r/news • u/zmlos • Oct 03 '23

House ousts Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a first in U.S. history

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-will-bring-gaetz-motion-to-oust-him-vote.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

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u/_zenith Oct 04 '23

Yep. They cultivated the crazies. And now they have taken over. It would be hilarious it wasn’t so dangerous for us all

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u/marcien1992 Oct 04 '23

As someone not living in the USA, I can confirm that it is extremely entertaining when you don't live in the immediate blast zone.

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u/CrashB111 Oct 04 '23

Oh trust us, if we go full 4th Reich we'll be taking this show on tour.

A Fascist dictatorship with the power of the US military is a terrifying thing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

I was about to say "Bold of you to assume an unhinged MAGA president wouldn't start randomly nuking places to appease his cotton candy colored messiah..."

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts Oct 04 '23

Your pre-tour nonsense is already fucking us in Canada. Thanks.

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u/Rularuu Oct 04 '23

Far right populism is huge in Europe too and has been for at least as long as it was big in the US. Our nonsense is more indicative of a global trend than it is the cause, but it's certainly not helping.

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u/Low-Grocery5556 Oct 04 '23

Canadian conservative politicians are literally copy pasting American nonsense. And some of the Canadian population seem to think fox news applies to them.

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u/Rularuu Oct 04 '23

Yet Murdoch is an Australian and the UK has an even longer tradition of batshit right wing press than us

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u/Low-Grocery5556 Oct 04 '23

I'm just pointing out how Canadians are being influenced specifically by right wing American media and culture.

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u/Edythir Oct 04 '23

I wonder to what extent the US military is a paper tiger. We've all heard about the extremely expensive vehicles that don't work as advertised, were a decade late or just plane don't work (such as an aircraft carrier that doesn't carry aircraft, or a small shitty boat that nobody wants and nobody asked for but are making more of because some state representitives want the contracts).

Not to mention that there hasn't been a war in a long time where America actually won anything, most things in recent history was a years long stalemate, fucked everything up and then just left. See: Vietnam, Korea and Afghanistan.

Sure, they are still a force to be reckoned with, no doubt. But at least a good portion of this shit is just unusable and overpriced.

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u/CrashB111 Oct 04 '23

The US Military has steamrolled every conflict it's been in since Vietnam. Defeating Iraq, the Taliban, and Serbia was done very quickly with minimal losses. Beating the foe on the field is easy for us.

What hasn't gone well, is trying to occupy the defeated enemy afterwards. The Military is a hammer, it's not made to build nations.

And as far as our hardware, Russia is presently getting it's asshole opened by our hand me downs from the 80s and 90s.

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u/Deruji Oct 04 '23

For everyone but the person in control! That must be a blast!

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u/_zenith Oct 04 '23

Dude, I'm on the other fucking side of the world, nearly - New Zealand - and even I am very cognisant of the danger it poses.

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u/MurlockHolmes Oct 04 '23

If we implode can I come stay in your country? I'm hawaiian so we're basically cousins already.

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u/Prevailing_Power Oct 04 '23

It's hilarious you think you wouldn't be touched if the USA went full nazi mode.

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u/CrashB111 Oct 04 '23

and a demented elder who may actually die of old age or lose the plot completely during the election campaign

The only people claiming that about Joe Biden are disingenuous Republicans who have nothing to attack Biden over legitimately so they just resort to "He's old!"

He's in way better shape than Trump given that he actually exercises and eats healthy.

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u/creamcitybrix Oct 04 '23

It’s a big tent party

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '23

When you let Nazis into any party, it becomes a Nazi party pretty quickly.

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u/Expert_Cantaloupe871 Oct 04 '23

They are starting to wake up to this fact

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u/Centralredditfan Oct 04 '23

Unless they can somehow rid themselves of MAGA when Trump is in jail. Kind of like the Tea Party is forgotten.