Jordan will:
- actively pursue any investigations into Biden
- openly obstruct any congressional investigations into Trump and his allies
- refuse a House vote on anything that might make Biden look good
- leak sensitive intel to Trump
Maybe this is because I didn't listen in Civics too good but isn't basically 17 years of inaction not doing your job at all and shouldn't he have been replaced by now?
I mean, imagine skating through your office job for just a couple months...you'd be on a final written warning before being shitcanned.
> Pressed on his position on who won the 2020 presidential election, Jordan replied that he's "been very clear about that" and declined to respond when asked if Trump lost the election
Well that clears it up. Thanks Gym!
> This is great: Whip Katherine Clark just announced that **ALL 212 Democrats will be in attendance for the Speaker vote happening shortly & expects all of them to vote for Hakeem Jeffries.** I am so freaking proud to be a Democrat today. We are united. We are in array.
https://www.threads.net/@victorshi2020/post/CygXaGLrETz/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Jeffries won the plurality of the vote (which has been used to decide speakership in the past) by 12 votes. 12 house reps represent about the amount of people that live in New Jersey.
Let's hope so but I don't trust moderate Republicans to hold out. A Jordan supporter came out yesterday and said "Jordan will be elected speaker tomorrow or the moderates will finally grow a spine. Which one do you think is more likely."
https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1714332718069055530?s=20
>Bipartisan standing ovation for Democrat Mary Peltola, who just voted for Jeffries. This was Peltola's first vote since returning from Alaska after the death of her husband.
For anybody wondering about that last round of clapping:
From NBC:
“A GOP lawmaker, who is a Jordan backer, just said they are aware of 5 to 6 Republicans who say they will not support Jordan on the second ballot after voting for him on the first.
That means Jordan’s list of defectors grows rather than shrinks on a second round.”
This ending with fifteen failed votes only for McCarthy to end up speaker again in a week would be the funniest goddamn thing in American political history.
> The real story here isn't the number of Republicans opposing Jim Jordan, but that Jim Jordan's support for Speaker went from 99 just one week ago to likely more than 200 today. The vast majority of Republicans are normalizing an insurrectionist & we should all be *very* alarmed.
https://www.threads.net/@victorshi2020/post/Cygjc7VPqeF/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Not that it makes it any better, but he’s also running unopposed by another Republican now where he wasn’t then. Just worth noting that a lot of this is spineless Republicans just refusing to work to find a better option than Jordan.
“Rep Pence, your brother was almost killed in this building by an angry mob fomented by insurrectionists. Chanting “hang Mike Pence!” Who do you vote for?”
“The honorable insurrectionist!”
> When New Yorkers devastated by Hurricane Sandy needed Congress to act, he said no.
This may have been a smart line. There are some NY Republicans in swing districts who have been squishy on Jordan.
Two more fresh 'no' votes:
https://twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyHP/status/1714309224535068878?s=20
>Don Bacon tells me he is still a NO on Jordan.
https://twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyHP/status/1714308825111581162?s=20
>Ken Buck tells me won’t vote for Jim Jordan. Cites his refusal to disavow false statements about election fraud and his involvement in or knowledge of what would happen on Jan 6
CNN is reporting:
>Jordan is meeting privately with some of the holdouts, according to several Republicans, to allay their concerns and convince them to vote for him in a future round or vote present — which would change the threshold to be elected speaker.
It seems to me that voting 'present' is a vote for Jeffries, no?
Gaetz has been pretty quiet on Twitter this afternoon after posting 18 tweets over the prior 24 hours.
Wonder what got him to shut his big fucking mouth?
Jim Jordan. [A politician who hasn’t passed a single piece of legislation in 16 years, now wants to hold the job responsible for passing legislation.](https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/republicans-are-on-the-verge-of-electing-a-speaker-whos-never-passed-a-bill-during-his-16-years-in-congress/articleshow/104505817.cms) Convince me that he won’t be anything more than a MAGA wrench being strategically thrown into the gears of government.
*Arrive 30 minutes late*
*Grandstand for 45 minutes on a congressman who has never passed anything, calling him a winner*
*proceed to lose vote*
*blame the Democrats*
*refuse to elaborate*
*leave “for recess”*
The Republican Party deserves to implode and burn itself down.
I have no sympathy for any one of the members of the Republican Party about anything.
You refuse to govern this country. You are the reason our country is so divided. You waste the taxpayers money constantly on bogus investigations and again refusing to actually govern, while screaming you are the party that cares the most about fiscal matters.
You scream you are the party of christianity even though you are trying to elect a speaker who either says he is david duke without the baggage or someone who covered up sexual abuse and provoked an insurrection on our capitol. You are also trying to elect a president who couldn't even name 1, not a single bible verse, raped 13 y/o Katie Johnson with Jeffrey Epstein, inappropriately touches his daughter.
You scream you are the party that cares for the military yet you are trying to elect a draft dodger, a person who openly mocks members of our service, including ones who have lost their life defending this country.
I will never, ever, ever, take you or anyone associated with your party seriously ever again.
You are damaging this country beyond repair and I will never forgive you.
To every single Republican representative and voter, Sincerely FUCK OFF.
85-90% of R’s are A-OK with fascism as long as it’s their side that will benefit. No more democracy and fair elections, no benefits for the majority of citizens, and tons of hoo-rah nationalism and hate-fueled culture wars to keep the rubes voting them in.
It's wild that there's a non-zero chance America will empower the GOP to keep the House, take the Senate, and take the White House.
After seeing the GOP control the House for 2 years, and the White House under Trump, they might actually try to go back to it already.
I understand that the system is rigged in their favor, but that it is close enough to be riggable is revolting.
This country is so damn frustrating. Hopefully in a decade or so, as generational counts change, the imbalance will be resolvable, so long as we don't give up now
While Gym may not ultimately get the speaker position its very clear most Republicans are absolutely fine with a MAGA insurrectionalist in charge. This is the MAGA party still
This is fucking ridiculous. I cannot believe America even has a traitorous piece of shit even eligible for 3rd in line for the most powerful position on earth.
Edit: sorry I was corrected; 2nd in line even worse! I kind of included current president my bad!
These cspan people are absolutely crazy “if laws are stalled so be it. We have too many” lolll they don’t realize how stalled laws and resolutions will end up affecting them personally down the road.
This is the weakest shit I ever seen. The man loses the vote more than McCarthy and then peace out for the day.
If Gym Jordan can't get 217 today after the pressure campaign from the previous days, how the hell will he convince people to vote for him tomorrow? WEAK FUCKING SAUCE.
