Republicans are literally fighting in halls of Congress

[RainWalker]

WrestleMania is breaking out between Republicans in the halls of Congress.

Updated below with video!

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[snowybirdie]

1. Who pays for

A McCarthy detail? He's a nobody congressman these days.

[Bev54]

30. Yes that is curious, does he get security as past SOTH? Does Pelosi still get

security as well?

[niyad]

67. I had to look it up. SOTH has Capitol Police protection as long

as they hold the gavel. Prior to Speaker Emerita Pelosi, once the gavel was gone, so was CP protection. After the attack on Paul, Congress authorized one year of protection for her after she stepped down. At the end of that year, CP will do a threat assessment to see if protection needs to be extended. same for future Speakers, based on threat assessment.

[Bev54]

72. Thanks for the info, I would like to know the threats against McCarthy? They are coming

from in the house.

[niyad]

46. I caught that as well.

[Lovie777]

2. I'm waiting on the girl fight...........................

Greene and Boebert.

[redqueen]

7. Boys are more likely to engage in this

The women will most likely just trade verbal barbs.

[Irish_Dem]

17. I would not put anything past these two women.

Punching and kicking would be exactly their style.

[PatSeg]

25. Oh yes, I agree

And probably some hairpulling as well. They look like streetfighters to me.

[Irish_Dem]

44. Yep exactly.

They are both nasty pieces of work to begin with and then they are both always hyped up on various drugs.

[PatSeg]

68. We've all gone to school with girls like them

Petty, spiteful, and always looking for a fight.

It cracks me up that Margie goes by her initials "MTG", as if she is some icon like FDR, LBJ, or MLK. I refuse to do it. That is something a person earns.

[Irish_Dem]

70. A number of people have suggested Marge is a long time steroid user.

So on top of her usual mean girl routine we see her steroid rage which makes it even worse.

[PatSeg]

71. I hadn't thought of that

But it does make sense.

[Irish_Dem]

74. She owned gyms and was obsessed with that whole lifestyle.

Muscles were important to her.
Affairs with guys at the gym.

People have pointed out her facial changes indicative of steroid use.
And we can see her anger issues and outrageous thought processes.

[TSExile]

76. All Boebert and Greene are missing...

...are those helmets with beer cans and straws!!

[PatSeg]

85. Yes, I knew about the gyms

and affairs. Steroid use certainly would fit her lifestyle and explain a lot. Well, plus she is a self-absorbed narcissist.

[Irish_Dem]

86. Yes it all fits together.

The steroid use story has been around for a couple of years now.

I think she and Matt Gaetz were an item right before her husband had enough
and filed for divorce.

[PatSeg]

87. Oh my god

What a match those two are. Yuck.

[Irish_Dem]

88. Right before MTG's husband filed for divorce, she and Gaetz gallivanted around the country

together if you recall. A series of political rallies across the US.

Pictures together of them looking quite cozy.

Then MTG's hubby files for divorce. I guess he had enough.

[PatSeg]

89. Hard to imagine how he put up with her for so long

So were there rumors that she was having an affair with Gaetz. I knew they spent a lot of time together, but it never dawned on me that they had a thing going on. Gaetz tends to prefer them younger.

[Irish_Dem]

91. My opinion.

Just putting two and two together. Looking at the entire summer they spent together on the road.
The cozy pictures, and then hubby filing for divorce.

We suspect both Gaetz and Marge do some sort of drugs, so that does alter one's judgement.

Gaetz likes kinky and we know Marge had a public affair with a tantric sex guru from her gym if you recall.

Then in terms of the divorce, it looked like the husband was going to play hard ball with the divorce documents
being shown in public. Going to be messy. Then all of a sudden it goes totally quiet, we hear zero about the divorce.

It is all hush hush. I figure hubby had the goods on Miss Marge and so she asked him how much $$ he wanted and then she handed it over to him. He goes radio silent.

[PatSeg]

93. Okay, that all does make sense

I can picture them having one long wild party. We know that neither of them has any scruples and they're loving this gig in congress.

[Irish_Dem]

94. For narcissists like Gaetz and MTG, being an elected official is like drugs to a heroin addict.

They get their supply of fame, power and money.
It is intoxicating and highly addictive.

They both lean sociopath as well, so the "get out out of jail card free" afforded to most members of congress
is especially attractive and heady stuff for them.

Yes I think it is one long party for many of them.

[PatSeg]

97. Yes, I totally agree

I think they especially love the attention.

