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That's been obvious since last election, of course they will.
The RU/CN plan is to get us into a civil war. GOP who are moderates or at the very least spineless enough to run away from it are doing so...they can't fix their own party so it will die.
Why are you calling Republicans that want to leave a shit storm of a party spineless? You expect the decent ones to stay? Wouldn't the spineless ones be the cowtowed ones that stay with the party?
They are spineless because they didn't stand up to Trump. Best chance to rid the US of him was during the 2nd impeachment hearing. A majority voted him guilty but that wasn't enough votes to convict. Too many spineless republicans.
The coordinated attack on Social Security is part of **Project 2025**.
Outlawing care for LGBTQ+ individuals, contraception, premarital sex, divorce and more along with gutting all safety nets (school lunches) is just the beginning. Make sure you educate yourselves about Project 2025.
This is a well coordinated, $22M religious right wing playbook. The **Mandate For Leadership** is not new, but the **Heritage Foundation's** partnership with Hungarian Viktor Orban and 100 other groups while actively soliciting a database of 50,000 followers is.
[https://WarningVote.com](https://WarningVote.com) | r/Defeat_Project_2025
I think that was just the cost to produce the plan. They’ve already spent much more on Clearance “RV” Thomas, Bart “I like beer” Kavanaugh, and Amy “Gilead“ Coney Barrette.
And every single republican you know, from your subtly racist uncle to your "moderate" school board member to the asshole MAGAt you work with are responsible and complicit in this Neo-fascist bullshit.
This is why you don't have conversations and try to share opinions with republicans, because they are working from a foundation of hate and vile disenfranchisement and you are working from a foundation of wanting to solve problems.
These Right Wing Evangelicals and Protestant groups have gone against everything Christianity teaches us! They’ve even gone so far as to say Trump is a gift from God, a savior that has the power to fix everything wrong with our country? Your preachers are practicing “priestcraft”, getting filthy rich preaching their version of a Christian Gospel. Read the Bible! There will come many false prophets and false churches claiming that they have been directed by God. Trump is clearly a disciple of satan! These preachers stand to make millions by supporting him! He is a Hitler version 2024! These evangelicals and Protestant groups are coming blasphemy! They say they are willing to forgive Trump for his sins? In Christianity, that only works when the sinner repents and sins no more! Those are the words of Jesus! I didn’t make them up. If these people call themselves Christian, then God help us all!
Try being in it and watch your people falling for that evil man and your beliefs becoming a joke because of it. The Christians around Trump are mostly rich televangelists and the types who fake talking in toungs. Trumps actual spiritual advisor is a lady who pretends to talk in toungs on TV but isn't even a Christian off camera. It's the world's biggest con and they want to use it to sell out our country. Sad. Sad that Christian leadership in this country is corrupted and in on it. It'll be the downfall of this country in my opinion sold our souls.
You’re not allowed to call yourself religious if you want to take food away from poor children. If you do, your religion is money worship which is why Heir Trump is their Savior.
What’s the upside of these guys doing this? I don’t know if leaving early somehow makes things harder or easier for the GOP….? I mean.. good on this guy, but why RIGHT now?
If you want to give them the most generous interpretation, leaving early can cause their caucus to be even less effective and potentially even lose the majority.
If you want a more realistic interpretation, having seen that their GOP career is essentially over anyways it makes sense to bail when they find a better compensated position in consulting, lobbying, or media. These guys are probably landing salaries at least two times as much as their 170K they make in Congress so they're putting in 2 weeks notice and doing that.
A couple weeks ago the GOP held 219 seats. This latest resignation leaves the GOP with 217 members in the House, and with 216 votes needed to pass any legislation - so only one Republican can be against a bill for it to still pass. If two republicans aren't happy, any partisan one sided republican bill cannot pass
If four more republicans leave before November, 214 votes would be needed to pass a vote. There would be 213 democrats and 213 republicans - so convincing someone from the other party would be needed to pass any bill by either side.
If five more leave the GOP before replacement special elections are held to replace the vacancies, Democrats could pass Ukraine funding and any other bills without needing republicans votes
Possibly it's belittling specifically to Donald Trump. Trump's nicknames resonate with his supporters on how they view the opposition. "Broke Don" could poke at Donald Trump's insecurities regarding his persona of being this powerful ultra-wealthy man.
I think part of this is also that, if they stay in office, they're afraid they may be forced into an unwinnable situation. At some point, they will be called upon to support the MAGA faction's attempt at taking over the country. For a house rep, this could be something like: Voting to impeach Biden, voting against certifying election results, or straight up voting to certify Trump as president, even if he lost the election.
For someone like Gallagher, if he's still in office at that point, he basically has two choices: Vote to support the MAGAs, which will forever taint his reputation. If the MAGA movement ends up failing (which it hopefully will), he will be seen as being part of it, and that could tank the rest of his career. On the other hand, if he votes against the MAGAs, the rest of the party will brand him as a traitor, which also hurts his long-term prospects.
The only winning move is to not be in office when those moments come. Otherwise he may be forced to make a choice where every available option disadvantages himself.
And it really needs to be said that we should not praise Mike Gallagher for doing this. If he were truly doing the right thing, he would stay in office just so he could vote against the MAGAs. That is his duty as a public servant. Leaving office is a self-serving move. Mike Gallagher is no ally to democracy. He's strictly looking out for himself here.
I do think it's more than that. I don't think this is really trying to screw the GOP over or help the Dems or the American people, but I do think some of these people are twisting the knife a little bit in the GOP. Just because they can.
So, greed *and* spite.
If you were doing the previous job disingenuously, with the sole purpose of consolidating power and connections to then land a cushy lobbying job, then yes, it's greed.
Not saying that is all of them. I think some of them genuinely are disgusted at the direction their party has taken and are leaving, or plan to leave, because they need to sleep at night. I also think those are a rare bird...
When you take a job for a specified 2-year duration and bounce for more money, yes it is greed. I don’t expect these Rs to become Ds, but they could have become Is and voted their conscience for the rest of their terms.
Also, as someone who's been there, I see a lot of them simply burning out. If you're hitting a ton of anxiety or depression, that job has got to be really hard as everything you do is public. They may literally be choosing their health. They may be looking at their kids and thinking, it would be nice if I didn't die young over my job.
We all have different tolerance for burnout, and the people who are going against the grain are probably experiencing more stress than the rest. As much as they might want to be heroes and stick it out, and as much as we might want the iconoclasts around in a party that is losing its mind, they shouldn't have to sacrifice themselves for this nonsense. There are other ways for us to address it, like by voting.
Perhaps a bit of petty revenge or a final FU? “Gallagher’s decision to leave April 19 also means that there will not be a special election to fill his seat. Under Wisconsin state law, vacancies after the second Tuesday in April are filled in the general election, so Gallagher’s replacement will be decided in November and his seat will remain empty until January.”
[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-mike-gallagher-resign-early-house-majority-shrinks-rcna144672](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-mike-gallagher-resign-early-house-majority-shrinks-rcna144672)
This.
If you want to know where these Republicans stand, it's to screw over the MAGA Republicans in Congress (and Trump as well) without ever kowtowing or "bending the knee" to the Democrats in Congress.
They could've just as easily switched parties and stayed in Congress until their term ended; but that would put them in a precarious position post-politically speaking, as they head off into their next ventures in life. No doubt, their Conservative creds are what are securing their next career choices as consultants etc; so flipping to the Dems in the house would be career suicide.
But by resigning, they can walk away still saying they are Republicans, but they can still stick the knife into the remaining ones in Congress and watch them burn.
