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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

GOP Majority 'ripe' for Unprecedented Collapse: Fox News Reporter

House Republicans who are planning to quit before the end of their terms could hand over control of the House to Democrats before elections take place, according to a Fox News reporter in a series of posts to X this Monday.

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"some Republicans are "angling to get out as soon as they can" so they can land a "big payday in the private sector.""

Bye Felicia.

Ya know, if just wanted to get rich, all they had to do was ask Nancy Pelosi for stock tips.

But NoooOOOooo. They had to get greedy.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-26 05:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 4

"Look at how dysfunctional this House has been. All the responsibility falls on the shoulders of Speaker Jeffries and his failure in that role" - The GOP as soon as enough of their members quit on them that the majority flips to Democrats.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-03-26 05:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Taking their Golden Parachutes early, eh?

Not a bad idea.... their resumes are already pretty much ruined from being in this Congress; they might not get another chance.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-26 06:38 PM | Reply

------- morons, mouth breathing imbeciles, and mongoloid freaks.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-27 12:10 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

I don't think it's going to be just Congress.

With Trump sinking his claws into the RNC and its funding functions, you can guarantee down ballot candidates are going to see their funding dry up or disappear.

And all that work to build majorities at state and local levels over most of my life will evaporate.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-27 03:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The Republican party is no longer the party it was 10 years ago. In another country, "Republicans" would be being sent to the firing squad as communists or woke-ists or whatever, while being replaced by those whose loyalty to the premier superseded everything else.

IMO, these old-school republicans aren't really betraying the party...it's just that the party has changed dramatically. I know I wouldn't want to be a puppet for an unintelligent man-baby, even if I weren't getting a huge payout.

Honestly, the only thing keeping the Republican party alive is the abject stupidity of the Democratic Party.

#6 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-27 04:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Even with a Democratic supermajority in all 3 branches, Biden will probably just appoint Repubicans to key cabinet positions, select a "moderate" for SCOTUS when one of them retires and possibly pardon PO1135809 for "the good of the country."

Can't play hardball, that would be "looking backwards, not forward."

#7 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-27 10:51 PM | Reply

CHUFFY

Biden is a fair and honest man but he's too experience in this game of thrones to give anything away. He can see the road ahead better than any of us and that means many more election cycles of Democrat leadership in all three branches to clean up the damage the Republican Party has done to this country.

And even longer before the Republican Party has any credibility again.

President Biden only has four years to set the stage for the future. I'm sure he'll do everything in his Presidential power to make sure that future remains a democracy.

#8 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-03-27 11:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 7

"Ripe for unprecedented collapse?

I'd say the GOP House is looking at "ripe" in the rearview mirror.

They look more like that bridge in Baltimore.

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-03-28 12:06 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 9

Ya know, if just wanted to get rich, all they had to do was ask Nancy Pelosi for stock tips.
But NoooOOOooo. They had to get greedy.
#1 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

That's legit.

#10 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-03-28 01:10 AM | Reply

I don't know if cargo ships have names, but wouldn't it be weird if the name of that cargo ship was Donald J. Trump.

Someone should do a photoshop.

#11 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-03-28 05:31 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

My Freud is shoddin' over this self-inflicted injury.

You can only treat so many people like crap before payback comes.

#12 | Posted by cbob at 2024-03-28 06:30 AM | Reply

I don't know if cargo ships have names, but wouldn't it be weird if the name of that cargo ship was Donald J. Trump.
Someone should do a photoshop.

#11 | POSTED BY TWINPAC AT 2024-03-28 05:31 AM | FLAG:

It was the M/V Dali, as in Salvador Dali.

#13 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-28 08:02 AM | Reply

Imagine moment.

Donald Trump manages to be the catalyst which casts down the GOP, fractures them, and creates a multi-party political system in the United States. Progressives could go be progressive, Centrists could go be centrists, the Evanglicals could go thump their bibles, all with their own parties that actually line up with their values.

