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  Gallagher was so confident in his opening nomination of McCarthy, with his cheeky little jabs at the Dems and their popcorn emojis. He actually made me wonder for a second if they sorted their playground fights since yesterday. Too funny.
context: I thought it would get less amusing the more times he failed, but here we are and it's still hilarious. >
  
  I definitely thought yesterday was the end of it, they'd adjourn, have some private meetings in the evening, and come back united under McCarthy after he dishes out some committee seats or whatever. 
  The fact that they came back this morning and he still doesn't have the votes is just so goddamn funny. >
  
  What’s even funnier is there doesn’t seem to be a viable route at all right now. Those hold outs will never vote for him. The people those hold outs want like Gym Jordan and Andy Biggs are never going to get the majority either. There will be just as many if not more hold outs there. 
  Probably the best way for the GOP to save face right now is to reach across to the Dems and see if they could muster up enough votes between them for someone like Cheney or Kinzinger. 
  They will never do that though since they have pretty much made their platform, “owning the libs”. Instead they will choose to make America watch their internal dysfunction over and over. >
  
  Many in GOP want to do away with investigating themselves for ethics violations. Cheney or Kinzinger wouldn't allow that. So no go. >
  
  The idea of going across the aisle is that you don't need any of the crooked GQP who fear the office of ethics, you just need 6 or so Republicans who haven't done anything wrong along with the 212 Dems to elect anyone they want. >
  
  Dem speaker in a republican majority house? Sign me up. >
  
  I’m amazed there aren’t 6 self-serving republicans willing to broker with democrats for choice committee assignments. 
  Seems like the ideal moment to cross the isle and cut a very powerful deal for oneself. >
  
  Sounds like a good way to be moderately more powerful for two years and then get primaried into oblivion. >
  
  Not just moderately more powerful. Being a committee chair is dramatically more powerful and easily parleyed into a nice cushy lobby job after the two years. >
  
  Yeah but they might not be too excited about the death threats and crazies that would get riled up by that behavior. America doesn't just negotiate with terrorists nowadays, it has a policy of flat out appeasement. >
  
  Well we may not have got a red wave, but we might get to see a bloodbath as the r's start infighting. >
  
  It was a red ripple.
  Specifically, the shot in Jurassic Park that shows the cup of water on the dashboard rippling.
  Now we're watching the T-Rex destroy the SUV. >
  
  Except in this scenario it'd be one T-Rex fighting itself. >
  
  The t-rex was kind of fighting itself when it attacked the SUV >
  
  Turns out conspiracy based governance doesn't work well. Too many loons, too hard to corral. >
  
  In their defense, republican based government doesn't work too well either. >
  
  "They're the same picture" >
  
  Venn Diagram is a circle. >
  
  Remember Republican Leaders are too dumb to understand a Venn Diagram >
  
  I haven't had so much fun counting to 5 since I was three. >
  
  Braggart.
  1, 2, 3, 8, 9....
  Fuck! >
  
  I love the people who were saying "Who cares if it wasn't a wave, the Rs still won!" This is why we care. Their lead is not large enough to overcome the infighting and now we get to watch them fall to pieces. 
  Sure, in the end, there will probably still be a republican speaker, but at least getting there is entertaining. >
  
  I mean the infighting is a decent consolation prize, but I would rather have had Dems keep control of both Chambers even with a razor thin majority. Once this shit is over we are still going to have 2 years of republican "oversight"  that will consist of every digital communication Hunter Biden has ever made. >
  
  Along with passing budgets and preventing government shutdowns. Which, as recent history has shown, the GOP is willing to actually let the government shut down for as long as is necessary to get what they want. >
  
  
  Which, as recent history has shown, the GOP is willing to actually let the government shut down for as long as is necessary to get what they want.
  
  If the GOP can't even agree on who their speaker will be, what makes you think there won't be 5 defections to avoid a government shutdown? >
  
  
  what makes you think there won't be 5 defections to avoid a government shutdown?
  
  Oh please, the "defections" will not be in the direction you are thinking. It'll be 203 votes to shut the government down, and 19 votes to burn the government down. >
  
  The Freedom Caucus is making a lot of enemies in the moderate wing of the GOP with this stunt, it would make sense that some more moderate Republican House members (especially in purple districts in CA or NY) wouldn't want to be tied to the Freedom Caucus to shut down the government. >
  
  What's interesting is that Donald Trump endorsed McCarthy before the 4th vote, and none of the 20 who voted against McCarthy (who are mostly the "Trumpiest" bunch of the MAGA republicans) changed their vote.  
  In fact, McCarthy even lost a vote this round >
  
  This is the part that has me genuinely confused. The people who were all in favor of overturning the election are now the same ones who won't back the guy that the guy they were gonna overturn the election for endorses...? It feels like it started eating its own tail overnight and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills trying to understand what the goal is here. >
  
  I imagine they only follow Trump if, and only if, he is useful to their gaining and retaining power. Do enough member of the public support Trump to make it worth their while? If so then they support Trump too so they can tap into those voters for support.  
  The problem is that Trump has been seen to be a liability and a loser. Being a loser goes against one of the main parts of his fictitious public image.  
  Some of the politicians will be out for concessions and favours from McCarthy. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Others may be holding a grudge and will use this to humiliate him and show him who holds the real power.  
  The question is can enough of them come to an understanding, an agreement, where enough people get what they want without each others wants conflicting and blocking votes in his favour?  
  The problem is that a lot of people have learnt that obstruction and acting tough is a viable alternative to talking and compromise. >
  
  They were talking about THE RED WAVE
  Now they are struggling with THIS Lol >
  
  REDRUM not RED WAVE >
  
  Red Rocket, red rocket! >
  
  ‘Red Rover Red Rover would more Republicans please come over’ >
  
  Maybe it’s Dominion Voting Software. >
  
  No no, george soros is bussing in antifa to vote! >
  
  Is that what the youths mean when they say things are bussing? >
  
  Fr fr >
  
  No cap on god