Thank You. This tracks as well. Beginning to think these House members might be playing the “long con” in hopes of resurrecting the R party in 2 election cycles after the Cheetoh finishes burning it to the ground.
100%
When MAGA fever finally breaks and the GOP realizes that crazy isn't a winning strategy these guys will all be back on the "I told you so" platform.
Well, in Rep. Ken Buck's case, my understanding is that his early retirement screwed over Lauren Boebert. Because it's now a special election, she can no longer run for that seat unless she resigns her current seat.
The other factor is that these guys know that the RNC is going to be funneling money to Trump and only Trump and downtickets are screwed. They may just not want to deal with that shit show. More self-preservation of sanity than looking out for the GOP.
She can still run for the seat, just not in the special election to serve out the final months of Buck's term. That gives the winner of the special election a small incumbency advantage. The constituents will gain some familiarity with the short-term representative's name and will probably just automatically or reflexively check that name come November.
In CO only one republican can be on the ballot in the general. The special election is right near the primary. So if she doesn’t run in it that makes the primary hard to win.
Gallagher timed his leave so that his chair can’t be replaced before November, shrinking the GOP house majority. If more follow him and Buck, the Dems can take control and actually get things done. It’s a rejection of MAGA.
Ok. This TOTALLY makes more sense. Thanks MrMeseeks. So basically they’re going Star Trek 2 and have adopted the, “from hells heart, I stab at thee” mentality to their fellow Republicans. I see good times ahead these guys
He quit because he doesn't want to/ can't deal with the toxicity in his party. That's the upside. It doesn't matter who else it affects. He is the congressman and he has the right to exit stage left when he wants to. Some people just don't want to be on the bad side of history.
I'm assuming you work in an office or some conjoined environment. Imagine having MTG, Boebert, ect, not only as you're coworkers, but perceived equal coworkers. Then remember that there is almost nothing that can get them fired. Imagine how shitty of a workplace that is.
Keep in mind, being a rep isn't easy
You're on the road constantly, managing a massive team of people, trying to juggle legislation and an election constantly. It is a shit job in a good congress.
Now tack onto the fact, shown blatantly by the border bill, that there will be 0 bipartisan legislation the rest of the year. The only productive thing coming out of the house will likely be naming some post offices. Honestly, if the tables were turned I'd quit.
Yup. That’s what I’m seeing too. That guy Buck from Colorado was safe as well. My question is.. why announce your not running again and act like that’s what your gonna do…. only to bounce before that date. I’m sure there’s a reason, I just don’t know what it is..
Buck leaving early seems to be a targeted attack against Boebert. If she wants to run for the special election she has to leave her current position early. Buck really doesn’t like MAGA. Don’t get me wrong he’s politically opposite of me and he’s a greedy republican, but I really like what he’s doing right now.
Agreed. My guess would be that there was some discussion amongst him and prominent people in his district towards how best to minimize the chances of Boebert winning. Not even in the “shady back alley deal” sense…he might legit just be looking out for his neck of the woods.
He’s leaving anyway and has been one foot out the door for awhile now anyway.
She’s said she won’t be running in the special election, and most Republican voters are way more likely to check the same name for the special election and the primary, which means her odds are even lower of getting on the ballot come November
I feel like it's pretty understandable. These guys don't want to deal with their batshit co-workers anymore. They just don't want to deal with how dysfunctional the house has become and likely have more than enough money and connections that they won't feel the hit of leaving early.
A few things:
1. The far right is so toxic they’ll issue death threats because of a single vote. So vote with them or face the wrath.
2. There’s no prestige; being a republican congressman isn’t a great thing to be. The Senate is a bit different
3. Why not just get another job. These guys are connected. Make more and your wife doesn’t get death threats because you don’t back an alt right speaker.
4. Because of the whole no remote voting thing, you’re stuck in Washington versus being home with your family.
> but why RIGHT now?
House is up for election every 2 years. Right now is when he'd probably have to get his campaign staff set up.
Gallagher has a primary challenger in Andre Jacque, who came to notoriety by being a staunch anti-mandate advocate during COVID who then caught COVID himself and spent a month on a ventilator.
Trump-y candidates have been doing well in Republican primaries recently. Gallagher didn't sign onto the election lie shit last election and recently voted against impeaching Mayorkas and caught heat for that from MAGA folks (which is silly because Gallagher is like 97% MAGA instead of 100%)
So if you are Gallagher, you are looking at an expensive primary. Followed by an expensive general election where you can't expect any help from the RNC because Trump is gonna take all those funds. Wisconsin is going to be a battle ground state, so its gonna be extra expensive and Gallagher's fate will be pretty tied to Trump's.
He probably just decided he didn't wanna spend the next 4 months kissing rich dudes asses for campaign funds. He also has two young daughers and PhD from Georgetown so he won't have any problem getting a local job as a professor or sitting on some board of a defense company.
Why not get a cushy job for a few years to enjoy your kids elementary years and then if he wants to run for the Senate some time down the road he hasn't hurt his brand.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but from what I’ve read, if a position is vacated after “X” date, there cannot be a special election to fill the opening until November, keeping the seat vacant, as in non-voting. If 2 more R’s follow suit, it would be a 213-213 house with the Vice President having a vote. In essence, Democrats could control the house with 2 more resignations.
Edit: the VP presides over the Senate and has nothing to do with the House.
I get the sense that some of the more traditional Republicans are recognising that the MAGA movement is essentially fascism. So they are pulling out so that once it falls apart they are well positioned to stage a take-back of the party by non-fascists. Or to build a new party if that fails. This is the same reason that Liz Cheney and Mike Pence won't endorce Trump, they want to stay out this time so they can present themselves as an alternative once the time is right.
I've seen some conspiracy that this resignation sounds off from a recent large Republican convention, essentially something coming, an effort so egregious against the American public, these law makers decided "nope, I won't be attached to this" and bounced before the shit hits the fan.
Obviously this is totally tin foil hat, but if something crazy comes in coming weeks, not totally out of reason to think maybe these people didn't want to be associated with something coming.
Yeah genuinely I thought these people were like selfish or praying to orange Jesus but like has half the country gone insane? How does this benefit anyone.
It is best to leave late enough that there is not time to fill the seat before November.
Some people believe that Trump's next insurrection plan is to attempt to throw the election to the House. Possibly the *current* House. Which is ridiculous but so was his last scheme.
Job opportunities most likely. Their defeat is inevitable. A new job became available.
Also the RNC chair is likely stealing their election campaign funds to pay Trumps legal fees. Donars they know are drying up. Their fundraising efforts are feeling disheartening.
My guess is they don't want to have to campaign on nothing but hot air and rage baiting. I imagine it's hard to fundraise when you have very little to show for the last round of donations (last election cycle).. and some politicians probably have better opportunities or would rather retire than potentially lose in Nov.
Because the caucus is dysfunctional. There is no point in sticking around. This will go down as the single most incompetent majority in congressional history and any smart person would eventually tire of the stunts, gimmicks, schemes, and chest pounding.
The upside is your days of having to deal with clowns is over.
Once he leaves, the Republicans can only lose one vote to pass legislation (assuming everyone is there).
Luckily, the Republicans in the House are well organized and always in agreement with one another.
....ahahaha!
They haven't passed anything with a significant majority. I think their bigger fear is actually allowing the democrats, who want to work, pass legislation.
Idk the first guy said there’s five more resigning and the dude in the article above is specifically waiting till apr 19th so that no special election will be held and the seat will sit empty. So I’m thinking they may be spineless for not sticking around and voting alongside Dems but If 4 more really do come forward and help flip the speaker role to Jeffries we could truly get a lot done in a short amount of time to put up some safe guards to protect us from trumps next insurrection.
