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  So, vote of no confidence on Monday?
context: After a week of achieving nothing it’s on to the business of achieving nothing. >
  
  mccarthy is going to be pulling 223,500 usd as speaker, all those other reps that accomplish nothing and refuse to govern are pulling down 174,000 USD.
  And thats just their base salaries. After their term they are magically worth many millions of dollars >
  
  Insider trading is the real gig >
  
  Insider trading, legalized bribes, illegal but unenforced bribes, “speaker fees”, corporate boardship, oh and don’t forget sex trafficking and BitCoin for a certain Florida Rep. >
  
  Or changing the aviation routes of CIA-funded contra cocaine onto your father-in-laws shipping business for the next 30 years, and baselessly installing his daughter as transportation secretary to make sure it never gets into the news after 1987 except when 60 pounds of cocaine is found by international investigators which still barely makes it to the news and you have to hope no one asks why they call you Cocaine Mitch... >
  
  WHAT THE FUCK? Any sources on this you recommend? >
  
  There was a really great 1987 and 1989 two part investigative news piece  and  then a different one that is another ancillary story with a bit more detail of the investigation/trial by some channel 3 something or other that interviews the pilots flying the cocaine in through miami, paid directly by the cia. In the news pieces, they show mitch joining and leading the investigating body, then the pilots discuss how everythings starts going by boat instead after the fbi/atf arrested each of the pilots for "unrelated drug crimes" (likely possession in the gray period between the deliveries and payment (in drugs) and the time the individuals sold or used it. Then folllow the trail of that shipping company: The Foremost Group, the lineage of john and elaine chao, the marriage timeline, the move to speaker of the house,  the drug discovery on the FG ship, the appointment of chai to transportation secretary, etc. It was unrelated research into contras via ChatGPT that actually pieced it together yet it seems to be hiding in plain site (and in plain memory for people deep in the GOP and recently leaked by Don Blankenship in his run against cocaine mitch). Just waiting for a modern investigative journalist to report it since this seems to be one of many US corruption scandals/schemes that didn't make it to the internet when it was created.
  Edit- found the video posted 2 months ago on reddit but had been on YT for a while
  Edit 2- this might not actually be the specific 2 part investigative segment I was talking about but includes a lot of the same information. The one I'm referencing has a lot of direct interviews with the pilots themselves a well as the miami speedboat racer drug kingpin once he got out of jail. Flipped through the one I linked and it looks right, but I'll have to rewatch a bit to be sure. It was a woman reporting.
  Edit 3- checked my yt watch history,  here you go . Fixed the top link but left in the [wrong] second link just because it's another decent collaboration of detail.  Gotta love them AI robots lifting the veil of corruption lol.  Time for another CoffeeZilla piece about something not-crypto haha >
  
  There's reporting that at one point McCarthy approached Gaetz on the floor for a conversation, and a voice rang out, "On your knees, Kevin!" >
  
  There is video of it, you can hear it. >
  
  Got a link? I saw the video but didn't hear anything >
  
  I hate how it sounds like a high school assembly. Someone says something funny during the silence and then the wave of other people shushing. >
  
  I was joking with my wife when I said that the House has officially turned into a clown convention. Then I realized that clowns are probably decent people who actually care about their job and comparing them to Congress is a huge insult to clowns. >
  
  It's actually the likes of Gaetz that'll lure a kid with a balloon. Clowns get all the bad PR. They can barely grasp the workings of magnets, let alone set up a lure. >
  
  That's insane >
  
  I wish the fight had broken out >
  
  been a while since we had a good caning on the congressional floor >
  
  I understood that reference! >
  
  For anyone wondering: The Caning of Charles Sumner >
  
  Let that go to show you... no one makes a fool out of Kevin McCarthy 15 times in a row! >
  
  Yea! You can rob him of his wallet, his clothes, his dignity, but you can’t rob him of a wooden gavel! >
  
