comment: >
  
  The only priorities is impeaching Biden 3 times. All committee demands are related to this one goal. There are no legislative policies they want to pursue.
context: McCarthy, reading the list of demands:  
  
  "Look, I'm okay with reducing the power of the speakership and eliminating the House ethics committee but I draw the line at the mandatory mammoth tusk buttplug and maid costume." 
  
  Three minutes later...  
  
  "...okay, but does it have to be for the entire time I'm in office?" >
  
  Yes, and you have to wear nipple clamps, and this leather gimp mask with zipper shut at all times. >
  
  
  this leather gimp mask with zipper shut at all times.
  
  "We only have the one mask but we figured Ted could use a breather." >
  
  Jokes on you the mask connects to Ted’s butthole >
  
  It's OK, it's purely decorative. The collective being known as Ted Cruz receives nutrients and excretes through an array of pores in the skin suit. >
  
  This is their big play everyone. They want to turn congress into a shit show where they have all of the power and can continue to drag the country down to retain power 
  The Republican Party is nothing but grifters and since they don’t have anything to offer the American public except racism and hate this is the route they will go on 
  They will pick a speaker who will agree with all of their wacky rules. They will use these rules to cause chaos in the government. They will blame democrats for this and promise that if they stay in power they will fix it. 
  Rinse. Wash. Get rid of social security. Repeat. >
  
  This forces the Republican Party to either A) become mega cucks to the FC, B) do nothing, ignore the FC and watch the dems tear them apart for being just terrible, or C) reach out to the dems in an attempt to accomplish anything(and really everything) through bipartisanship and concessions. But tbh C might just be a fever dream of mine >
  
  What do you mean the FC? >
  
  He's referring to the Freedom Caucus >
  
  Thanks, I usually refer to them as something else but it’s probably better I know their proper name. >
  
  
  Previously, he had agreed to House rules that would allow five members to push a “motion to vacate” forcing a vote on whether to oust the speaker. Going any lower than that was supposedly a “red line.” Now, a new deal would allow just one person to force a new showdown and McCarthy advocates say there is not really a practical difference between one and five.
  
  And this person is supposed to negotiate legislation as the leader of his party in the House?     I wonder if Boehner and Pelosi go home at night and laugh themselves silly at this empty sack of ambition. >
  
  He's right, though. If you're going to accept a five man motion and 20 people hate him then what's the difference? I cannot believe that the five person concession was offered in the first place. Now he's about to give up choosing who heads committees? What a shit show. He's going to be hamstrung. >
  
  The difference is that if anyone of the twenty decides they need a bit of spotlight, they can recall McCarthy on their own.  This is the power they want, the media attention at their whim. >
  
  What speakership? Ha, it doesn't even exist. 🤣 >
  
  Breaking: and it didn’t work anyway! >
  
  Oh, it's broken >
  
  McCarthy doesn't deserve to win because he kissed Donald Trump's ass after January 6th >
  
  Strangely it's trumps most ardent lunatics that are holding him out. >
  
  
  CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY, & WATCH CRAZY NANCY PELOSI FLYBACK HOME TO A VERY BROKEN CALIFORNIA,THE ONLY SPEAKER IN U.S. HISTORY TO HAVE LOST THE ‘HOUSE’ TWICE! REPUBLICANS, DO NOT TURN A GREAT TRIUMPH INTO A GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT. IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE, YOU DESERVE IT
  
  One guess who posted this on Toot Social
  It is as dumb as it is stupid
  The historical inaccuracy is just one aspect of its brick-brained idiocy. Several Speakers have served nonconsecutive terms in the post. The Speaker with the most time in the post, Sam Rayburn, served for over 17 years; he lost and regained the post twice as the chamber flipped.
  But absolutely no one has ever credited the writer of this Toot with having a grasp of, you know, history. Over the course of 2020, he never learned that the 1917 flu pandemic didn't start in 1918. Why would he fact check anything before blurting it out?
  Another facet of this diamond made of poo is that saying Pelosi "lost" the House twice is a flaccid, feeble attempt to obscure the fact that she was able to whip enough votes to get elected Speaker four times (once every two years).
  
  Newt Gingrich served 4 years, and upon losing the House he quit politics
  Dennis Hastert served 8 years, which is about 7 years 11 months more than the prison time he served for molesting teenage boys
  John Boehner didn't quite make it to 4 years before he was ousted by his own caucus
  Paul Ryan kind of dithered as Speaker since he couldn't figure out how to work with Trump (or how to keep Trump from working against him) and he left politics after Republicans lost the House.
  Pelosi has served in two non-consecutive blocks of 8 years, which makes her the longest serving Speaker besides Dennis Molestert. And she didn't quit and leave the House after she lost the Speakership the first time.
  
  I've got issues with Pelosi, but what can't be denied about her is that she can whip votes and pull her caucus together. Well, she can do the latter MUCH better than McCarthy can, apparently. >
  
  
  I've got issues with Pelosi, but what can't be denied about her is that she can whip votes and pull her caucus together. Well, she can do the latter MUCH better than McCarthy can, apparently.
  
  Yea, but that has more to do with her caucus wanting to accomplish shit. The problem Mccarthy has is that a large portion of the GOP has no interest in governing. They campaigned on the govt being inherently bad and them being there to disrupt. They have no goal of building so there is no motivation to work on anything. They're digging their heels in because it gets more airtime.  Virtue signaling to the lunatics is their game plan for reelection or to gain higher office. They're the kids in the back of the classroom cracking jokes with no concern for their future. >
  
  I used the stones... to destroy the stones >
  
  Uh, he didn’t have the stones to begin with >
  
  “I used the Speakership to destroy the Speakership” >
  
  perhaps i've judged him too harshly >
  
  Ye' olde Republicant 4d chess argument has entered thine chat >
  
  Leader of losers, takes another loss. >
  
  I don’t understand if the Reps have not been seated and are not really a house yet, how does McCarthy have the power to change the speaker rules?  Or is this his promise to them and that’s why it’s not working? Cause he’s a snake >
  
  Why can't Dems align with six Republicans to elect someone like Liz Cheney? This would further diminish Trump; validate the J6 committee; give cover to every other Republican, and allow the House to start working again. Democrats are certainly no worse off than they would be under McCarthy. Are there not six votes to be gotten for Cheney? >
  
  Why can't six Republicans get behind Jeffries? >
  
  Is that a real question? >
  
  It is the same question.
  Dems won't back a "moderate" because the hardcore Freedom Caucus will still be there and they will still block anything the Democrats want to do.  The GOP cannot be trusted (no Supreme Court appointments during and election year!) to do anything but push a GOP agenda.
  The GOP House will not be able to get much done while the Dems hold the Senate and Presidency - they know this - even with McCarthy the GOP will spend the next 2 years being jerks because they know they can't get any GOP policies passed. >
  
  Without a Speaker who can marshal the votes, the Republicans will be able to accomplish nothing and McCarthy can’t even marshal the votes for himself. With just a few votes from purple-district Republicans, who want to get re-elected in two years, the Democrats will be able to get things done.