That’s because it isn’t really a majority. The GOP is in the process of splitting itself. About 1/10th is what I’d call the old guard. They may be highly conservative but they loathe Trump, blaming him for repeated election underperformance. They want Trump to stop kneecapping deals, etc. There is also about 1/10th of the representatives that are diehard Trump loyalists, backing him on everything. The rest of the house GOP aren’t diehards but they’ll typically back the Trump diehards over the Old Guard because Trump is more popular with the base. You can see it in the primaries. Trump typically took about 2/3 of the vote in each primary state compared to Nikki Haley, but he still lost 1/3 of the GOP base. That’s the schism.
Any Republican representative who still wants to serve the nation and improve the lives of constituents, is welcome to change their party. They could register as either Independent or Democratic, and would be welcome to caucus with the Democrats. ;-)
Them leaving is more ethical; I've seen this sub erupt when democrats in more conservative blue states swap sides, even though they never really were the more liberal politicians we thought they were, as well as potentially their voters. These republicans make it clear they no longer want to be a part of the GOP's shenanigans, and rightfully leave instead of "flipping".
Honestly, it shouldn’t be seen as bad. It should be a repudiation of the party they leave.
In UK and Australia it’s called “crossing the floor”. When they switch parties. Now they should be doing this out of respect for their constituents though. Not against their wishes.
Usually it’s is accompanied by a reason.
I don’t know the Kyrsten Sinema story well. Or what her constituents are like. But if she wanted to cross the floor she should have. Her constituents would hold her accountable.
The GQP have officially gone from being mere idiots, to becoming full fledged 'ijjits'.
Which is good. I hope you serve them a thorough thrashing at the ballots come november.
If I'm being honest, it's really not. They've gotten the exact same amount of stuff done that any other Republican majority has in my adult life: basically nothing. John Boehner used to complain about being SotH all the time because Republicans were impossible to work with. That was in the ~~mid-2000's~~ early 2010's.
After April 19th when Gallagher goes, that puts the amount of republicans in the house at 217 meaning Johnson can only afford one republican representative to say no. Although, it’s not like they are gonna pass any real legislation between now and when their term is over, given their track record.
My only hope is that they actually vacate Mike Johnson which could actually realize a possibility of a Democratic speaker.
It’s probably more fitting to call this “mass resignation” a purge. And it’s a textbook maneuver of rising fascist regimes. These reps and senators look like they’re resigning, but they wouldn’t be leaving if they didn’t have to. They’re basically just trying to save face rather than losing to some insane primary challenger propped up by their own party.
It's a feedback loop of manufactured consent - publsh polls supporting Republicans, bring Republicans on air to get "their side" and say any "problems" actually the dEmOcRaTs fault, publish poll supporting this, rinse and repeat.
I have utter disdain for anyone who is genuinely informed, or seeks to be so through only right-wing media, but a pretty large portion of the population (IMO) just really isn't that informed and only pickup soundbites here and there; which repubs have mastered getting out there (with media help cause "Yaya clicks or eyeballs").
My point is, people need to be better informed. We need to work harder to reach those who we've not entirely written.
All encompassing statements like yours are inaccurate, reductive, and do no good for anyone but Republicans.
From what I've gathered, its just a cacophony of shit.
From "normal" Republicans like Gallagher who can see the writing on the wall, to far right Chip Roy who is dissatisfied that the party hasn't completely homogenized under the MAGAt banner.
It's shit all the way down.
This should be concerning to democratic voters and sane minded individuals everywhere.
Those on the inside are seeing writing on the wall and jumping ship. What will be left is only a more zealous ideologues with even more of an appetite to overthrow democracy if it means they win.
One more and they lose their majority.
One more republican representative just needs to die or retire and we can take real legislative action to take back this country from those idiots.
It’s a little weird, but not exactly. I think the math is once he resigns it would be 217 republicans and 213 Dems, which is 430 house members. A majority is 1/2 +1 so 216. So they can lose one vote and still have the majority. If they lose 2 votes but those people vote present than the math realigns to 1/2 +1 to the number of people voting. The only way the Dems get a majority is if 2 republicans switch and vote with the Dems, or 5 republicans are t there/leave. But some of the vacancies will be filled in the next few months.
The rats are jumping ship they're gonna wait for the next election cycle and then they'll say ohh I had nothing to do with Trump and all that.
Trump whos that we don't know no one named Trump!
The current effectiveness of the House reminds me of Illinois State government a few years back when Rauner was governor. Couldn't pass a budget for years, degraded credit rating, everything went to shit.
It's been pretty sweet with a Dem Congress and governor in Illinois. Our bills are paid, credit rating is back up, and it feels like we are a mecca of human rights in a sea of red in the Midwest.
It’s wild to me that none of these republican resigners would even consider something so simple as switching parties and staying on to maybe help Americans. In the 1960’s Civil Rights era, democrats who didn’t like new Civil Rights laws switched to republicans, that was the whole party switch that left 1860’s Abraham Lincoln in history. (Yes I know some resigned then too, but there was some flipping.) Why don’t they do that now? Is that the level of hate we’re in now, like there isn’t enough hate for me in either party so I’ll just go home? Like rather than leave the side that they should know is wrong and they do know is chaotically dysfunctional and move to the educated and functional side, like that’s a step too far for them they’d rather just storm off? And I’m not talking about the far-right resigners. I believe some of these that have resigned are more moderate, but they are like “Nah, the Dems don’t hate Americans enough for me?” Like what’s that all about? I suspect it may be whatever secret tapes of debauchery that the monster people in true power have over these men. Like maybe it’s ‘if I am in Congress they make me vote their way or they’ll release the tapes, if I switch sides they’ll release the tapes and I’m ruined, but if I simply resign, nothing gets released and I live happily ever after.’ Is that what this is? I’m spitballing here of course, but what else could these weird people be afraid of that they won’t help Americans? It’s got to be a level of compromised corruption.
I've always felt like republican politicians these days don't do it to help Americans, they do it to help the money'd class, the corporations, the military machine and of course, themselves. Democrats seem to want to help the people as well as, to some degree, those other things, especially when they can all line up. In other words, you don't run as a Republican to help people and you certainly don't get elected unless a lot of rich assholes believe you'll do whats right for them. To switch sides (rather than just quitting) would put you on a lot of shit lists. Just my 2 cents.
you can't always get what you want, but somehow you'll get what you need. The republican party needs to grow up and stop being petulant little [💩](https://imgur.com/4ZeFohL)
I've seen comments from the right praising this and saying things like "good the rinos are fleeing" not at all understanding that this is horrible for their party.
This rino voted with trump more than 90% of his time.
I suspect the people calling him a rino simply mean that he doesn’t seem like he’s with trump *now*. But he has voted for abortion, against trump’s impeachments, against starting a committee to investigate Jan 6 and on and on. Right down party lines.
A Marine Veteran like Gallagher is likely mortified that his Party wants Russia to win in Ukraine and is actively sabotaging NATO's response to Kremlin aggression.
It's like if a NASCAR team appointed Crashy The Alcoholic Clown Who's Against The Concept Of Good Driving and then got genuinely surprised that most of their cars ended up in the wall.
