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Well they voted three ballots and still couldn't elect a Speaker, then they gave up until tomorrow. They have to figure that out, first. Republicans truly have lost the ability to govern.
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Jan 4, 2023 00:15
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Dr. Faustus posted:Well they voted three ballots and still couldn't elect a Speaker, then they gave up until tomorrow. They have to figure that out, first. I spent most of the afternoon laughing very loudly whenever I remembered the current technical front runner is Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn, NY.
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Dennis Hastert is just sitting next to his phone, waiting for the call to come back for his old job.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Dennis Hastert is just sitting next to his phone, waiting for the call to come back for his old job. I guarantee you they have the reserves of cognitive dissonance to do that.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Well they voted three ballots and still couldn't elect a Speaker, then they gave up until tomorrow. They have to figure that out, first. Eh, not really anything "lost" for some of these poo poo heads. The hardcore MAGA assholes and Freedom Caucus whack jobs are perfectly OK with exactly this level of governance. They'll campaign on it to out-conservative any challengers in the only thing they fear, a primary.
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bird food bathtub posted:Eh, not really anything "lost" for some of these poo poo heads. The hardcore MAGA assholes and Freedom Caucus whack jobs are perfectly OK with exactly this level of governance. They'll campaign on it to out-conservative any challengers in the only thing they fear, a primary. Exactly. Which is loving awful for them as an organized body. Republican lock-step has been their greatest advantage since St Reagan brought it down the mountain, and this makes them look like a bunch of squabbling children who can’t even agree on silly formalities let alone actually do anything. In as much as stonewalling ever was good for them (doubtful) it was about looking like stalwart defenders of apple pie-personal responsibility. Republicans have been about appearances and bluster for a dozen years (minimum, to avoid quibbling) and this publicly outs them as incompetent blowhards when they really, really want to seem like plucky rebels. In conclusion : lol, indeed, lmao.
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Dr. Faustus posted:Well they voted three ballots and still couldn't elect a Speaker, then they gave up until tomorrow. They have to figure that out, first. We truly ended up in the dumbest timeline.
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Jan 4, 2023 02:40
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Xiahou Dun posted:Exactly. It wasn't Reagan it was Newt.
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And DeLay (the wall-eyed exterminator), and Hastert (needs no introduction). And it started with the Contract for America. That great sucking sound that followed was the great Brain Drain of 1994, when the process of purging any Republican with a spine commenced.
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Oracle posted:It wasn't Reagan it was Newt. No I meant Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment speech.
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Xiahou Dun posted:No I meant Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment speech. Meh, he only meant it to apply to him. Newt weaponized it and deployed it widely among the party as a whole.
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Oracle posted:Meh, he only meant it to apply to him. Newt weaponized it and deployed it widely among the party as a whole. O…kay? But I wanted to start from the very beginning of it instead of when it came into its power because that was the point of that sentence. Which I wrote to mean that and not the other thing. Do you often try to misinform people of their own intentions or is this just a thing you’re trying out. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Xiahou Dun posted:Exactly. Republican lock-step hasn't really been a thing for a while. Don't forget that eight years ago, the GOP House was so unmanageable that Boehner stepped down because he was sick of dealing with it - and his chosen successor, some guy named Kevin McCarthy, had his candidacy derailed by petty factional infighting. The GOP have been able to line up pretty consistently behind "owning the libs" since Obama, but they've actually been quite chaotic when they were the ones in power.
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Main Paineframe posted:Republican lock-step hasn't really been a thing for a while. Don't forget that eight years ago, the GOP House was so unmanageable that Boehner stepped down because he was sick of dealing with it - and his chosen successor, some guy named Kevin McCarthy, had his candidacy derailed by petty factional infighting. O word. I didn’t mean to imply that this was a new development. I was just happy with the continued in-fighting.
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Tayter Swift posted:Happy 2nd anniversary everyone It's fitting that the party which didn't want a government now cannot form one.
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2 years ago today I was sitting in my car waiting for my dogs to finish being spayed/neutered, flipping the gently caress out while listening to the radio and freaking out over texts with friends. It was such a surreal day, and it's been insane to watch CHUD coworkers go from complete silence, to lies about antifa being the real culprits, to dismissal of how big of a deal it was, etc. I am glad that at least some of the assholes involved got some consequences, but I am still waiting to see anyone with any authority in the situation face anything meaningful.
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I was jamming out with C-SPAN playing in the background and recorded this: https://m.soundcloud.com/snowcloud/c-span-jam
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Jan 6, 2023 18:14
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Ynglaur posted:It's fitting that the party which didn't want a government now cannot form one. Working as intended. Literally. That's precisely what their voters elected them to "do".
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Fuschia tude posted:Working as intended. Eh, I'd say their voters elected them to own the libs and attack their preferred target minorities. The billionaires and megacorporations that fund them though, yeah, useless paralysis is exactly what they want.
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bird food bathtub posted:Eh, I'd say their voters elected them to own the libs and attack their preferred target minorities. The billionaires and megacorporations that fund them though, yeah, useless paralysis is exactly what they want. Biden cannot pass a single piece of legislation if the house cannot operate. They are owning the libs, stopping tax increases, and preventing expansion of codified rights for minorities. Once the speaker is in place these twenty shitheads lose all their power to stop bipartisan efforts.
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Lager posted:2 years ago today I was sitting in my car waiting for my dogs to finish being spayed/neutered, flipping the gently caress out while listening to the radio and freaking out over texts with friends. It was such a surreal day, and it's been insane to watch CHUD coworkers go from complete silence, to lies about antifa being the real culprits, to dismissal of how big of a deal it was, etc. I am glad that at least some of the assholes involved got some consequences, but I am still waiting to see anyone with any authority in the situation face anything meaningful. 2 years ago today I caught wind of the insurrection almost immediately. I had just started a new job and my boss pinged me with a question - I told him to turn on CNN. About 5 minutes later, someone messaged the all-hands chat on Teams and the whole company kinda ground to a halt for the day.
