Second speaker nominee of the day. Has to be some kind of record.
Mike Pillow is available.
Until Trump farts on a picture of him and the republicans treat it like the prophecy of the ancients.
Inb4 – “Mike Johnson has withdrawn…”
Just another Trump drone
It’s like a clown car.
He’s dropping out tomorrow. I’m calling it now.
Maybe they should just burn through the list of nominees alphabetically, you know, to render the ordeal less circus-like.
But who is the nominee going to be tomorrow morning?
Johnson received 128 votes in the final round with Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., getting 29.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., got 43 votes.
LOL THERE’S NO WAY THEY’RE GOING TO ELECT A SPEAKER BY THIS WEEK AT THIS RATE.
Another steps out of the GOP clown car attempting to look like a reasonable and fair choice for Speaker. Let’s see if the GOP have it in them to elect someone from their own party as the Speaker of the House.
They have got around 220 potential candidates… they might still have time to try them all before the elections next year.
Stephen Colbert, how could you?! You’re one of us.
> On Tuesday, as Johnson was in the running to be speaker, the political team of former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., circulated a New York Times article that called the Louisiana Republican “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections” on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power even though he lost.
This dude has no place being in Congress, let alone Speaker.
I give him approximately twelve Emmers.
Here we go again, folks.
So is this dude another election denier?
ETA: ah, yep, here we go:
> On Tuesday, as Johnson was in the running to be speaker, the political team of former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., circulated a New York Times article that called the Louisiana Republican “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections” on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power even though he lost.
> The Times reported last year that many Republicans who voted to discount pro-Biden electors cited an argument crafted by Johnson, which was to steer clear of the lies about mass fraud and instead hang the objection on the claim that certain states’ voting changes in the pandemic were unconstitutional.
Overseeing this group of fucking morons will make Speaker the worst job in the world and will likely be career ending. You better run!
This one will totally work, right?
Wake me up when they nominate LAMP
I LOVE LAMP
mike johnson is bad. very bad. he is openly pro independent state legislature theory. the horrible crackpot theory behind moore vs harper.
THAT WOULD BE VERY VERY BAD.
Mike Johnson. It’s like they’re just making up people now. Who’s next, John Smith?
There’s not even enough time to book the lettuce for a photo shoot before these guys drop out.
The jokes are funny but here are some important facts. This clown is just Jim Jordan lite.
* Signed Texas amicus brief
* Objected to certification of electoral college votes in one or more states
* Made false and/or irresponsible public statements against democratic system
* Voted against impeachment or conviction of Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection
* Voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack
* Voted against holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress
Another insurrectionist traitor.
Never give these people a majority again.
The irony of a guy who historically has not voted in favor of certifying the vote, now hoping enough people will vote him into power.
Bro do you want us to stop the count or no?
The Republicans are like me at the racetrack: pathetic, dysfunctional, and they can’t pick a winner.
Literally whomst?
Here’s the Republicans’ problem in a nutshell:
Either the representative they put forward is an election denier, or he isn’t.
If he’s an election denier, the sane branch of the party – I’m not lauding them, or anything, sane is a pretty low bar, or at least it should be – but the sane branch understands MAGA has gone as far as it will go and they will reject him.
But if he’s not an election denier, then Donald Trump will come out and pronounce himself against the nominee, which is enough to get quite a few of these representatives to instantly fall in line.
With their razor-thin margin, they are at an impasse.
The Republican Party is a piece of bread that has been cooked until it is dry and brownish.
It is attached together by a metal implement with a spiraling thread designed to lodge it solidly in a piece of wood.
Is this a real guy is just some generic white guy name?
Place your bets now on how many Emmers (4 hours) this guy lasts. I give him 4 Emmers at best and that is only because of the fact that they won’t start backup until in the morning.
Despite having no desire for the knowledge, I’ll know every Republican member of the House’s name before this whole crap show is through.
If he’s crazy, the sane people will oppose him, and if he’s sane, the crazy people will oppose him. It’s an impossible situation. The sane people have only themselves to blame for not pulling the crazies into line long ago.
MAGA ball licker who was heavily involved in trying to stop the electoral college vote certification in the 2020 election. This traitor can fuck right off.
This dude makes Kevin McCarthy look like a pragmatic centrist.