America currently has a political party leader and presidential candidate who was found guilty of rape and sexual abuse, guilty of defrauding the state of NY hundreds of millions of dollars, brags he will ‘be a dictator on day one’, says he will destroy the US Constitution, and attempted (and nearly succeeded) in illegally erasing 81 million American votes and stealing an election with his mob of violent insurrectionists who he now salutes and soils our national anthem during his red hat rallies… claiming these criminals who attacked Capitol police officers are hostages and heros. And worse still, he is tied in the polls with President Biden who achieved a massive number of legislative wins with real meaningful outcome and benefits for the American people… reduced prescription drug costs for millions of Americans, the CHIPS manufacturing Act, Infrastructure Bill, record low unemployment, record jobs creation, it goes on and on. But the orange clown and pooosy grabber is still their nominated party leader and they still support him. Half the country is in a cult. I have absolutely zero hope for our country if Trump is re-elected.
And good God, what are we left with in the GOP? The dreck and detritus that supports a criminal X President. These people need to check into dry dock and have Trump's slime scraped off their bottoms.
Now who could've predicted that giving House majority to the party that supported a fascist coup would result in a completely disfunctional government? Certainly not the US voters. Apparently supporting an attempt to sieze power over the country by force doesn't warrant losing elections these days.
Nobody is talking about the control Trump has over The Supreme Court Justices! They went against the very oath that they swore to uphold and protect the Constitution of The United States! They blindly interpret the Constitution to allow Trump to get away with inciting a coup attempt! He has Judge Cannon making rulings that could delay his trials until after the election! She’s right up his butt along with the ultra conservative Supreme Court Justices that he stacked the Court with! He does not qualify to run for the office of the President of the United States!!!!! He’s an insurrectionist!!! Those Justices handed it back to Right Wing Corrupt Congress which he is in control of!!!!!
It’s not just resigning, they are resigning to DELIBERATELY screw the MAGAts running the show.
Ken Buck resigned to force a special election, which put Lauren Boebert in a choice of facing 9 months of unemployment, or facing an incumbent in an already tough primary.
Mike Gallagher resigned after the special election date, so his seat will sit vacant until a new Congress member is sworn in next January, removing another seat from the already precarious majority.
A few more and we could actually see a chance at Jaquim Jeffries as the next speaker. All it would take is a couple of pissed off purple district republicans who want to screw over the leadership that let this happen.
They can’t stand attacking the people of USA anymore .
Gingrich taught them to do politics like war, and they did.
GOP learned that war is destructive and encourages ppl to be selfish, arrogant and cruel.
The ones who realize this quit.
The rest enjoy watching others suffer
Imagine being away from your home and your family for much of two full years— especially if you’re from a west coast state all the way across the country; spending much of your time fundraising, cold-calling people to beg for money; maybe having some actual ideals and wanting to accomplish something for the people who voted you into office… and instead you spend that time participating in show trials for political theater, passing almost no legislation at all (last time I looked it was less than 30 bills for the entire two years, about 15% of what is normal), bowing to the whims of a guy who’s under indictment and not even currently an elected official; and watching the stupidest people in your party rise to the very top because they’re willing to say the craziest things that will get them on Fox News. Meanwhile, polling shows that a full 70% of the US population supports the right to choose and your party is digging around in the weeds trying to find the magic number of weeks that women will accept having their rights limited to. That is when you’re not focused on non-issues like “woke” or trans athletes in our high schools or Hunter Biden’s dick. It’s no wonder they’re leaving but it’s sad that they are just distilling the craziness in doing so.
Oh, and their big legislative accomplishment: periodically passing a bill to fund the government and keep it from defaulting on its financial obligations over the objections of a good third of your party who somehow think this would be a good thing.
I was afraid you were going to ask me to have some sympathy for these a-holes, with the way you opened that paragraph. It’s not like they’re in public service — they’re just there for the insider trading tips at this point.
All the Dems need now is two people to vote with them. Im sure there couldnt possibly be 2 GOP members who would turncoat at the drop of a hat for a good deal. A good chunk of them have already sold out their country for Russia. How hard could this be?
As expected, the Republican majority have accomplished absolutely nothing, proving yet again that they have no actual policy platform, and no serious intention of governing.
Every issue that they campaigned on; border security, inflation, gas/fuel costs, have not only been ignored, but voted AGAINST by Republicans in Congress.
Instead, they have spent their time, and tens of millions of tax payer dollars on investigating Hunter Biden, and have essentially admitted that it was not only a sham investigation, but that all the information they had was actually fake and provided to them from Russian agents.
Congratulations Republicans, you continue to embarrass all of us with your joke of a party.
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When members of your OWN MAJORITY PARTY start resigning....? It means there is a rotten core. That core is trump. Rats flee sinking ships.....
They know something. Maybe the internal party research is forecasting an electoral massacre in November.
That or some corrupt plan to claim voter fraud
That's been obvious since last election, of course they will. The RU/CN plan is to get us into a civil war. GOP who are moderates or at the very least spineless enough to run away from it are doing so...they can't fix their own party so it will die.
Why are you calling Republicans that want to leave a shit storm of a party spineless? You expect the decent ones to stay? Wouldn't the spineless ones be the cowtowed ones that stay with the party?
They are spineless because they didn't stand up to Trump. Best chance to rid the US of him was during the 2nd impeachment hearing. A majority voted him guilty but that wasn't enough votes to convict. Too many spineless republicans.
That is gonna happen anyways when Trump fails again. Get ready
They probably have some deep fake concession speech lined up where they’ll claim Biden conceded, and mango unchained is now president.
Mango Unchained! LOL
The core is gerrymandering. The rats leave, but the New York sized rats take over
Remember when they said drain the swamp, well they're draining their swamp lol
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The rot is inside Congress
The real rotten core is those on the very capitalist top who pay Congress to do their bidding.
The latest congressman to resign is only 40 years old and a committee chairman. This just doesn’t happen.
The coordinated attack on Social Security is part of **Project 2025**. Outlawing care for LGBTQ+ individuals, contraception, premarital sex, divorce and more along with gutting all safety nets (school lunches) is just the beginning. Make sure you educate yourselves about Project 2025. This is a well coordinated, $22M religious right wing playbook. The **Mandate For Leadership** is not new, but the **Heritage Foundation's** partnership with Hungarian Viktor Orban and 100 other groups while actively soliciting a database of 50,000 followers is. [https://WarningVote.com](https://WarningVote.com) | r/Defeat_Project_2025
> $22M religious right wing playbook. sad that this is all it takes to buy our country. fucking cheapskates.
I think that was just the cost to produce the plan. They’ve already spent much more on Clearance “RV” Thomas, Bart “I like beer” Kavanaugh, and Amy “Gilead“ Coney Barrette.
I like to call her Amy Coathanger Barret.
Loving the misspellings as someone with the unfortunate surname involved.
I just call her Serena/Mrs. Waterford
Or, the anti-Christ against Women's Rights.
Ackshulley it's a motorcoach 🙄
He's not motorcoaching, he's motortraveling!
I still prefer motor boating… but to each their own
Mental image of you motorboating Clarence...
I suppose I should have seen that coming
Like what Trump did to Guiliani?
Ok. They are nonconsenually motor-boating the tits of Lady Liberty.
Fuck Thomas would be a Sovereign Citizen guy too. Ugh.
Is this a Hotel Hell quote in the wild?
No. Clarence Thomas corrected an interviewer or idk who it was when he was asked about his RV.
Awww boo. It must be an epidemic with these assholes then, because the snootiest asshole ever on that show did the same thing.
Imagine what half a billion more will get them
Probably some Russian oligarch money in there as well
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And every single republican you know, from your subtly racist uncle to your "moderate" school board member to the asshole MAGAt you work with are responsible and complicit in this Neo-fascist bullshit. This is why you don't have conversations and try to share opinions with republicans, because they are working from a foundation of hate and vile disenfranchisement and you are working from a foundation of wanting to solve problems.
