Social Kevin McCarthy ousted; Mike Johnson becomes US House speaker

[panem-et-circenses]

“California Republican Kevin McCarthy has become the first speaker of the House forced out of the job in US history, after a rebellion by far-right Republicans that was aided by Democrats and fueled by frustration over his approach to government spending and negotiating with Joe Biden.“

From earlier: “Kevin McCarthy’s allies have failed to table the motion to vacate the House speaker’s chair, putting the veteran California congressman on the cusp of being ejected from his position leading Congress’s lower chamber.

The House will now debate and vote on removing McCarthy from his leadership position, and if the vote to table the motion is any indication, it will succeed. Eleven Republicans joined with all Democrats to oppose blocking the motion to vacate, which, if that tally holds, will be enough for McCarthy to be removed.”

The Guardian

 

[Limbo Pete]

Been living an actual irl popcorn.gif today

 

[Joe]

Republicans are just addicted to grand standing and chaos. Its bizarre people vote for these guys. They hate their own more than dems they are so self righteous and dramatic. They are not serious people.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Current jabroni speaking is actually quite articulate and reasonable, but man that turd from Virginia that was up before.... you could see stink lines coming off him. Dude was all over the map with contradictory nonsense.

 

[44nutman]

The clusterfuck known as the GOP is getting more of a clown show.
They cant even get their shit together. I said Trump would lose by at least 10 million votes, now jacking it up to 12 million in the popular vote.
This should really win the moderate vote for them.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Republicans are just addicted to grand standing and chaos. Its bizarre people vote for these guys. They hate their own more than dems they are so self righteous and dramatic. They are not serious people.

It's a serious consequence of gerrymandering. We live in a political landscape where elections are much more decided at the primary level, so the internal politics of the GOP have evolved more fully to require campaigning against each other. Gaetz literally has nothing -nothing- to lose from this, and everything to gain (at least in his own mind and political calculation). And on a personal level he's a douche to boot.

 

[K1levelgrappler]

It’s wild that Gaetz is actually an influential GOP power broker

 

[syct23]

“Kevin McCarthy’s allies”

This sounds like an alternative fact..

 

[Joe]

It's a serious consequence of gerrymandering. We live in a political landscape where elections are much more decided at the primary level, so the internal politics of the GOP have evolved more fully to require campaigning against each other. Gaetz literally has nothing -nothing- to lose from this, and everything to gain (at least in his own mind and political calculation). And on a personal level he's a douche to boot.

Mccarthy was so desperate to be speaker that he negotiated away his power and made this moment possible. Completely predictable. Never would have happened with Pelosi.

 

[White Whale]

I guess trying to stop a omnibus bill that gives more money to Ukraine and who knows where else is a bad thing to the left.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Mccarthy was so desperate to be speaker that he negotiated away his power and made this moment possible. Completely predictable. Never would have happened with Pelosi.

Yep
Say what you will about that ol battle axe, but she was a much more politically savvy Speaker than poor Kevin

 

[Limbo Pete]

It’s wild that Gaetz is actually an influential GOP power broker

He's high on his own power , which has taken the form of an enormous fart cloud f

 

[Terry Noonan]

Whose the replacement? Has that been floated?

 

[44nutman]

It's a serious consequence of gerrymandering. We live in a political landscape where elections are much more decided at the primary level, so the internal politics of the GOP have evolved more fully to require campaigning against each other. Gaetz literally has nothing -nothing- to lose from this, and everything to gain (at least in his own mind and political calculation). And on a personal level he's a douche to boot.

The guy on the left, likes to watch dudes plow his wife. The dude on Gaetz's right likes to bang teenagers, he paid for. When they busted Greenberg for banging underaged chicks, using government computers to mine bit coin, and giving buddies 6 figure no show jobs on my tax dime, some of the girls testified Gaetz did drugs like cocaine and ecstasy with them and Greenberg.
The rift between Gaetz and Greenberg is because Stone promised Greenberg a pardon for 6 figures worth of bit coin and since Greenberg is sitting in jail did not deliver.
Greenberg and Gaetz have lots in common, two fuck up trust fund babies, whose fathers constantly bailed them out of legal trouble.
Gaetz is addicted to the fame, and does not give a shit about running the country. He like most of the Freedumb Caucus know how easy it is to manipulate the MAGA Rubes.
Also speaking of Gaetz whatever happened to his adopted Cuban boy, Nestor. I guess Nestor aged out of Gaetz liking him anymore.
Gaetz getting trolled by calling him a pedophile still kills me.

 

[HereticBD]

He was warned. They MAGA folks aren't playing.

 

[Joe]

Hahaha

 

[Oris79]

The only option going forward is MAGA. No more RINOs, Israel, neocons, progressives, or anyone else.
It's Nationalism or we lose our country.

 

[curryjunkie]

The only option going forward is MAGA. No more RINOs, Israel, neocons, progressives, or anyone else.
It's Nationalism or we lose our country.

 

[Limbo Pete]

dude speaking right now looks like a nerd transported forward in time from 1955

 

[idrankyourbeer]

the adults are back in charge i see.

still as unfit to govern as always or have any leadership or any sense of direction within their own party.

chucklefucks. every. single. one.