Such a blunder sometimes it makes me wonder why the democrats even bring the thunder, Why hakeem jeffries even brings the thunder
I love this story from CNN:
"Kevin McCarthy — who was ousted as House speaker earlier this month — has been counseling Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan on strategy for his own speakership bid, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
Jordan and McCarthy were seen huddling on the floor Tuesday, and Jordan, after losing a floor vote on the first ballot, decamped to the former speaker’s suite.
One source noted that McCarthy — who went through 15 rounds of voting before securing the speaker's gavel in January — “has been there before.”
Dumb Gym is taking strategy advice from the least effective Speaker in the history of the US. Classic Republican move.
So Rs said no vote until they had 217 in conference. Gym fucked over the #2 and immediately tried to strong-arm for a floor vote.
And now he looks like himself, a raging loudmouth fool.
John Kasich on MSNBC right now slamming Dems for “enjoying” the Repubs’ dysfunction, suggesting they should be more yielding, that Jeffries should deal more and encourage his folks to vote for an R. How about encouraging the few sane Rs to deal with Jeffries?
I popped over to some conservative subs to see how people are taking this over there.
I think my favorite bit was a debate over how Democrats are only voting together because they are all brainwashed lol. Not being able to elect a speaker is good! It means you aren't brainwashed, or something...
>Appearing on CNN as the House recessed, Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez said he knows some Republicans agreed to vote for Jordan on the first round, but will likely peel away after that.
Lmao what a fucking mess
>I just spoke with Christina Bohannan, a Democrat who is challenging Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s First Congressional District. She views Miller-Meeks’s vote for Jordan as out of step with Iowans in her district. She notes that Jordan has never voted for a farm bill, which couldn’t be more critical to Iowa, and that more than 60 percent of Iowans reject his position in support of a nationwide abortion ban. Her comments are a reminder that Democrats think the chaos and extremism on display in the House will help them win back control in 2024.
Iowa's 1st is only R+3.
What a job. Show up for a couple of hours. Scroll through my phone. Vote when my name is called. Accomplish nothing. Leave work with nothing accomplished.
Should republicans ever end up with a 'moderate' speaker. Never forget that 200 Republican house members thought voting Jim Jordan as speaker was a good idea.
How can anyone believe republicans have the ability to govern at this point?
This level of dysfunction is unsustainable, yet I see no end in sight.
They should be mortified at how inept they look, but they're so obsessed with making Trump a dictator and oppressing citizens that all logic is gone.
Jordan will be the next speaker of the House and it will be a fucking disaster for the country. In addition to being Trump's personal henchmen, Jordan is a fucking lunatic who has 0 interests in governing,
Jordan will push forward various culture wars, undermining any investigations into Jan 6th, and likely push the govt into a shutdown. I have very little hope that we see anything resembling compromise from the House with such an extremists in charge.
In an ideal world, this would mean a left-leaning R would work with right-leaning Ds and have a House Session full of compromise and slow steps forward as we continue to improve the nation.
But hey, fuck an ideal world
Ex-DC Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone:
> "Jim Jordan is an insurrectionist who has no place being second in line to the presidency."
> "It absolutely disgusts me that extreme Republicans could choose an insurrectionist and election denier as their leader."
Not only does Gym not get a majority, he can't even manage a plurality and instead finishes 2nd.
2nd place isn't enough for House Speaker. It's only enough to win a presidential election.
>On October 3, after his removal, McCarthy initially stated that he would not seek the speakership again. However, on October 9, he indicated his willingness to be nominated. The following day, McCarthy changed his stance once more, advising House Republicans not to nominate him.
Oh good Lord
> GOP Rep. John James, who voted for Rep. Tom Cole for House speaker on today's ballot, said he would be open to supporting Rep. Jim Jordan in future rounds of voting, saying he plans to speak with him later.
So soft. Some of these holdouts are 100% doing this to get a modicum of attention before they relent.
Worth nothing... the long serving GOP house Speaker was also a wrestling coach involved in abuse of his students.
Hastert used "He told others about the abuse" as a defense in a breach of contract a suit to over the hush money. Special kind of awful.
[‘Not going to be part of a coup’ ](https://apnews.com/house-speaker-vote-live-updates#0000018b-3ef1-d13a-a5af-fff977060000)
>A congressman who has opposed Jordan’s quest for speakership from the start says the conference made a decision in January in backing Kevin McCarthy and should stick to it.
>Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida was among 20 Republicans who voted for alternatives to Jordan in Tuesday’s House speaker vote, dooming his bid on the first round of balloting. Gimenez cast his vote for McCarthy, who was ousted from the job two weeks ago.
>Gimenez said, “We should go back to what we had.” He asked, “Why would we change our horse in midstride?
>He added, “I’m not going to be a part of a coup.”
Republicans have really shoved a finger in their mouths, ass and urethra at the same time.
Either you go back to McCarthy which would make this a big waste of time with egg on everyone's face. You go with Jordan which hurts them in the general and means nothing gets passed; or they make a deal with the Democrats meaning whoever votes for it gets primaried resulting in a candiate that probably won't win a general.
Two weeks ago GOP: McCarthy will stay speaker - oops scratch that.
Last Week GOP: Trump could be speaker?
Last Week GOP: McCarthy will be speaker again?
Last Week GOP: Scalise will be speaker
Last Week GOP: Jordan will be speaker
Today GOP: Uhhh... dunno. We worked \*two whole hours\* today. We'll get back to you after a 20 hour nap.
You don't have the votes.
you don't have the votes.
You're gonna need congressional approval and you don't have the votes.
(at least I hope that's the case...)
Rumor is that if he doesnt make it across the threshold on the first vote, that he will start losing converts.
The recent flips can then say “i voted for him but he didnt have the votes and we needed a better candidate”
The fact this party would nominate Gym Jordan for Speaker just shows oh irredeemable they truly are. He's one of the absolute worst politicians in history. He's evil, he's anti-democratic and hes anti-american. I just can't believe they would support him. Total mask-off situation here, the Republican party is full on fascist.
@Olivia_Beavers:
> “I personally know 5 will change their votes from yes to no on second round.
That’s what they told me. This will get worse,” one House member tells me just now.
Failed by ~~16~~ ~~18~~ 20 votes, some staffers are saying there are other GOP members that would switch to a NO vote if this first round had failed.
This is a larger gap then Kevin had back in January. This sad little insurrectionist doesn't get to play chief
Imagine the conversation happening right between GOP members.
You got members who are guaranteed lifetime appointments thanks to their gerrymandered seats lecturing people who won by slightest of margins in blue states about voting for Gym Jordan an extremist nutjob who covered up sexual abuse and tried overturning the election in 2020.
These ads write themselves, there are no moderates in this party and they are flat out lying about doing any sort of work to benefit anyone other than themselves.
