^are you talking about Tim Scott

7/29/2023 9:52:21 PM

I don’t think the broader gop will pretend even to like him

7/30/2023 10:42:28 PM

https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1686389110339244032?s=46

Quote :

" After the Covid vaccine came out, the adjusted excess death rate in Ohio and Florida was 43% higher among Republican voters compared with Democratic voters, this study found. There was no such gap based on political party before the vaccine."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617

Quote :

"Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic"

8/1/2023 12:11:08 PM

Fauci clearly engineered the VARUS to be more deadly to gun-loving Republicans.

8/1/2023 7:30:03 PM

^^ lol

8/1/2023 11:06:52 PM

Looks like pence has grown a spine finally

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1686819913833267227?s=20

8/2/2023 3:49:42 PM

Where has that been? Maybe now that he sees he has no chance to win he finally feels he has nothing to lose. Maybe still slightly annoyed about having almost been killed.

8/2/2023 4:08:13 PM

Checked r/conservative and there’s actually people starting to push back against the trumpists. Very few people relatively speaking supporting trump openly there even

The evidence in the indictments is basically impossible to ignore unless you’re deep into the cult

8/3/2023 12:42:38 PM

That said trump still dominating primary polling and first NYT biden/trump 24 poll shows a dead heat. Gop still deep in Trump land.

8/3/2023 12:57:30 PM

I don't know which thread this should go in, but Republicans winking statewide but then losing when their policies are directly on the ballot says something but I'm not sure what. Re ohio

8/8/2023 11:18:24 PM

it means that they’re going to quadruple down on any way they can to wipe out any form of democracy that’s left

thankfully, it’s gonna be harder than they hoped, thanks to their attacks on bodily autonomy

8/9/2023 1:25:55 AM

I don't know about any of that, but the GOP is really looking stupid with all these Barbie criticisms.

It's a movie, get over it.

8/9/2023 8:54:36 AM

So many ways to look stupid, but so little time to waste taxpayers' money in legislatures! The great struggle of our day!

8/9/2023 11:38:26 AM

Mark Meadows also indicted

8/14/2023 11:20:27 PM

https://www.threads.net/@reallyamerican1/post/CwNgLXSgsys/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

He makes Hillary seem charismatic

8/21/2023 11:29:06 AM

The cocaine teeth grind? Please spread this new conspiracy

8/21/2023 12:06:29 PM

Probably Adderall. I bet a lot of politicians take it.

8/21/2023 12:11:04 PM

tgl dude said:

Quote :

" https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1686389110339244032?s=46 After the Covid vaccine came out, the adjusted excess death rate in Ohio and Florida was 43% higher among Republican voters compared with Democratic voters, this study found. There was no such gap based on political party before the vaccine. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617 Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic "

part of it also probably has to do with republicans being old
but yeah, even with that, still pretty significant

[Edited on August 21, 2023 at 10:14 PM. Reason : --]

8/21/2023 10:13:50 PM

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-mitch-mcconnell-appears-freeze-kentucky-event-rcna102583

8/30/2023 5:27:54 PM

It really does surprise me that we're that far gone that him and Feinstein haven't resigned yet.
Their governors can just appoint another person of their party.

Gotta have some dignity. the senate can clap for you and whatever as you walk out, it's done

[Edited on August 30, 2023 at 5:58 PM. Reason : -]

8/30/2023 5:57:46 PM

Last night's debate was more painful to watch than the first debate.

9/28/2023 9:32:14 AM

McCarthy ousted. LOL. Who will be next?

10/3/2023 6:49:26 PM

Trump

10/3/2023 7:16:38 PM

I don’t see this working out for the gop under any scenario

If we get to the end of the CR and the gov shuts down people will be pissed

If moderate gop works with Dems to pass funding, Magas will melt

I might be missing something but I don’t see any way for them to win

10/3/2023 8:32:29 PM

^^
I realize that's technically possible, but is that a serious prediction on your part?

10/4/2023 6:33:17 AM

Scalise

10/4/2023 9:43:23 AM

^^ as serious as anyone else they would nominate

plenty of them publicly supported him for it last night

10/4/2023 11:01:41 AM

^No, not really. McCarthy was rather to the right, but there are more central/moderate Republicans who could take the gavel. Trump wouldn't even want to be speaker.

The question is, who'd want to?

Scalise is already in leadership, I think he has a good chance.

10/4/2023 11:21:36 AM

the problem isn't who is Speaker. The problem is that it won't matter who is Speaker.

No Speaker can bridge this fundamentally untenable gap.

10/4/2023 7:13:05 PM

^^
Trump has dropped hints he wants to be speaker. The maga nuts in Congress seem to be solidifying the idea he should be speaker.

