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smoobles posted:It's still funny after 7 times ahahaha The guy going "Hakeeeeem Jeffries!" again is less so.
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cr0y posted:Wait I'm not watching at the moment because I'm on a conference call but I thought they voted to adjourn? They got quorum, now they are doing a vote for speaker. Hakeeeeeeeeeem Jefferies! Dr. VooDoo posted:One aspect I don’t see brought up about how the Republicans doing this to themselves is those 20 anti-McCarthy freaks have no threats to their power due to the GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression in their districts so hard. They can do whatever they want, the GOP anointed them god kings of their territories they have no threat of being voted out. That sucks, huh, McCarthy? They do have a threat to their power, being primaried by someone who can claim to be more recalcitrant, using their vote for McCarthy as an example of something the challenger would not do. Tnega fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jan 5, 2023 |
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One aspect I don’t see brought up about how the Republicans doing this to themselves is those 20 anti-McCarthy freaks have no threats to their power due to the GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression in their districts so hard. They can do whatever they want, the GOP anointed them god kings of their territories they have no threat of being voted out. That sucks, huh, McCarthy?
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Dr. VooDoo posted:One aspect I don’t see brought up about how the Republicans doing this to themselves is those 20 anti-McCarthy freaks have no threats to their power due to the GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression in their districts so hard. They can do whatever they want, the GOP anointed them god kings of their territories they have no threat of being voted out. That sucks, huh, McCarthy? there are a lot of bad things you can say about Nancy Pelosi but most of the left-wing of the chamber is in the same situation, it's just that a) the left-wing of the dems isn't the "blow everything up" types, and b) Pelosi had a reputation of being far better at working out deals than McCarthy does
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This speaker election reminds me a lot of the Simpsons joke where Sideshow Bob steps on rakes for three minutes straight.
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To be clear it would take only two republicans to lock this up indefinitely, right? If this boils down to, say, Gaetz and Boebert voting TRUMP! over and over no matter what they're promised, the game is up?
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Sorry if this got answered elsewhere but what happens if this stalemate never ends? No House?
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Youremother posted:To be clear it would take only two republicans to lock this up indefinitely, right? If this boils down to, say, Gaetz and Boebert voting TRUMP! over and over no matter what they're promised, the game is up? No the magic number here is 5
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Youremother posted:To be clear it would take only two republicans to lock this up indefinitely, right? If this boils down to, say, Gaetz and Boebert voting TRUMP! over and over no matter what they're promised, the game is up? The magic number in this case is five. So as long as Gaetz and Boebert have three other friends willing to vote against McCarthy, then yes this could go on for a while.
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From everything I've seen it's no house. They literally can't do anything without a Speaker. Every single thing presupposes there is a Speaker. They aren't even getting paid for this because they can't pass the bill that confirms their own paychecks e: ninjahedgehog posted:No the magic number here is 5 Chuck Bartowski posted:The magic number in this case is five. So as long as Gaetz and Boebert have three other friends willing to vote against McCarthy, then yes this could go on for a while. My counting skills leave much to be desired  But my point still stands: the Donalds faction needs a comically small amount of congresspeople to gently caress this congress indefinitely! They can afford to lose SO many representatives on this!
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Youremother posted:To be clear it would take only two republicans to lock this up indefinitely, right? If this boils down to, say, Gaetz and Boebert voting TRUMP! over and over no matter what they're promised, the game is up? Assuming no one swaps parties, yes. So yeah, this ends when Republicans start voting for Jeffries.
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Appreciated that CSPAN had the camera tight on the woman who didn’t hear her name called because she wasn’t paying attention.
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smoobles posted:Sorry if this got answered elsewhere but what happens if this stalemate never ends? No House? america is over, and we need to start a new country
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smoobles posted:Sorry if this got answered elsewhere but what happens if this stalemate never ends? No House? Basically, yes. The cloud of elects can hang around but until they choose a Speaker none of them are actually Representatives.
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Very excited to depart from our previous Civil War precedent and instead serve in the glorious army of Lord Protector Biden and his Long Senate.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:america is over, and we need to start a new country okay hear me out
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Dr. VooDoo posted:One aspect I don’t see brought up about how the Republicans doing this to themselves is those 20 anti-McCarthy freaks have no threats to their power due to the GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression in their districts so hard. They can do whatever they want, the GOP anointed them god kings of their territories they have no threat of being voted out. That sucks, huh, McCarthy? Most of them are in super safe districts but Boebert is doing this after winning by 500 votes
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smoobles posted:It's still funny after 7 times ahahaha If I had a nickle for every time Kevin McCarthy lost a vote to be Speaker of the House, I'd have 35 cents, which isn't a lot but it's loving hilarious that it's happened seven times now 
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smackfu posted:I assume the Reps don’t get their salary either. Just read that they do but no one else does. Feels Villeneuve posted:america is over, and we need to start a new country Be better to just start a new government. If we had something that wasn't a two party system where you were forced to have to compromise to form a government and get anything done would be a huge improvement. Never going to happen since the wealthy/powerful want gridlock and disfunction.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:america is over, and we need to start a new country Everyone is forced to assume a new name and identity, all towns are renamed and all possessions get randomly distributed. It happened to Denmark in 1964 but very few outsiders noticed anything.
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Youremother posted:But my point still stands: the Donalds faction needs a comically small amount of congresspeople to gently caress this congress indefinitely! They can afford to lose SO many representatives on this! Pretty much. My assumption is that fact is likely the reason why they were willing to do this in the first place
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James Garfield posted:Most of them are in super safe districts but Boebert is doing this after winning by 500 votes Yeah and theres a blueprint now and probably more money rolling in, in a presidential year so I would be sweating bullets if I was Bobert.
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Quorum posted:Very excited to depart from our previous Civil War precedent and instead serve in the glorious army of Lord Protector Biden and his Long Senate. I guess letting the civil war not end and instead simmer for generations as a Cold War fought through proxy culture wars wasn’t the smartest idea as a country, shucks!
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I bet you some GOP would flip to Jeffries if he promised publicly to investigate Hunter's laptop
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Raenir Salazar posted:For some reason my brain farted and I thought Mc was his first name I'm MC Kevin and I'm here to say I'm not gonna be Speaker again today!
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LionYeti posted:Yeah and theres a blueprint now and probably more money rolling in, in a presidential year so I would be sweating bullets if I was Bobert. Boebert isn't thinking ahead to next week.
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I know realistically this was going to be the outcome but it's also very funny that, for all the hemming and hawing literally millions of maga-heads did about getting trump to be speaker so he'd be in line for the presidency, this is the outcome. This is your chance, weirdos! You're blowing it (again) (lol).
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Lol Perry was too busy mugging to the cameras and almost missed the vote https://twitter.com/nataliewsj/status/1611063586331234348?s=20
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Actually it is super loving hilarious that thanks to Gaetz Trump is now a popular vote loser for Presidency AND for Congress. We just need Trump to fail at being appointed a Supreme Court justice
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