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  “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
context: Tomorrow morning he has to wake up and go in to work knowing that the only items on the agenda are him failing publicly again and again, and again and again and again. >
  
  Colbert said it best, "It's like going to your wedding. Spending 2-3 hours talking to the guests and mingling, then it comes time to walk down the aisle and say your vows! ...and she says no. Okay, okay, that was embarrassing in front of everyone. But, how about we go talk with the crowd for a bit, mingle, and then try this again! Walk down the aisle, say your vows, she still really insists on no. Okay! Let's try again tomorrow!" >
  
  I just have to say it is truly a delight to see article after article in this sub with the titles just continually counting up how many votes McCarthy has currently lost. >
  
  And the pictures in the articles showing him absolutely stressing in each one more and more. Dude is on the verge of a nervous breakdown lmao >
  
  He already threw a tantrum on the floor and screamed out "I EARNED THIS!" >
  
  Wait source? No way haha >
  
  Someone who says something like that should not be given power. >
  
  I mean, I get the underlying idea. He won Republican caucus support, they're the majority, that should be job done.
  That said, Republicans have only themselves to blame for fostering the extremist populists in their party that led to this situation, and they deserve every ounce of pain now. Here's hoping this leads to reforms like rank choice voting that help moderate politics again to prevent future fascism. >
  
  While that's the hope, I have very little faith it'll actually lead to that. Considering the Republican way even just these recent years, McCarthy will be run out of the party because he's too "moderate." >
  
  See you all here tomorrow for the next 5 failures! >
  
  I'm extremely curious to see how long they can continue voting and getting the same results. It's starting to feel like groundhog's day at this point. >
  
  Well the record is 133, so... >
  
  Mannnn… some of us show up to work, and we get it done. How are these leeches propped up to govern. >
  
  Have you tried running for office? Seems like the cushiest job in America. >
  
  Sure if the rich people believe that you’re there to make sure they never face consequences or have to pay taxes. Otherwise, good luck getting elected. >
  
  House adjourns for night after Hakeem Jeffries receives the most votes 11 straight times.
  Edit: There is a threshold of 218 votes that a nominee must reach in order to become elected. That’s the joke. >
  
  Do another recount, must be voter fraud... >
  
  Can we really be sure that the Freedom Caucus isn't being controlled by Italian satellites? >
  
  Jew "ish" space lazers... >
  
  In the last round, the House Republicans were in full idiot mode:
  
  
  Gaetz nominates Trump, who only gets 1 vote.
  
  
  Hern gets nominated just to troll McCarthy.
  
  
  No one even remembers to nominate Donalds.
  
  
  McCarthy continues to be impotent and powerless, and looks more and more like he's on the verge of a breakdown.
  
  
  I love this show SO MUCH. >
  
  You forgot the best part Jeffries (D) again received the most votes. >
  
  I wonder how long it will take for a few Republicans to cave and switch their votes to Jeffries. 🤔 >
  
  Right? Jeffries has 212, every single time they've voted. He only needs another 6. I would think between Washington, California, Minnesota, Michigan and Pennsylvania, there would be 1 or 2 Republicans who are from purple districts they wouldn't imperil themselves by voting Jeffries. >
  
  ~~He~~ Jeffries doesn't even need their votes - he just needs enough (10?)  Republicans to not vote, either by just not bothering to show up some day, or by abstaining. >
  
  Supposedly the GOP leadership is sending everybody home for the weekend. Wouldn't it be wild if there was a snap vote before the session was officially closed and Jeffries wins. This is absolutely something the R's would do if they had the chance. >
  
  I can really see a Democratic speaker happening "by accident". >
  
  That has happened in the past in state legislatures. A few years back the NY legislature had a similar situation, deadlocked and didn’t have enough people for a quorum to vote, as republicans were staying out of the room because they didn’t want the Democratic majority to take control, but one Republican legislator walked into the chamber to get to the vending machine on the other end, and a Democrat quickly called for a floor vote and it passed, flipping the legislature blue again. The Republican insisted he shouldn’t count as present but it was too late. >
  
  gotta have my funyuns >
  
  You'd have to imagine that if this gets up to a 17th or 18th vote, Gaetz will lose interest and move on. >
  
  ( nervous laughter )
  Dennis Hastert , the longest serving Republican speaker of the House in history .  In 2016 he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for the sexual abuse of teenage boys. >
  
  Problem is they voted in an president that literally said just grab them by the pussy.  Not really room to lower the bar by much now. >
  
  The fact that the person interviewing Trump in that tape got fired from their job, but Trump got elected blows my mind. >
  
  That was Billy Bush who was fired, and he was George W. Bush's cousin, as well as George H. W. Bush's nephew. >
  