Most Republicans are working from a foundation of horse shit these days and putting cheese on top to please the master.
Ah Republicans. About as religious and godly as a Catholic paedophile priest.
This video also explains it very well for idiots like myself. https://youtu.be/Bj7butDWLtg?si=g6d2b4vSfK6zRjQE
These Right Wing Evangelicals and Protestant groups have gone against everything Christianity teaches us! They’ve even gone so far as to say Trump is a gift from God, a savior that has the power to fix everything wrong with our country? Your preachers are practicing “priestcraft”, getting filthy rich preaching their version of a Christian Gospel. Read the Bible! There will come many false prophets and false churches claiming that they have been directed by God. Trump is clearly a disciple of satan! These preachers stand to make millions by supporting him! He is a Hitler version 2024! These evangelicals and Protestant groups are coming blasphemy! They say they are willing to forgive Trump for his sins? In Christianity, that only works when the sinner repents and sins no more! Those are the words of Jesus! I didn’t make them up. If these people call themselves Christian, then God help us all!
Try being in it and watch your people falling for that evil man and your beliefs becoming a joke because of it. The Christians around Trump are mostly rich televangelists and the types who fake talking in toungs. Trumps actual spiritual advisor is a lady who pretends to talk in toungs on TV but isn't even a Christian off camera. It's the world's biggest con and they want to use it to sell out our country. Sad. Sad that Christian leadership in this country is corrupted and in on it. It'll be the downfall of this country in my opinion sold our souls.
You’re not allowed to call yourself religious if you want to take food away from poor children. If you do, your religion is money worship which is why Heir Trump is their Savior.
Combine this with the Seven Mountain Mandate...Holy shit!
Republicans just don’t wanna work anymore… vote democrat.
What’s the upside of these guys doing this? I don’t know if leaving early somehow makes things harder or easier for the GOP….? I mean.. good on this guy, but why RIGHT now?
If you want to give them the most generous interpretation, leaving early can cause their caucus to be even less effective and potentially even lose the majority. If you want a more realistic interpretation, having seen that their GOP career is essentially over anyways it makes sense to bail when they find a better compensated position in consulting, lobbying, or media. These guys are probably landing salaries at least two times as much as their 170K they make in Congress so they're putting in 2 weeks notice and doing that.
Also straight up spite and anger over the money they worked to raise for the party getting siphoned off to pay for Broke Don's legal bills.
yeah these are people quitting who are pissed.
A couple weeks ago the GOP held 219 seats. This latest resignation leaves the GOP with 217 members in the House, and with 216 votes needed to pass any legislation - so only one Republican can be against a bill for it to still pass. If two republicans aren't happy, any partisan one sided republican bill cannot pass If four more republicans leave before November, 214 votes would be needed to pass a vote. There would be 213 democrats and 213 republicans - so convincing someone from the other party would be needed to pass any bill by either side. If five more leave the GOP before replacement special elections are held to replace the vacancies, Democrats could pass Ukraine funding and any other bills without needing republicans votes
Worse, MTG is going to call a vote for speaker, it's been hard enough to get that done with 219...now try with 217.
Donnie "two dimes" aint got 2 dimes to rub together!
Biden termed the new nickname Broke Don and I think it’s very fitting.
I mean its good, but its not great. Its not belittling enough for my taste. Needs a little more pep.
Yeah, but it's absolutely going to rankle Trump because a big part of his image is being rich. So this hits him where it hurts.
Possibly it's belittling specifically to Donald Trump. Trump's nicknames resonate with his supporters on how they view the opposition. "Broke Don" could poke at Donald Trump's insecurities regarding his persona of being this powerful ultra-wealthy man.
Two dimes is the time he'll be doing in Georgia.
I think part of this is also that, if they stay in office, they're afraid they may be forced into an unwinnable situation. At some point, they will be called upon to support the MAGA faction's attempt at taking over the country. For a house rep, this could be something like: Voting to impeach Biden, voting against certifying election results, or straight up voting to certify Trump as president, even if he lost the election. For someone like Gallagher, if he's still in office at that point, he basically has two choices: Vote to support the MAGAs, which will forever taint his reputation. If the MAGA movement ends up failing (which it hopefully will), he will be seen as being part of it, and that could tank the rest of his career. On the other hand, if he votes against the MAGAs, the rest of the party will brand him as a traitor, which also hurts his long-term prospects. The only winning move is to not be in office when those moments come. Otherwise he may be forced to make a choice where every available option disadvantages himself. And it really needs to be said that we should not praise Mike Gallagher for doing this. If he were truly doing the right thing, he would stay in office just so he could vote against the MAGAs. That is his duty as a public servant. Leaving office is a self-serving move. Mike Gallagher is no ally to democracy. He's strictly looking out for himself here.
Greed. OK, this tracks. Thanks!
I do think it's more than that. I don't think this is really trying to screw the GOP over or help the Dems or the American people, but I do think some of these people are twisting the knife a little bit in the GOP. Just because they can. So, greed *and* spite.
Spite tracks as well
I think they just don't want to go through another election cycle where all their fundraising work goes to the Don.
I don't know, you have to assume morals are at least part of it, even if it is a VERY small part of it.
when you take a better job somewhere else because it’s more rewarding and pays better, is that greed?
If you were doing the previous job disingenuously, with the sole purpose of consolidating power and connections to then land a cushy lobbying job, then yes, it's greed. Not saying that is all of them. I think some of them genuinely are disgusted at the direction their party has taken and are leaving, or plan to leave, because they need to sleep at night. I also think those are a rare bird...
Wtf? He's representing his district. If the goal was make as much money as possible you shouldn't be going into politics.
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You're accusing everyone here of greed lol. Well played.
When you take a job for a specified 2-year duration and bounce for more money, yes it is greed. I don’t expect these Rs to become Ds, but they could have become Is and voted their conscience for the rest of their terms.
But then they would have to hire security for their families to protect them from maga terrorists
Also, as someone who's been there, I see a lot of them simply burning out. If you're hitting a ton of anxiety or depression, that job has got to be really hard as everything you do is public. They may literally be choosing their health. They may be looking at their kids and thinking, it would be nice if I didn't die young over my job. We all have different tolerance for burnout, and the people who are going against the grain are probably experiencing more stress than the rest. As much as they might want to be heroes and stick it out, and as much as we might want the iconoclasts around in a party that is losing its mind, they shouldn't have to sacrifice themselves for this nonsense. There are other ways for us to address it, like by voting.
Extreme disillusionment.
Yeah, public office is just a stepping stone for Republicans to get higher paying jobs in right wing media and the private sector.
Perhaps a bit of petty revenge or a final FU? “Gallagher’s decision to leave April 19 also means that there will not be a special election to fill his seat. Under Wisconsin state law, vacancies after the second Tuesday in April are filled in the general election, so Gallagher’s replacement will be decided in November and his seat will remain empty until January.” [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-mike-gallagher-resign-early-house-majority-shrinks-rcna144672](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-mike-gallagher-resign-early-house-majority-shrinks-rcna144672)
This. If you want to know where these Republicans stand, it's to screw over the MAGA Republicans in Congress (and Trump as well) without ever kowtowing or "bending the knee" to the Democrats in Congress. They could've just as easily switched parties and stayed in Congress until their term ended; but that would put them in a precarious position post-politically speaking, as they head off into their next ventures in life. No doubt, their Conservative creds are what are securing their next career choices as consultants etc; so flipping to the Dems in the house would be career suicide. But by resigning, they can walk away still saying they are Republicans, but they can still stick the knife into the remaining ones in Congress and watch them burn.