[Irish_Dem]

99. Yes it is like a drug to them.

The narcissistic fix.

[yardwork]

90. That annoys me too!

[PatSeg]

92. Nice to know I'm not alone

I get so irritated when I hear journalists and commentators use such initials, thus giving her more status than she's earned. And it isn't just Greene. I find it annoying and lazy when TV personalities refer to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as AOC. I really like Ocasio-Cortez, but I find it premature to call her "AOC". Maybe some day in her case though. Obviously, never for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[Kennah]

26. Pass out guns to the GOOPers and have the Democrats "retire" to a nearby pub to watch it live

[Bev54]

32. Most women might trade verbal barbs but these two are not ladies and I

could see them get into a physical, they are both that immature.

[redqueen]

34. Tbh I only replied to highlight the fact that they were referred to as 'girls'

It's so depressing still seeing nonsense like this.

I wish it was more popular to comment on people's behavior without bringing sexist language into it.

[Irish_Dem]

45. I do not believe either one of these two females deserve the title of "woman."

They act like bad toddlers.

[niyad]

49. Thank you for pointing this out. The fact that the casual,

almost automatically denied, sexism has to be repeatedly pointed out is depressing.

[redqueen]

61. Thanks for the thanks

Being a fun killing feminist is a largely thankless task

Seriously though, it is very depressing. But we are making progress slowly but surely!

Check this guy out
https://www.tiktok.com/@expatriarch?_t=8hKo3FpF95v&_r=1

[Hekate]

59. Consider the target. I really can't bring myself to care much what they get called...

My pet name for MTG is “thug” or “she-thug” for her bellicose face and aggressive behavior. A Southern friend of mine has been calling Ms Boebert “Bobo the Clown” ever since she first showed up running for Congress, and that actually works.

I call Ted Cruz “the human hagfish” for his trail of slime, and I suppose I should apologize to actual hagfish for that.

“Girls” ? All right — arrested development in the extreme.

[redqueen]

60. Sexism is bad no matter at whom it's directed.

We will never get freedom from patriarchy if we keep making excuses to reinforce sexist ideas.

What you just said reminds me of some southerners who say they only call the bad Black people the N word. This example is nowhere near as ugly or hateful of course, but the excuse is just as unreasonable.

[Hekate]

62. I consider myself chastised

[redqueen]

63. Apologies, my goal is not to chastise.

Just to bring some mindfulness to what is a huge blind spot for most.

[Mossfern]

73. It was in reference to being in school

so "girls" would be the appropriate word.

[redqueen]

95. Where is school mentioned?

Perhaps you have the order of some of the posts mixed up.

[Mossfern]

98. Post No. 68

PatSeg (45,915 posts)
68. We've all gone to school with girls like them
Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #44)
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 03:21 PM

Petty, spiteful, and always looking for a fight.

It cracks me up that Margie goes by her initials "MTG", as if she is some icon like FDR, LBJ, or MLK. I refuse to do it. That is something a person earns.

[Prairie Gates]

50. Boebert looks like she's thrown down in a Wendy's parking lot more than once

[underpants]

9. Ooh ooh that would be great

Marge is running out of stupid stunts to get attention. Careful though, Boebert is good with her hands.

[walkingman]

11. She is, isn't she 😂😍😂

[Kennah]

33. Master of her domain--not

[redqueen]

19. 'Catfight' is sexist nt

[redqueen]

38. I know, these sayings are old and ingrained

Which is why I like to call them out, so we can improve over time.

[EYESORE 9001]

39. I had misgivings about posting it

And my inner class clown won. I’m deleting it now.

[John1956PA]

43. 1996 TV screen fight between Raquel Welch and Laura Hutton.

I point this out only for purposes of TV history. Back in 1996, I watched the episode of the CBS limited series "Central Park West" in which the two screen legends, Raquel Welch and Laura Hutton, act out a raucous scene wherein their characters engage in a brawl in the atrium of the elegant hotel and end up wrestling in the shallow pool of its iconic fountain.
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[niyad]

64. And a staged scene from a tv show some 27 years ago

has what to do, exactly, with current sitting members of congress?

[Dulcinea]

96. Best ratings C-SPAN will ever have.

I'm betting on hair pulling, nasty talk, & hair spray directed at the opponent's face, like high school bathroom catfights.

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Burchett is lucky it was McCarthy

If it was Nancy, he would be still trying to get off the floor!

