clapped
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Who the gently caress is this rear end in a top hat even nominating? 
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How many people have lost elections for President and Speaker before?
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Youth Decay posted:as his former constituent I must say that Good is an rear end in a top hat He should change his name to Bob Bad!
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nine-gear crow posted:Who the gently caress is this rear end in a top hat even nominating? He's finally mentioned Kevin Hern, so this run we've got McCarthy TRUMP and Hern on the R list, no Donalds unless I missed the nomination?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:He should change his name to Bob Bad! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Goodlatte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Good
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How pissed must Trump be that Good went off about "we need a BUSINESSMAN as Speaker of the House" and he didn't mean Trump
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El Spamo posted:One of the demands could be to strip naked on the floor of the house and slather his body with nutella and marshmallow fluff while singing "nearer, my god, to thee" and after this debasing humiliation KMC would still lose. Not technically against House rules rn!
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