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  I don't want to see him nominated, but how many votes do you think he would get? 6? 15? 20?
  His nomination might scare 5 Republicans into voting for Hakim Jeffries, which would be a good thing.
context: The Q lunatics were talking about this a year ago. They floated the idea of making Trump speaker then impeaching Biden and Harris so that Trump (with Speaker of the House being third in line of succession) could bypass the voters altogether. 
  It'll never work, but they sure thought it would. >
  
  They don’t even realize that their own party would never go along with this. There are enough Republicans in purple districts who won by small enough margins who will never vote for Trump because they want to get re-elected. Sure, there are 20 lunatics in congress but the country is not all made up of deep red districts - many of them win or lose their elections by a hair and they’re not about to set themselves on fire to keep Trump warm. >
  
  
  220 fascist lunatics.
  
  Remember, just because there are 20 members causing this mess, don't let the rest go merely because they let the "party" get to this state. >
  
  right, we had many opportunities for Republicans in congress under Trump to 'do the right thing' and it never happened. >
  
  A few of them did.
  McCain voting against repealing the ACA comes to mind, for one example.
  But overall yeah, you're not wrong. >
  
  I never thought in 2008 that 10 years down the line McCain would seem like a reasonable politician. >
  
  Not to mention how the battling between Obama and McCain was trivial compared to the battling between the Orange Tutu Toucher and everyone else running for 2016. >
  
  
  Hannity interrupted her, saying: "Is this a game show?," asking if the congresswoman meant to nominate one candidate one day and another one the next.
  
  Pretty rich comments from Sean Hannity, considering how unserious his show is >
  
  Hannity is all about how this makes "him" look.  Imagine trying to defend this and the total clown show for the next 2 years.  He can't and this goes to show that the GQP was run from the outside.  Those in the actual offices used to look for some one else to tell them what to do.
  This shows those holding the seats have started to believe their own ideas.  They have gone past being off the rails and now have gone over the wrecked bridge. >
  
  I feel like Hannity is flailing a bit lately now that Tucker Carlson has taken over the top spot at Fox News.  Tucker is more willing to “go there” with outright racist and bigoted commentary, like inviting that Libs of TikTok scum on his show, while Hannity seemed more comfortable using dog whistles.  But now that Tucker has brought the bigotry out in the open, people are flocking to him instead >
  
  I think this speaks to my point of the GQP actually believing their own ideas now.  Tucker is the extreme right wing and as I see it you can't go more to the right unless they go full fascist.  Tucker is the replacement for Hannity in that Hannity was close to fascist, but not quite willing to go over the line. 
  Mind you he is damn close to the line, but just not willing to go over it.  Tucker is over the line and willing to go all the way.  The GQP is already over the line, so Tucker is the replacement for Hannity.  
  Changing trains at crazy station.  All aboard for fascist city. >
  
  Yeah I get the vibe from Hannity that he’s all grift and no shame but doesn’t actually give a fuck about anything other than being the a pompous rich fuckwad. 
  Tucker on the other hand would legit be the kind of guy to administer a concentration camp. He is truly vile. >
  
  It's Tucker, after all, who gets airtime on Kremlin state propaganda tv shows. Fucking sickening. >
  
  imagine being invited to attend a propaganda news outlet for another country and saying "yes of course". You know how US civilians aren't allowed to work for foreign countries military? Why is this even allowed? >
  
  I think they just dub and replay his Fox News segments. He has just done so many pro Putin anti Ukraine segments they keep doing it. >
  
  Was listening to the Lawfare podcast episode about An Investigation into Russian State Media and Disinformation by the NYT - the reporters got access to thousands of leaked emails from correspondence within a Russian state media agency and with Russian security services - there are emails stating things like “record Tucker today”. He’s a regular. >
  
  Well yeah, of course they record his show. They need to make sure they're getting the coverage they paid for. >
  
  Trump doesn't want to be speaker of the house and actually have to do shit, he wants to be president. If he were to win and accept the position it would be extremely alarming and the logical assumption would be that he expects to become president soon after entering the line of succession. >
  