#14 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-28 08:04 AM | Reply

Trump learned his politics feom Roy Cohn, Nixon's mentor. So Trump took Nixon's Southern Strategy which was based on white resentment about Civil Rights and added additional hate groups like White Christian Nationalists, a/k/a Nazis, the so called pto-life movement, a/k/a the anti-womens-rights Neanderthals, the psycho homophobes who are angry about gay and trans rights and the xenophobic ignoramuses who don't seem to understand that the fruits and vegetables they buy rvery day for low prices would cost several times more without immigrant labor . Donald Trump is no political genius but Roy Cohn taught him that resentment and hatred of minority groups can create a winning Presidential ticket and America offered him a boiling cauldron of hate groups waiting fo a Fascist wannabe dictator to unite them. Hitler got elected Chancellor of Germany the same way. I've read, in several places, that Trump sleeps with a copy of Mein Kampf on his nightstand when he sleeps. If that doesn't tell you something then you must have your hands covering your eyes and ears like s monkey who doesn't see or hear evil.

#15 | Posted by danni at 2024-03-28 08:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

In the past day Paul Ryan commented publicly about down-ballot GOP candidates who will bear the brunt of the wide enmity toward a certain Dotard. Imagine running for an elected office where you, as a candidate, relies upon your political party for financial support, and you cannot get that financial support because it's gone into the the pockets of the head of your party and his mob of attorneys. Not much of a fighting change, and you become an easy market for those who declare that the guy on top doesn't care about you, your message or your constituents. A tough message to refute, when actions speak louder than words...

#16 | Posted by catdog at 2024-03-28 09:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump is the worst thing that could happen to the GOP. It's almost like he is a Democrat former Clinton backing double agent.

#17 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-03-28 10:10 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

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I would say he's the anti-Christ, but if he's not, I don't want the anti-Christ to sue me for defamation.

antichrist45.com

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-28 11:26 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I wonder if they are going to buy a bible on the way out.

#19 | Posted by bat4255 at 2024-03-28 11:31 AM | Reply

wonder if they are going to buy a bible on the way out.

#19 | POSTED BY BAT4255

Bibles make great gifts for the prison bound.

Because Jesus Lives!

In Prison.

Everyone finds Jesus in prison. (Or Mohammed)

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-28 12:11 PM | Reply

Honestly, the only thing keeping the Republican party alive is the abject stupidity of the Democratic Party.

#6 | Posted by madbomber

The only thing keeping the Republican party alive is a massive propaganda machine that convinces morons that democrats are worse, which is a massive lie.

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-28 12:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

TWINPAC

I guess we'll see if my pessimism is unwarranted, in lieu of your optimism.

The Party quickly abandoned Howard Dean's 50 State strategy, which brought us an Obama presidency, and I think it's naive to think that Biden isn't listening to the Democratic Party consultants who have consistently promoted short-term and short-sighted strategies and tactics.

I think we're looking good in 2024, but I don't see the long-term strategy holding up, given that State and local politics has already been lost in so many places...and perhaps you haven't noticed the makeup of the Supreme Court, but he's made it clear that he's going to just let that situation persist.

It's not looking great that Democrats hold the Senate, although we'll likely overpower MAGA in the House this year...Biden will have a fascist SCOTUS and likely a Repubican Senate to contend with, and we all know how that affects judicial nominations moving forward.

The current zeitgeist is largely tied to the reaction to the Dobbs decision. While Biden and the Democratic Party are the beneficiaries of this issue, it is, IMO, not indicative of a change in the losing strategies that have plagued Democrats for the last 40 years or so. The Democratic establishment continues to play whack-a-mole while the Repubican establishment has played the long game. Watch out for hubris, PO1135809ism is a blip, we're still dealing with the long term problems of Nixon, Reagan and Bush the dumber.

One last thing: it's "Democratic," not "Democrat" leadership (this matters).

#22 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-03-28 01:08 PM | Reply

Couldn't happen to a nicer party...(cough, cough)

#23 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-03-28 02:06 PM | Reply

I've said previously here that had I been a Republican, God forbid, I may have considered voting for Trump, however briefly lol, as opposed to voting for the GOP Est.

I wouldn't have voted for him after having read his history of cons and frauds and knowing that he was a shill for himself and his Class, not a patriot, not a leader... not even a competent businessman.

.

But for those Republicans who hated the GOP Est as much as most Dems do, he was apparently their only option, as their social and cultural perspectives (I won't say values) wouldn't permit them to vote Dem.

The problem now, though, even as some Republicans see through him, he's still, they think, their only choice.

My hope is that enough of them, and enough swing voters, will see the damage he's caused, and that he will cause to the Country, to do what some of these House Critters are doing; taking their losses and going home to regroup.

