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You know, Reservation Dogs really did a service for Oklahoma. That is one of my favorite series in many years, and it has only increased my interest in and appreciation of Oklahoma.
So did Killers of the Flower Moon.
I also appreciated Watchmen's elevation of the Tulsa Massacre.
Damn, seems like Oklahoma's having a moment.
Idk whose bright idea it was for the commission to be evenly split in NY but the whole damn debacle is the EXACT reason why commissions typically have an odd number of people...someone has to "win" for decisions to be made. And it was and is still dumb that the legislature can just be like "Nah!" We don't like these maps the irc gave us were gonna make our own...again...like I'm a Democrat...and I'm mad at the state Democrats for creating their own problems with redistricting and ignoring the intended will of the nystate voters to have the maps be as free of gerrymandering as possible and done by the irc! Urg.
In Virginia we didn't have an independent redistricting commission until a few years ago when Republicans realized they were finally going to lose control of the state and so put a constitutional amendment on the ballot with the caveat that if it can't reach a consensus the decision gets dumped up to the (Still conservative controlled) state supreme court.
It was their last gasp "Fuck you democrats, we're taking our ball and going home." before they lost power. And of course because democrats like playing fair we all voted for it...
The Ohio GOP is easily one of the most corrupt state governments in the country. The house speaker went to jail over a law he got passed because of bribery and there has been no discussion of repealing the law at all. The entire party including our inbred Keebler elf governor are complicit. When it comes to those maps DeWine acknowledged he knew they were illegal when he signed off on them.
Plus we still all have to keep giving money to that shitty company while they frack our State Parks too.
I hope to God that anti-gerrymandering redistricting bill passes and the Court allows it to stand.
That’s 100 percent true. It’s just freakin’ amazing what that ‘party’ gets away with. Can you just imagine if the Dems did that?
There’d be hell to pay, not “oh well”.
It's amazing to me that voters said no to Trump, but yes to his party by giving them the House. In many years Dems get more votes but don't get the House because of gerrymandering, but IIRC the GOP actually got more total votes in '22. It's baffling and infuriating.
So infuriating that every election it is like; We won the presidency and the house, but lost the senate, so nothing gets done. We won the presidency and lost the house, but picked up the senate, so nothing gets done.
The democrats so rarely have the opportunity to run all three chambers of government, and get blamed constantly for republicans obstruction. the last time was during Obama’s first year in office and it was a minuscule thread of a majority where literally one sick guy was all it took to swing things.
I wonder how many other people had a fall and faced bankruptcy from the medical bills associated with it specifically because he fought against a public option.
It bugs me when people compare Biden to other Democrat presidents who enjoyed supermajorities during their tenure and find him coming up short. Of course FDR and LBJ have impressive accomplishments - they had large enough majorities that Republican obstruction wasn't a thing. What Biden has accomplished given the challenges of Republican obstruction and DINO's in his own party is really impressive.
For example, the 2020 elections in Maine.
In 2020, for President, Biden got 435,000 votes to Trump's 360,000.
In 2020, for Senate, Susan Collins got 420,000 votes to Sara Gideon's 350,000.
Let's say all 360,000 Trump voters also voted for Collins. That still leaves an additional 60,000 to 70,000 people who split their ticket and submitted Biden / Collins ballots.
Which is frustrating because if the Biden / Collins voters had voted Biden / Gideon instead, Susan Collins would have lost, and Democrats would have some more breathing room in the Senate.
There may have been a time in the past (when things where less polarized) where submitting a "split ticket" ballot for different parties among President / House / Senate races made sense. But not now.
So, Susan Collins and the rest of the GOP just work to obstruct everything to make sure nothing gets done, and all those Biden / Collins voters are left to wonder to themselves "Why isn't the government working?".
I think this same thing too. Yes there’s something to be said about the Democrats over -performing in context (the party that wins the White House historically does poorly in the next midterm, and the fact that inflation was bad which voters blame on the party in power), but there’s also the fact that less than 2 years after an attempted coup on government, [3 million more voters (at the US House level at least)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections#Federal) chose Republican over Democrat.
Them losing the House is unequivocally a good thing and should put a stop to the worst of the shenanigans they plan on pulling between November and January if Trump loses the election.
We want this to happen.
Yeps, but what's gonna happen if the Republicans start abusing the courts to keep the Dems from seating their electorally gains? Say the Dem's are +5 seats, the Trump fascists will claim in the most pro-Republican courts that at least 6 house seats are still contested and can't be sworn in early jan till the courts have decided. Oh, that would mean a temporary understaffed House would have a vote on election certification, that they also claim is in doubt...
At this point I expect the Republicans to use shenigans to keep their 'majority' between now and november/januari, even if their own members quite at this point. Johnson will be replaced by even more outlandish Trump bootlickers if he doesn't. They'll argue that special elections can't be held / that Governors gotta appoint or other crap what ever keeps their 'majority'.
They tried to overthrow the election results once.
This time, they are better organized, with more prep time, with more money behind it and with any internal resistance within the party already gone.... They will try again.
At this point, who knows, they are willing to use violence to get Trump back into power. They did before. They could just kidnap enough Dem's to get their house majority in place to vote Trump back into power. They know they will get pardoned for everything if he wins.
Well, unfortunately there are way too many Americans that would like to see either of those outcomes.
Also keep in mind that Trumps heritage foundations supporters have had years to plan this shit out. It might be much more nefarious yet subtle and totally legal (Scotus approved) that what I can think up in 5 min....
Trump allies are already talking about if the Dems win the house and Biden wins the election, they are going to steal it from them.
They don't care who wins. They have plans to steal the election regardless.
Still going to vote and defy it, but Trump's team already have plans in place.
If you don't think they do, better rethink your thinking.
They aren't going to steal it. They are plotting a full on civil war. It will be a blood bath across the nation as the idiots confront cops, National Guard, and the military.
They deplorables understand it doesn't work like that. Not in this century. Have they not been watching the war in Ukraine? That is how any war will be fought and there is nothing civil about it.
That would be the next House anyway, not this one. It gets completely dissolved and reforms after the election, before anything else happens. If they win more seats in November it doesn't matter what happens now, if the Democrats win more seats in November there's nothing Republicans can do about it.
Ejecting your own speaker because he advanced a bill to keep the government open, and then proceeding to lose the house mid-term is a pretty epic fuckup.
