be forced to work together.
That means we're going to fight it out.
And I'm telling you, I've always said I'm not afraid of the civil war and the GOP?
I lean into it?
You want to know why I want to do everything I can to do my part within our
conference to force the Republican party to be the party.
That is America first and saves this country.
That is marjorie Green.
She is leaning into the civil war which is a bold stance for someone like her to
take people who believe the sorts of things she do hasn't necessarily
historically done well in civil wars in America but anyway, she is ready for
a fight in the house leadership to choose who is going to be their speaker again,
it isn't yet confirmed that the republicans are going to have control but
it does very much look like that.
She says politics is a blood sport.
We have to do everything we can to stop our enemy and
the enemy is the democrat party.
So so she wants kevin McCarthy,
she has previously disagreed with him on a number of things.
Things that he isn't strong enough supportive of trump enough, but
now if he takes over it seems as if he has made promises to her about putting her on
certain committees which would be an upgrade for her.
Remember right now she is literally on none because she was stripped
she had those responsibilities stripped away from her.
But Jessica we were talking before about sort of the symbolic
leadership of the party, who's gonna be the nominee where that might go.
What do you think about the battle to come in the House?
Do you think that marjorie Greene's wing of the party is likely to win?
We know that Andy Biggs is going to be challenging Kevin McCarthy for
the speakership, right?
And Andrew Biggs is someone who is I think more aligned, I would say with marjorie,
Taylor Green and then the likes of those folks and it would be scary to have them
have the speakership because it's an important position, but
I'm not super confident that the Republican Party is going to do that in
the House because these people don't have a lot of legislative experience.
I mean, Andy Biggs is the kind of guy who says the people in my district need to
have access to semiautomatic weapons because we have an invasion coming over
the southern border, like that's the guy, you're gonna give the mouthpiece to
the party in Congress to like, no, that's a terrible idea.
And I think there are too many people in the Republican Party who like making
a bunch of money off of Insider trading and coasting through, you know,
their position in public office and they don't really want violence in the country.
And I think that, you know, someone like any Bigs will not win the speakership.
I think it's gonna be someone like McCarthy or
a mainline more conservative Republican.
Yeah, I haven't really outside of Andy Biggs,
I haven't really seen anyone who's come out and
said that they're gonna run against him, that does not mean that they're not having
conversations behind closed doors trying to see who's gonna end up supporting them.
It to me seems like I guess why not go with Kevin McCarthy at this point.
Like I think there are crazier people, so choosing him as the benefit of him,
not being the literal crazy, it's like the stuff he pointed about Andy Biggs and
you know others.
But he does have the support of some of the crazy wing like marjorie Green.
It is going to be interesting to see even if he does get chosen the position he'll
be in is not the one that it looked like he would have been in two weeks ago.
I mean there was there was a reason to believe that they could have like a 20
seat advantage and that is not what's gonna happen, it's gonna be,
you know, a few.
And what's interesting about that is you could potentially have him facing
pressure from the super crazy wing.
You only, all you need to do is have marjorie Green paul, Gosar matt Gates or
whatever band together and they can tank stuff but then there's also the relatively
more rational never Trumpers who if he decides to go in the direction of
the crazies, they might be able to band together either to take stuff or
potentially to work with the democrats.
So I don't know, he's really in a in a difficult position and
thankfully for us, he's the worst, so I don't care.
He deserves whatever happens to him.
Yeah.
I think the type of legislation will see past with a Republican House and
a Democratic Senate is gonna be ridiculous.
It's gonna be like, yeah, we're actually de funding Social Security and
Medicaid, but you can cancel student loan debt.
It's gonna be the kind of trade offs that make no one happy.
Yeah, well, we'll at least get to watch some of the drama of it.
Maybe that'll make us temporarily happy.