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Lager posted:2 years ago today I was sitting in my car waiting for my dogs to finish being spayed/neutered, flipping the gently caress out while listening to the radio and freaking out over texts with friends. It was such a surreal day, and it's been insane to watch CHUD coworkers go from complete silence, to lies about antifa being the real culprits, to dismissal of how big of a deal it was, etc. I am glad that at least some of the assholes involved got some consequences, but I am still waiting to see anyone with any authority in the situation face anything meaningful. I was unemployed at the time and watched it unfold in real time via livestreams. That's why I get so pissed off at people saying it was fake, Antifa or selectively edited and largely people. I watched that poo poo with my own eyes, devoid of any media filter, that was streamed by people who totally thought they were reenacting 1776 and taking back the country. gently caress all of those assholes. If they were the million man march or BLM they'd still be bleaching blood off the building's steps and RWM would be heralding it as the second revolutionary war.
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My mom had just gotten home from cataract surgery that morning and kept waking up every few minutes saying "what the gently caress is going on down there?!" and zoning out again. I was still working from home so it was liveposting on discord and Teams all day, no work at all.
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Lager posted:2 years ago today I was sitting in my car waiting for my dogs to finish being spayed/neutered, flipping the gently caress out while listening to the radio and freaking out over texts with friends. It was such a surreal day, and it's been insane to watch CHUD coworkers go from complete silence, to lies about antifa being the real culprits, to dismissal of how big of a deal it was, etc. I am glad that at least some of the assholes involved got some consequences, but I am still waiting to see anyone with any authority in the situation face anything meaningful. watching conservativs sputter through a half dozen different half-rear end messaging attempts in short order was particularly surreal
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My wife was sleeping in that day, and I remember the first thing I said to her was something to the tune of "good morning, fascists are attempting to storm the capitol building."
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bird food bathtub posted:Eh, I'd say their voters elected them to own the libs and attack their preferred target minorities. The billionaires and megacorporations that fund them though, yeah, useless paralysis is exactly what they want. No. Megacorporations want a legislature and a functioning state that will do things like deregulate the things they want deregulated and keep the regulations that they do want kept- and yes, megacorporations do like some regulations. While some business leaders are right wing enough to be celebrating this, the vast majority are, at best, uneasy about the situation, hopeful it ends soon, and frustrated that so little will happen in the 118th.
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bird food bathtub posted:Eh, I'd say their voters elected them to own the libs and attack their preferred target minorities. The billionaires and megacorporations that fund them though, yeah, useless paralysis is exactly what they want. Megacorps do not want highly unstable markets due to congress not passing a basic budget.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:My wife was sleeping in that day, and I remember the first thing I said to her was something to the tune of "good morning, fascists are attempting to storm the capitol building." I had classes starting about noon that day and I told them to get out their laptops and work on something useful while i was  at a rate unknown to mankind
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mdemone posted:I had classes starting about noon that day and I told them to get out their laptops and work on something useful I have no idea how I could have gotten through that day if I'd had to teach while all of that was going down.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:watching conservativs sputter through a half dozen different half-rear end messaging attempts in short order was particularly surreal It was great watching this because hey chucklefucks, isn't this what you were rooting for?
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Captain_Maclaine posted:I have no idea how I could have gotten through that day if I'd had to teach while all of that was going down. I was telling a co worker "How the gently caress are we supposed to just keep working through the day like this is loving normal?" and then we just did
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Youth Decay posted:This won't actually hurt anything right? the rules may not even pass because the "moderate" GOP are loving pissed that this whole circus went on so long and hate the freedom cacuse. my guess is the rules fight goes on for a week or so. https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1611654535512002561?s=20&t=w1YpDtNTGxucElJLns_C4Q anyway, they are gonna try to do their own lovely comittees about trump and january 6th but the narrative is already lost at this point and i doubt the GOP has the brains to know how to spin it to get folks like my parents to believe it. PainterofCrap posted:And DeLay (the wall-eyed exterminator), and Hastert (needs no introduction). And it started with the Contract for America. That great sucking sound that followed was the great Brain Drain of 1994, when the process of purging any Republican with a spine commenced. exactly, all the smart folks, true belivers or oppertunists are mostly gone outside a few very safe seated token ones. their propoganda wing did too good a job it seems. Herstory Begins Now posted:I'm still kind of waiting to really see it consistently in action before I believe it fully, but most conservatives I encounter are over the obstructive 'burn it all down' poo poo and seem to have taken 'the dems overperformed because they did things that people wanted' as the clear message of the 2022 election. I saw people physically groaning at the house's first announcement that they want to investigate hunter's laptop. Obviously the die-hard trumpists are going to do whatever stupid poo poo that they're going to do, but there's genuinely a significant amount of the republican party at this point who are aware of how ill-advised republican strategy has been for the last 6 years (or in some POVs, as much as 15 years). Basically from that perspective: when Americans want a government that actually does stuff and isn't an embarrassing disaster, it's really bad to be the party known for obstructionism above all else. Doubly so if you're going to then go after women and minorities and queer people. oh yeah, as i have said before on here, my dads a conservstive leaning moderate and he loving hates all this poo poo and i talked to him yesterday over the phone about how loving stupid and nuts it is, hell, he is even starting to notice that my uncle is a full Q nutjob rear end in a top hat. he voted blue in the last 2 elections and probably future ones. the gop moderates do exist and probably do outnumber the chuds in sheer volume, but they arnt weird loud grognards and dont get involved, so yeah. lol
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