For the motion yes, but a simple majority is still needed for the vote. With a cast of clowns in the GOP, could they get that now? 
If a majority in the House decide to keep McCarthy, things could get even more interesting. This caucus seems to care a lot about how they look in the press or in the eyes of their supporters. Being cast as weak, incompetent, and out of control doesn’t play well against all the grandstanding they did before.
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True, but that could be enough to cause chaos and ensure that we don’t pass this legislation. I think the goal might be trying to wreck the economy to make Biden and the Democrats look bad…
Could be… Maybe it could help widen the split that exists between “moderate” Republicans and the far right wing…
True, but their own media never presents them as any of this, no matter how much all of that is true…
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I hate it when I have to agree with terrible people, even when it’s only because they’re disagreeing with someone even worse:
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Here is the RS article in question:
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announcing that he plans to get rid of them all if he’s elected, sure sounds like intimidation of law enforcement to me.
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Oh no, no, no… everyone knows trump backs the blue!!! /s
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Hey now, I can think of a couple of ways Trump really does back the blue
He backs the blue… against the wall, in front of the firing squad. Before they’re replaced by Red-hatted militias.
He backs the blue… unless they tell him that, he cannot do.
He backs the blue… balling of justice.
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State bans on gender-affirming care tend to share similar directives and language, prohibiting clinicians from prescribing hormones or puberty blockers to those under 18. The proposed Texas ban also includes a requirement that garnered a mention in each piece of media coverage: Any young person who is already taking gender-affirming medication when the ban goes into effect “shall wean off the prescription drug over a period of time and in a manner that is safe and medically appropriate and that minimizes the risk of complications.”
But experts say that taking trans kids off drugs in a “safe and medically appropriate” way is impossible.
“There’s no appropriate way to do that because it’s medically necessary treatment,” said Alex Keuroghlian, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of education and training programs at The Fenway Institute, which focuses on LGBTQ health research and policy. “The premise is flawed.”
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What a fucking idiot. Why are dumbass losers like this in charge of anything?
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Local coverage of that here…
And this on who is pro-cop city…
More on that here…
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what could possibly go wrong?
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This report on the Cop City targeting of groups that support protesters is chilling:
Portraying people (and those who interact with them) as terrorists before anyone has been convicted of a crime…is this the result of post-911 patriot/homeland institutions?
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“We’re going to return these programs to being a life vest, not a lifestyle. A hand up, not a handout and that has always been the American way,” Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, the vice chair of the House Republican conference, told reporters.
Oh, so is that why Louisianans and members of other poorer states have been struggling for decades? 
We’re reaching a point where “food scarcity” and “food waste” are BOTH higher than they’ve ever been because profit is more important than human lives. This isn’t about getting things back on track. This is about keeping people down and making sure corporations survive. 
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You know what phrase Dickens and other officials keep using to describe the protesters… “outside agitators”… I know YOU know who that word used to be used against… it’s absolutely enraging that a Black mayor and Black officials keep using that word. In Atlanta, GA, no less.
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