#republicans in disarray

[adamsmasher]

#George Santos #Republicans in disarray #i love you meme #Destiel

[thehalfwaypost]

#republicans in disarray #Jim Jordan #GOP #republican party

[tomorrowusa]

Just as the Nazi Party in Germany was essentially the Hitler Party, the Republican Party has become the Trump Party. There may be a few odd holdouts, but the GOP has been overwhelmingly MAGAfied.

At the Republican National Committee, he is moving to replace longtime supporters with allies even more closely bound to him, including his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. In the House, Republicans are more compliant than ever. Most vividly, Speaker Mike Johnson — ostensibly the party’s top-ranking official — backtracked on an endorsement in a crucial Senate race because Mr. Trump disagreed. On Thursday, Mr. Johnson’s candidate ended his campaign less than one week after opening it. In the Senate, which has been less beholden to Mr. Trump, his influence over a failed border bill made one of the party’s most effective lawmakers, Mitch McConnell, look weak. The displays of obedience emerging in recent weeks remove any lingering doubt that the Republican Party is aligned to advance the interests of one man, signaling that a sweep of victories from Mr. Trump and his allies in November could also mean replacing checks and balances in Washington with his wishes and whims.

Through fear and intimidation, the GOP is now just a subsidiary of the Trump Organization. The GOP stands for nothing except more power for Trump.

Mr. Trump, who long accused Republican leaders of rigging the system for their self-gain, has come to mirror their methods. The swamp that he once declared in need of draining, he now sees as wetlands in need of protecting. Mr. Trump’s team argues that he is giving voice to popular opinions that had no champion in the party, and that the changes at the Republican National Committee are intended with a single goal in mind: electing him to a second White House term.

Being a nepo baby himself, Trump understands the value of having his relatives run the GOP.

Mr. Trump’s next chairman at the R.N.C. is likely to be Michael Whatley, a supporter of the former president’s false election claims. Mr. Trump also endorsed as party co-chair his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who has had various roles in his political operation.

When somebody now votes Republican at any level, they are essentially voting for Trump.

This forced merger of MAGA and the GOP establishment could bring catastrophe to the party if Trump unequivocally loses this year. Those who supported Trump halfheartedly and only out of fear would then openly blame MAGA for a Republican defeat while the hardcore Trump loyalists would claim that they lost because they weren't MAGA enough. A convincing Democratic presidential and congressional victory might cause the GOP to split and go the way of the Whigs.

#donald trump #republican party #maga #the trump party #republican national committee #lara trump #republicans in disarray #vote blue no matter who #election 2024

[angelx1992]

#speaker of the house #marjorie taylor greene #lauren boebert #memes #gifs #yakety sax #republicans in disarray #Qanon crazies #maga crazies #evil gop #meme #matt gaetz #mccarthy #republicans #benny hill

[worldofwardcraft]

People with bad intent.

January 5, 2023

If you've been wondering what the new GOP-led House of Representatives want you to think it will accomplish in the weeks to come, wonder no more. Last Friday, designated Majority Leader Steve Scalise (pictured above alongside the unSpeakable Kevin McCarthy) outlined the Party leadership's legislative agenda for the 118th Congress. According to Scalise,

These commonsense measures will address challenges facing hard- working families on issues ranging from energy, inflation, border security, life, taxpayer protection, and more. They should garner wide support and provide an indication of our bold agenda to come.

As ABC News reported, much of this bold agenda "would counter the work done by Democrats over the past four years." Like repealing the increase in funding for the IRS that Democrats passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. But they will also seek to tie President Biden's hands as much as posible. Such as prohibiting "non-emergency drawdowns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve without a plan to increase energy production on federal lands.”

Then there's the GOP's forced-birth agenda, which includes a “born-alive” bill requiring medical personnel to provide care to infants born with conditions that would keep them from surviving outside the womb for any amount of time. Cruel, you say? Of course, it is.

Fortunately, as Joan McCarter of the Daily Kos points out,

All of this was rejected by the American people in November. And none of it will make it to the Senate floor. But the Republicans don’t actually care about making policy. They want to score political points and give [a win to] their shrinking base of fanatical bigots, because that’s all they got.