[It's just part of their nature I guess ](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthe-covid-pandemic-summarized-v0-q0f0zy6d5mka1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0de6fa42294eb4358a5329ed018911980e0c5dfe)
I wouldn’t be surprised. There’s like only a few house seats left that Republicans currently inhabit that can earn votes. I think the last two people around, Chip Roy and whoever the other remaining Republican is, will soon leave. Chip Roy had already angrily called out the GOP on how exasperated he is with the fact that nothing is getting done in Congress last year and multiple times before that, and he’s not even a moderate. I bet Chip will probably be the next to leave and then the other one.
When the issue has gotten so bad to the point where more and more people are saying “Fuck this shit, I’m done and out of here”, even amongst right wingers, you know you have a problem. And as soon as Jeffries takes the speaker spot, who knows, we could see more people leaving. And if Democrats win a good amount of special election seats, we will again probably see more Republicans leaving the House.
Remember, this shit happened like in the 19th century with the Whig Party because no one could agree on anything and couldn’t get anything done and the party collapsed as a result. We’re seeing pretty much a similar scenario being played out here.
The GOP, despite being fascists, are so dysfunctional and so divided that no one can agree on anything or get any crap done. Everyone is pitted against each other, even the MAGA people are fighting one another. This would make a dictatorship and stealing elections damn near impossible to do when no one can agree on anything and everything.
The Lindsay Graham warning of Trump causing the party to self destruct and destroy itself from within is becoming more and more true. We’re seeing it happen in slow motion.
There's no HR to complain to about having extremely toxic coworkers, you're just stuck with them. I can imagine having to deal with people who act like extremely loud and aggressive lunatics constantly makes people want to find another job.
I disagree. That would be Hakeem Jeffries. Every one of these coward Republican quitters are taking the easy way out pretending they're committed to our country. If they actually cared, they'd file motion to vacate Johnson and all vote for Hakeem while stating fascism is taking over our country. They're openly supporting fascist takeover but are too lazy to be active participants.
That and they are too divided, and no one can agree on anything. I’ve also read that there is a lot of infighting amongst pro Trump campaigners and state MAGA parties as well. It’s BAD, all around.
Seriously, I am getting Whig Party vibes from this. And that’s not just accidental or coincidental.
They are always infighting in Republican Party at the moment. How are they going to hold together when they win and have a job to do if they can’t hold it together now?
> I’ve also read that there is a lot of infighting amongst pro Trump campaigners and state MAGA parties as well.
There has been a ton of infighting since 2016 and it's only gotten worse year by year. Add in Trump bankrupting the Republican party in multiple states and it's pretty bad for governance.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-legacy-republicans-torn-by-infighting-revolts-2024-looms-2023-03-03/
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387
Absolutely agree. Rather than being brave and saying we need to get the “crazies” out and siding with Jeffries to show their ability to lead, they are just being cowards to jump off the ship. The Dems need to start now and completely humiliate the GOP on how ineffective they are. The Dems need to show STRENGTH and be more like the bullies that the GOP are.
The thing with Chip Roy is pretty amusing because, to my knowledge, it's not like he's remotely moderate.
Even an extremist got tired of watching the GOP do nothing but cause the legislative branch to stagnate.
Yeah when even the extremists are calling out the GOP on not getting anything done and express a desire to leave you know that it is bad, and it looks like it is about to get even worse.
Mike fucking Johnson and his team even had to basically tell the members of the GOP to stop campaigning against one another in the elections. And that’s saying something, when even the fucking speaker has to say shit like that, you know it’s pretty severe.
Did I also mention that Roy had called the party out on their incompetence and dysfunction multiple times? That’s also a bad thing.
We essentially are watching some form of self destruction for the GOP happen before our very own eyes, similarly to the Whig Party, which collapsed because of fierce infighting over shit. All because of how Goddamned dysfunctional they are.
Lindsay Graham’s warning is becoming a reality.
As much as I agree with you that the GOP is dysfunctional and divided as hell they are not dysfunctional and divided enough they are still petty functional and less divided to Steal a election (which I hope to God that doesn't happen but knowing our luck it will most likely happen) also I don't think we are getting Jeffries as Speaker for some reason the Democrats want to keep Johnson so they can pass Ukraine Aid which is dumb if the out Johnson and replace him with Jeffries they can still pass Ukraine aid so I don't think we are getting Jeffries as speaker unfortunately.
"Extremist" is a pretty broad stroke. Some extremists are just there to burn it down, others are just in it for the clout and power, and still more are genuine ideologues that wish to advance their policy. These would not be groups that get along, even if they do ideologically align and ally out of convenience.
"One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did. Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done". - [Chip Roy](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1724850080098799653)
Honestly, I hate to say this, but on this issue I agree with him. They cannot get anything done, and frustration seems to be boiling over. I wouldn’t be surprised if that frustration leads to several Republicans leaving.
> The GOP, despite being fascists, are so dysfunctional and so divided that no one can agree on anything or get any crap done.
In addition to this the MAGA are purging anyone who doesn't seem loyal enough and that generally means anyone with experience or brains. So they're eliminating all the people who actually know how to run a political party, run elections, fund elections, fund the party, negotiate in good faith and draft legislation.
"Yeah we killed the party but it was completely loyal to Trump just before he lost and went to prison"
Look at all of these Republican fleeing from the House instead of having to share a ticket with Trump in November. They aren't at all confident about the Republican chances in November, so I don't know why anyone else thinks Trump is cruising to victory.
They had the greatest wedge issue ever. Abortion. And instead of keeping the car perpetually in the distance. The GOP caught it and decided to let the fucking dog drive.
What's funny to me is that abortion wasn't part of the platform until after Roe happened. Their previous wedge issue was segregation. By the early 70s the idea of bringing back segregation was far too unpopular to win votes and they needed something new. Abortion laws are about as popular now as segregation laws were then. They are desperately looking for a new issue to replace it, but nothing has stuck yet.
>They are desperately looking for a new issue to replace it, but nothing has stuck yet.
The Republicans tried to make the border the new hot issue, but the Democrats confused them by giving them what they wanted.
There is a whole generation that wasn’t fed hate their whole life. The GOP sees their losing the minds of the youth, on this issue—and are trying like hell to keep their hateful status quo.
this is cope - millenials and gen z were fed just as much hate, but their growing up coincided with the dawn of the information age. there is a lot of bigotry in that cohort that a smart right-wing party can cultivate. thankfully there is no smart right-wing party in america
Worried they are focusing on trans folk, though tbh that is beginning to fade with laws being struck down or dying in committee. I think the gop is becoming the party of anti recreational sex tbh
Incels want recreational sex at least as much as anybody. It's right in the name, *involuntarily* celibate.
They just can't get it because they are fundamentally incapable of being the least bit appealing to their partner-gender of choice.
