>In late September, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) took the exit game to a new level of drama by threatening to leave immediately instead of waiting on a previously announced retirement. “The Republican House is failing the American people again,” she said in February, explaining that the House is now like a theater full of actors in the circus.
Been that way since Reagan, but kudos to those GOP who are now waking up to the disaster that the Reagan administration unleashed on America; anyone remember Newt who was so bad, got kicked out of DC… only now to become another modern GOP soothsayer?. Maybe it’s time for them to start to vote for Democrats, the only party that’s been governing this whole time.
They’re not only jumping ship, they realize that the new generation of MAGA are taking over the party and soon it won’t be the Republican Party, hell it really wasn’t after Trump was elected and given that the GOP wouldn’t impeach and convict him.
Down like rats with the lot.
MAGA will be their doom, don’t they understand, everything trump touches, dies?
Yeah, but it makes more room on the crazy boat for MAGA
Hardly a win for democracy
> Every Republican still in the House next year will be forced to run for reelection while possibly supporting a convicted felon at the head the GOP ticket. They will also have to say they believe the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
And with all of these republicans quitting, that’s exactly what we will get, as was feared shortly after Jan 6th when republicans refused to stand up for truth, and has been predicted after that. The radicalism marches on.
Lindsey Graham called it.
If you pull the lever for ‘R’ you are MAGA now. Full stop.
If you drill a hole in your own boat, you can’t expect sympathy when it sinks.
It’s the littlest rats that always go first. Remember, they were fine little elected domestic terrorists when it suited them.
>The scary depth of this trap awaiting House Republicans next year was evident in the bloody fight that led them to shut down the House for three weeks before they could agree on a replacement for ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
and yet the all came together on the first ballot with a unanimous vote for Mike Johnson, a guy far more inexperience and far further right than McCarthy was. They all wanted this. They saw the trap, examined it, determined it was worth it, and jumped right in willingly.
Also, as someone on here once said, “there is nothing braver than a retiring Republican Representative.” These clowns are all cowards and terrified of their Dear Leader. It’s bizarre to watch unfold.
Rats. All of them.
And that’s a disservice to rats.
We’re marching right into fascism in the USA. I see two possible ways out. The GOP is voted out in a 2024 blue wave, which I just don’t see happening in a large enough sweep to make a difference. The MAGA crowd is too entrenched in too many levels and non-elected positions. Or, the MAGA politicians destroy the party through infighting. I see the latter as more likely, but then the question is: what damage will have been done before the GOP collapses.
Meanwhile, I think of Joe Strummer singing, “All over people changing their votes/ Along with their overcoats/ If Adolf Hitler flew in today/ They’d send a limousine anyway.”
In Trump’s party, it’s a race to see who can be the most extreme. There is no place for moderates, reason or truth.
If someone does not get in line behind Trump and MAGA extremism, they’re out.
If someone tries to compromise on something to get Democrats’ support, they’re out.
In the end, the Republican Party doesn’t care if there is gridlock, if the country shuts down, because they hate democracy. They hate the federal government.
The House is on fire and any moderates willing to put the fire out have already run, or are now running, for the exits. This is the Republican Party.
Guess they don’t like winning
“Moderate” Republicans ushered in the modern-day extremist, inexperienced, incompetent, habitually dishonest GOP, and now instead of fighting against it (since that would require the type of bipartisanship they’ve long rallied against) they are just throwing in the towel. They lit the fuse and now they are running.
They are completely leaving politics not staying and fighting for our democracy. The ultimate irony is that they are the ones that made that treasonous piece of fascist crap. Cowards!
Rats.
They created this mess, they should stay and fight it. Cowards.
*”As singer Kenny Rogers sang years ago “you got to know when to walk away — and know when to run.”*
It’s a crazy, losing game for the House GOP members now: if you side with Trump, you lose to voters and the (correct, finally!) corrective backlash. If you don’t side with Trump, you lose to your colleagues. It’s a lose/lose game. Not much of a “gamble”.
It’s mostly the remaining semi-sane and moderate Republicans, which means their replacements will be even more extreme than the current makeup of the party
I’m sorry they got paid (in $, fame, status, or whatever the fuck else motivated them) to steer the ship of state directly at the waterfall. They have now handed the tiller to the dumbasses who claim that the waterfall is a grand adventure, and who are blaming the racial, religious, and sexual minorities (and many clear-thinking people from all groups) for attempting to may suggest that we should aim for safer waters.
This extended metaphor sucks. But it doesn’t suck half as much as MAGA idiocrati-fascism’s gonna suck.
The Republican party is woefully short on strong leadership. I’m concerned that people are leaving the party because they don’t like the message, when people really ought to be joining the party to help re-brand the narrative into something more sensible than letting Jesus take the wheel.
One-party-rule is something that everybody should be concerned about, but not to the point of invoking catastrophe to manipulate a country’s citizens.
The age of information is barreling in, and we need people that understand the benefits and implications of recent major technological advancements.
