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The call is coming from inside the House
This is the best underrated joke of the week
It’s laughable that he came out today condemning these threats after supporting an insurrection that got multiple people killed.
It’s absolutely insane that he is even allowed to still be in office let alone run for speaker of the house.
His condemnation is as vague as can be. It doesnt at all reference that its inner party threats, doesnt say anything about why they are happening or who they are happening to:
No American should accost another for their beliefs. We condemn all threats against our colleagues and it is imperative that we come together. Stop. It’s abhorrent.”
The man ginned up his violent supporters to specifically threaten his GOP coworkers to get in line or else, and he wont even tell them directly to stop.
Just a nothing statement that makes sure it doesnt say fucking anything while it gestures vaguely at the topic.
For the record, it’s perfectly justifiable to accost Nazis for their beliefs.
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I'm frankly surprised he didn't blame it on Antifa
Gym Jordan is an insurrectionist and a traitor to the Republic. He should be treated as such.
also as an apologist for groomers. I mean, it's almost like the republican mantra is "Protect the kids so we can rape them!"
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I mean, maybe you shouldn't have let the rhetoric of your party devolve to this point? Maybe you all shouldn't have normalized abuse and violence against elected officials?
Republicans really have no one to blame for this than themselves.
"When I voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, I didn't think they would eat MY face!"
We have the Herman Cain Award, now I think we should create the Mike Pence Award.
They courted the crazy vote, only now there are true believers actually elected, and turns out that just screaming into the void and blaming everyone else doesn't actually make you a good politician
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Find em, lock em up.
Every MAGA that can no longer vote is one more step away from #fascism.
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They let the lunatics take hold of their party during MAGAism and now they face real consequences. No sympathy. We have to stamp out domestic terrorists and would-be terrorists. These shitheads need to be charged for threatening to kill people.
This was coming way before Trump entered the picture. Rush Limbaugh in the 90's, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly during the Bush years (and everything involving Dock Cheney), and the Tea Party movement all were pushing to get us here.
I've heard it argued this goes all the way back to a mistake at the end of the civil war when confederates weren't deported. Not sure how true that is but it seems like there's a plausible thread.
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Sounds like these Republicans are learning what Trump did in 2021. Remember when he went to one of his rallies and told his crowd of dullards to get vaccinated and they booed him for it? And remember how immediately afterwards he and his campaign quietly stopped taking credit for the COVID vaccine? The MAGA crowd have no real loyalties. They will turn on you if you don't fall in line.
Is it okay to call them fascists now? Just wondering.
Always was.
It was wild to me that none of the conservatives I know connected the dots. If the person is railing against the anti fascists...... what the fuck are they?
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I'd love to think maybe being on the receiving end of the GQP/MAGA cult will wake them up but it's hard to imagine them growing a spine even for this
That's the Faustian bargain they made with Fox News: get a diehard base of crazies whipped into a frothy rage. The GOP is now held to the most radical purity standards partially because that outrage is exactly what draws in viewers.
Couldn't have happened to a scummier bag of assholes.
Republicans are soft on terrorists.
First thing, who the hell has the phone numbers of the wives and families of the holdouts? To me, targeting that precise indicates that the person behind the threats is a political insider at the very least, if not tied directly to Jim Jordan. I don't know why the reps receiving these threats aren't demanding an investigation about who's behind them. I damn well know I'd be looking for the head of anyone who threatened my kids on a pike, and to me these reps not willing to do the same for their own families is an act of cowardice.
But with that aside, this is all a very entertaining episode of "Leopards ate my face!". Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode where Marjorie Taylor Greene refocuses her space lazer on Ohio, Matt Gaetz sees a picture of the middle school student who was threatened and gets excited, and Lauren Boebert whips out something completely unexpected.
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"Party that normalizes political violence shocked to be victim of political violence"
"the bed that I shat in has shit in it"
The House will hold another vote for Speaker at 10 a.m. ET tomorrow, Punchbowl News reports.
it will be the third time that Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) candidacy is considered.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
What is it about Republicans that make them rally so fiercely around the shittiest candidates known to mankind? It's one thing to give lukewarm support for a shitty candidate because the alternative is even worse, but they go frothing at the mouth crazy over the absolute worst representatives of humanity.
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GOP has very obviously fallen to fascists.
"If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas." - Benjamin Franklin
And here we see what happens when the man who rides a tiger attempts to dismount.
From the very group of Republican supporters that voted them into congress. Go figure, "representatives", what kind of creatures you represent...
This can all be cured by....A Masked Speaker.
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