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  I think the lesson is stop voting for fucking Republicans, personally.
context: Lol. The GOP doesn’t learn lessons. Unless that lesson is “double down on the unpopular thing you’re doing and cheat or bend the rules to win.” >
  
  And blame the other side for everything you are actively doing. >
  
  It's actually ripped right out of Stalin's playbook. Goebbels was good at it but Stalin perfected this. 
  
  Everyone lock and step
  Never admit you were wrong 
  Accuse the opposing party of literally EVERYthing you're doing that's illegal 
  Murder or throw out anyone who dissents aka Liz >
  
  To mask their humiliation, /r/Conservative is pretending that they WANT childish gridlock to keep the government from working correctly.
  Just wait until their government checks start coming late. >
  
  They’ll find a way to blame Dems for the late checks. I guarantee it. >
  
  I've already heard the claim that the republican holdouts are actually democrat plants. >
  
  Yup. Every third comment is RINO this or RINO that. Republican meltdowns would be a lot funnier if they didn't hurt our country so damn much. >
  
  
  RINO this or RINO that
  
  RINO is now completely meaningless as a slur.  It just means "they don't agree with me" regardless of how they actually vote on things. >
  
  My Republican dad told me yesterday that Lisa Murkowski is a Democrat (which I've heard before) and also George W. Bush is a Democrat (which was a new one for me). Not just RINO, Democrat.
  It's as though the new paradigm is all there ever was. Anyone who isn't part of it is a Democrat. >
  
  I’d ask your dad if he thinks Americans that vote Democratic Party are his enemies and if he answers yes ask him what does it mean to be a free person in a free country if you can’t like different ideas. This shit is ridiculous. >
  
  The party that wants to cut Medicare and social security also needs the support of lower and middle income white people who very much don’t want those things cut. This creates an unsolvable internal tension. One way to try to cover this all up is to create a circus around CRT, pedophile grooming (and pizza chain sex abuse rings?), and just about any other thing that doesn’t involve talking about how you are going to make retirement impossible for anyone but the very rich. 
  The circus is a feature, not a bug if you are a Republican. You need it now because your unpopular policy positions will eat you alive if allowed to grow in the light of day. >
  
  Exactly and when Republicans control both houses and the presidency they only do tax cuts.  They don't dare to enact any of their other policy positions.  They only want power to obstruct. >
  
  
  They don't dare to enact any of their other policy positions.
  
  That's because "they" don't have other policy positions. Everyone should've been able to see this House Speakership fiasco coming when the Republican party was unable to make a platform in 2020. 
  The Republican party is actually wildly ideologically diverse. It doesn't really make any sense to have libertarians in the same party as theocrats. In terms of legislation, they're only united on tax cuts really. >
  
  They really are the party of, "Fuck you don't tell me what to do."  Who then procced to jump off a cliff or blow off a thumb.
  Weather it's super rich people who forgot we worked out taxes as a means where they pay for society and get to enjoy stuff, instead of us going all French revolution on them. Or just dumbasses who still think they are in High School and doing things like paying taxes suck, because what's in it for me?
  Crossed over with an underlying hate for others, be it other races, or just other people who aren't their social status.  It creates a dysfunctional powder keg, that we are now seeing spiral out of control.
  I have to wonder how long this will go on, and if Boebert's threat to nominate Trump will do anything?  I mean Trump won't get elected, but will the move further alienate the crazies from the "moderates," will it fracture the whole thing? >
  
  They're also the party of: "In the eyes of God you are my brother/sister and I want to save you."
  But also: "Why should I have to help poor people? They obviously chose to be poor." >
  
  "Our entire country should be guided by the Bible... but  also fuck the poor, fuck the homeless, and fuck destitute immigrants coming from Third World countries to make a better life for themselves and their families here." >
  
  And where in the Bible does it say that guns are more important women and black people? >
  
  Boebert 2:17 >
  
  
  Boebert ~~2:17~~ 3:57.
  
