Speaker 1: Also media, it's it's chaos in Congress.
Speaker 2: This is this is it could happen here in the
Speaker 2: podcast about things falling apart, and just this is aest
Speaker 2: a falling apart episode with though it's a kind of
Speaker 2: funny one. Yeah, I'm your host, Mia Wong and with
Speaker 2: me is Garrison Davis. Hello.
Speaker 3: Chaos every everywhere, but especially in Congress.
Speaker 2: So I just realized you grew up in Canada, which
Speaker 2: means I did. Can can you explain what the speaker that?
Speaker 2: Do you know what the Speaker of the House is
Speaker 2: for America? Yeah, it's the.
Speaker 3: Guy who like presides over the things and has the
Speaker 3: hammer and he yells you.
Speaker 2: Know that's that's that's that's That's pretty close. Okay, see
Speaker 2: say come on, yeah, yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad.
Speaker 2: This is okay. So we're going to go into a
Speaker 2: bit more about what this person does because I don't know,
Speaker 2: the American Constitution was written by absolute clowns and there's
Speaker 2: some wild stuff there. But however, comma, you know, somewhat
Speaker 2: more seriously, this is a very this is a very
Speaker 2: sort of consequential and dangerous moment in American political history,
Speaker 2: and in this moment, Congress is incomplete chaos. It is
Speaker 2: it is. It is the most non functional it has
Speaker 2: been in my entire life. And that is that is
Speaker 2: saying something like Congress has been non functional for my
Speaker 2: entire life. This is the worst it has ever been.
Speaker 2: And the reason this is the worst has ever been
Speaker 2: is that Kevin McCarthy, who is the now former Speaker
Speaker 2: of the House, was removed by a vote of no
Speaker 2: confidence on October third, which when this comes out, that
Speaker 2: will be exactly two weeks out. And he is removed
Speaker 2: because he tried to cut a deal with the Democrats
Speaker 2: to avert a government shut down until the seventeenth, and
Speaker 2: he got the deal through. Crazy.
Speaker 3: If we had a shutdown till seventeenth, god, imagine, imagine
Speaker 3: met Jesus.
Speaker 2: Fuck, here's the thing. Okay, there's no shutdown till the seventeenth.
Speaker 2: There's also a chance, like a real serious chance that
Speaker 2: like the shutdown starts and we still don't have a
Speaker 2: Speaker of the House. Oh yeah, like it's not that high,
Speaker 2: but it could happen, which is nuts. This has never
Speaker 2: happened before. Yeah, and so so, so I guess we
Speaker 2: should we should go into specifically what hasn't happened before.
Speaker 2: And the thing that hasn't happened before is that no
Speaker 2: sitting speaker of the House dream their term has ever
Speaker 2: been removed by a vote of no confidence, which is
Speaker 2: nuts because again, and I cannot emphasize this enough, for
Speaker 2: most of the two thousands, the Speaker of the House
Speaker 2: was a guy named Dennis Hastit who was literally a pedophile,
Speaker 2: and he was not removed by a vote of no confidence.
Speaker 2: So like, this is this is the level of of
Speaker 2: you know, weirdness that we're in, Like like literally the
Speaker 2: two hundred something year history of the US, this has
Speaker 2: never happened.
Speaker 3: And from my understanding, you don't actually have to be
Speaker 3: like an elected member of the House to be the speaker,
Speaker 3: which means they could carry on this tradition and they
Speaker 3: could get Polanski as Speaker of the House if they
Speaker 3: could find the efthoughts to carry it over.
Speaker 2: You know, at this point, we're gonna get you later.
Speaker 2: There was a there was a two day span, two
Speaker 2: and a half days span where Trump was trying to
Speaker 2: get himself elected a Speaker of the House. Yes, yes, oh,
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 3: That which would be probably the most funny, the most funny.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, results yeah, but you know, because this is
Speaker 2: he also has a path to the presidency. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you just have to get two impeatriment votes somehow to
Speaker 2: take it out. This is how Trump can still win.
Speaker 2: This is the path, guys. Unfortunately he's well, I mean
Speaker 2: here's the thing. Okay, Legitimately, if Biden and Harris died
Speaker 2: in a plane crash tomorrow, I actually think Trump could
Speaker 2: win the would win the Speaker of the House vote.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, But this is this is.
Speaker 2: This is how Birdie can still win. This is so
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 4: So so you know we're in this, We're in We're
Speaker 4: in I don't know, We're just you know, this is
Speaker 4: all like nuts but like again, we are just we
Speaker 4: are in the wilderness, like we're in complete chaos lands.
Speaker 2: No no one the US has never been here before.
Speaker 2: And okay, the other thing we need to mention is, okay,
Speaker 2: so you know you were saying that there there hasn't
Speaker 2: like you know, we we we need we need to
Speaker 2: bring back the like pedophiles to be the Speaker of
Speaker 2: the House. So Speaker of the House, not a pedophile.
