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Blue Footed Booby posted:I think he also voted to codify same-sex marriage into law. He's got zero chance. His Wikipedia page indicates he’s a run of the mill GOP monster on basically everything so that would surprise me. He tried to ban same sex marriage at one point at the federal level.
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Piell posted:26 against Emmer, no chance he becomes Speaker unless something major changes For a party that despises "socialism" they sure love being publicly owned.
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Oct 24, 2023 20:25
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Trump is such a dick lmfao https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1716887504241197079
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Angry_Ed posted:For a party that despises "socialism" they sure love being publicly owned. Look, guys, let's try this. We all agree in advance *not* to betray each other. Then we vote! So long as nobody defects, problem solved! What's this about a "dilemma"?
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This House dilemma illustrates how Trump has just enough die-hard believers to totally screw the GOP. He can take 5-10% off of any Republican nationwide with a "Truth" post, and they all know it.
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Seph posted:Isn’t Emmer the “good” one who voted to certify the 2020 election? He’s probably the best we can realistically hope for. Which means he doesn’t have a chance in hell of getting elected. He's not one of the good ones, he just thought the folks who stormed the Capitol were a little gauche. Hilariously for the mockery he's getting now, he was the first "big" Minnesota elected Republican on board with Trump while his counterparts were nevertrumping
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Oct 24, 2023 20:35
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The only way forward for the GOP is to align with the Dems for a coalition and that will never happen thanks to die hards at home and in their caucus so here we go, no speaker until 2025 or until the corporate overlords tell them otherwise
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Oct 24, 2023 20:37
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Spiffster posted:The only way forward for the GOP is to align with the Dems for a coalition and that will never happen thanks to die hards at home and in their caucus so here we go, no speaker until 2025 or until the corporate overlords tell them otherwise Assuming we go into government shutdown, what's the next obvious break point after that? Because that's what I think is gonna happen. Once we get deep into a shutdown, the next crisis after that, five Republicans either change parties or vote "present."
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:His Wikipedia page indicates he’s a run of the mill GOP monster on basically everything so that would surprise me. He tried to ban same sex marriage at one point at the federal level. NPR had the House minority whip on this afternoon and was really pushing the "but you Dems should loooooove a chance to work with an ~*actual moderate Republican*~ like Emmer, why won't you pledge to support him?" and for once they had a spine and kept replying essentially "I don't give a poo poo about helping these idiots out of the septic tank they voluntarily belly-flopped into, get wrecked."
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Spiffster posted:The only way forward for the GOP is to align with the Dems for a coalition and that will never happen thanks to die hards at home and in their caucus so here we go, no speaker until 2025 or until the corporate overlords tell them otherwise
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Spiffster posted:The only way forward for the GOP is to align with the Dems for a coalition and that will never happen thanks to die hards at home and in their caucus so here we go, no speaker until 2025 or until the corporate overlords tell them otherwise I still think the most likely end is a deal where the Speaker allows a handful of designated clean bills to the floor for a vote, and in exchange gets like 10-20 "defector" Democrats to vote for them. I think barely limping along for a year by funding the government, and a couple other things, while Republicans fist fight each other is more valuable to the Democrats than either a real coalition or minority Speaker. Edit: The problem for the corporate overlords is they flew too close to the sun, and the new rules for money in politics mean that politicians are bound to a single billionaire lunatic instead of the broader big money pipeline. Which in effect means they care more about the virtues of raw milk than corporate profits, because most billionaires are libertarian idiots who believe they're self made geniuses. Gyges fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Captain_Maclaine posted:NPR had the House minority whip on this afternoon and was really pushing the "but you Dems should loooooove a chance to work with an ~*actual moderate Republican*~ like Emmer, why won't you pledge to support him?" and for once they had a spine and kept replying essentially "I don't give a poo poo about helping these idiots out of the septic tank they voluntarily belly-flopped into, get wrecked." "But but but, this is all the democrats fault, because they voted to get rid of McCarthy! This is on them!" - Party of Personal Responsibility (tm)
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Oct 24, 2023 21:03
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I do love how the Republicans keep crying for Dems to vote for one of them in the name of ~bipartisanship~ meanwhile, none of them are willing to vote for the frontrunner in each Speaker vote.