It feels like there’s an authoritarian collective making a winner-takes-all gambit for global positioning, using theocracy and disinformation as agents of population control. The reason that authoritarianism doesn’t work is because it lacks the flexibility that’s required to address the ebbs and flows of global economic policy. When rulers refuse to concede their position to a more capable leader, bad things will happen.
/rant
They are all massively disappointed because they finally, after all these years of trying, got a fascist in the presidency.
But then that fascist was a complete moron.
The old cats are slowly coming to realize that leaning into MAGA as a tool to win one election cycle has changed the party forever.
It’s left it as a directionless shell that upholds the values of an intensely smaller portion of citizens than it did ten years ago.
I said it so many times during Trump – GOP is going to lose elections for decades because they went all in on Trump in 2016.
The reasonable ones are leaving opening up vacancies for even more lunatics . Trumps plan is working
A real “patriot” would stand and fight, quit the party not the job. You’re just vacating a seat to be claimed by more of the lunatic fringe
Instead of leaving (or after leaving), they should work on eliminating gerrymandering in their states and perhaps nationwide. It’s the gerrymandering that’s producing these MAGA extremist because no Republican can afford to appeal to moderates.
The problem is these republicans are bailing in crazy districts. So they will be replaced by even crazier candidates who likely will win.
Perhaps the number one indicator of “leadership” in an individual is: can they stand up to a bully?
The Republican Party’s number one problem is they have an historic dearth of leadership.
The number of R elected officials capable of standing up to a bully… the number who do not IMMEDIATELY fold when bullied, or even just fold at the mere thought that they might be bullied… can be counted on one hand.
It’s, honestly, so pathetic that my second hand shame and embarrassment for them is unbearable.
Jumping off the Trump train before it derails.
But they will be replaced by a plague of rats far far worse than them, and they all will be elected in the general handily.
The “Moderates” that are leaving realize that their voters are so despicable now, that they would have to go through a grueling Primary fight that most of them would lose anyway.
Yeah, Trump is the republican party now. All I can say is that republicans should’ve been quick to debunk Trump’s lies instead of being cowardly and appeasing him or staying silent.
That’s how political coups work, though. They will likely be replaced by people who are part of the new republican cult.
This is a bad analogy because rats jumping from an actual sinking ship aren’t replaced with worse and less-qualified rats.
Ngl I’ve been wondering for a while what kind of dirt Trump has on all of them for them to fall all over themselves to support him. It must be pretty bad for a good number of them.
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After opening the sea valves
>In late September, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) took the exit game to a new level of drama by threatening to leave immediately instead of waiting on a previously announced retirement. “The Republican House is failing the American people again,” she said in February, explaining that the House is now like a theater full of actors in the circus.
Been that way since Reagan, but kudos to those GOP who are now waking up to the disaster that the Reagan administration unleashed on America; anyone remember Newt who was so bad, got kicked out of DC… only now to become another modern GOP soothsayer?. Maybe it’s time for them to start to vote for Democrats, the only party that’s been governing this whole time.
They’re not only jumping ship, they realize that the new generation of MAGA are taking over the party and soon it won’t be the Republican Party, hell it really wasn’t after Trump was elected and given that the GOP wouldn’t impeach and convict him.
Down like rats with the lot.
MAGA will be their doom, don’t they understand, everything trump touches, dies?
Yeah, but it makes more room on the crazy boat for MAGA
Hardly a win for democracy
> Every Republican still in the House next year will be forced to run for reelection while possibly supporting a convicted felon at the head the GOP ticket. They will also have to say they believe the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
And with all of these republicans quitting, that’s exactly what we will get, as was feared shortly after Jan 6th when republicans refused to stand up for truth, and has been predicted after that. The radicalism marches on.
Lindsey Graham called it.
If you pull the lever for ‘R’ you are MAGA now. Full stop.
If you drill a hole in your own boat, you can’t expect sympathy when it sinks.
It’s the littlest rats that always go first. Remember, they were fine little elected domestic terrorists when it suited them.
>The scary depth of this trap awaiting House Republicans next year was evident in the bloody fight that led them to shut down the House for three weeks before they could agree on a replacement for ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
and yet the all came together on the first ballot with a unanimous vote for Mike Johnson, a guy far more inexperience and far further right than McCarthy was. They all wanted this. They saw the trap, examined it, determined it was worth it, and jumped right in willingly.
Also, as someone on here once said, “there is nothing braver than a retiring Republican Representative.” These clowns are all cowards and terrified of their Dear Leader. It’s bizarre to watch unfold.
Rats. All of them.
And that’s a disservice to rats.
We’re marching right into fascism in the USA. I see two possible ways out. The GOP is voted out in a 2024 blue wave, which I just don’t see happening in a large enough sweep to make a difference. The MAGA crowd is too entrenched in too many levels and non-elected positions. Or, the MAGA politicians destroy the party through infighting. I see the latter as more likely, but then the question is: what damage will have been done before the GOP collapses.
