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I'm not a historian, but this House is a complete...(I was going to say clown, but clowns are organized)...shitshow. This has got to be the worst of all time. Is it?
Lovie777
(12,486 posts)edhopper
(33,713 posts)Was worse.
unblock
(52,577 posts)This group seems like just a bunch of social media trolls who see congress as a vehicle to boost their social media presence.
They'd rather have a TikTok whine about stupid parliamentarian rules than learn to use them to their advantage. Because the only thing they want to accomplish from their time in congress is to generate more content for their social media followers.
Not this incompetent.
unblock
(52,577 posts)Imagine if Donnie and the republicans in congress were as capable as mcturtle.
Bev54
(10,113 posts)of the other side. He has a hand in how this house has come to be.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,228 posts)Gingrich was evil, could lead, and could message well.
These idiots are more evil, I think, but otherwise incompetent.
HUAJIAO
(2,417 posts)Bonhoeffer argued In his Letters From Prison that stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice, because while one may protest against evil; it can be exposed and prevented by the use of force, against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here. Reasons fall on deaf ears.
Half of the bastards are evil and the other half are stupid.
paleotn
(18,041 posts)We had no analog for MTG and Matty Boy back then.
Hope22
(1,916 posts)so the terrible stench this House leaves behind will go down in history as Dem majority?
Bev54
(10,113 posts)they're just hoping it doesn't stick to them.
Traurigkeit
(576 posts)paleotn
(18,041 posts)ck4829
(35,103 posts)B.See
(1,390 posts)But then again, OBSTRUCTING the function of government is the MISSION of the House insurrectionists.
mnmoderatedem
(3,743 posts)It needs to be put out in the airwaves ad nauseum. How the House incessantly tried to impeach Biden and wasted countless hours on their pipe dream rather than coming together to solve problems in a bi partisan manner. Not to mention the extreme dysfunction regarding McCarthy and, likely. Johnson.
Can't arrive at any other conclusion than to view them negatively.
Fla Dem
(23,953 posts)RockRaven
(15,139 posts)The next one will be worse.
byronius
(7,418 posts)bluestarone
(17,186 posts)If TFG was in the white house
Elessar Zappa
(14,172 posts)There were some bad Houses in the 1850s but I cant imagine they were much worse than what we have now.
KPN
(15,695 posts)Seems like, at least ss far as in our lifetimes. For context, Im 73.
rubbersole
(6,798 posts)Sad.
SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)czarjak
(11,380 posts)OMGWTF
(4,009 posts)surfered
(637 posts)
21st Congress passed the Indian Removal Act
33rd Congress passed the
Fugitive Slave Act
66th Congress overrode Wilsons veto and passed Prohibition
88th Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
AllaN01Bear
(19,065 posts)yes.
madamesilverspurs
(15,822 posts)routinely volunteers to be manipulated by Trump and slapped around by the likes of MTG and Gaetz...
No one in their right mind would have anything but low expectations.
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SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)Yes. Yes, it is.
Snark aside, absolutely yes--with one qualification: The 1995 Gingrich House was more evil (though I take nothing away from the current one), but also more competent; they could actually pass legislation. Remember the "Contract On America"? Yeah, those f***ers.
MerryBlooms
(11,778 posts)They crash our economy, pass draconian laws, wipe out wildlife and protected lands... Same script, different players. We Dems overturn all their destruction, over and over. It's heartbreaking.
0rganism
(24,007 posts)If I were scoring on expressed ill-intent alone, they're easily the worst in my remembered lifetime. However, thanks to perpetual internal power struggles and self-aggrandizing weaknesses engaged by the silliest partisans among them, their willful brand of chaotic evil largely remains unrealized except where it can be achieved through inaction. Even so mitigated, they certainly rank in my lowest 5.
Remember, Newt Gingrich presided over some truly awful house majorities that actually translated their evil desires into policy wins. I regard those as somewhat worse in outcome, if not in principle.
Evolve Dammit
(16,875 posts)did nothing for the American people.
Warpy
(111,533 posts)and we all survived Newt Gingrich.
I'm hoping they can do another end run around Johnson with the Senate funding bills for Ukraine and Israel. Biden has already informed Johnson that playing games by decoupling the bills in order to stall some more is not going to work
Johnson's senidng everybody on vacation again starting Friday, back at the end of the month.
He reallly needs to go.
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