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  So.  What happens if they do not choose a speaker?
context: He's a traitor so he has no business being speaker of the House. >
  
  Bingo >
  
  I like how he can openly bribe people for a position.  Props to the folks who realized they had him over a barrel, it's still fucked up. >
  
  Hope you have a terrible time, Kev! 👋 >
  
  Already is.  Only reason he wants to be the speaker is that he wants a good private sector job when he retires in like 2 yrs. >
  
  Seeing this worm squirm warms my heart. Even if he gets the speakership, he will only last a few months, and the House will descend into a monkey shit throwing fight. >
  
  Ah a sign of a strong leader.  🤡 >
  
  This flesh wrapped sack of shit even has to kiss up to lying scumbag George Santos. >
  
  Not to mention human sex trafficker Matt Gaetz >
  
  He lost this fight in 2016 too just as a reminder >
  
  I wish more of this could be televised. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Republican leadership discussions. 
  It’s got to be a madhouse. >
  
  Fly on VP’s head? Too bad that sack of gas filled shit isn’t the President of the house attracting flies naturally! >
  
  McCarthy deserves to be voted down for all the harm he's done to the US. >
  
  So, what’s the process on this. Let’s say he doesn’t get the votes, but it is clear others don’t have the votes, either (Biggs, lol).
  What happens?
  
  raising the prospect of a brutal, once-in-a-century floor fight that could delay establishing committees, conducting oversight or legislating. 
  
  Doesn’t really go into specifics as to how long and how it would resolve. >
  
  They keep voting until there is a Speaker. It hasn't happened in a long-time, so there isn't a ton of precedent. It could be resolved same day, take multiple days, or last weeks.
  One path is that he gets to 210ish, the holdouts get a few more concessions and feel they've made their point, and give him the votes while threatening to keep him on a short leash. Another is that they go a few votes without him getting to 218 (and potentially losing votes), and his supporters see that he can't get there and start negotiating on a new candidate (Steve Scalise maybe). Or holdouts/Dems could give him the win in an alternative manner, by having a handful of members voting present to lower the majority threshold or voting on a rule to change the threshold to a plurality of members - although whoever is caving here would want significant concessions.