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2024-03-28 02:26 PM | Reply

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#6 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-27 04:06 PM | Reply |
In another country, "Republicans" would be being sent to the firing squad as communists or woke-ists or whatever, while being replaced by those whose loyalty to the premier superseded everything else.

Not even in another country/place, just in another time? Fast-forward a few hours, days, weeks, and we are not far from there already, minus "the firing squad" (for now?), courtesy of "America First" Il Duce and his family coterie:

'Bloodbath' at RNC as new leadership loyal to Trump purges staff | Lara Trump Promises to Use RNC to Complete MAGA Takeover of Party | Donald Trump's daughter-in-law made it clear that there's only one option going forward.

|------- Donald Trump is well on his way to replacing the conservative party with a "counterestablishment" of his own that, according to his family, has no room for dissenters.

41-year-old [Lara] Trump insisted that she was the only person loyal enough to the former president to be considered for the RNC job...

... Prospective RNC employees are being asked if they believe the 2020 election was stolen, constituting a "litmus test" as the 2024 election approaches. sources described the 2020 question "as unusual for a job interview" but saw it as a way of "questioning their loyalty to Donald Trump".
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IMO, these old-school republicans aren't really betraying the party...it's just that the party has changed dramatically.

Like Reagan's "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic party left me" - only now it's GOP?
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#25 | Posted by CutiePie at 2024-03-29 08:27 AM | Reply

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#5 | Posted by jpw at 2024-03-27 03:53 PM
With Trump sinking his claws into the RNC and its funding functions, you can guarantee down ballot candidates are going to see their funding dry up or disappear.
And all that work to build majorities at state and local levels over most of my life will evaporate.

That's unlikely... or at least, very unlikely due to "RNC and its funding functions" and most of RNC haul going to Trump - it would be much more likely due to "Dobbs" decision.

First of all, most of local GOP apparatus, especially the ones who worked to build majorities at state and local levels, are funded and operate pretty independently from RNC... and as they and their donors realize that money and attention from RNC is not reaching them, they will stop relying on and donating to RNC and start funding and pay attention to state/local races.

Second, most big money donors can't stand Trump and just decide to maybe give some token donations to RNC / Trump campaign, so as not to be blacklisted in case he wins, i.e., "insurance" money, but concentrate on direct donations to Senate and House campaigns, and some local where they see either promise of gaining seat(s) or shoring up potential losses - again, "insurance" but against Biden win. IOW, they will take on some of the responsibilities of 'dysfunctional' Trump-owned RNC - it's not a lot of work to set up PACs where they see are needed, any more than they've done before - just a change in distribution of capital.

Wouldn't be surprised if RNC / Trump campaign is being "starved" of big donors' money while some Senate and House campaigns are "supersized" with PAC's dollars.

"Double haters," in particular, may decide to split their vote and donate to GOP down ballot, while voting for Biden.
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#26 | Posted by CutiePie at 2024-03-29 09:39 AM | Reply

"The only thing keeping the Republican party alive is a massive propaganda machine that convinces morons that democrats are worse, which is a massive lie."

All the Republicans need to do is point to places like this, so that USans can see what Democrats are saying.

They don't need propaganda. People like you do more than enough to provide it for them.

#27 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-29 12:57 PM | Reply

They don't need propaganda. People like you do more than enough to provide it for them.

#27 | Posted by madbomber

Which of my words are propaganda? Be specific.

#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-03-29 01:11 PM | Reply

"All the Republicans need to do is point to places like this, so that USans can see what Democrats are saying."

I wish that was all they did.

THAT would just be democracy in action.

But that is NOT what they do is it?

Do you really need examples of Republicans spreading Russian style propaganda in America?

Here is a glaring example:

"We know they received warnings from the FBI that their Biden investigations were Russian disinformation targets, and that the false information was flowing from Russian intelligence through Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, into the highest echelons of the GOP. But those warnings would have been superfluous to those who already knew they were working with Russian spies in an effort to frame Biden."

And let's not go into the whole J6 attempted insurrection fiasco. That horse has been beat to death like a DC Capitol policeman.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-29 01:12 PM | Reply

Mudbummer tries SO HARD to be relevant.

#30 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-29 08:03 PM | Reply

"Which of my words are propaganda? Be specific."

Just share your thoughts on pretty much anything. But specifically, the electoral college, income inequality, taxes, healthcare, free speech, racism, whatever.

#31 | Posted by madbomber at 2024-03-30 08:57 AM | Reply

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