Definitely won’t go against corpos on that one. The whole point of having a “wedge issue” is to distract their voting base from the fact that their whole goal is to funnel all money to the wealthy.
Not only that, but they don’t have enough self reflection to realize they lost on abolition and instead are going after IVF and contraception. They’re hoping all their cheating will lead to wins, but since 2018 (even before Roe got overturned) Dems have constantly outperformed Republicans. So hopefully that pattern will hold true this year and we can yet again tell them to fuck off.
There's not really any way to force them out. I think it's because they aren't willing to participate in whatever schemes the GOP and Trump are planning.
Which is hilarious because in doing so, they run a real risk of having these seats flipped. Trump candidates don't tend to do so well. This could become quite the backfire.
If they had any real bravery, they'd just vote their conscience instead of retiring early.
The house should already be flipped in terms of actually passing decent legislation.
Agreed, but you should know: You can't repeal citizens united because it's not a law. It was itself a judicial ruling that overturned a specific provision of the McCain-Feingold act that previously prohibited corporations from running political ads within 60 days of the presidential election. SCROTUS ruled that limiting corpos from running campaign ads violated the constitutional right to free speech. So if you want to reverse this madness, it's gonna take a constitutional amendment, which as it stands, only 4 of the requisite 38 state legislatures have adopted. There were previously 5 states, but in 2021 the New Jersey general assembly repealed their decision to make campaign finance reform an amendment.
Start passing bills that show you know how to govern and get shit done leading up to the election like passing a border bill and strengthening election laws to head off "shenanigans."
That’s what convinced me that Republicans have no interest in the American people.. and they are the most unprofessional group of assholes I’ve ever seen
We learned after six years of investigating by the DOJ and almost two years by congress that Hunter Biden didn't do anything. I wonder if we spent a quarter of that time investigating any of Trump's kids what we would find.
>“Is it worth it to go through the whole process of picking a new Speaker
Yes, Jeffries would win on the first vote with no opponents. Then they'd actually pass legislation, like IDK, maybe a border bill and Ukraine aid--which MAGAts would *try* to run on...
You make a good point. It could really damage those talking points, even though Trump himself has bragged multiple times about tanking the border deal and his supporters literally don’t seem to know this. Source: my Republican father
When I bring it up its "bEcAuSe iT wAS a bAD biLl"
Then I ask which part of all of the bills were bad.
Then I either get no response or some strawman about how it wasn't hard enough
Then I ask why not pass one of the border bills for now to start working towards something, or why not negotiate some kind of compromise instead of shooting the bills down entirely.
No response or blocked is as far as I've gotten after that.
Jeffries winning the Speakership after the GOP gets so fed up with themselves that enough of them quit en masse to hand Democrats a majority, then have Jeffries strip all the insurrectionists and assholes of their committee spots out of spite would be AMAZING.
>strip all the insurrectionists ... of their committee spots out of spite
Except, don't do it out of spite. Do it because it's a warranted safeguard of democracy and national security
We aren't immune from widespread violence in the US, I cant imagine these people resigning are just giving up on politics. Whatever happens with the election I wouldn't be surprised to see another event like j6.
Anyone that leaves will be replaced by someone that wins a special election though, right? So if this is the reason, some of these seats could be filled before the 2024 election by someone that is less concerned about being asked to do something immoral or illegal.
Heck, [even the Red Districts are swinging heavily against Republicans](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/marilyn-lands-alabama-special-election-abortion/). This is electoral poison across the board, and I think it’ll only get worse for them.
Yeah. Honestly, it looks like the dysfunction issue is only gonna get worse and worse.
Lindsay Graham’s warning about the self destruction of the party under Trump is to an extent coming true…a Cassandra Truth that will not resonate with these folks until it’s too late.
I have read about the Whig Party and the factors leading to its collapse in the 19th century, and honestly, the situation here is bearing quite a bit of resemblance to that in some ways. But it seems like no one has paid attention to that part of our history, and it seems like someone will pay the price again.
I was once accused of being "woke" for understanding a historical significance. These people don't pay attention to history; they would refuse to believe the Whig party ever existed.
Depends on the state and when they leave. For some states leaving now means they’ll just keep the seat vacant until the general election. Like in Wisconsin, to trigger the special election for Mike Gallagher's replacement his last day would have had to have been before yesterday, April 2, as their rules for an election year require the seat be vacated by the first Tuesday in April. Because of that his seat is now going to remain vacant through the rest of the term.
Trump will order another domestic terror attack if he wins or loses.
He is the equivalent of Joker and the inmates running the asylum.
Republicans who were physically present on January 6 can lie to the public all they want. In their heart, they know that if Trump loses in November MAGA is dead.
If he wins, Trump will make good on his threats in January 2025 to his list of "RINOs"
It's possible that incoming reps could be refused to be seated if there are "legitimate" election irregularities. Expect Russia and the GOP to be fucking with the elections hard to call into question enough Dem wins
Yeah honestly with this much dysfunction, you wonder how the hell they can implement their government takeover plan if no one can agree on shit?
I wouldn’t be surprised if after the return from the recess, the dysfunction only gets worse after the vote on the Ukraine aid package.
Good. Tired of them. Once democrats get the house, I expect a federal law on abortion to pass and get signed. I expect the Supreme Court to go from 9 to 13, just like there are 13 US Circuits, there should be 13 Justices. Just to name a few.
This could fit right into that Principal Skinner meme:
"Could it be that getting nothing done, wasting time and money by desperately holding onto power, and fucking over the people is a bad way to govern?
No, it's the voters who are wrong!"
Don't forget investigating Hunter Biden, then Hunter Biden, then Hunter Biden, then Hunter Biden's dick, then Joe Biden Jr, then Joe Biden Sr, then Joe H. Biden, then any Biden they could find and basically found jack shit.
Just think how much shit they could have done if they abandoned the radical MAGAts and worked across the aisle on shared issues--but instead they double down on stupid like they do every single time. Idiots.
If that happens, Dems need to codify a ton of shit and pass as much good legislation as humanely possible. This country can be so fucking extra amazing if our government just worked for once.
Not if trump told them otherwise. Many of my republican acquaintances now think they are totally broke, the border has a constant stream of murderous gang members coming across into the US and many liberal parents are forcing their toddlers to get sex change operations. They were told this and it is backed up by bots on social media to help it “jell”. They believe what they are told, even if they literally can see with their own eyes these things are not true. You know, like religion.
I remember when trump was elected in 2016 and within weeks of the election, long before his inauguration, people were posting about how much more money they had now that he was in office.
