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As sheer panic sets in, the "ReeEEeeEEee!!!" can be heard for miles.

As sheer panic sets in, the "ReeEEeeEEee!!!" can be heard for miles.

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Incestual Omar shouldn't even be in the USA and Shifty Schiff should be in prison. Good moves.

[–] • 0 pt

i really hate to type this out but omar is better in regards to israel than 99% of right-wing politicians.

this says more about how pathetic "right-wing" politicians are than anything, but yea.

[–] • 0 pt

Probably the only thing I like about Dems. And RFK jr

[–] • 2 pts

The cynical side of me is waiting to see what it will take for him to 'compromise' and allow them to stay on.

[–] • 1 pt

There is a cynic in all of us. If McCarthy falters, MAGA has the power to demand a new speaker vote.

[–] • 0 pt

MAGA has the power to demand a new speaker vote.

If they chose to use it instead of just going along with the grift, like they've been doing since getting elected.

[–] • 1 pt

Yes, many will be tested in this struggle. I think we are done supporting Paul Ryan chameleon types. I hope we have a true MAGA force keeping the House honest. Cleaning the House will be telling. Out with corrupt Dems chairing committees, in with constitutionalist MAGA chairing committees. That is what we want to see for starters.

[–] • 1 pt

I sincerely hope this is the start of some good things. (I'd cross my fingers but my unwanted companion Arth R. Itis won't let me.) I'll be hopeful just the same.

[–] • 0 pt

It's a very good start. There will be bumps in the road ahead but the House Rules are fixed to properly address them in this session.

My neighbor is 96, she knows Arth RItis too, really well.

[–] • 1 pt

Eric Swalwell shouldn't even be anywhere near the Capitol. Same for Schiff. They are worse than useless, they are scum.

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And Incestual Omar is a horrid, somalian slut. Disgusting and doesn't belong in the West. Drop her in a cargo crate on top of Hussein Soetoro, her master.

[–] • 0 pt

Wow, this will change everything. America is back

/s

[–] • 1 pt

You know there is no one change that will bring America back. Many changes are required. This is just the beginning phase of cleaning 1/6th of government (The House half of the Legislature).

[–] • 0 pt

Because of all the resistance to McCarthy within his own party, he’s trying to start off really strong to make people think that he’s actually a good guy. This is all just a show to try to win back favor.

[–] • 1 pt

He has to produce results on his list of written promises or his days as speaker are numbered. Once he has fulfilled the list, we will see what direction he takes. MAGA will still control the switch to demand a new speaker vote if he strarts to pull shenanigans.

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Removing them provides him cover to say “See? I’m really a conservative!”

But because he is a uniparty swamp creature, he’ll just undermine the cause of freedom through other avenues.

I’ve said it for a long time, but at least with democrats, they’re honest about who and what they are. They don’t even try to hide that they’re total pieces of communist shit. It’s the republicans who will misrepresent themselves to get your vote and then fuck you in the ass at the first opportunity.

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We've seen it happen over and over. This time is different, don't forget the MAGA folks still hold the keys to McCarthy's speakership and can force a new speaker vote.

How this works out we will see, but the GOPe fought 14 rounds against it until they didn't. I think it has teeth.

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Yep.. I'm still trying to decide what I think about the holdouts who eventually capitulated. I've read (and already assumed) that the swamp leadership was threatening to end careers and basically keep any positions of power (committee positions, etc.) out of the hands of the holdouts.

But then, what about the fact that (in theory at least) the only people who can "end a politician's career" to begin with are the voters? So then why should the holdouts even give a fuck about swamp threats?

The entire system has been corrupted and is rigged... so if you're a congressman who actually gives a shit about doing the right thing, I can see why/how you'd have to "play the game" within the current system to at least some extent...but then that's also precisely the problem. And then where's the line between "playing the game" to an acceptable degree to achieve things that you need to achieve to be considered at all effective VS "playing the game" because you've been defeated and are now owned by the very fucksticks you went there to fight in the first place?

And if the MAGA folks hold the key to the speakership, as you say, then what the fuck just happened? I know Trump was endorsing the guy, and I can't even begin to understand why... McCarthy was undermining Trump as much as any other swamp rat was, as far as I can tell.

[–] • 0 pt

Politics make strange bedfellows.

The threats against careers, funding, primaries, loss of chairs and memberships did not deter the holdouts. Those threats came early in the voting, first day I believe.

Trump endorsing McCarthy prevented the Dems from collaborating with the GOPe to support him. Trump knew the 20 holdouts would succeed and McCarthy would relent to demands, so Trump supported him because McCarthy would eventually become speaker after McCarthy's capitulation. Trump/MAGA had the GOPe in checkmate before the first vote. They knew what rules must be changed, chairs controlled to achieve what is needed within the House in the next two years. Once they had that, they allowed McCarthy to win the vote. (Gaetz & others voted "present").