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  I thought they had voted to adjourn. What happened?
context: Oh PLEASE someone screw this up. >
  
  I can't believe I'm rooting for gaetz and boebert lol. This is fun >
  
  The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy and its hilarious that they're enemies with people they think are their friends. >
  
  As a radical centrist, I'm just excited for the impending political realignment that's going to happen when/if the GOP ceases to be a viable political party >
  
  Wtf is a radical centrist >
  
  Someone who goes super left(Universal Healthcare full stop) and yet super right(gun rights). Source: I hold both positions but Register as a Democrat(used to be an Independent) >
  
  You've just described every socialist so I think that definition needs another pass. >
  
  I think you need to reevaluate "socialist" there... >
  
  The word has lost absolutely all meaning in the United States. >
  
  How can anyone have confidence in a 14 time loser. Our country is a punch line. >
  
  Other countries don’t do this. We just barely understand what’s going on tbh. >
  
  Something I have to remind myself of, is that we were the first. Noone had ever done a major government like ours before. And we made some mistakes that hampered our ability to reform and improve the processes. Other countries learned from our mistakes. >
  
  15th times the charm >
  
  It's looking like it. >
  
  They flipped Biggs to oresent >
  
  Like my grandmother used to say: "If something doesn't work 14 times, then it'll probably, definitely work the 15th time.". Now I understand what she meant. Finally. >
  
  Words to live by, truly :) >
  
  Truer words have been said >
  
  SINO
  Speaker In Name Only. 
  He will have no real power. >
  
  SIOO: Speaker In Office Only >
  
  SICKO: for obvious reasons :P >
  
  Yes..Ha..ha..ha..yes >
  
  “If at first you don’t succeed, kiss Matt Gaetz’s ass.” -Kevin McCarthy >
  
  “Someone always has a pair of ass cheeks and I have a pair of lips”  
  -kEvin McCarthy probably >
  
  Such a pathetic clown show of low-watt goons who have no clue the damage they've just done to this country. The sheer volume of scary shit McCarthy has promised the freedom psychos will be jaw dropping when finally made clear. Who in their right mind votes for these monsters? >
  
  if you saw how a fight almoat broke out... Are you surprised? >
  
  I'm not surprised. I'm exhausted by their idiocy. >
  
  That's my congressman! Nobody beats a Kern County man 15 times in a row! We may lose once, or twice, or thrice, or force, or  fivce, or sixce, or sevence, or eightces, or ninces, or tences, or elevences, or tweleveces, or thirteences, fourteences, but never and I mean NEVER fifteences. >
  
  the fifteences time’s the charm is what my granny always yelled >
  
  I'm so ashamed of my district... Sorry to all of my fellow Americans, I vote against him, but it's just like pissing to try to put out a forest fire, where all the trees are asking to be burned. >
  
  Biggs present, done. >
  
  I was wondering. Is that all he needed? >
  
  Yes, hes up one now. >
  
  Literally staring at the Capitol building from my hotel window as we speak. Do you think there's gonna be a firework show like when a baseball player hits a home run? Will report back.
  Edit. No such luck. Boo. >
  
  Check for white smoke >
  
  No I think in this case it’s brown. >
  
  How are these people going to ever pass a debt ceiling increase, this is going to be chaos >
  
  House Republicans are going to be fighting nonstop the next two years but I would think a debt ceiling increase would pass, because wouldn't that get Democrat votes as well? >
  
  Unfortunately, the Hastart rule dictates you can only pass things if your party can pass it without votes from the other party. So, McCarthy won't even bring it to the floor if he need Dem votes >
  
  "The Hastert Rule is an informal rule and the Speaker is not bound by it; they may break it at their discretion" from Wikipedia >
  
  Yes, but now if he breaks it he can have a single caucus member challenge his speakership. So, he'll never do it. >
  
  Any single person can now challenge his speakership too lol >
  
  Hopefully all of these theatrics makes it harder for them to gut social security, medicare and medicaid, but I doubt it. >
  
  Well yeah.  They'll have a block who keeps voting no for things because they aren't extreme enough. >
  
