Can you imagine Empty Green’s response to that? Oh, man…
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I’m imagining it right now.
Such bliss.
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From the NY Times:
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana is among those who says he won’t vote for Emmer on the floor. “I can’t go along with putting one of the most moderate members of the entire Republican conference in the speaker’s chair,” Banks said. “That betrays the conservative values that I came here to fight for. . . . I hope we can find a different choice,” Banks said, adding: “Tom Emmer’s not a conservative.”
Tom Emmer is anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ rights, has called climate science “Al Gore’s climate porn,” and once posted a video to social media of himself shooting a machine gun with the hashtag FIREPELOSI. And he’s a moderate? The GOP is so totally fucked up.
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See, he only wants to put half the kittens in the blender. 
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I mean…that machine gun FIREPELOSI thing…and some people think Democrats might cross the aisle to support this guy? Why would they?
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Banks was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Courtcontesting the results of the 2020 presidential election
I suspect this is what he means by “conservative values”
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Sadly, yes, he is. And yes it is. What does it take to make the cut for not-moderate is the question I would love answered.
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Oh I know that’s what he means. It’s just such a bizarre place our politics are in right now that people like Emmer, Steve Scalise, and Liz Cheney are considerate “moderates”. They are not, not by any reasonable definition of that word.
ETA:
He’s really not. Just because someone is not as far to the right as Hitler doesn’t make them a moderate.
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That’s the important qualifier. Sort of like “dumbest Nobel laureate” or “most ethical MAGAt.” Considering the field, it would take precious little to make this cut.
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(NY Times reprint)
The speaker saga has exposed the dynamics that have made the House GOP nearly impossible to govern. There are too many conflicting ideologies, too many unyielding personalities and too much bad blood for the party to unite behind any one person.
“There’s only one person that can do it all the way. You know who that is? Jesus Christ,” former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner and de facto party leader, said Monday in New Hampshire. “If Jesus came down and said, ‘I want to be speaker,’ he would do it. Other than that, I haven’t seen anybody that can guarantee it.”
Something tells me that they don’t like the brown, jewish asexual refugee guy.
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It’s almost adorable that the Republicans imagine themselves being on the side of the socialist rabble-rouser instead of the authoritarian government. These people would have claimed Pontius Pilate had gone soft for even considering the question of whether Jesus really ought to be crucified.
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Hanson invited the group to the event to provide security, and afterward she refused to apologize. “I’m not going to denounce anybody their right to be whatever it is that they want to be, whether I agree with what they do in their personal life or not,” Hanson said at the time. “We don’t discriminate in this community against anyone.”
Great! So she is pro-LGBTQ+, right? Huh, (reads fine print) “This offer only valid to white supremacists, Nazis and other racists goons.” Hmmm, OK, just so we understand properly.
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Oh dear god, no…
Patriot Punkcast
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from that one box:
There are too many conflicting ideologies
say what nyt? tell me specifically what ideologies you mean.
this is a fight over power, not belief.
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Incumbent Franklin Mayor Ken Moore wins re-election in a landslide over Nazi-affiliated Alderman Gabrielle Hanson
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Lemme guess. He wants to make ‘my johnson’ jokes?
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