Trump Enslavement Syndrome - Orange man good. /r/The_Donald and any public demonstration of rabid pro-Trump enthusiasm in spite of all reason.

This is ultimately just another case study in how politicians will eat one another alive (even former "friends") to secure power
In the game of statecraft, there are no friends; there are no enemies; there are only interests, purely and simply. Henry Kissinger said something of this many years ago and it will hold forever true.
 
Matt forget to put on makeup and a clown nose.

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In the meantime, Kevin McCarthy still hasn't been elected Speaker of the House, even with Trump's endorsement. This is getting absurd. 11 votes, still no speaker.
If they don't get their shit together someone is going to broker a deal with the Democrats and then you'll have a Republican House Speaker beholden to the other party, which would be a humiliating failure.
 
Conservative co-workers of mine say the Republicans are pretending to be divided, and that they will unite by voting DeSantis as Speaker, because right-wingers like DeSantis more than Trump right now. DeSantis will then give Trump the position.

4D chess, I guess?
There's no actual legal requirement the Speaker be a Member of the House. It's never actually happened though it's not too uncommon for protest votes like that to be cast. You couldn't just give it to Trump, though. Maybe he could appoint him Speaker pro tem and just never reclaim the title back.
 
Conservative co-workers of mine say the Republicans are pretending to be divided, and that they will unite by voting DeSantis as Speaker, because right-wingers like DeSantis more than Trump right now. DeSantis will then give Trump the position.

4D chess, I guess?
After what Trump said about DeSantis after the last election, and how Trumps popularity is waning fast, why on Earth would DeSantis do anything for him?
 
After what Trump said about DeSantis after the last election, and how Trumps popularity is waning fast, why on Earth would DeSantis do anything for him?

They think DeSantis will "get in line" and come to his senses. It's basic EVERYBODY LOVES TRUMP OR THEY WILL INEVITABLY cope, for my co-workers at least.

Just some of the stuff I hear in the break room. I can only imagine the stuff I was not there for...
 
Sean Hannity had an interview with Lauren Boebert, one of the most prolific House critics to McCarthy's speakership. It's definitely one of the funniest Fox interviews I've seen in a while. Hannity (who thinks she's making the republicans look weak) is barely withholding his urge to rip into her. It gives off the impression of an angry parent scolding their unruly child


The most interesting part to me was around 3:30 when Hannity starts listing off a plethora of policies that McCarthy supports; Border security, government spending, Hunter Biden's dick, stuff like that. He then asks Boebert whether or not she's supportive of said policies and she agrees with all of them, but she still refuses to cast her vote for McCarthy because... reasons? I can't tell you. The way she words everything just makes it sound like she has a personal vendetta against him

Either she genuinely hates McCarthy with the rage of 1000 suns or she's such a shameless attention whore that she's willing to drag her own party through the mud just to keep the spotlight on her a little longer. Either way it's popcorn for us

Section 230 is worthless and should be replaced with a better law. I can't believe people defend it when they have the biggest possible look at the modern internet and how large companies or websites abuse every law in the book to be faggots.
your gay lol :julay:
 
Oh look, another fag who cares about internet stickers.
The west is saved, alongside his relationship to his immediate family and general home life, once the kiwi farms karma score rests comfortably somewhere around 10k, and every hat lodged against said score rising is a grievous wound. Woe betide those who doubt the life-changing power of karma scores
This is getting hilarious.
very true, almost sad that it's over but o well there's always next season
He then asks Boebert whether or not she's supportive of said policies and she agrees with all of them, but she still refuses to cast her vote for McCarthy because... reasons? I can't tell you.
It's somewhat easy to understand the reasons, unless you happen to be one of the incoming dolts. In essence, since the Trump caucus gave the GOP perhaps the worst midterm results in recorded history, said caucus now actually has enough votes to stonewall like this. Had the midterms gone like they normally are expected to - party out of power wins the house hand over fist - then these whining chaps would be nothing important.

The ability to hold this process up is historically unprecedented, because the founders never imagined people so stupid would get into office. Because the expected procedure is that the Trump caucus engages in some horse-trading, right? We'll agree if you drop this, we want this, yadda yadda yadda - they are the keystone thanks to their own bungling of the election, so they wield the bargaining power. Except... they don't really stand for anything, and they have no real policy to speak of. So they can't actually ask for concessions - Kevin is basically trying to guess at what they want, and has served up plenty of red meat.

