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Scalise withdraws from consideration.

McCarthy hasn't ruled out running again.

Jim Jordan could be nominated (puke!).


Courtesy of The Hill...

"Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) has one idea of how to pick a Speaker:

“We should just have a lottery,” he wrote on X. “If you lose, you have to be speaker.”"

 

Jim Jordan doesn't have enough votes......yet?

I keep hearing mention of him being an active member of the hard right Freedom Caucus, & a staunch supporter of NPD Trump.

What I don't see mentioned is Jordan ignoring a Congeressional subpoena, & possibly being charged in one or even two of the cases against Trump. And his Has No Legal Grounds requests for documents in the Georgia STATE case. To top it off he's the head of the House Judiciary Committee.

 

The clown show continues.

Live updates: Jim Jordan comes up short in second round of voting

 

Will the next SOH have to make the same kind Thin Ice deals McCarthy did? Most likely yes.

 

Hopefully no one from the Freedom denial Caucus.

 

October 24, 2023 - Rep. Mike Johnson selected as next speaker nominee

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/24/tom-emmer-house-republicans-speaker-race

Was Tom Emmer was a good overall choice, a reasonable compromise?


https://www.axios.com/2023/10/24/mike-johnson-house-speaker-republican-candidate

I'm already not liking NPD Trump's Johnson.

 

Oh great. Not only is Mike Johnson a magatard, he's a religious magatard.

Who is Mike Johnson? Five things to know about the new Republican House speaker


View: https://youtu.be/i2uQISrmo34?si=X_qAIIzIFhNFY5cm

 

Yeah. Shittyer shit under every rock.

 

Just nuke us all.

From his Wikipedia bio.

"On November 17, 2020, Johnson stated: "You know the allegations about these voting machines, some of them being rigged with this software by Dominion, there’s a lot of merit to that. And when the president says the election was rigged, that’s what he’s talking about. The fix was in. [...] a software system that is used all around the country that is suspect because it came from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela".[72][73][74][75] By October 2022, Johnson said that he had never supported claims that there was massive fraud in the 2020 election.[76]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Johnson_(Louisiana_politician)

 

A thought:

Mike Johnson's belief in Good White Christianity vs Clarence Thomas & Jenny Thomas.

We know the extreme right (TER) wants to do away with gay rights, & hamper minority (read as black) voting. I wonder if TER will ever go after interracial marriage? With Johnson as Speaker it's possible.

 

I not actually certain The Extreme Right/MAGA would go after interracial marriage. Something tells me SCOTUS would rule against any such laws, even if Thomas wasn't in the picture.

An even more bizarre thought: Thomas votes to uphold laws outlawing interracial marriages.

 

New York House Republicans forcing a vote to expel George Santos

We can hope. Removing George Santos might be a drop of water in a large bucket, but it's better than nothing.

 

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I'm dubious the TER(orisists) can really outlaw abortion gay or interracial marriage.
I don't think there's enough system capacity for 6-8 hundred thousand women to be jailed PLUS their co abortionist doctors, nurses boyfriends and Uber drivers...
I haven't looked at the marriage numbers but one would assume (because it's all hate based vindictiveness) the clergy or civil servants that marry them....
Who'd round them all up ? There are gay cops who will quit or not comply with clearly illegal directions, judges wouldn't hear the cases or quit... thousands of businesses will balk at the loss of employees and customers...it'd just be a tsunami of disruptive bullshit. It's all the antithesis of "freedom" it's faith based tyranny, period.

You can't fund your fantasy boogypeople for fun while your trying to reduce debt and fund actual practical reality. Fantasy is a luxury expense.

But we will still likely need to listen to the psychos muse about it -during their work days so, still on the clock absurd hate talk at the water-cooler of Fox spews.

 

TER has already outlawed abortion.

I not saying they would be successful in other areas, but if you look at how judicial system has been poisoned at multiple levels the fights could take place.

As it's been mentioned here a few times, all those seemingly small judicial appointments & election victories add up. Federal level, state level, county level, & city level. And we can't forget the local school boards.

 

Oh shit your correct, thanks for point that out. It's easy to forget not being female and not in a state that fully outlaws abortion. I don't know how I forgot... maybe I was thinking what Mike mentioned was nationally outlawed, I'm sure he wants that too.
I'm feeling toxicly overexposed to politics.

 

Vulnerable New York GOP House members ask Republican colleagues to vote to expel George Santos | CNN Politics

I'm so shocked.

Not.