My MAGA brother is convinced the Speaker of the House is immune to prosecution, and all legal actions against Trump will end as soon as he is elected Speaker. I’m sure he heard it on Fox.
I can’t imagine that Trump could actually correctly serve in the role of Speaker. He’d have absolutely no idea what the rules are like and/or just make up rules on the spot to serve whatever he wanted to do. If the House parliamentarian tried to object, he’d just insult and ignore them, speaking every louder and getting all the more applause from his faithful. I’m not even sure what would happen at that point, as I don’t know what means the parliamentarian has to deal with someone who doesn’t care what the rules are.
Moderating:
A post like this one does not contribute to a meaningful discussion of the topic of the thread. It’s deliberately provocative. Further, you are hijacking the thread by waving a red cape in front of Christians, who are bound to feel shat upon with such a post and will feel compelled to respond.
You know better. Don’t do this again.
Jim Jordan discussed with President Biden? There is no President Trump.
Still with the denial, Jimbo. !!!???
Technically Jordan doesn’t call Trump “President” Trump, he has some kind of incredibly nervous inflection that results in “Presint Trump”.
There sorta is. People still will call Trump “President” as an honorific.
Like President Carter, just a whole lot less deserving
Not a single person putting this idea forward expects or even wants that. Their purpose is to cause maximum chaos. Trump’s purpose is to try to derail his many legal cases. None of them want government to actually work.
For the record, H.L. Mecken was a fascist who, if alive today, would have been a diehard Trump supporter.
I started writing a long post to respond to this, but I realized it would likely become a hijack, so I spun it off into a separate thread.
Senator John Fetterman cuts right to the chase:
“Replacing one dick with a different kind of dick isn’t going to change anything in the House. We’re one DNA test from the Jerry Springer show.”
Trump has endorsed Gym Jordan as the new Speaker. Oh, goody.
That is likely because JJ has already signalled he will continue the work of the Trump-protection committees and not be punishing Trump’s Best Boi Gaetz for his role in this whole mess.
This is why I’m half-tempted to let them try it.
Trump did an (at best) half-assed job as president because he’s fundamentally lazy. And that was with an absolutely huge staff dedicated to helping him, organizing all the information to present to him, and scheduling every meeting, and everything. There’s no way he’d have that level of support just as Speaker, and being Speaker right at this moment is, I suspect, a far harder, more hands-on job than his presidency ever was.
The failure would be epic. Hell, they might even get fistfights in the House, like so many other countries.
I wonder if this narrative will get any traction.
“The Evil Libs psyched Gaetz into assassinating the Speaker, and he played right into their evil plans!”
Interesting how the GOP infighting is the dems fault.
Have you not been paying attention? Everything is Biden’s fault, be it Joe or Hunter.
And Bidens yet unborn.
They are that good. And that evil.
Hakeem Jeffries writes an Op-Ed in the Washington Post urging a bipartisan path forward for the House:
I know it’s very unlikely, but I’m glad they’re trying this kind of thing. At the very least they can use it campaigning in the future.