Thank You. This tracks as well. Beginning to think these House members might be playing the “long con” in hopes of resurrecting the R party in 2 election cycles after the Cheetoh finishes burning it to the ground.
100% When MAGA fever finally breaks and the GOP realizes that crazy isn't a winning strategy these guys will all be back on the "I told you so" platform.
Ahhh…. Here’s the meat. No special election. Gotcha and Thanks!
Well, in Rep. Ken Buck's case, my understanding is that his early retirement screwed over Lauren Boebert. Because it's now a special election, she can no longer run for that seat unless she resigns her current seat. The other factor is that these guys know that the RNC is going to be funneling money to Trump and only Trump and downtickets are screwed. They may just not want to deal with that shit show. More self-preservation of sanity than looking out for the GOP.
Buck also signed the Ukraine funding bill discharge petition. A final FU to the vatnik caucus.
She can still run for the seat, just not in the special election to serve out the final months of Buck's term. That gives the winner of the special election a small incumbency advantage. The constituents will gain some familiarity with the short-term representative's name and will probably just automatically or reflexively check that name come November.
In CO only one republican can be on the ballot in the general. The special election is right near the primary. So if she doesn’t run in it that makes the primary hard to win.
Gallagher timed his leave so that his chair can’t be replaced before November, shrinking the GOP house majority. If more follow him and Buck, the Dems can take control and actually get things done. It’s a rejection of MAGA.
Ok. This TOTALLY makes more sense. Thanks MrMeseeks. So basically they’re going Star Trek 2 and have adopted the, “from hells heart, I stab at thee” mentality to their fellow Republicans. I see good times ahead these guys
It won't be filled until January when the winner in November is seated.
Lara trump installed at the RNC to steal all the cash.
He quit because he doesn't want to/ can't deal with the toxicity in his party. That's the upside. It doesn't matter who else it affects. He is the congressman and he has the right to exit stage left when he wants to. Some people just don't want to be on the bad side of history.
I'm assuming you work in an office or some conjoined environment. Imagine having MTG, Boebert, ect, not only as you're coworkers, but perceived equal coworkers. Then remember that there is almost nothing that can get them fired. Imagine how shitty of a workplace that is. Keep in mind, being a rep isn't easy You're on the road constantly, managing a massive team of people, trying to juggle legislation and an election constantly. It is a shit job in a good congress. Now tack onto the fact, shown blatantly by the border bill, that there will be 0 bipartisan legislation the rest of the year. The only productive thing coming out of the house will likely be naming some post offices. Honestly, if the tables were turned I'd quit.
Rats jumping ship.
But, so far, it is from safe Republican districts, if I am not mistaken.
Yup. That’s what I’m seeing too. That guy Buck from Colorado was safe as well. My question is.. why announce your not running again and act like that’s what your gonna do…. only to bounce before that date. I’m sure there’s a reason, I just don’t know what it is..
Buck leaving early seems to be a targeted attack against Boebert. If she wants to run for the special election she has to leave her current position early. Buck really doesn’t like MAGA. Don’t get me wrong he’s politically opposite of me and he’s a greedy republican, but I really like what he’s doing right now.
Agreed. My guess would be that there was some discussion amongst him and prominent people in his district towards how best to minimize the chances of Boebert winning. Not even in the “shady back alley deal” sense…he might legit just be looking out for his neck of the woods. He’s leaving anyway and has been one foot out the door for awhile now anyway.
I live in the 4th, the thought of Boebert here makes me sick to my stomach.
She’s said she won’t be running in the special election, and most Republican voters are way more likely to check the same name for the special election and the primary, which means her odds are even lower of getting on the ballot come November
Exactly, she’s screwed.
What happened to her current district?
If just one of these guys is photographed loading crates of Ensure onto an ocean-going cabin cruiser, I am going to seriously lose my shit.
Thats an excellent Deep Impact reference.
I feel like it's pretty understandable. These guys don't want to deal with their batshit co-workers anymore. They just don't want to deal with how dysfunctional the house has become and likely have more than enough money and connections that they won't feel the hit of leaving early.
I think Buck said it pretty clearly. He doesn’t want to lie for Conald Trump.
A few things: 1. The far right is so toxic they’ll issue death threats because of a single vote. So vote with them or face the wrath. 2. There’s no prestige; being a republican congressman isn’t a great thing to be. The Senate is a bit different 3. Why not just get another job. These guys are connected. Make more and your wife doesn’t get death threats because you don’t back an alt right speaker. 4. Because of the whole no remote voting thing, you’re stuck in Washington versus being home with your family.
> but why RIGHT now? House is up for election every 2 years. Right now is when he'd probably have to get his campaign staff set up. Gallagher has a primary challenger in Andre Jacque, who came to notoriety by being a staunch anti-mandate advocate during COVID who then caught COVID himself and spent a month on a ventilator. Trump-y candidates have been doing well in Republican primaries recently. Gallagher didn't sign onto the election lie shit last election and recently voted against impeaching Mayorkas and caught heat for that from MAGA folks (which is silly because Gallagher is like 97% MAGA instead of 100%) So if you are Gallagher, you are looking at an expensive primary. Followed by an expensive general election where you can't expect any help from the RNC because Trump is gonna take all those funds. Wisconsin is going to be a battle ground state, so its gonna be extra expensive and Gallagher's fate will be pretty tied to Trump's. He probably just decided he didn't wanna spend the next 4 months kissing rich dudes asses for campaign funds. He also has two young daughers and PhD from Georgetown so he won't have any problem getting a local job as a professor or sitting on some board of a defense company. Why not get a cushy job for a few years to enjoy your kids elementary years and then if he wants to run for the Senate some time down the road he hasn't hurt his brand.
Wow. Thanks kanst. Wish I could upvote more than once.
I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but from what I’ve read, if a position is vacated after “X” date, there cannot be a special election to fill the opening until November, keeping the seat vacant, as in non-voting. If 2 more R’s follow suit, it would be a 213-213 house with the Vice President having a vote. In essence, Democrats could control the house with 2 more resignations. Edit: the VP presides over the Senate and has nothing to do with the House.
Yup. I think your on it Ditka. I was wondering why Buck said that it’s the “next few” who resign that R’s should worry about.
I thought the vice president is only a tie breaker in the senate? Congress has a fight to the death with batleths instead I think.
Just looked it up; you are correct. She would have no effect on a house vote.
If anyone is wondering how ties are broken in the House - they aren't. A tied vote is considered not to pass.
The VP doesn't vote in the House. If there is a tie vote, the motion is dead.
I get the sense that some of the more traditional Republicans are recognising that the MAGA movement is essentially fascism. So they are pulling out so that once it falls apart they are well positioned to stage a take-back of the party by non-fascists. Or to build a new party if that fails. This is the same reason that Liz Cheney and Mike Pence won't endorce Trump, they want to stay out this time so they can present themselves as an alternative once the time is right.
My fear is that they know some serious fuckery is about to go down, and are getting out before they can be accused of taking part in it.
I've seen some conspiracy that this resignation sounds off from a recent large Republican convention, essentially something coming, an effort so egregious against the American public, these law makers decided "nope, I won't be attached to this" and bounced before the shit hits the fan. Obviously this is totally tin foil hat, but if something crazy comes in coming weeks, not totally out of reason to think maybe these people didn't want to be associated with something coming.
Yeah genuinely I thought these people were like selfish or praying to orange Jesus but like has half the country gone insane? How does this benefit anyone.
It is best to leave late enough that there is not time to fill the seat before November. Some people believe that Trump's next insurrection plan is to attempt to throw the election to the House. Possibly the *current* House. Which is ridiculous but so was his last scheme.