  He didn't want the actual job of president either. He wants the power. This would give him the power to take out revenge on the Dems and his detractors and control the national purse strings. He'll get someone else to do the actual day to day work. >
  
  He doesn't actually want power. He just wants attention. Power takes work. >
  
  The idea of Trump as Speaker is laughable. Does anyone believe he is capable of showing up and putting in a day's "work"  on a regular basis?
  Edit - The position requires attendance for the house to get stuff done. It also requires the Speaker understandcand follow process and procedure. The idea of Trump as Speaker for whatever stupid plan they have is inconceivable. >
  
  Right - the speaker actually has to do shit lol >
  
  You know when he hears “Speaker”, his little thought bubble lights up and delights him with clips of him speaking at rallies. This is probably, quite literally, what he thinks the job entails. >
  
  Another reason he hates Pelosi. A woman speaking instead of him. She was constantly telling him what he could and couldn't do. Who made this woman the official speaker? Why would you even need a speaker when Trump is President? He's speaking all the time. He didn't need a speaker, much less Pelosi. >
  
  People are always coming up to me, “you’re such a great speaker, nobody speaks as good as you, I’ve never heard anything like it before.” All the time. All the time. >
  
  Forgot to start it out with a ...'SIR,...' >
  
  With tears in their eyes >
  
  A big, burly guy, probably a trade worker. >
  
  Which would ‘coincidentally’ put him in line for succession to the presidency. >
  
  "That's a nice president and vice president you got there.  Would be a shame if something happened to them." >
  
  "So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 2 vacant positions." >
  
  "Sir, a second plane has hit the vice president" >
  
  Just a whole ass plane >
  
  A whole ass-plane >
  
  This blimp that looks like a butt is the largest aircraft in the world >
  
  
  
  Can he do that from jail?
  
  
  Why isn't he in jail already? >
  
  
  Why isn't he in jail already?
  
  The US legal system is designed, primarily, to inflict maximum suffering on poor people and minorities.  It seizes up when it has to do anything other than provide a minor inconvenience to rich people. >
  
  Which US legal system? theres many and not all are created equal. >
  
  The one I can think of is the DOJ, which used a bogus memo that says presidents cannot be prosecuted to punt the responsibility to Congress. >
  
  Because the accused misused his office to install a crony who did his bidding. >
  
  William Barr was an old school CIA guy. And personal friend of Robert Mueller. And you will notice that right through out this entire saga, Trump has always had a level of official protection from within the DOJ and likely the US intelligence community - no matter who is in charge. And this goes back decades. Honestly, at this point you have to wantonly and deliberately obtuse to see this as a partisan issue. >
  
  Wasn't Barr the one who originally wrote the memo. >
  
  It was Bork. >
  
  Hannity interrupted her, saying: "Is this a game show?," asking if the congresswoman meant to nominate one candidate one day and another one the next.
  Look at Hannity.  After sucking Trump's dick for years while defending, justifying, and making excuses for all kinds of outrageous anti-American behavior, suddenly he's appalled. >
  
  He also has amnesia about supporting the big lie  that trump lost the election. >
  
  It's not amnesia, it's acting. That's all this dude is, an actor. No reasonable person could view his show as anything other than entertainment. >
  
  Reasonable being the keyword. Unfortunately, we have 70+ million people that don't meet that description. >
  
  I can think of no better way to peel off five or six moderate republicans to vote for Jeffries. >
  
  
  five or six moderate republicans
  
  No such thing exists.  If there were "moderate Republicans" we wouldn't be on day three of this shitshow. >
  
  A moderate Republican is just a democrat. >
  
  Pretty sure joe biden would be considered a moderate Republican (Conservative Party) anywhere else in the world >
  
  We considered Obama quite right wing in France. He swore his oath to office not on one, but TWO bibles, something completely forbidden in France...
  And it's ok to be right wing, esp in France lol.
  But for us Trump is like a demented impotent Hitler so...
  AOC or Bernie are center right for me. Our left wing enforced a 35 hour work-week, unions are mandatory in companies past a certain size and striking is considered a basic constitutional right while owning guns is extremely restricted. It's just completely shifted to the right in the US.
  And I dont even think the left wing is that good and always identified to the right, but the US blerg, too much for me... >
  
