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US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians
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-Don't interfere in GOP primaries (this is apparently the biggest one right now)
-Allow everything from 1/6 to be released
-Investigate FBI
And now this lolbertarian cocksucker from Michigan who voted to impeach Trump the first time is now wading around outside, wanting to be invited in
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He has the most votes but he doesn't have a majority of the House voting for him, which is what he needs to become majority speaker. There's 434 members of the House, so ordinarily you'd need 218 votes to become majority Speaker.
BUT, Representatives voting 'present' reduces the number of votes you need to reach a majority. It means McCarthy and Jefferies now need 217 votes to become Majority speaker. And Jefferies is currently a lot closer. That's why 20 McCarthy supporters don't just vote 'present' to ram him through, because it would mean Jefferies would become Speaker.
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"Oh no, members of a political party actually standing up for something. How terrible."
The Democrat Party member say with the Congressional Progressive Caucus on a tight leash, which he is part of.
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Starting hear a little Greig in the background….
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McCarthy just seems like a dumb motherfucker and this is funny to watch.
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McCarthy just seems like a dumb motherfucker and this is funny to watch.
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You see, this is why I’m so white-pilled about the future of Red States. Red States are generally self-sufficient, so they don’t absolutely require the fed.
We’re going to get more and more belligerent politicians in the fed as time goes on, making the most basic, reasonable demands and having the power to completely shut down the fed if the demands aren’t met. Every day the fed is shut down is a victory anyway.
This is actually a pathway to peaceful succession. Self-sufficient states with thrive and shitholes that only exist because of gibs will implode.
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A skilled conniving plotter he is not. It is amazing he was ever considered a viable political leader in the first place. Then again that was probably decided by some backroom dealings and not by any actual proof of competence.
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For them, party affiliation is everything. They simply cannot comprehend the idea that conservatives might be cheering on something that is actively detrimental to the Republican Party, because what’s bad for the Republican Party is good for the average American conservative.
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That would be great but don't be surprised if Jeffries or McCarthy win, and everything continues on as normal.
Secession. And lmao the fed covers blue states' deficits so the red states are always going to end up paying into the blue ones.
Also lmao at the idea of a peaceful secession. That isn't nor ever was an option, you don't "peacefully" leave a domineering abusive psychopath in an interpersonal relationship, let alone when they're the makeup of your government.
Likewise conservatives seemingly can't comprehend that people such as myself view voting for a party so corrupt it handicapped it's own midterm chances in order to oust populist candidates as abominable as voting for their nominal opposition.
I mean, assume that the FC actually manages to fuck over McCarthy, and gets what they want. No amount of promises spoken or on paper is going to prevent what they did in 2022 from happening again, because they very fucking clearly will do whatever it takes to prevent any non-globalist worldview from entering into the realms of political power using their party as a vehicle.
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I mean, I’m starting to wonder if any of them can politic, or these tyrannical thugs just got too used to getting their own way. Will Maxine here change one heart and mind with this? Quite the opposite.
Wouldn’t a smarter political move be to verbally support the dissenters, a la Ted Cruz complimenting AOC?
Wouldn’t a smarter political move be to verbally support the dissenters, a la Ted Cruz complimenting AOC?
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I'd like to congratulate the new Speaker of the House
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I know US politics is a national disgrace at the best of times, more resembling a bitching housing association meeting rather than a world power, but I don't really understand the 'strategy here'. So some Republications don't want Mr. M as speaker unless he caves to demands. The Dems are sticking behind their guy who won't get in because they don't have a majority. Isn't the big brain play here for the Dems to vote for Mr. M, pushing an unpopular speaker into play against the wishes of the overall Republican majority?
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
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I am looking forward to our resident analyst to deconstruct who fucked up and where in all this. New years getting off to a good start.
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Oh, that man would be a fucking riot if he got put in charge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries
He has no seniority, no experience, and as a result no real power, making him one giant puppet.
Remember, ten years in Congress is nothing when you look at how long Biden hung around in the Senate like a bad smell before becoming Veep. Pelosi first got seated in Congress in 1987, and it took her fifteen years of dick sucking (possibly even literally) to become the Whip in 2002.
Christ, his official photograph has him looking like a half-shaved gorilla.
The Democrats not actually having their own guy in charge, and the highly likely possibility that forcing McCarthy into power just unites the Republicans against him and the Democrats. One vote of no confidence later and next thing you know the GOP has put Jim Jeffries in charge out of spite.
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In what universe would the Californias and New York Cities of the world, who are utterly reliant on sucking away resources from other, more prosperous states, allow those host bodies to escape their grasp? There's no way.
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There's another, they want the ability for a single member to call for the ousting of the Speaker. McCarthy is apparently refusing to budge from his first offer of needing five members.
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Going off the stuff I've seen, I think McCarthy thought he could browbeat the Freedom Caucus into voting for him in round two after a protest vote, which was a really stupid move to make.
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It is clear McCarthy thought of everything but how to make a reasonable path for him to win. He even moved into the "speaker suite" without securing enough votes to get him there in the first place last night.
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I definitely agree that it’s optimistic to think that we’re going to get out of this completely peacefully but all the ingredients are president for an effective resistance against the antichrist.
Congress currently has the power of the purse and changing that requires a constitutional amendment (good luck with that, lol). The uniparty has the DNC under their complete control but the more they tighten their grip on republicans, the more they seem to lose control. (Which might finally inspire the thoroughly buck-broken Bernie bros and unruly progressives). Congress is going to devolve into an impotent shitshow punctuated by long shutdowns very soon.
Combine that with a heavily armed, angry civilian population, and it starts to become very possible to retard every bullshit, unconstitutional push the antichrist makes. The militia pushes from below and the politicians that slip through election rigging push from above.
This has always been the issue with a “controlled” demolition of a country. The slightest push can turn a controlled demolition into an uncontrolled demolition. The antichrist isn’t as clever as it thinks it is. You can already see the cracks forming in the uniparty’s façade. No one in America (both left and right) believes in the system anymore. It’s easier to break a system no one believes in and we benefit greatly when the system can no longer even function.
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The "populist" if you want to call it that, section of the DNC voter base has been well-heeled so they don't have to worry about it on that end, while the populist movement that's been trying to take over the GOP is still alive and kicking. The neo-cons and neo-libs that head both parties, and make up the majority of current federal-level politicians, are globalists, and as such don't want any actual political endeavors that would seek to bring us closer to nationalism and nationalist policies.
The uniparty is real and it's about time people stopped pretending it's "worse" in the DNC. If you're not entrenched in political bullshit (no sane person would blame you for that) I can understand why it'd be so confusing.
Well going by how things are progressing pretty soon you're going to see a bigass mask-off moment of some form or fashion for the GOP. As it's been made clear they won't tolerate or accept people who aren't in on the grift. As far as requiring a constitutional amendment I'll refer to the entirety of COVID as to why that's optimistic as all get-out.
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