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  They had two choices to get enough votes: go moderate and get a coalition of democrats, reach across the aisle and find common ground or appease their fringe and pull the party further right.
  I know that they can’t “own the libs” / tell their constituents that they “owned the libs” if they were to reach out and I know it could be politically risky, but the other option? 
  They choose this, the have been choosing this again and again, any time there is an option they go right and more right and more right.
  I’m pretty angry they chose to ignore the majority of Americans for their own stuff (again) and they wont get any sympathy from me with whatever will unfold next.
context: It’s so weird to see republicans with genuine outrage. I’ve become accustomed to the false variety from them. >
  
  Well now it’s affecting them personally. >
  
  "This is hurting the wrong people!!" >
  
  If some human trafficking scumbag were trying to Gaetkeep Democracy, I’d walk out too >
  
  Hey! That’s Rapist Human Trafficking Scumbag Gaetz to you! >
  
  Hey! That’s pedophile Rapist Human Trafficking Scumbag Gaetz to you! >
  
  Yo! Thats DOUCHEBAG pedophile Rapist Human Trafficking Scumbag Goetz to you! >
  
  Ok ok but it’s literally RUSSIAN FUNDED REPUBLICAN AND SUSPECTED PEDOPHILE >
  
  Ok, but which Russian funded republican and pedophile? There's over two hundred in congress alone >
  
  Anyone else hear America the Beautiful playing in the background? >
  
  Honestly can every year start with republicans getting unironically frustrated with minority rule? >
  
  and arguing with each other that they aren't extreme enough >
  
  It’s like POWERTHIRST EXTREME >
  
  MANergy! >
  
  They should've been forced to watch it like Alex DeLarge in "A Clockwork Orange." >
  
  Even though I think they are full of shit and vehemently disagree with their politics, the one place I found myself agreeing with Boebert through all of this was that it was nice to see the entire chamber assembled (and I’m sure she was just saying this a vague rhetorical gesture to seem reasonable but whatever). They should be forced to listen to each other’s bullshit and greatly inconvenienced when they want to play delay games like this. That’s also something I’ve said about the filibuster in the senate. When they can all go off and no one actually has to suffer through a filibuster, it’s pretty meaningless. But if they are forced to sit and listen, the dynamics are changed, especially if they even want to pretend to be “patriots” and woo the folks on the far right while secretly despising them. The performative aspect of the chambers and the extent to which speeches and such are now made for television instead of the chambers is bad. >
  
  Classic Republicans. Do nothing about credible allegations of sex-trafficking and pederasty, but the second he moderately disrupts their power games, they wAlK oUt In DiSgUsT. >
  
  Sad thing is, really, that this ultimately won't mean anything. 
  It's been a treat for empathetic humans viewing, but McCarthy will sell himself out for the Speaker position, will get it, and Republicans will continue to hold the country hostage over their ignorant and hypocritical ideologies, and face no real consequences because the real money donors of this country will throw billions at them because of control, and people will still see Dems as spineless. 
  This will ultimately be a hollow victory for Democrats, reinforcing the GCoupP to finish Hitler's playbook, despite the reality of the situation.
  Then again this country was never about what's right, so what did we expect? >
  
  McCarthy has never not sold himself out in his entire tenure in politics.  I’m not sure he has anything left to sell. He’s a duplicitous opportunist of the worst kind, so nobody trusts him. He’s already conceded so much to these lunatics, I think they just want to see monkey dance. >
  
  Why is he "making concessions" with his enemies in his own party to ensure he gets the speaker? 
  This should have been a clear example of their failure of government. 
  Yet they'll still make their shifty deals amongst themselves that hold democracy hostage, and at the end they'll still be in power when they don't deserve to be. >
  
  Serious (potentially dumb) question: how binding are the concessions McCarthy made? Like, he could have said anything to secure the vote, but is he actually required to follow through? I know good faith/precedent may indicate that he does have to keep his word, but if he doesn't, what happens? Or is it just that if he doesn't, he'll get the same holdouts for every vote? Which seems likely, but also like those officials will have their constituents up in arms, so it seems like a headache for them. >
  
  It's all political, but he only has that position because he was elected into it by the House under their own rules.  Legally he can ignore any rules he wants as they are not laws, but it will now only take ONE member of the House to call for a vote to remove him from the position.  He has traded away all of his actual power in order to have the title and position as 2nd in line for the Presidency. >
  
  That was a concession he made and will require an actual rules change through the committee, iirc, not just him saying it will be so. He could go back in his word and the freedom caucus couldn't do anything about it except gum up everything the GOO tries to do in the House. Which they absolutely will do anyways unless it's their stuff, because their primary goal is to prevent the federal government from functioning correctly. >
  
  Right, it seems (to me, who is not an expert) that a lot of his concessions have to go to committees, which are full of people annoyed at the stunts that were pulled. Even if McCarthy sends them, fulfilling his end of the deal, whats stopping all the other people from not moving it forward? Some of those people hate Gaetz and Bobert at this point (I mean, grown men were lunging at each other on the House floor) so it doesn't seem unreasonable that most of these concessions just die in committee. (But again. I'm not an expert so I might be way off here...) >
  
  What happened to the good old days where they just fought it out? 
  McCarthy vs Gaetz >
  
  Yeah with all this I was hoping someone would have to break out the Mace of the Republic. >
  
  Mace of the Republic sounds like Star Wars >
  
  Mace: A Star Wars Story >
  
  You know what I would watch a mace windu bio-pick where he's a scrappy youth absolutely thrashing crime and stuff like as close to the punisher as a padawan is allowed to get in the lower levels of the capital >
  
  There's a book in the old EU where Mace beats up five people while fully naked after they attempt to rob him in the shower >
  
  Reading the tea leaves, as a federal employee I should make sure I have a couple months of mortgage and utilities liquid since the government will obviously be shutting down a few times soon. >
  
  What a horrible reality to have to live with. >
  
  Yeah. Gets kinda depressing to look over the pond these days. >
  
  Well on the bright side it’s completely fine if you don’t rely on the government for anything >
  
  Which is literally nobody. >
  
  I am much much much more affected by my state and local governments than by the federal for sure >
  
  Until no planes can fly because there's no air traffic controllers. >
  
  Only done once since the pandemic anyway >
  
  
  “They believe Mr. McCarthy has earned the position of speaker of the House because he raised half a billion dollars to get Republicans elected.”
  
  There was a This American Life episode on this years ago, and he is not wrong in this statement. He is wrong to act like this is new news. All, both sides of the aisle, appoint members to key positions based on how much they fundraise and will have quotas to raise based on their position. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but this is kabuki theater. He is just Mitch-Bitching - Complaining about someone doing something that you've been a part of or done yourself. >
  
  I believe the This American Life episode was "Take The Money and Run for Office" from 2012.  Unless you're thinking of a more recent one idk >
  
  “Years ago” equals a decade plus, apparently. >
  
  Why wouldn’t it? >
  
  Why? That's the inevitable outcome of your strategy to make people hate and fear the other, the government,  civil servants, libraries, lqbtq folks, democrats and democracy. 
  It's your fucked up strategy Republicans,  you can't get mad now. You. Caused. This.
  And you'll keep doing it because outside of anger...you offer nothing to the American people. It's justa shame that there are so many hateful rubes that fall for your shit.
  And those rubes are enabling this horseshit.