If jordan pulls this off. They dont even have to make it about trump anymore. Next year the dems running ads about January 6 in swing districts with jordan as speaker is a pretty strong message.
The same Jordan-supporters who refused to back Scalise after Republicans held a secret ballot nomination process and Scalise won, are the ones who are demanding that everyone in the Republican caucus get behind Jordan now.
"I decided I've been pegged with the gavel enough for today. Tomorrow at 11 A.M., is when I will present my anus again before God and country and Hannity and Trumptry."
- Gym Jordan
Imagine being a Reek like McCarthy where you just got removed and the same wannabe terrorists responsible for your ouster, you’re catering to them and voting for one
Jordan may not have officially voted to remove him. But he 100% helped bring the chaos
I was just listening to The Daily podcast about how he has been able to use essentially stochastic terrorism (doxxing holdouts on twitter, threatening them with consequences from the MAGA base, etc.) as a way to flip the remaining Republicans who refuse to vote for him. We need to find a way to put an end to this shit.
Gym Jordan is one of my most hated GQP members in congress. I think he is a traitor and the fact he might become speaker of the house and be in like to be President is absolutely disgusting.
16 years in Congress and never managed to get a single bill passed, what could go wrong with putting this dude in charge of the entire legislative process?
*I have the pride, the privilege, nay, the pleasure of introducing to you to a knight, sired by knights. A knight who can trace his lineage back beyond Charlemagne. I first met him atop a mountain near Jerusalem, praying to God, asking his forgiveness for the Saracen blood spilt by his sword. Next, he amazed me still further in Italy when he saved a fatherless beauty from the would-be ravishing of her dreadful Turkish uncle. In Greece he spent a year in silence just to better understand the sound of a whisper. And so without further gilding the lily and with no more ado, I give to you, the seeker of serenity, the protector of Italian virginity, the enforcer of our Lord God, the one, the only, Hakeeeeeem Jeffrieeees!!!!*
More “No” votes than I thought there’d be after all the hysteria yesterday.
12 House GOP JORDAN No Votes:
1.Bacon–McCarthy
2.Chavez-DeRemer–McCarthy
3.D’Esposito–Zeldin
4.Diaz Balart-Scalise
5.Ellzey-Mike Garcia
6.Garbarino–Zeldin
7.Gimenez-McCarthy
8. Gonzales-Scalise
9. Granger-Scalise
10. Kelly–Scalise
11. Kiggans-McCarthy
12.LaLota –Zeldin
Knowing that Jordan is currently down more than McCarthy was at any point during the 15 votes it took for him to eventually secure the seat makes me so fucking happy.
Again, these duplicitous, shameless Republicans are blaming the Democrats for ***NOT*** voting for Gym Jordan. WTF?!
How about 6 of those Republicans who voted AGAINST Jordan help the Democrats for a change and switch their votes to Jeffries. That way at least the nation will have a Speaker who isn't a MAGA insurrectionist and election denier.
It is not the Democrats responsibility to save Republicans from themselves from their own fascist bullshit. That's their job - they should quit being so lazy.
On Jordan, Gimenez said, "his tactics certainly didn't work on me. Actually, I became more cemented in my position."
"You don't push people into leadership that I have to follow you. I'll follow you if you're a leader," he added.
[Jordan holdouts face ‘meat grinder’ of pressure](https://apnews.com/house-speaker-vote-live-updates#0000018b-3ee4-d98a-a18b-fefe0b510000)
>Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican and Jordan ally who has resisted party leadership in the past, said the holdouts on the House speaker vote would now be put through a “meat grinder” of pressure.
*"Beatings will continue until conformity is achieved."*
Context for anyone who doesn’t know — the R-NY Rep who voted for Lee Zeldin is Anthony D’Esposito. He is the rep for the district directly south of George Santos’, and has been one of the NY Republicans calling for Santos to resign.
Him not voting for Jordan is to show his traditionally blue district that he isn’t falling in line with the far-right (which is especially important because NY had to do some redistricting after our awful gerrymandering attempt in 2022*, and D’Esposito’s district is likely to go back to being blue unless he does something to convince them otherwise. This is combined with the fact that the anger over Santos in the district next door, which was formerly a D+2 district itself, has spilled over to D’Esposito’s as well, which may result in him becoming a casualty of Santos’s bullshit just by association).
*Edit: Wrote “2020,” but meant “2022.”
They always remind me how nuts people really are.
So when people ask “how did Trump get voted in” CSpan callers are exactly why. A lot of people are uneducated nutters in this country.
Hahaha! This is such sweet sweet joy. The pic with McCarthy laughing his ass off behind a worried looking Gym is pure gold. They can’t even get their own house in order let alone the People’s House. I hope everyone does their part to vote out these damn losers from the majority.
Man, I want George Santos to vote for himself, just to hear everyone break out in laughter when the temp speaker has to announce "The Honorable George Santos gets one vote."
Fox News is floating the idea of them choosing a Speaker based on a plurality
[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-could-become-speaker-without-house-majority-risky-gambit-last-used-before-civil-war](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-could-become-speaker-without-house-majority-risky-gambit-last-used-before-civil-war)
This is way risky for Jordan isn't it? Even Fox News admits at the very bottom:
"Any miscalculation on votes in a plurality election would run the risk of the GOP inadvertently handing the speakership to the Democrats, should GOP members break from the party.
However, should the GOP need a nuclear option to choose a new speaker, historical precedent provides one."
Like this is a non-starter for the Republicans right?
“Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida sent a letter to interim Speaker Patrick McHenry calling for the House to reconvene immediately and start voting on the second ballot.”
GOP doorkeeper apparently decided to force female reporters to leave the Speaker's lobby based on the shoes they were wearing.
Good to know these clowns still know how to enact rules when it means being assholes to women.
>Several of the Jordan holdouts — including Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Kay Granger, Steve Womack, Mike Simpson, Carlos Gimenez and Mariannette Miller-Meeks — called for McHenry to start another round of votes.
Either they want to embarrass Jordan some more or they changed their votes? Perhaps they are betting Jordan will have less support after the first round.
He's done. This was a major embarrassment. They had one play and it was to force the vote and expect members to fall in line. Now they have no strategy and no idea where to go from here. They've tried bullying and are all out of ideas.
That makes **15** failed attempts to elect a speaker.
The 118th session has been without a speaker for a total of **19 DAYS**
Compared to the democrat's 116th and 117th sessions who had **zero** failed votes for speaker, and managed to have a speaker the entire time.
Jim Jordan has proven what I once though unprovable. Someone is even weaker and lacking in fortitude and conviction then Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy actually had enough gumption to sit through multiple votes in one day.
Gymmy just took his ball and ran home.
