Any allegations that Greene is transparently working as a Russian agent are entirely unsubstantiated.

        • Diplomjodler
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          What are you, some kind of socialist? If we start giving people free tests, they’ll be asking for free treatment next!

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            Next thing you know, they’ll insist we check all the hookers for voteworm too!

      • @[email protected]
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        Florida gets a lot of shit but our neighbors to the north are fuckin weird man. Atlanta and Savannah are cool but the rest of Georgia can get fucked

      • @[email protected]
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        Hank was a good guy overall, but the tipping over thing remains possibly the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say. Its just so damn stupid.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah: go back to the nineties and the man arguably most responsible for the hyper-partisanship in modern politics was also a rep in Georgia…Newt Filthypigfucker Gingrich

    • @[email protected]
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      She barely won her seat during a year that Republicans were going to “win big”. No way she holds on in 2024.

      • NegativeNull
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        I think you are thinking of Boebert in Colorado. I think Greene is in a very safe seat.

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        I have not checked, is there a viable candidate running against her? Any candidate running against her? Isn’t her district insanely red?

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        There’s no Republican challenger, so it’s between her and a Democrat in a sparsely populated Republican district. Don’t hold your breath.

        • @[email protected]
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          57 months ago

          Was it Green or another psycho that won because their supporters harassed the opponent so badly that it ruined his marriage and he dropped out?

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    I’ll be curious if the democrats step in. Johnson did the right thing getting the bill passed, but he’s still a garbage human being and a terrible leader.

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      I thought I saw a headline last night that the democrats in the house said they would vote to table any effort to remove Johnson.

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          Apparently Johnson has not yet broken a deal with the Dems like past speakers, so he is about a trustworthy as a GOP member can be.

          Tabling a motion is keeping the status quo. If that somehow fails then there is zero chance the Dems will vote for Johnson to keep his spot as he can’t keep a deal if he can’t keep his position as speaker.

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          Strictly because he’s more honorable than Kevin McCarthy & hasn’t lied to the Democrats yet.

          • partial_accumen
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            McCarthy was even told that Dems would help him keep the Speaker role if he just asked for their help. He didn’t want to, and didn’t, and he got voted out. Pride comes before a fall.

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          Or they could be propping him up to pass stuff and then dropping support just before the election.

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      He is terrible, but he’s better than any replacement, he’s shown a willingness to work with Dems, and most importantly, if he ever breaks any promises, the Dems can sick him to the wolves.

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      Article I read a couple of days ago said they will. But who knows? There’s no love lost between the parties.

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        It is pragmatic to keep the House from being without a speaker, and he hasn’t broken a deal yet. They are trying to keep the House functioning somewhat by tabling a vote, but if it came to a vote for a new speaker all the Dems will most likely vote Jeffries again.

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    Apparently Anna Paulina Luna says if the motion to vacate hits the floor several Republicans will immediately resign, giving the house to the dems. Honestly, that’s probably the best thing the Republicans could do. The dems would have to pass legislation immediately enshrining reproductive rights into law or they’d look like chumps. That would energize the conservative base and depress the liberal vote. The Republicans intend to institute one party rule if they win the presidency and rule by fiat. If they have to accept six months of abortion being legal in order to go full Handmaid’s Tale, I think they would take that bargain.

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        There’s no way they’d expand the court. They don’t have the votes in the senate. Voting rights laws maybe but I wouldn’t count on it.

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          This.

          As soon as Dems gain control of the house, Joe Manchin and “independent” Sinema will peak their head to block anything and everything in senate. Those two assholes single handedly squandered every opportunity during 2021-22 when Dems had the trifecta.

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            Manchin is also retiring so you might be able to bribe him into voting for good stuff. Sinema will fuck us over just because though. It’s her kink.

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              Manchin has his post-Senate career ahead of him and he’s not going to throw that away just to help people.

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      Abortion protections will get blocked in the Senate, so the Dems will still have the issue to run on either way.

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      if the motion to vacate hits the floor several Republicans will immediately resign

      We’re seeing significant attrition among both parties in 2024

      This would, at worst, expedite the process for a handful of them, with the expectation that the House would be in gridlock through the end of the Congressional cycle anyway.

      Even then, I wouldn’t worry too much. Current Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has pledged to support Johnson in a bid to keep his Speakership. He’ll probably get more Dem votes than Republican ones, but he’ll keep his job.

      The Republicans intend to institute one party rule if they win the presidency and rule by fiat.

      2002 all over again. Yehaw.

      Can’t wait for another Teri’s Law and assorted Congressional bullshit and tomfoolery.

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    Any allegations that Greene is transparently working as a Russian agent are entirely unsubstantiated.

    You’re right. She’s been entirely opaque about it for quite some time.

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        It’s an extremely obscure conspiracy theory

        Conservatives love to elevate an obscure conspiracy theory to national policy. Check out the Tennessee state government’s Chemtrails Bill, which

        bans the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion” of chemicals within Tennessee “with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited.”

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          This bill is anti-geoengineering. It’s not about chemtrails. This is a misleading article.

  • ME5SENGER_24
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    I really fucking wish that people in the government would actually do things that positively impact the lives of their constituents. All these political pissing contests are tiring. What feels worse is that I, nor anyone not residing in the states of these nutbags, have the power to vote them out. We have to sit back and hope that people in other states come to their senses and stop their vitriol from spreading and infecting more and more sane people. It’s like the MAGA-ots are actually the Goa’uld from Stargate. Fucking parasites, the lot of them!