In Speaker Vote, Trump's GOP Support Was 0.0045% (1 Of 221 Votes)
Meanwhile, Santos flashes "White Power" signs (a favourite gesture of neo-Nazis) while waiting to be sworn in.
When Donald Trump’s name was put forward as a possible Speaker of the House and a vote was taken, 220 out of 221 Republicans said: “Hell fucking no.” Trump lost so badly — and then was laughed at in absentia — that even his addled a-brain knew he couldn’t claim the results were rigged.
The House resumes voting tonight with a 14th round of voting. It has been 164 years since it took this long to elect a Speaker of the House (1859).
Most Votes Needed To Elect Speaker Of The House
1855 - 34th Congress 133
1849 - 31st Congress 63
1859 - 36th Congress 44
1819 - 16th Congress 22
2021 - 118th Congress 14 (so far)
1821 - 17th Congress 12
1839 - 26th Congress 11
1833 - 23rd Congress 10
Other far-right networks are trashing Fox for its “embarrassing” pro-McCarthy stance.
Two years after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, the same domestic terrorists are still doing what they can to shut down the US government.
Wajahat Ali of The Daily Beast writes:
Today, on the second anniversary of the failed Jan. 6 insurrection incited by Trump and his conservative allies, it is worth noting that a majority of Republicans believe in the lie that Trump won the 2020 election. The Republican National Committee has referred to violent insurrectionists as “ordinary citizens” who were engaged in a “legitimate political discourse”. Nearly half of Republican voters now embrace some aspect of the white supremacist great replacement conspiracy theory that has radicalized individuals to commit terrorism against Americans. . . .
Rep. McCarthy and GOP leaders voluntarily sacrificed their spine, dignity, and moral compass to these seditionists, racists, and clowns just to have a chance at power. Even though he knows Trumpism is caustic, dangerous, and violent, McCarthy nonetheless prostrates himself as a pathetic, gelatinous mound of red flesh in front of the star-spangled altar of MAGA made of brass and manufactured in China. The delicious irony is that no matter how much he concedes, begs, and grovels, it’ll never be enough. For the extremists, he isn’t a true believer. He’s an establishment cuck and fraud whose voluntary debasement will leave him as a cautionary tale in the annals of congressional history.
Invenerate liar George Santos has not been sworn in yet, but he’s already flashing “White Power” signs. This photo is real. Jim Bourg is Reuters’ News Pictures Editor-in-Charge and is based in Washington.
I would opt for clarity and truth and replace “makes gestures with his hands” with “makes the ‘White Power’ gesture used by neo-Nazis and white supremacists”.
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And Stone worked for Richard Nixon and has a tattoo of the 37th president’s face on his back.