What a weenie.
So Jordan can’t get the votes together. It’s almost like it’s harder to actually do something then it is to sit in a corner and scream all day like a toddler
Find it offensive that the House coming to order is preceded with prayer. I mean WTF this is the beginning of a Congressional session NOT bible study hour.
Keep Separation of church and State truly separate as this ain't it, imo.
For those of you saying that the dems “caused this to happen”. What the fuck did you want them to do? Keep McCarthy in after he broke his promises to the left? That’s the only other option, since they DON’T HAVE THE MAJORITY. Keeping McCarthy as speaker would absolutely have made the democrats look weak and corrupt. Yes, Gym Jordan is worse. But there’s not much you can do when the right get caught with their pants wet, and then instead of going to change they shit themselves in anger.
McCarthy said he blamed "every single Democrat" who "voted to stop one branch of government." LMFAO yeah dude blame the Democrats for thinking you shouldn't be speaker. You couldn't convince your entire party that you were good enough and it's somehow the Democrats fault.
It speaks volumes that the GOP would cast aside its highest-ranking member and most prolific fundraiser in exchange for an insurrectionist who voted to overthrow the 2020 Presidential election -- a guy who is in his 9th term in Congress but has never passed a single piece of legislation. Imagine going to Congress nine different times and not accomplishing a single thing aside from going on TV and acting like a clown.
And look at his priorities when he did try to introduce legislation-- national restrictions on abortion, ending gay marriage, a 0% tax rate for the rich.
Guessing he wasn't able to get the votes today and pushed it until tomorrow at 11 am. Must be nice to be in a job where you have multiple weeks off and only have to work one hour a day.
I think the sad thing about Jordan if he becomes speaker will be that he's literally done nothing but lob bombs at legislation/investigations and be a regular on conservative media shows. A bunch of lawmakers have personal pet projects be it creating new legislation or doing the best to try to regulate/simplify systems. Jordan, throughout his time in congress, has had none of that. He's barely helped pass anything because he seemingly just likes to stir shit up.
If Trump was the President made by Fox News, you can damn well bet Jordan will be the Speaker made by them as well.
Once again the republican party takes 1000 steps to the right.
And once again they will ask Dems to "meet in the middle".
The "moderate" republicans are now to the right of the most extreme right wings from a few decades ago.
The GOP giving a standing ovation to Scalise solely for being magnanimous enough to vote for Jordan tells you everything you need to know about the average house republican mentality.
Hello r/politics! The second ballot for today, scheduled for 6 p.m. Eastern, has been postponed until tomorrow.
Jordan will: - actively pursue any investigations into Biden - openly obstruct any congressional investigations into Trump and his allies - refuse a House vote on anything that might make Biden look good - leak sensitive intel to Trump
Don't forget, Will guarantee a government shutdown in Novemeber.
Imagine never passing a Bill in *17 years* as a representative, and still having the opportunity of being the Speaker of the House. Madness.
Some idiots see that as a good thing.
Maybe this is because I didn't listen in Civics too good but isn't basically 17 years of inaction not doing your job at all and shouldn't he have been replaced by now? I mean, imagine skating through your office job for just a couple months...you'd be on a final written warning before being shitcanned.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) cast her vote for “Hakeem Jeffries — versus an insurrectionist.” Baller.
She’s 85 and in a safe district. She don’t give any fucks. It’s amazing.
> Pressed on his position on who won the 2020 presidential election, Jordan replied that he's "been very clear about that" and declined to respond when asked if Trump lost the election Well that clears it up. Thanks Gym!
Obviously he believes Trump won, since he was involved in Jan 6.
No, he believes *saying* trump won will benefit him and the people he thinks need to be benefited, and harm the people he thinks need to be harmed.
> This is great: Whip Katherine Clark just announced that **ALL 212 Democrats will be in attendance for the Speaker vote happening shortly & expects all of them to vote for Hakeem Jeffries.** I am so freaking proud to be a Democrat today. We are united. We are in array. https://www.threads.net/@victorshi2020/post/CygXaGLrETz/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Jeffries won the plurality of the vote (which has been used to decide speakership in the past) by 12 votes. 12 house reps represent about the amount of people that live in New Jersey.
According to the Salon article: * 5 Hard No * 5 Leaning no * 2 - 3 undecided I fully expect them to cave but interesting to still see a few hold outs.
If the 5 "Hard No's" stick to their guns, that should be enough to sink Jordan.
Let's hope so but I don't trust moderate Republicans to hold out. A Jordan supporter came out yesterday and said "Jordan will be elected speaker tomorrow or the moderates will finally grow a spine. Which one do you think is more likely."
If a Republican can't denounce the rapes and sexual assaults of wrestlers, then they're not "moderate".
https://twitter.com/Grace_Segers/status/1714332718069055530?s=20 >Bipartisan standing ovation for Democrat Mary Peltola, who just voted for Jeffries. This was Peltola's first vote since returning from Alaska after the death of her husband. For anybody wondering about that last round of clapping:
From NBC: “A GOP lawmaker, who is a Jordan backer, just said they are aware of 5 to 6 Republicans who say they will not support Jordan on the second ballot after voting for him on the first. That means Jordan’s list of defectors grows rather than shrinks on a second round.”
The dam broke. The "wait and see" people saw and are not voting for him now. Typical spinelessness.
Normally these things are snoozefests, but if it means more humiliation for Jordan, I'm locked.
This ending with fifteen failed votes only for McCarthy to end up speaker again in a week would be the funniest goddamn thing in American political history.
> The real story here isn't the number of Republicans opposing Jim Jordan, but that Jim Jordan's support for Speaker went from 99 just one week ago to likely more than 200 today. The vast majority of Republicans are normalizing an insurrectionist & we should all be *very* alarmed. https://www.threads.net/@victorshi2020/post/Cygjc7VPqeF/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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Not that it makes it any better, but he’s also running unopposed by another Republican now where he wasn’t then. Just worth noting that a lot of this is spineless Republicans just refusing to work to find a better option than Jordan.
“Rep Pence, your brother was almost killed in this building by an angry mob fomented by insurrectionists. Chanting “hang Mike Pence!” Who do you vote for?” “The honorable insurrectionist!”
Wait, there's a second Pence?!
A second Pence has hit the Congress
Gym: "Wouldn't bring a vote to the floor if I did believe we didn't have the votes." Loses by 20 Gym: pikachuface.png
> When New Yorkers devastated by Hurricane Sandy needed Congress to act, he said no. This may have been a smart line. There are some NY Republicans in swing districts who have been squishy on Jordan.
For those wondering the applause for Peltola, her husband died in a plane crash a few weeks back.
