McCarthy Speaker & GOP House Majority Drama

[Raptorpat]

Crane flipped to present, Boebert and Gaetz remained at present. This should be enough.

Then they can swear everyone in. And before they conduct any business, they have to approve a rules package to govern the House for the next two years minus a week.

[Raptorpat]

lol here's something from a little while ago

 

[Mix]

~ Somewhere in Russia ~

Putin: Just kill them!

[Raptorpat]

McCarthy finally wins on vote #15

[Farful]

And juicy coke gets an honorable mention. Shit where are the Coneheads. I could really use some particulate matter in the vicinity of my deathnight crest

[matrixman124]

What an embarrassing shitshow

Edited January 7, 2023 by matrixman124

[Master-Debater131]

[Gemini]

Man, I wanted to break out "Sixteen Tons". Stupid Republicans for ruining everything! EVERYTHING!

[Seight]

5 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

McCarthy finally wins on vote #15

And now that this stupid shit is over we can move on to

uh, whatever stupid shit these people are going to do now

[Raptorpat]

3 hours ago, Seight said:

And now that this stupid shit is over we can move on to

uh, whatever stupid shit these people are going to do now

they gotta adopt a rules package to govern the house that can pass with a majority vote

[SwimModSponges]

One of the concessions he made is that it will only take 1 person to call for a vote for him to be removed as speaker.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Edited January 7, 2023 by SwimModSponges

[Raptorpat]

Thread

 

[SwimModSponges]

wat dat mean?

[Raptorpat]

"thread" in that context meant a Twitter thread, in this instance articulating some of what the crazies got in the speaker negotiations, which in particular includes a committee to investigate the active investigations into their patriarch.

[SwimModSponges]

He looks so happy!

[Mix]

13 minutes ago, SwimModSponges said:

He looks so happy!

 

 

[Top Gun]

 

[Seight]

4 hours ago, SwimModSponges said:

wat dat mean?

*[some guy with bad hair] gets out of this mess again*

"Well, alas"

[SwimModSponges]

https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-white-power-symbol-speaker-vote-2023-1

So theres that too.

 

 

Edited January 8, 2023 by SwimModSponges

[André Toulon]

🙄

[SwimModSponges]

Yeah thats why they call it a dogwhistle.

[1pooh4u]

Why did we let the supremacists have the “ok” symbol again?  Idt Santos was flashing a WP sign it’s not like the pics of Roger Stone where he was doing it as he was posing for the pic. Santos isn’t posing for a pic here, he’s in the middle of something else so wtf can say for sure wtf he’s doing. 

[SwimModSponges]

Same reason we let them have the salute we used to do to the american flag-

That's a hallmark of fascism- they steal symbols.

[SwimModSponges]

No, seriously it's one of the main things they do.

https://www.norwegianamerican.com/viking-symbols-stolen-racists/

https://www.history.com/news/how-hate-groups-are-hijacking-medieval-symbols-while-ignoring-the-facts-behind-them

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

Quote

How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it

Pepe the frog originally had nothing to do with Naziism and it's original creator is disgusted by what it became. The words "based" and "woke" had an entirely different meaning before fascist groups co-opted it. The nazis weren't socialist. 

And the symbol used to mean OK.

 

[SwimModSponges]

28 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

Why did we let the supremacists have the “ok” symbol again?  Idt Santos was flashing a WP sign it’s not like the pics of Roger Stone where he was doing it as he was posing for the pic. Santos isn’t posing for a pic here, he’s in the middle of something else so wtf can say for sure wtf he’s doing. 

Watch the video, he's nervous before he does it, does it quick as hell, then scurries off. Exactly like a kid who looks around before giving an adult the middle finger behind their back.

[André Toulon]

Not quoting because I hate page stretching and I can't remove images from quotes on my phone for some reason. 

But I figure the double down was due to my react, and I'm not laughing at your sentiment, just that it's hilarious that you used the pledge of allegiance as a reference of people stealing shit....it's like, slapstick 

Edit: wrong American bullshit

Edited January 8, 2023 by André Toulon

[SwimModSponges]

Tripple-down baby, I came down hard.

Yeah, I'm a clown.

Regular ol' Honk Honkler over here.

... well, there's another one.

I'm sure there are over 14 words that are secretly white-power catch phrases. 

Maybe even 88 of them.