  I have a buddy who regularly tries to tell me that the Overton Window in the US is shifted way left.  
  But he also believes that violent leftist activists are behind everything bad, or the FBI did it, or I dunno honestly his company is starting to make me sad. >
  
  There’s no way to help someone whose that lost in the weeds. At best you can point out how the rest of the world takes for granted the welfare policies the US fights over.
  Maybe you can point out how our NATO allies provide basic needs to produce loyalty to capitalism, and America should try that. >
  
  Fox New screech’s even louder, everything you don’t like is the fault of the “radical left”. Pinky promise. You poor schmucks don’t need a social safety net. Here’s $20 a month in exchange for 2 trillion in debt. >
  
  Why don’t they nominate Jesus Christ? They are always claiming he calls the shots, that their ultra conservative agenda is God will (which overrides the will of the electorate….. >
  
  Don’t give them ideas. There’s nothing in the constitution that says the speaker has to be a real life in the flesh human being because the founders never imagined that there would be this many clowns in congress. >
  
  I can only imagine what the USA Founding Father would have to say to all this ... They would truly think the village idiots have taken over >
  
  They would say, “Obviously there’s so many idiots in government, you let poor people and minorities vote!” >
  
  Don’t forget women >
  
  And men who don't own land.
  Edit: I guess the other comment did say "poor perople" >
  
  Lauren Boebert sure does spend a lot time talking absolute bullshit for someone who only won her seat by a very small margin. Maybe focus on who you represent rather than Donald Trump >
  
  Boebert should focus on her own house and her husband that’s out there exposing himself to girls at the bowling alley. Makes a lot of sense why she supports trump, she likes that type.. >
  
  I’m sorry..what now? >
  
  The GOP has become a fascist party. It's time to accept it. The fact not one politician was held responsible for Jan 6th, pushing the lie of election fraud, and undermining our democracy is the issue. >
  
  Yeah…and I have to remember that people thought it was a dumb pointless stunt when Hitler was made chancellor too. I won’t be at ease until they try this and it fails. >
  
  I hope Republican voters are paying attention. YOU did this. For all your talk about how democrats are destroying the country, THIS is what YOU do when YOU are anywhere NEAR power or authority. >
  
  They are not paying attention, if they are, they are blaming it on AOC, Hunter Biden and shadow president Howard Dean. >
  
  God I wish. I was so in for dean for president >
  
  That was the first time I watched the media decide to destroy a candidate. >
  
  Lauren has had too many wontons again >
  
  I don’t even know what this means but still laughed! >
  
  Since people are saying it, let’s be clear about how succession to the Presidency works. 
  In any situation where Kamala becomes President, she then appoints a new VP. It’s not that everyone in the lineup bumps up a spot, with the Speaker becoming VP and the new No. 2. 
  If you’re going to float nominating Trump being the grand plan to get him back in office, you are suggesting an event where both Biden and Harris simultaneously are forced out. Baring some God-awful event, it is exceptionally unlikely Donny gets his buns back in the Chair. >
  
  It would take 2 impeachments or 2 assassinations, or 1 of each.   They didn't take the senate like they thought they would, so impeachment isn't really a possibility.   But let's not fuck around and find out. >
  
  Should watch a longer clip of it.  Funny and horrifying at the same time.  Hannity yelling at Boebert for her nonsensical position that McCarthy should withdraw because he doesn't have the votes, when she also wouldn't say who else was her choice of nominee that would get more votes (that's when she floated Trump) - even though this shit was supposed to have been decided months ago.
  Meanwhile Boebert was scrunching her fists, seemingly on the verge of tears and insisting like a toddler "I won't vote for McCarthy!  He was rude to us when we had reasonable demands!  No, never, I don't wanna!"
  Hannity of all people seemed like the adult in the room.  Again, funny, yet horrifying that these people are our elected leaders. >
  
