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House Republican Says Jim Jordan’s Tally Is ‘Gonna Be Going Backwards’ In Tomorrow’s Vote

You wouldn’t expect Conservatives to actually move forward, would you?

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This is true.

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True regressives

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We must move backward, not forward, downward, not backward, and constantly twirling, twirling towards fascism.

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9 points

Or at this point be able to count either.

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6 points

Or stop defending rapists

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"There’s a coordinated effort among the 55 Republicans who opposed Jordan in an internal conference meeting last week to build on their votes of opposition to ensure that he loses more votes each round, according to three Republicans familiar with the plan. In other words, he loses more votes with each round he holds.”

~ WAPO

Even in the GOP, assholes sometimes get what they have coming

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The Cult of Reagan may be at an all-time low, but they still have the numbers to thwart the Cult of Trump in the house. And they still have total control of the R side of the senate.

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My bet is still nine votes before we get a new speaker. At the end of the day, they’re all just haggling about price. McCarthy knew that, so he agreed to whatever price in order to win. Now they all know that part of the price is also betrayal. With a party that’s been purging everyone who isn’t loyal, they don’t know how to handle that.

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I think it will keep going until the more moderate ones reach across the aisle to the democrats. They’ll have to completely cut off any power the extreme right has.

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That’s kind of like all it would take is for Putin to leave Ukraine for the war to end. Sure it could happen at any time, but that’s not the reality we’re living in.

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I didn’t say it’s likely to happen anytime soon.

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Third time’s the charm! Or some multiple of three. I want to see if we can get to 21 failed votes and have the winner declared via the Blackjack Rule.

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Hannity’s staff has been sending emails to Republican Congressmen trying to sway their votes. What a douche.

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How utterly silly. Imagine the delusion to set a deadline for answers from people who don’t work for you and owe you no response other than a form letter.

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Speaking of delusions, what’s with this talk of “wide open borders”? I don’t dip my head into the conservative new bubble enough to know what they’re talking about. Did Biden bulldoze Trump’s glorious wall that definitely got built?

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Actually, he’s building more, only because it’s already earmarked for the wall, and he couldn’t get the funds re appropriated. About the open borders thing. It’s been one of their claims for years. Get ready, it’s almost time for the every four year immigrant caravan to approach the border. Better vote conservative, or they’ll tek ur jerbs!

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It’s an implicit threat. It’s clear that if they don’t give him an answer that satisfies him, and the only such answer is that they will support Gym, then he will turn all the MAGA voters against them.

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