With the clock ticking down toward a government shutdown, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz approached a Democratic lawmaker on the House floor this week with a surprising pitch.
  • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zipEnglish
    421·
    3 years ago

    Siding with this cuck is never going to be the play. He wants to oust McCarthy but only to replace him with someone more extreme. Better to let these idiots keep having a gasoline fight than to pick the literal pedophile nazi caucus in some misguided attempt to resolve this issue.

    Let the country see which side is consistently driving them off a cliff. Many won’t care. But others will take notice.

    • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
      21·
      3 years ago

      ….than to pick the literal pedophile nazi caucus

      They already did that with house speaker Dennis Hastert (R ).

      • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world
        10·
        3 years ago

        Pedophilia issues aside, the Neocon Republicans that put Hastert in power hardly resemble today’s quasi-fascist Republicans.

    • twistypencil@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 years ago

      Won’t this result in them kicking Mccarthy out, and then failing over and over and over to vote on someone new, utterly paralyzing themselves into a parapetic fit? Do they block government of they can’t get a speaker voted in?

      • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        Well they would need to unify their entire party to get the votes needed and they’ve proven they can’t do that. So whichever literal nazi they suggest won’t even come close to getting the votes.

        So certainly what could happen is mckkkarthy comes crawling to the democrats to try and get their vote which isn’t happening without major concessions. He might succeed but best of luck when it comes time for reelection. They’ll call him a traitor to their republican nazi cause and vote in someone twice as fascist and racist.

        In either case the most important thing is we keep hammering home the truth. These people are traitors to this nation. They have consistently shown they cannot handle these positions of power and will outright try to overthrow democracy if they don’t get their way. Don’t let up on that message. Make sure all the rural fucks in Idaho and Ohio hear it. The message has to be louder then their closet pedophile uncle Carl’s Facebook posts that suggest the opposite. It’s not that hard.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    3 years ago

    I don’t think the Constitution requires the speaker to be a member of the House. Dems and a handful of reps could give it back to Paul Ryan.

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      12·
      3 years ago

      Paul Ryan retired because he wasn’t willing to deal with these maniacs in their first evolution - no way he comes back now. I’d support him over McCarthy for sure though.

    • ____@infosec.pubEnglish
      81·
      3 years ago

      Correct. I can think of worse people, like the current occupant of the seat.

      Ryan wouldn’t be my choice, but beats hell out of anything the current crop of Rs could put up.

    • nocturne213@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      3 years ago

      I think Ole Marge tried to get trump as the speaker during the nonsense with McCarthy’s vote.

      • thrawn@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 years ago

        Speakership is voted on by House members, not party. A simple majority of votes is all it takes. If someone is absent, the amount of votes required goes down.

        The Democrats are nearly half of the house, so if a few Republicans did not vote or joined the Democrats, their candidate would become Speaker. Because the Speaker can be anyone, not just a current House member, they could nominate not-McCarthy Paul Ryan and feasibly succeed. Ryan is likely not interested though.