Jim Jordan 20 votes shy

10/17/2023 2:01:39 PM

Well that's a shame

[Edited on October 17, 2023 at 2:20 PM. Reason : -]

10/17/2023 2:20:11 PM

^^ I think that was best-case. Insider speculations I'd read ranged from less than 10, up to a max of maybe 20, depending on whom you asked.

10/17/2023 6:08:29 PM

Give it to Patrick McHenry and let's move on. Jim Jordan would be a disaster.

10/17/2023 7:15:16 PM

I'm down to be Speaker

10/17/2023 10:05:48 PM

No maga assholes please so Jimmy Jo is out

10/17/2023 10:45:10 PM

^^^^ theyre saying 22 on this last vote

10/18/2023 3:07:44 PM

LOLOLOL!

10/18/2023 3:24:34 PM

I too make legendary gifs

10/18/2023 7:53:42 PM

Always love the ROFL Copter!

10/18/2023 9:33:28 PM

^^^^ from what I’ve read, there is a block who opposes him who plans to have one or two more defect on every vote.

I’m not quite sure why that way instead of just all voting against him to start with

10/18/2023 10:46:47 PM

A flair for the dramatic.

10/18/2023 10:49:43 PM

^^To make him look worse and worse each vote?

10/18/2023 11:21:38 PM

Sure, obviously.

But it seems like making him look like a hopeless, futile effort immediately would be better, given the time pressure building to get things sorted out.

10/19/2023 12:10:36 AM

^that assumes that they’re rational politicians

10/19/2023 12:22:04 AM

I guess that bipartisanship is a non-starter for the current House GOP.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/19/congress/empower-mchenry-dead-00122543

Quote :

"House Republicans are abandoning a push to empower a temporary speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry, after it faced fierce pushback within the party on Thursday. As they left a nearly four-hour internal meeting about the idea, multiple Republicans said there was... virtually no path forward... 'It certainly does not have the support in conference and to bring it to the floor. It would have to survive with Democratic votes,' Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said. 'We're currently sitting on a tinderbox. So to do that, it would set off the fuse that would certainly end in civil war within the GOP, and I don't believe that anybody wants to do that.'"

10/19/2023 3:54:59 PM

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/19/ex-florida-gop-lawmaker-who-sponsored-so-called-dont-say-gay-bill-sentenced-to-prison-00122618

10/20/2023 2:02:28 PM

Jordan's out.

10/20/2023 2:23:36 PM

You hate to see it. . .

10/20/2023 6:11:27 PM

HEADLINE: Person has been nominated for speaker!

1 hr later

HEADLINE: Person has dropped out of consideration for Speaker

10/24/2023 4:56:18 PM

Trump said “nope”, because Emmer hasn’t been completely limitless in his support for him, and a couple dozen MAGAs grabbed his pocket like little bitches.

I’m gonna laugh my ass off when the mainstream-ish Republicans accept that stupid MAGAs will never accept anything except a coup for one of their own, and they all say “you’re not gonna wag the dog. fuck this and fuck all of you for fucking up the only thing the party had going. Again.”

“Yo Hakeem, you wanna help us castrate some douchebag MAGAs?”

10/24/2023 5:23:12 PM

Are the balls Trump?

10/24/2023 7:01:45 PM

^^We can only hope for that level of self-awareness. But I'll be honest, I don't see it.

10/24/2023 7:55:01 PM

I think enough of them are self aware. It’s just a matter of the political calculus.

What are they more scared of? Continuing paralysis in the House? Being held hostage by a minority of douchebag MAGAs? Benign punished in the general election for all of this?

…Or primaries and being cast as a RINO by Trump, and probably some bad blood generated among fellow party members who are not even full-fledge MAGA cultists.

10/24/2023 9:23:35 PM

Don't forget the death threats!

They'll give the gavel back to McCarthy before any bipartisan/power-sharing/coalitional choice.

10/24/2023 10:00:30 PM

Or, they will elect election-denier Mike Johnson.

10/25/2023 1:55:31 PM

10/25/2023 2:27:18 PM

I feel like Christian Nationalist is an accurate term to describe Mike Johnson.

10/25/2023 3:33:25 PM

^^

10/25/2023 5:30:26 PM

Republicans could've had it all. with some sound and professional messaging, they could've won the culture war. but they're fucking dolts

10/25/2023 5:36:56 PM

They had a chance to strike a heavy blow to the MAGA cult, too, but instead they enabled them and aggravated the problem that they and the country continue to suffer from.

10/26/2023 10:53:08 AM

They owned the libs, though, so there’s that.

10/26/2023 3:38:45 PM

the funny thing is that they... didn't

they could've

10/26/2023 4:49:42 PM

A tweet:

Quote :

"Every single House Republican voted for a national abortion ban yesterday. I was told there were moderate Republicans. I don’t see a single one."

10/27/2023 2:59:49 PM

Is that really how electing a leader works? If you vote for them you necessarily endorse every policy position they've ever had?

10/27/2023 3:22:14 PM

how has the end of Roe v. Wade been for republicans in the elections held since the ruling?

10/27/2023 3:33:38 PM

^^mea culpa, I saw that this morning and assumed it meant 10/26 but it was posted on 10/26, figured there first act was voting on some resolution. Guess your interpretation of referencing the speaker election makes way more sense.

10/27/2023 4:00:34 PM

No problem. I think if that kind of vote happened, we'd hesr about it on more than just Twitter / X. There was no good leader candidate among the Republican ranks, and certainly no one who could have been elected who wouldn't have had some historically unpalatable policy positions as viewed by Democrats, but we need to pretend we have a functional government.

10/27/2023 6:48:11 PM

https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-expel-house-republicans-new-york-249bd2341d157bc6727b77607d8d45ae

And to the shock of absolutely nobody, Republicans rally late to prove they have absolutely zero desire to govern or hold anyone accountable for criminal behavior.

11/2/2023 1:27:14 AM

^ seems like democrats basically kept him in. We’ll see if they hold another vote when the reports come back

11/3/2023 11:49:09 PM

I think most people want that guy gone...votes to keep him were mostly votes for adhering to process, not for Santos himself.

[Edited on November 4, 2023 at 8:18 PM. Reason : ]

11/4/2023 8:18:09 PM

Mike Johnson has no bank accounts according to his financial disclosures.

11/5/2023 4:40:25 PM

What a saint

11/5/2023 5:28:34 PM

SNL made me aware of his mysterous "son":

https://news.yahoo.com/speaker-mike-johnsons-mysterious-black-160000420.html


https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

11/6/2023 12:51:10 PM

why would anyone build such a software

you really want a monitoring software for helicopter parents to be your legacy?

if you're starting a tech thing, there are a thousand different things you could've done my guy

11/6/2023 4:05:25 PM

they’ve got a year to stuff a genie back in the bottle

good luck with that, freaks

11/8/2023 11:13:36 AM

These GOP debates are beautiful comedies

11/8/2023 10:42:38 PM

Christie is the best at attacking trump but is never going to win a general

Vivek is a joke

Tim Scott has no charisma

Nikki Haley is the gops best choice. She’s opportunistic but in a fairly normal way for politicians. She’s a shrewd campaigner though

11/8/2023 11:57:54 PM

What does "removing jurisdiction from the judiciary" even mean?

https://ohiohouse.gov/news/republican/deceptive-ohio-issue-1-misled-the-public-but-doesnt-repeal-our-laws-117412

11/10/2023 5:34:53 PM

It means they hate democracy when things aren't going their way.

11/10/2023 8:27:36 PM