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“Let’s nominate someone indicted for fraud. That doesn’t make me look suspicious at all.”

So their two best candidates are a, multiple court case proven conman, and the man who protected a high profile pedophile for years? The US is doing really well at the moment.

The GOP is just fucking crazy and a danger to this country.

Trump can't be Speaker for five reasons:

1. Endangered Republicans from Biden districts won't vote for him, or they're doomed

2. He has no understanding of House rules or procedures

3. He's going to be spending most days in court, losing his businesses and facing felony jail time.

4. Being speaker involves forming coalitions with other people

5. Too much work

I am eager to see how all of this plays out.

We effectively have three parties now. There's the Democrats, the Republicans, and the MAGA extremists. The problem is that the MAGA extremists are simultaneously a much smaller group than either of the two major parties while also being juuuuuust large enough to make sure that neither one of the other two parties actually have a controlling majority.

Somewhat ironically, our system actually was designed to handle this. The entire system was designed so everybody involved would negotiate, compromise, and elect one speaker that everybody can at least agree with. Theoretically, we should be able to handle this without issue. The problem is that our system was barely able to handle a two-party system where both sides dig in their heels, double down, and view any concession at all as a "loss" rather than compromise and negotiate, because at least one side could use its majority to push something through one way or another.

But now we effectively have a three party system. Our system was not designed to handle a situation where three parties refuse to negotiate or compromise over virtually anything, but none have enough of a majority to push anything through. Especially when one of the three sides has openly stated their intent to just watch the whole thing burn.

One of three things is going to have to happen.

1. The MAGA wing eventually backs down. IMO, doing this would effectively kill whatever influence they have even in their own party as backing down would make this entire ordeal a bigger waste of time than it already is. This would probably lead to the return of Kevin McCarthy as speaker with MTG's hand crammed right up his ass, but only this time even more emboldened as he would no longer have to worry about the deals he made to get the speaker's gavel in the first place.

2. Moderate Republicans are going to have to work with Democrats to get Democrat support for a moderate Republican speaker. However, doing so is guaranteed to come with a whole new list of heavy concessions that would be all but politically suicidal for a Republican to accept. This would also make it nigh-impossible to govern as the Speaker would have the impossible task of balancing the wants of his own party with whatever deal he'd be forced to make with Democrats in order to get the position. (This idea would also be untenable to Democrats, as they'd have no power to enforce whatever agreement they would make once the new speaker is installed, and there would be nothing stopping a new speaker from just telling Democrats where they can shove their agreement.)

3. Moderate Republicans double-down on their refusal to work with Democrats and instead begrudgingly accept a MAGA-endorsed candidate on MAGA terms just so someone gets the gavel. This would effectively put us right back where we started, with either Kevin McCarthy as speaker or someone worse than Kevin McCarthy, and just like he was, they'd have the Sword of MAGA swinging over their heads forcing him to do their bidding whether he wants to or not. This would significantly embolden the MAGA party, as they would be able to say "You will do what we say or we will oust you just like we did McCarthy". People like MTG would become exponentially more insufferable than they already are with that kind of power in their hands.

Get the popcorn ready. This is gonna be one hell of a ride.

Speaker would mean Trump having to "read" and "pay attention". No way he can do it.

These psychopaths want him as close to the top of the line of successions as possible.

The Speakership is a real job, as in, it requires A LOT of work. You can't just give a press conference, watch yourself on TV, and sign executive orders.

With that in mind, I also support Trump for Speaker of the House. It'll be fucking hilarious at how ungodly terrible it will go. I give him 1 week before he makes up a story about how CIA DNC FBI deep state is trying to kill him, so he has to flee to Mara Lago.

Speaker of the House is 3rd in line to be President if the Pres and VP are KIA / MIA.

I absolutely believe MAGA (and likely backed by foreign intelligence) would make a play at assassinating the President if Trump was in a speaker role. They were looking to hang people on Jan 6th...

You also have to, like, be an elected official of the House, so this is mostly MTG saying bullshit to retain the spotlight or deflect from dumb shit that Trump did, like getting slammed with a gag order. (Edit: I guess you don't need to be in Congress. Go figure.)

House Speaker? Nobody else would get a word in. They'd have to listen to Trump's word salad all day.

All this says to me, is that they have a plan to kill Biden and Harris

Cause thats the only way Trump would accept Speaker position, since Speaker is second after Harris in Succession.

It will just further their stupid narrative that everything happening against Trump is “politically motivated”, so they want to raise him up to speaker as another way to help shield him from criminal charges. “You can’t charge a sitting Speaker of the House with a crime,” or some shit is what they’ll say. Or they’ll try to impeach/remove both Biden and Harris as a way to install Trump as President outside of an election.

Is Putin her second choice?

How does this nitwit remember how to breathe?

They are going to try to make a chancellorship for Trump like they did to Hitler.

When is he supposed to have time for this between campaigning and being The Defendant?

Gonna be hard to do that from prison

They really need to put her back into the glacier they thawed her out of.

Lol if she thinks Trump is going to show up and do that job daily, I have stock in Trump NY real estate to sale her

Every day this clown is in office is just adding to the embarrassment of the republikkkan party. I'd love to hear from a republican (non russian asset) hat legitimately supports her. When you find this guy, notify the FBI because they're a problem.

Good luck getting him to show up to work. He's the laziest person in the US.

Wasn't this one of the plans floated back in early 2021 as a way to get Trump the presidency? Or maybe I'm confusing it with a plan to re-instate Trump if he were impeached?

The Speaker is 3rd in line for the presidency. Granted, it would still be incredibly difficult to get from there to the presidency, but I'm not accusing the MAGA crowd of having good ideas.