comment: >
  
  Please don’t demean fanfic like that
context: Boebert, the gun-toting MAGA lawmaker who swept into Congress in 2016 
  
  Check your sources on this one, she was elected in 2020 >
  
  It's wild what electing a crazy person can do to change a perception of a place. I used to know nothing about the people of western Colorado, pueblo, and the area that makes up her district. Now it would not be possible to have a lower opinion of the majority of people there. I was surprised she almost lost reelection thogh. I can't imagine how embarrassing it would be having someone like that represent you. >
  
  Same with Sarah Palin and rural Alaska's reputation.
  "Alaska is a land rugged, quirky individualists."
  Nah, it's  snowbilly welfare queens on meth. >
  
  That’s a killer band name. >
  
  Gonna need an album name and track list please >
  
  
  Gonna need an album name and track list please
  
  Album: Pass the Pipe
  Track List: 
  (naming the album is far as they got, passing the pipe) >
  
  “My Meth Got Eaten By A Bear (and that fuzzy asshole didn’t share)”
  “Ain’t Easy Being A Ho At Fifty Below”
  “It’s A Beautiful Night For Domestic Violence”
  “Bridge to Nowhere (feat. Sarah Palin)”
  “Snowbound and Pound”
  “Frozen EBT Card Blues”
  “Long Winter and Short on Oxy”
  “I’m Frozen Stiff(if you know what I mean)” >
  
  I'd actually like to see this play out:
  1. Forces visible vote within the party to show where loyalties lie (just how fractured the GOP really is). 
  2. If Trump were to win the speakership, it would force him to decline (look weak) or accept (actually have to show up and work).
  3. If Trump accepted, it would give Jack Smith readily available access to him.
  They really don't things through, do they? >
  
  
  or accept (actually have to show up and work)
  
  Why would he "have to" show up and work? I think this is a nightmare scenario where he leverages the position to make it a continual campaign activity/donation grift. He'd be involved in the few areas he gives a shit about, makes haphazard appointments based on what he can gain from the favour/position and so on. He'd do fuck all about any work that isn't directly profitable or shows no gain. Basically, he'd treat it like he did the presidency. >
  
  Being the speaker also takes a lot of work and getting all the votes and working with others which Trump doesn’t do. So I could see him using it as “See!? I told you the government doesn’t work!” To try to steal more money from his followers. And his base would love it. >
  
  I'm sure Trump would just make the Majority Leader do stuff like that. He made it clear in his presidency that he's only gonna work when he wants to. Which isn't much apparently.
  Hey, maybe the deal is "make Trump Speaker, but Kevin McCarthy can be Majority Leader and still pretty much have the role of Speaker" >
  
  Yes, over a year ago, I came to the conclusion that if by some unholy quirk of fate Trump was elected as Speaker of the House he would relish the title and being able to appear on the news and C-Span.  However, he would just get some Republican Rep. to do most of the actual work.  Perhaps even Kevin McCarthy. >
  
  You elect crazy fucking clowns you get crazy fucking clowns. McCarthy should have known that before giving the crazies a rim job >
  
  Even if they did it, it would be disastrous for Trump himself to have the job. 
  The skills needed by the great Speakers of the past are completely absent in Trump. Keen political instincts, the ability to convince, cajole, reward and punish to achieve specific ends. The horse trading and subtle favors you have to constantly engage in are all thing Trump has no idea how to do. 
  "What do you mean I can't just tell them what to do?"
  The Speaker has no downtime. You are on 24x7 because there are 434 other assholes out there all scheming against you and for their own interests. >
  
  That’s why I would love for the GOP to make Trump the speaker of the house. It would be chaos because Trump would be golfing all the time. >
  
  
  Trump would be golfing all the time. 
  
  Hopefully spending more time in court than the course, but I'm not holding my breath. >
  
  His cardiovascular system will take him out before any of our institutions do. >
  
  She managed to over talk Hannity on his own show for the entire segment. The only value in watching that segment in for entertainment value. The freedom caucus don’t listen to anyone or anything. >
  
  I hate that we call them The Freedom Caucus like that's what they are. They're the White Christian Nationalist Caucus.
  Or to those who prefer it, the Nat-C Caucus. >
  
  They refer to themselves as Nat C’s, it’s just that our media seems reluctant to address nascent fascism in our midst, a less cowardly media would be nice. >
  
  Did she ask Trump if he wanted it ? I mean you don't get to spend 90% of your time in the speakers lounge or in marolago. >
  