Truth is only a few Republicans think their job is actually to legislate, pass bills and all that boring stuff. As the speakership fracas amply demonstrates, a good many of them believe they were elected exclusively to build their brands, troll on social media and get on Faux News.

Which is why the main purpose of this clown caucus is to provide entertainment. They've already announced plans to conduct a bevy of investigations into the sins of the Democrats, with a high priority being given to the impeachment of any member of the Biden administration that looks at them crossways, as well as pointless probes into the pandemic (starring Dr. Anthony Fauci), immigration, Afghanistan, the FBI, the J6 Committee and that perennial favorite, Hunter Biden's laptop.

All this and much, much more is in store from the House Republicans. That is, if they can ever recover from the devastating trauma of simply picking a leader.

#house republicans #republican agenda #Republicans in Disarray

[rosielindy]

Indiana is ready to turn blue, this guy is out of control. What a stooge! It’s not a Biden policy decision FFS! And there’s nothing to unleash. Who elects these idiots?

Tom McDermott is a much better choice to represent Hoosiers.

Shocking, gas companies raising prices right before a major holiday expecting more travel than 2019 pre-pandemic. SMH

https://twitter.com/_carlos_2020_/status/1565103567685517312?s=21&t=H5MNl9Ky0jmxTQbcpqQZPg

#indiana politics #todd young #midterms 2022 #2022 midterms #voter turnout #voter participation #Tom McDermott #Fire Todd Young #Republicans in disarray #Democrats in array #bluewave2022 #vote like your life depends on it

[qqueenofhades]

i saw a tweet saying that some dems were smirking and making gasping noises as the other side voted for members who weren't mccarthy and i think that is so vaild of them. they united behind jeffries and now they get to sit back and watch the other side eat itself alive from within.

Look, we have endured YEARS, YEARS of "Democrats in disarray" headlines at the smallest thing, even when they weren't actually in disarray, because it was the media's favorite trope. Pelosi got elected first ballot and got everything done legislatively that she needed to do, even with the exact same tiny margins. Now the Republicans are literally out there voting for Bozo the Clown, Larry the Cable Guy or some shit, themselves, Gym Jordan, etc. It is absolutely a clown show to end all clown shows and the Democrats frankly SHOULD just sit there and loudly laugh at them. So valid.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY!!! shouted.... almost nobody even when they were #so yes #get your popcorn and watch the meltdown

[strugglinguist]

I’m giggling way too much over watching the GOP fall apart. 😂😂😂

#speaker vote #Republican is disarray

[filosofablogger]

Robert Reich Says "The Party's Over"

Robert Reich Says “The Party’s Over”

I watched about 20 minutes of the vote for speaker of the House of Representatives.  Rather boring, but I felt compelled to watch a bit of it, anyway.  Within those 20 minutes or so, it was clear that there will be a second vote.  Democrats unanimously voted for Hakeem Jeffries, while on the right-hand side of the aisle there were several votes for Andy Biggs of Arizona and a few for Jim Jordan…

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#Fox News #Hakeem Jeffries #Kevin McCarthy #Newt Gingrich #Robert Reich #Speaker of the House #The Republican Party in disarray

[lenbryant]

Mike Johnson? Is that even a real name?

#politics #republicans #maga me sick #mike johnson #speaker of the house #disarray #they can’t govern

[quijotesca]

It's really hard for me to find any joy in whatever the fuck is going on with the GOP on a national level when I don't think it's going to affect their ability to fuck with things on a state level. I don't see "Republicans in Disarray!1!" where I'm from. I see a bunch of fascists who still gleefully want to take away people's rights.

#I thought we'd be rid of those assholes a long time ago #It didn't happen #Trans people are under attack #The Uvalde shooting changed nothing #People losing abortion rights hasn't changed anything #Immigrants are being murdred #But lol Republicans in disarray

[wilwheaton]

