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  “He ain’t no prop” made me chortle 😂
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  Buddy your team is representing the same folks who brought confederate flags into the Chamber not too long ago, so I don't know how effective this speech is gonna be >
  
  But they doubled the number of black republicans in the house! Hahaha, 2 to 4. Oooh. >
  
  LMAO at Dems giving a standing O and chanting Hakeem at this guy's line. "we could've elected the first black speaker of the house." They are having a good time indeed. >
  
  "We could have had the first Black Speaker in history!"
  Crowd starts chanting Hakeem's name >
  
  You guys, I can't stop laughing. Trump was probably scarfing down a burger at Mar a Lago without realizing he was about to lose yet another election today. >
  
  IRS agents don't "pick people's pockets." They enforce the tax laws.
  Sadly, they don't enforce the tax laws against the wealthy nearly enough. >
  
  Interesting note, John James worked for his father and they took between $1-2M in PPP loans.  But Socialism, amirite? >
  
  "The democrat side looks more like the United States than we do."
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  Yeah, man. The solution is to expand the Republican party. Not restrict the rights of citizens until there's only rich white men left. >
  
  These commentators who think Dems should work with Repubs crack me up. Did they forget that some of the people in this room openly advocated for the murder of their colleagues not that long ago? >
  
  <@U026BU7QQVD> indeed. >
  
  Yeah, what's up with that? >
  
  Think the bot is having a struggle. The post ends mid-sentence too. >
  
  Once again, Trump fails to secure the popular vote. >
  
  Jefferies? You mean 6-time winner Hakeem Jefferies? >
  
  "There is no victory in adjourning without doing the business of the people." YUP. >
  
  Look, it would be the easiest thing to just sit here and mock the GOP for their incompetence, inability to govern or their inability to behave like adults and we should definitely do that right here in this thread. >
  
  It is the easiest thing, it is the right thing  
  It is the thing we shall do >
  
  Um, is this guy just basically reminding all of us that the primary reason for the Civil War was slavery?
  All of my Southern textbooks and "historians" (ahem) have taught me the War had nothing to do with slavery...but was about, uh, "state's rights", or some such... >
  
  Fuck John James. This guy is a nobody putz who had to move to a safe district to not lose an embarrassing third campaign.
  Actually, he's the right person to be at the podium. >
  
  I am not sure how else to say this:
  Please, PLEASE hire more people for the IRS.  As a small business owner who has to try to resolve minor issues with them, I cannot tell you how infuriating it is to have absolutely no ability to speak with a real person who can fix it with a 5 minute phone call.  Please hire service reps, IT professionals, and -- yes -- agents.
  Frankly, I don't care how many agents you hire. Why? BECAUSE I DON'T BREAK TAX LAWS >
  
  "McCarthy wants to double the number of black republicans in congress." 
  Andy Bernard: From what 2 to 4? >
  
  I think it is important to note how integral gerrymandering has been to the ugly transformation of the Republican Party to where we are now. Gerrymandering is how the most extreme politicians (such as the current MAGA 20) get into office, because they are in such safe seats that they don't have to worry about moderates or Democrats whatsoever. To the contrary, some of them have unseated more moderate reps by "primarying" them. 
  I have seen it happen firsthand with my district, represented currently by Dan Bishop--the hillbilly who was just up speaking earlier. A decade ago, our rep was Republican Sue Myrick. She was your typical big business Republican. Not my choice, but certainly not a "crazy". That was back when our district covered part of South Charlotte and the surrounding suburbs. 
  Once the GOP took control of the state legislature (a disaster from which NC still hasn't recovered), they gerrymandered the district such that it snaked all the way to the coast, touching all these rural areas along the way, so that the district got redder and redder. 
  And over the years, the rep for my district has gotten increasingly insane. It has gone: 
  Sue Myrick (normal person) > Robert Pittenger (redneck realtor) > Mark Harris (tossed out for voter fraud) > Dan Bishop (part of the MAGA 20)
  And this same thing has played out all over the country. >
  
  Is it dystopian to anyone else that one of our representative bodies starts it’s day of “work” with 
  1) a prayer to a god that huge amounts of Americans don’t share belief in;
  2) an oath to a flag; and
  3) a reminder not to be assholes to one another without telling the clerk to do it?
  What a nightmare. >
  
  You could play basically any clip from CSPAN at the beginning of a 90's apocalypse movie and it would fit right in. >
  
