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.
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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.
This happened in the UK with our right wingers too. David Cameron said that his favourite band was The Smiths. Johnny Marr publicly stated that David Cameron did not like The Smiths, because he forbade it. He would however allow it, if David Cameron left office immediately.
Now I think about it, didn’t the Village People have beef with Trump over his use of YMCA at campaign rallies as well?
Paul “Do you even lift bro” Ryan?
Of course the only republicans to criticize trump are those no loner in office, or are already on their way out.
Edit: Don’t forget that was instrumental in starting the Tea Party, which is what created the modern republican party as we are witnessing it.
Paul “I listen to rage against the machine and think nothing” Ryan
If Paul Ryan were still in Congress he’d be just as complicit in this shit show as the rest of the Republicans.
I think that’s why he left; he saw this coming.
Not that I think highly of him, but that’s how it seemed.
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.
Former Speaker Paul Ryan says WHO THE FUCK CARES- THIS GUY IS A SHITSTAIN
Republicans’ only semi-popular candidate is Trump. And seeing as he has dozens of indictments and stands a better than average chance of being incarcerated (or at least house arrest) by the time he’d be sworn in is pretty pathetic. I don’t see a way Republicans win in 2026 but I’ve been surprised at the criminality and stupidity of this country too many times before.
Fun fact: nothing prevents Trump from serving as president while being in prison. Absolutely nothing in the Constitution and nothing in federal law.
Imagine with me a sitcom where Trump is about to receive a foreign prime minister but has to cancel last minute because he spit his lemon cookie at a guard and got 5 days in the hole.
Please let this be fiction.
That’s what they said in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, and they were only right 3 of those 4 times.
I don’t give a fuck what Paul Ryan thinks about anything
I completely forgot he existed.
Fuck Paul Ryan, fuck Ron Johnson, fuck Robin Vos… but a broken clock is right twice a day.
If anyone wants to shit on his (parent’s?) lawn, go visit Janesville lol.
And america will lose if he wins.
… 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.
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it.
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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.
