• @[email protected]
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      I saw some of the base already worried he’s not as racist as they had hoped. Also, there is some butthurt about him supporting Ukraine. So how long until he gets accused of being a “RINO”?

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        The next budget is due in a month, so there’s a good chance he’ll be gone after that.

        So the lettuce has a nonzero chance of outlining his office.

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        While this would be hilariously humoring for most people I, opposing this fundamentalist scumbag want the debt ceiling deadline to occur without damaging the credit worthiness of the US government. So fuck them reps.

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        This is Murica, use a hamberder. Just homemade, cause those fast food ones never grow mold.

    • @[email protected]
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      They will hear this question whenever they present yet another insurrectionist speaker candidate. At least if the press in the US still has guts.

  • @[email protected]
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    I do not wish harm upon some members of congress, but I will take pleasure in reading their obituaries.

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        Well, I genuinely don’t think Virginia Foxx should be guillotined for being a rancid, evil, racist, human prune.

        So far as I am aware, she has not committed treason or heinous acts of murder. She should absolutely be ejected from Congress for her conduct, violations of her oaths through her corruption (and possibly jailed for that), and barred from any government position under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. When she ultimately passes, it will most certainly be to the betterment of our species.

        But even through all that, I do not wish violence upon her.

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    And now they’ve just made the anti-democracy extremist Speaker of the House.

    The GOP Speaker and presumptive nominee for President are both anti-American insurrectionists who want to tear down our democracy and institute single party rule. And the oligarch-owned media will absolutely shut up about it and pretend it’s normal.

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      I feel like the word “the” in your first sentence is misleading. He most certainly is AN anti-democracy extremist, but by no means THE anti-democracy extremist. The Republican caucus is lousy with them.

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      They’ve just made an anti-democratic Nationalist Christian extremist Speaker of the House - specificity is important.

  • MudMan
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    Wait, her name is Virginia Foxx? Bold to keep her stripper name when she transitioned into politics. I guess she was invested in the brand.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) was among a group of Republican lawmakers who shouted at a reporter who asked Vice Conference Chair and Speaker nominee Mike Johnson (R-La.)

    ABC News reporter Rachel Scott was attempting to ask Johnson about his stance on the issue during a press conference Tuesday evening, after he became the latest Speaker nominee.

    Johnson was surrounded by various members of the House GOP, who began to laugh and shout as Scott was asking her question.

    The first two nominees, Scalise and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), also failed to garner enough votes.

    He was one of 139 House Republicans who voted to object the 2020 election results in Arizona, Pennsylvania or both in the hours that followed the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, and was among more than 100 House Republicans to sign a 2020 amicus brief supporting a Texas lawsuit that aimed to overturn the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

    The GOP is becoming increasingly desperate in in its quest to find someone for the position former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was ousted in a historic vote earlier this month.


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    American Fascist Party. Yeah, I’m going to say it over and over.

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        There’s a handful of things I find myself having to repeat and repeat, to the point that it’s starting to annoy me. I’m sure someone is going to give me shit about it real soon.

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          Look. Soon enough these assholes will stop beating around the bush and make their move. It will be undeniable but they will skip right past shame and whole heartily accept the fact that yes, they actually are aligned with Nazis. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. During Bush they said they weren’t racist. During Trump they said they weren’t fascist. Next they will say they won’t attempt mass genocide.

          By then it will be too late.

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            You’re not wrong. Fascism isn’t coming; it’s here. And every time some fascist bullshit happens without consequences, they get stronger and democracy gets weaker. Fascist leaders have seen no consequences. The American Fascist Party (I said it again) has to be called that, because not only are they refusing to eject fascists from their ranks, they are promoting them to positions of real power.

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      Republicans would veto a bill that banned abortion nationwide and provided free guns for the babies if it raised taxes on the rich by 0.1%.

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        Free guns for the babies?? Get outta here with that commie shit, those lazy babies have to pull themselves by their bootstraps and get a second job to pay for their gun loans

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      Vote republican! You’ll be on the winning team and that’s the full scope of our marketing tactic. Nothing else. Just “join us and be a winner”.

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        “I’m hungry, let’s go get something to eat”

        “Cool how about tacos?”

        “No, I don’t want tacos.”

        “Okay, how about Thai food?”

        “No, I don’t want Thai food.”

        “Well what do you want to eat?”

        “I don’t know, you pick something.”

        Except policy.

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          132 years ago

          Picks something…

          “This sucks! (upends table and food) I’m in charge of picking where we eat, now…it’s your fault we’re going hungry!”

          Lather, rinse, repeat.

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      Which is pretty weird considering many of them aren’t wealthy and only stand to lose from such policies.

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    Damn. This final season of Handmaid’s Tale getting a sneaker release as an Alternate Reality “Game” (or whatever this is) was sure an interesting production choice.