  Total Black American House members: 58
  Democrats: 56
  Republicans: 2 >
  
  But that's DOUBLE what they had, before!!!! >
  
  I nominate <@U026BU7QQVD> for Speaker! >
  
  
  U026BU7QQVD
  
  whose sleeper code is this >
  
  John James had to run 4 different times for 3 different positions in 2 different districts to get where he is.  He is a DeVos stooge and an absolute moron.  He can give a speech, but he is not at all intelligent nor does he lead or give a shit about anyone but himself.  Typical Republican, except that he is a multi-time failure as well.
  And this is the guy they put up to nominate McCarthy.  Because he’s black….I hate the GOP so fucking much. >
  
  "kevin mccarthy has a 90% approval rating"
  among republican congressmen sure. among actual people not so much >
  
  GOP gonna run out of people of color to send to the podium at this rate. >
  
  
  "If he WERE a prop, he wouldn't be sitting here today!"
  
  Yeah dude, that's exactly where he'd be sitting. That's the point of a prop. You put them where you want them for optics.
  He's been in Congress for ONE TERM. He's 44. The idea that he's remotely qualified for Speaker, over 200+ other Republicans, is a complete fucking joke. >
  
  Republicans really think that we (black people) can't see through their bullshit. Calling out racism doesn't mean anything when it comes from the party of racism. C'mon. >
  
  They call Kevin McCarthy 007
  0 talent
  0 negotiation skills
  7 straight losses >
  
  It's hilarious that the entire nomination speech for Donalds today was about how he isn't a prop and people genuinely want him to be Speaker, meanwhile one of the holdouts voted for Trump and proved to us all that Donalds is a prop and they're just stalling the vote. >
  
  Trump is about to lose yet ANOTHER election >
  
  "They nominated a black guy yesterday - quick find a black guy to nominate Kevin!" >
  
  I will never not roll my eyes when these morons cite historical Republican figures, and intentionally leave out the rather key fact that they were the "liberals" of the day. >
  
  Yes. The average American cares about the IRS going after tax dodging millionaires and billionaires.  THAT is what the average American is worried about. 🙄 >
  
  I like how the first win is shutting down the gov for a day lol >
  
  There is no victory in adjourning without doing the work of the people... Fucking nailed it >
  
  "Byron Donalds is not a prop."
  Based on the Republican speeches of the last few days, every black person is a prop. I've never heard Republicans "care" so much about black people. That is... until a speaker is elected. Then it will be all about old white people again. >
  
  "Donalds ain't no prop," said the propmaker, making Donalds a prop. >
  
  This guy thinks raising his VOICE in various PITCHES and VOLUMES is what MAKES a good SPEAKER! >
  
  I really hate how self-righteous Republicans are. They keep talking about shrinking government and fighting for the people while at the same time trying to control every aspect of our lives from birth control and abortion to sexuality and entertainment. They don’t want small government, they want full control and they’re barely trying to hide it >
  
  Gaetz voted Trump. 
  Trump loses another election. >
  
  Matt just made it so Trump is going to lose another election >
  
  Oh look! Absolute proof they aren't taking this seriously! 
  What a fucking disgrace. "Haha, see? I voted for Trump! Isn't that funny?" Meanwhile a part of the government remains paralyzed because of these stupid antics. 
  Fuck these people. >
  
  Does this count as another election Trump lost, now that he's got a vote? >
  
  JUST END THIS STALEMATE ALREADY
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  The chaos caused by the inability of Kevin McCarthy and Republicans to govern is rapidly becoming serious. No Member-elect can be briefed on anything that contains any classified information. We can’t approve or deny weapons sales, hold committee hearings or conduct oversight. >
  
  Trump biggest loser in history only got 1 vote!  Even Donalds is beating him in a popularity contest! >
  
  Byron Donalds: I'm the Donald now. >
  
  What is so fascinating about this situation is that all these dark money groups, the Federalist Society, the army of dubious lawyers, the conservative majority in the court, Mitch McConnell, their propaganda channel.  None of those mechanisms can resolve this issue for them.
  It all comes down to the gerrymandered nitwits and the other members of their party's ability to interact with each other and participate in a simple give-and-take compromise that a group of kindergarteners could pull off in about ten minutes.
  But they just don't have the negotiation skills, flexibility, or ability to put others above their own ego-driven dreams of power.  They just can't hate themselves out of this situation and there isn't someone else who is going to step in and do the hard work and fix it for them.
  Every minute this continues makes every statement they ever uttered ring hollowed and hollower. >
  
