I know we’re living in the crapsack timeline, but I didn’t realize it was a crapsack made of little shit people that the Republicans sculpted like they were Play-Doh and then threw them in the sack and made screaming noises, pretending the little shit people were screaming, before declaring that sack to be their new second-in-command after Trump.
They put a far right super majority in the supreme court, are trying to put their candidate in Congress as speaker and then re-elect him to the executive branch.
We all know they’re fucking Nazis, but, just saying, this sure seems like some 1930’s Germany shit, right now. Like it’s obvious and all, but still needs to be said out loud.
Would be a lot cooler if we were not trying to replicate that shit.
Well yeah, he wants to be second in line for the presidency so that his degenerate followers can perform some strategic assassinations and put him in the presidency.
Fucking THIS.
You can’t deny it’s a distinct possibility.
Lmao. I can see it already. He thinks he can be speaker and President.
Then he just needs to appoint himself as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and become the President of the Senate to fulfill his dream of running the entire government.
(Not doing any work, mind you. Just holding all the positions of power at once.)
Then he just needs to appoint himself as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and become the President of the Senate to fulfill his dream of running the entire government.
Our former prime minister actually did something like this. He secretly appointed himself as health minister, finance minister, industry minister, home affairs minister and treasurer. It was quite a big scandal that only came out after the election that kicked out his government and threw a lot of ministerial decisions made during that time into legal doubt, though nothing ended up coming from it.
Morrison was a lazy shit and only used his secret ministerial powers a few times, he just wanted to have the power for himself. His stated reason was “in case the existing ministers became incapacitated by COVID”, but we already have assistant ministers that could fill in if that happened.
Fuck scummo. He was even worse than Abbott. At least he cared about some of us. Sure, they were all rich, white, Christian people, but he still cared about them. Scummo just cared about himself and no-one else. Also, it was kinda funny when Abbott ate his second unpeeled yellow onion on national tv. I mean, once is a mistake, twice is hilarious/concerning.
Not yet
Ignites lightsaber
Let’s just skip all these stupid little technicalities and proclaim him Supreme Leader or King.
It’s what the founding fathers would have wanted…
/s
LOL, donnie calling anyone else a traitor.
Every word out of the guys mouth is projection.
That’s rich (unlike Trump) calling someone else a traitor.
Can the House have a Speaker who isn’t an elected official? Has that ever happened before where the Speaker of the House wasn’t a Representative?
Afaik it’s not explicitly ruled out by the Constitution, though it’s never been done. It would be very unorthodox, especially if the speaker were in prison.
It can happen. However, it is generally not done because the House wants to be in charge of itself.
This was the first article I was able to find, as the question has apparently come up as recently as after John Boehner vacated the position: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/can-outsider-be-speaker-house-n441926
" The Constitution is silent on that question, saying simply, “The House of Representatives shall chuse (sic) their Speaker and other Officers.”
The Clerk of the House agrees with the office of the House Historian, which says the speaker “has always been (but is not required to be) a House Member.”
Most historians and legal experts who’ve looked at this issue conclude the founders simply assumed the speaker would be drawn from among elected members.
“It would have been unthinkable for the most populous house not to have its leader be part of the representatives who were elected by the people,” says David Forte, a constitutional scholar at Cleveland State University.
“Nothing fits that would make the speaker anything other than a member of the house,” except for the Constitution’s silence on the issue, Forte says, noting that the Articles of Confederation said members of Congress shall have authority “to appoint one of their members to preside.” "
Gotta love how the vagueness of the Founding Fathers is cause for serious debate after they just assumed something was obvious.
Welcome to why we have a mass shooting everyday. A comma and poof, no more well regulated required.
The USA was probably the most experienced in writing constitutions at the time, both on a national scale and a state scale. Even then, there wasn’t that much experience compared to today and a failure of a state government could easily be corrected by the King. These were smart men trying to create a workable compromise, but they weren’t perfect.
They were all educated and well connected, but I think it’d be a stretch to say they were all smart. I don’t know if we have enough information to make that claim. I don’t like the worship of the founding fathers. They likely weren’t particularly special people, but their circumstances were.
I don’t think it is hero worship to say they were smart.
We have letters of enough of them to get an idea that they understood and could debate on a wide variety of topics. They were also able to put together a surprisingly stable government at a time when this wasn’t guaranteed.
They were all flawed men in their own ways, but I wouldn’t call them stupid.
Uh didn’t he explicitly say that he wasn’t interested in the speakership like a day or two ago? That was a quick about-face.
The speaker of the house isn’t just the guy who talks a lot, Donnie.
You are out of your element
Can you even imagine the Democrats worshipping a candidate who was found liable for rape, liable for fraud, and who was out on bail for several incredibly serious crimes, for which there is overwhelming evidence of his guilt on the public record?
Republicans are disgusting. They are a cancer. The whole party is full of the most anti-American, anti-basic-decency traitors the world has ever seen.
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Gotta have something real for it to be treason.
Oh they definitely are all giant sentient bags of shit for sure.
I think ‘sentient’ is WAAAAAAYYY too generous.
Good point.
Pre-sapient perhaps?
Bags of shit are useful.
They aren’t.
Probably because it’s three months from the SOTU and he can sit behind President Biden and be on TV
