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    This is great news since it officially establishes that Johnson has a dependency on Democrats now. Which gives Dems more leverage because if Johnson refuses to cooperate on something in the future than Dems could bring a motion to vacate the chair.

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      Yeah, I was frustrated with Greene saying “Democrats saved him,” because with the infinitesimal majority they have, it would be the Democrats who ousted him if they voted the other way. Republicans basically have no agency in their choice of Speaker anymore, thanks largely to the chaos and dysfunction caused by her faction.

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      It also shows how toothless the extreme MAGA side is. Democrats and moderate Republicans made bipartisan deals to get aid passed and this troglodyte can’t abide compromise. She genuinely thinks compromise is evil.

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          Correct. She must be fuming because she thought she had that kind of power - and she doesn’t.

          I have a small sliver of suspicion that many Democrats voted to help Johnson in order to put her in her place.

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            I know as a rule of thumb anything Marjorie is for I am most likely against.

            Broken clocks, aside.

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      No sooner than Greene triggered the vote on her motion to vacate the speaker from his office, the Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise countered by calling first for a vote to table it.

      An overwhelming majority, 359-43, kept Johnson in his job, for now.

      The House voted nearly immediately to resolve something. How often does that happen? That is a resounding rejection.

      There are mechanisms for Congress to expell members, but that’s unlikely to come up Santos for her.

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        The House voted nearly immediately to resolve something. How often does that happen? That is a resounding rejection.

        Everyone is just sick if her bullshit it seems. Except her constituents, they love that shit.

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    In another thread, someone referred to her as Perjury Traitor Greed, and I’m just here to make that more popular.

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    I guess on balance it’s more important to me that the Democrats reject Greene than reject Johnson. It’s clear to everyone that Johnson is “weak” (in MAGA support) and dependent completely on Democrats to get anything done.

    Now that that’s out in the open and he’s slightly a MAGA pariah, he’ll probably get back to more old fashioned Republican projects like destroying the environment, fucking over workers, giving billions to billionaires, and a blank check to the military.

    I mean … Freedom.

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      He feels like a paul ryan type. He marks all the check boxes that the far right extremists need to have checked but in reality he’s just some chump with shitty beliefs and won’t ever be anything more.

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    Has anyone ever noticed that mtg looks like a wax life sized figure of a cave woman in the natural history display at the local museum?

    Someone needs to give her a basket so she can gather some berries!

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        I feel like these ad homien attacks are what allow people like Marjorie to thrive. If all you can do is put someone down for how they look then I really don’t need to listen to what you have to say.

        It’s unfortunate because there are way worse things about Marjorie than her looks.

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          I’m not saying ad hom is good, I’m saying she factually looks like a Neanderthal. If it’s insulting to anyone, it’s Neanderthals.

          On the other hand, ridicule is the only way you can actually engage with someone like marge because you can’t actually engage in good faith.

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      Just watched the new docu on Netflix about Neanderthals. Wow, you nailed it. She must have been frozen in a sheet of ice for a long time like Encino Man. Oh hell, now I’ve dated myself. For the young, it’s a stupid movie from a long time ago. I think Sam (of Frodo fame) was in it. And another dude who you’d recognize. And a third dude who was popular for about ten seconds.

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      Hey, don’t be rude. Cave women were far more civilized and intelligent. They don’t deserve being compared to MTG!

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      I’ve heard that she is actually Dog the Bounty Hunter in drag. I mean, it is possible… has anyone seen the two of them in the same place at the same time. And the resemblance is uncanny!

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    Cuntery Taitor Bullshit’s game is played out, and nobody will put up with her shit anymore.

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    Who the hell do you support in this case? The right-wing religious nutter or the Russian FSB agent?

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      The right-wing religious nutter or the Russian FSB agent?

      The right wing nutter. He did the bare minimum to enable support to Ukraine. That’s more than the Russian FSB agent ever did.

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    Maybe even the Republicants are accepting that Margarine Failure Gangrene is a full blown Russian shill.

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        Welp… maybe I’m not much better than Trump in my nickname generation abilities.

        We can’t all be geniuses like you.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned colleagues Wednesday calling for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, but lawmakers quickly rejected it.

    One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as speaker.

    It was the second time in a matter of months that Republicans have tried to oust their own speaker, an unheard-of level of party turmoil with a move rarely seen in U.S. history.

    Johnson of Louisiana marched on, saying he had been willing to take the risk, believing it was important for the U.S. to back Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and explaining he wanted to be on the “right side of history.”

    In a highly unusual move, the speaker received a boost from Democrats led by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, whose leadership team had said it was time to “turn the page” on the GOP turmoil and vote to table Greene’s resolution — almost ensuring Johnson’s job is saved, for now.

    Trump also weighed in after Johnson trekked to Mar-a-Lago for a visit, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee giving the speaker his nod of approval.


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