The Republican Party Has Burned Itself To The Ground
Donald Trump was so out of control in Manhattan that he got slapped with a gag order, and House Republicans have gone Lord Of The Flies on themselves.
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Republicans Fulfill Their Destiny
One year ago, way back in 2022, Republicans came to the American people and said ‘Give us power. You can trust us. Look at those gas prices. Look at inflation.’
Voters looked around and saw Donald Trump, and rights being taken from women with alarming speed, and marched to the polls to say, ‘No thanks.’
However, Republicans in several red states gerrymandered African-American majority districts out of existence, while New York Democrats imploded, and could not agree on a new election map, and the result was that the Republicans only won the midterm popular vote by 2.8% and ended up with what would become a 5 seat majority.
As soon as House Republicans won, chaos was the order of the day.
The matches were struck for today’s culminating inferno when it took 15 votes to elect a Speaker of the House.
Kevin McCarthy gave everything to win the spea…
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