They’re playing into the hands of democrats by showing the world how big of clowns they are.

10/4/2023 8:21:49 PM

Trump won't want to be speaker. There is a reason he isn't attending the debates and all.
The dude is battling several legal cases and is running for president too, even if he wanted to, he couldn't. It's common sense. He drops hints about everything, that's just his style.

Trump being speaker is just a headline for MAGA hats to laugh over and people to cry over online for a few days.

If he does become speaker, I will have to wear the dunce cap in this thread though, so there's that.

Quote :

"They’re playing into the hands of democrats by showing the world how big of clowns they are."

This, however, is true. The republicans had one thing on the democrats in the culture wars, that they were supposed to be more normal/traditional, and now they look foolish.

[Edited on October 4, 2023 at 8:43 PM. Reason : -]

10/4/2023 8:42:43 PM

I think trump would want to be speaker. It lets him be the center of attention again which is his entire strategy to get elected. Doesn’t matter if he has court cases because trump has never cared about doing any actual
Work. And it lets him create chaos which is also advances his goals of destroying American government.

10/4/2023 9:08:38 PM

Trump isn't the antichrist lol. but I see your point

(this is an excellent setup for someone to reply: "No. He's real." as a cool atheist moment or "No. He's worse." as a cool... democrat moment.)

[Edited on October 4, 2023 at 9:33 PM. Reason : -]

10/4/2023 9:33:21 PM

You don't have to be the Antichrist to be an unbearable pile of shit.

10/5/2023 6:57:36 AM

I was referring more to this,

Quote :

"advances his goals of destroying American government"

.

10/5/2023 7:43:05 AM

he does want to destroy American government, tho

10/5/2023 10:30:22 AM

I was trying to figure out where anti christ reference came from

10/5/2023 11:01:57 AM

10/5/2023 11:35:14 AM

Jim Jordan is a real piece of work, but I will say he's seemingly more intelligent than McCarthy who is obviously very, very stupid. Are Democrats supposed to be rooting for Steve Scalise since he's less MAGA and more likely to try and actually govern? I can't say I'm surprised that McCarthy is gone, but one would think that Republicans would have at least attempted to see a few moves ahead of this self-own.

10/6/2023 1:36:33 AM

I mean, they aren’t even seeing TO the end of this self-own yet. They’re currently still hammer-fisting themselves in the balls.

10/6/2023 10:53:50 PM

They should pick Trump as the speaker

10/7/2023 12:02:37 AM

GOP IN DISARRAY

they are not serious people

they’ve never been serious people

10/12/2023 3:54:43 PM

Of course they have...but very few over the last decade or so.


Anyway, Scalise has dropped out. I guess he either did the math and saw that he didn't have the votes and wasn't going to get them, or he said "Why in the hell would I try this hard to land one of the shittiest jobs in the world?"

So that raises the question, is it Speaker Jim Jordan by default? Seems like he'd have a hard time getting the votes, too. This might turn into a dramatically larger shitshow that it already is.

hell even Jim Jordan is trying to push people towards Scalise for the last day or two]

I'm gonna laugh if after all of this and what's to come, it ends up being McCarthy again. I'm gonna laugh even harder if things get so dire that a centrist unity candidate gets it, after making a bunch of concessions to Dems, in exchange for a large chunk of their votes.

[Edited on October 12, 2023 at 8:16 PM. Reason : ]

10/12/2023 8:07:59 PM

Aside from just flat of refusing to govern or do their fucking jobs in an effort to make DC appear even more dysfunctional and toxic, what is the upside to this tactic? Are they going to stall and stall and stall and let the Democrats allow Hakeem Jeffries be the "fall guy" when the government shutdown actually takes place?

I know this is so absurd and ridiculous that it seems comical on its face, but given all the BS in Israel this is a really, really bad look from an international perspective.

[Edited on October 12, 2023 at 8:26 PM. Reason : .]

10/12/2023 8:26:25 PM

Rep from NY(I think can’t find article) said whoever trump backs will win, so gonna be Jordan

10/12/2023 8:41:46 PM

Quote :

" Of course they have...but very few over the last decade or so."

the wingnuts have always been there

they’ve just become more emboldened and unafraid to mask themselves

10/12/2023 8:51:40 PM

Quote :

"Rep from NY(I think can’t find article) said whoever trump backs will win, so gonna be Jordan"

But how??? Zero Democrats will vote for him and he's as MAGA as they come, so they're back at square one.

10/12/2023 8:56:13 PM

I guess we'll find out if Jordan can garner the votes.

I think McHenry will end up keeping the gavel.

10/13/2023 6:49:18 PM

You mean the (semi-)permanent gig?

10/14/2023 9:02:03 AM

It's the most non-choice choice they could make.

10/14/2023 6:56:24 PM