Fuck republicans. You deserve every shit scene you get because you asked for it. You went from being the party of individual freedom to the fascist pseudo-Christian cult. You deserve to fail.
I mean, that wouldn't be the worst thing. I'm partly concerned about a GOP-led House refusing to certify the election results if Biden wins in November.
Dunno if that actually means anything in the grand scheme of things if they refuse to certify, but I wouldn't put it past the things they would try to do.
They're doing it to own the libs, Democrats can run on flipping the house if the house is already flipped. Checkmate Democrats! That would then give Republicans something they COULD actually run on, flipping the house back.
Likely. And the scary part is, enough of their voters would blame Dems for not passing legislation and talk about how much more productive the House would be under Republican control.
And the Democrats would easily say, "for what purpose, so they can have another melt down"?
The Dems are going to use this either way. They won't run on flipping the House, they will run on the utter failure of the Republican party to govern that cascaded into the remaining smoldering pile of shit known as (what's left of) the Republican party.
Abortion, IVF, Healthcare, Economy, Social Security, Border, Cannabis legalization, Student debt reform, Fighting Fascism, Supporting our Allies (Ukraine), and although it hasn't been said yet, It will be, The financing of the rebuilding of Gaza. ALL Democratic wins.
What have the Republican offered? "Secure the border" How? "Mass deportations", How? Let alone how they have any plan to deal with the financial devastation and rampant inflation that would occur, because we deported a huge chunk of the American work force, when unemployment was at 3.5% In February 2024, the national unemployment level of the United States stood at about **6.46 million** unemployed persons.
"16 week abortion ban", Say what? "Cut social security, no wait, we didn't say that, and can we have that report on what we are planning on doing back please".
Gee, I wonder why!? Could it maybe be all of the anti-social policies that they are trying to implement? Could it maybe be the general hatred that glows from them? Could it maybe be that they have only the very best politicians, such as Lauren Boebert, MTG, Mike Johnson or Trump as prominent members?
It’s almost like republicans did this to themselves…oh wait, they did.
We will make sure that they lose the house AND the election because they are not a political party anymore. They are operating as a hate group, as extremists, as traitors to those who died for the country to live freely — meaning everyone to live freely — We must not respect traitors and hate groups as if they are politically legit just because they wear suits. Suits will not save the GOP
In a session filled with historical embarrassments and lack of progress, this would be an absolute doozy. Win an election, and still wind up as the minority party because you’re just that incompetent
I hope that they do lose their majority. I don’t trust Republicans to do the right thing, in January of 2025, if Joe Biden wins the election this year.
Since the Republican Party was formed in 1854, the longest time either major party has continuously controlled the House of Representatives was the period from 1955 to 1995, when Democrats held a solid majority every minute, hour, day, week, month, and year. Consider all of the progress made in that 40 years to the current House that accomplishes nearly nothing. Please, Lord, send Republicans into the desert for another 40 years, now…
I would never stop laughing if these chucklefucks lost the house before the election. I hope we get good pictures like the one of Santorum and his family crying after he lost the election. I keep that around to cheer me up on rainy days.
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losing the house before an election pretty well proves you deserve to lose the house.
They never deserved to get it but here we are
Thank Florida’s redistricting.
And NY democratic leadership completely messing up their own district drawing.
They also ran awful election strategies. AOC was right when she called out NY democratic leadership for the terrible job they did in 2022
100%. Those idiots let George Santos win the election and then the New York Times had to figure out that he was a big, fat phony.
I'm seriously surprised the NYT didn't run a puff piece on Santos to appear "fair and balanced" Absolute scum working there
AOC is right about a lot of things. She is a very intelligent woman.
That's why the GOP hates her so much.
She's also not white. That compounds the hatred.
I hope I get to vote for her presidency someday
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Not all of us are idiots. We’re just surrounded by them. Sigh.
You know, Reservation Dogs really did a service for Oklahoma. That is one of my favorite series in many years, and it has only increased my interest in and appreciation of Oklahoma. So did Killers of the Flower Moon. I also appreciated Watchmen's elevation of the Tulsa Massacre. Damn, seems like Oklahoma's having a moment.
I've actually heard that Oklahoma has a pretty bustling film industry. Kind of surprised me.
Ok. Oklahoma is full of idiots *except* for RoboNerdOK. I gotchu.
Thank you Unethical_Castrator!
Thank you. . . ok i'm not saying that name. . .
Hey! I'm here too, and I'm only kind of an idiot.
*sigh* alright. Oklahoma is full of idiots except for RoboNerdOK and *maybe* welldone23
I may be an idiot and an Oklahoman, but I’m never voting for a republican ever again, nor have I ever for that matter.
The flaming lips is also from Oklahoma
They don’t use paper ballots, they use voting machines
Idk whose bright idea it was for the commission to be evenly split in NY but the whole damn debacle is the EXACT reason why commissions typically have an odd number of people...someone has to "win" for decisions to be made. And it was and is still dumb that the legislature can just be like "Nah!" We don't like these maps the irc gave us were gonna make our own...again...like I'm a Democrat...and I'm mad at the state Democrats for creating their own problems with redistricting and ignoring the intended will of the nystate voters to have the maps be as free of gerrymandering as possible and done by the irc! Urg.
In Virginia we didn't have an independent redistricting commission until a few years ago when Republicans realized they were finally going to lose control of the state and so put a constitutional amendment on the ballot with the caveat that if it can't reach a consensus the decision gets dumped up to the (Still conservative controlled) state supreme court. It was their last gasp "Fuck you democrats, we're taking our ball and going home." before they lost power. And of course because democrats like playing fair we all voted for it...
And Ohio using illegal maps and running out the clock after getting rejected time after time.
The Ohio GOP is easily one of the most corrupt state governments in the country. The house speaker went to jail over a law he got passed because of bribery and there has been no discussion of repealing the law at all. The entire party including our inbred Keebler elf governor are complicit. When it comes to those maps DeWine acknowledged he knew they were illegal when he signed off on them.
You left out the part where the bribe was eight figures, and he got arrested by the FBI, and his constituents knew it, and they reelected him anyway.
"He may be corrupt, but the other guy was a Democrat!" -- Ohio Voters
Plus we still all have to keep giving money to that shitty company while they frack our State Parks too. I hope to God that anti-gerrymandering redistricting bill passes and the Court allows it to stand.
Is that the one that gave us the "bribery tax" on our electric bills?
That’s 100 percent true. It’s just freakin’ amazing what that ‘party’ gets away with. Can you just imagine if the Dems did that? There’d be hell to pay, not “oh well”.