Nazis co-opt vocabulary, it's right there on the list of things fascists do.

I'm 100% sure that man meant to flash a white power symbol.

100%

Edited January 8, 2023 by SwimModSponges

[André Toulon]

4 minutes ago, SwimModSponges said:

Tripple-down baby, I came down hard.

Yeah, I'm a clown.

Regular ol' Honk Honkler over here.

... well, there's another one.

I'm sure there are over 14 words that are secretly white-power catch phrases. 

Maybe even 88 of them.

Nazis co-opt vocabulary, it's right there on the list of things fascists do.

I'm 100% sure that man meant to flash a white power symbol.

100%

I'm gonna address this in TD. Save the topic and all.

[SwimModSponges]

Hang on let me use my secret mod powers to split the thread again.

[Raptorpat]

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/09/rogers-house-gop-gaetz-00076988

[Master-Debater131]

Memes still going strong here. 

 

[Raptorpat]

https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1615375513375105024

[Ginguy]

Don't mess with donors.

Wonder how long before that 1 member vote of no confidence is going to take now....

 

[Raptorpat]

one member out of commission tbd, one member is "Kitara Ravache"

such a super extra-thin majority heading into the debt ceiling fight

now imagine if Buchanan rage quit entirely because he got rat-rucked out of ways & means

[Raptorpat]

lol imagine only having a couple-seat majority and immediately after one guy is out with serious injuries, you end proxy voting 

https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1616054040068071424

[Seight]

5 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

lol imagine only having a couple-seat majority and immediately after one guy is out with serious injuries, you end proxy voting 

https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1616054040068071424

Greg Steube at the next major House vote:

[Raptorpat]

https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1618047779422769154

[Ginguy]

I don't really care about pencil-neck, he promoted a stupid debunked conspiracy theory and no serious person gives him any credence.

What is odd is this notion that somehow, according to Democrats, you can be on the House Intelligence committee if you feng feng a Chinese spy.

 

 

[scoobdog]

Can anyone translate @Ginguy's post from racism to English?

[katt_goddess]

12 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

Can anyone translate @Ginguy's post from racism to English?

His sad little ass is going to be in here to explain it or else.  

[stilgar]

Katt, it is blatant racism no matter what bullshit he is going to try and say.

[katt_goddess]

2 minutes ago, stilgar said:

Katt, it is blatant racism no matter what bullshit he is going to try and say.

The Sword of Damocles is already swinging. 

I want to hear the mouse squeak his 'answer' to pin down exactly which shithole he's been pulling trash from.

[Sieg67]

2 hours ago, scoobdog said:

Can anyone translate @Ginguy's post from racism to English?

Haven't heard this in a while but conspiracy theorist were accusing Biden of cozying up with the Chinese government.
He was alluding that that in a very weird way.

Edited January 26, 2023 by Sieg67

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

10 hours ago, Sieg67 said:

Haven't heard this in a while but conspiracy theorist were accusing Biden of cozying up with the Chinese government.
He was alluding that that in a very weird way.

I don't know who "pencil neck" is referring to.

[NewBluntsworth]

15 minutes ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

I don't know who "pencil neck" is referring to.

Adam Schiff the discredited deep state Russiagater

[NewBluntsworth]

11 hours ago, Sieg67 said:

Haven't heard this in a while but conspiracy theorist were accusing Biden of cozying up with the Chinese government.
He was alluding that that in a very weird way.

https://www.axios.com/2020/12/08/china-spy-california-politicians

Fang Fang is the Chinese spy who was having sex with American politicians, she apparently used her influence with Swalwell to plant an intern in his congressional office. 

[scoobdog]

15 hours ago, Sieg67 said:

Haven't heard this in a while but conspiracy theorist were accusing Biden of cozying up with the Chinese government.
He was alluding that that in a very weird way.

So, this was the correct answer.

[Icarus27k]

 

But then there's this...

 

 

 

If we play this right, we could get some good out of it. 

[Icarus27k]

Democrats: Sure, we'll vote for you for Speaker, if you include the following in the budget bills that reopens the government:

Codifying Roe v. Wade

The John Lewis Voting Rights Act

Codifying Biden's student loan forgiveness

Assault weapons ban 

[rpgamer]

Our democrats? We all know they don't actually intend to get anything good out of it, and would settle for promises to "stop saying mean things about us for 1 week."