Republican congressman to nominate Trump for House speaker
Republican congressman to nominate Trump for House speaker
Troy Nehls, from Texas, calls Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’ and says he will nominate him to replace Kevin McCarthy
Troy Nehls, from Texas, calls Trump ‘the greatest president of my lifetime’ and says he will nominate him to replace Kevin McCarthy
A Texas Republican said he would nominate Donald Trump to be the next speaker of the US House of Representatives, after the party completed the unprecedented removal of one of its own, Kevin McCarthy.
Troy Nehls said: “This week, when the US House of Representatives reconvenes, my first order of business will be to nominate Donald J Trump for speaker of the US House of Representatives.
“President Trump, the greatest president of my lifetime, has a proven record of putting America first and will make the House great again.”
The speaker does not have to be a member of Congress, though no speaker has ever assumed the role without holding a seat.
Just when I think things can't get any dumber, here comes a MAGAt to prove me wrong. I would say this is just a stupid stunt that won't get anywhere, but since we're clearly still on the dumbest possible timeline I'm scared he might actually win the position.
From a practical standpoint, if he were to become speaker, would that disqualify him from running for president? Or would it be one of those things where he could just resign if he won?
Here's hoping it's a moot point because he's behind bars soon.
I just can't imagine him having a role like that where he's not always the centre of attention but has to listen to other people.
Which raises another interesting question, what happens if he turns down the position?
Edit: Thinking about this more, this entire thing is a really fascinating thought exercise even if him actually getting elected would be just the absolute dumbest possible outcome for many, many reasons, not the least of which would be his complete and total inability to actually do the job.
Just remember: when you think a MAGAt has hit rock bottom... they own lots of heavy mining equipment and don't give a fuck about the environment.
The rules say a person under indictment can not hold the position. Now they could try to change the rules, but I don't think they could get enough votes to do it.
That's ok, none of the Republican congressmen know how to read, so silly things like "rules" won't get in their way.
They didn't let the rules get in the way when they initiated the Biden impeachment.
They'd need to pick a speaker before they can change the rules, right? I thought the speaker pro tempore can't hold votes on anything but a new speaker.
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You spelled knob wrong.
The only way trump is the greatest president of your lifetime is if you're born in 2017 and die in 2020, presumably in a school shooting.
Even then, there's lots of other presidents serving around the world in those years.
Trump's not the best anything.
Oof
Slowly getting sick of that drama queen country.
I'm sick of living in that drama queen country.
The fallout that proceeded the presidential election in 2016. Will be regarded as one of the most significant turning points in American history and political culture. Combine a narcissistic sociopath (Trump) and a global communication platform (insert SV social media company/service). The result is a base of unremarkable individuals who lives revolve around them and their entitled "rights", and anyone that disagrees is automatically the enemy.
Like the game you play with your friends around fortune cookies, where you add "in bed" at the end, any metaphor about America needs to end in "with a gun".
Drama queen with a gun feels about right.
Someone should nominate Obama.
As much as I'd love that, I hope the Democrats just keep nominating "HAKEEEEEEM JEFFERIES!"
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I've reached a point where I mentally substitute "Dumbass" for "Republican" in any sentence I read, and I'm delighted to report that my usage seems to improve clarity and readability.
give it a shot.
Obvious coordinated coup noises
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Dictatorship run by MAGA Republicans. First by Trump, until he "graciously decides to give up the office." (Read: drops dead on the throne.)
No education is allowed unless the MAGAs approve of it. In addition, science is distrusted. Companies flee the country as all scientific progress not only grinds to a halt, but reverses.
Kids are essentially taught "white Christian men are better than anyone else." Using coded language at first until they get bolder. Slavery? That was just A job opportunity program for Black people.
Anyone who isn't deemed MAGA enough doesn't get to vote until they go to a re-education camp. There you'll learn that been LGBTQ is a mental illness, believing in any religion other than Christianity sends you to hell, and a woman that gets raped must have been dressed wrong.
Opposing parties would be allowed to exist at much reduced levels. They wouldn't have any political power, but would be handy scapegoats. Any opposition leader who gained too much of a following would get arrested on some obviously made up charge.
In short, it would be a Christian Theocracy mixed with Russian Authoritarianism.
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There is no fascist utopia. It's not a promise for a better world, but one of constant struggle.
From Orwell's 1940 review of Mein Kampf: https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/
Suppose that Hitler’s programme could be put into effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of ‘living room’ (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts), a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder . . . Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all ‘progressive’ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain . . . Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Texas Republican said he would nominate Donald Trump to be the next speaker of the US House of Representatives, after the party completed the unprecedented removal of one of its own, Kevin McCarthy.
Trump’s name has been floated before, including during the 15-vote marathon rightwingers put McCarthy through in January before allowing him to take up the gavel.
Trump is the clear frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary, notwithstanding 91 criminal charges (for election subversion, retention of classified information and hush-money payments) and civil threats including a New York fraud trial and a defamation trial in the same city arising from a rape allegation a judge said was “substantially true”.
In a book published on Tuesday, the author Michael Lewis reported that the disgraced cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried considered offering Trump $5bn to step aside.
Jim Jordan of Ohio, a possible candidate for speaker, told Hannity: “He’d be great, but actually I want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States.
David Frum, a former aide to George W Bush, pointed to House ethics rules, saying: “Why Trump won’t take the speaker job in one Google search.”
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Troy Nehls is a year older than me and I can confidently say, Trump isn't the greatest President of EITHER of our lifetimes.
He's not even the greatest REPUBLICAN President of our lifetimes.
He's not even the greatest president of anyone's lifetime, including, theoretically, vampires, Highlanders and elves.
he wasn't a good president at all that's really the truth of it
Good luck whipping the votes from a courtroom. This might be the only worse suggestion than MTG or Handsy Bobo.