  Do it. Let that fat MF lose yet another election. >
  
  To a black man getting more votes, no less >
  
  Trump’s attention span equals to a toddler’s one. Watching him struggling with basic tasks like just showing up regularly or reading would make C-Span the most watched news network. >
  
  The objective stupidity of this political party is baffling to watch as someone who doesn’t live in the US. >
  
  Predictable >
  
  They said they were going to do this several years ago when/if they got into this situation. I hate this timeline. >
  
  Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake >
  
  If they ever had an original idea, they lost it somewhere. 
  Get a platform, conservatives. Anything other than pointing fingers, being douche bags in general, and Trump. He has wrecked you. You deserve all of this >
  
  Hell, let's bring in Obama. Shit would get done. >
  
  Serious question since we’re on the subject. Can you actually become Speaker if you’re not currently a member of the House of Representatives? >
  
  Yes. >
  
  I'll also add the caveat that it has been a member of the House since the inception of the position, so this would be a first. >
  
  Yep - just a possibility. >
  
  He would literally phone it in rather than show up for work everyday 😆 >
  
  I suspect Boebert or Greene would likely act as a proxy somehow. I think that’s the real desire. One of those howler monkeys desperately wants Pelosi’s job. Not sure how they’d bend the rules to make that happen, but Trump would end up speaker on paper only, and make occasional cameos when the cameras were on, and one of them would handle the day to day. Which one would likely be settled by a hair-pulling cat fight broadcast life on C-SPAN.
  I’m not saying this is likely, or even possible, but I think that’s their little fantasy, and Kevin’s in the way so they’re trying to destroy him to get what they want. >
  
  I don't think it would play out like this. That's how his tenure as president was predicted to go, with Pence doing all of the day to day work. But it never happened, Trump couldn't bring himself to turn the controls over to anyone else. Instead, shit just didn't get done. Unless it was something he could just sign and claim credit for. 
  But the Speaker has to be present to call votes. It's a full time job. And while other representatives can sit in as acting Speaker, the actual Speaker is expected to be on the floor a lot of the time. Especially for actual votes. Trump would blow that off and just not bring anything to a vote while posting on Twitter-lite from the toilet. >
  
  Unless they just "changed the rules" and threw out any prior rules or procedures. If they just started doing things differently and ignoring the rules, what's the penalty? What's the enforcement? It would turn into a huge circus for sure, and that plays right into what these clowns thrive on.
  Trump just has to be speaker on paper. Then they work on getting rid of Biden and Harris by impeachment or even more sinister means. It's a stupid plan, and the Senate wouldn't convict, but again that's not the point. The point is a circus and whipping supporters into a froth over the prospect of Trump being magically reinstated. These aren't rational people, so I could totally see them trying something like this. >
  
  LMFAO, stay in school, kids. Don't end up a dumb-dumb like this doofus who could barely get her GED. >
  
  Passed it only on the third try, with a credible rumour that the third time was someone paid to take it in her name. >
  
  I would laugh at this, but then I remember  I laughed at the prospect of him becoming president.  Shit isn't funny anymore. >
  
  Republicans outraged that a minority group of them is forcing their agenda on the majority of them. These assholes have no understanding of the meaning of irony. >
  
  And the Jan 6th anniversary is tomorrow.  Wow.  The radical far right is a threat to democracy, again.  The “security threat” of this delay is showing itself. >
  
  If Trump becomes speaker something will happen that will make Jan 6 look like child’s play. >
  
  Body by Fisher, Head by Mattel... >
  
  Trump? I think the body is by McDonalds. >
  
  Pillsbury. >
  
  To me the whole thing stinks of Trump. I know he publicly threw support for McCarthy, but think he is having them do this as some kind of weird “flex” in attempt to show the GOP he still has some control >
  
  Surprising absolutely nobody. >
  
  It trumps fault they don't have to votes in the house to begin with >
  
  Republicans are all acting like babies. Each wanting their own way and no compromise.  Now you know why as a country we have the problems we do.  They refuse to work together even among themselves.   We are in for another “get nothing done congress “. >
  
  This was the plan all along. This has been a fever dream for the Q/MAGA crowd for a while. >
  