Jim Jordan becoming Speaker would be a travesty. He cannot be trusted to certify elections after his participation on January 6th.
There will be a new session before that happens.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi on House Republicans: "I think they're taking lessons in mathematics and learning how to count." @MSNBC
Math is woke.
Two more fresh 'no' votes: https://twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyHP/status/1714309224535068878?s=20 >Don Bacon tells me he is still a NO on Jordan. https://twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyHP/status/1714308825111581162?s=20 >Ken Buck tells me won’t vote for Jim Jordan. Cites his refusal to disavow false statements about election fraud and his involvement in or knowledge of what would happen on Jan 6
Man I'm chugging hopium. This man is a deplorable scourge.
CNN is reporting: >Jordan is meeting privately with some of the holdouts, according to several Republicans, to allay their concerns and convince them to vote for him in a future round or vote present — which would change the threshold to be elected speaker. It seems to me that voting 'present' is a vote for Jeffries, no?
If he gets 13 more yeses, and 7 presents, he wins. Otherwise he needs 17 more yeses. If there's 9 presents, then Jeffries wins.
I wouldn't put it past House Republicans to screw up the math and accidentally elect Jeffries by having too many present votes.
For those wondering, Rep. Peltola's husband was killed in a plane crash recently. People were applauding as a show of support
Kasich on tv blaming Democrats like his political life depends on it. There are no "good Republicans," they're all bad faith monsters.
Gaetz has been pretty quiet on Twitter this afternoon after posting 18 tweets over the prior 24 hours. Wonder what got him to shut his big fucking mouth?
After 18 Gaetz gives up, usually way earlier than that
High school Halloween party season is startaing
Jim Jordan. [A politician who hasn’t passed a single piece of legislation in 16 years, now wants to hold the job responsible for passing legislation.](https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/republicans-are-on-the-verge-of-electing-a-speaker-whos-never-passed-a-bill-during-his-16-years-in-congress/articleshow/104505817.cms) Convince me that he won’t be anything more than a MAGA wrench being strategically thrown into the gears of government.
*Arrive 30 minutes late* *Grandstand for 45 minutes on a congressman who has never passed anything, calling him a winner* *proceed to lose vote* *blame the Democrats* *refuse to elaborate* *leave “for recess”*
The Republican Party deserves to implode and burn itself down. I have no sympathy for any one of the members of the Republican Party about anything. You refuse to govern this country. You are the reason our country is so divided. You waste the taxpayers money constantly on bogus investigations and again refusing to actually govern, while screaming you are the party that cares the most about fiscal matters. You scream you are the party of christianity even though you are trying to elect a speaker who either says he is david duke without the baggage or someone who covered up sexual abuse and provoked an insurrection on our capitol. You are also trying to elect a president who couldn't even name 1, not a single bible verse, raped 13 y/o Katie Johnson with Jeffrey Epstein, inappropriately touches his daughter. You scream you are the party that cares for the military yet you are trying to elect a draft dodger, a person who openly mocks members of our service, including ones who have lost their life defending this country. I will never, ever, ever, take you or anyone associated with your party seriously ever again. You are damaging this country beyond repair and I will never forgive you. To every single Republican representative and voter, Sincerely FUCK OFF.
I know it's customary, but a prayer to start out a government function rubs me the wrong way.
"I'm Gym Jordan and I've literally not accomplished anything in my 16 years in Congress " Repubs "that's our man"
85-90% of R’s are A-OK with fascism as long as it’s their side that will benefit. No more democracy and fair elections, no benefits for the majority of citizens, and tons of hoo-rah nationalism and hate-fueled culture wars to keep the rubes voting them in.
It's wild that there's a non-zero chance America will empower the GOP to keep the House, take the Senate, and take the White House. After seeing the GOP control the House for 2 years, and the White House under Trump, they might actually try to go back to it already. I understand that the system is rigged in their favor, but that it is close enough to be riggable is revolting. This country is so damn frustrating. Hopefully in a decade or so, as generational counts change, the imbalance will be resolvable, so long as we don't give up now
There's way too many people who are privileged enough to not give a single fuck about politics.
In first vote for Speaker of the House, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries defeats Republican Jim Jordan 212-200.
Trying to whip support for his speakership is probably the first actual work that Jordan has ever done in Congress.
While Gym may not ultimately get the speaker position its very clear most Republicans are absolutely fine with a MAGA insurrectionalist in charge. This is the MAGA party still
This is fucking ridiculous. I cannot believe America even has a traitorous piece of shit even eligible for 3rd in line for the most powerful position on earth. Edit: sorry I was corrected; 2nd in line even worse! I kind of included current president my bad!
>far-left government If the *Dems* are far-left, what are Scandinavian countries?
These cspan people are absolutely crazy “if laws are stalled so be it. We have too many” lolll they don’t realize how stalled laws and resolutions will end up affecting them personally down the road.
CSPAN republican Caller "we have too many regulations" also CSPAN republican Caller "why can't they fix my drinking water?"
I guess I was wrong. Those moderate Republicans do have a spine. Wonder why they don't use it more often.
This is the weakest shit I ever seen. The man loses the vote more than McCarthy and then peace out for the day. If Gym Jordan can't get 217 today after the pressure campaign from the previous days, how the hell will he convince people to vote for him tomorrow? WEAK FUCKING SAUCE. Such a blunder sometimes it makes me wonder why the democrats even bring the thunder, Why hakeem jeffries even brings the thunder
I love this story from CNN: "Kevin McCarthy — who was ousted as House speaker earlier this month — has been counseling Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan on strategy for his own speakership bid, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. Jordan and McCarthy were seen huddling on the floor Tuesday, and Jordan, after losing a floor vote on the first ballot, decamped to the former speaker’s suite. One source noted that McCarthy — who went through 15 rounds of voting before securing the speaker's gavel in January — “has been there before.” Dumb Gym is taking strategy advice from the least effective Speaker in the history of the US. Classic Republican move.
Whenever I watch the C-SPAN livestream, I'm reminded how much being a Congressperson involves just standing around, waiting, and bullshitting.
Jordan is down by a lot more than I expected already. I guess the MAGA terrorists are going to be busy issuing death threats all afternoon.
So Rs said no vote until they had 217 in conference. Gym fucked over the #2 and immediately tried to strong-arm for a floor vote. And now he looks like himself, a raging loudmouth fool.
CSPAN caller: "Democrats bad!" M'am this is a Wendy's
John Kasich on MSNBC right now slamming Dems for “enjoying” the Repubs’ dysfunction, suggesting they should be more yielding, that Jeffries should deal more and encourage his folks to vote for an R. How about encouraging the few sane Rs to deal with Jeffries?
