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don’t forget the greatest accomplishment of GOP-which is, being successful in portraying Democrats as soft on crime, labeling them as party of high taxes, welfare, and supporting illegal immigration and illegal drugs, being loose on virtues and morality, and pursuing anti-Christian and anti-business agenda.

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Sure seems like there's a stinky method in this madness. No joke! I'm fin' to hunker in for a long seige. Or mebbe a long trip to a Steady part of the world.

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Martin L., please brighten my evening and tell us some details about what the converging wise people are doing/saying. Thanks in advance.

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"The courts offer a way for Republicans to get the policies they want without having to legislate — from partisan gerrymandering to abortion bans to gutting environmental regulations."

This phrase says everything you need to know about the Republican Party and their "agenda."

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Expertise, integrity and honesty has been dispatched for fame, cheating and lies. This is the end result, congress members who have no agenda, no policy, just hunger for fame and money.

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Yup - missed all that - because he's lying. Too bad you're believing his lies, but there's nothing much I can do about that. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-blame-jan-6-capitol-riot_n_620192b0e4b09170e9d4c846

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This is a three-ring circus! And it will be interesting to see the final outcome.

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Yes, I must admit I'm rather enjoying their little problem, that's what happens when you have so many self serving traitors in your party.

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We’re seeing in real time the results of the GOP selling their souls to trump, power and greed. They’re all turning on each other and hopefully will self destruct. This is the nature of dictators and coups.

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It’s O. Henry. Not O’Henry.

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There is no shame?

Did it start in daycare? Using the wrong childcare model for conflict resolution and treating our cubby buddy with care and respect?

So well stated.

“Because when you stand for nothing other than the raw exercise of power, the only thing you’re voting on is power itself. And who wants to give that up”

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Then if the Speaker is not a duly elected member of the House, they could direct the meetings but not vote on anything because they are not a duly elected member.

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Right. That doesn't mean they'd have one fewer votes, though, so that point is moot.

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This debacle in the House of Representatives is so scary! Kevin McCarthy stands for nothing but power and is and has sold his soul to Trump and all of the other people who have forgotten what their job is supposed to entail. They are not there to serve themselves but to serve the people of the United States. This is shameful. I see kids in the chamber and how sad that they are seeing first hand how dysfunctional the GOP really is. I fear that the next two years will be just as unstable.

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What's also scary is that the extremists in the Republican party are even more trumpian than McCarthy is. Republicans really don't want a functioning federal government, so this chaos fits their agenda of ham stringing the fed. gov. and only voting to spend money on the military.

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And Jordan is the alternative? “It was very common knowledge in the locker room that if you went to Dr. Strauss for anything, you would have to pull your pants down...” Jordan just snickered. "Yeah, that's Strauss." Ha ha.

https://www.newsweek.com/jim-jordan-involvement-jan-6-revealed-committee-report-1769235

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Your translation corresponds to what he said shortly after he directly said, “I mean, I lie if I’m really cornered or something. I lie.” That portion of the interview video also appears at https://sports.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-admits-lies-show-120821690.html, and the whole interview is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEiVCSyzfjA. Trying to never lie is different from not lying. So is saying other people lie too.

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The Bundy effect.

Donald Hodgins <silencenotbad@gmail.com>

11:54 AM (13 minutes ago)

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People are much like machines in that some are defective to various degrees. Our society breeds mental illness. We don't address the nature of the beast because we just don't want to be bothered. This 28-year-old criminology major who butchered the 4 students in Iowa. Bryan Christopher Kohberger to be exact. This guy housed repressed feelings that mimicked those of Ted Bundy and John Norman Collins. Being a student of horrific crimes he would have studied the cases of these two men and seen the reasons that led to their capture. Criminals always feel they are smarter than the law enforcement agencies devoted to our protection. Mr. Kohberger was an intelligent deeply troubled individual with repressed homicidal tendencies. With his education and understanding of the crimes he secretly wished to commit this guy was a ticking time bomb. If this was his first time, if left unchecked, it wouldn't have been his last. These killers develop a taste for death on an ever-increasing scale. They crave the feeling of power and the fear they create in their victims. This guy was in his infancy as a cereal killer, time and nerve were all that stood in his way of becoming the monster that lived with him. Arrogance spells the doom of every mass killer. They think they are smarter than the law, time will prove them wrong, it always does. The tragedy lies in their choice of their victims. Innocence seems to be a curse in our society.

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Cereal killer :-()

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I would venture to say that it is mostly men who take their disturbances to this extent. It might have something to do with how we define masculinity and how we raise boys to repress everything but their aggression. All of which is modeled by the media and culture. Men tend to externalize their distress and women tend to internalize it. (of course not all men and women follow this pattern) Men hurt others and women hurt themselves, although men commit suicide at a much greater rate than women do. Doesn't this indicate that there might be something amiss in our culture? We seem to create a lot of sociopaths, many of them ending up in the Republican Party.

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Good thought.

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Where are most murders committed? Cities that are predominantly Democratic run and populated.

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Depends on which study you read. There are as many studies that say red states have more murders than blue states, and vice versa. Don't believe everything you read.

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Blue cities have high murder rates. St Louis, a red city in blue state has the highest murder rate. New Orleans has a high murder rates in a red state.

If a red state like Wyoming has a large increase in murders it's less concerning and less deaths than a very populous state, red or blue, that has say a 20% increase.

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The horror is not that there's evil, which there isn't. The horror is that human beings can behave in such horrendous ways. The horror is that it's human. Saying a human being is evil, protects the rest of us from the reality that this is what some humans do and that we are all potentially like this. We all have dark sides and hopefully we won't ever have to face that in ourselves, but it is possible. Calling it evil is a copout.

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I would venture to say that it is mostly men who take their disturbances to this extent. It might have something to do with how we define masculinity and how we raise boys to repress everything but their aggression. All of which is modeled by the media and culture. Men tend to externalize their distress and women tend to internalize it. (of course not all men and women follow this pattern) Men hurt others and women hurt themselves, although men commit suicide at a much greater rate than women do. Doesn't this indicate that there might be something amiss in our culture? We seem to create a lot of sociopaths, many of them ending up in the Republican Party.

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Who May Serve Under rule I clause 8, the Speaker pro tempore must be a Member of the House. Manual Sec. 632. He usually is a member of the majority party (Deschler Ch 6 Sec. 10), such as the Majority Leader (Deschler Ch 3 Sec. 17.5) or the Majority Whip (Deschler Ch 3 Sec. 23.5).

https://www.govinfo.gov>GPO-HPPRACTICE-108-35

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Here's the full statement, clearly saying that it has *traditionally* been a sitting member of the House, but is not required to be. "Article I, section 2 of the Constitution directs that the House

choose its Speaker and other officers. The Speaker is the only House

officer who traditionally has been chosen from the sitting membership

of the House. Manual Sec. 26. The Constitution does not limit his

selection from among that class, but the practice has been followed

invariably. The Speaker's term of office thus expires at the end of

his term of office as a Member, whereas the other House officers

continue in office ``until their successors are chosen and

qualified.'' Rule II clause 1; 1 Hinds Sec. 187."

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Thank you much.

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