  Ain't no rule says a dog can't play basketball! >
  
  Don’t you need to be able to, you know, speak? To be a Speaker? >
  
  GOP, November 2022: We lost because of Trump we need to wash our hands of him
  GOP, January 2023: Make Trump the leader of Republicans in Congress. >
  
  This is so ridiculous.  These people don't want to legislate, they just want to make a scene of everything and make a mockery of American politics.  Can we seriously do something about combatting partisan hackery in this country?  It's so destructive and people are going to and are currently suffering for it. >
  
  Oh god, yes please do it. We might actually have a chance of Speaker Jeffries leading the 118th Congress. 
  I'll be grabbing a bucket of buttered popcorn from my local theatre for today's shitshow. >
  
  And taking shots for every republican mccarthy loses lmao >
  
  On behalf of your liver, 20 drinks in a 30 min period isn’t a good idea.  Maybe 1 for every 10 votes?  In the last 6 votes, that will have gotten you two shots for each vote.  3 votes a day is 6 drinks, that should be a pretty decent buzz. >
  
  Do it! Let the shit-show continue. >
  
  I nominate Katniss Everdeen >
  
  She ain’t volunteering for this shit >
  
  She hinted at this before the very first vote. In the brief GOP press conference beforehand, Scott Perry said "There are 221 alternatives [to McCarthy]" and she snuck in "more than that even..." >
  
  The worst public speaker is going to be nominated for speaker. Seems apt for the GOP.
  It would started off every day with a 2 hour bitching session about how everyone is mean to him and he really won the 2020 election. >
  
  Do it. It will flip and embarrass you and him. >
  
  Trump is like a tumor you think you removed but just keeps coming back. Guy should just fuck off already. >
  
  Why, oh why dear lord…. Why did Colorado send this nutcase back to Washington? Is it because they really don’t want her in Colorado? Or do they just enjoy torturing everybody? >
  
  Dems should nominate the candidate that best represents the morals and platform of the Republicans: George Santos! 
  He’s a cheating, lying, thief who loves to get bags of secret money! >
  
  It should not be legal for a non-elected person to become speak of the house. Nor is it beneficial to the democratic process for a presidential candidate to become a speaker of the house.
  I am so infuriated that Bobert won, we were so close to getting her out >
  
  If Donald Trump would become Speaker of the House, it would grind to a halt. He did nothing of positive consequence as President. He destroyed norms that enabled government to operate. He failed to appreciate the office. He would do the same with the House. >
  
  Really, Lauren? You think putting Trump 2nd the line of succession to the Presidency is ever going to happen? Dream on, you nutjob wacko. >
  
  yeah... you guys need to get rid of all these trump fanatics or else you're truly fucked. >
  
  How old is she? Why does she have the brain of an 85-year-old Fox News watcher? >
  
  That would be hilarious and would completely destroy the MAGA wing of the GOP. I hope they do it somehow. Trump is mentally much worse than he was as president (already such a low bar) and would be completely exposed with far less power. >
  
  The comedic tragedy of Republican politics for all of America to witness. Is the bottom ever in sight? >
  
  Being Speaker requires doing actual work and knowing how to handle different personalities. trump wouldn’t have a clue and he’d hate every minute of it. The only part he’d want of the job is being 2nd in line for the presidency and expecting that the republicans would somehow impeach Biden and Harris and simultaneously remove them from office. >
  
  Please do it. He won't win.
  And his nomination will continue to prove to the nation just how far off the deep end the Republican party has gone.
  Since Dubya, the Republicans have literally offered no actual policy that benefits everyone. All they care about is tax cuts for their corporate overlords. >
  
  She rebuffed her God-King's demand that she vote for McCarthy. Now she needs to push her tongue even deeper into his greasy asshole to ask for forgivness. >
  
  His hands are too small to bang a gavel. It would never work. >
  
  So fucking ignorant they can’t even think of someone who is worth a shit and just default to trump constantly. Trump brained dullard. >
  
  Great idea- bring in the babbling lunatic to complain about 2020. Pathetic loser. >
  