  Once a Speaker is chosen, McCarthy will have given so much power away to these MAGA Republicans, they will be running the show.  
  These are Republicans who supported Trump’s efforts to overturn a US election and who voted against impeaching Trump for inciting a violent attack on our US Capitol.  They care more about chaos and clicks than governing for The People.
  It may be the end of the Speaker vote but it is the beginning of Republican investigations, going on Fox News to rail against the federal government, and a disastrous outcome for the next debt ceiling vote.  Surely, we will have McCarthy to thank for a default because he handed the keys to the House to these MAGA Republicans.  
  As Steve Bannon said in 2017, their goal is and always has been deconstruction of the administrative state. >
  
  The entire republican conference will vote on committee chairs. 
  There’s a good chance that knives are still coming out. >
  
  I'm half expecting the Chaos Caucus to immediately turn on McCarthy when they inevitably don't get every single committee assignment, triggering 15 more votes over whether or not he's allowed to sit in the big chair. >
  
  Since one of the concessions is one person can bring forth a motion to vacate speaker seat, couldn't a never Kevin person just constantly troll the house and call it over and over with 0 legal repercussions? Obviously they lose any favor to work together, but I feel they're just politicking as a brand, not to actually do anything, so being "the lady who trolled weak Republicans" who got a fox news job is more appealing than being "the lady who was a far right house member" >
  
  Pretty much. He is an idiot for consenting to that. >
  
  How can he be held to that, though? >
  
  He's gotta get it this time, right? Right? >
  
  Only needs to flip 1 more. Gave up everything so far. He’s pathetic >
  
  This is the best reality show ever. Dramatic start, Gaetz goes missing. Bobo the clown was told to shut up by her mom. Alabama almost threw hands. And there was a clock that got to zero and then all of a sudden there were like a bunch of people that swapped sides. 
  Subscribed. >
  
  Looks like he’s won. But he’s going to be pathetically weak & this mess so far all but guarantees the next 2 years will get little done. >
  
  And the only things they’ll get done will be harmful >
  
  Investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop isn’t a good thing?! (Sarcasm) >
  
  On Monday I made fun of Kornacki’s Big Board being used for a Speaker of the House election, but tonight completely flipped me! It definitely helped. >
  
  This would be the master troll of all trolls if Gaetz fucks McCarthy likes he does underage children across state lines >
  
  Is Matt Gaetz holding out for armed services (military) committee chair? That would give a criminally investigated and potentially easily compromised member of Congress access to military secrets, including those about Ukraine. Is that what this holdup is about? Does Putin have an hand in this chaos? >
  
  From another source, "I'm running out of things to ask for." >
  
  I hope they add  another no vote. That would really fuck with him. >
  
  Will a fight break out this time?... >
  
  I … would be careful about joking about a fight. Someone will report you for advocating for violence. >
  
  Fuck that noise, I say we resurrect old hickory from his grave and give him his stick so he can knock some sense into all these muppets. >
  
  Can someone explain what present means? In voting >
  
  Not voting. Lowers majority total >
  
  Well it is finally over, about time. That was a waste of time. >
  
  Can't wait for the monday investigation into Hunter Bidens ham candle >
  
  Holy shit 'ham candle' got me. I've never heard that one before >
  
  I'm starting to think this McCarthy guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about when he says he has the votes. >
  
  That's it. He wins it. 
  Now I want to see what he gave up to get it. >
  
  We already know. You only need 1 person to vote present to remove McCarthy from speakership now. >
  
  Five so far >
  
  I’m referring to after today.  They can renounce him via vote and it only takes 1 person. That’s what he gave up. >
  
  They got his balls in a vice grip but by god he got Nancy’s old office >
  
  Looks like you can win by losing now. >
  
  And now the 💩show begins. Gridlock for the next two years >
  
  Well fuck, put the popcorn away. >
  
  We’re almost on the amount of Doctors from Doctor who as the amount of votes taken. >
  
  So much winning >
  
  What were the results from the vote to adjourn? >
  
  At the last minute many republicans changed to not adjourn presumably because a deal was struck to vote McCarthy in >
  
