"The fact that a bunch of Republicans want to enforce some ethical standards is really getting in the way of our goal of establishing a Fascist Dictatorship...."
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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The GOP tried to establish their dictatorship and failed. The normal progression after you get your strongman into power is to start a series of internal pogroms based on the daily purity test. Essentially, the people who are the most strident and extreme without your power bloc begin tearing down anyone and anything that stops them from continuing to consolidate power into an ever smaller group. Since this is supposed to begin after you gain the authoritarian rule, you can basically do it with impunity since there's no minority party internal or external to your group to stop you and wrest power back.
Because their coup failed, they're now going through a round of purity tests without having removed the minority party so it's just a self destruction of their party. The risk is that they continue to winnow down their numbers internally, but the voters of the nation just don't care that the GOP is a party of insurrectionist traitors and actually votes them more seats. If that happens, or if they just decide to do it without the majority of seats anyway, they get to try coup #2.
In either case, we're dealing with an ongoing coup attempt in the US by one of the major parties.
Don't worry Gaetz, Democrats won't use a majority to do anything anyway.
No they’ll insist that the Republicans should actually have the majority and it’s only fair to wait
Saboteur has revelation.
edit: he better be careful with the rainbow references
Yeah, don't want anyone to know he's a brony.
We already know he's from Whoville.
Our willingness to self-mutilate on these things really impairs our ability to get the job done... I don’t think Kevin McCarthy is gonna stick around long... So we could be down to a one-seat majority!
Is Gaetz pretending he's not directly responsible for McCarthy possibly leaving?
Look, we’re all trying to figure out who did this
gaetz the pig who learned to wear a suit
And use Venmo
House republicans should all choke to death, slowly. Before the election.