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The absolutely ONLY reason that anyone believes the 2020 election was rigged was because Dumpy said so, and then because members of Congress and state politicians, plus right-wing outlets, followed him, out of loyalty or sycophancy, and echoed him. Dumpy made sure to start saying that the only way he'd lose the election was because it was rigged during the summer of 2020. He's been claiming that for years going back at least to his time on "The Apprentice," when he claimed that the Emmys had to have been rigged because he didn't win. The Iowa caucuses were rigged because Ted Cruz won. But instead of seeing this pattern, people agreed with Dumpy and then it all went downhill from there. I'm tired of these idiots.

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in Trumpland this is known as "playing the hits"

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Punchbowl News, which covers Congress like a blanket, is predicting none of them achieve diddly by the end of the week, at which time the minority who are truly pissed off about this insanity make the move toward coalition leadership.

We have to see that there are actually three distinct parties in the House, two of which have been till now in a steadily more infractious relationship. They are: the Democrats, the remains of the pre-Trump GOP and the Trump Party. If the Pre-Trump GOP actually believe in the values they claim they do, they will enter a coalition to end the crisis. I'm not holding my breath to see that, since the pre-Trump GOP wasn't all that worthwhile to begin with.

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Cowards. Kissing the feet of a draft dodging, lying, corrupt, misogynist ignoramus. How do they look in the mirror?

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Easy…the mirror is doctored to reflect back a picture of 45

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My prediction (worth 2 cents) this goes on for awhile longer because that is the MAGA aim from the moment McCarthy was ousted by 8 people. Eventually Trump will say “I can get congress working in five minutes” and he’ll be right.

Meanwhile each gets $174,000 a year (over 436 a day). plus benefits and 212,000 staff salaries.

Just house congress salaries is 75,660,000 a year. Here’s some real government waste taxpayers get nothing for. Where is the outrage.

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To repeat, a circus inside a clown car, careening towards a cliff and towing us all along with it.

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Well done. I haven' seen anything else as insightful re the candidates. It's a sad state of affairs. To thrive in the GOP, you must , apparently, accept lies as truth. It reminds me of the ridiculous fictions people cling to in the name of religion. To quote one of your earlier pieces, "so you're telling me it's not a cult."

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Excellent! Thx...👍🏼

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Majority of the Republicaans can believe what Donald Trump ask them to believe all they want, Joe Biden won the 2020 election and he will again in 2024 and guess what, Trump is going to say again that the election was stolen from him without any evidence. His cult members are going to believe himwithout evidence. But the important thing is that majority of the country are going celebrate Biden's victory in 2024 just as they did in 2020. That is all that matters folks. The country will continue to move forward under Joe Biden;s stewardship regardless of what Trump and his followers believe or say

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I am thinking none of these candidates can get to 217, the house will send them home for another weekend and we are here again next Monday. What a clown show. It’s a disgrace that this is the United States government. The people elected them to office and what are the GOP doing? Wasting money, wasting time. They can’t govern. We all here could do the job better than the GOP. This is a total sh*t show.

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Chris ... while I understand the need to earn a living, I am offput by the fact that half of your material requires a "paid" subscription. I am a senior in poor health living on naught but my Social Security check each month. I cannot afford to subscribe to every writer I find of value. It's a slap in the face to me when I come to the paywall and cannot finish reading what I started. I'm considering unsubscribing from your newsletter for this reason.

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Re: Not Knowing "Gary Palmer."

Ask you father about that name.

If he was only casually into sports in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, he'd tell you Gary's a "champeen" golfer of that era.

Great story...when Golfer Gary came in second in a tourney, a gallery attendant harassed him.

His response was that he finished playing 18-holes on the last day and missed a few holes on poor putting.

"When I have a bad round, I practice. When you have a bad round do you adjourn to the putting green to practice, or go to the 19th hole and bore one another with one good shot."

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Regarding your previous piece about DeSantis and Haley; maybe they know something we don't. Or read the tea leaves differently.

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This is truly the measure that matters. Regardless of which side you adhere to, if you can't accept the results of elections you lose then you shouldn't wield political power. This behavior endangers democracy for short-term political gains but there are no winners.

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I guess the only thing we need to know about the new and improved clown car of candidates, is nothing much.

Move along folks, nothing to see here. Stay tuned to next week, when a new list of “never will’s” emerge for the vacant speaker spot. Rinse, lather, repeat!...:)

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I have been prepping an essay to appear either before the Republican conference vote on Tuesday or before the full House vote on Wednesday.

In connection with that, I also have been analyzing the candidates on past key votes. Here is some draft text:

*****Before the conference vote, I evaluated the nine candidates with an eye toward identifying which of them Democrats might feel comfortable supporting. Here were my criteria:

– Following the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, did the candidate vote to certify the election of Joe Biden as president?

– This past September 28, did the candidate vote in support of military aid for Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion?

– This past September 30, did the candidate vote for the continuing resolution that is now keeping the government operating through November 17?

Of the nine, only two candidates voted correctly on all three of these measures: Tom Emmer and Austin Scott. Two others voted correctly on the two measures last month, but cast a shameful vote on January 6, 2021: Jack Bergman and Pete Sessions. One of the candidates – Daniel Meuser – cast a single correct vote (on September 30 to avert a government shutdown). The remaining four either did or would have ree remaining three

Three of the remaining five cast the wrong vote all three times, and another would have done so had he not missed one of the votes. The last of the nine candidates cast just one appropriate.*****

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I put up four essays since October 3. Please check them out!

October 3: How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Speaker?

https://decencyandsense.substack.com/p/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-the

October 10: An Urgent Opportunity for Bipartisanship

https://decencyandsense.substack.com/p/an-urgent-opportunity-for-bipartisanship

October 14: Nancy Pelosi Is Wrong

https://decencyandsense.substack.com/p/nancy-pelosi-is-wrong

October 20: Save Our Bacon!

https://decencyandsense.substack.com/p/save-our-bacon

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Great way to explain what is to come.

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