🚨US House of Representatives Removes Kevin McCarthy as Speaker in Historic Vote🚨

[itsalanisbitch]

BREAKING: Republican Kevin McCarthy has officially been ousted as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

He becomes the first speaker in history to be voted out of the position, lasting only 269 days. pic.twitter.com/eW2rKpLf0x
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 3, 2023

"The Office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of

Comments

[magicpebble]

The GOP is such a mess right now; it's what they deserve. Unfortunately they will continue to be successful in elections because of gerrymandering and white people stupidity.

[skyler_white_yo]

Why can’t the Republican Party just implode already. McCarthy is garbage, but avoiding yet another shutdown was a decent thing to do.

[emofordino]

seriously, that was probably the only time in his miserable life that he's done the right thing.

[fauxkaren]

lol what a cool and functional government we have!

anyway this was slightly inevitable ever since McCarthy cut the deal with Gaetz to become Speaker back in January. The second McCarthy did something Gaetz didnt like, Gaetz was gonna pull this shit. McCarthy did this to himself!!!

[irajaxon]

the way this government is set up is truly hilarious. like, the leadership of a whole house of congress is at the mercy of some jackass from florida. absolutely wild.

[fauxkaren]

Tbh, it didn't have to be this way! It didn't used to be this way!

Congress makes its own rules and do it at the start of every Congress. When this past House was seated in January, Matt Gaetz only agreed to support Kevin McCarthy for the Speakership IF the changed the rules so that any single congressperson to do this motion to vacate (aka any single congressperson could start the process of voting to fire McCarthy). Previous rules wouldn't have let Gaetz do this!!!

But Gaetz got McCarthy to agree to change the rules in exchange for his vote for Speaker and in very predictable fashion, it was basically McCarthy signing his own death warrant.

[emofordino]

for real! it was always gonna end this way.

now, when is something going to be done about gaetz's pedo ass??? bc i'm ready for him to get his fucking karma already!

[better2beloved]

Not American so I have what may be a stupid question..does this mean a dem could possibly become speaker? What’s the ratio of dems to repubs? How embarrassing

[aaronnyc89]

[itsalanisbitch]

possible but doubt it. a few republicans would have to jump ship to the democrats.

221 republican vs 212 democratic

[fauxkaren]

In theory yes.

In reality no.

In theory literally anyone who can get a majority of votes can become Speaker.

But the GOP has a slight majority in the House so unless a few Republicans break rank and support a Dem, it's not happening.

Therefore, it is not happening.

[inkstainedlips]

Gaetz saying republicans can't call Biden feeble when he takes McCarthy's lunch money did make me lol.

[quinzl13]

Bidens next campaign ad video.