Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that Republicans will lose the presidential election if Donald Trump is the nominee and that he expects hard-right followers of Trump to force a government shutdown within days.
Ryan, who left office in 2019 and had a sometimes contentious relationship with Trump, said he hoped that another Republican nominee would gain enough momentum early next year to overtake Trump after the first primaries. Ryan represented southeastern Wisconsin in Congress for 20 years, the last four as speaker.
“The party that puts the first fresh face forward wins this election,” Ryan said at an event on the University of Wisconsin campus organized by the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
“I think leaders should be honest, ethical, and moral”
Paul Ryan is none of those things.
My favourite Paul Ryan moment was when he said Rage Against The Machine was one of his favourite bands, and then Tom Morello wrote a lengthy article in response about how much of a jackass he is.
Like imagine naming your favourite band and then they go super far out of their way to tell you specifically to go fuck yourself lol.
How I miss the days when I disliked Republicans just for being slimey shitweasles and not literal fascists.
I mean, regardless of their plans, the Bush era wasted an absurd amount of money and goodwill to get a million Iraqis killed and destabilize the Middle East for generations.
Slimey shitweasle is a precursor to literal fascist.
We finally found the slippery slope they’re obsessed with!
And that slope is so slippery because it is covered in santorum.
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it.
-Lindsey GrahamMy hope is that the GOP loses this election as the country’s changing demographics catches up to it. Then they fade away to irrelevance, like the GOP in California. (They haven’t won a state-wide office in years.)
I don’t give a fuck what Paul Ryan thinks about anything
… he hoped that another Republican nominee would gain enough momentum early next year to overtake Trump after the first primaries.
In the first debate, all the people on the stage said they would support Trump if he got the nomination and was a convicted felon, with the exception of Asa Hutchinson and Chris Christie.
Hutchinson is not going to make it to the next debate.
Sorry Paul Ryan, it looks like your misplaced hope is for one fascist to be replaced with another. Go fuck yourself.
Words are cheap Paul, what’cha gonna actually do about it? Campaign for Biden? Put some of your net worth towards another candidate?
Na, you’re just going to play fortune teller and then hope that’s all the pushing you have to do. You’re such a weak little turd. Go fuck a cactus you twat.
This dude got told run away after Trump popped on the scene and he’ll get sent back once Trump dies. He’s someone’s “great white hope” puppet.
Man with gasoline firehose surprised a fire has ensued. Details at 9:00
Don’t threaten us with a good time.
Though in all seriousness, I wouldn’t rule out Trump winning. The Saudis want him in power, and are already starting to jack up oil prices, in the hope of causing significant numbers of voters to vote against the government. There is a mood of dissatisfaction with the economy, which is sticking to Biden. The NYT and Washington Post seem to be doing their bit to tar him as a loser (presumably a volatile autocrat in the Whitehouse sells more papers). The Republicans still have structural advantages such as gerrymandering, voter suppression and partisan judges. And not least importantly, all those stories about how the Democrats are winning/abortion will sink the Republicans/the inevitable Trump candidacy will sink like a stone once it’s no longer a Republican primary will undoubtedly persuade a lot of Democrat voters that the race is won and they can take it easy. It’s going to be a hell of a fight.