  Clearly not.  Speaker is a job that actually requires work. >
  
  You know people said that about the presidency too. >
  
  Man Hannity looks unhealthy, he looks like he consumes nothing but xanax and quarter pounders. >
  
  I love how the lady that won her race by an asshair thinks she has the political power and clout to make demands >
  
  She has the same power that a toddler has when he plants his butt on the grocery store floor and screams his head off >
  
  
  Qanon Fan-Fic
  
  Isn’t that redundant >
  
  I don't wanna know the ships in political fanfics xD >
  
  I believe the mud wrestling between Bobo and MTG is over who can VP on Trump's ticket. Each one is trying to out metaphorically fellate Trump and his ego until they get the spot. >
  
  You made me imagine those two in bikinis mud wrestling. Damn you. >
  
  Hey, I'm not kink shaming you. >
  
  Having the most inarticulate president in history as ‘speaker’ of the House is the most classic Republican idea ever. >
  
  Of course she is. She’s a Trump minion with a capital M. Just a talking head without a real plan or idea. >
  
  Wait, if Boebert is a minion, what’s McCarthy?  Is he a lackey?  A flunky?  Perhaps a henchman or a goon? >
  
  Fluffer. >
  
  This would put Trump third in line to the presidency. Sit with that and its implications for a few minutes. >
  
  I can't think of a Republican that should be in that position. >
  
  Speaker of the big house >
  
  I can only imagine how all five or six of them plus trump sat down and constructed this plan with the combined power of their 50 IQ brains. They probably think that this is a realistic scenario and will block the voting process until death comes upon them. A republican fairy tale 🧚‍♀️ >
  
  Can you imagine how much of an utter disaster that would be? How much procedural and organizational stuff is the speaker responsible for? Trump wouldn't do any of that, he'd just stand up there and do more incoherent rants and the house would be completely paralyzed for two years. >
  
  That’s essentially what’s going to happen with or without trump. >
  
  Trailer trash treason Barbie needs to go…. >
  
  MTG is an insult to trailer trash >
  
  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. >
  
  Oh, please, do. There are some more moderate Republicans who are completely over Trump, especially after the slap down in the midterms, that this might make them vote for a different Republican speaker candidate other than Kevin in order to split up the vote even further just so that they can make themselves look still align with Republicans but make a way so that the Democrats can win which would end this mess already. A few more days of this is not going to make things better. Each passing hour makes the Republican party as a whole look horrid in the eyes of the public. Boebert can stomp her feet all she wants but Trump is done as far as moderate Republicans go. They want him gone. They don't want his name to be ever uttered again. And what far right Republicans like Boebert is doing is making Trump even more loathed within the party. The time of falling in line and saying, "Yes," with every stupid idea that the far right can come up with is over. The moderate GOP part sees the writing on the wall and that is, if they continue with this line, they are going to keep on handing everything to the Democrats. They will lose the White House in 2024. And above all else, they don't want that. >
  
  I'd love for her to nominate him. Imagine the "truth" posts  he would send after getting so little votes he only needed a single hand. >
  
  Gaetz already nominated Trump >
  
  Today? I missed it >
  
  That’s scary. All you would need would be some redneck loony to off two people and bam, President again. >
  
  Speaker can be anyone >
  
  My bad. I was thinking of Speaker pro tempore. >
  
  It’s wild enough to be like, that can’t happen, but it’s also 2023. And there’s crazy ass people in office >
  
  Honestly, if these past few weeks of headlines haven't been showcasing Republicans slowly turning on Trump and Trump on them, I would have thought this was their plan all along lol >
  
  This was actually an idea first put forth by Political Dirty Trickster, Roger Stone. >
  
  Man who has never won the popular vote, will surely win this popular vote! Says lady famous for holding the football for Charlie Brown. >
  
  Yeah, go ahead and nominate him, that way we can watch him to lose again. >
  
  I'm buying popcorn in bulk today. >
  
  So I have an obvious fear about installing trump in a position 2 deaths from the presidency and wonder if that is the plan from these treasonous fucks. >
  
  Do it.  I dare you. >
  
  The job of Speaker of the House is hard work. It doesn’t fit former president Trump’s work habits. >
  
  She knows she wouldn’t survive another election so she’s got to up her profile while she’s still in Congress. >
  
  She got the metal detectors removed from the house for a reason... >
  
  Jmo, she hid the pipe bombs 
  My tin foil hat theory >
  
  I thought the evidence pointed to MTG? >
  
  Trump is a standard US citizen with no political association at the moment. How can he be speaker?  Silly rabbit. Trixs are for kids. >
  
