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  1. Canada's orderly Speaker election vs. the US 'circus' 🎪. A look at why our system prioritizes neutrality over partisan drama & why I'm happily staying Canadian. 🇨🇦 My thoughts: collectiver.com/blog/canada-vs
    #CdnPoli #USPolitics #SpeakerElection

  2. it's kind of interesting to see #MikeJohnson take an oath to protect the country from enemies both foreign and domestic, considering he was one of those domestic enemies not that long ago.

    #SpeakerElection

  3. gotta admit that part of me is disappointed that I won't see Jim Jordan lose another vote today.

    #SpeakerElection
    #SpeakerDebacle
    #USPolitics

  4. When I was around 3 or 4 years old, I did something that I wasn't supposed to and my mom was going to punish me for it. She was chasing me around a large coffee table in the middle of our living room. At some point during the chase, I stopped dead, looked her in the eyes and said, "See what you made me do, I peed my pants because of you!"

    I find it so surprising that I was a #Republican back then. Glad I grew out of that.

    #Speaker #SpeakerElection #USPolitics #TheyAlwaysBlameTheDemocrats

  5. CW: #uspol

    #GymJordan has just managed what McCarthy could not: he did worse on his 2nd vote than his first: 199 to Jeffries 212 (22 ‘others’)

    #housespeaker #SpeakerElection

  6. Jim Jordan’s Big Day Ends in Chaos and Failure: The Republican nominee for speaker spent his day doing what his predecessor Kevin McCarthy did best—not getting enough votes to win the gavel.

    newrepublic.com/article/176305

    #JimJordanSpeaker #RepublicanNominee #KevinMcCarthy #GavelFailure #GOPChaos #SpeakerElection #Politics #News

  7. I think if the House Speaker elections were secret Jeffries would be speaker by now.

    As it is the clown circus continues. I guess we should be happy no one actually voted for Trump, although Jordan is basically Trump's hand-puppet.

    msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m

    #speakerelection #gop #jimjordan #houseofrepresentatives

  8. By the way, in case anybody is interested in seeing who votes for whom, the New York Times has an interactive tracker and it doesn’t appear to be behind a paywall.

    EDIT: It looks like there might be a paywall for some people after all ☹️

    nytimes.com/interactive/2023/1

    #USPol #USPolitics #SpeakerElection #SpeakerVote #HouseRepublicans #NewYorkTimes #NYT

  9. I am confused, is there some minimum vote count for #speaker? I feel like Jeffries won this.
    #SpeakerElection

  10. Okay I might have hallucinated it, but did I hear Elise Stefanik compare #GymJordan to MOSES in her nomination speech??!

    *blinks*

    …perhaps I misheard?

    #USPol #USPolitics #SpeakerElection #SpeakerVote #HouseRepublicans

  11. It floors me that Greg Pence has voted in favor of the guy who supports (and is supported by) the guy who wanted to hang his brother. That’s got to make for awkward family get-togethers? 😬

    #USPol #USPolitics #SpeakerElection #SpeakerVote #HouseRepublicans

  12. I had forgotten all about #BadLipReading. They just put this out. (It’s good when we can find something about this situation to laugh about.) #SpeakerElection

    youtu.be/2e4BdiJPLW8

  13. I do take exception to this quote in the article from Lauren Bell:
    "Given the right circumstances, Bell said this sort of insurgency could happen on the Democratic side as well, but she said Republican backbenchers simply contest their leaders more often." I think it's likely taken a bit of context but the far left of the democrats are moderate by Canadian/world standards. The "moderate" right in the US is far right here. 2/2 #speaker #uspoli #cdnpoli #politics #speakerelection

  14. I agree with the general sentiment that while this is entertaining it suggests that the world could face some serious problems this term (eg the debt ceiling not being raised):
    Once-in-a-century chaos strikes Congress — and its effects could reach beyond the U.S #uspoli #uspolitics #speaker #speakerelection #politics #cdnpoli
    1/2
    cbc.ca/amp/1.6704127

  15. CW: US Politics; McCarthy joke

    This is the worst episode of the West Wing I have ever seen

    #USPolitics #McCarthy #TheWestWing #SpeakerElection