Dan Rebellato
If you need some cheering up, the US Republicans are tearing each other apart live on TV. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/03/us/house-speaker-vote
House to Vote on McCarthy's Bid to Become Speaker: Watch Live

The group of right-wing Republicans opposing Mr. McCarthy has grown ahead of Tuesday’s vote, leaving the election’s outcome uncertain. He needs a majority of the House to take the job, and no Democrats are expected to back him.

Jan 3, 2023 at 6:53pmWeb
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 3, 2023
It's oddly soothing, watching the Republicans milling about chaotically, unable to figure out what to do...
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 3, 2023
Mad Matt Gaetz has just risen to nominate Jim Jordan... who has just thrown his weight behind Kevin McCarthy. Hilarious.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 3, 2023
So McCarthy has failed to win on the second ballot. This could go on quite some time.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 3, 2023
I think Kevin McCarthy has failed to be elected speaker at the third ballot. Possibly by a wider margin than before.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
Day 2 and the hilarious Republican shambles continues. Kevin McCarthy has failed to be elected speaker for the 4th time. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/04/us/house-speaker-vote
Kevin McCarthy's House Speaker Bid: Watch Live

After Representative Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader, had fallen short three times on Tuesday, and the House held another vote to find someone to hold the gavel. Donald Trump called on Republicans to line up behind Mr. McCarthy.

Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
Man, that's a lot of shapeless grey suits.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
And here we go again. Vote No. 5 that McCarthy will also lose.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
And now a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Kevin McCarthy fail to be elected Speaker for the sixth glorious time.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
Yep, unless a load of Democrats vote for him (they won't), McCarthy has failed to be elected Speaker for the 6th time. He's approaching Farage-like levels of electoral failure.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
It's incredible that they have no quicker way of conducting these votes. It's taking 45 minutes per pointless, unchanging round of voting.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
I have to say, @[email protected], when Marjorie Taylor Greene comes across - comparatively speaking - like a voice of reason, you've got a REAL problem.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
And then they take ages to announce to results, even though we've been counting. Everyone knows the answer. https://twitter.com/DanRebellato/status/1610742215495516182
Dan Rebellato on Twitter

“It's incredible that they have no quicker way of conducting these votes. It's taking 45 minutes per pointless, unchanging round of voting.”

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Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
I mean they took 12 minutes to come to the same conclusion that everyone else watching had already come to.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 5, 2023
And we're back! Another vote has been called, so Kevin McCarthy inches ever closer to being not elected speaker for the seventh time. Exciting!
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 5, 2023
Aaaand he's failed again. Oh Kevin...
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 5, 2023
Let's go again! Why not? Just to make absolutely, completely, 100% sure that the Republicans are a hilarious car crash. Take eight!
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 5, 2023
It's always great fun when inept politicians think they can gaslight us by insisting that something is the case when EVERYONE can see it's not. In that spirit, we should all enjoy the GOP's insistence that the House Speaker non-election is 'a very healthy conversation'.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 5, 2023
And he's lost for the eighth time.
Show threadAnne UrsuJan 5, 2023
@danrebellato I have been waiting for the home alone memes
Show threadfenhuwJan 5, 2023
@danrebellato so glad you’re on mastodon ;)
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 5, 2023
Did Matt Gaetz vote for Trump AGAIN??
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 5, 2023
And he’s failed for the ninth time!
Show threadTaliesenJan 5, 2023
@danrebellato this has to be the most stupid thing ever I am agog that so called grownups are doing this over and over again and wtf is Kevin thinking being humiliated time after time
Show threadDavid LewisJan 4, 2023
@danrebellato you’d have thought that in a country where the leader and the government can be from different parties, the government and their speaker could be from different parties. It’s no MORE fucked up.
Show threadDan RebellatoJan 4, 2023
@davidclewis Get outta here with your sane ideas. We're WAY past that now.