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RE: Noteworthy News
October 3, 2023 at 5:33 pm
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(October 3, 2023 at 5:22 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (October 3, 2023 at 5:19 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Kevin McCarthy removed as House speaker in historic vote (msn.com)
Washington — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his leadership position in a historic vote on Tuesday after a far-right revolt over his reliance on Democrats to pass funding to avert a government shutdown..
The final vote was 216-210, with eight Republicans joining all the Democrats to vote to remove McCarthy.
Is that good or bad?
It’s good. You need a speaker who can’t be railroaded by a handful of fringe Republicans.
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 3, 2023 at 5:37 pm
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Judge Engoron has hit Trump with a gag order, telling him that he may not publicly disparage members of the judge’s staff.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/politics/...index.html
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 3, 2023 at 5:41 pm
We can only hope that if Trump continues to have his avenues of hateful rants closed he will explode or implode from trying to hold it all in. I'll make the popcorn.
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 3, 2023 at 5:50 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 3, 2023 at 9:08 pm
True, but then again, if there's no Speaker, nobody in the House can do anything. I think the best we can hope for is that they eventually pick someone, and maybe they end up repeating the cycle enough times for voters to finally look past the culture war bullshit and realise that the GOP is in no position to run anything.
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RE: Noteworthy News
October 3, 2023 at 9:44 pm
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(October 3, 2023 at 8:34 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (October 3, 2023 at 5:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s good. You need a speaker who can’t be railroaded by a handful of fringe Republicans.
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Given that it just took a single fringe Republican moving to vacate for McCarthy for him to lose his position, I don't think that's possible anymore.
McCarthy agreed to the 'single member' rule change when negotiating with his own party.
As I understand it the House can rewrite it's rules every two years.
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