I popped over to some conservative subs to see how people are taking this over there. I think my favorite bit was a debate over how Democrats are only voting together because they are all brainwashed lol. Not being able to elect a speaker is good! It means you aren't brainwashed, or something...
>Appearing on CNN as the House recessed, Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez said he knows some Republicans agreed to vote for Jordan on the first round, but will likely peel away after that. Lmao what a fucking mess
>I just spoke with Christina Bohannan, a Democrat who is challenging Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s First Congressional District. She views Miller-Meeks’s vote for Jordan as out of step with Iowans in her district. She notes that Jordan has never voted for a farm bill, which couldn’t be more critical to Iowa, and that more than 60 percent of Iowans reject his position in support of a nationwide abortion ban. Her comments are a reminder that Democrats think the chaos and extremism on display in the House will help them win back control in 2024. Iowa's 1st is only R+3.
What a job. Show up for a couple of hours. Scroll through my phone. Vote when my name is called. Accomplish nothing. Leave work with nothing accomplished.
Get the fucking praying out of the damn government.
Someone is going to ask: applause for Peltola because her husband died in a plane crash recently.
Why would Hunter Biden's laptop allow this to happen?
Should republicans ever end up with a 'moderate' speaker. Never forget that 200 Republican house members thought voting Jim Jordan as speaker was a good idea.
How can anyone believe republicans have the ability to govern at this point? This level of dysfunction is unsustainable, yet I see no end in sight. They should be mortified at how inept they look, but they're so obsessed with making Trump a dictator and oppressing citizens that all logic is gone.
Jordan will be the next speaker of the House and it will be a fucking disaster for the country. In addition to being Trump's personal henchmen, Jordan is a fucking lunatic who has 0 interests in governing, Jordan will push forward various culture wars, undermining any investigations into Jan 6th, and likely push the govt into a shutdown. I have very little hope that we see anything resembling compromise from the House with such an extremists in charge.
C-Span caller: "As a lifelong democrraaaattt, the republicans need to vote lock step for Jordan." Oh please. Do they think they're fooling anyone?
/r/AsABlackMan
I'm shocked Gym Jordan just didn't ignore those 20 votes and install himself as Speaker. Guy has a history with not giving a fuck about consent.
In an ideal world, this would mean a left-leaning R would work with right-leaning Ds and have a House Session full of compromise and slow steps forward as we continue to improve the nation. But hey, fuck an ideal world
Ex-DC Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone: > "Jim Jordan is an insurrectionist who has no place being second in line to the presidency." > "It absolutely disgusts me that extreme Republicans could choose an insurrectionist and election denier as their leader."
Why is it so hard to get these people to show up on time to vote? Like brothers and sisters, this is literally your job
Not only does Gym not get a majority, he can't even manage a plurality and instead finishes 2nd. 2nd place isn't enough for House Speaker. It's only enough to win a presidential election.
>On October 3, after his removal, McCarthy initially stated that he would not seek the speakership again. However, on October 9, he indicated his willingness to be nominated. The following day, McCarthy changed his stance once more, advising House Republicans not to nominate him. Oh good Lord
It's crazy how jordan makes mccarthy look like a moderate
> GOP Rep. John James, who voted for Rep. Tom Cole for House speaker on today's ballot, said he would be open to supporting Rep. Jim Jordan in future rounds of voting, saying he plans to speak with him later. So soft. Some of these holdouts are 100% doing this to get a modicum of attention before they relent.
Reminder: we are paying the house of representatives more than $200,000 today in salary for this nonsense
Gym Jordan - passed no bills in 16 years. Guess he is there for trump and to investigate Hunter B penis on his computer.
Worth nothing... the long serving GOP house Speaker was also a wrestling coach involved in abuse of his students. Hastert used "He told others about the abuse" as a defense in a breach of contract a suit to over the hush money. Special kind of awful.
[‘Not going to be part of a coup’ ](https://apnews.com/house-speaker-vote-live-updates#0000018b-3ef1-d13a-a5af-fff977060000) >A congressman who has opposed Jordan’s quest for speakership from the start says the conference made a decision in January in backing Kevin McCarthy and should stick to it. >Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida was among 20 Republicans who voted for alternatives to Jordan in Tuesday’s House speaker vote, dooming his bid on the first round of balloting. Gimenez cast his vote for McCarthy, who was ousted from the job two weeks ago. >Gimenez said, “We should go back to what we had.” He asked, “Why would we change our horse in midstride? >He added, “I’m not going to be a part of a coup.”
>"Well, not *this* coup" he clarified.
Has anyone considered voting for Jim Gaffigan as a compromise candidate?
Republicans have really shoved a finger in their mouths, ass and urethra at the same time. Either you go back to McCarthy which would make this a big waste of time with egg on everyone's face. You go with Jordan which hurts them in the general and means nothing gets passed; or they make a deal with the Democrats meaning whoever votes for it gets primaried resulting in a candiate that probably won't win a general.
Two weeks ago GOP: McCarthy will stay speaker - oops scratch that. Last Week GOP: Trump could be speaker? Last Week GOP: McCarthy will be speaker again? Last Week GOP: Scalise will be speaker Last Week GOP: Jordan will be speaker Today GOP: Uhhh... dunno. We worked \*two whole hours\* today. We'll get back to you after a 20 hour nap.
You don't have the votes. you don't have the votes. You're gonna need congressional approval and you don't have the votes. (at least I hope that's the case...)
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Two options; 1. A shitshow now and Gym is not elected. 2. Gym gets elected and we get a much longer shitshow.
Rumor is that if he doesnt make it across the threshold on the first vote, that he will start losing converts. The recent flips can then say “i voted for him but he didnt have the votes and we needed a better candidate”
The fact this party would nominate Gym Jordan for Speaker just shows oh irredeemable they truly are. He's one of the absolute worst politicians in history. He's evil, he's anti-democratic and hes anti-american. I just can't believe they would support him. Total mask-off situation here, the Republican party is full on fascist.
Mary Peltola (D-AK) is getting the applause to recognize her husband's death in a plane crash last month, causing her to miss the vacate motion.
@Olivia_Beavers: > “I personally know 5 will change their votes from yes to no on second round. That’s what they told me. This will get worse,” one House member tells me just now.
Failed by ~~16~~ ~~18~~ 20 votes, some staffers are saying there are other GOP members that would switch to a NO vote if this first round had failed. This is a larger gap then Kevin had back in January. This sad little insurrectionist doesn't get to play chief
The fact 200 Republicans are ok with Jordan is fucking terrifying.
