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
Love C-Span’s “due to the fact that we are ruled by the Lord of Chaos here in the House of Representatives and there are NO RULES our cameras are allowed to ROAM FREE and provide you HOT GOSSIP of who is talking to who and how many ugly-ass ties are present on the floor”
Just to emphasize: Mike Johnson is an antivaxxer, an anti-abortion forced bither, he believes the job of poor women is to give birth to an infinite supply of low wage jobseekers, he is a climate change denier, he wants to cut Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid, and he’s a “Trump won!” Republican. And House Republicans just unanimously voted for him as Speaker of the House.
Please take note: there are no “moderates” in the Republican Party.
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
Jordan Reverses Himself and Will Push for a Third Speaker Vote
Here is the recap-
Republicans, continuing their tradition of playing stupid games and being shocked when they win stupid prizes, kicked Kevin McCarthy out of his post of Speaker of the House.
For context, Kevin McCarthy had a fucking awful time getting the job back in January, needing like 15 tries and a bunch of stupid placating and bootlicking the MAGA nuts. An incredible moment in US history. So many memes. Republicans almost getting into fist fights on the floor on the House. Embarrassing Chaos. and they STILL FUCKING KICKED MCCARTHY OUT. AFTER ALL THAT. (Probably because he compromised with Democrats to temporarily fund the government while they argued about the budget) Embarrassing.
They fire McCarthy with no backup plan. To be clear, this is intentional. The MAGA fuckers want to break the government. Also no one wants to be Speaker. It's an awful job.
Ok, so then they have to decide who will be the new speaker. Trump suggests Jim Jordan. There is a secret republican ballot. Jordan loses to some other guy (Scalise.) Ha.
Once it's time for the real vote (with the democrats and all)- unity shatters and Scalise can't carry the vote. He says he doesn't want it anymore.
So fine, Jim Jordan. Let's go.
He loses.
A bunch of Republicans hate him. He is suuuuper implicated in Jan 6 and is a scumbag.
He tries again.
He loses. Again. Worse than the first time. Hilarious. Humiliating.
Everyone is like "not this shit again. Can we just let the temporary speaker be the speaker until January so the House can like...function while the Republicans figure their shit out?"
Jim Jordan says he'll go along with this plan on TV. Because publically losing the Speaker vote multiple times is humiliating.
The MAGAs loose their FUCKING MINDS because this was a Democrat idea so its BAD. How DARE YOU WE JUST FIRED MCARTHY FOR COMPROMISING WITH THE DEMS.
Jim Jordan says FINE, I take it back. I'll try again.
We don't have a third vote scheduled.
It'd be funnier if the clowns weren't running OUR circus, ya know?