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America - The Official Thread
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Not to mention the doors that have pushbars with big red signs on them saying the alarm will go off if the door is opened and that the bar has to be held down for about 15 seconds for the door to open and the door emits a loud angry buzzer when the bar is held down... and yet at least once a week someone decides that just because that door goes direct to the parking lot, they would rather use that than go through the front door like everyone else.
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The House of Representatives has become professional wrestling.
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The leopards have decided to eat their own faces. The elephants in the room would rather have the entire country suffer than compromise.
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"Politics is the entertainment branch of government." I think that was Zappa.
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Other than McCarthy getting elected again...which seems...hard...is there even a candidate who could plausibly get a majority approval? I'm guessing this will culminate in a lot of cringey, kayfabe grandstanding, somebody will get hit with a folding metal chair, Trump will make an appearance in some capacity, there will be loud roars from the crowd and Vince McMahon will emerge as the Speaker.
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I'm assuming the replacement will be even worse. That's probably a safe bet.
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I honestly don't see how a replacement even materializes considering how difficult it was for McCarthy to get the job in the first place.
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I think the 10-ish Republicans who know that they are an edited soundbite about abortion away from being catapulted out of office in 12 months (like the ones that flipped in New York) will work with Democrats to elect a Speaker before Republicans manage anything by themselves this time.
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McCarthy is vermin and so it makes sense that Democrats would vote to give the bitch the boot, actually. The conservative commentariat dooking their drawers over Democrats not voting in favor of McCarthy retaining the Speakership is emblematic of modern American conservatism as mental illness.
Breathless they were about Democrats' Senate majority when initiatives that garnered support from all but two members would fail because Republicans unanimously voted against. "Democrats should work with dissenters in the party," they'd chime in ad nauseum, but, for whatever reason, the same doesn't apply here to Republicans in the House. It's idiotic.
Remember that this was baked in from the very start with the concessions McCarthy made to secure the Speakership in the first place. He wanted the power and he was willing to be so compromised to get it.
Now it took a small minority of eight House Republican dissenters to see to McCarthy's ouster, but an even smaller minority of just five party members could see to it that someone at least agreeable to House Democrats as a whole replaces him, and more could still place someone that doesn't garner unanimous [begrudging] support from the opposition party...but the pundit class doesn't want to talk about that.
Breathless they were about Democrats' Senate majority when initiatives that garnered support from all but two members would fail because Republicans unanimously voted against. "Democrats should work with dissenters in the party," they'd chime in ad nauseum, but, for whatever reason, the same doesn't apply here to Republicans in the House. It's idiotic.
Remember that this was baked in from the very start with the concessions McCarthy made to secure the Speakership in the first place. He wanted the power and he was willing to be so compromised to get it.
Now it took a small minority of eight House Republican dissenters to see to McCarthy's ouster, but an even smaller minority of just five party members could see to it that someone at least agreeable to House Democrats as a whole replaces him, and more could still place someone that doesn't garner unanimous [begrudging] support from the opposition party...but the pundit class doesn't want to talk about that.
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For those keeping track, it's that one's first time back in this subforum since the post of mine responding to their various bitchfits including my assertion that their "groomer" projection may be good reason to check their various devices for child sexual abuse material. Weird.
Since that post, the lawsuit they mentioned, in which a school district was defending itself against the claim that a counselor was transitioning a student without parental permission, has been dismissed by a federal judge because no law required such permission to respect preferred pronouns (like I indicated in my response) and the same district's rule requiring faculty out students to their parents, imposed following the lawsuit, was struck down as unconstitutional (compelled speech isn't free speech)...and it's good policy not to anyway because conservatives tend to beat children for nonconformity.
Since that post, the lawsuit they mentioned, in which a school district was defending itself against the claim that a counselor was transitioning a student without parental permission, has been dismissed by a federal judge because no law required such permission to respect preferred pronouns (like I indicated in my response) and the same district's rule requiring faculty out students to their parents, imposed following the lawsuit, was struck down as unconstitutional (compelled speech isn't free speech)...and it's good policy not to anyway because conservatives tend to beat children for nonconformity.
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What do you mean? Jim Jordan is very conservative.
His leadership would be beneficial for everyone, whether they like it, or not.
Think of it like a parent telling their kid they can't do what they want to do. They may not like it, but it's for their own good.
When they grow up, and can understand the real world, they'll realize it.
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Jim Jordan is functionally stupid and so is Scalise. Anyone who denies climate change is happening shouldn't be in charge of anything that sets environmental policy. You can debate the reason why climate change is occurring and how much humans play a role in it, but if you deny it's happening, you're a special kind of stupid.
Jordan also wants a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. On a list of things that should be added to the Constitution, that ranks so far down on the list that it would be at the end of a CVS receipt.
We don't need an ultra conservative speaker, we need a moderate Republican who will actually get the House to do something beneficial. We're staring at a government shut down and the children in Washington can't play nice because they're too busy worrying about being reelected than actually making the country run.
Jordan also wants a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. On a list of things that should be added to the Constitution, that ranks so far down on the list that it would be at the end of a CVS receipt.
We don't need an ultra conservative speaker, we need a moderate Republican who will actually get the House to do something beneficial. We're staring at a government shut down and the children in Washington can't play nice because they're too busy worrying about being reelected than actually making the country run.
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A man seeking Wisconsin's governor illegally brought guns to the state Capitol — twice in one day
A man illegally brought a loaded handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers, and returned at night with an assault rifle after posting bail, police said.
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