  Let them fail. Zero reason to bail them out. The Republicans won, it's their job to form a government. 
  If they're that worried, hey they can come to Jeffries and make a deal. He has the most votes. They claim to be moderate Republicans who want to put country first, great prove it 
  Come to Jeffries, vote for the guy with the most votes and maybe we can work out some sharing agreement. Other than that it's the Republicans responsibility, like it is every party which wins the House, to do the basic step of electing a leader. Don't blame everyone else because you got elected but don't know how to govern. Shouldn't have ran then. >
  
  Imagine being a token black GOP rep. Talk about selling your soul to dance for the whites. >
  
  Lol. From 2 to 4. But sure, "We doubled the number of black Republicans in Congress".
  There's almost 60 black Democrats in Congress. >
  
  That man was born to sell miracle elixirs at the fair. >
  
  "Kevin looking really confident, must have it"
  1/5/2023 (12pm) - 1/5/2023 (12:41pm) >
  
  Do we count this as a loss for trump? Just keeping a running tally >
  
  Ugh just nominate your guy, we don’t need a campaign speech >
  
  Republicans: Shit, we're almost out of black people >
  
  "My friend Token is NOT A PROP. I insist! I have a black colleague so you know I'm not racist myself and I'm outraged at the implication that I could be. I says to him just yesterday, I says Boy, will you fetch me a coffee, and he says he's a member of this governing body. He is not a prop, he's one of the good ones."
  ​
  WTF is wrong with this guy? >
  
  How butthurt is Trump his vote is under “Others” 😆 >
  
  Someone nominate Barack Obama. >
  
  Bringing a black guy up to say "there's not a bigotry issue, we're all bettter now" in the face of GoP all out assualt on LGBT issues is...a look. >
  
  "our problems today aren't as bad as they used to be" when there was an ARMED INSURRECTION in the very chamber they are standing in today! >
  
  LOL he forgot Hakeem Jeffries is black >
  
  It’s almost like this is the first time Republicans have had to deal with Republicans >
  
  I stepped away for a moment. Did Gaetz actually vote for Trump or are we meming? >
  
  Dude. republicans. it's time. Gaetz just dropped the curtain - it's about Kevin. They have no intention of Donalds becoming speaker - they just won't pick him. It's exactly what some of them have been saying all along. >
  
  More than half have voted, leaving no path to victory.
  Donald Trump election losses
  -2016 presidential election, popular vote
  -2020 presidential election, popular vote
  -2020 presidential election, electoral vote
  -2023 7th round Speaker of the House election
  Upcoming potential losses
  -2023 Speaker of the House election future rounds
  -2024 Republican presidential primary
  -2024 presidential election, Republican or 3rd party candidate >
  
  Jeffries votes to roaring applause and chants of his own name as one entire side of the room stands. 
  McCarthy votes and he gets lukewarm applause from some people that can't even be bothered to stand. >
  
  So nobody has changed their vote yet except Gaetz, and he just changed from Donalds to The Donald. >
  
  Miller changed from KM to Donalds. >
  
  Hakeem Jeffries looking to top Roman Reigns record for undisputed victories. All hail the new Head of the Table! >
  
  MTG's turn to vote, Gaetz has to elbow her
  "yer up lol"
  "oh shit uh .... McCarthy ... teeheeeheeehee"
  These people are not serious people. They have all this power and influence and they're just children riding on the excitement and the high. >
  
  Same when Gaetz said "Trump".  They were giggling like got away with blowing spitballs at the teacher. >
  
  BREAKING: Donald J. Trump has now lost his bid for election as Speaker of the House of Representatives >
  
  LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE LIVE from a sold out House of Representatives in Washington, DC for GOP FIGHT NIGHT, McCarthy vs the Freedom Caucus.
  Introducing first FIGHTING OUT OF THE BLUE CORNER, a terrorist and traitor, fighting out of Rifle Colorado, LAUREN "NRA BARBIE" BOEBERT!
  AND IN THE RED CORNER, FIGHTING OUT OF BAKERSFIELD CALLLLLLIFORNIA, desperately sucking the dick of every Traitor Caucus member he can, KEVIN "BROWNNOSE" MCCARTHY! >
  
  They say the democrats can’t get on the same page but day three, same person nominating, entire party behind their candidate >
  
  Do they know that Hakeem Jeffries is black?  if that is what they are after they can get that done pretty quick. >
  
  "we could have nommed the first black speaker"
  ​
  by nomming hakeem jeffries? >
  
