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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 125 points 9 months ago (5 children)

"Too late. You blew it. It's going to be very difficult for you to recover from this. You betrayed your base," raged X user Mark Watson who then began promoting Trump for speaker.

So random voters.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 66 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the hot take from checks notes

X user Mark Watson.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You say that like all the magas aren’t going to groupthink themselves into some kind of frenzy and boycott something.

[–] charliespider@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

and boycott something

Like rational thought?

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can't boycott something they don't subscribe to in the first place

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 6 points 9 months ago

oh yeah? when has that stopped them?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Can’t boycott something you can’t do.

Like how I can’t boycott flying on private jets.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Rainbow coors can when?

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

What does ~~Ja Rule~~ Mark Watson think of all this?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago

Not necessarily even voters. A bunch of the Jan 6th loonies didn't even vote before throwing a hissy fit over the results. Some of the loudest ones are too busy screaming to make it to the polls.

Plenty of others do vote, though, so you should too.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Remember how she barely got by in the last election?

[–] crawley@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

It was like 600 votes, too. Heartbreaking.

[–] spider@lemmy.nz 10 points 9 months ago

You betrayed your base

There are degrees of lunacy, you see.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

All serious…what is the likelihood someone puts up trump for speaker and basically sets up a loyalty test? Remember…no one in the GOP house wants the title

Since the constitution doesn’t specify the speaker needs to be a house member or any member of government, Technically he could be nominated and this is a way for him to be an unelected member in the federal government only 3 positions away from the presidency. In this position, all he would need to do is get Biden and Harris removed through impeachment or (knowing him) any means necessary and he’s unelected president.

EDIT: yep two members of the house have publicly said they want trump for speaker. So what’s the likelihood that this will happen?

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 points 9 months ago

I believe one of his boot lickers entered his name for each of the 15 votes it took McCarthy to win previously. MTG was already saying she was going to do it again.