Yet for the Trump caucus, giving in - to anything short of complete capitulation as if they represented the majority of the party's interests - is defeat, and anyways they're so ignorant about how government works that they think nothing is impacted by the house quite literally being unable to hold session. The way they've rationalized it is that they've "stopped government from passing bills the American people don't want or need," yadda yadda yadda... except they've also stopped the house from more routine, mundane authorizations and renewals and extensions of things that the people broadly do want. It still has not gotten through to them that most people (even those sympathetic to "the cause") regard the Jan 6th retards not as PATRIOTIC HEROES, but as clowns -- and it never will, because their districts' VERY intelligent populations will believe anything, so long as it's in the headlines of whatever evidently-infallibly source they trust. As-such, there is quite really no consequence at all for the political careers of most of the Trump caucus from this little stunt, though Boebert should probably have kept in mind how narrow her victory was.
 
The west is saved, alongside his relationship to his immediate family and general home life, once the kiwi farms karma score rests comfortably somewhere around 10k, and every hat lodged against said score rising is a grievous wound. Woe betide those who doubt the life-changing power of karma scores

very true, almost sad that it's over but o well there's always next season

It's somewhat easy to understand the reasons, unless you happen to be one of the incoming dolts. In essence, since the Trump caucus gave the GOP perhaps the worst midterm results in recorded history, said caucus now actually has enough votes to stonewall like this. Had the midterms gone like they normally are expected to - party out of power wins the house hand over fist - then these whining chaps would be nothing important.

The ability to hold this process up is historically unprecedented, because the founders never imagined people so stupid would get into office. Because the expected procedure is that the Trump caucus engages in some horse-trading, right? We'll agree if you drop this, we want this, yadda yadda yadda - they are the keystone thanks to their own bungling of the election, so they wield the bargaining power. Except... they don't really stand for anything, and they have no real policy to speak of. So they can't actually ask for concessions - Kevin is basically trying to guess at what they want, and has served up plenty of red meat.

Yet for the Trump caucus, giving in - to anything short of complete capitulation as if they represented the majority of the party's interests - is defeat, and anyways they're so ignorant about how government works that they think nothing is impacted by the house quite literally being unable to hold session. The way they've rationalized it is that they've "stopped government from passing bills the American people don't want or need," yadda yadda yadda... except they've also stopped the house from more routine, mundane authorizations and renewals and extensions of things that the people broadly do want. It still has not gotten through to them that most people (even those sympathetic to "the cause") regard the Jan 6th retards not as PATRIOTIC HEROES, but as clowns -- and it never will, because their districts' VERY intelligent populations will believe anything, so long as it's in the headlines of whatever evidently-infallibly source they trust. As-such, there is quite really no consequence at all for the political careers of most of the Trump caucus from this little stunt, though Boebert should probably have kept in mind how narrow her victory was.

You got what the right thinks about January 6 completely twisted. First of all, the thing was partly orchestrated by literal glow niggers or the guy giving instructions on camera to break the law would be in jail right now instead of being a free person that he is to this day. You ignore the fact that right wing people are cognizant of that because the left doesn't want to talk about it happening at all because the obfuscation of glow nigger involvement helps their narratives.

Second, I don't think anyone thinks the dolts that fell into a honey trap are "heroes," just that the protest/riot wasn't the 9/11/ Pearl Harbor/ISIS on steroids that the media/congress/twitter/etc. claim it was. People littered in a govrernment building that was once open to the public and some people went into as children. Wow really rough stuff that the left has done plenty of time on camera in state building protests. The only person who was actually really victimized by this event was the right wing woman shot in the head by the Cheney establishment goon's hench person. Gotta love how much the left loves the Cheneys now. lol

And you trust the government way too much honestly. They have a point about spending or we woudln't be marred in inflation right now which was caused by government spending. Not to mention that trusting congress to not fuck things up even more with new laws is foolhardy. What do you think would happen if the retarded corporate interests in congress that can barely use their phones actually got together to change how the internet works like they want to? From that point of view, yeah, mucking things up has some value.
 
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