  Can't we just wish Trump could just...go away?  No one brings him up on either side and just...he never bothers us again? >
  
  When will people realize that Republicans don’t want to legislate and actually help people?  It’s just culture wars, bullshit investigations, and enriching the wealthiest Americans. >
  
  This has been far more dysfunctional than I expected it to be. >
  
  Matt Gaetz just voted for Trump in the 7th round. >
  
  Gaetz just voted for him like 5 min ago. This is ridiculous. >
  
  DO IT!!
  Comedy gold. Way too much work for that lazy POS. >
  
  If I were a democrat late in the role call on an decided vote I’d vote Obama in response. >
  
  But…he can hardly speak… >
  
  Why don’t they just go full autocrat and nominate their true leader, Putin? >
  
  I too am bad with money and have no experience. Can someone nominate me? >
  
  Oh God, I really do hope the idiots nominate Dtrump, the shit show that is the GOP will be so fun to watch as they destroy whatever is left of their stupid party. >
  
  All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part of children’s games. We edge nearer death every time we plot. It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot. >
  
  And there it is, the plan they had all along. And, if it is true, I’m guessing Trump was in on it, and that is why he offered sham support for McCarthy. 
  I certainly hope moderate Republicans see they have to cut a deal with the Dems to get a consensus Speaker. >
  
  Can you imagine that idiot trying to manage the procedural portion of SOH? A habitual word-salad BSer who can’t focus on a single topic for even two consecutive spoken sentences - having to bring the house to order and stay on task call votes etc -  not even considering doing it effectively for his “agenda”. His stupidity and presumed illiteracy would be completely exposed. Ya i think calling that ‘absurd’ is a Strong but polite understatement. >
  
  The funniest part of this is imagining Trump having to do all the little administrative and procedural duties of the role. Like, he'd have to administer oaths, call & count votes, do all the silly parliamentary things the house does around permission to speak and time allotments. He'd absolutely be hamming it up the whole time and it would be a total circus until someone threw a chair at him. >
  
  Donald Trump has told you who he wants already... these people are mentally ill >
  
  They don’t legislate…..it’s all for show
  They’re incapable of anything else >
  
  Is she mentally impaired or just that uneducated? Asking genuinely, because some of the things she says and does aren't rational. Who actually votes for this woman? >
  
  She does and says anything that would get her attention in the media and social media. She knows exactly what her base wants to hear >
  
  I want to nominate Alex Jones for Speaker. 
  If his bid fails, I nominate Hunter Biden's Laptop. >
  
  I knew it. I knew they'd eventually need to introduce an aggrieved, whiny and sociopathic billionaire to the gridlock to come in and sort their mess out. I just didn't know who'd they'd want to step up. >
  
  We are watching monkeys throwing shit at the walls. >
  
  What is her username on OnlyFans? >
  
  In a lot of ways this possibility is actually scarier than Trump simply running for re-election because this would put him 3rd in line to be President without actually needing to be elected. >
  
  Republicans are imploding right before our eyes >
  
  That’s so dumb. >
  
  He cannot be speaker of the house. This women is a traitor married to a pedophile. It’s ironic that these gop zombies keep pointing fingers at others calling them pedophiles when she is married to one. >
  
  She's a loon >
  
  Russia would love Trump  causing even more damage >
  
  this just shows how absolutely stupid her and her kind are. 
  They have known about this 'theory' for at least 2 years, promoted by their own people that Trump would take the speakership, they would impeach the democrats, and he would be president. It was broadcasted on any show that would say the dumbest conspiracy theory possible.
  And yet... they just now came up with the idea... because it was in the media yesterday. Like they had to specifically be told what to do and when to do it. They could have pulled this stunt two days ago and didn't. 
   
