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Post by jsquare on Oct 4, 2023 15:26:42 GMT -5
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Oct 5, 2023 20:08:47 GMT -5
lol @ Trump as Speaker
oh yeah, that'll work!!
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Post by HOLIDAY on Oct 5, 2023 20:53:22 GMT -5
Are these the deep snd well-meaning discussions that you people just could not have because of all the trolls? What a wonderful example of what these discussions can be. Leading the charge is beached whale.
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Post by jsquare on Oct 5, 2023 20:54:43 GMT -5
Are these the deep snd well-meaning discussions that you people just could not have because of all the trolls? What a wonderful example of what these discussions can be. Leading the charge is beached whale. Ya just can’t handle the truth.
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Post by bobinmd on Oct 6, 2023 7:20:16 GMT -5
Are these the deep snd well-meaning discussions that you people just could not have because of all the trolls? What a wonderful example of what these discussions can be. Leading the charge is beached whale. Ya just can’t handle the truth. Who are these “you people” he keeps referring to?
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Post by Mocha on Oct 6, 2023 15:46:15 GMT -5
The irony, McCarthy opened an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden and now one of them is out of a job.
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Post by mervinswerved on Oct 11, 2023 7:54:50 GMT -5
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Post by jsquare on Oct 11, 2023 8:35:25 GMT -5
What an absolute sh!t show.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 11, 2023 14:29:41 GMT -5
So, I hear McCarthy is telling people he would take the job again if they can't settle on anybody else to do it.
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Post by jsquare on Oct 11, 2023 15:33:02 GMT -5
Jim Jordan, another failed, Trump endorsed, nominee. But ya, Trump is going to win in 2024. Not going to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2023 15:55:53 GMT -5
Jim Jordan, another failed, Trump endorsed, nominee. But ya, Trump is going to win in 2024. Not going to happen. I came here to post how thrilled I am that Trump's endorsee did not win. I still think Trump could win the electorate though.
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Post by jsquare on Oct 11, 2023 16:09:38 GMT -5
Jim Jordan, another failed, Trump endorsed, nominee. But ya, Trump is going to win in 2024. Not going to happen. I came here to post how thrilled I am that Trump's endorsee did not win. I still think Trump could win the electorate though. He certainly could. I don't think he will. By the time the election rolls around my guess is he will be a convicted felon.
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Oct 11, 2023 17:32:39 GMT -5
History repeating itself.
GOP meets in conference. GOP selects a preferred Speaker.
McCarthy, Scalise, JOrdon. there are all conservative by any definition
that's not good enfough for...
Ultra-DingBat wing of about 10 members who basically want to be the tail that wags the dog of a 435 member organization, and using a slim majority as the baseball bat for veto power.
So....here we are.....another maybe record setting vote for Speaker. hey maybe McCarthy's record 15 or so votes will be exceeded and Scalise makes a deal only to be vacated in 2 months like McCarthy
At some point, the few moderate GOPs should just say screw these guys, and threaten to vote for a Dem Speaker, maybe that nuclear threat will get these dingbats to their senses. These mods at this rate are gonna be voted out because their own party doesn't seem to want to appeal to split districts.
It's pretty clear they want a government shutdown and nothing else. So the GOP leaders have to actually just say screw it, shutdown, consequences be dammned, or cut a deal with Dems (wow, compromise) and keep a functioning government. And after compromise, they'll join that long line of GOP leaders that ended up in the GOP waste bin when one is not suficiently 'pure' whatever 'pure' is.
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Oct 11, 2023 17:47:03 GMT -5
at this point, the GOP leadership should schedule votes
and simply keep having votes over and over and over and over and over, 5 or 6 dissents each time, simply shame these megalomaniacs to the entire country. Keep the Congress in session whether it's 5, 15, 25, 505 tries, lock the doors, no bathroom or food breaks, let %*$# and piss and vomit in the room pile up until Congress members they either pass away from gangrene or whatever. Let these dingbats and the mods and ultra-dingbats start shouting and yelling at each other. maybe fisticuffs.. They want to stop the government, so let them do it and make a spectacle of it.
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 11, 2023 18:04:55 GMT -5
at this point, the GOP leadership should schedule votes and simply keep having votes over and over and over and over and over, 5 or 6 dissents each time, simply shame these megalomaniacs to the entire country. That's ... not the greatest plan, especially for the GOP. For one thing, forcing someone to take a public stance can then lock them into it. People don't like to be made to back down in public, and the holdouts actually have some leverage here. Keep in mind that they only people they have to satisfy in order to get re-elected is the people in their own districts. Now, if they actually wanted to get anything done in Congress, they would need to worry about not pissing off everyone else. But if their main goal is just to destroy the functioning government, an impasse is actually to their advantage. The best outcome for the GOP is that they quietly get 217 GOP votes by using non-public pressure and promises. One interesting thing here (just like it was interesting in January) is that George Santos could buy himself some kind of immunity from being kicked out by trading his possibly vital vote.
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