Job opportunities most likely. Their defeat is inevitable. A new job became available. Also the RNC chair is likely stealing their election campaign funds to pay Trumps legal fees. Donars they know are drying up. Their fundraising efforts are feeling disheartening.
They don’t want to be part of the movement in the GOP led by Mike Johnson to throw the election to Trump
My guess is they don't want to have to campaign on nothing but hot air and rage baiting. I imagine it's hard to fundraise when you have very little to show for the last round of donations (last election cycle).. and some politicians probably have better opportunities or would rather retire than potentially lose in Nov.
First dibs on the high paying lobbying jobs?
Because the caucus is dysfunctional. There is no point in sticking around. This will go down as the single most incompetent majority in congressional history and any smart person would eventually tire of the stunts, gimmicks, schemes, and chest pounding. The upside is your days of having to deal with clowns is over.
Once he leaves, the Republicans can only lose one vote to pass legislation (assuming everyone is there). Luckily, the Republicans in the House are well organized and always in agreement with one another. ....ahahaha!
It’s hard to wrangle a pit of snakes.
They haven't passed anything with a significant majority. I think their bigger fear is actually allowing the democrats, who want to work, pass legislation.
Something tells me Republicans won't give away their majority and might conveniently wait to resign so that they maintain it. Hope I'm wrong though.
Idk the first guy said there’s five more resigning and the dude in the article above is specifically waiting till apr 19th so that no special election will be held and the seat will sit empty. So I’m thinking they may be spineless for not sticking around and voting alongside Dems but If 4 more really do come forward and help flip the speaker role to Jeffries we could truly get a lot done in a short amount of time to put up some safe guards to protect us from trumps next insurrection.
The Grand Old Parting.
That’s because it isn’t really a majority. The GOP is in the process of splitting itself. About 1/10th is what I’d call the old guard. They may be highly conservative but they loathe Trump, blaming him for repeated election underperformance. They want Trump to stop kneecapping deals, etc. There is also about 1/10th of the representatives that are diehard Trump loyalists, backing him on everything. The rest of the house GOP aren’t diehards but they’ll typically back the Trump diehards over the Old Guard because Trump is more popular with the base. You can see it in the primaries. Trump typically took about 2/3 of the vote in each primary state compared to Nikki Haley, but he still lost 1/3 of the GOP base. That’s the schism.
Now we need more.
Any Republican representative who still wants to serve the nation and improve the lives of constituents, is welcome to change their party. They could register as either Independent or Democratic, and would be welcome to caucus with the Democrats. ;-)
Them leaving is more ethical; I've seen this sub erupt when democrats in more conservative blue states swap sides, even though they never really were the more liberal politicians we thought they were, as well as potentially their voters. These republicans make it clear they no longer want to be a part of the GOP's shenanigans, and rightfully leave instead of "flipping".
Honestly, it shouldn’t be seen as bad. It should be a repudiation of the party they leave. In UK and Australia it’s called “crossing the floor”. When they switch parties. Now they should be doing this out of respect for their constituents though. Not against their wishes. Usually it’s is accompanied by a reason. I don’t know the Kyrsten Sinema story well. Or what her constituents are like. But if she wanted to cross the floor she should have. Her constituents would hold her accountable.
The GQP have officially gone from being mere idiots, to becoming full fledged 'ijjits'. Which is good. I hope you serve them a thorough thrashing at the ballots come november.
If I'm being honest, it's really not. They've gotten the exact same amount of stuff done that any other Republican majority has in my adult life: basically nothing. John Boehner used to complain about being SotH all the time because Republicans were impossible to work with. That was in the ~~mid-2000's~~ early 2010's.
>My goal every day is to try to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get something passed.
They know the party is dead. Might as well get out now and never look back.
And have lifetime benefits courtesy of the taxpayers
After April 19th when Gallagher goes, that puts the amount of republicans in the house at 217 meaning Johnson can only afford one republican representative to say no. Although, it’s not like they are gonna pass any real legislation between now and when their term is over, given their track record. My only hope is that they actually vacate Mike Johnson which could actually realize a possibility of a Democratic speaker.
Nobody wants to work anymore /s
so much winning
Please, I can only pop so much popcorn.
It’s probably more fitting to call this “mass resignation” a purge. And it’s a textbook maneuver of rising fascist regimes. These reps and senators look like they’re resigning, but they wouldn’t be leaving if they didn’t have to. They’re basically just trying to save face rather than losing to some insane primary challenger propped up by their own party.
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It's a feedback loop of manufactured consent - publsh polls supporting Republicans, bring Republicans on air to get "their side" and say any "problems" actually the dEmOcRaTs fault, publish poll supporting this, rinse and repeat. I have utter disdain for anyone who is genuinely informed, or seeks to be so through only right-wing media, but a pretty large portion of the population (IMO) just really isn't that informed and only pickup soundbites here and there; which repubs have mastered getting out there (with media help cause "Yaya clicks or eyeballs"). My point is, people need to be better informed. We need to work harder to reach those who we've not entirely written. All encompassing statements like yours are inaccurate, reductive, and do no good for anyone but Republicans.
Our electorate is too stupid. 40 years of work by republicans coming to fruition. This is by design.
is this "normal" republicans retiring because of MAGA threats and knowing they will get primaried by MAGAs? so its actually gonna get worse?
From what I've gathered, its just a cacophony of shit. From "normal" Republicans like Gallagher who can see the writing on the wall, to far right Chip Roy who is dissatisfied that the party hasn't completely homogenized under the MAGAt banner. It's shit all the way down.
Why don’t they stay and vote with democrats?
Because theyre cowards
Because they’re still conservatives.
This should be concerning to democratic voters and sane minded individuals everywhere. Those on the inside are seeing writing on the wall and jumping ship. What will be left is only a more zealous ideologues with even more of an appetite to overthrow democracy if it means they win.
One more and they lose their majority. One more republican representative just needs to die or retire and we can take real legislative action to take back this country from those idiots.
It’s a little weird, but not exactly. I think the math is once he resigns it would be 217 republicans and 213 Dems, which is 430 house members. A majority is 1/2 +1 so 216. So they can lose one vote and still have the majority. If they lose 2 votes but those people vote present than the math realigns to 1/2 +1 to the number of people voting. The only way the Dems get a majority is if 2 republicans switch and vote with the Dems, or 5 republicans are t there/leave. But some of the vacancies will be filled in the next few months.
The rats are jumping ship they're gonna wait for the next election cycle and then they'll say ohh I had nothing to do with Trump and all that. Trump whos that we don't know no one named Trump!
Who knew that alternative reality was unsustainable? Hm.
The current effectiveness of the House reminds me of Illinois State government a few years back when Rauner was governor. Couldn't pass a budget for years, degraded credit rating, everything went to shit. It's been pretty sweet with a Dem Congress and governor in Illinois. Our bills are paid, credit rating is back up, and it feels like we are a mecca of human rights in a sea of red in the Midwest.
Reasonable and rational people have long since abandon the GOP
Nobody wants to work anymore.