  Because it's not explicitly stated that the speaker needs to belong to the house and people never thought a party would get this dumb/fascist. >
  
  So you are saying I too could become speaker? Crazy. Well learned something new today. >
  
  Gretchen, stop trying to make 'fetch' happen, it's NOT going to happen! >
  
  Technically they just have to vote for a name. Choose “Speaky Houseman”. Anyone who wants to be speaker has to legally change their name to Speaky before signing in for work on a given day. They can change back their name once their speaker duties are over or have multiple Speakys. >
  
  The Dread Speaky Houseman >
  
  I'm gonna need to buy more alcohol >
  
  Could Trump get more votes than McCarthy? There must be some moderate Republicans who wouldn't vote for him >
  
  That’s actually not true. The speaker of the house can be anyone that the house assigns as speaker—they don’t have to be an elected official. The President/Speaker pro tempore of the senate does have to be an elected official, though. 
  That being said the speaker of the house has never not been an elected member of the house. >
  
  Yeah, that was my bad. That's what I get for constantly shortening everything to Speaker >
  
  You couldn't make up a character like her. >
  
  She does not seem unbalanced at all. >
  
  She's a high school dropout, so you shouldn't have high expectations for her. >
  
  vlad's cold finger in his bum and she just slurped up the blood of a migrant >
  
  This would make incredible content >
  
  I often think of the QAnon folks as political gremlins. They just pick away at the mechanics of the system until eventually, it collapses and it’s all intentional. >
  
  hey Jan 6th is tomorrow. You know there is 1 name they can all get behind..
  This party hasn't even gotten started yet >
  
  They keep trying to put out the fire with gasoline. >
  
  Donald trump doesn’t want to be speaker, he would actually have to work, which was shown time again and again while president that he would rather play golf. >
  
  As a Canadian, I’m not sure how this is working.  Does the speaker of the house has to be an elected official or can any American be nominated for the position? >
  
  Speaker can be anyone that gets enough votes in the house. They are also 3rd in line to be president ...... >
  
  what are the rules about Speaker ?  Can the majority party nominate virtually anybody, or do they need to be an ex-president/vice president, or even just an ex senator or congressperson? >
  
  Anybody can be speaker with enough votes even some homeless guy in the subway. You don't have to hold office at all. >
  
  Has there ever been a Speaker from outside the ranks? >
  
  Every Speaker has been an elected House member so far, yes. And they’ve always been from the current majority party, aside from some messy business during the Civil War where no party technically had the majority, but I don’t know much about that situation. >
  
  Why would he want to be, it's hard work you can't get out of >
  
  Hooray, another vote for Trump to lose. >
  
  Nominate Trump and let the always-McCarthy choose on record.  And if Trumpty Dumpty wins, you get to swear him in on Jan 6.  Or imagine if the cowards avoid the vote as “present” and we get Speaker Jefferies.  They want to blow it up… this nomination would do it a number of ways. >
  
  How could he be made speaker if he wasn’t elected to congress? >
  
  Sadly, there is no law that says the speaker must be a member of congress. It's always just been done. Dems tried to pass a law a year or so ago to codify this but Republicans nuked it. >
  
  Holy crap! So just anybody could be named Speaker?!? >
  
  Yup. It certainly shouldn't be that way, but the Trump administration has demonstrated how many of our procedures were based on niceties and normalcy rather than actual law. >
  
  
  ”Is this a game show?”  
  
  Win stupid representatives. >
  
  Boebert will need to do a of ‘Cruzing’ to get other Reps in her corner… >
  
  We are almost at the running man phase of reality . >
  
  She chickened out and voted for Donalds again.
  Only Gaetz had the nerve to actually vote for Trump. >
  
  IF Trump became Speaker, wouldn’t that require him to like, be present and do work? You can’t phone in the Speakership the way he did the Presidency. >
  
  If he was speaker he’d make deals to secure votes then renege on them. It’s one of his favorite dance moves. 
  Also, I don’t think he should be 2nd in line to the Presidency, considering his militant fucking base. >
  
  I’m now congressional scholar but doesn’t one have to be a member of the body to be elected to the Speakership? Why are these idiots taking this stance. I understand when people do write-in ballots for Ronald McDonald or the local stray doggo for regular elections but this is ridiculous. >
  
  What a looney tune! >
  
  It’s a bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see how that plays out.