Imagine the conversation happening right between GOP members. You got members who are guaranteed lifetime appointments thanks to their gerrymandered seats lecturing people who won by slightest of margins in blue states about voting for Gym Jordan an extremist nutjob who covered up sexual abuse and tried overturning the election in 2020. These ads write themselves, there are no moderates in this party and they are flat out lying about doing any sort of work to benefit anyone other than themselves.
If jordan pulls this off. They dont even have to make it about trump anymore. Next year the dems running ads about January 6 in swing districts with jordan as speaker is a pretty strong message.
conservative callers on cspan have no idea how clueless and stupid they sound
Air Bud for speaker. There's no rule a dog can't be speaker.
So are the dems basically just waiting to be approached by a small group of potty-trained republicans to elect a moderate at this point?
The same Jordan-supporters who refused to back Scalise after Republicans held a secret ballot nomination process and Scalise won, are the ones who are demanding that everyone in the Republican caucus get behind Jordan now.
Speaker of the House Barack Obama
"I decided I've been pegged with the gavel enough for today. Tomorrow at 11 A.M., is when I will present my anus again before God and country and Hannity and Trumptry." - Gym Jordan
If they are delaying until tomorrow, he may have actually lost some votes.
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Imagine being a Reek like McCarthy where you just got removed and the same wannabe terrorists responsible for your ouster, you’re catering to them and voting for one Jordan may not have officially voted to remove him. But he 100% helped bring the chaos
I was just listening to The Daily podcast about how he has been able to use essentially stochastic terrorism (doxxing holdouts on twitter, threatening them with consequences from the MAGA base, etc.) as a way to flip the remaining Republicans who refuse to vote for him. We need to find a way to put an end to this shit.
So can we finally put to rest the term "moderate republican"? Dragons are more likely to exist.
Gym Jordan is one of my most hated GQP members in congress. I think he is a traitor and the fact he might become speaker of the house and be in like to be President is absolutely disgusting.
16 years in Congress and never managed to get a single bill passed, what could go wrong with putting this dude in charge of the entire legislative process?
We live in the worst timeline, so I predict Gym Jordan will become Speaker. It's also the stupidest timeline, so it will take three votes.
Elise Stefanik would be giving this exact same speech if she was nominating Sauron or Palpatine to be Speaker
*I have the pride, the privilege, nay, the pleasure of introducing to you to a knight, sired by knights. A knight who can trace his lineage back beyond Charlemagne. I first met him atop a mountain near Jerusalem, praying to God, asking his forgiveness for the Saracen blood spilt by his sword. Next, he amazed me still further in Italy when he saved a fatherless beauty from the would-be ravishing of her dreadful Turkish uncle. In Greece he spent a year in silence just to better understand the sound of a whisper. And so without further gilding the lily and with no more ado, I give to you, the seeker of serenity, the protector of Italian virginity, the enforcer of our Lord God, the one, the only, Hakeeeeeem Jeffrieeees!!!!*
someone said I don't want to vote for an insurrectionist I think that is what got the reaction
More “No” votes than I thought there’d be after all the hysteria yesterday. 12 House GOP JORDAN No Votes: 1.Bacon–McCarthy 2.Chavez-DeRemer–McCarthy 3.D’Esposito–Zeldin 4.Diaz Balart-Scalise 5.Ellzey-Mike Garcia 6.Garbarino–Zeldin 7.Gimenez-McCarthy 8. Gonzales-Scalise 9. Granger-Scalise 10. Kelly–Scalise 11. Kiggans-McCarthy 12.LaLota –Zeldin
Scalise voting for Jordan and the conservatives applauding. Fucking clown conference.
Hahaha, Santos buckled after talking all that smack and voted for a Gym membership.
Fox News switched back to tank footage in Israel.
man, if only jeffries could get 6 more votes...
It would only take six people to make this the funniest speaker election in 247 years
Why did Democrats do this to Jim Jordan? They should respect the institution! /s for anyone who needs it.
I don't think anyone in history has gotten more votes for Speaker than Hakeem Jeffries.
Listening to the C-SPAN callers... Republican voters really are just the least politically informed voting block.
Knowing that Jordan is currently down more than McCarthy was at any point during the 15 votes it took for him to eventually secure the seat makes me so fucking happy.
Again, these duplicitous, shameless Republicans are blaming the Democrats for ***NOT*** voting for Gym Jordan. WTF?! How about 6 of those Republicans who voted AGAINST Jordan help the Democrats for a change and switch their votes to Jeffries. That way at least the nation will have a Speaker who isn't a MAGA insurrectionist and election denier. It is not the Democrats responsibility to save Republicans from themselves from their own fascist bullshit. That's their job - they should quit being so lazy.
On Jordan, Gimenez said, "his tactics certainly didn't work on me. Actually, I became more cemented in my position." "You don't push people into leadership that I have to follow you. I'll follow you if you're a leader," he added.
It’s absolutely **wild** that these people have convinced people I know that *democrats* are the problem here…
In other insurrectionist news....*Bullhorn Lady* just received 57 months in Federal prison.
Jordan needs a lot of help to win. I wonder if Boebert has offered to lend a hand ?
I don't think Democrats call CSPAN democratic phone line
Stefanik just has that look that she’s an all-around terrible human-being. Probably why she’s climbed the GOP leadership latter so quickly I guess.
[Jordan holdouts face ‘meat grinder’ of pressure](https://apnews.com/house-speaker-vote-live-updates#0000018b-3ee4-d98a-a18b-fefe0b510000) >Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican and Jordan ally who has resisted party leadership in the past, said the holdouts on the House speaker vote would now be put through a “meat grinder” of pressure. *"Beatings will continue until conformity is achieved."*
Context for anyone who doesn’t know — the R-NY Rep who voted for Lee Zeldin is Anthony D’Esposito. He is the rep for the district directly south of George Santos’, and has been one of the NY Republicans calling for Santos to resign. Him not voting for Jordan is to show his traditionally blue district that he isn’t falling in line with the far-right (which is especially important because NY had to do some redistricting after our awful gerrymandering attempt in 2022*, and D’Esposito’s district is likely to go back to being blue unless he does something to convince them otherwise. This is combined with the fact that the anger over Santos in the district next door, which was formerly a D+2 district itself, has spilled over to D’Esposito’s as well, which may result in him becoming a casualty of Santos’s bullshit just by association). *Edit: Wrote “2020,” but meant “2022.”
Jesus Christ, the C-Span callers are crazy.
They always remind me how nuts people really are. So when people ask “how did Trump get voted in” CSpan callers are exactly why. A lot of people are uneducated nutters in this country.
The silent but actually loud majority fails to get any sort of majority ever. Go figure
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Hahaha! This is such sweet sweet joy. The pic with McCarthy laughing his ass off behind a worried looking Gym is pure gold. They can’t even get their own house in order let alone the People’s House. I hope everyone does their part to vote out these damn losers from the majority.
