Trump doesn’t have enough clout on Capitol Hill to make Jim Jordan the House speaker

by Bluerecyclecan

40 comments
  1. More and more people are coming to know what a lot of us have known all along. He’s a moron and a loser.

  2. He has as much clout as I do and I support Jordan being tarred and feathered..

  3. I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I think the problem is more Jordan’s idea of leadership is theater which would just make the House Republicans’ dysfunction even more visible.

  4. Hey, I’m all in on Jim Jordan being speaker. Fuck, I might even donate towards it.

    Not because I think he’s a good choice, oh no, that’d be my investment to the 2 years of entertainment where he would be even more of a clown in that position than he is right now. Not a single productive thing would get done while all they do is chase imaginary shadows.

  5. >Trump doesn’t have enough clout ~~on Capitol Hill to make Jim Jordan the House speaker~~

    FIFY

  6. No, but the Billionaires that are paying Republicans to create chaos, do.

  7. Lets check in with a couple billionaires, who are behind the scenes doling out money, and see who they decide is speaker…Pretty much what it is going to come down to.

  8. Part of the reason is fundraising. The speaker is normally the best with the purse strings and Trump has shown he will gladly bankrupt the party from his legal fees at the expense of the party. Remember when several state parties were broke from Trump election lawsuit defenses

  9. Yeah with Gaetz’s double endorsement of Jordan and Scalise, Scalise will be Speaker.

  10. Let’s hope so. Gym Jordan is the candidate you find after you have already dug a few feet below the barrel. He’s make the house an even bigger shit show. Not that scalise is much better.

  11. That would be like version #2 of Dennis Hastert. They never talk about him and there is a reason why. Go for it!

  12. Well Republicans…you’re really running out of chances to show us that you’re not completely under the thrall of this traitorous egomaniac…I personally don’t believe you have enough spine but would be happy to be proven wrong…

  13. Even the most moderate Republican is miles closer to Jim Jordan than Jefferies or any other dem.

    The republicans will elect Jordan to punish the Dems. I predict they will be unified on it. Which is fine with me because I think it’s a strategic mistake on their part.

  14. 🤦‍♂️ with the whole nuke sub bs, actual adults need to keep trump and any of his “loyalty” sworn people away from any government related activities.

  15. He only controls about 8 reps in the US house. Only 8 will follow his orders. There are over 400 house members.

    But with the GOP’s slim majority, Trump can have this handful of senators sabotage the house speaker vote.

  16. Secret ballot means gutless Republicans who’d otherwise be too cowardly to vote against Gymbo/Trump, aka Gump, publicly for fear of retaliation don’t have to worry as much about retribution. Of course there will probably be a lot of bullying of any Reps who don’t loudly endorse Gump

  17. He didn’t have enough votes to be president either, but here we are.

  18. I am pretty sure Jim Jordan is one of the dumbest fools in congress. I don’t think he even knows the process for introducing a bill. How on Earth is he going to perform as speaker?

  19. Why is this vote gonna be a secret ballot? Why wasn’t McCarthy’s.

  20. Who would’ve guessed that members of Congress don’t want to listen to the Russian oligarch who was impeached for trying to murder them?

  21. What’s the end game? 8, it was fucking 8 republicans that ousted McCarthy from Speaker and all the democrats saying, ok. There were 213 republicans voting to keep McCarthy, so what do they think 8 votes is going to do?

  22. The GOP is imploding
    They’re literally eating their own children

    Don’t say nothing is impossible.

  23. No one has the clout to make anyone speaker. That’s kinda the whole thing.

  24. That’s kinda misleading Jim Jordan doesn’t want to be speaker because that job sucks ass. It’s the worst Job in the country second to being Trump’s lawyer.

  25. I hope two things. I hope the republicans try can elect a reasonable republican that will at the least stick to the promises already made and fund the government without threating a shutdown and approve aid to Ukraine. I my second hope is that everyone remembers that what the MAGA republicans tried to do with the shutdown the republicans WILL do if they take congress and the white house and vote them out of power.

    There are elections in 31 days, vote. Show the republicans your displeasure at local and state elections this year.
    https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page
    https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar
    Call your representative and let them know that you want them to fund social security, food assistance and other social programs not cut them. Let them know you want to protect a woman’s right to chose and to protect minorities and the LGBTQ communities from discrimination not make it legal. Tell them to stop campaigning through legislation and do there jobs. Call your state representatives and tell them the same thing.
    https://www.house.gov/representatives

  26. Why is the dumbest person in Congress even being mentioned for speaker?

  27. Jordan the biggest treasonist in the House. How could anyone consider him?

  28. If Business Insider is saying this then the wealthy have soured on him.

    Bye Donnie.

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