UPDATE 12:15 p.m. ET:
Donald Trump Jr. is getting even more aggressive in calling out McCarthy critics, specifically Boebert, Gaetz, and Perry:
We all want House leadership to be as conservative as possible, but I'm not okay with throwing House Leadership to Dems & Never Trumpers. Being fine with Hakeem Jeffries becoming Speaker simply out of spite for McCarthy isn't what any Republican voted for in November.
Disaster. https://t.co/B1UowXqeA8
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2023
UPDATE 12:12 p.m. ET:
These statements try to obfuscate the literally unlimited power they would be handing to McCarthy as Speaker. "Just put him in there, we'll deal with the individual issues with him later........" uhuh........ We can see exactly where that's gotten us all of these years.
I don't care who is on TV speaking....... trust your own gut!!
It's very possible..... In fact it may be manufactured drama.
It's great that Gaetz, Boebert and Perry are making their point, but eventually they'll need to come to grips with the reality of the situation and accept the best concessions they can get from McCarthy and support him. It'd be different if somebody like Jim Jordan ran and presented an alternative, but a democrat becoming Speaker is the alternative. Standing firm and allowing Jeffries to become Speaker would be the ultimate in incompetence.
This republican Congress is ultimately a lame duck anyway. They won't be able to legislate and McConnell has just shown he's not interested in using republican leverage in the House to act as a roadblock. All they can do is hold hearings and conduct investigations that will yield no results. Their role is basically to shine a light on corruption to facilitate more mass awakening.
Exactly. I must have missed it, but when did Junior's opinion start to matter?
Oh, that's right. Never.
if they do something stupid like putting Jefferies in as speaker they might as well put a gun to their own head and pull the trigger because they will be dead to us.....
Well hell Don... none of us voted for our double damned corrupt government to steal elections either, or to throw a plague at us, or to then force an illegal poison masquerading as a vaccine upon us.
You seem to be pushing for 'The Same Old Thing', a RINO like Boehner or Mitch, someone who would resemble Pelosi more than resemble us.
It's like this, for me and millions of others like me. We have nothing to lose here, we've been reduced to suffering taxation without representation, we have no legit government, no legit infrastructures such as health departments or defense. Our laws are violated, our kids are violated, our economy is mostly destroyed, Evil is allowed to stalk the land.
We have nothing to lose, we can only improve, we can only go up from here.
Don you and the RINOs don't seem to understand - your fortunes and life of ease don't concern us, we are DYING out here while some of you play Games. But we're all in, us peons are All In, we either win or die fighting. Now. Not in ten years or three months when the fake vax takes us, Right Now!
You seem to be turning against us Don, Et Tu Brute?
Bring it, we may die off but many of us will insist on dying on our feet.
Part of the scene. It looks better if Trumps opposes those who oppose McCarthy, so when McCarthy fails and Trump is nominated to be SOTH, he can claim he never wanted it.
Sorry. Trump is wrong in this case. It isn't out of spite. If he thinks it is, then he really doesn't understand the movement.
Misdirection
Everyone should just take a look at his floor voting record. Bills introduced, bills passed house, bills sponsored, co sponsored etc.
here is a good place to start
Click on the text or pdf links to read what the bills entail