Of all the inane ideas in this gullible country, Donald Trump as Speaker is by far the dumbest
It can be hard to discern between evil and stupid sometimes, but with the GOP they're one and the same
[S]ources telling me at this hour some House Republicans have been in contact with and have started an effort to draft former president Donald Trump to be the next speaker and I have been told that President Trump might be open to helping the Republican Party at least in the short term, if necessary.
Sean Hannity
Holy fuckballs, Batman!! Has the GOP finally lost its mind? The news of Kevin McCarthy’s demise as Speaker of the House was still hot off the presses and Republicans were already talking about drafting The Former Guy (TFG) to replace him. It’s like their planning to replace Dumb with Dumber, yeah??
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve grown accustomed to stupid, half-assed, and/or brain-dead schemes emanating from Republicans on Capitol Hill. Prior to this, I would’ve sworn that nothing the GOP could come up with would surprise or shock me anymore.
This, though? TFG as Speaker of the House? OMFG; this has to be the most half-assed, poorly-considered idea the GOP Caucus has conjured up in…well, just about forever.
The Fox News network – and many Donald Trump supporters – have spent hours since Tuesday's ousting of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) fantasizing about the former president taking over the role.
It seems Trump is doing the same. On Wednesday, he shared an image of himself holding the gavel from the speaker's chair.
Outside the Manhattan courthouse where he's on trial for fraud, Trump on Wednesday told the press that he’s been in talks with Republicans about being appointed to the role. The Republican Party hasn't said publicly whether it's spoken with him, though several on the right say they're on board, however.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) posted online that he's all-in for Trump. "President Trump, the greatest President of my lifetime, has a proven record of putting America First and will make the House great again[.]"
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) said in a statement Tuesday afternoon, according to Fox. He said, when the House reconvenes, his first act "will be to nominate Donald J. Trump for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives."
Sure, no problem. We’ll just go ahead and nominate the disgraced, twice-impeached, 91-times-indicted Worst President in American history to lead the clown car that is the GOP-majority House of Representatives.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
And Republicans wonder why serious people no longer take them seriously??
This is the sort of thing that makes me want to hop on a plane and head back to Canada to ask for asylum. Yes, I know The Great White North is far from perfect, but it would never tolerate this sort of childish sideshow. At the very least, Canada expects its politicians to conduct themselves like actual, honest-to-God adults, something very much lacking in the Republican Party these days.
I realize the GOP lacks mature, responsible, and trustworthy leaders…but The Former Guy? Seriously? A man with as many ex-wives as impeachments? Who may well be wearing a prison orange jumpsuit in a federal lockup (if there’s any justice in this world) within the next year or so?
And how can any serious Republican who’s paid any attention at all consider TFG to be “the greatest President of my lifetime?” Is Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) that stupid…or that terrified of invoking TFG’s wrath?
There are only so many ways to say Wir sind SEHR gefickt, but the truth is that if TFG is the best option the GOP can come up with, they’re in worse shape than anyone could’ve possibly imagined…and we really ARE f****d.
Putting forward TFG as a candidate for Speaker of the House would only reveal how the corrupt and unserious nature of the GOP. A party that would consider such a step a major leap forward is a party in its death throes, unable to cope with its own creeping irrelevance and growing insignificance.
America deserves better than the Big Top circus being served up to them by the GOP in the House. Still, you get exactly the leadership you deserve, no? And America did gift itself a House with a Republican majority…so it has only itself to blame.
Guess nobody has told Trump that being speaker is a J-O-B and doesn’t involve simply speaking. You have to, like, show up and do speaker things. You can’t really do it from court. Or prison. And you’re not supposed to take bribes.
But y’all, there is a whole thing brewing out there. The biggest lunatics in the MAGA lunatic movement have babbled about this idea here and there over the years, but they’re really doing it hard now. Jim Jordan babbled to Hannity about it last night, saying that if he wants to, “he’d be great,” and he wants him to be president, but “that’s fine” if Trump wants to. We guess he’d just have to add it to his current daily schedule of “Be indicted 91 times” and “Go tell morons in Iowa about windmills and sharks.”
Yeah, ‘cuz he’s got SO much free time, what with his civil and criminal trials and all. The Speakership is an actual job, where TFG will have to show up and do things instead of ranting on social media and verbally vomiting when TV cameras are rolling.
The Daily Beast reports that Alex Jones and Steve Bannon both suggested it last night.
Newsmax host moron Carl Higbie suggested himself, and then said it could be somebody whose name “rhymes with Trump.” Which, um, that’s … that’s not how you say that. Unless he was meaning to suggest Forrest Gump or indispensable Washington Post writer Philip Bump or someone else whose name actually rhymes with Trump.
And there’s the greatest lunatic of them all, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Take a deep breath, because she goes on and on and on:
“The only candidate for Speaker I am currently supporting is President Donald J. Trump. He will end the war in Ukraine. He will secure the border. He will end the politically weaponized government. He will make America energy independent again. He will pass my bill to stop transgender surgeries on kids and keep men out of women’s sports. He will support our military and police. And so much more! He has a proven 4 year record as President of the United States of America. He received a record number of Republican votes of any Republican Presidential candidate! We can make him Speaker and then elect him President! He will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
He will make the Earth reverse its spin. He will make Corn Flakes taste good again. He will make America the greatest producer of non-ironic romantic comedies again. He will make men be men, women be women, and sheep be terrified. He will keep the government out of Medicare and Medicaid. He will make oral sex great again. He will MAKE AMERICA HAVE SCREAMING ORGASMS AGAIN!!
At least I think that’s what will happen if TFG becomes Speaker. I may have missed a thing or six.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is so far out of her league, so above her pay grade, so permanently outside her service coverage area that she thinks Trump can do all these things as speaker. She probably thinks he can do both at the same time.
We’d hate to steal her joy. Not today.
So we really hope these idiots try. Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. It’s the only way to teach us Democrats the lesson we really need to learn.
If they think they’ve been successful heretofore, whoa, just wait until they elect Donald Trump speaker and he waddles out of Mar-a-Lago to show up to work exactly never, thinking he can do “Congress” while squatting atop his golden toilet.
‘Course, there’s one wee problem that Republicans conveniently overlook at their own peril, which is what they generally do when they run up against a problem of their own creation.
Lawyer Tristan Snell notes that, if Republicans choose to follow their own rules- never a guarantee and rarely a possibility- then TFG is ineligible to be Speaker of the House due to his 91 indictments:
In the final analysis, this whole idea is too stupid for words…which means, of course, that the GOP will pursue it to the bitter end. And who know where that will lead or what the denouement will be?
A wise person once told me that I should never attribute to stupidity what is actually the province and property of evil. With Republicans, thought, does it really make a difference? Evil and stupidity are merely different sides of the same GOP coin, with each side has TFG’s face engraved on it.
In the world as it’s defined by the GOP, both stupidity and evil are legal tender.
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Thanks for digging up the Snell quote. I'd heard that a rule precluded Trump, but I didn't know which or how.