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I can’t stand just hearing about him in the news, I can’t imagine what it’d be like to work with such a prick in office, knowing the guy is such a sleazebag as he is.
It's kind of conflicting because I hate him, but I also love how much the Republicans (especially McCarthy) hate him.
I think that's the wrong way to look at it. In fact, I would argue that he is a gigantic gift to American politics.
He wants to do nothing other than fuck with McCarthy, and I couldn't be happier about it.
Yes, he is a degenerate scumbag who deserves to be in jail, but as long as he's not locked up, I'm glad he's in Congress completely screwing with the establishment GOP.
I will say this, and unironically, he's a much better politician than any of the squad, or pseudo left-wing Congressperson, because unlike any of them, he actually completely fucks up the program. And before you say he extracted no political wins from his stunt, he did. His entire point was to weaken McVarthy, which he did.
Just think if AOC, Omar, etc., actually used this type of strongarm tactics to push through even a handful of the programs that the Corporate Dems leave tabled, except when they dust them off for a stump speech every two years.
That was a right-wing sympathizing comment in disguise.
The Republicans are just playing dirty among themselves.
"The Squad" is doing alright without stepping down to the level of the Deplorables.
Oh, geez. You got me. My rejoicing on the GOP clusterfuck, and shaming the lack of actual effective leftist members of Congress for failing to effectively fight for actual left wing policies, was actually an elaborate ploy to...
Wait, what am I trying to fool people into believing?
Lol
The squad are working with reasonable people. The expectation that irrational behavior would get them anywhere is laughable.
Politics is an expression of power, not decorum. Something that the GOP recognizes and leverages, just as the corporate Democrats do.
Unfortunately, the GOP expresses that power to pass horrific antidemocratic policies, and cut taxes.
The corporate Dems use it to squash the left, and maintain the current neo liberal economic order.
Gaetz used his to sink, or at least critically damage McCarthy's speakership.
What major political victories have the Squad accomplished?