[SheilaAnn]

4. Junior high stuff, meet him in the back of the school at 3:15...

[gratuitous]

28. No, over behind the bleachers

You know, so it's off school property. That's when you knew it was serious.

But yeah, this is puberty onset stuff. How old are these alleged adults?

[Paper Roses]

55. My thoughts exactly. Kids in playground stuff. Disgusting!

[Hotler]

5. Delicious! Sit back and enjoy this.

Didn't Napoleon say, never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake?

[NJCher]

6. this is routine behavior

but then, the entire republican party is a mistake.

[HAB911]

8. de-evolution to 10 year olds

[underpants]

10. Ooh! We've got footage

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[RainWalker]

13. ROFL

[Auggie]

51. LOL

[TSExile]

12. It's Lord of the Flies!!

They did it to themselves.

[Autumn]

14. They are allowed to carry guns. I hope to see a couple of them have a duel.

I would really enjoy watching that.

[CanonRay]

15. We used to do this shit too

in 7th grade. What a bunch of spoiled brats.

[RainWalker]

20. Spoiled brats is perfect

[niyad]

79. Not all of us. Some of us were too busy reading in the library.

[republianmushroom]

16. Poor kevin's fractured ego.

[tanyev]

22. Stand back and give them some room!

[blogslug]

24. Quite the day. The GOP's gone aggro in the Senate too

[Bev54]

36. Charming, had to look him up, Oklahoma, go figure.

[Duppers]

54. WOW!!

[LuckyCharms]

29. Classy fuckers. n/t

[Ford_Prefect]

35. Skins are getting mighty thin now that the focus is on the new speaker and the Same old, Same old from the Extremists.

They blow this budget up and the reverberation won't end until November next year. They know the whole world is watching, too.

They're getting phone calls and texts from their voters, and they cannot hang this on Trump.
They cannot afford to fail either. Crashing the Government and the economy over "Culture issues" just before Thanksgiving is a very bad look for them.

A GOP house divided against America cannot stand.

[Ray Bruns]

40. OMG. We are being governed by a bunch of toddlers.

[niyad]

52. Not "governed". "held hostage".

[malaise]

41. Just wait for the ARs

We did promise you a good ReTHUG civil war.
Slobby and his goons have seized the party.

[Emile]

42. Fascism eating fascists, LOL.

[sarcasmo]

47. Where are the Luchadores?

[RainWalker]

53. They were in Bernie's Senate committee hearing

Have you seen this?
Someone posted it in a thread. This happened too.

?si=HSV

[CTyankee]

65. This is embarrassing. That Sanders had to intervene is something I never thought I'd ever see in the U.S. Senate.

The repukes are howling monkeys (apologies to monkeys)...

[keithbvadu2]

80. howling monkeys

[CTyankee]

84. In all my years being hyper political, I've never seen it this bad.

These people simply don't believe in governing, they just want to disrupt democratic processes. I truly believe they are there for that purpose: to disrupt so NOTHING gets done! Then they can usher in their Leader, Trump, and he can rule like a demented one of the Senators in ancient Rome, bent on destroying, not ruling wisely, installing an Emperor who is insane and sets fire to Rome. Burn it all down!

[Prairie Gates]

48. Burchett's a trash bag

I side withy McCarthy.



What a bunch of fucking bozos.

[SWBTATTReg]

56. What a class act by republicans...just what we need in the US Congress, more infighting, no leadership by

the coward djt, who's a big joke, and infighting by Congress when there's a critical deadline approaching. Maybe the adults in the room should (democrats of course!) should send the kids to their corners and give them a timeout, let them pout for a bit.

Good grief...smh.

[Duppers]

57. Republicans!!!!

[AllyCat]

58. I know middle schoolers who behave better than these people.

And we pay them the rest of their lives.

[blogslug]

66. There's more. James Comer crows like Foghorn Leghorn at Jared Moskowitz today

Did someone pour vodka in the GOP kool-aid or something?

[Justice]

69. Why does McCarthy still have a detail? He is no longer Speaker

[niyad]

78. See post 67

[ffr]

75. Governing by self inflicted chaos. Infighting chaos. Republican voters should be ashamed!

They're a disgrace to the institution and constituents they're suppose to serve.

[Takket]

77. Media: If you think this is bad, wait until you see how bad Biden has made inflation!

[keithbvadu2]

82. Taiwan Parliament 2017

&t=2s

[Hassler]

83. I'm surprised McCarthy didn't shank the guy.