  McCarthy: "Fool me once shame on you, fool me 15 times, can't get fooled again!" >
  
  One of my favorite W quotes, thanks!  Now watch this drive. >
  
  So many good ones. I always chuckle at “Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.” >
  
  Wait. Wait wait wait. I’m not young ENOUGH to have missed them, but I don’t remember the Bush years with the searing clarity of the ridiculous Trump shit. Did he really say that?
  Beautiful. >
  
  Though Bush's administration did some evil shit - because Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft/Gonzales were there, amongst other junior figures (Haspel, Kavanaugh) seeking to impress who later rose to prominence during the Trump administration - his "turns of phrase" were downright quaint compared to the insane BS that came out of Trump's mouth. But there were a lot of them... I had a daily calendar at one point that featured them! >
  
  So many more people died, so many more lives were destroyed as a result of Bush presidency than Trump. It’s not even close. >
  
  Indeed. Part of that was 8 years. Part of that was 9/11. But in general that group was much more war hawkish than Trump, who for all his faults clearly saw military conflict as bad for business (which is why Bolton didn't work out). >
  
  He realized it was actually really easy to get elected once he put on the leash >
  
  He agreed to wear a muzzle as well. >
  
  Ball gag complete the look. >
  
  Don't forget the horsey tail.
  The GOP's favorite word is neeeeigh after all. >
  
  He won, but gave away everything and sold his soul just to be able to hold the gavel. Speaker in name only. >
  
  and can easily be voted out by no confidence by next week. The shortest-reigned Speaker in history. >
  
  For real, didn't he agree that a no confidence vote could be called by just one rep? If so someone is going to call it Monday because you kind of just can't resist calling out people's dumb rules like that. >
  
  This one is wild to me, what stops the democrats from just constantly calling non confidence votes if the bar is so low? Honestly it seems like they should if all the GQP is gonna do is launch bullshit investigations for 2 years. >
  
  This rule was actually a thing for basically all of the houses existence except for Pelosis tenure. What's to stop them? Well, the fact that it is pointless and would only make democrats look like babies who cry when they can't get what they want. So they won't use it unless they are sure they can flip hardliners to vote for someone else, which isn't going to happen. The only people who are likely to use it are Republicans themselves, not democrats, and they will use it to symbolically express their discontent with the speaker. If anyone uses it it will be a member of the GQP. That's basically how it was last used in 2015, when a member of the house Republicans motioned to replace their own speaker, leading to that speaker resigning shortly after. >
  
  Well, the cycle of debt-ceiling hostage taking, government shutdowns, sham investigations and dysfunctional government has officially started. >
  
  That's all I got from reading the article. >
  
  That's been the case since the first failed vote -- Freedom Caucas officially has control despite being small and unpopular, so politics are working as intended. >
  
  I suspect the GOP won't enjoy being controlled by a minority. >
  
  The bad news is we the people are going to pay the price for the negotiating that took to get it done. >
  
  My only thought in all this. What do we get out of this? More instability and oppression, I'm certain. >
  
  We get investigations into Hunter's Laptop, a panel investigating why Nancy Pelosi is responsible for January 6th, and "anti-wokism" bills whatever that even means. Ya know, the real important stuff. Maybe they will even have another 20 or so Benghazi hearings. >
  
  Don't forget decreased military spending, oddly enough 🤔 >
  
  Right when we're helping defend against Russia, the darling of the far right. >
  
  They know who butters their bread >
  
  The Russians infiltrated the GOP years ago. Everyone involved needs to be rooted out.
  The NRA is basically owned by the Russians now. We have 6 congressman going to Russia on the 4th of July? >
  
  Honestly this is such a major factor when it comes to the Ukraine war and the media are not taking it as seriously as they should. I believe these maga fascist repubs top priority aside from their own personal gain is allowing Putin to have his way. It's so blindingly obvious who's side they're on. >
  
  The fact that so many people can't see our current political shitshow and the war in Ukraine are two theaters of the exact same conflict is so frustrating. >
  
