Speakership

[Methais]

Seran doesn’t think Jeffries will get it. He was just saying by vote total he’s closer than Jordan. But he will never reach that magical number, because no Republican will ever vote for him.

You underestimate how stupid Seran is.

[Parkbandit]

Seran doesn’t think Jeffries will get it.

Really? Let's see what Seran said:

Jeffries only needed 5 votes to have won the Speakership vote, where Jordan needed 17. Maybe you're just really bad at math, but using those two numbers as the barometer, Jeffries stands a better chance than Strauss's ex-boyfriend Jordan.

Stop being retarded.

He was just saying by vote total he’s closer than Jordan. But he will never reach that magical number, because no Republican will ever vote for him.

I doubt you are smart enough to know this until I posted it.

[Parkbandit]

By Democrats, you mean Gaetz and the republicans that kicked him out?

Jim Jordan isn’t the speaker the country deserves or needs.

I like how every Republican blames the Democrats for their own party, removing the speaker. It’s like what? The Democrats were willing to help McCarthy if he made some concessions and he refused to make any. That’s on him. Don’t blame the democrats for your parties dysfunction.

And stabbing McCarthy in the back? He worked with the democrats a grand total of ONE fucking time. You act like because of that the democrats owe him something, when he’s NEVER worked with them before. I’m sorry, but that’s hilarious.

The only reason McCarthy worked with the Democrats is because he knows a shut down would have made him and his party look more fucking awful and dysfunctional, than they already do and they would have taken the blame. He did it for his own party not for the Democrats.

Because remember, it was his party that couldn’t even work together to come up with their own budget to stop the shutdown. Remember you guys have the majority you don’t need the Democrats. So stop blaming the Democrats for your parties failures.

I just don’t understand why zero Republicans can take any accountability for their own fuck ups. They always have to blame someone else.

I'm not sure how someone who supposedly is in finance and has to deal with numbers on a daily basis can be so god fucking awful at math or not know the difference between debt and deficit.

There are 212 Democrats in the House. In this case, the Democrats could have easily voted to keep McCarthy in power since only 8 Republicans voted to remove him.

208 Democrats voted to remove him while only 8 Republicans voted to remove him.

SPOILER: 8 is not as big as 208.

[Seran]

Oh I don’t deny there is serious dysfunction in the Republican Party. It’s been that way, particularly in the House, for decades.

I won’t rehash the whole thing, but Democrats were happy to work with McCarthy to prevent a shutdown. As a direct result of that bipartisan effort, Gaetz and crew took it to a vote to remove him. The same Democrats voted to remove McCarthy. That’s why I say they stabbed him in the back.

As I said before, whoever gets it next is not going to be so inclined to reach across the aisle to prevent a shutdown after what happened to McCarthy.

Tell us a little bit more how you think Democrats had a duty to help keep Kevin McCarthy on as Speaker when his own party wanted him gone. Blaming Democrats for the single party motion to vacate rule? Sure..

[Suppressed Poet]

Tell us a little bit more how you think Democrats had a duty to help keep Kevin McCarthy on as Speaker when his own party wanted him gone. Blaming Democrats for the single party motion to vacate rule? Sure..

They deserve whoever comes next, and the Democrats will be whining about how they wish they had someone as reasonable as McCarthy as Speaker.

[Seran]

They deserve whoever comes next, and the Democrats will be whining about how they wish they had someone as reasonable as McCarthy as Speaker.

Baseless impeachment inquiry, committee chairs uninterested in the rule of law, supporting Santos, waiting to struggle with compromise budget deals, providing January 6th footage to Tucker Carlson and no one else.. The list of reasons why Democrats should have absolutely no reason to support Kevin McCarthy is pretty epic. I think Republicans whining about how they wish they had anyone at all would be more accurate.

[Methais]

This is correct.

[Parkbandit]

Baseless impeachment inquiry

Imagine if you had any self awareness at all....

committee chairs uninterested in the rule of law

Jesus.. x2

supporting Santos

Imagine if Democrats actually did the most basic of opponent research.. he wouldn't even be elected.

waiting to struggle with compromise budget deals

That's because Democrats have never found a dollar they didn't want to spend.

providing January 6th footage to Tucker Carlson and no one else..

Now THIS I will agree with you on. Release ALL the footage that is left after the Dems went through and destroyed most of the records from their sham committee.

The list of reasons why Democrats should have absolutely no reason to support Kevin McCarthy is pretty epic. I think Republicans whining about how they wish they had anyone at all would be more accurate.

I don't believe anyone is saying Dems should have supported McCarthy.. but they have no one to blame but themselves if they get Jordan as Speaker.

[Seran]

Now THIS I will agree with you on. Release ALL the footage that is left after the Dems went through and destroyed most of the records from their sham committee.

I don't believe anyone is saying Dems should have supported McCarthy.. but they have no one to blame but themselves if they get Jordan as Speaker.

Meanwhile, the only video footage to be released during Republican control of the House went to Tucker Carlson and strangely enough, a man pulling a fire alarm. Lol

[Solkern]

Oh I don’t deny there is serious dysfunction in the Republican Party. It’s been that way, particularly in the House, for decades.

I won’t rehash the whole thing, but Democrats were happy to work with McCarthy to prevent a shutdown. As a direct result of that bipartisan effort, Gaetz and crew took it to a vote to remove him. The same Democrats voted to remove McCarthy. That’s why I say they stabbed him in the back.

As I said before, whoever gets it next is not going to be so inclined to reach across the aisle to prevent a shutdown after what happened to McCarthy.

Stabbed in the back… it’s a funny choice words, because it makes no sense here. Did the McCarthy and Democrats have some kind of deal that the Democrats stabbed him in the back on? Was McCarthy some type of house speaker that consistently helped and worked with the Democrats? Or did he pretty tell them Democrats to fuck off, we don’t need you, and do everything without their input, except one time to save face? How can you expect someone to help you, when you’ve done next to nothing? He deserved what he got.

He worked with the Democrats ONCE not because the Democrats wanted to because he needed to. And of course the Democrats were happy to work with him. He made concessions because he had to.

He made it perfectly clear that this was a one time thing as he said he will not ask the Democrats for any more help, or give the Democrats more concessions, to save his job.

He has consistently stated that he does not want to work with the Democrats, why the fuck would the Democrats care if he speaker or not?

He got kicked out, because of his ego, is that simple, he didn’t think his party was stupid enough to actually do it, he was wrong, and now he’s looking for a scapegoat to blame for his own fuck up. Remember his words? “Bring it on!”? 100% ego.

The only people you should be blaming are Gaetz and his far right wing nut jobs, and McCarthy himself for giving so many concessions to win himself speaker.