  Wait.... so you're saying George H Bush and George W Bush are related? >
  
  Only tangentially, through billy >
  
  It all comes back to billy one way or another >
  
  Billy all the way down >
  
  The party that claims they can "save America" can't even get through the ordinarily mundane process of electing a Speaker of the House. >
  
  and I fucking DARE anyone, including the right and the media -- to claim Democrats won't "compromise" or are blocking things from passing.  Their own fucking frauds-elect don't compromise with each other, from day ONE.  Hypocrites.
  Who am I kidding though.  Fox will spin it, and we'll get even more of these McShits elected. >
  
  You know what they say. 12th time isn’t the charm either. >
  
  🎵On the twelfth vote for speaker my congress(wo)man gave to me.🎵 >
  
  212 votes for Jeffries >
  
  So what are we putting the odds at that a couple of the GOP would be stupid enough to not show up and reduce quorum and Jeffries wins on a reduced majority? The odds can't be zero anymore. >
  
  Well they already said 4 gop will not be present tomorrow due personal reasons, a funeral, a birth of a child, the other 2 are just personal.  One is already gone due surgery. >
  
  So you need 215 to become speaker. >
  
  I think that brings the number on the floor to 430, so the number of votes needed would be 216. >
  
  429, Dems are missing one because they passed away after the election. But yeah I forgot to add the plus one.  You need 50% plus one right? >
  
  
  You need 50% plus one right?
  
  It just has to be a clear majority.  So if there's an odd number you'll round up (435 is 217.5 which means you need 218).  If there's an even number it would be a tie so you need 1 more (434 is 217 which means 218 still too).  If 430 are here but 1 abstains that's 429 or 215.  For the Dems to win they'd need 3 GOPers to defect which would never happen.  Or, they could win if 6 more Republicans skip the vote or refuse to participate because then only 423 vote and 212 becomes the majority.  Another alternative is that 30 Democrats just abstain and lower the count to 399, so McCarthy's 200 would win a majority - and while I don't see that happening either they might be able to cut a deal but the Republicans seem loathe to give anything resembling a win to the Democrats so they will almost certainly go the route where enough of the holdouts come back after being bribed that McCarthy can get to 218 and win it outright - but then the last people standing against him have to deal with the consequences of basically being another party and get no committee assignments and actively primaried out in their districts over the next in 21 months. >
  
  The holdouts are being cheered in r/conservative, this stunt isn't hurting them with their base at all. They don't like Mccarthy, he can kiss up to the cheeto all he wants and he can concede whatever to these hardliners but they are defined by an inability to compromise and have said they won't vote for Mccarthy. Honestly, that's it for them, Mccarthy has to either concede to them and someone they will actually vote for has to come out or they need to make some sort of deal with Dems which he doesn't yet seem willing to try. >
  
  What pisses me off more is the dumbass voters that just shrug their shoulders and keep voting for them. >
  
  Those voters don't understand the government at all and don't try to, nearly all of their knowledge is based on the fact that a lot of politicians lie and therefore they believe all government is bad.
  It's the reason Trump got elected in the first place, people being mad at the shadowy entity they imagine is the government and, in their minds, sticking it to the evil government by voting in an outsider. They don't actually understand the consequences of anything enough to care about it. >
  
  I've seen conservatives celebrating that this snafu is indirectly preventing new laws from being created. Basically an unironic Ron Swanson take that anything that stops big government is good. 
  It's amazing that these politicians campaign on reforming liberal policy, then clog the proverbial toilet of Washington like a bunch of giant turds that won't flush and their constituents are so dumb they think this is progress. >
  
  Yep, when his opponents tried to say the system isn't rigged, Trump said it is rigged and admitted to taking advantage of it. People thought he was badass for jumping through loopholes >
  
  all this wasted time just so they can talk about Hunter Biden's dick pics. >
  
  Republicans are just hella thirsty. >
  
  And tomorrow is January 6th, a day traitorous Republicans are well known for. >
  
  And they’ve removed the metal detectors. >
  
  They keep saying that nothing can function until there is a SOTH, so how did they order them removed? No one is in charge to do so. >
  
  I think it's because technically they were there by speaker rule previously, and now there are no speaker rules so they have to be removed >
  
  this is the same reason we keep getting all these great CSPAN camera angles. they haven’t voted for the rule of “you can only have one camera, in one location, the whole time” so now there are just cameras everywhere. capturing reactions. it’s glorious. >
  
  I hate that they can do that. They shouldn't be able to hide while they're on the clock. >
  
  They shouldn’t be able to slack the fuck off in the highest office of authority in the country while on the clock and be able to choose to not do their job or just not even show up, but they constantly do and take in 6 figures a year for their hard “work” and generally come out with a wayyy higher net worth for it too. This shit sucks… >
  
  Republican leadership is a joke. Can't pick a speaker. Encourage insurrections.  Want 10 year olds to have babies. >
  
  This is the longest any of these people will ever spend at work >
  
  I really hope the GOP crazies get bored and stop showing up. >
  
  For those curious about precedent, last time it went farther than 9 was in 1859, two years before the south seceded from the union.
  ref >
  
