At the rate it's going over there, the UN might have to send in peacekeepers fairly soon. And no, I didn't put this in the wrong topic.

at this rate they're gonna run out of old white dudes

Wow, we're at 9 now?

Is 9 too old for Matt Gaetz?

How many of them voted to overturn the 2020 election?

It's probably easiest to just label them all Corrupt Old White Guy 1 through 9.

Getting a real I Am Spartacus vibe from myself right now.

I'm thinking of running for Speaker.

There are no good options here. 7 of the 9 voted to not certify the 2020 election results.

Tom Emmer, the MN rep who is emerging as a front-runner of the two that did vote to certify, is just as bad but more politically savvy, having repeatedly cast doubt in the election results and refused to acknowledge Biden even won after the election. He's a partisan willing to do and say anything for right-wing causes, but unlike the pure chaos members, can make calculated long-term decisions about political effects.

The other person who voted to certify is Austin Scott, who the Internet seems to know nothing about. Maybe he's the best option here? The "not enough information to confirm verifiably terrible" option?

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War of the nine speakers

I think we should have them settle this with trial by combat.

If only this were a world where a few Republicans might defect to Jeffries just to stick it to the far right end of the party that started all this. That would cause some real drama. Wouldn't be hard to stick the blame on the magats and spin it into a message of ending the madness and ineptitude we are watching unfold.

But alas, this is not that world. Republicans would have to actually care about something other than owning the libs and dismantling the government for it to be that world.

Although, still, bipartisan support of a candidate is the only reasonable way I see out of this that doesn't just fall apart again when Gaetz can't get his way. It's too bad the Republicans have painted themselves into a corner where ceding any ground to the even the most conservative Democrats is a complete non-starter.

The rule should be if they don't get a person voted in then the democrats get to pick a republican to serve. The person chosen must serve.

I think I recognize two of them.