  Lol @ the Dem trolling. >
  
  I wonder...do black people watching this feel like they are being completely used as pawns in this whole thing?  Does anybody actually think these 60-80 year old dudes give a shit about the plight of the black man? >
  
  Old man yells at clouds... Wtf does any of this have to do with his nomination? >
  
  I love how they act like 5 stolen seats through illegal gerrymandering is somehow a mandate. >
  
  The Chaos Caucus from earlier rounds, for reference: 
  Andy Biggs
  Dan Bishop
  Lauren Boebert
  Josh Brecheen
  Michael Cloud
  Andrew Clyde
  Eli Crane
  Byron Donalds
  Matt Gaetz
  Bob Good
  Paul Gosar
  Andy Harris
  Anna Paulina Luna
  Mary Miller
  Ralph Norman
  Andy Ogles
  Scott Perry
  Matt Rosendale
  Chip Roy
  Keith Self
  Victoria Spartz (Voted as "Present") >
  
  Gaetz just knows how much Trump loves losing elections since he does it every time >
  
  MAGA twitter it’s losing its mind over the Trump nomination.
  They are so excited. >
  
  Bless their hearts. >
  
  I think the victory he is describing is voting to adjourn last night. Wow. Embarrassing >
  
  The cheer from the Dems at the mention of the first Black Speaker LOL >
  
  Yes, tell me about racism 😒 >
  
  The way this guy speaks is unbearable. I'm crying lmao >
  
  This man talks like he just came out of the 1800s. >
  
  This guy 100% uses the n word in private. >
  
  I love how he talked about Jim Crow...as he serves a party that voted in favor of Jim Crow and clearly wants to return us to that. >
  
  No victory in adjourining without doing the business of the people. >
  
  John James has never officially been sworn into the House because of this Republican clown show. Yet he's already giving nominating speeches 
  Such talent in the Republican party >
  
  lol GOP really playing this "We're the party of the black man" angle up really hard right now. >
  
  "we could have voted the first black speaker"
  Yeah, you all could vote for Jeffries cause this Donalds dumbass is not the one. >
  
  Lmao at chanting Hakeem after Rep Bishop tried to pander for the “first black speaker of the house” >
  
  Lol.  This guy just mad he was called out as a racist.  Lmao.  “I’m not racist look!  I’ll nominate this African American guy (who won’t win…)!” >
  
  That omnibus bill was obviously necessary, based on THIS RIGHT HERE. >
  
  Lol. They love shitting on the trillion dollar omnibus, but they didn't seem too upset about the trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires during Trump's tenure. >
  
  The GOP, the party that had NO PLATFORM in 2020, is going to lead with conviction? Pleeease. >
  
  Did zero votes actually change? If so this is the most embarrassing defeat since yesterday. >
  
  If they want to appease the base, Trump....just combine the two and nominate McDonalds. >
  
  Gaetz chose a different Donald from Florida lol >
  
  Trump?  We're preparing to go fully off the rails. >
  
  Did I just hear that only 311 are present? >
  
  Pretty typical with Congress.
  They all move at their own schedule.  They might say they will convene at noon, but there's a good chance that a number of them will be 15-30 minutes late.  They usually only need a quorum (>50%) of members to get started and the rest can trickle in as they wrap up meetings and discussions in hallways and shit. >
  
  Why does he appear to be addressing his remarks to democrats, when they can't even get all of the republicans on board? LOL >
  
  How can a guy who believes in this be a Republican? Surely he understands that the Rs were the liberals back then >
  
  Actually... don't the 212 democrats represent a larger portion of the population than the GOP and the only reason there are more GOP members is due to rigged election maps? >
  
  It's hilarious that McCarthy's nomination speeches barely mention him anymore. >
  
  I think after the second ballot we should just stop with the nominating speeches >
  
  No sir, you're standing there today because of gerrymandering. >
  
  So, it took 2 to double the number of black republican congresspeople. >
  
  That token black guy is great at dancing for the white extremists. >
  
  are the republicans just rotating people with speeches for each nomination?  
  "Alright, who wants a turn at the loudening stick?" >
  
  Peepaw yelling at clouds again. >
  
  Hahaha that line backfired 
  “We could have elected the first black speaker” >
  
  Dems have jokes lol >
  
  Anyone else getting "my black friend" vibes? >
  
  Not a prop.  Not a prop.
  He was a prop. >
  
  This has big high school mock trial team energy >
  
  The Year is 2025, the month is January. Kevin McCarthy loses his 1,897th vote for House Speaker as the 118th Congress approaches its end >
  
  wait... so ok.. so you are telling me if i was in that room and they called me to announce my vote i could basically stand up and say "iron man" and that would count and fall into the others category?! >
  
