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  Holding on by a thread
context: That's a downhill path that ends in hell.  I don't much care whether they go there or not.  But for my taste they are going there way to slow. >
  
  The problem is they are trying to drag all of us down with them. >
  
  Anarchy and Sedition poisoned the roots. >
  
  I called a Republican an anarchist once. They were not happy. >
  
  Usually they're all law and order but these days they're all libertarian losers, no sense of governance, anarchists. >
  
  As an actual political anarchist?
  Keep it up, screw these fascists. If being called an anarchist makes them mad, GOOD.
  American "libertarians" have all been neo-feudalists since the mises institute cooped and subvert the term into being synonymous with autocratic capitalist authoritarianism. >
  
  Okay if youre an anarchist explain why you think your ideology will work because im ngl i think your ideology is dumb as rocks and helps weaken strong democratic foundations to pave the way for the facists >
  
  When George Santos was Speaker of the House in 1977, we never had chaos like this >
  
  He was Also the first speaker of continental Congress and look what he achieved. >
  
  Don't forget, he wrote the Constitution. >
  
  I heard he can run the 100m dash faster than Britney Spears >
  
  His recent scandals aside, I’m still thankful that he invented the Caesar salad and the jet engine. >
  
  Yeah, he has lots of little credits to his name like those. But is real crowning achievement was the Magna Carta. I don’t care what anyone says, that was even bigger than the time he died for our sins. Geeez, we owe so much to him…. >
  
  And he’s a Pokémon Master to boot. >
  
  He also was one of the architects of the Iran/Contra affair that helped to devastate a lot of American neighborhoods and got away unscathed and went on to an illustrious career in politics as a major disruptor. He’s what super villains look like in real life >
  
  Newt’s shutdown of the government prevented my grandfather from getting a visa to visit us at the time. He was too sick from cancer when the next opportunity came about. Not a big fan (my true thoughts might get me banned). >
  
  I agree with your true thoughts >
  
  Newt Gingrich is the POS who basically started this mess... fuck him to hell. >
  
  POS 1# trait for controlling the corrupt lobotomized flock >
  
  The oligarch's lapdogs pretending that the entire Republican Party isn't a hate-fest, it's just a few bad apples. >
  
  Hannity and Fox keep putting Gingrich likes he’s some kind of savant. You got kicked out bro and couldn’t win the nomination for president >
  
  and yet, the press still laps up the shit that comes out of Newt's mouth. he's sharing a headline on r/politics right now with Pelosi. >
  
  Newt Fuckin" Gingrich >
  
  Gingrich's ideology, actually the basis of Reaganomics, was to make US government dysfunctional so US public would lose faith in government. This has largely proved successful as FoxNews and the rest of the GOP owned and operated media (CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc) do the false equivalence playbook and claim that GOP's anti-American ideology is due to Democrats not compromising with them.
  The Seeds of Dysfunction >
  
  That dude is such a horrible human being. I was so shocked when I saw him pop up in Parks and Recreation episode. >
  
  Is it just me or does it seem like the whole thing a distraction contrived by Trumpland to drive the news cycle away from the 1/6 anniversary? Kudos to them, seemed to work. >
  
  Nope! Actually it's much, much worse. The list of conditions they extracted from McCarthy in the end is extreme, and effectively lets Boebert and Gaetz have a veto on everything that Congress will do. Congress will also automatically re-enter speakerless limbo if McCarthy tries to allow a vote to raise the debt ceiling without securing massive and specific across the board spending cuts, and Russian-backed Congressfolk are getting all of the security and defense committee positions. Further, it gives the Freedom Caucus control over the rules committee, effectively allowing them to interpret the rules of Congress unilaterally.
  Basically, it's guaranteed that in not too long, Congress will shut down until there's a Democrat/Republican unity speaker. >
  
  When are we going to stop calling these extremist wings of the GOP different names? They’re Republicans. It’s always Republicans. Don’t call them the Tea Party, or MAGA Republicans, or “the far-right wing of the Republican Party”(which I’ve heard a bunch today). The entire Republican Party is extremely right wing. Stop acting like this is a few bad apples. It’s the whole fucking party and has been since the late 70s at least. >
  
  They are part of the Republican party. They are part of the problem. Yeah, I call them Republican. If they want to switch parties they can. Until. Republican it is and there are not any good ones left. They've done too much damage for too long to claim "but I'm one of the good ones." >
  
  Exactly. Until reasonable moderate Republicans get elected, any that have come into the party on the far-right fascist train the GOP has been getting going over the past 30-40 years are unreliable, and the ones who have been in the party that whole time have been shoveling the coal and laying the tracks.
  The Republican Party is beyond repair. It needs a complete cleanse and reconstruction from the ground up. >
  
  Honestly at this point if someone wants to run as a Republican they need to suck it up and run as Independent party or Not-Republican party. I don’t believe that anyone runs as Republican to fix things or make things better though. I don’t know how the money works but if they are sane, not too evil, and actually moderately conservative maybe Democrats could help fund them. I’m team progressive but I understand people want politicians that are conservative and less scary. I would just like for those politicians to be able to debate like adults and work towards a fucking solution. Not sabotage government because they have to piss on the other team because they are the Enemy.
  Call it the Rooster party, I don’t know I’m not creative, but it really needs to happen. Republicans are on their way out. They are in burn it all down mode. If conservatives want their own party they better get cracking because there is a very small slim chance that more and more Democrats are going to get voted in. Conservative politicians that can sell voters that they share their concerns, are basically Republican, but are running as Democrat because that’s the way the wind is blowing. 
  We need simple mail in voting, RCV, and to fix gerrymandering. I think just simple mail in voting has a chance of getting the ball rolling to get a lot of stuff fixed. >
  
  Yep, manicheanism from people who don’t know what manicheanism is…
  And post Bush the Younger? That’s a real phenomenon in itself… >
  
  Ended?  I think it could better be described as "just started". >
  
  Zero sum politics isn’t democracy .