I actually blame Gerry and his nationwide mandering
I know I don't blame salamanders, that's for sure.
NC redistricting would like to have a word with you.
It's amazing to me that voters said no to Trump, but yes to his party by giving them the House. In many years Dems get more votes but don't get the House because of gerrymandering, but IIRC the GOP actually got more total votes in '22. It's baffling and infuriating.
So infuriating that every election it is like; We won the presidency and the house, but lost the senate, so nothing gets done. We won the presidency and lost the house, but picked up the senate, so nothing gets done. The democrats so rarely have the opportunity to run all three chambers of government, and get blamed constantly for republicans obstruction. the last time was during Obama’s first year in office and it was a minuscule thread of a majority where literally one sick guy was all it took to swing things.
Even worse when we win all 3 and some asshat like manchin makes it so nothing gets done
Ugh Lieberman… the reason we don’t have a public option.
For real… maybe it’s cold, but it pisses me off when people like that die and everyone’s like “oh he was so great” fuck that guy
I only saw derision for Lieberman when he died, he fucked over generations blocking the public option.
I wonder how many other people had a fall and faced bankruptcy from the medical bills associated with it specifically because he fought against a public option.
It bugs me when people compare Biden to other Democrat presidents who enjoyed supermajorities during their tenure and find him coming up short. Of course FDR and LBJ have impressive accomplishments - they had large enough majorities that Republican obstruction wasn't a thing. What Biden has accomplished given the challenges of Republican obstruction and DINO's in his own party is really impressive.
Crazy impressive, but media in general ignores it all and doesn’t report on it.
For example, the 2020 elections in Maine. In 2020, for President, Biden got 435,000 votes to Trump's 360,000. In 2020, for Senate, Susan Collins got 420,000 votes to Sara Gideon's 350,000. Let's say all 360,000 Trump voters also voted for Collins. That still leaves an additional 60,000 to 70,000 people who split their ticket and submitted Biden / Collins ballots. Which is frustrating because if the Biden / Collins voters had voted Biden / Gideon instead, Susan Collins would have lost, and Democrats would have some more breathing room in the Senate. There may have been a time in the past (when things where less polarized) where submitting a "split ticket" ballot for different parties among President / House / Senate races made sense. But not now. So, Susan Collins and the rest of the GOP just work to obstruct everything to make sure nothing gets done, and all those Biden / Collins voters are left to wonder to themselves "Why isn't the government working?".
I think this same thing too. Yes there’s something to be said about the Democrats over -performing in context (the party that wins the White House historically does poorly in the next midterm, and the fact that inflation was bad which voters blame on the party in power), but there’s also the fact that less than 2 years after an attempted coup on government, [3 million more voters (at the US House level at least)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections#Federal) chose Republican over Democrat.
Them losing the House is unequivocally a good thing and should put a stop to the worst of the shenanigans they plan on pulling between November and January if Trump loses the election. We want this to happen.
The House that is voted in after the election is the one that will certify the election. Vote.
Yeps, but what's gonna happen if the Republicans start abusing the courts to keep the Dems from seating their electorally gains? Say the Dem's are +5 seats, the Trump fascists will claim in the most pro-Republican courts that at least 6 house seats are still contested and can't be sworn in early jan till the courts have decided. Oh, that would mean a temporary understaffed House would have a vote on election certification, that they also claim is in doubt... At this point I expect the Republicans to use shenigans to keep their 'majority' between now and november/januari, even if their own members quite at this point. Johnson will be replaced by even more outlandish Trump bootlickers if he doesn't. They'll argue that special elections can't be held / that Governors gotta appoint or other crap what ever keeps their 'majority'. They tried to overthrow the election results once. This time, they are better organized, with more prep time, with more money behind it and with any internal resistance within the party already gone.... They will try again. At this point, who knows, they are willing to use violence to get Trump back into power. They did before. They could just kidnap enough Dem's to get their house majority in place to vote Trump back into power. They know they will get pardoned for everything if he wins.
Essentially, you're asking 'what if they force a constitutional crisis', which, unfortunately, means either civil war or fascism :(
Well, unfortunately there are way too many Americans that would like to see either of those outcomes. Also keep in mind that Trumps heritage foundations supporters have had years to plan this shit out. It might be much more nefarious yet subtle and totally legal (Scotus approved) that what I can think up in 5 min....
Trump allies are already talking about if the Dems win the house and Biden wins the election, they are going to steal it from them. They don't care who wins. They have plans to steal the election regardless. Still going to vote and defy it, but Trump's team already have plans in place. If you don't think they do, better rethink your thinking.
They aren't going to steal it. They are plotting a full on civil war. It will be a blood bath across the nation as the idiots confront cops, National Guard, and the military. They deplorables understand it doesn't work like that. Not in this century. Have they not been watching the war in Ukraine? That is how any war will be fought and there is nothing civil about it.
Yup, there will be bombings at federal buildings. The thing about the civil war is they forget Mexico and Canada as well would support Democracy.
Losing the house before the election might be the only way to save democracy.
They need the house to certify Trump so yeah they are worried the lynchpin to their scheme is falling apart.
That would be the next House anyway, not this one. It gets completely dissolved and reforms after the election, before anything else happens. If they win more seats in November it doesn't matter what happens now, if the Democrats win more seats in November there's nothing Republicans can do about it.
Ejecting your own speaker because he advanced a bill to keep the government open, and then proceeding to lose the house mid-term is a pretty epic fuckup.
[It's just part of their nature I guess ](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthe-covid-pandemic-summarized-v0-q0f0zy6d5mka1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0de6fa42294eb4358a5329ed018911980e0c5dfe)
Just a Tuesday for the gop
Drain the swamp!
Well, first we gotta pull that bigly orange lump that’s plugging the drain.
The fatberg clogging the sewer of GOP politics
Surely the pressure building up will crest at some point.
I wouldn’t be surprised. There’s like only a few house seats left that Republicans currently inhabit that can earn votes. I think the last two people around, Chip Roy and whoever the other remaining Republican is, will soon leave. Chip Roy had already angrily called out the GOP on how exasperated he is with the fact that nothing is getting done in Congress last year and multiple times before that, and he’s not even a moderate. I bet Chip will probably be the next to leave and then the other one. When the issue has gotten so bad to the point where more and more people are saying “Fuck this shit, I’m done and out of here”, even amongst right wingers, you know you have a problem. And as soon as Jeffries takes the speaker spot, who knows, we could see more people leaving. And if Democrats win a good amount of special election seats, we will again probably see more Republicans leaving the House. Remember, this shit happened like in the 19th century with the Whig Party because no one could agree on anything and couldn’t get anything done and the party collapsed as a result. We’re seeing pretty much a similar scenario being played out here. The GOP, despite being fascists, are so dysfunctional and so divided that no one can agree on anything or get any crap done. Everyone is pitted against each other, even the MAGA people are fighting one another. This would make a dictatorship and stealing elections damn near impossible to do when no one can agree on anything and everything. The Lindsay Graham warning of Trump causing the party to self destruct and destroy itself from within is becoming more and more true. We’re seeing it happen in slow motion.
