• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Neither candidate currently has the 217 votes needed to secure the gavel on the floor, with lawmakers casting doubt on their ability to select a new speaker by the end of the week.

  • neptune@dmv.social
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    1 year ago

    All this means is that secret ballots get a fast forward if there appears to be a consensus nominee. Difficulty? Secret ballots MIGHT make some people more prone to vote for the heir apparent, but eventually secret ballots won’t protect the morons. Secret ballots won’t be able to hide many votes with how thin the margins are.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So while I am greatly entertained by the GOP eating itself, I do wish they’d at least pretend to give a shit about, you know, not driving the country into the ground at Mach 1.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Driving the government into the ground at Mach 1 has been most of their campaign promise since Regan. That’s the easiest way for the donor class to get even richer.

      And now Trump has shown them that, if they want, they can build it back up as a dictatorship. We’re basically fucked if a couple Supreme Court and one electoral college decision goes the wrong way.

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      The only people who matter are the super rich who will float above all the chaos and the hard core base who vote in the primaries. That’s it.

      Ronald Reagan barely edged out Carter in 1980; then he started talking about his “mandate.” Same thing with Bush Jr.