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Well, Kevin… at least you outlasted a head of lettuce.
26.9 Mooches.
The mooch scale loses it’s impact when the person doesn’t work for trump or report to him directly. Still, in gop land this sets a record for fewest mooches b4 Getting kicked to the curb as speaker.
Fucking hilarious that the Republicans brought up the downgraded credit rating that they caused and pin it on Diamond Joe lmao.
Fucking scum bags.
The one thing Republican Kevin McCarthy dared to do that was over-the-line was to work with Democrats to avert shutdown for the sake of the country. But that was too much for the right-wing extremists, who caused this in the first place…
But then they voted with the Democrats to oust McCarthy…
I don’t understand what you’re saying. Yes, they voted with Democrats to remove him. That’s the entire context for my comment: they didn’t like that he dared to work with Democrats (for one moment) to avert a government shutdown.
As for Democrats, they have learned that they can’t trust him as he’s gone back on his word and agreements multiple times, as Pramila Jayapal said in her statement.
They are trying hard to pin blame on all this “chaos” on Democrats. Nobody is buying it.
Something like 40% of the electorate is completely bought into this.
It’s more than that. Gallup just released pool results that make it look like Republicans could win big the next election.
The USA as a group is astoundingly stupid.
Polls also said the 2022 election was supposed to be a huge red wave, and instead dems kept the senate, and republicans only got a tiny majority in the house, one so small that they just had the first speaker ever voted out of the position
I bet the same people that have been buying this bullshit for the last 50 years are buying it now.
That crowd keeps getting a little smaller every day though
I want to believe that’s true but I’m not sure it is.
You’re right, it’s not true. People need to get out of their bubble and listen to public radio in the states. Even the supposed non-biased ones love peddling the BOTH SIDES narrative bs. This is why races are almost always 50/50
I wish that were the case. Talk to me after the next election…
Well, they’re supposed to just roll over and let them do what they want! How dare they ask for facts, reason, and properly ran debates! The temerity of it all!
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I don’t doubt that putin’s interest is in creating disruption in the US, but I think the much louder call is coming from inside the house. American corporations and the wealthy benefit greatly from a congress that is too crisis-ridden to regulate them.
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Kevin McCarthy has officially been removed from the speakership.
Are you not entertained?
I don’t like my politics to be entertaining
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HAKEEEEEEM JEFFRIES!
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5049214/user-clip-jared-huffman-pulls-leroy-jenkins
This is what happens when you go against the far right
Seems like Dems propping him up so he doesn’t need the alt-right would have better than giving the alt-right more control of the party.
Do we think Gaetz gets speaker next?
McCarthy already reneged on deals he made with dems for their vote. Why the hell would they try make more deals with him? Especially when he explicitly said, before the vote, that he would not negotiate with Dems?
Lmao the McCarthy supporters were pretty vocal the first time around about not being willing to support any Freedom Caucus candidate, as they seem to have finally, miraculously, found a level of bullshit they dare not cross. Plus the amount of them that want to completely oust Gaetz for being “unbearable” - yeah Imma vote “probably not”
Seems like Dems propping him up so he doesn’t need the alt-right would have better than giving the alt-right more control of the party.
McCarthy is the far right. Just because there’s another faction of the far right that’s turned against him doesn’t change that, and it certainly doesn’t make him worth allying with. The Democrats tried a policy of spinless complacency for thirty years. It didn’t work. It’s not going to start working now.
Here’s the thing, the far right arm of their party is anathema. They won’t give any of them the speakership.
There might be a notion of needing them more
Or there’s more never ending speaker votes
Any opportunity to repeat their absurd talking points… oh no, immigrants/great replacement! Oh no, we can’t starve the government and make it ineffectual because debt and riders on the debt bills! Oh no, McCarthy compromised and compromise with Democrats is treachery!
McCarthy’s term as Speaker has been as embarrassing as it was short-lived. His insistence on caving to the 20 or so votes of the far right over reasonable compromises with the democrats’ hundreds of votes was certainly a choice. But it was a bad one and it was his ruin. Last minute moves to diffuse your own bomb don’t inspire loyalty.
Now who? Who wants it that isn’t a nightmare or a fuckup? Preserved head of Nixon?
Update: House Democratic leadership will vote yes on the pending Republican Motion to Vacate the Chair
Do you have like a CSPAN video link or something live?
Live session here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?530878-3/house-session-part-2&live
Holy shit, this is a joke. What a mess of a debate.
I’m starting to get uncomfortable watching it, in much the same way I get uncomfortable watching a car crash.
gracias!
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced she is in California and will not be in the House for the expected vote to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R
Holy fucking gaslighting, Batman!
These fuckers live in an alternate universe.
Will the democrats get a chance to speak? If so, all they have to do is say, “This is what you get when you vote for republicans”
They’re so fucking dumb. Gaetz sounds like the smartest in the room, we’re fucked.
I’m watching it on YouTube on the Wall St Journal channel. (For me C-SPAN required a log in from a television provider). ETA: I like the way she says “yay.”
I’m on Cspan and have no issues, are you not in the US?
That guy announcing recess just slammed the gavel like he wanted to destroy it lol
I imagine him sickcrying right now as he packs his shit to move down into the basement next to the waterheater and boiler for the House.
Remember when he went ahead and moved into that office before being elected speaker? Somebody get me some mint milanos.
I never WANTED TO BE SPEAKER ANYWAY!
heavy sobs as he wipes his nose with his sleave
Stoopid gavel is TOO FUCKING SMALL ANYWAY!
Kevin then angerly throws a scrapbook of his first week in office across the room and throws himself onto a couch. He hiccup sobs into a pillow as The Cranberries ode to my family plays in the background
Nah has confused as to why these Republicans aren’t falling in line like they’re supposed to. He’s speaker after all. They did for a pedo like Denny hastert and Eric cantor and that wank stain Paul Ryan.
It’s funny that they’re starting to believe their own rhetoric instead of just making back room deals like usual.
