Republicans are asking their Twitter followers to help them decide who should replace Kevin McCarthy

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1. I guess the GOP party is now using the American Idol tactic.

   “Text your vote now!”

2. Boaty McBoatface

3. I vote for Hillary!

4. David Spade

5. Oprah Winfrey

6. So they’re asking Russian and Chinese trolls

7. Jon Stewart

8. This is how your paid, elected officials are running your government. Vote by Twitter. Ridiculous.

9. Because that’s all that matters to the modern Republican Party; theatrics.

   It’s all a reality show. Who gets voted off the island this week?

   It has nothing to do with actually helping people.

10. What happens if/when there are zero quality candidates?

11. Republicans can’t govern. They have devolved into a party of memes and “owning the libs”.

12. Honorable Speaker of the House, “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong” incoming.

    Never give anything to the internet to decide. Never.

13. Hakeem Jeffries

14. Maybe they should pray harder 🙏

15. “We don’t know what we’re doing. You do it for us”

16. OMFG. That’s their latest take on democracy? Ask a social media constituency, like a co-dependent who doesn’t want to get out of a narcissistic relationship?

    Maybe, instead, they should just send out a Google Form survey to send out to the entire U.S. population.

    But they’re not looking for a quality candidate by asking the “public” – especially *that* public (Twitter). It’s more performative BS. It’s an admission that they can’t discern a quality candidate amidst their own ranks.

17. Shouldn’t each be asking their own constituents who they are supposedly there to represent?

18. This is how you vote for the winner at Monster Jam. I’m not kidding.

19. So basically Russia.

20. What is this “Twitter” they speak of?

    Seriously, though, isn’t this what constituents are for?

21. The fact that they are asking the X interface and not their constituents is telling.

22. LOL, they are basically asking foreign controlled bots to decide for them.

23. Incredible. They vote out the speaker with no plan on what to do next. Like adolescents with oppositional defiance disorder

24. What are the options? Hitler? Satan? David Duke? Don Jnr? Sauron? Voldemort? Buford T Justice? Zuul?