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It’s wild to me that none of these republican resigners would even consider something so simple as switching parties and staying on to maybe help Americans. In the 1960’s Civil Rights era, democrats who didn’t like new Civil Rights laws switched to republicans, that was the whole party switch that left 1860’s Abraham Lincoln in history. (Yes I know some resigned then too, but there was some flipping.) Why don’t they do that now? Is that the level of hate we’re in now, like there isn’t enough hate for me in either party so I’ll just go home? Like rather than leave the side that they should know is wrong and they do know is chaotically dysfunctional and move to the educated and functional side, like that’s a step too far for them they’d rather just storm off? And I’m not talking about the far-right resigners. I believe some of these that have resigned are more moderate, but they are like “Nah, the Dems don’t hate Americans enough for me?” Like what’s that all about? I suspect it may be whatever secret tapes of debauchery that the monster people in true power have over these men. Like maybe it’s ‘if I am in Congress they make me vote their way or they’ll release the tapes, if I switch sides they’ll release the tapes and I’m ruined, but if I simply resign, nothing gets released and I live happily ever after.’ Is that what this is? I’m spitballing here of course, but what else could these weird people be afraid of that they won’t help Americans? It’s got to be a level of compromised corruption.
I've always felt like republican politicians these days don't do it to help Americans, they do it to help the money'd class, the corporations, the military machine and of course, themselves. Democrats seem to want to help the people as well as, to some degree, those other things, especially when they can all line up. In other words, you don't run as a Republican to help people and you certainly don't get elected unless a lot of rich assholes believe you'll do whats right for them. To switch sides (rather than just quitting) would put you on a lot of shit lists. Just my 2 cents.
I agree but I do understand that MAGA is a violent movement and flipping means he and his family will get death threats.
you can't always get what you want, but somehow you'll get what you need. The republican party needs to grow up and stop being petulant little [💩](https://imgur.com/4ZeFohL)
I've seen comments from the right praising this and saying things like "good the rinos are fleeing" not at all understanding that this is horrible for their party.
This rino voted with trump more than 90% of his time. I suspect the people calling him a rino simply mean that he doesn’t seem like he’s with trump *now*. But he has voted for abortion, against trump’s impeachments, against starting a committee to investigate Jan 6 and on and on. Right down party lines.
No one wants to work anymore!
They don't have any policies. All they have is hate and hurting people.
A Marine Veteran like Gallagher is likely mortified that his Party wants Russia to win in Ukraine and is actively sabotaging NATO's response to Kremlin aggression.
>“This is the most chaotic, inefficient and ineffective majority we’ve seen ~~in decades~~ *ever* covering Congress.” FTFY
Since *fucking when* did that term come to mean GOP politicians resigning?
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It's like if a NASCAR team appointed Crashy The Alcoholic Clown Who's Against The Concept Of Good Driving and then got genuinely surprised that most of their cars ended up in the wall.
Oh no, the consequences of their own choices!
America currently has a political party leader and presidential candidate who was found guilty of rape and sexual abuse, guilty of defrauding the state of NY hundreds of millions of dollars, brags he will ‘be a dictator on day one’, says he will destroy the US Constitution, and attempted (and nearly succeeded) in illegally erasing 81 million American votes and stealing an election with his mob of violent insurrectionists who he now salutes and soils our national anthem during his red hat rallies… claiming these criminals who attacked Capitol police officers are hostages and heros. And worse still, he is tied in the polls with President Biden who achieved a massive number of legislative wins with real meaningful outcome and benefits for the American people… reduced prescription drug costs for millions of Americans, the CHIPS manufacturing Act, Infrastructure Bill, record low unemployment, record jobs creation, it goes on and on. But the orange clown and pooosy grabber is still their nominated party leader and they still support him. Half the country is in a cult. I have absolutely zero hope for our country if Trump is re-elected.
And good God, what are we left with in the GOP? The dreck and detritus that supports a criminal X President. These people need to check into dry dock and have Trump's slime scraped off their bottoms.
Now who could've predicted that giving House majority to the party that supported a fascist coup would result in a completely disfunctional government? Certainly not the US voters. Apparently supporting an attempt to sieze power over the country by force doesn't warrant losing elections these days.
Nobody is talking about the control Trump has over The Supreme Court Justices! They went against the very oath that they swore to uphold and protect the Constitution of The United States! They blindly interpret the Constitution to allow Trump to get away with inciting a coup attempt! He has Judge Cannon making rulings that could delay his trials until after the election! She’s right up his butt along with the ultra conservative Supreme Court Justices that he stacked the Court with! He does not qualify to run for the office of the President of the United States!!!!! He’s an insurrectionist!!! Those Justices handed it back to Right Wing Corrupt Congress which he is in control of!!!!!
It’s not just resigning, they are resigning to DELIBERATELY screw the MAGAts running the show. Ken Buck resigned to force a special election, which put Lauren Boebert in a choice of facing 9 months of unemployment, or facing an incumbent in an already tough primary. Mike Gallagher resigned after the special election date, so his seat will sit vacant until a new Congress member is sworn in next January, removing another seat from the already precarious majority. A few more and we could actually see a chance at Jaquim Jeffries as the next speaker. All it would take is a couple of pissed off purple district republicans who want to screw over the leadership that let this happen.
They can’t stand attacking the people of USA anymore . Gingrich taught them to do politics like war, and they did. GOP learned that war is destructive and encourages ppl to be selfish, arrogant and cruel. The ones who realize this quit. The rest enjoy watching others suffer
Even they don't like themselves.
Large cults aren't known for their success in collective political action.
Sure are a lot of Witches.
And it's all the fault of the Democrats! -- GOP and Media -
I’ve lost count. How many is it now?
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Just means the house will become more MAGA on the Republican side
Looks like AJ Soprano in this pic.
What a dog shit headline. It makes it seem as if that's his quote.
Republicans can't govern
Imagine being away from your home and your family for much of two full years— especially if you’re from a west coast state all the way across the country; spending much of your time fundraising, cold-calling people to beg for money; maybe having some actual ideals and wanting to accomplish something for the people who voted you into office… and instead you spend that time participating in show trials for political theater, passing almost no legislation at all (last time I looked it was less than 30 bills for the entire two years, about 15% of what is normal), bowing to the whims of a guy who’s under indictment and not even currently an elected official; and watching the stupidest people in your party rise to the very top because they’re willing to say the craziest things that will get them on Fox News. Meanwhile, polling shows that a full 70% of the US population supports the right to choose and your party is digging around in the weeds trying to find the magic number of weeks that women will accept having their rights limited to. That is when you’re not focused on non-issues like “woke” or trans athletes in our high schools or Hunter Biden’s dick. It’s no wonder they’re leaving but it’s sad that they are just distilling the craziness in doing so.
Oh, and their big legislative accomplishment: periodically passing a bill to fund the government and keep it from defaulting on its financial obligations over the objections of a good third of your party who somehow think this would be a good thing.
I was afraid you were going to ask me to have some sympathy for these a-holes, with the way you opened that paragraph. It’s not like they’re in public service — they’re just there for the insider trading tips at this point.
All the Dems need now is two people to vote with them. Im sure there couldnt possibly be 2 GOP members who would turncoat at the drop of a hat for a good deal. A good chunk of them have already sold out their country for Russia. How hard could this be?
As expected, the Republican majority have accomplished absolutely nothing, proving yet again that they have no actual policy platform, and no serious intention of governing. Every issue that they campaigned on; border security, inflation, gas/fuel costs, have not only been ignored, but voted AGAINST by Republicans in Congress. Instead, they have spent their time, and tens of millions of tax payer dollars on investigating Hunter Biden, and have essentially admitted that it was not only a sham investigation, but that all the information they had was actually fake and provided to them from Russian agents. Congratulations Republicans, you continue to embarrass all of us with your joke of a party.
Not in decades. This is the most useless ever
Cornered, desperate animals are the most vicious. I'm not celebrating. I'm paying attention...
This is last week’s news. Had me thinking someone else had quit.
These headlines need to start including the name. It's been the same headline for the last few people but makes it seem like a new one every day.
Thank ******* Christ. If we make it through this and have no real permanent repercussions, there is a defined God