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Probably realizing she won't get elected, and trying to seem reasonable to voters 🤣

I think she woke up and realized a government shutdown right before an election caused by ineffectual republican leadership might hurt them in the down-ballot. Or we woke up Sunday on the next timeline because the earth exploded, and everyone died Saturday night. It's been a crazy week and it's only Tuesday.

Edit: looks like a shutdown before the election due to ineffectual republican leadership is back on the menu boys.

Putin said he wants Harris to win, she took that literally 😂

She might've been hit by a stray neutrino or something? Flipped a random bit?

No it is happening because it is close to the election. Would be fucking wild to yet again convincingly prove they are incapable of governance while just weeks away. Even this hollering gibbon can see that. Any other time she would be doing the usual racist MAGA bullshit and refusing to cooperate.

Ill be honest, ill take it. But im so confused right now.... is this how progress is supposed to happen? Its been so long. I didnt draw the line, they did, and still here we are. At something reasonable?

Still. I must reiterate, fuck mtg, but... support her this time? Fuck.

This is the difference between a normal racist and a high functioning racist that knows a failed state can't effectively oppress the people.

I haven't seen polling specifically for her district but, while Georgia is very purple (and has been since like 2014), her district is gerrymandered to hell and back to not be anything other than red. I think I saw that it's one of the deepest red districts in the country.

This isn’t what she’s trying to do. Instead of trying to blend in with moderates, she represents a radical and extremist part of the party that she wants to paint as the true moderates in order to leverage the opinion of the republicans upon Trump’s reelection.

The stance of tearing down speakers of the house is not new, she has railed against every speaker of the house this term for not enacting her extremist policies. What she is doing is trying to force the republican party’s hand to become more extremist because they can’t get over the line to win anything as a party without the extremists supporting them.

I fear that many people don’t understand this move from her but it’s clear if you’ve been paying attention. The point is to sell out the rest of the party that does not side with her. Her philosophy is “MAGA party or no party” and she has a small group of 5-10 allies that also believe this. If Trump loses, the party splits along these lines. If he wins, this fascist group will suddenly represent the whole party. That’s the bet she’s making.

Honestly this might not even be that far off. I could see a lot of people opposing requiring presenting documents to vote because they don't want the government to be able to track them.

That was a great explanation.

I remember hearing an interview with John Boehner on NPR (former Republican Speaker of the House) a few years ago. He was talking about the government shutdown that happened shortly after far right wing was elected in 2010. Apparently, a few of them barged into his office after the shutdown and demanded to know why the government had actually shut down.

And Boehner was like, "Um...you said you wanted it to?"

And the right wingers said, "Well we didn't think it would work!"

These are irresponsible people who think they should just get to play games in life.

Wow. He really nailed it in a very simple way. Nice job.

It’s probably because preceding each shutdown they loudly proclaim that they will shut down the government and blame the dems… and then they do…