If the party splits, maybe we’ll finally get a push for ranked choice voting.
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Lol if a GOP schism is what finally kills FPTP in the US… well, it’d be an unexpected win from an unexpected source, but I’d take it.
Right, IMO First Past The Post being good enough has led to more partisanship, extremism and polarization. It has increased the power of money and decreased the power of We the People.
I tried way too long to remember which candidate's initials were RCV. I need to go to sleep...
Ranked Choice Voting
Yes please so actual liberals have a chance at winning.
Shhhh let’s keep that part quiet if/when the Rs split and think it’ll help them. Otherwise they’ll gladly fail, just to screw the libs.
That’s not what liberal means…
Note that Ken Buck is a Tea Partier. He’s tapping out because MAGA is too shit-for-brains even for him.
The author of the “Blue Lives Matter bill” said these motherfuckers are the worst.
I wonder if the State of the Union was the tipping point for him. You had MTG, looking and behaving like Randy Marsh at a kid’s baseball game. That’s where the party is now.
The one saving grace is that you can always, always trust fascists to begin in-fighting at a moment's notice.
When a group joins together based on "purity" against all others, they eventually look at each other and find each other's purity lacking.
Purity about who to hate, which of course leads to more and more hate that is eventually directed to others in the group!
See that's you step in and fan the flames. Make up shit.
I'm so white I burn when it's cloudy. Look at Mr. Sun Tan showing off his impure equitorian flesh trying to say his idea is the best when he clearly lacks the brains to try.
Listen to Mr. Squeak. His balls never dropped quite right, and his kids are "y'know what I mean".
Can't happen too soon
Couldn't happen to a nicer party /s
These same people were griping to Politico last month that Johnson's presentation at the last weekend retreat ignored pertinent-to-members issues like how to win re-election and grow their majority. Instead, "Johnson effectively delivered a sermon" about "declining church membership and the nation’s shrinking religious identity." They're just mad that they have to suffer the lives they're seeking to forcibly inflict on the rest of us.
After fifty years of pushing for theocracy these dim bulbs have finally actually thought about the ramifications.
They don't give a shit about theocracy or anything else, they only care about power and money, there is no core idea they won't abandon and their rhetoric is as bendy as a wet noodle - they simply didn't sign up to lose, and this guy doesn't look like he's helping them win.
Mike Johnson is suuuuuch a creepy weirdo that even the magats are getting the willies from him.
When your whole "thing" is hate-based, this is inevitable.
Purity-based movements that use hate as a weapon inevitably end in circular firing squads.
Never fast enough though.
Good. We hate them too. How about every single member of the GOP fucks off?
except that one guy that...uh... did something. Uh.
never mind. maybe he's just an imaginary sock puppet.
oh well.
Even the Republicans that have been primaried for not going along with the MAGA cult are terrible people who just hit their limit of being terrible.
The Republican brand is hatred, and has been as long as I've been alive.
Not exactly stable bedrock for fostering cooperation.
Cruelty is the point and it is nearly inevitable they are going to turn some of that on each other.
Good, gooood. Let the hate flow within you!
It was never a good thing that everyone else had a monopoly on this. Sadly I think this self loathing still won't cause the need introspection.
Oh no. Looks like they're gonna Jan6 and nazi parade/send death threats to each other now?
In a pit such as the GOP, it’s hard to know where one snake ends and another begins. But I’m all for it devouring itself all the same.
It's ok, I hate them as well and I'm not even American
Fracture baby, fracture.
I was reading this professionally published article seriously until it referred to the "vibes" that are being "served" by one of the most powerful politicians in the country.
This is one of the least surprising outcomes. How many mean girls get along?