CapgrasDelusion

What could of possibly made Turkey fall in line as heavily as it has.

F16s.

https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-will-back-swedens-nato-bid-if-us-keeps-promise-f-16-sale-erdogan-2023-09-26/

Which is yet another reason why the West will hang Armenia out to dry.

Turkey already endorsed a corridor between the two countries through the south of Armenia, immediately after the attack on Artsakh, literally 4 days, while 100,000 Armenians were fleeing.

https://www.reuters.com/world/azerbaijani-turkish-leaders-hold-talks-eye-forging-land-corridor-via-armenia-2023-09-25/

Why would Armenia open this corridor voluntarily? Azerbaijan already pinky swore Artsakh wouldn't be attacked. Erdogan knows how this will be solved, and it won't be pen and paper.

They also have many of the pipelines that send oil/gas from that region to Europe. Hence the hand wringing and platitudes from the West rather than actual help. Aliyev knows this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gas_Corridor

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/why-volatile-south-caucasus-is-important-oil-gas-supplies-2023-09-22/

And when Armenia had the gall to even hint at trying to break from under Russia's thumb to the West, Aliyev got the ok from Russia to teach them a lesson.

https://www.reuters.com/world/armenia-us-military-exercise-kicks-off-near-yerevan-us-spokesperson-2023-09-11/

Azerbaijian took Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh 8 days later, in spite of a prior Russian security agreement to prevent exactly that.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but Armenians aren't muslims, they're majority Christian.

If, for example, you have 5 Democrats who can’t go along with this, that means you now need 9 Republicans willing to put their own standing in the party at risk.

I think this is the main reason. Also, you don't become speaker just to be speaker. You do it to advance further, either to higher elected positions or, more likely, to lucrative party fundraising, consulting, speaking engagements, writing books, and/or private sector positions. In today's world no speaker who is elected with the help of Democrats has a future in the Republican party, anywhere. It's career suicide. Not just losing elected office. They will be blacklisted everywhere. It won't happen.

It's definitely a serious push. But in true fashion, here's how it kicked off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXPzS71yx30

Jordan would be a shit-show of massive proportions. Which is saying something given that it would have to beat out the current shit-show.

EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/us/politics/scalise-jordan-house-speaker.html

Even though the votes on Thursday had clearly stacked up against Mr. Scalise, some of his allies were still surprised by his withdrawal announcement in a closed-door meeting. Several openly wept.

Congress being a circus shouldn't be funny, but holy shit I lost it at that one.

That's really interesting, didn't know any of that. A little tongue in cheek here but... With all that in there at what point is your barn just your house in all but name?

I cringe every time someone calls that moron "Coach," and that he apparently prefers that people do so. This isn't a game, "Coach." Try being a Senator for 5 fucking minutes.

And Trump grabbed people by the pussy. This is not new information. 2020 at the latest:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/06/politics/jordan-osu-wrestlers-strauss-invs/index.html

The voters for the party of "family values" stopped pretending to fake it a long time ago. And make no mistake, this is on the voters.