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Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel.

The blocked-House impasse deepening, Republicans have no realistic or workable plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compromise is the heart of democracy; it might taste vile in your mouth, but coming to an agreement with your countrymen is the only way forward. Republicans only want a government that represents them and represses everyone else. THAT is why they love the traitor trump, because he promises to only be their president and no one else’s. The truth is he only cares about himself and will sell this country for a song if it is to his benefit.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like he did when he shared highly sensitive information about the defense system in Gaza with Putin, who then traded that info for ammo to the Iranians, who then passed it along to Hamas, who, well, you know how that went.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how this is perfectly plausible.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I nominate Arnold Schwarzenegger for speaker.

He’ll get enough votes from both parties. His dad also fought for and was ruined by fascism so he has a pretty big hard on against all of it. Sensible choice in nonsensical times.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The doors really open wide when you consider that the nominee can be someone outside of the House. I nominate my 14 year old nephew, i think he'd at least do better than any republican in congress.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i nominate a magic 8-ball for the same reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nominate the gavel. At least it has experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly.

Democrats can (and should) go out and find excellent, apolitical candidates. National heroes. We can't get Jeffries, OK. Understood. You can't all agree on much, but you are united in not wanting a Democratic political operative as speaker. Understandable.

Can any of the 221 GOP representatives stack up against former astronaut Scott Kelly? How about a random 9/11 firefighter? Any of the 66 living Medal of Honor recipients?

Any candidate for speaker think they can compare favorably to any of these people?

The speaker does not need to be a member of Congress, and the Speakership does not need to be a political position. Let's establish a tradition where if we can't get a partisan majority for speaker, we look for our candidate from the nation as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I suggest a magic 8 ball, and a person to shake and read it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Seconded. Swear em in

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t wait to see how they try to blame the Democrats for this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jordan is a democrat plant, obviously.

Edit: this is a joke, I didn’t want to insult all the plants. I love plants. I hate Jordan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

He's antifa duh

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is an incredible photo, lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I rarely save pics anymore, but goddamned, that one's a classic.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

And another Trump endorsement fails spectacularly.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I guess all those coordinated death threats backfired.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now he can go back to his old job- Appearing on Fox. He's done so 128 times this year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh come on, he's been in office 16 years and passed exactly...checks notes ... 0 bills!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, I'm confused. I thought he wasn't going to run a 3rd time? But he still ran and lost, and now the GOP is dropping him entirely from the running?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if the GOP is suffering through a clusterfuck clownshow of its own making.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Secret ballot - they were finding out what representatives really think about him by not doing it in public

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do republicans even have a “square one” anymore?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's hard to find square one when they have Trump's balls in their mouths.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

A well deserved bye to Gym Jordan

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 8 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

these chimps have no idea where to find Square One.. they're trying to drag everyone else down to Square Zero with them..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Buh bye Gymbo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why was this clown even in the running. This party is insane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mike Garcia (R-CA) is pretty liberal, Dems. Why not all vote for him next round, see what happens?

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