• Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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    The Democrats were discussing working with him. Then he basically told them to fuck off with that interview. So he lost with 8 republican votes. Such bad strategy. It just makes you think, aren't you supposed to be a politician. You ever politiced in your whole life?

    I guess this is the kind of stupid, horrible strategy you can expect from the current Republican party. They don't have to make deals are negotiate. Their entire platform is scream Democrats bad.

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      He was trying to throw the democrats under the bus because the threat from Gaetz was that he was working with the Democrats. But he forgot the Democrats aren’t complete pushovers, just mostly pushovers, and ended up falling under the bus instead.

    • He eas trying to get the most radical reps back by showing "hey i am one of you, i also wanto to own the libs" But fascists hanging their own to try if they are not radical enough is a story as old as fascism.

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        You're crazy if you think it's these guys cutting deals with the big P directly. It's more like the NRA, the Heritage Foundation, the Carlyle Group, some Koch org, or other billionaires.

        The politicians are just the mouth pieces and button pushers.

        That 14 republicans went to see Putin is the exception, not the rule. Normally they don't expose that relationship and keep it going via middlemen.