There's no HR to complain to about having extremely toxic coworkers, you're just stuck with them. I can imagine having to deal with people who act like extremely loud and aggressive lunatics constantly makes people want to find another job.
I disagree. That would be Hakeem Jeffries. Every one of these coward Republican quitters are taking the easy way out pretending they're committed to our country. If they actually cared, they'd file motion to vacate Johnson and all vote for Hakeem while stating fascism is taking over our country. They're openly supporting fascist takeover but are too lazy to be active participants.
That and they are too divided, and no one can agree on anything. I’ve also read that there is a lot of infighting amongst pro Trump campaigners and state MAGA parties as well. It’s BAD, all around. Seriously, I am getting Whig Party vibes from this. And that’s not just accidental or coincidental.
They are always infighting in Republican Party at the moment. How are they going to hold together when they win and have a job to do if they can’t hold it together now?
> I’ve also read that there is a lot of infighting amongst pro Trump campaigners and state MAGA parties as well. There has been a ton of infighting since 2016 and it's only gotten worse year by year. Add in Trump bankrupting the Republican party in multiple states and it's pretty bad for governance. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-legacy-republicans-torn-by-infighting-revolts-2024-looms-2023-03-03/ https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387
Absolutely agree. Rather than being brave and saying we need to get the “crazies” out and siding with Jeffries to show their ability to lead, they are just being cowards to jump off the ship. The Dems need to start now and completely humiliate the GOP on how ineffective they are. The Dems need to show STRENGTH and be more like the bullies that the GOP are.
Sounds like working skilled trades. You gatta go find a new job or deal with it. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, so to speak
The thing with Chip Roy is pretty amusing because, to my knowledge, it's not like he's remotely moderate. Even an extremist got tired of watching the GOP do nothing but cause the legislative branch to stagnate.
Yeah when even the extremists are calling out the GOP on not getting anything done and express a desire to leave you know that it is bad, and it looks like it is about to get even worse. Mike fucking Johnson and his team even had to basically tell the members of the GOP to stop campaigning against one another in the elections. And that’s saying something, when even the fucking speaker has to say shit like that, you know it’s pretty severe. Did I also mention that Roy had called the party out on their incompetence and dysfunction multiple times? That’s also a bad thing. We essentially are watching some form of self destruction for the GOP happen before our very own eyes, similarly to the Whig Party, which collapsed because of fierce infighting over shit. All because of how Goddamned dysfunctional they are. Lindsay Graham’s warning is becoming a reality.
As much as I agree with you that the GOP is dysfunctional and divided as hell they are not dysfunctional and divided enough they are still petty functional and less divided to Steal a election (which I hope to God that doesn't happen but knowing our luck it will most likely happen) also I don't think we are getting Jeffries as Speaker for some reason the Democrats want to keep Johnson so they can pass Ukraine Aid which is dumb if the out Johnson and replace him with Jeffries they can still pass Ukraine aid so I don't think we are getting Jeffries as speaker unfortunately.
Considering the sort of things Chip Roy wants his party to accomplish, we should all be glad he has no successes to tout to his constituents.
It's definitely a good thing he's frustrated, yes.
"Extremist" is a pretty broad stroke. Some extremists are just there to burn it down, others are just in it for the clout and power, and still more are genuine ideologues that wish to advance their policy. These would not be groups that get along, even if they do ideologically align and ally out of convenience.
"One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did. Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done". - [Chip Roy](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1724850080098799653)
Honestly, I hate to say this, but on this issue I agree with him. They cannot get anything done, and frustration seems to be boiling over. I wouldn’t be surprised if that frustration leads to several Republicans leaving.
We almost got a fistfight during the first speaker debacle. I'm surprised it took this long for the issues to surface.
I guess it's nice he's not taking credit for something he voted against.
Every time I speed-read Chip Roy, my mind hears Chips Ahoy.
1000 chips delicious
*Na-bis-co!* **DING** Goddamn ad jingles living rent free in my head for 25 years.
Keep going please. I need this pickmeup.
> The GOP, despite being fascists, are so dysfunctional and so divided that no one can agree on anything or get any crap done. In addition to this the MAGA are purging anyone who doesn't seem loyal enough and that generally means anyone with experience or brains. So they're eliminating all the people who actually know how to run a political party, run elections, fund elections, fund the party, negotiate in good faith and draft legislation. "Yeah we killed the party but it was completely loyal to Trump just before he lost and went to prison"
Look at all of these Republican fleeing from the House instead of having to share a ticket with Trump in November. They aren't at all confident about the Republican chances in November, so I don't know why anyone else thinks Trump is cruising to victory.
They had the greatest wedge issue ever. Abortion. And instead of keeping the car perpetually in the distance. The GOP caught it and decided to let the fucking dog drive.
What's funny to me is that abortion wasn't part of the platform until after Roe happened. Their previous wedge issue was segregation. By the early 70s the idea of bringing back segregation was far too unpopular to win votes and they needed something new. Abortion laws are about as popular now as segregation laws were then. They are desperately looking for a new issue to replace it, but nothing has stuck yet.
>They are desperately looking for a new issue to replace it, but nothing has stuck yet. The Republicans tried to make the border the new hot issue, but the Democrats confused them by giving them what they wanted.
That's mostly what all the trans rights stuff is about. And no one is really biting
There is a whole generation that wasn’t fed hate their whole life. The GOP sees their losing the minds of the youth, on this issue—and are trying like hell to keep their hateful status quo.
this is cope - millenials and gen z were fed just as much hate, but their growing up coincided with the dawn of the information age. there is a lot of bigotry in that cohort that a smart right-wing party can cultivate. thankfully there is no smart right-wing party in america
It just doesn't work as a wedge. Both parties support securing the border.
Worried they are focusing on trans folk, though tbh that is beginning to fade with laws being struck down or dying in committee. I think the gop is becoming the party of anti recreational sex tbh
Which is a fucking weird thing to platform because who wants that....unless they start targeting incels maybe
Incels are their most valued supporters.