  Another fun fact about the 1859 vote: John Sherman appeared to have the majority vote on the 39th ballot but it didn't count since the clerk forgot to record it.  
  Also, the record for most rounds of voting for Speaker was 133 in 1855.  They had to pass a plurality resolution just to get the voting to end. >
  
  What's that plurality resolution? >
  
  Whoever gets the most votes wins. >
  
  Maybe dumb question, but wouldn’t you need a majority to pass a plurality resolution lol >
  
  I guess, for instance, if the Dems in our election got sick of this after 100 votes and wanted it to end but did not want any Dems on record as voting for McCarthy. Since realistically, there is zero chance a Dem can actually get the position. >
  
  This is pretty similar to the end of the Whig party. Party had no platform. They were too far apart to agree on anything. And then a civil war kicked in. Hopefully only first two happen. But I always figured trump would either rule us all or destroy the Republican Party as we knew it. >
  
  The contrast is the GOP agrees on everything.  They cover up their pro-billionaire agenda with culture war, division, hatred and hostage taking. >
  
  i think this week is proving they DON'T agree on anything >
  
  They agree on all policy goals.  Tax cuts for the rich.  Starve social spending.  Phony investigations.  This circus is nothing more than infighting between performers over the starring roles. >
  
  The taliban twenty doesn't care about policy.  They are there to obstruct and cause chaos.  They have zero interest in trying to govern. >
  
  Imagine how the next few years are going to be. How is anything going to get done?? >
  
  To be fair, that is specifically why some of them got voted in... To make sure the United States government fails to do anything. Their entire purpose is to vote against anything, and everything, and then blame it on the Dems. >
  
  The sad thing is it works. I try to get my family to see who votes for what and reason with why the GOP votes the way it does. All I ever get is “both sides are bad.” This entire fucking country is full of delusional people who cannot even take 2 goddamn seconds to google search some stuff. >
  
  A little over half the country has an 8th grade or below reading level. Most Americans are too stupid and uneducated to use basic critical thinking skills. >
  
  Half the people in there tried to overthrow the government and kill their coworkers and they're still sitting there, is what gets me. It's like a circus but the clowns decide your life >
  
  
  MCCARTHY ALLIES SAY 20 GOP DETRACTORS ARE HOLDING PARTY 'HOSTAGE' 
  
  Practice makes perfect. The Republican party made this shit acceptable at a national level, and is now eating its own face. >
  
  Remember Manchin causing the dem senate grief?
  Well looks like they have their own >
  
  Im realizing how good we had it with only Manchin/Sinema as the outliers.  The GOP is fooooked with these lunatics. >
  
  I think the moment that best encompassed this shitshow was during the speeches setting up the final vote for the day:
  Joe Neguse (D-Colorado) gave a rousing speech about why Hakeem Jeffries should be the speaker of the House. Also goes into how it's ridiculous that the GOP can't come together in unity both as a party and also working alongside Democrats.
  Then Matt Gaetz comes up immediately afterwards to nominate Donald Trump as Speaker. Then goes on an unhinged rant for several minutes.
  THAT several minutes right there totally sums up everything about this clown show right now and how this House is going to fucking do NOTHING for this country for the next two years.
  Source @6:37:28 if the link doesn't take you right to the moment. >
  
  Wow Gaetz is an idiot. The best part was the single person clapping lol! >
  
  Please clap. >
  
  End of the 11th Speaker Vote:   (Thursday, Jan 5, 2023)  
  McCarthy (R):      200
  Jeffries (D):          212
  Donalds (R ):         12
  Hern (R):           7
  Trump:              1
  Present:                   1
  433 >
  
  Trump: 1
  LOL >
  
  Trump loses another vote. Sad! No energy! Poor ratings! >
  
  Massive fraud! >
  
  He would have won if not for the RIGGED ELECTION >
  
  Republicans are showing, again, that they are incapable of governing on a national level. The party has failed, and I really don't see a way forward without a serious fracture of a significant part of the base. >
  
  what's really being said is that a small group of right wingers have hijacked the American Congress >
  
  Yes and no.
  Make no mistake, McCarthy and a LOT of his supporters are just as destructive and unprincipled as these 20.
  They're just on the receiving end of it this time.
  Thr Republican Party stands for nothing but greed and dysfunction. It's so satisfying to see them devour each other. >
  
  Tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary of Jan 6th. See if these MAGA traitors continue this comical stupidity. >
  
  Lol no way Trump would want the job anyway. Too much work. >
  
  11...11 failed speaker votes, ah ah ah >
  
  But these go to eleven. >
  
  It's fun to laugh but just think about what those 20 congesmembers are "negotiating" for. I guess it's nice that McCarthy hasn't capitulated yet. But if Boebert and Gaetz end up supporting him it means he promised them vile things. >
  
  From what I understand he's already promised to give them everything they're demanding and they still won't vote for him.  I think the point is to humiliate him, and it's working. >
  
  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 11 fucking times, hahaha fuck you McCarthy!