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  Speaker of the big house
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.