  The best part about this stunt is that it may actually pull more votes from McCarthy, and can cause some more hatred in the republicans when some don't vote for DonnyBoy. >
  
  That’s what always amazed me about Trump as president: most of the time he didn’t MAKE news, he RESPONDED to “news” from right wing media. He ignored all of the huge, expensive intelligence services that only serve the president and made decisions based on the ramblings of a bunch of internet psychos making up nonsense that anyone could read. It was nuts. >
  
  Someone is pulling her strings here.
  She's not smart enough to know on her own that the Speaker of the House doesn't technically have to be an incumbent member.
  Someone suggested this to her-- like fucking Jar Jar-- to push such a truly awful idea in order to get Democrats on board with helping McCarthy get over the hump. >
  
  He couldn’t handle being speaker at the drive-thru. >
  
  Tell me why it’s been such a hand wringing episode for bringing those responsible for coup attempt to justice or not.
  We went from condemning a public official for misspelling a root vegetable to allowing an orange imbecile and his minions to destroy democracy >
  
  That would mean he has to work and can't go home early for golf at 10 AM and go home early on Friday to take the weekend off. Never gonna happen. >
  
  For anyone who thought the clown show was over, you’d better buckle up. >
  
  I mean do it; divide the vote further. It’ll be funny. Maybe the moderates will vote Jeffries so that things can start. >
  
  Man, this is a disaster for the GOP. So you'll have a small group voting for Trump and the vast majority of the House actively voting against him. 
  Is this the end of the GOP as we knew it? Am I overreacting? >
  
  Boebert wants to vote for someone who doesnt work. They could also just not have a speaker and be just as effective. >
  
  Somewhere a GED instructor weeps >
  
  I'm sure putting Trump second in line to the presidency won't result in any attempted assassinations of Biden or Harris. /s >
  
  They really have no clue, don’t they? >
  
  I want this so badly. Make the GOP have their Trump exorcism on national TV. >
  
  Sycophants. It’s really hard to put myself in the shoes of such wanton sycophants. It’s not a left/right thing, it’s a person with and without a spine thing. Find a new god already… >
  
  That would be great. 
  We all know he would never show up. 
  Getting chicken tendie grease all over the gabble.
  Betcha he would even say "Bam Bam" every time he brought it down. >
  
  Can he be speaker if he's not a member? >
  
  Please fucking try - it'll be hilarious to see him split votes off of McCarthy, and potentially push some Republicans to vote for Jeffries instead! >
  
  So, what's her plan? He's not a functional adult. Putting him in the Speaker's chair is as good as not electing anyone at all, nothing will get done. 
  She's probably looking at the "2nd in line" bit. Is she hoping that with Trump in that position, an etheral "someone" will arrange the "removal" of Biden and Harris and this allow Trump to be sworn in again?
  Or is she just an idiot with no plan and a hard-on for Donnie? >
  
  Please, please, please do this. Two years of Trump as speaker will be the final nail in the Republicans’ coffin. >
  
  Oh, please do it. >
  
  She’s doing the most to divide their party, and I’m here for it. >
  
  I think she should! I need the laughs. >
  
  Do it! More (metaphorical) R blood on the House floor as the Establishment and the Trumptistas throw down! Go Bobo, go! >
  
  Someone under investigation for ESPIONAGE as the speaker? Have we lost our minds?! Maybe she should nominate herself since she seemed to be so good at "speaking" to the right people during her escort days. >
  
  That would be hilarious.
  No way T would want the job.  There would be too much focus on him and the work that would need to get done.
  Wonder how many votes it would take for him to somehow remove his name from the list? >
  
  Gag me with a pitch fork. The speaker needs a bit of class and diplomacy. Trump has neither and he would make the position all about him as he always does >
  
  Oh God please no >
  
  Do it, Lauren! Let the chaos in your party continue. Fools. >
  
  So a "Speaker of the House" doesnt actually have to be able to speak coherently? Got it. >
  
  Boebert is another MAGA Fascist. >
  
  She sooo wants to pee on Trump. >
  
  I heard this on satellite last night directly and was surprised at how much HANNITY (on the radio, the show is listed as HANNITY in all caps which makes me laugh), and Boebert shouted at and over each other. It seemed surprisingly hostile.
  HANNITY had an interesting point. You're asking McCarthy to withdraw when he has 90% of the vote but you won't with 10%? 
  Gaetz just threw TRUMP's name in there during the vote. Yeesh. >
  
  Wouldn't he need to learn how to speak first?