Ah, another election denier. Only 145 left to go.
Why don’t republicans attempt to elect a speaker that was not engaged in an insurrectionist coup plot against the United States government?
“Yet Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., one of the hardliners, said, ‘This is what democracy looks like.’”
Wait – we are a democracy now? I thought these hardliners claimed we were a Republic
Fuck this insurrectionist scum.
Simply stated, this show is to enable Yrump to control the House and protect him. Full stop. Not a theory, not a wild conspiracy fantasy, but a plain open effort.
At this rate, when will we get to George Santos for the Speaker?
My first reaction “So who’s this slapdick.”
I love how the conservatives are unwilling to consider forming a coalition with democrats because “the American people gave us the majority and we are respecting their wishes.”
They have a nine seat majority, hardly an overwhelming amount and nowhere near what I would consider a mandate. When you look at how disproportionate the rep to constituent ratio is in say Wyoming (1:189k) vs California (1:679k) they have an outsized role that should be smaller from the jump.
So tired of this minority rule.
It’s fascinating watching a major political party collapse in my lifetime, but it would be better if the economy health of the country wasn’t involved. Anyone want to re-register the Whigs and run?
At this rate, the GOP will have proposed all their house members for the speaker role. Can’t wait for Gaetz, Bobo or MTG to be nominated.
Not familiar with him, had to go to Wikipedia.
> An ideological member of the Christian right faction of the Republican Party,[1] Johnson is known for his strong opposition to legal abortion access, medical marijuana, and same-sex marriage.[2] In December 2020, Johnson signed an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. In January 2021, Johnson voted to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania.[3] Johnson has cultivated close ties to the fundamentalist Protestant groups Louisiana Family Forum, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Focus on the Family.[4][5] Prior to his career as a politician, he worked with them to “represent churches, pastors and congregants whose vision of religious freedom conflicted with government regulations”.[2] Johnson supports ending American military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.[2]
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Second speaker nominee of the day. Has to be some kind of record.
Mike Pillow is available.
Until Trump farts on a picture of him and the republicans treat it like the prophecy of the ancients.
Inb4 – “Mike Johnson has withdrawn…”
Just another Trump drone
It’s like a clown car.
He’s dropping out tomorrow. I’m calling it now.
Maybe they should just burn through the list of nominees alphabetically, you know, to render the ordeal less circus-like.
But who is the nominee going to be tomorrow morning?
Johnson received 128 votes in the final round with Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., getting 29.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., got 43 votes.
LOL THERE’S NO WAY THEY’RE GOING TO ELECT A SPEAKER BY THIS WEEK AT THIS RATE.
Another steps out of the GOP clown car attempting to look like a reasonable and fair choice for Speaker. Let’s see if the GOP have it in them to elect someone from their own party as the Speaker of the House.
They have got around 220 potential candidates… they might still have time to try them all before the elections next year.
Stephen Colbert, how could you?! You’re one of us.
> On Tuesday, as Johnson was in the running to be speaker, the political team of former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., circulated a New York Times article that called the Louisiana Republican “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections” on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power even though he lost.
This dude has no place being in Congress, let alone Speaker.
I give him approximately twelve Emmers.
Here we go again, folks.
So is this dude another election denier?
ETA: ah, yep, here we go:
> On Tuesday, as Johnson was in the running to be speaker, the political team of former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., circulated a New York Times article that called the Louisiana Republican “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections” on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power even though he lost.
> The Times reported last year that many Republicans who voted to discount pro-Biden electors cited an argument crafted by Johnson, which was to steer clear of the lies about mass fraud and instead hang the objection on the claim that certain states’ voting changes in the pandemic were unconstitutional.
Overseeing this group of fucking morons will make Speaker the worst job in the world and will likely be career ending. You better run!
This one will totally work, right?
Wake me up when they nominate LAMP
I LOVE LAMP
mike johnson is bad. very bad. he is openly pro independent state legislature theory. the horrible crackpot theory behind moore vs harper.
THAT WOULD BE VERY VERY BAD.
Mike Johnson. It’s like they’re just making up people now. Who’s next, John Smith?
There’s not even enough time to book the lettuce for a photo shoot before these guys drop out.