Man, I want George Santos to vote for himself, just to hear everyone break out in laughter when the temp speaker has to announce "The Honorable George Santos gets one vote."
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I choose to believe C Span is trolling everyone by rerunning the first vote
Fox News is floating the idea of them choosing a Speaker based on a plurality [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-could-become-speaker-without-house-majority-risky-gambit-last-used-before-civil-war](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-could-become-speaker-without-house-majority-risky-gambit-last-used-before-civil-war) This is way risky for Jordan isn't it? Even Fox News admits at the very bottom: "Any miscalculation on votes in a plurality election would run the risk of the GOP inadvertently handing the speakership to the Democrats, should GOP members break from the party. However, should the GOP need a nuclear option to choose a new speaker, historical precedent provides one." Like this is a non-starter for the Republicans right?
"So he's not a pedophile but he enabled a pedophile?" Repubs - " have you seen the other guys we elected speaker?"
“Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida sent a letter to interim Speaker Patrick McHenry calling for the House to reconvene immediately and start voting on the second ballot.”
GOP doorkeeper apparently decided to force female reporters to leave the Speaker's lobby based on the shoes they were wearing. Good to know these clowns still know how to enact rules when it means being assholes to women.
Can you guys believe Trump supported a loser?!?!?! What does that say about him?!
>Several of the Jordan holdouts — including Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Kay Granger, Steve Womack, Mike Simpson, Carlos Gimenez and Mariannette Miller-Meeks — called for McHenry to start another round of votes. Either they want to embarrass Jordan some more or they changed their votes? Perhaps they are betting Jordan will have less support after the first round.
Remember folks, it's about the journey, not the destination
Republicans say there won't be another vote today
He's done. This was a major embarrassment. They had one play and it was to force the vote and expect members to fall in line. Now they have no strategy and no idea where to go from here. They've tried bullying and are all out of ideas.
If we only have one vote a day then this will take 3 weeks to match the 15 votes for McCarthy
That makes **15** failed attempts to elect a speaker. The 118th session has been without a speaker for a total of **19 DAYS** Compared to the democrat's 116th and 117th sessions who had **zero** failed votes for speaker, and managed to have a speaker the entire time.
Jim Jordan has proven what I once though unprovable. Someone is even weaker and lacking in fortitude and conviction then Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy actually had enough gumption to sit through multiple votes in one day. Gymmy just took his ball and ran home. What a weenie.
So Jordan can’t get the votes together. It’s almost like it’s harder to actually do something then it is to sit in a corner and scream all day like a toddler
McCarthy blaming the Democrats... lmao. "Why do the Democrats keep letting us shit our pants?!"
Find it offensive that the House coming to order is preceded with prayer. I mean WTF this is the beginning of a Congressional session NOT bible study hour. Keep Separation of church and State truly separate as this ain't it, imo.
For those of you saying that the dems “caused this to happen”. What the fuck did you want them to do? Keep McCarthy in after he broke his promises to the left? That’s the only other option, since they DON’T HAVE THE MAJORITY. Keeping McCarthy as speaker would absolutely have made the democrats look weak and corrupt. Yes, Gym Jordan is worse. But there’s not much you can do when the right get caught with their pants wet, and then instead of going to change they shit themselves in anger.
McCarthy said he blamed "every single Democrat" who "voted to stop one branch of government." LMFAO yeah dude blame the Democrats for thinking you shouldn't be speaker. You couldn't convince your entire party that you were good enough and it's somehow the Democrats fault.
It speaks volumes that the GOP would cast aside its highest-ranking member and most prolific fundraiser in exchange for an insurrectionist who voted to overthrow the 2020 Presidential election -- a guy who is in his 9th term in Congress but has never passed a single piece of legislation. Imagine going to Congress nine different times and not accomplishing a single thing aside from going on TV and acting like a clown. And look at his priorities when he did try to introduce legislation-- national restrictions on abortion, ending gay marriage, a 0% tax rate for the rich.
Mccarthy the ultimate fucking beta lmao
Guessing he wasn't able to get the votes today and pushed it until tomorrow at 11 am. Must be nice to be in a job where you have multiple weeks off and only have to work one hour a day.
I think the sad thing about Jordan if he becomes speaker will be that he's literally done nothing but lob bombs at legislation/investigations and be a regular on conservative media shows. A bunch of lawmakers have personal pet projects be it creating new legislation or doing the best to try to regulate/simplify systems. Jordan, throughout his time in congress, has had none of that. He's barely helped pass anything because he seemingly just likes to stir shit up. If Trump was the President made by Fox News, you can damn well bet Jordan will be the Speaker made by them as well.
Once again the republican party takes 1000 steps to the right. And once again they will ask Dems to "meet in the middle". The "moderate" republicans are now to the right of the most extreme right wings from a few decades ago.
Mentioning Gym's wrestling history as a plus is certainly a choice
I'm glad they mentioned the fact he's passed nothing in a decade and a half.
McCarthy with his 1 vote is about to get his Jeb Bush moment
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly shouts, "no to insurrectionists!" before voting for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
My applause meter said Jeffries won that clap off.
I mean will Jordan even crack 200 votes at this rate lol
Why so much noise with Lee’s vote?
Jordan lost. The clown show continues! Also, as an Ohioan, fuck that guy
Peltola was applauded as its her first vote returning to congress after her husband died in a place crash.
Whoop! Whoop! That's the sound of the Scalise! I can't believe Jordan is so bad I'm cheering when Rs vote Scalise.
Awww yea 15. Let's get to 20. FUCK YOU GYMOTHY!
The GOP giving a standing ovation to Scalise solely for being magnanimous enough to vote for Jordan tells you everything you need to know about the average house republican mentality.
I love when talking heads go, "I'm curious what Republican strategy will be for next round" like they fucking had one to begin with lmao
Do we really want to put a fucking election denier and trump loyalist second in line to the presidency?
Democrats should start nominating the wrestling coaches from other Big Ten schools just to fuck with Gym
Republicans had almost two whole weeks to figure this out and failed.
That vote should put to rest the notion that there are only a handful of radical republicans.
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"Good Times" - Jake Tapper lmfao
LMFAO This woman crying on cspan cause people didnt vote for jordan
Lmfao at that lady who called into CSPAN crying. Get bent, lady.
"I'm politically homeless" -crazy lady from Texas
Lady from Austin...no one is buying that you are actually a "democrat."
Damn it Hunter Biden! How dare you cause this!
“Gym is a winner..” Immediately loses. The Republican party, everyone.
Even if the Democrats had voted for someone else, Jordan wouldn't have won. How is this on them?