  Hearing the word Jefferies be said 4 times in a row while I was kind of zoning out had me questioning reality >
  
  Jeffries. Jeffries? Jeffries. Jeffries. (Applause) >
  
  "Has this ever happened before?"
  On a scale of congressional historical clusterfuckiness (CHC), based on the number of rounds of voting required to elect a speaker of the house:
  6th Congress (1799–1801) 2
  11th Congress (1809–1811) 2
  19th Congress (1825–1827) 2
  3rd Congress (1793–1795) 3
  9th Congress (1805–1807) 3
  30th Congress (1847–1849) 3
  -> YOU ARE HERE <-
  68th Congress (1923–1925) 9
  23rd Congress (1833–1835) 10
  26th Congress (1839–1841) 11
  17th Congress (1821–1823) 12
  16th Congress (1819–1821) 22
  36th Congress (1859–1861) 44
  31st Congress (1849–1851) 63
  34th Congress (1855–1857) 133 >
  
  I am a bit tickled that the last time this happened was exactly 100 years ago, in 1923. >
  
  House clerk: "Y'all can't behave." >
  
  "People responsible for breaking DC complain about how broken DC is." >
  
  I wonder how this dude’s dad feels about his son being a republican 🤔 >
  
  i'd like to nominate my mom as speaker of the house. She makes great mexican food and doesn't take any back talk. Better check your tone when coming to my house for enchiladas. >
  
  I always wonder how POC can proudly talk about the history of the Republican Party. Like… you know they’re against you right? >
  
  "double the number of black republicans in the house"
  I'm not checking, but I'm guessing they went from 2 to 4? >
  
  i love how none of these nominating speeches are really saying anything positive about kevin >
  
  Boebert; asked if there are concessions to be made that will save McCarthy’s bid; her reply: “it’s dead” >
  
  Come on, Democrats, keep punching while they're down. >
  
  Lmao at getting Hakeem chants >
  
  Lol what a shit sandwich of a speech >
  
  If this doesn't end today, the visuals and news about the Jan 6 anniversary, viewed in light of the Republicans current chaos, will be a PR disaster for them.
  Hehehe >
  
  Fox News says republicans want this and this is a victory for McCarthy. Fucking wild. >
  
  “Here’s how losing is actually winning” >
  
  Did anyone else see when MTG called the democrats the enemy last night? I mean shouldn't the enemy like not be your fucking colleagues when you're a goddamn elected official? >
  
  You could literally replace most of the GOP reps with Hefty bags filled with animal feces and nothing would change. >
  
  Gaetz is the dumbest person alive I swear to god >
  
  Eh, I think that honor goes to Boebert. Do you know what she got on her SAT's? Barbeque sauce. >
  
  Trump thinks this vote was a fraud since he only got one vote, wants to call in to the acting chair and says he just needs 217 more votes; tells his followers to march to the Capitol again to 'give 'em hell.' >
  
  Looks like Jeffries is going to get the most votes once again.  Seven Time Champ!! >
  
  McCarthy?
  "Elizabeth Swan" >
  
  honestly would have been better for mccarthy if the republicans lost the house >
  
  I...  I don't even know why it did this <@U026BU7QQVD> >
  
  
  <@U026BU7QQVD>
  
  is the automod already doing shots? >
  
  China. Border. Socialism.
  Okay so what about your nominee? That's what we are here for guy. >
  
  "Conservative movement of access and opportunity" LOL for what exactly? University? Healthcare? Citizenship? Homeownership? What a bunch of clowns >
  
  He's celebrating they were victorious in passing an adjournment vote yesterday.
  I don't even know where to go to make fun of them anymore.  They're so pathetic and sad and incompetent. >
  
  Treating the motion to adjourn like a Super Bowl win is just an incredible self-own >
  
  I nominate Kevin McCarthy but I won't mention him once in my entire speech. Lol. >
  
  I'm mostly shocked that after 6 votes they're still trying to hype members via speeches. How many failed votes does it take before they just say "fuck it, vote again" >
  
  My man just came out and said new Jim Crow era, DAMN. >
  
  They treat black people like props 😒 >
  
  Hakeem! Hakeem! Hakeem! lolol >
  
  Byron Donald did not look enthused to be the sacrificial lamb. >
  
  Byron Donalds didn't even want to become speaker he told in interviews. That means he's a prop you dingus