  Frustrating. I'd say madness inducing rage myself. The world is controlled by Evil. Im fully convinced >
  
  Alright everyone, how many heads of lettuce will he get through? >
  
  If the Lettuce is imperial does that mean the Mooch is metric? if so what is the Lettuce to Mooch conversion? >
  
  Lettuce is metric actually. It comes from Prime Minister Liz Truss getting that positon. Everyone knew it would be a shit show so The Daily Star set up a live stream of a head of lettuce and asked "Who will last longer: Liz Truss or this lettuce?"
  She was removed from office before the lettuce rotted. >
  
  Her only actual legacy will be featuring in pub quizzes in years to come…
  Who was prime minister when QE2 died? >
  
  Honestly a harder question would be "Who was Prime Minister when Charles III became king?"
  Functionally, it's the same question (monarchy passes the moment the monarch dies), but since his coronation is under a different PM and there was no GE between a lot of people will probably guess Sunak (if he lasts to the coronation). >
  
  
  (if he lasts to the coronation)
  
  Sunak or Charles? >
  
  This was 4 days of peak comedy watching this man debase and humiliate himself >
  
  Wait until the vote of no confidence by next week! >
  
  For anyone wondering one of the concessions he made was regarding a rule change making it easier to force out a sitting speaker >
  
  Technically it is just a change back to the old rules (that really aren't that old, they were only changed after Boehner was Speaker), that said any one House member could submit a vote of no confidence.
  Now that he's elected it really doesn't change anything, they don't have enough votes to elect a different Speaker. The dozen or so holdouts could only hold up his initial election, they can't get him out after the fact even with the change. >
  
  Just wait until the debt ceiling fight >
  
  This right here.  If what cnn reports is correct, thanks to Mccarthys desperation we’ll likely see a shut down for quite a long time coming soon.   
  Just what republicans want come campaign season 2024 lol. >
  
  And the ones that suffer the most under the shutdown, will reelect all of these idiots again. >
  
  Joke’s on you. I don’t have Obamacare, I have coverage under the Affordable Care Act so I don’t need government funding
  /s >
  
  I remember that exact exchange on Reddit (I’m sure it occurred a bunch while people realized), and it was epic. >
  
  In Kentucky, the governor changed the name to Kentucky Kynect and people loved it but hated ObamaCare. Our idiocy knows no bounds. >
  
  
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  No, I don’t think I will >
  
  Seriously ever since they got rid of Trent Crimm, there’s no way I’m registering for The Independent >
  
  Fucking Nate… >
  
  I really hope he gets a redemption arc in the last season. >
  
  Is this one the last season? >
  
  It's the last season of Ted Lasso proper, but there's been noises about maybe making a spin-off set in the same universe. >
  
  Oof, Ted Lasso only works because of... Ted Lasso. I like some of the tertiary characters but Ted is the reason to watch. >
  
  Is it bad to say that I kind of wanted to see how long they could keep it going? >
  
  The pot has been simmering for decades and has started to show signs of a boil. Unless these folks turn down the heat and get to work (stop with the fucking tribe warfare!), its going to boil over.
  (grabbing a refill on my popcorn and soda) >
  
  I think it’s interesting the Republican Party is so broken (by design now) that they have a historically weak speaker. McCarthy will have very little power it seems. >
  
  It's kind of ironic they've done to themselves what they've actively been trying to do to government as a whole for decades now. >
  
  They’re totally owning the libs. >
  
  Congrats to the Speaker In Name Only. They’re going to dog walk that pathetic yutz on the daily. >
  
  
  Speaker In Name Only  
  
  SPINO would be a decent acronym for that, except that it indirectly associates McCarthy with the existence of a backbone >
  
  Spine? No! SPINO! >
  
  Reminds me of Lionel Hutz.
  Works on contingency. No money down.
  Oh they got this all screwed up
  Works on contingency? No, money down! >
  
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