The most generous analysis — the kind you might hope to see in mainstream media coverage — would focus on a Republican Party in disarray on a level conservatives have long falsely accused Democrats of but which no party has exhibited to this degree since before WWII. By comparison, the Democrats of 1968 look like they were cast for that iconic Coke commercial of the era. The Republican field sans Trump couldn’t agree on Trump, the Constitution, Jan. 6, Ukraine, climate change, or — unbelievably — abortion. Kumbaya. And yet that still doesn’t fully capture the dysfunction and self-delusion that the GOP exhibited last night. It’s not riven by factionalism or dueling power bases vying for supremacy. Chris Christie, Asa Hutchison, and Doug Burgum represent no one and had no place being on the debate stage. Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Tim Scott represent the last vestiges of the former GOP, and their anemic response to Trump even now exemplifies how the Republican Party got itself into this mess to begin with. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy are explicit about wanting to be the next Trump and are soulless enough to pull it off but lack his skills and appeal. Ramaswamy was particularly horrifying to watch, a know-nothing who will say anything and do so convincingly. If this debate had an iconic moment it was the halting raising of hands captured in the photo above when the candidates were asked if they would support Trump as GOP nominee even if he were a convicted felon by then. All but Christie and Hutchison were down for Trump 2.0. No winners in this debate. Just losers.

The Most Unsettling Presidential Debate Spectacle Ever

[tomorrowusa]

Apparently the GOP House repealed those parts of the Bible related to worshiping false gods. Move over, Baal!

A reminder for voters in NY-03. The special election to replace fabulist Republican George Santos is on Tuesday the 13th. Early voting takes place now through Sunday the 11th. Electing Democrat Tom Suozzi would reduce GOP Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson's majority to a handful. Don't delay making sure that people you know in NY-03 make it to the polls. The district includes parts of eastern Queens in NYC and much of suburban Nassau County.

#maga mike johnson #the trump cult #false gods #christian fundamentalist worship of trump #republicans #house republicans #donald trump #republicans in disarray #mike luckovich #ny-03 #election 2024

[ardourie]

and obv i wasn’t alive during that time i only have historical accounts and family that lived during it but ppl rlly don’t get the full gravity of how these civil rights leaders were truly uniting people, fred hampton was creating such a mass of movement and love and community that he had ppl in the police force putting down their guns and white people coming down to black neighborhoods just to hear him speak, they shot him to death at his the of 21 while he slept bc, and im quoting the literal fbi files “we feared a black messiah unifying people” if u want to know why so many of our communities r in disarray it’s because they wiped out an entire generation of men and women by jailing or drugs or regular murder for fighting back, these things are not coincidental, theses groups didn’t randomly disband, both parties republican and democrat saw us and anyone who supported our liberation as a threat, theirs a reason why the places where we are highest in population are gerrymandered to all hell, and theirs a reason democrats go to these places preaching how they’ll help and then turn around to institutionalize us even more when they take office

[taylorscottbarnett]

Real consequences of not having a US Speaker of the House of Representatives:

The US House ceases to function.

New Lawmakers can't get sworn in, so they: cant get paid, can't receive classified briefings, can't sit on committees, can't vote. (Neither can their staff).

Bills can't be brought to the floor for a vote.

Law and precedent forbid the House Lawmakers (and thus Senate lawmakers too outside their responsibilities in confirming Presidential appointments, treaties, exc) can't do anything because the House can't vote on anything.

Representative Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin and a former Marine, was supposed to become chairman of a select committee scrutinizing Chinese aggression, but on Wednesday he was not allowed in a scheduled meeting with top military brass in a secure facility — known as a SCIF — because he has yet to be sworn in as a member of the new Congress. Because technically and legally he doesn't have security clearance since he's not a member of this congress.

House members can't help their constituents get services they are entitled to:

Passports, IRS, veteran's issues, SBA, Post Office, Immigration issues, Corps of Engineers, etc.

The US chain of command is thrown into disarray (The Speaker is second in line for succession to the Presidency).

This isn't a bug: much like in 2010, this is exactly what some Republicans came to the US House to do. Specifically break government, then run on how the Government doesn't work. The one they broke.

#politics #us politics #democrats #republicans #conservative #house of representatives

[qqueenofhades]

i can only imagine what the coverage would be like if 20 progressives were doing this to dems

I mean, if you elected 20 of your average Online Leftists as members of Congress, this is basically what you'd get, since it’s their equivalent but on the right-wing.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #and yes they would be EATEN ALIVE #DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY headlines from now until the end of time #yet we still have a chunk of the media currently insinuating that it is the democrats' fault for not Helping The Poor Wittle Republicans #incredible