  You mean after the last minute. >
  
  Yeah. Your are correct , but not yet gaveled when they changed >
  
  Biggs voted Present. He’s got this >
  
  Bonkers. I think we started yet another new timeline >
  
  Well I want this to be over. I'm ready to see more Hunter Biden dick pics. >
  
  I’m a straight democrat and I guess I’m okay with that too. >
  
  It's hilarious at this point. I'd like to see the last 6 Republicans in the roll call suddenly decide to vote Jeffries, drop the mic, drop the curtain and we have the new Speaker :) >
  
  is there anything holding McCarthy to the deals he’s cutting with the holdouts? He seems to have given away the farm and Twitter is speculating about some of what he promised Gaetz or Biggs to get them to vote present. 
  I get that the rules are agreed upon after the speaker vote but what’s stopping him from hitting the old “take-backsies” on any of his promises outside the rule changes? >
  
  The fact he probably would want this job for more than 2 years, and if you burn everyone you needed to get elected speaker, it probably wont happen a second time. >
  
  These people don't believe in democracy. >
  
  Your “winner takes all” election system is to blame. It entrenches the two party system which forces people of wildly different political convictions into one of two parties. You should really change to a weighted voting system. >
  
  If Republicans get passed this speaker vote then they can finally get started on their agenda of doing nothing except endless hearings on Hunter Biden's dick pics. >
  
  And the laptop without a forensic chain of custody. But I guess the rules of evidence don’t apply in political witch hunts. >
  
  Lol, gottem >
  
  There are already 2 "Present" votes.  Watch the "Other" votes to see what happens.  Assuming the Democrats hold together with 212 votes for Jeffries, that "Other" section will be critical.  "Other votes of 4 or more will mean there will be a 16th ballot.
  EDIT:
  There are now 5 "Present" votes >
  
  And, yet again, Republicans who claim to have principles actually have none. I am not surprised. Also, their principles suck. >
  
  Can Kevin count? >
  
  “And you can count, on me waiting for you in the parking lot” >
  
  So what’s going on this vote? >
  
  It’s looking like McCarthy won. There’s been present votes which help him. >
  
  You know what they say, “15th time is the charm”. >
  
  Looks like this is it. >
  
  Bribe the bribes the bribes you bribe. The only thing harder is the 15th time. So listen up close or you might get dissed, in between votes go drain the lizard or take a piss >
  
  Top selling items on Amazon tonight!
  McCarthy’s grandfather-in law, his grandmother-in-law’ his sister and brother-in-law, mother and father and even if necessary his wife and children if that will gain him the speakership of the house. 
  You have just been sold down the river folks to satisfy one narcissist’s craving for power. Just remember, narcissist’s like this will sell you at the drop of their hat if that keeps them in power- and the public trough is controlled by those who regulated the flow spigot to it. >
  
  how is this fair bro. he's lost every fucking vote , why does he get like 15 do-overs >
  
  it's just dumb as hell man. in a normal situation the person with the most yes votes win, they don't keep holding the same vote 15 times. it just seems so pointless and it wastes time and money >
  
  It looking like this might be the one.  3 present votes.  As long as he doesn't lose any previous votes, he should get it this round. >
  
  Kevin McCarthy put on a Master Class & showed the world how to build a monument to capitulation. >
  
  He's going to win the 15th as thing go on.
  How does that make you feel? >
  
  Watching gatez make mccarthy smile and run down the aisle to stop the adjournment and then everyone flipped at once?
  When someone tried to hit gatez when someone else voted wrong hanging the 14th vote?
  When gatez and democrats and establishment republicans that called him a terrorist were smiling before the vote.
  Like this was scripted by gatez to get a spotlight and show some shadow power.
  That people on both sides shoudlnt get sucked in by the media spin and language, the only moment anyone on the floor was surprised was 1 vote on vote 14. >
  
  Why the applause when Crawford announced "McCarthy"? >
  
  Moderate conservatives should caucus with democrats. >
  
  For starters, they would need to exist for this to happen. >
  
  They do exist, moderate conservatives like Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama are largely members of the corporate wing of the Democratic party. >
  
  How much have all of these @&$&$@“ been paid since the voting started? This is making a farce of our government. Can we throw them all out and elect new representatives? >
  
  Wouldn’t this be forcing people to vote for whom they want? After the second or third time, you would think someone else would be volunteered for the position. >
  
  So how many attempts at votes has there actually been? I lost count and the news is saying 11, 13,14, 15… I don’t know what’s happening anymore after working a triple shift yesterday.