Republicans hope the chaos of recent weeks will become a distant memory in next year's elections

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Republicans hope the chaos of recent weeks will become a distant memory in next year's elections
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Look the Republicans can literally go out and shoot one member of your family that you love in front of you then skull fuck you and force you to swallow it and they will still not vote Democrat.

It doesn't matter it's a religious tenant now.

So let's keep it fresh in the public's memory, shall we?

Hey remember when a bunch of grown adults couldn't stop acting like spoiled children and held one of the two major parties and therefore the entire legislative government in deadlock until they tired themselves out screaming at each other and agreed to put someone who tried to overthrow the national government in the third seat from the president? Pepperidge farms remembers

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Bold of them to assume the chaos isn't going to continue, given they've done nothing to quell it.

They are going to shut the government down. They are going to kneecap US support for the war in Ukraine. They will go after popular programs such as Medicare and Social Security. They will block support for any emergency funding if the emergency is in a blue state. They will try to sabotage the economy and do everything possible to pull the rug out from under unions. They will go after a women’s right to choose and LGBTQ issues. Finally they will do everything they can to lay the groundwork to reject any election that doesn’t go their way and cover for Trump.

They can’t help themselves. By the time the election rolls around next year this will be one of many controversies. Twenty to thirty percent of the country will vote for them no matter what. The question is what will the 40% of the population that can be swayed do?

People in the suburbs will vote Biden for president and then republicans for Senate and the House as a way of being balanced.

That's not hard to do considering that today's instant gratification society has the attention span of a toddler.

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The chaos of recent weeks? Chaos has been increasing since ... checks watch ... 1946?

Yup. We became one nation UNDER GOD with him. One nation wasn’t good enough for him.

But it won’t.

Well, the public, especially those that vote Republican, have pretty short memories; however, the big assumption here is that somehow things will run nice and smoothly from now until the election.

Unfortunately for them, and us, there is a newly elected delusional christofascist as Speaker, a looming budget fight that will likely lead to a shutdown, a pathological liar that should have been sent home weeks ago but is still a Rep, a spoiled orange baby that nobody can stop talking about, and a caucus of people that would happily make said baby their king. In summary, shits fucked.

And the GOP constituents love it because they think they're sticking it to the dems who they think are the cause of all of it.

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Ok. The GOP will have to trade it for dealing with attack ads as Johnson is a wet dream for a opposition researcher. I can see loads of attack ads materials with this "man".

This is the best summary I could come up with:


WASHINGTON (AP) — “Embarrassing,” “chaotic” and “irresponsible.” And those were just the words that House Republicans used to describe the past three weeks as they removed one speaker from office and splintered over three successive nominees before finally landing on Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La.

A Supreme Court decision siding with Black voters in a redistricting lawsuit could give Democrats a pick-up opportunity in Alabama.

One Republican strategist harkened back to similar turmoil a decade ago to argue that GOP candidates will probably emerge unscathed from the recent House chaos.

The following year, House Republicans gained 13 seats in the election, giving them their largest majority since President Herbert Hoover’s administration.

Rep. David Schweikert, who represents an Arizona district Biden carried in 2020, said he was going on radio shows and having conversations in Costco to get the message out that the House’s dysfunction was to be blamed on a handful of Republicans acting out of emotion rather than ideology.

He said the debacle may hurt “generic Republicans” trying to win in swing districts, but also contended that the election is still a far way off and argued it would be a distant memory by next November.


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