Turns out constantly capitulating to the far right doesn’t earn you any loyalty from them – who’d have guessed? /s

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    IIRC it takes a majority vote of the House to remove him and the Freedom Caucus doesn’t have anywhere near the necessary votes to pull it off.

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      Doesn’t matter to a certain extent. They voted how many hundreds of times to get rid of the ACA? Republicans (especially the far right) don’t give a shit about actually succeeding - they just want to go home to their districts and show they “stood up” to the anti-Trump Rinos.

      I’m just happy that literally every other problem facing Americans have been solved - otherwise this would be a really bad waste of time! /s

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        Don’t you know that all of the real problems facing the country are caused by democrats, illegal aliens, rainbows, drag queens, abortion, books, and wokeness. Attacking the windmills to slay these bogeyman is how you fix everything. /s

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      The Dems might join the Freedom Caucus. Removing McCarthy as Speaker may be the only thing those two groups can agree on.

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          Hakeem Jeffries can garner about 212 votes. Just need to win over a few Republicans…

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            I mean, it sounds crazy, but if a couple republican reps from swing districts went with it, it isn’t impossible.

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            Let me think about that for a …

            … …

            … .

            Broccoli. What?

            “agent flounder is totally not having a stroke but will not be taking any further questions at this time thank you”

            whisks a.f. away