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Warhol had it slightly wrong. In the future, everybody will be the GOP Candidate for Speaker for 15 minutes. Or, for our trad games fans: "In the grim dorkness of the far pressent, there is no peace, only GOP Speaker Votes"
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Assuming we go into government shutdown, what's the next obvious break point after that? The big one is air traffic control. A shutdown would mean furloughing a bunch of existing employees and no more training new ATC employees. There is already an ATC shortage so delays would be pretty immediate and eventually it would get to the point where flights need to be grounded.
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Seph posted:The big one is air traffic control. A shutdown would mean furloughing a bunch of existing employees and no more training new ATC employees. There is already an ATC shortage so delays would be pretty immediate and eventually it would get to the point where flights need to be grounded. The threat of this happening helped end the previous shutdown, yeah. Government shutdowns are a harsh lesson for everyone in what is and is not a function of the government and how many of them are basic planks of society, which you'd think would make the GOP want to avoid them but welp
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haveblue posted:The threat of this happening helped end the previous shutdown, yeah. Government shutdowns are a harsh lesson for everyone in what is and is not a function of the government and how many of them are basic planks of society, which you'd think would make the GOP want to avoid them but welp Sounds an awful lot like SOCIALISM to me, you commies!
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haveblue posted:The threat of this happening helped end the previous shutdown, yeah. Government shutdowns are a harsh lesson for everyone in what is and is not a function of the government and how many of them are basic planks of society, which you'd think would make the GOP want to avoid them but welp Usually, the GOP has been smart and made sure the military and vets got paid to make sure people didn't see the impact right away.
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Cimber posted:"But but but, this is all the democrats fault, because they voted to get rid of McCarthy! This is on them!" - Party of Personal Responsibility (tm) The idiot doing the interview tried a weaselly line like that too, and got shot down with "Chuckles offered us precisely zip to back him, what you think we should have voted in support out of the goodness of our hearts?"
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https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1716913458741187065 Emmer has thrown in the towel, onto the next unlucky contestant
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So just to clarify, the Republican that had been winning their internal vote bowed out to this chucklefuck, right? Edit: Whoops, misread the earlier post, it was the people in second and third that apparently dropped to try to give the person in 1st enough votes. Randalor fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1716913458741187065 Whelp, back to the drawing board for the next whipping boy.
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Just one more shot, bro, surely the next internal vote will produce a speaker https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1716915985515749662
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we are seeing, in real time, people believing that surely the leopards won't eat their face
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The issue is as a result of these failed speaker votes, there is so much bad blood between the different wings of the party that there will always be a few defectors.
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1716913458741187065 He was the Speaker-Designate for four hours and fifteen minutes, or approximately 0.016 scaramuccis.
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The candidacies will shorten until every Republican is vibrating between candidate and not candidate thousands of times per second. This will be known as the Red Sky event
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START THE CLOCK https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1716923799055315210
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Oct 24, 2023 22:07
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I announce my bid for Speaker of the House.
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Slowpoke! posted:I announce my bid for Speaker of the House. THIS USER WAS BANNED FOR BEING A RINO
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mannerup posted:think Republicans need to follow Trump's advice and vote for Jesus Christ as speaker, let the courts decide on the legality of it A Palestinian, in this political climate!?
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mannerup posted:think Republicans need to follow Trump's advice and vote for Jesus Christ as speaker, let the courts decide on the legality of it He would tell Israel "those who live by the sword die by the sword", everyone right of center would call him an anti-Semite, he would remind everyone he is a Jew, then he'd be immediately expelled from the chair.
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Quorum posted:He was the Speaker-Designate for four hours and fifteen minutes, or approximately 0.016 scaramuccis. 16 millimoochs
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mannerup posted:https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1716931105604202891 Assistant (to the) Speaker of the House?
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mannerup posted:https://twitter.com/juliegraceb/status/1716931105604202891 Jordan as rear end speaker huh
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Why not just go with a weekly competition? Whoever kicks Gaetz in the balls the hardest gets the job.
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Assistant Speaker of the House, or Assistant TO THE Speaker of the House? A role that only existed since 2011 and only on the Democratic party side, I can't wait for me to hear young lanyard-laden stuffed shirts tell me how its a real and serious role to be respected while I dodge garbage that washed up on the global warming tidal flow in three decades.
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