Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced his official resignation from Congress on Friday, a move that was expected but one that could, at least for now, shrink Republicans’ already narrow majority in the House.
With his resignation, Republicans are down to a 219-212 majority in the House, at least until his seat in the solidly red district is filled.
His resignation will be effective July 20, Fox News reports from a letter Green sent to House Republican leadership.
Uh oh! Republicans better be CAREFUL! He’s in a Red District and After passing this HORRIBLE Bill you KNOW that his Seat will be in No Danger Whatsoever because Republicans would LITERALLY RATHER DIE then to not Vote Republican!
219-212. Oh boy that’s close.
“What did you vote on today honey?” I don’t know, they just told me to vote yes so I did.
“Won’t that hurt your constituents?” They will still vote for me so long as I have the right letter next to my name, they haven’t even realized I can’t read yet.
I mean…given how badly red districts will get absolutely fucked over by the Big Bloated Bill…there may be some(lottery tier) hope for some change?
They wont really feel it, until after midterms. By design of course.
yup they’ll just say it’s the democrats fault or something and the democrats will of course cower in fear and apologize while promising to keep things as they are. holy cow we are fucked, aren’t we?
Republicans have been fucking their voters over for decades- as long as they keep fucking over people of color even harder, the white trash will believe they’re winning.
Well they would rather kill and eat “The Others” than take the time to understand if they are wrong or not.
I remember speaking to a very well educated lady who led sales. The company was in financial trouble and the CEO was discussing us using prison labour to do work because it was dirt cheap.
I was quite surprised and expressed a moral objection to using what I saw as slaver labour (this is in the US btw). The lady said and I still remember her “Well they should not have done something bad.”
What astounded me was this lady college/grad school educated lady allowed herself to be this lazy with her reasoning. That was it - a kindy level nuanced thought backed by an adult level of cruelty.
Thankfully the CEO had more of a heart and since he had opened up the question to debate to hear all sides it was dropped (we all took a massive pay cut instead so we could maintain the most amount of headcount).
Point being, people are lazy thinkers and will eat their neighbours as long as there is something they can point out to create a division between the others and themselves.
They already thought about it. The visibly damaging provisions will start rolling in 2027. They will try to blame Democrats for it, and that is why ACA should be repealed.
This is why it’s so important to come out ahead and set your conservative friends’ expectation so they can’t turn it around and say “see, nothing happened” or “I’m losing insurance, because Democrats won midterms”
They’ll probably buy what Bullshit Mountain is shoveling (this is because Obama. Or because Hillary. Or Biden. Or because Kamala cackled that one time).
I cannot tell you how many dipshits I’ve heard say that Biden had “the worst economy ever”, even when we could all see the actual economic indicators ourselves.
If they can buy that and still repeat that, even as dipshit Taco came in and started dropping his word salads related to tariffs and singlehandedly fucked the economy - then they can buy anything. Up is down, black is white.