Kevin McCarthy losing four five six seven eight ten consecutive Speaker of the House votes (so far) is legitimately one of the funniest things to ever happen. This is 2023's boat stuck in the Suez Canal. Something important has ceased working for the most hilarious possible reason and we are all watching desperate attempts to get it working again while secretly hoping it does not, and I think that's beautiful

Black smoke seen over the US Capitol building confirms that a new Speaker of the House has not yet been elected.

Kevin McCarthy's Terrible Horrible Not Very Good Day Days

Happy Mean Girls Day to Kevin McCarthy (R)

Joke’s on you, America—Kevin McCarthy has a humiliation kink and he’s been rock hard for four days.

can’t wait to resurrect george washington so i can tell him that we don’t have a speaker of the house because our two-party system has split into a weird 2.5 party system where one party is more or less in sync and the other has a weird psuedo-party growing out of it like a tumor that doesn’t make up enough people to form their own party but is also big enough to halt the speaker vote in it’s tracks. g wash has a heart attack and dies again. Good riddance, slaveowner

It’s weird it’s happened 10 times right?

So just today there were two different physical altercations in the US congress (both by Republicans because of course)

You doing okay, America? (rhetorical)

This whole Republican Speaker vote circus gets immensely funnier once you learn that Kevin McCarthy was so confident that he’d be elected Speaker of the House that he had his stuff moved into the Speaker’s Office in the Capitol Building.

and is the speaker of the house in the room with us right now?🤨

CSPAN when there’s no speaker of the house to stop them from filming and they can stream the unbridled chaos of the speaker elections for the first time

10/10 headline from the NYT this morning