  FTFY >
  
  I was watching cnbc just now and some republican congresswoman was talking about how this is a representative government and that 10% shouldn’t be allowed to hijack the house.
  I sat there wondering why they didn’t remind her that the entire democratic caucus also doesn’t support McCarthy and that in fact his failure to get 50% is what’s causing the issue. It’s amazing the way Republicans think and as she repeated this over and over thought it was irresponsible to not call her out. >
  
  20 representatives are doing this. Not even 5% of the House. They don’t even know why they’re doing this. It’s clown car fulled by hate. Real life freak show. >
  
  I get a strong impression that Gaetz is the ringleader in this uprising. Not sure yet if he is doing it for Trump or if he just wants the media attention for himself. >
  
  The biggest concession they've dragged out of McCarthy is the dismantling of the house ethics committee (likely to be the only entity continuing to investigate Matt Gaetz for his various sex trafficking ~~crimes~~ unprosecuted allegations). >
  
  The 1 member being able to initiate a recall vote on the speaker instead of a majority of caucus is pretty big too. >
  
  That uh.. seems like a really bad concession to make
  Because wouldn't that enable the minority party to just.. constantly flood the house with recall votes? >
  
  No, a Democrat can't initiate the recall but any one member of the Republicans can. >
  
  Lol.... WHAT >
  
  The GOP are in the majority. The majority caucus and minority caucus can set their own procedural rules within their groups.
  By the rules of the house, for whatever reason, the minority caucus cannot elect a speaker, even though Jeffries technically keeps getting the most votes. So this term, unless half a dozen GOP members die, switch party, or quit, the speaker recall rule only applies to the GOP.
  Congress has nuts rules. >
  
  These are the completely predictable results of when a political party actively recruits the most antagonistic, paranoid, conspiracy minded, narcissistic members of society into their ranks… Big surprise!!! GQP cannot cooperate, even within their own tribe. >
  
  How much do you think Repubs are actively hating their own voter base for making these people their coworkers right now?
  (And do you think they ever quietly admit to themselves that obediently riding along the Trump wave is ultimately what did this?) >
  
  If and when McCarthy does ultimately lose to another, I hope he airs out all the dirty laundry about Gaetz, Boebert, and others nonstop. But he won’t, because he’s a self-serving coward who would much rather be humiliated nationally if it meant the slightest chance for more power. >
  
  
  humiliated globally >
  
  Yes. Canada here. I've been snickering for 36 hours straight. >
  
  
  Canada >
  
  Wow, using the F word. Way overdue. >
  
  Too bad far-righters project and called civilized people “fascists.” >
  
  They’ll likely dismiss it and call Oxford a “liberal” organization to discredit it. >
  
  At that point, doesn't matter. The people that are on the far-right aren't going to acknowledge reality. Especially on the internet. People on the left shouldn't expect them to.
  Anyone who isn't already on the far-right are the people you need to convince, and you gave them the info to do so. 
  That's all you can do, and hope that the independents or whoever else who hasn't bought into far-right lies are smart enough to see that refusing to accept a dictionary definition, or whatever else, means the people arguing against are absolute morons. >
  
  This is the way. Can't convince them all just need to convince enough people to get this threat out of our government. >
  
  This was true even for Hitler's party. It was all held together by one man. Underneath him, everyone hated each other, dispised each other, and couldnt wait to distroy each other. Thats why everyone started throwing each other under the bus in the end.  
  If you build the whole party based on hate, that hate doesnt disappear for your own teammates all of a sudden. >
  
  Not even at the end. 
  The Night of the Long Knives was a an out and out purge of their own ranks. After the SA (aka Brownshirts) had stopped being as useful as before, Hitler (at the insistence of Goering and Himmler) ordered the purge. It's no secret that those on the list were personal enemies of either Goering, Himmler, or both. >
  
  True. And then down the line, Goebbels turned on Goering, they each turned on Himmler, and Bormann kept whispering in Hitler's ears to get people like Fegelein killed. Everyone was out for everyone else lol, what a mess. 
  After Hitler died, the people in the bunker say that Goebbels was acting as the new leader, but nobody was paying attention to him. Just shows you how little they thought of him. Someone who practically built Hitler.
  Hate may destroy your enemies, but it sooner or later it will destroy you too. >
  
  It's crazy to hear all the republicans who are for Kevin McCarthy complain about minority rule and how it's unfair that the minority of their party is ruling over 80% of their conference. >
  
  The irony >
  
  Which is completely lost on them. >
  
  The promises McCarthy is making to this cabal of human vuvuzelas will do nothing but make an already bad situation worse. He’s handing them legitimacy and an outsized power. 
  He’s allowing a very small percentage of Congress to call all the shots, stop everything on a whim to get their way, and refuse to introduce legislation because they don’t like it. Even if the rest of the country does.
  McCarthy would already be speaker if he had gone after six Democrats instead of 19 do nothing, know nothing fascists and insurrectionists. >
  
  Lol human vuvuzelas >
  
  TIL. Was honestly expecting something NSFW but was pleasantly surprised.
  Thanks reddit. >
  
  Anyone who watched the 2010 World Cup is well aware of the scourge of the vuvuzela >
  
  Welcome to that old feeling where you realise there are people old enough to vote who are too young to remember vuvuzuelas from 2010.