US Congress thread – Antics in the Senate and House - Page 45 (2024)

ToThePoint wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 2:48 pm

el jefe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:51 pmok, whoever said this guy is politically indistinguishable from Mccarthy is wrong. this guy is a fundamentalist loon. Mccarthy was just a spineless weasel.

Yes. Rep. Mike Johnson is an evangelical Southern Baptist YEC level loon.

ETA:
This was the related tweet I was looking for from New Orleans, LA investigative reporter Zack Kopplin

additional link to Mike Johnson and his nutjob wife Kelly's podcast:
"Truth Be Told" podcast

The Republicans regard this person as the best option.
The US now has one political party, and one bunch of screaming insane wannabe dictators.

https://nitter.net/MeidasTouch/status/1 ... 9466429749

Also, this is brilliant.

To be posted in all Members’ offices per order of the Speaker:

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, except thou shalt followeth thy Orange Jesus over any moral cliff.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, unless thou shalt have purchaseth it on DonaldJTrump.com.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, except when thou shalt attacketh Brandon or thy RINOs.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy, unless thou attendeth a musical production in Denver.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother, and burieth thy mother on thy father’s golf course.
6. Thou shalt not kill, but thou shalt shooteth looters on sight, and puteth alligators in thy moat to keepeth out the Mexicans.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery, but if thou shalt do so with thy p*rn star, thou shalt payeth her off through an intermediary and falsifieth thy accounting records.
8. Thou shalt not steal, unless thou needeth to steeleth one moreth than a certain number of popular votes or unless thou can hideth thy stollen documents at thy bathroom in thy resort.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness. LOL.
10. Thou shalt not covet (but seeth nos. 2, 4, 7, and 8 aboveth).

https://nitter.net/gtconway3d/status/17 ... 6195212322

Pavlov's Dog wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 7:29 pmlol pegged

Cribbage

Players choose the order in which to lay their cards in order to maximize their scores; experienced players refer to this as either good or poor "pegging" or "pegsmanship". If one player reaches the target (usually 61 or 121), the game ends immediately and that player wins. When the scores are level during a game, the players' pegs will be side by side, and it is thought that this gave rise to the phrase "level pegging".^[16]

16. The American Cribbage Congress is encouraging replacement of the term "peg" with "dowel" in response to urban slang lexicon evolution.

i meant pegged like "such and such currency is pegged to the dollar"

and yes, all ashkenazi jews now have the same IQ because she said "an ashkenazi IQ". doesn't anyone know how logic works?

No Labels’ call: Speaker Mike Johnson is 'not a Trump Republican’

f*cking lol

No Labels, the centrist political organization plotting a third-party presidential bid

Does anybody actually believe this ?

VoxRat wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:12 pm No Labels’ call: Speaker Mike Johnson is 'not a Trump Republican’

f*cking lol

These No Labels people seem really touchy about labels.

He may have a point here.

https://nitter.net/Samizdat24/status/17 ... 4069498018

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." —Voltaire

"They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved." —Sebastian Gorka

Autonemesis wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:40 amJohnson is not infinitely more dangerous than any other Republican. That is a stupid xeet.

That’s my take.
What is this MAGA clown going to get accomplished that any other MAGA clown would not? Other than making the case to any potential 2024 voters not already convinced that Trumpublicans cannot be allowed to be in charge of anything?

VoxRat wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:12 pm

Autonemesis wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:40 amJohnson is not infinitely more dangerous than any other Republican. That is a stupid xeet.

That’s my take.
What is this MAGA clown going to get accomplished that any other MAGA clown would not? Other than making the case to any potential 2024 voters not already convinced that Trumpublicans cannot be allowed to be in charge of anything?

The more Mike Johnson talks the right wing message, the better the sound bites at election time.

And if the caucus gets stupid again and doesn't compromise to pass legislation to keep the country running, or maybe kick out MJ if he does vote "with the Dems", then it shines more light on their inability to govern.

The clown show will continue no matter what ring leader is holding the baton.

Speaking of corruption...

https://nitter.net/MelaniePodolyak/stat ... 5192717716
https://nitter.net/MelaniePodolyak/stat ... 3126325452

"If you come for me, you best not miss": Santos gloats after vote to expel shakes out in his favor

The motion to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress failed on Wednesday evening, with 182 Republicans and 31 Democrats voting in favor of letting him stay and 24 House Republicans and 155 Democrats voting to get him out of there, according to The Washington Post. 15 Democrats and 4 Republicans voted "present."

What if the real sh*tshow was the friends we made along the way?