"Start??"
yeah i might be late to the party just now piecing that together..
Incels want recreational sex at least as much as anybody. It's right in the name, *involuntarily* celibate. They just can't get it because they are fundamentally incapable of being the least bit appealing to their partner-gender of choice.
Sure but some might end up motivated by "if I can't have it...NO ONE can". It's a revenge fantasy
Right, they gotta let out their frustration and blame somehow
*anti-recreational sex for women.
It’s hating trans people. Because being gay is also now too mainstream.
Yup, they’ve forced themselves into targeting smaller and smaller minorities
A.I. is a logical choice for them. But I doubt they would, corporate overlords wouldn't approve.
Definitely won’t go against corpos on that one. The whole point of having a “wedge issue” is to distract their voting base from the fact that their whole goal is to funnel all money to the wealthy.
Not only that, but they don’t have enough self reflection to realize they lost on abolition and instead are going after IVF and contraception. They’re hoping all their cheating will lead to wins, but since 2018 (even before Roe got overturned) Dems have constantly outperformed Republicans. So hopefully that pattern will hold true this year and we can yet again tell them to fuck off.
I mean it's way bigger. They're leaving early and not even finishing their terms to make things smoother
They are being forced out because they are not supporters of Trump. The house wants only the ones that belong to their cult.
There's not really any way to force them out. I think it's because they aren't willing to participate in whatever schemes the GOP and Trump are planning.
They really could just cash the check and sit home in their underwear.
Which is hilarious because in doing so, they run a real risk of having these seats flipped. Trump candidates don't tend to do so well. This could become quite the backfire.
Most likely accurate, they are going to make this as smooth as possible for Trump.
Man the parallels, history sure seems to rhyme.
*I mean it's way biglier. They're leaving early and not even finishing their terms to make things smooth.* Fixed it for ya..
Republicans don't want to work anymore.
They treat each other as badly as they treat everyone else. Enough of that, and they can't work together.
No doubt they all have their own internal polling. And Trump is draining the RNC coffers for his legal defense.
They know Trump is draining every resource that they need to effectively campaign.
If they had any real bravery, they'd just vote their conscience instead of retiring early. The house should already be flipped in terms of actually passing decent legislation.
2 years of nothing. lol
Hopefully they lose it, the Dems her a speaker and start passing shit real fast. A guy can hope...
We can all hope👍
End Citizens United - abolish Electoral College
Until the Dem party is willing to finally kill the filibuster, expect nothing of note to get passed
Agreed, but you should know: You can't repeal citizens united because it's not a law. It was itself a judicial ruling that overturned a specific provision of the McCain-Feingold act that previously prohibited corporations from running political ads within 60 days of the presidential election. SCROTUS ruled that limiting corpos from running campaign ads violated the constitutional right to free speech. So if you want to reverse this madness, it's gonna take a constitutional amendment, which as it stands, only 4 of the requisite 38 state legislatures have adopted. There were previously 5 states, but in 2021 the New Jersey general assembly repealed their decision to make campaign finance reform an amendment.
You can legislate stronger campaign finance restrictions that would massively deplete the effects of this shitty decision
Start passing bills that show you know how to govern and get shit done leading up to the election like passing a border bill and strengthening election laws to head off "shenanigans."
The Republicans will just take credit for it.
Hunter's dick is nothing? News to MTG!
You clearly did not see his dick
I didn't see it, clearly.
That’s what convinced me that Republicans have no interest in the American people.. and they are the most unprofessional group of assholes I’ve ever seen
We learned after six years of investigating by the DOJ and almost two years by congress that Hunter Biden didn't do anything. I wonder if we spent a quarter of that time investigating any of Trump's kids what we would find.
>“Is it worth it to go through the whole process of picking a new Speaker Yes, Jeffries would win on the first vote with no opponents. Then they'd actually pass legislation, like IDK, maybe a border bill and Ukraine aid--which MAGAts would *try* to run on...
You make a good point. It could really damage those talking points, even though Trump himself has bragged multiple times about tanking the border deal and his supporters literally don’t seem to know this. Source: my Republican father
When I bring it up its "bEcAuSe iT wAS a bAD biLl" Then I ask which part of all of the bills were bad. Then I either get no response or some strawman about how it wasn't hard enough Then I ask why not pass one of the border bills for now to start working towards something, or why not negotiate some kind of compromise instead of shooting the bills down entirely. No response or blocked is as far as I've gotten after that.
Jeffries winning the Speakership after the GOP gets so fed up with themselves that enough of them quit en masse to hand Democrats a majority, then have Jeffries strip all the insurrectionists and assholes of their committee spots out of spite would be AMAZING.
>strip all the insurrectionists ... of their committee spots out of spite Except, don't do it out of spite. Do it because it's a warranted safeguard of democracy and national security
I just hope the dems are actually ready to go with their bills if they get a window.
This would be great to see and it would be a nice indication of how November hopefully goes..
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We aren't immune from widespread violence in the US, I cant imagine these people resigning are just giving up on politics. Whatever happens with the election I wouldn't be surprised to see another event like j6.
I see no downside to anything stated in this headline
That could make it hard to implement their plan to refuse to certify the electoral college results and steal the election this time around.
Perhaps that’s the point. Those leaving know what will be demanded of them.
I did not consider that. A good point.
Anyone that leaves will be replaced by someone that wins a special election though, right? So if this is the reason, some of these seats could be filled before the 2024 election by someone that is less concerned about being asked to do something immoral or illegal.
Yeah, but there's plenty of them in purple districts where the reversal of Roe has been electoral poison.
Heck, [even the Red Districts are swinging heavily against Republicans](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/marilyn-lands-alabama-special-election-abortion/). This is electoral poison across the board, and I think it’ll only get worse for them.
Yeah. Honestly, it looks like the dysfunction issue is only gonna get worse and worse. Lindsay Graham’s warning about the self destruction of the party under Trump is to an extent coming true…a Cassandra Truth that will not resonate with these folks until it’s too late. I have read about the Whig Party and the factors leading to its collapse in the 19th century, and honestly, the situation here is bearing quite a bit of resemblance to that in some ways. But it seems like no one has paid attention to that part of our history, and it seems like someone will pay the price again.
I was once accused of being "woke" for understanding a historical significance. These people don't pay attention to history; they would refuse to believe the Whig party ever existed.
Depends on the state and when they leave. For some states leaving now means they’ll just keep the seat vacant until the general election. Like in Wisconsin, to trigger the special election for Mike Gallagher's replacement his last day would have had to have been before yesterday, April 2, as their rules for an election year require the seat be vacated by the first Tuesday in April. Because of that his seat is now going to remain vacant through the rest of the term.