Meanwhile, I think of Joe Strummer singing, “All over people changing their votes/ Along with their overcoats/ If Adolf Hitler flew in today/ They’d send a limousine anyway.”
In Trump’s party, it’s a race to see who can be the most extreme. There is no place for moderates, reason or truth.
If someone does not get in line behind Trump and MAGA extremism, they’re out.
If someone tries to compromise on something to get Democrats’ support, they’re out.
In the end, the Republican Party doesn’t care if there is gridlock, if the country shuts down, because they hate democracy. They hate the federal government.
The House is on fire and any moderates willing to put the fire out have already run, or are now running, for the exits. This is the Republican Party.
Guess they don’t like winning
“Moderate” Republicans ushered in the modern-day extremist, inexperienced, incompetent, habitually dishonest GOP, and now instead of fighting against it (since that would require the type of bipartisanship they’ve long rallied against) they are just throwing in the towel. They lit the fuse and now they are running.
They are completely leaving politics not staying and fighting for our democracy. The ultimate irony is that they are the ones that made that treasonous piece of fascist crap. Cowards!
Rats.
They created this mess, they should stay and fight it. Cowards.
*”As singer Kenny Rogers sang years ago “you got to know when to walk away — and know when to run.”*
It’s a crazy, losing game for the House GOP members now: if you side with Trump, you lose to voters and the (correct, finally!) corrective backlash. If you don’t side with Trump, you lose to your colleagues. It’s a lose/lose game. Not much of a “gamble”.
It’s mostly the remaining semi-sane and moderate Republicans, which means their replacements will be even more extreme than the current makeup of the party
I’m sorry they got paid (in $, fame, status, or whatever the fuck else motivated them) to steer the ship of state directly at the waterfall. They have now handed the tiller to the dumbasses who claim that the waterfall is a grand adventure, and who are blaming the racial, religious, and sexual minorities (and many clear-thinking people from all groups) for attempting to may suggest that we should aim for safer waters.
This extended metaphor sucks. But it doesn’t suck half as much as MAGA idiocrati-fascism’s gonna suck.
The Republican party is woefully short on strong leadership. I’m concerned that people are leaving the party because they don’t like the message, when people really ought to be joining the party to help re-brand the narrative into something more sensible than letting Jesus take the wheel.
One-party-rule is something that everybody should be concerned about, but not to the point of invoking catastrophe to manipulate a country’s citizens.
The age of information is barreling in, and we need people that understand the benefits and implications of recent major technological advancements.
It feels like there’s an authoritarian collective making a winner-takes-all gambit for global positioning, using theocracy and disinformation as agents of population control. The reason that authoritarianism doesn’t work is because it lacks the flexibility that’s required to address the ebbs and flows of global economic policy. When rulers refuse to concede their position to a more capable leader, bad things will happen.
/rant
They are all massively disappointed because they finally, after all these years of trying, got a fascist in the presidency.
But then that fascist was a complete moron.
The old cats are slowly coming to realize that leaning into MAGA as a tool to win one election cycle has changed the party forever.
It’s left it as a directionless shell that upholds the values of an intensely smaller portion of citizens than it did ten years ago.
I said it so many times during Trump – GOP is going to lose elections for decades because they went all in on Trump in 2016.
The reasonable ones are leaving opening up vacancies for even more lunatics . Trumps plan is working
A real “patriot” would stand and fight, quit the party not the job. You’re just vacating a seat to be claimed by more of the lunatic fringe
Instead of leaving (or after leaving), they should work on eliminating gerrymandering in their states and perhaps nationwide. It’s the gerrymandering that’s producing these MAGA extremist because no Republican can afford to appeal to moderates.
The problem is these republicans are bailing in crazy districts. So they will be replaced by even crazier candidates who likely will win.
Perhaps the number one indicator of “leadership” in an individual is: can they stand up to a bully?
The Republican Party’s number one problem is they have an historic dearth of leadership.
The number of R elected officials capable of standing up to a bully… the number who do not IMMEDIATELY fold when bullied, or even just fold at the mere thought that they might be bullied… can be counted on one hand.
It’s, honestly, so pathetic that my second hand shame and embarrassment for them is unbearable.
Jumping off the Trump train before it derails.
But they will be replaced by a plague of rats far far worse than them, and they all will be elected in the general handily.
The “Moderates” that are leaving realize that their voters are so despicable now, that they would have to go through a grueling Primary fight that most of them would lose anyway.
Yeah, Trump is the republican party now. All I can say is that republicans should’ve been quick to debunk Trump’s lies instead of being cowardly and appeasing him or staying silent.
That’s how political coups work, though. They will likely be replaced by people who are part of the new republican cult.
This is a bad analogy because rats jumping from an actual sinking ship aren’t replaced with worse and less-qualified rats.
Ngl I’ve been wondering for a while what kind of dirt Trump has on all of them for them to fall all over themselves to support him. It must be pretty bad for a good number of them.
Time for that was three years ago.