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  Or; it is insurrection but done legally.
context: "I've got it! We'll find a cluster of trust fund kid idiot narcissists, fund their campaigns, get them into office spewing racist MAGA bullshit and then we'll get all the tax cuts we can handle! It's not like anything bad will come of it!" - 1% >
  
  I mean, they got their tax cuts, and now focus is off of them. Seems like a win. >
  
  They're showing exactly why Trump lost in 2020, and why there was no red wave in 2022.
  Right now they're probably trying to figure out how to blame this House Speaker charade on mail-in ballots. >
  
  For a group of people who pushed the Big Lie..they can’t even settle a vote amongst themselves! >
  
  Literally no one who uses the term "Big Lie" knows the origin of the term and its actual meaning. It's pretty amazing. >
  
  please do educate us. pretty sure we do. >
  
  Hitler came up with the term to describe how what he called the Jewish media was telling lies so preposterous that no normal person would believe anyone could lie that much. So, in this instance, people questioning 2020 election results would be like Hitler's opponents. >
  
  Hitler called his opponents proponents of the "Big Lie." Joe Biden (and you) use the same term Hitler came up with in Mein Kampf to characterize political opponents. It's really not that complicated. It's adapting Hitler's rhetoric against Jews for political aims. Which, ok, I guess... >
  
  I don't care what you call it, but the history of the term is it's history, and people who learn history from memes don't know that when using it. Same goes for the Goebbels meme about lying. People should know the actual history of things. >
  
  I feel like you are purposefully leaving out all context about how Hitler described the propaganda technique and for what reason the term "big lie" was used. There is no way someone without any context would be more informed from the way you are presenting this information. >
  
  The do-nothing, obstructionist party is being held hostage by the most extreme do-nothing obstructionists? Wild >
  
  It’s also the ultimate game of “I want to speak to your manager” >
  
  Shocked pikachu face, "You are The Manager now". >
  
  This should prove to the country that republicans don't give a damn about governing, they only care about power and are willing to let the country burn to obtain it. >
  
  That would involve Republican voters paying attention and believing what they see. Guarantee Fox is feeding them so garbage about how the democrats should just vote for MacCarthy to get a speaker elected but they refuse to be bipartisan. >
  
  Fascism always eats itself in the end. >
  
  the problem is how much else it destroys along the way >
  
  McCarthyism took lgbt rights back  a few years, and it looks like MAGA is doing the same to trans. >
  
  Love the energy here, but uh. What do you reckon the T on the end of LGBT stands for? >
  
  I did not know the T was on there then, sorry if I was mistaken. >
  
  America is dumb. These fuckers were elected by actual people with brains and opposable thumbs. >
  
  They've probably got Koala brains >
  
  The Great Koala disapproves of your remark. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The fact is that the Republicans blocking Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker are not crazy when they suggest that good-faith debate within the same political party can be beneficial for a democratic polity.
  What's more, democracy inside parties gets partisans used to the idea that the other side could possibly be right - a stance crucial for democracy, in which opponents must be treated as legitimate adversaries, not as existential enemies.
  Naive? The absence of critical loyalty inside a party opens the path to something like January 6: no one was able to restrain Trump, as he had refashioned the Republican party into something like a personality cult.
  
  
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  I beg to differ, it’s the children eating the adults >
  
  Honestly, isn't this just minority rule? Like, 20 people are throwing a tantrum and stopping a wing of the government from forming. How do we as a nation not have a failsafe in place to stop this nonsense? >
  
  The entire institution of the US Government depends completely on tradition/decorum and good-faith dialog. Ignore tradition and do everything in bad-faith and it all falls apart. >
  
  some one call Francisco de Goya >
  
  The solution is right there. McCarthy moves for a rule change to simple plurality and instructs his block to support it. Dems will likely go along and it will pass. Now all 21 holdouts have to either vote Republican or Democrat, no more anti-Kevin grandstanding.
  But he’s too weak to try it. He’s a blob fish. >
  
  They would elect Jeffries then, because the holdouts are throwing a temper tantrum, and backing down isn't possible for them >
  
  If it's even possible to change that rule (I don't think it is), then the GOP holdouts would fall in line on the next ballot and elect McCarthy. Continuing to hold out would get them branded as RINOs, since they would have helped elect a Democrat. Probably. Who really knows though - these people are detached from reality. >
  
  They've changed it in the past. 1849 and 1855. >
  
  Matt Gaetz is trying to fuck the kids not eat them. >
  
  Wouldn't the revolution be the children? In both senses of the word? >
  
  It would be fun to watch if it didn’t predict the sort of governance we can expect from the Republican party at the expense of the taxpayers in the very near future. >
  
  How? Republican voters hate Kevin McCarthy and love this. Embarrassing him is a win for them. >
  
  The party of doing nothing has begun with flying colors >
  
  I can only imagine the shit show it will be once they are assigned assignments. There will be in house fighting almost daily. I love it.