Who’s this jabroni
>[from CNN](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-vote-10-24-23/h_a6c959cd88782ea747ade51e4d53016c):
Rep. Drew Ferguson requested by unanimous consent to reveal who the “other” votes were on the second of the House Republican conference’s secret-ballots for speaker, according to sources in the room, and 33 out of 34 votes were for Kevin McCarthy, while one was for Jim Jordan.
The jokes are funny but here are some important facts. This clown is just Jim Jordan lite.
* Signed Texas amicus brief
* Objected to certification of electoral college votes in one or more states
* Made false and/or irresponsible public statements against democratic system
* Voted against impeachment or conviction of Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection
* Voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack
* Voted against holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress
Another insurrectionist traitor.
Never give these people a majority again.
The irony of a guy who historically has not voted in favor of certifying the vote, now hoping enough people will vote him into power.
Bro do you want us to stop the count or no?
The Republicans are like me at the racetrack: pathetic, dysfunctional, and they can’t pick a winner.
Literally whomst?
Here’s the Republicans’ problem in a nutshell:
Either the representative they put forward is an election denier, or he isn’t.
If he’s an election denier, the sane branch of the party – I’m not lauding them, or anything, sane is a pretty low bar, or at least it should be – but the sane branch understands MAGA has gone as far as it will go and they will reject him.
But if he’s not an election denier, then Donald Trump will come out and pronounce himself against the nominee, which is enough to get quite a few of these representatives to instantly fall in line.
With their razor-thin margin, they are at an impasse.
The Republican Party is a piece of bread that has been cooked until it is dry and brownish.
It is attached together by a metal implement with a spiraling thread designed to lodge it solidly in a piece of wood.
Is this a real guy is just some generic white guy name?
Place your bets now on how many Emmers (4 hours) this guy lasts. I give him 4 Emmers at best and that is only because of the fact that they won’t start backup until in the morning.
Despite having no desire for the knowledge, I’ll know every Republican member of the House’s name before this whole crap show is through.
If he’s crazy, the sane people will oppose him, and if he’s sane, the crazy people will oppose him. It’s an impossible situation. The sane people have only themselves to blame for not pulling the crazies into line long ago.
MAGA ball licker who was heavily involved in trying to stop the electoral college vote certification in the 2020 election. This traitor can fuck right off.
This dude makes Kevin McCarthy look like a pragmatic centrist.
Ah, another election denier. Only 145 left to go.
Why don’t republicans attempt to elect a speaker that was not engaged in an insurrectionist coup plot against the United States government?
“Yet Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., one of the hardliners, said, ‘This is what democracy looks like.’”
Wait – we are a democracy now? I thought these hardliners claimed we were a Republic
Fuck this insurrectionist scum.
Simply stated, this show is to enable Yrump to control the House and protect him. Full stop. Not a theory, not a wild conspiracy fantasy, but a plain open effort.
At this rate, when will we get to George Santos for the Speaker?
My first reaction “So who’s this slapdick.”
I love how the conservatives are unwilling to consider forming a coalition with democrats because “the American people gave us the majority and we are respecting their wishes.”
They have a nine seat majority, hardly an overwhelming amount and nowhere near what I would consider a mandate. When you look at how disproportionate the rep to constituent ratio is in say Wyoming (1:189k) vs California (1:679k) they have an outsized role that should be smaller from the jump.
So tired of this minority rule.
It’s fascinating watching a major political party collapse in my lifetime, but it would be better if the economy health of the country wasn’t involved. Anyone want to re-register the Whigs and run?
At this rate, the GOP will have proposed all their house members for the speaker role. Can’t wait for Gaetz, Bobo or MTG to be nominated.
Not familiar with him, had to go to Wikipedia.
> An ideological member of the Christian right faction of the Republican Party,[1] Johnson is known for his strong opposition to legal abortion access, medical marijuana, and same-sex marriage.[2] In December 2020, Johnson signed an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election. In January 2021, Johnson voted to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania.[3] Johnson has cultivated close ties to the fundamentalist Protestant groups Louisiana Family Forum, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Focus on the Family.[4][5] Prior to his career as a politician, he worked with them to “represent churches, pastors and congregants whose vision of religious freedom conflicted with government regulations”.[2] Johnson supports ending American military aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.[2]
Wonderful. Another trash human.