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Democrats are standing firm in their refusal to bail out the House Republican majority as it struggles to elect a new speaker 10 days after after booting Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

They're also dialing up the rhetoric against the GOP’s new nominee for speaker, prominent Donald Trump ally Jim Jordan of Ohio, blasting him as an insurrectionist, election denier and extremist.

“House Republicans have selected as their nominee to be the speaker of the people’s House the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender in a dangerous way of dysfunction, and an extremist extraordinaire,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Friday on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by dozen of Democratic lawmakers. “His focus has been on peddling lies and conspiracy theories and driving division amongst the American people.”

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[-] danhakimi@kbin.social 165 points 8 months ago

He is an insurrectionist. See his political positions on wikipedia here. It's a well-sourced article. He also opposes

  • The ACA
  • Research on disinformation
  • The Environment, in general
  • Abortion, to the point where he said that the 10-year-old girl who got raped and needed to travel to Indiana to get an abortion was lying about it until the police arrested the guy and he confessed.
  • Regulating big tech
  • Taxes, Spending, pretty broadly
  • Same-sex marriage

He's an extremist. They do not have the political power to elect an extremist from their ranks. They need a moderate.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 76 points 8 months ago

Don’t forget his sexual assault coverup

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 143 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Instead of "trashing Gym Jordan as an 'insurrectionist'" it should read "reminding them that Gym Jordan is an insurrectionist".

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

No, "trash" is used appropriately.

trash (v): to subject to criticism or invective especially : to disparage strongly

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Yes but in the political landscape it implies the usual hyperbole and rhetoric. That he is an insurrectionist is a simple fact and should be treated as such.

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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 71 points 8 months ago

Yeah why should they help cleanup the other sides fucking mess, not like they’d get credit and cooperation if they did.

[-] hibsen@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Honestly it’s astounding that they’ve apparently managed to realize this for once. I’ll have to send a letter of thanks or something.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Seriously... Treating bad faith children as if they're functioning adults is the ONLY thing Democrats are actually great at. Maybe if they start acting like there actually is something to be responsible for, this country might have a sliver of a chance.

[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 45 points 8 months ago

Why do the Dems have to "help" the GOP? I say the GOP isn't helping the Dems! All it would take is a handful of Rs to vote with the Dems to make Jeffries the speaker.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago

“People can talk a big game about that. I haven’t personally heard anybody talk about that; it’s only hearsay,” he said. “But I think that’s pretty nuclear. Let’s keep this conventional.”

This quote by a Republican Congressman explains absolutely everything that is wrong about the GOP. The idea of talking to Democrats to see what compromise could take place is considered a "nuclear" option. Keep in mind that had 5 districts gone the other way nationwide, Republicans would be in the minority. But they're talking as if they have an ironclad majority that demands they never compromise on anything.

This party deserves to die.

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago

They spelled his name wrong, it’s Gym Jordan.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Gymbo to his fellow insurrectionists.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago

Asked what Jordan can do to change minds, Armstrong said: “Talk to people, listen to people. He’s really good at it…”

beg to fucking differ, you servile cunt

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh he listened plenty. He just ignored them. That's what they're really interested in. They want somebody who will ignore the truth and continue to support the ongoing insurrection.

[-] kibiz0r@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So…

The second-largest voting bloc (moderate Republicans) is angry at the first-largest voting bloc (Democrats) for voting for their preferred candidate, cuz they think they’re entitled to the votes of the third-largest voting bloc (MAGA Republicans).

Makes sense.

Edit: Not sure why I got down-dooted to oblivion right off the bat. ¯\(ツ)

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

Fuck you mean “trashing”?

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Clickbait. Common in journalism nowadays.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Defending bigotry with soft language, common in journalism nowadays.

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago
[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Not you, the headline trends

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[-] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

At the risk of sounding like a hopeless optimist... Wouldn't it make sense for the Republicans to nominate more of a centrist with promises to work on common ground with the Democrats (whatever narrow terrain that may consist of now) and thereby sideline the MAGA crew to irrelevancy?

Yeah they would take a lot of heat from Trump & co., but maybe they could actually pass something for their constituents.

[-] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

On the one hand, yes, but the Republicans made it so any one person can call for a vote to oust the speaker, so it only takes one unhappy rep to restart the cycle.

So I think the current plan is to just sit back and let the American people see that the current batch of Republican reps has as much ability to work together as a bag of weasels until the Republicans are willing to actually admit that they fucked up and ask for help fixing it.

So this could take a year to resolve.

[-] leds@feddit.dk 3 points 8 months ago

But wouldn't a moderate speaker supported by the majority from both parties easily survive a vote like that?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 14 points 8 months ago

Their "moderates" were the anti-Trumpers.

They got primaried and voted out.

[-] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'm sure we will find out. It sounds good in theory, but I'm not sure how many true moderates may be left. We seem to be in a "compromise is weakness stage"

[-] floppade@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

Even if Dems wanted to help sincerely, why would they aid a party whose platform is to harass the shit out of everyone else. Nevermind the fact that the staffers are probably still dealing with the fear from Jan 6 in therapy; helping get Jim Jordan up of all people is voting for a dude who indirectly tried to kill you. The idea of even asking for that is so weird to me.

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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 3 points 8 months ago

House Minority Leader needs to nominate an r they can work with. That will turn up the heat.

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