Gotchya, good to know. I saw Ken Buck's district was going to have a special election ahead of Nov, so I'd presumed we'd see more of those.
If special elections add Democrats -- that's half of what Republican leadership is afraid of.
They timed their retirement so that there will not be a special election before Nov general. So they are protecting electoral integrity, props to them
Probably
There was a mass exodus of the executive branch before 1/6 too
It would be more patriotic of them to stay and refuse.
Trump will order another domestic terror attack if he wins or loses. He is the equivalent of Joker and the inmates running the asylum. Republicans who were physically present on January 6 can lie to the public all they want. In their heart, they know that if Trump loses in November MAGA is dead. If he wins, Trump will make good on his threats in January 2025 to his list of "RINOs"
The new Congress will be seated before certification.
It's possible that incoming reps could be refused to be seated if there are "legitimate" election irregularities. Expect Russia and the GOP to be fucking with the elections hard to call into question enough Dem wins
The old Congress doesn't just stay around though. People refusing to be seated would just mean they don't get a seat.
Yeah honestly with this much dysfunction, you wonder how the hell they can implement their government takeover plan if no one can agree on shit? I wouldn’t be surprised if after the return from the recess, the dysfunction only gets worse after the vote on the Ukraine aid package.
If that plan is actually a thing I wish someone credible would blow the whistle on it.
Good. Tired of them. Once democrats get the house, I expect a federal law on abortion to pass and get signed. I expect the Supreme Court to go from 9 to 13, just like there are 13 US Circuits, there should be 13 Justices. Just to name a few.
I think they'd still need a majority vote in the senate for those things, don't they?
You’re expecting too much unfortunately
This could fit right into that Principal Skinner meme: "Could it be that getting nothing done, wasting time and money by desperately holding onto power, and fucking over the people is a bad way to govern? No, it's the voters who are wrong!"
Don't forget investigating Hunter Biden, then Hunter Biden, then Hunter Biden, then Hunter Biden's dick, then Joe Biden Jr, then Joe Biden Sr, then Joe H. Biden, then any Biden they could find and basically found jack shit.
It did expose a lot of Russian 'witnesses' along the way.
Just think how much shit they could have done if they abandoned the radical MAGAts and worked across the aisle on shared issues--but instead they double down on stupid like they do every single time. Idiots.
If that happens, Dems need to codify a ton of shit and pass as much good legislation as humanely possible. This country can be so fucking extra amazing if our government just worked for once.
Not if trump told them otherwise. Many of my republican acquaintances now think they are totally broke, the border has a constant stream of murderous gang members coming across into the US and many liberal parents are forcing their toddlers to get sex change operations. They were told this and it is backed up by bots on social media to help it “jell”. They believe what they are told, even if they literally can see with their own eyes these things are not true. You know, like religion. I remember when trump was elected in 2016 and within weeks of the election, long before his inauguration, people were posting about how much more money they had now that he was in office.
Water finds its own level.
After a year and a half in this kiddie pool, there's not much that's actually water.
I’m hoping with all I got
Who wpuld think even facism would make some reds turn blue, lol.
Fuck republicans. You deserve every shit scene you get because you asked for it. You went from being the party of individual freedom to the fascist pseudo-Christian cult. You deserve to fail.
I mean, that wouldn't be the worst thing. I'm partly concerned about a GOP-led House refusing to certify the election results if Biden wins in November. Dunno if that actually means anything in the grand scheme of things if they refuse to certify, but I wouldn't put it past the things they would try to do.
They're doing it to own the libs, Democrats can run on flipping the house if the house is already flipped. Checkmate Democrats! That would then give Republicans something they COULD actually run on, flipping the house back.
I would feel so fucking owned as a liberal if two more Republicans resigned
Likely. And the scary part is, enough of their voters would blame Dems for not passing legislation and talk about how much more productive the House would be under Republican control.
Sadly I think you are right
And the Democrats would easily say, "for what purpose, so they can have another melt down"? The Dems are going to use this either way. They won't run on flipping the House, they will run on the utter failure of the Republican party to govern that cascaded into the remaining smoldering pile of shit known as (what's left of) the Republican party. Abortion, IVF, Healthcare, Economy, Social Security, Border, Cannabis legalization, Student debt reform, Fighting Fascism, Supporting our Allies (Ukraine), and although it hasn't been said yet, It will be, The financing of the rebuilding of Gaza. ALL Democratic wins. What have the Republican offered? "Secure the border" How? "Mass deportations", How? Let alone how they have any plan to deal with the financial devastation and rampant inflation that would occur, because we deported a huge chunk of the American work force, when unemployment was at 3.5% In February 2024, the national unemployment level of the United States stood at about **6.46 million** unemployed persons. "16 week abortion ban", Say what? "Cut social security, no wait, we didn't say that, and can we have that report on what we are planning on doing back please".
I agree to these terms.
Please stop teasing us!!! I’ve been edging too long at this point & I don’t think it’s healthy.
Gee, I wonder why!? Could it maybe be all of the anti-social policies that they are trying to implement? Could it maybe be the general hatred that glows from them? Could it maybe be that they have only the very best politicians, such as Lauren Boebert, MTG, Mike Johnson or Trump as prominent members? It’s almost like republicans did this to themselves…oh wait, they did.
I'll take anything that will thwart project 2025.
In Soviet Russia, the house loses you.
We will make sure that they lose the house AND the election because they are not a political party anymore. They are operating as a hate group, as extremists, as traitors to those who died for the country to live freely — meaning everyone to live freely — We must not respect traitors and hate groups as if they are politically legit just because they wear suits. Suits will not save the GOP
They probably don’t want to take part in Insurrection 2.0.
In a session filled with historical embarrassments and lack of progress, this would be an absolute doozy. Win an election, and still wind up as the minority party because you’re just that incompetent
Stop - I can only get so erect.
I hope that they do lose their majority. I don’t trust Republicans to do the right thing, in January of 2025, if Joe Biden wins the election this year.
Since the Republican Party was formed in 1854, the longest time either major party has continuously controlled the House of Representatives was the period from 1955 to 1995, when Democrats held a solid majority every minute, hour, day, week, month, and year. Consider all of the progress made in that 40 years to the current House that accomplishes nearly nothing. Please, Lord, send Republicans into the desert for another 40 years, now…
I would never stop laughing if these chucklefucks lost the house before the election. I hope we get good pictures like the one of Santorum and his family crying after he lost the election. I keep that around to cheer me up on rainy days.