• hallettj@beehaw.org
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    I’m finding this mess interesting: the MAGAs vote and debate like a third party, which kinda gives us a House with no majority party which is something we usually don’t get to see in America. And we’re getting the deadlocks that come from a chamber that isn’t willing to form a coalition - or at least not a reliable one.

    I just hope the next speaker candidate doesn’t try for the same Republican-MAGA coalition. Although I’m prepared to be disappointed. Do you think there’s any chance a Republican would offer to sideline the MAGAs to get support from Democrats?

    Under this analysis the Democrats have a plurality. How does that tend to work out in governments with more than two parties?

    • Honestly, any Republican that tries to work with the Democrats at this point is going to get eaten alive. Even if it’s a “moderate” one. They have completely gone off the deep end.

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        Exactly, the only way to govern in a multi party system is bipartisan. Most Republicans cannot put anything above the party line anymore.

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        Well, the far right faction of Republicans did already side with Dems to oust the speaker.

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        Which given the composition of the Senate and that whole executive branch thing this means they’ll never get anything done.

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        This is objectively false. One party deals entirely in culture warfare with no idea how to govern. The other at least tries to interface with real world problems.

        All this “we” shit smacks entirely too much of cis het white middle class privelage

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            @Zorque @chloyster @hallettj @downpunxx But is it? Why must we vote for evil in degrees every time? Why can’t we say “let’s look into these perceptions without having to agree with them wholesale?” Why are we killing and dying for ideas?
            We’re more than just pawns on this socio/economic/political chessboard. But who am I to demand that things be any different. What am I even contributing?

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            Caring for the people? Sounds like woke radical leftist Marxist propaganda (actual shit I hear on a daily basis).

            The Republican party could stop trying to hurt people at any moment. Hell, I’m in a red state and our last Republican governor wasn’t too bad. But it’s all just hate now. And anyone who opposes that hate gets more hate from people like you.

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        The Republican party can stop denying women the right to control their bodies, stop denying science, stop censoring history, and stop othering anyone but Christian Cis Het White people any time they feel like it.

        But they won’t, because that’s their entire political identity. I ought to know; I was one of them for 20 some odd years.

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          @CylustheVirus No, that isn’t their entire history. I’m sorry you’ve been convinced by corporate and blasphemous malcontents within the economical and religious underbelly of the many American cults within.

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            Their history matters exactly zero compared to what they are doing now. Knowing that Republicans used to be the less shitty party but then it switched is academic.

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      I just hope the next speaker candidate doesn’t try for the same Republican-MAGA coalition.

      Any speaker who agrees to the absurd demand that 1 person can motion for removing the gavel is a fool and won’t be speaker for long. We all knew that when McCarthy agreed to it that he was on borrowed time. Hell he lasted longer than I thought.