GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

https://x.com/mlevinereports/status/1716922105739264032?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

So trump has the power to destroy a speaker nom but not the power to be a kingmaker for Jordan. Sound about right for 2023.

You could add this as a community note I guess, Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, featuring everyone’s favorite historical dialog character, Simplicius (sometimes translated as Simplicitus).

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/dialogue.html

To this end I have taken the Copernican side in the discourse, proceeding as with a pure mathematical hypothesis and striving by every artipee to represent it as superior to supposing the earth motionless–not, indeed absolutely, but as against the arguments of some professed Peripatetics. These men indeed deserve not even that name, for they do not walk about; they are content to adore the shadows, philosophizing not with due circumspection but merely from having memorized a few ill-understood principles. [sick burn]

Three principal headings are treated First, I shall try to show that all experiments practicable upon the earth are insufficient measures for proving its mobility, since they are indifferently adaptable to an earth in motion or at rest. I hope in so doing to reveal many observations unknown to the ancients. Secondly, the celestial phenomena will be examined strengthening the Copernican hypothesis until it might seem that this must triumph absolutely. Here new reflections are adjoined which might be used in order to simplfy astronomy, though not because of any necessity imported by nature. In the third place, I shall propose an ingenious speculation. It happens that long ago I said that the unsolved problem of the ocean tides might receive some light from assuming the motion of the earth. This assertion of mine, passing by word of mouth, found loving fathers who adopted it as a child of their own ingenuity. Now, so that no stranger may ever a who, arming himself with our weapons, shall charge us with want of attention to such an important matter, I have thought it good to reveal those probabilities which might render this plausible, given that the earth moves.

I hope that from these considerations the world will come to know that if other nations have navigated more, we have not theorized less. It is not from failing to take count of what others have thought that we have yielded to asserting that the earth is motionless, and holding the contrary to be a mere mathematical caprice, but (if for nothing else) for those reasons that are supplied by piety, religion, the knowledge of Divine Omnipotence, and a consciousness of the limitations of the human mind I have thought it most appropriate to explain these concepts in the form of dialogues, which, not being restricted to the rigorous observance of mathematical laws, make room also for digressions which are sometimes no less interesting than the principal argument.

Many years ago I was often to be found in the marvelous city of Venice, in discussions with Signore Giovanni Francesco Sagredo, a man of noble extraction and trenchant wit. Prom Florence came Signore Filippo Salviati, the least of whose glories were the eminence of his blood and the magnificence of his fortune. His was a sublime intellect which fed no more hungrily upon any pleasure than it did upon fine meditations. I often talked with these two of such matters in the presence of a certain Peripatetic philosopher whose greatest obstacle in apprehending the truth seemed to be the reputation he had acquired by his interpretations of Aristotle.

Now, since bitter death has deprived Venice and Florence of those two great luminaries in the very meridian of their years, I have resolved to make their fame live on in these pages, so far as my poor abilities will permit, by introducing them as interlocutors in the present argument. (Nor shall the good Peripatetic lack a place; because of his excessive affection toward the Commentaries of Simplicius, I have thought fit to leave him under the name of the author he so much revered, without mentioning his own) May it please those two great souls, ever venerable to my heart, to accept this public monument of my undying love. And may the memory of their eloquence assist me in delivering to posterity the promised reflections.

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Well, she’s clearly implying that “we have no idea we are actually moving” due to the existence of God, which is emphatically wrong.

(Nobody tell her that in addition to spinning on its axis, the earth revolves around the sun about 67,000 mph, and that our solar system is screaming through space at truly mind-boggling speeds (depending on what your reference is).)

Looks to me like Johnson is going to get to 217. He’s awful, extremely far-right, to the right of McCarthy & Emmer & Scalise, opposes funding Ukraine, etc. However he doesn’t seem to be as personably unlikable as Jordan was.

I think the likely outcome here is that Ukraine doesn’t get another dime from the US. That’s extremely unfortunate, I hope they can hold on.

Yeah, these “moderates” want Gym Jordan’s policies without Gym Jordan’s affect or baggage.

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To be fair, Johnson is probably not a child molester.

Here’s your new speaker

https://x.com/accountablegop/status/1717200762147631556?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

It appears that his strongest selling point is that nobody knows him all that well and as a result don’t personally hate him.

Yet.

so the GOP guys who said “the moderates will cave” were right, ultimately, the moderates don’t have any actual spine to stand up to extremeist whackos, but they do have spine to stand up to jerkfaces. Wreck democracy? Sure, fine. Be slightly rude to me personally? THAT’S OVER THE LINE.

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So this pretty much guarantees a government shutdown mid November?

Pretty fitting for the modern GOP to be led by the guy who lost their election.

https://x.com/DougJBalloon/status/1716996920667779567?s=20

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I don’t see Dems taking a deal that doesn’t include money for Ukraine, or that includes substantial spending cuts. What are the chances the government is funded by the end of the year? Feels like this should be really really bad for the economy.

Tweet won’t load for me for some reason (just this one).

Sounds like he’s planning on doing a short term extension to either January or April and then shutting it down after that. I kind of doubt he’s gonna let Ukraine aid come up for a vote; will probably take what passes the Senate, strip out everything except money for Israel and then force a vote on that and watch the Ds cave.

2024 is going to be fucking nuts. We are going to have rolling Trump criminal trials plus primaries plus government shutdown plus wars plus tons of economic uncertainty, at a minimum.

I don’t think it works like that though. If the house and senate pass different versions, isn’t there a mandatory conference committee? And then isn’t there an up and down vote of whatever comes out of the conference committee?