10460

Absolutely nothing. Instead of pledging fealty to the actual person the GOP will have to pledge fealty to a set of ideas that people think Trump would espouse.

Maybe it even gets worse before it gets better.

10461

After trump comes tucker. much to cancun teds dismay.

10462

The high priest that maintains and guards the Trump mummy, or Trummy, will be the de facto head of the Republican party. But since that will be Barron, he will be seen as an empty figurehead for the first three decades of his ministry. The actual head of the party will be whoever heaps up the most riches in the Trummy treasure-hold.

(In the 22nd century, the bulk of the abandoned Trummy treasure will be looted by undersea scalawags plundering the sunken Mar-a-lago Pyramid.)

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That’s from HBO’s Rome, correct? The kid was supposed to be Ptolemy (Cleopatra’s younger brother IIRC)?

10465

Yeppers

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10467

How are these nincompoops not in jail yet?

10468

Yep. Any election they lose is illegitimate and they will ensure they won’t lose again. If they gain back the House (which is likely since both Manchin and Sinema are more concerned with preserving the filibuster than they are with protecting democracy) a GOP House with McCarthy (or worse) as Speaker will simply refuse to certify any election. Then what?

From this op-ed,

But if anything, the Republican Party today is even more committed to myths, falsehoods and a shared hostility to the very idea of an objective reality on which a democratic debate might be built than they were when Trump was still president.

Republicans have crossed the event horizon, they’re not returning to rationality any time soon, if ever. Their voters have proven they don’t need to, and in fact it behooves Republican politicians to keep on lying.

We’re fucked.

10469

EDIT: Found a different video that shows it’s from 2019, so not news except to me. Still, I’ll leave this here in case others missed it.

Try acting like this at any other job in the world.

10470

I would definitely vote MTG as the congressperson most likely to murder another congressperson. She is super crazy, like crazier than Michele Bachmann crazy.

10471

on brand

10472

If it’s just that the fancy pants congresspeople in the party can’t stand these embarrassing new idiots that ends up getting them pushed out of there, I’ll take it.

10473

More recent incident:

Two Washington Post reporters witnessed Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia.

“You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”

10474

Someone’s trying to drum up more attention to herself.

10475

Shouting at AOC is what she was elected for.

10476

I look forward to the day where her big mouth gets her the Richard Spencer treatment she so richly deserves.

She’s a trash person.

10477

The best thing to do is ignore MTG. She wants attention. Don’t give her what she wants.

10478

Yeah, that’s why I think, too. She’s feeling that she’s not getting enough outrage coverage.

10479

OSHA lawsuit for Dyer incoming like Lamborn?