House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called for Republicans to “get their act together” and elect the next speaker while slamming the “extremists” within their party.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called for Republicans to “get their act together” and elect the next speaker while slamming the “extremists” within their party.
Honestly, I don’t see a realistic path forward for anybody right now. Of course, at some point, somebody is going to have to fall on their sword, but there’s no real way of knowing who’s going to have to be the one to do that right now as everybody has their heels dug in. If you put a gun to my head and forced me to make a prediction, I’d say 5 Republicans voting for Jeffries is the “most likely” way to go, but when I say “most likely” in this case, I mean “has a slightly better chance of happening than me getting blown by every Dallas Cowboys cheerleader in alphabetical order”.
I’d love to see Vegas put odds on which side is going to cave first: Dems, GOP, or MAGA. I don’t even know what the result would be, outside of knowing that somebody would be making a fuckton of cash off it.
On one hand, I’m glad the chickens have come home to roost and that it’s come to be this fucking bad so the GOP finally has to deal with the monsters they and Fox News helped create. They spent decades feeding into hateful, unhinged hysteria, and they abandoned anything even approaching a semblance of rationality because it played well with a right wing whose allegiance they decided they couldn’t afford to lose. The Freedom Caucus scared the everloving shit out of them, and rather than spend their billions in dark money to put those dumb motherfuckers back in their holes, they gave them podiums and let them spew their bile across international airwaves. GOP donors overtly and covertly fueled (and funded) groups like Judicial Watch, Project Veritas, PragerU, CPAC, InfoWars, Gateway Pundit, among others. SCOTUS seats were all they cared about, and they were willing to do anything to get them, including ignoring the collateral damage that we warned would come from pandering to certifiable fucking nutcases. They decided it was better to build a brand ecosystem that could amplify conservative tropes at scale than it was to come up with viable and rational policy positions to help the American people. On that hand, I’m glad the hydra is now eating itself, and I hope it never, ever recovers until a new brand of decent human being can re-make something viable from the blood-soaked ashes of this Party.
On the other, gods help us all.
Nitpick. They decided it was better to allow these nutjobs to spew their bile because it made them a fuckton of cash. When even people at Fox News started saying “Hey, you think we may be going just a wee bit too far here?”, the response was to continue doing it because they were making a fuckton of cash and becoming more moderate would cede viewers to Newsmax and OANN. CNN held that Trump Town Hall specifically to cater to these people (Granted, that backfired on them spectacularly). Even CNN now has started catering to a limited degree to these people because there’s just too much money to be made placating idiots and their conspiracy theories.
They know it’s all bullshit. They even knew this would happen. They just didn’t care because they were swimming in cash.
It’d be funny if it weren’t so goddamned depressing.