Post Trump GOP (1 Viewer)

[J-DONK]

I've been thinking about this for a while. What is the GOP going to do once Trump goes to jail? Realistically, anything over 10 years of real time would be a death sentence for the obese cheeto. I feel like the current riff in the house is a early sign of this coming change of leadership, and direction. Even the most sycophantic Trump GOP policy makers know he isn't beating 90 counts. They are a total impasse on direction with a sword of damocles, in the form of a Trump conviction, hanging over their heads. Will the GOP be pulled back from it's authoritarian fall, or will we see the rise of another strongman?

Who do you think will takeover the GOP? I think Paul Ryan is interesting, since he sat out the current Trump era. I'm not sure the GOP base actually will care about the scandal of having Trump convicted.

The short list is probably:

1. Ron Desantis
2. Chris Christie
3. Paul Ryan
4. Mitt Romney
5. Ted Cruz
6. Marco Rubio
7. Mike Pence

I don't think the GOP is ever going to nominate/follow a woman, or someone brown.

 

[SystemShock]

If what you say is true, how did Nikki Haley get elected as the Governor of SC?

Nikki Haley is passable, a Rasheda Jones type thing, and she says she's Christian.
A dark skinned Hindu is going to have a hard time pleasing the evangelicals/people who think Trump is part of biblical prophesy.

 

[J-DONK]

CNN opinion piece that goes into the possible realignment of the GOP we are witnessing along with historical examples.

Opinion: We could be witnessing the Republican Party break apart in real time | CNN

A failure to reach a majority consensus signals the doom of an American political party, writes Thomas Balcerski.

www.cnn.com

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

CNN opinion piece that goes into the possible realignment of the GOP we are witnessing along with historical examples.

Opinion: We could be witnessing the Republican Party break apart in real time | CNN

A failure to reach a majority consensus signals the doom of an American political party, writes Thomas Balcerski.

www.cnn.com

or maybe CNN is just being overly dramatic...

When was the longest it took to elect a speaker of the House?

The record for most rounds of votes, according to the Office of the Historian of the House, is the 34th Congress when Rep. Nathaniel Prentice Banks became speaker

abcnews.go.com

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It took 133 rounds of voting and 2 months to finally elect a Speaker of the House!

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

or maybe CNN is just being overly dramatic...

When was the longest it took to elect a speaker of the House?

The record for most rounds of votes, according to the Office of the Historian of the House, is the 34th Congress when Rep. Nathaniel Prentice Banks became speaker

abcnews.go.com

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It took 133 rounds of voting and 2 months to finally elect a Speaker of the House!

"or maybe CNN is just being overly dramatic..."

You can't be overly dramatic when it comes to the current failures of the GOP.

 

[SystemShock]

or maybe CNN is just being overly dramatic...

When was the longest it took to elect a speaker of the House?

The record for most rounds of votes, according to the Office of the Historian of the House, is the 34th Congress when Rep. Nathaniel Prentice Banks became speaker

abcnews.go.com

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It took 133 rounds of voting and 2 months to finally elect a Speaker of the House!

We don't live in the 19th century.

 

[MT15]

We don't live in the 19th century.

Yet, give them a minute…..

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

We don't live in the 19th century.

Yup. They had it worse. 2 months and 133 ballots before it was resolved....and yet there was no collapse of any political party.

 

[SystemShock]

Yup. They had it worse. 2 months and 133 ballots before it was resolved....and yet there was no collapse of any political party.

How did they have it worse?

 

[J-DONK]

Yup. They had it worse. 2 months and 133 ballots before it was resolved....and yet there was no collapse of any political party.

Steve.....

What event precluded the election of 1865? No, not the collapse of a party, but of the union.

 

[Taurus]

or maybe CNN is just being overly dramatic...

When was the longest it took to elect a speaker of the House?

The record for most rounds of votes, according to the Office of the Historian of the House, is the 34th Congress when Rep. Nathaniel Prentice Banks became speaker

abcnews.go.com

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It took 133 rounds of voting and 2 months to finally elect a Speaker of the House!

Because the dividing issue of the day was slavery.
Is the divide in the GOP that profound?
Or are they just acting like toddlers?

 

[Saint by the Bay]

Using 1855 to discount the current stupidity isn't the flex some think it was. The political dysfunction of the 1850s led to the splitting of the Union and hundreds of thousands of Americans dead.

So yeah, let's use that as our measuring stick.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

Because the dividing issue of the day was slavery.
Is the divide in the GOP that profound?
Or are they just acting like toddlers?

Ah. Now someone is posting in a way that I can agree with. This current situation IS stupid....it IS unnecessary....but it is NOT historic just yet.

 

[LA - L.A.]

Ah. Now someone is posting in a way that I can agree with. This current situation IS stupid....it IS unnecessary....but it is NOT historic just yet.

It's empirically historic.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

CNN opinion piece that goes into the possible realignment of the GOP we are witnessing along with historical examples.

Opinion: We could be witnessing the Republican Party break apart in real time | CNN

A failure to reach a majority consensus signals the doom of an American political party, writes Thomas Balcerski.

www.cnn.com

Someone please tell CNN that life will go on and the Republican Party has survived
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Who is Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House?

Johnson, the new speaker of the House, is a product of conservative evangelicalism and Deep South Republican political culture

www.yahoo.com

 

[efil4]

Someone please tell CNN that life will go on and the Republican Party has survived
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Who is Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House?

Johnson, the new speaker of the House, is a product of conservative evangelicalism and Deep South Republican political culture

www.yahoo.com

so you are saying you got what/who you wanted as Speaker?

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

so you are saying you got what/who you wanted as Speaker?

I was happy with Kevin Mc. I think TRUMP got what HE wanted with this new speaker. The point I was trying to make was: 1) this was not as big a deal as some other times in history 2) This lack of a speaker situation would not lead to the demise of the GOP.

 

[SteveSBrickNJ]

so you are saying you got what/who you wanted as Speaker?

I just watched ABC's World News Tonight and learned that Speaker Elect Johnson voted against certifying Biden as the elected President. A reporter gave him 2 chances to walk that back and say Biden did indeed win the election fairly..yet the Speaker Elect ducked those 2 opportunities. I am AGAINST anyone who is FOR Trump. I wish Kevin M was still the Speaker.

 

[bird]

I just watched ABC's World News Tonight and learned that Speaker Elect Johnson voted against certifying Biden as the elected President. A reporter gave him 2 chances to walk that back and say Biden did indeed win the election fairly..yet the Speaker Elect ducked those 2 opportunities. I am AGAINST anyone who is FOR Trump. I wish Kevin M was still the Speaker.

It is unsurprising that Johnson ducked the question. The good Christian knows that his claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election are lies.