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House Speaker Vote Chaos Completely Exposed Anti ‘Force the Vote’ Progressives
Using your leverage to extract concessions works — why can that strategy never be used by the Squad?
Yes, voting for the speakership was a mess last week. Apparently, Kevin McCarthy gave away the keys to his third vacation home, sold his soul, and contractually agreed to get a wedgie whenever he upsets the loony toon right wing of the party
For a GOP that sows so much chaos and destruction, it was hard not to feel a bit of contentment as they engaged in a circular firing squad and got a heavy dose of their own medicine.
Through decades of Fox News and right-wing talk radio, they’ve created a monster of a voting base that was hijacked by Donald Trump, QAnon mayhem, and elected doozies like Representatives Gaetz, Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. It has become a base that the GOP will never wrangle back under control, and millions of angry constituents holding signs full of Illuminati triangles, math symbols, and pizzerias, shouting about lizard people, and then going out and voting is something Republicans will have to manage and placate in the decades to come.
But, there was an element of last week’s events that annoyed the sh*t out of me, and that’s the Progressive…
