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Raenir Salazar posted:I wonder if McCarthy can try a gamble and call their bluff, announce everyone can freely vote for who they want and if this end up with someone having more votes than McCarthy he'll support them as Speaker, if not then everyone should support him and get it over with? I don't really see why anyone in the GOP would agree to either of those things. The Freedom Caucus folks blocking McCarthy wouldn't take the first deal, and if they're not playing ball then that deal is all downsides for McCarthy. Persuading five Republicans to switch parties all at once at the very start of the term would be extremely unlikely.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The record is 133 ballots, took two months, and was in 1855. also this was just after a major political party disintegrated into a ton of smaller parties which make trying to work out a majority a total nightmare
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"Am I the dysfunctional government? No, it's the Democrats who are wrong."
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They should vote in the teenage girl in the background for Speaker.
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if you want to know why the speaker vote in 1855 was so tortured the results here will probably give you a clue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854%E2%80%9355_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections e) we should bring back the "anti-Nebraska party"
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BDawg posted:They should vote in the teenage girl in the background for Speaker. 
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And we're off! How humiliated will KM be this time?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:if you want to know why the speaker vote in 1855 was so tortured the results here will probably give you a clue If they add anti-Ohio to their platform, i am in 
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Boebert using her vote to yell a bunch of poo poo? They're just taking that as "other"?
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Wanna get in that weekly game of poker in the GOP leadership. McCarthy is absolutely the sucker at the table.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Boebert using her vote to yell a bunch of poo poo? They're just taking that as "other"? https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1611077023421571072
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Literally just because his name is Kevin, I assume?
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I AM GRANDO posted:Boebert using her vote to yell a bunch of poo poo? They're just taking that as "other"? She said Kevin Hern of OK
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US House Speaker Election TVIV: Anyone Named Kevin Can gently caress Himself
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Yeah Boebert's pitch was to stick her thumb in McCarthy's eye but she was grandstanding too long for it to be effective This is likely the same galaxy brain trust that came up with Donalds because his name is like Donald as in Trump
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Mister Gopher posted:She said Kevin Hern of OK That's a relief - I thought she was voting for Kevin Hearn, keyboardist for Barenaked Ladies.
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Edward Mass posted:That's a relief - I thought she was voting for Kevin Hearn, keyboardist for Barenaked Ladies. Oh you mean the new guy?
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As Charlie Brown would say, AAAAUUUUUGH! THUD
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Wait, was the Kevin Hearn vote literally just to troll McCarthy by making him think for a moment that he'd picked up a vote?
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I for one, welcome speaker Jeffries, when the McCarthy gives up and tries a rule change to have the speaker elected by plurality.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Wait, was the Kevin Hearn vote literally just to troll McCarthy by making him think for a moment that he'd picked up a vote? This is the modern GOP, trolling/posting/owning the libs is literally all that's left
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Some supposed reasoning for Boebert's vote https://twitter.com/lizbrownkaiser/status/1611078609258569729
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Doccykins posted:Yeah Boebert's pitch was to stick her thumb in McCarthy's eye but she was grandstanding too long for it to be effective Yeah, it would have been alright if she hadn't rambled long enough to get boo'd and order'd. Cut it in half and the Mean Girl poo poo might have actually been funny.
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https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1611071569706553345 So never
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They should just elect Boebert I can't think of a more perfect representation of the GOP.
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The best way to stop 'big government' is to not have a government at all. Freedom Caucus doing what they were elected to do
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I hope there's a 9th losing vote so KMC can't steal the awesome nickname, "The Ocho."
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Edward Mass posted:That's a relief - I thought she was voting for Kevin Hearn, keyboardist for Barenaked Ladies. I see you and want you to know i appreciate this post.
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OK I support trolling Sean Patrick Maloney with your speaker vote
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Biden should start talking about his good friend Kevin more
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Supposing the obstructionist party was infiltrated (over decades) by an obstructionist minority whose motive is not the good of the party, but rather interested in preventing government from helping anyone and just wanna watch it burn and succeed in getting libs (who imagine a government that helps folk) to enjoy the warmth of the fire
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RBA Starblade posted:Biden should start talking about his good friend Kevin more This is exactly the kind of thing he was doing when he was lauding McConnell the other day lol.
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How many votes before McCarthy fully turns into a corncob?
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First they vote against you Then they laugh at you Then they elect someone else Then you win
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Are some people not voting? First time watching live so not sure if that's normal
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The beauty of this all is that even if somehow McCarthy caves and withdraws, all it will take is a different group of 5 to go 'no this isn't happening' to gently caress it all up.
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logger posted:How many votes before McCarthy fully turns into a corncob? -6, by my count.
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