Speaker 2: The guy who removed him as Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2: He's by Matt Gates probably probably. Yeah. So here's here's
Speaker 2: what I can say legally about Matt Gates, the guy
Speaker 2: who led eight Republicans to join the Democrats in the
Speaker 2: in the voter no confidence. He is a man best
Speaker 2: known for being investigated for the Department of Justice for
Speaker 2: trafficking underraged girls. What I can legally say is that
Speaker 2: he was suspected by the Justice Department of being a pedophile.
Speaker 2: There are there are like, there were receipts from his
Speaker 2: like on his phone from like cash app of him
Speaker 2: sending money to underage girls. So you know, bad things,
Speaker 2: bad things happening there. That investigation got killed because the
Speaker 2: bourgeoisie protects its allies. But Comma, we do not have
Speaker 2: Speaker of the House right now, so something I think,
Speaker 2: I guess we should also mention this. So there's like
Speaker 2: a there's no Speaker of the House. There's some guy
Speaker 2: they put in who's like, is not actually an acting
Speaker 2: Speaker of the House. The only thing he can do
Speaker 2: effectively is like make sure that there's vote specifically on
Speaker 2: there being another Speaker of the House. Yeah, And this
Speaker 2: has thrown the entire American political system into chaos because
Speaker 2: with no Speaker of the House, the House of Representatives,
Speaker 2: cannot pass bills. They can't do it. They cannot pass
Speaker 2: any bills at all. And because of the way that
Speaker 2: the American system was designed, not having this one person
Speaker 2: shuts down the entire effectively shut it shuts down the
Speaker 2: entire legislative branch, right because you can't get anything passed
Speaker 2: with the Senate without also getting ratified in the House.
Speaker 2: And this has just shut down effectively, like most of
Speaker 2: the American government outside of the like you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: so the executive branch and all the departments of stuff
Speaker 2: are self functioning, but there is no legislative branch right now, effectively,
Speaker 2: is what has happened, right. I think maybe subcommittee meetings
Speaker 2: are still running, but they can't pass any bills. And
Speaker 2: this is both a blessing and a curse. Normally, this
Speaker 2: I think would just be a curse. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe right now this is probably the best possible time
Speaker 2: this could have happened, because the consequence of this has
Speaker 2: been the US has been unable to follow through on
Speaker 2: its most sort of just rapidly genocidal impulses about Palestine
Speaker 2: because again, the House literally cannot pass any bills until
Speaker 2: they figure this shit out. So we haven't been able
Speaker 2: to send money to it. Laziel, we haven't been able
Speaker 2: to send like God forbid, like we have been able
Speaker 2: to plenty troops, which I don't know if they I
Speaker 2: don't know if there was actually the political desire to
Speaker 2: do that anyways, but you know, the fact, the fact
Speaker 2: that there was no speaker in the immediate wake of
Speaker 2: the stuff that's been happening in Palestine means that you know,
Speaker 2: they've they've been restrained from just like glassing the entire
Speaker 2: Middle East, which is which is good. The downside is
Speaker 2: that again, we have until November seventeenth to pass a
Speaker 2: funding bill to avert the government shutdown, and not only
Speaker 2: is there like no progress on a deal about that bill,
Speaker 2: like the American legislature is currently incapable of passing any bill,
Speaker 2: much less the spending bill. So things are going great
Speaker 2: in the American political system. And okay, so we should
Speaker 2: we should ask the question why is this happening? And
Speaker 2: there are both sort of short and long answers to
Speaker 2: this question. Both of them effectively have the same route,
Speaker 2: which is that the Republican Party is a coalition. It's
Speaker 2: one that usually has pretty broadly compatible politics. But it
Speaker 2: is a coalition between different sectors of capital. So think,
Speaker 2: for example, you know, you have your different right wing
Speaker 2: like tech moogul billionaires, right like Elon Musk, like Peter
Speaker 2: thel But these people align on a lot of stuff,
Speaker 2: but they don't necessarily have the same interests as like
Speaker 2: a weapons manufacturer or like coke industries or I mean
Speaker 2: just like you know, like one of the big sort
Speaker 2: of tensions, for example, is that the Republican Party has
Speaker 2: a lot of backing among the financial sector. The financial
Speaker 2: sector has very little interest in conflict with China because
Speaker 2: they have an enormous amount of capital like tied up
Speaker 2: in Chinese firms. There are a lot of other like
Speaker 2: people who have a lot of like like even this,
Speaker 2: this is the thing between Elon Musk and Peter teel
Speaker 2: right or like Musk is kind of more pro China
Speaker 2: than like the average like Republican tech billionaire because he
Speaker 2: has a bunch of contracts in a giant factory in
Speaker 2: China and so so okay, So this is a coalition
Speaker 2: between different segments of capital who disagree. This is also
Speaker 2: a coalition between different like right wing social movements who
Speaker 2: are also you know, a very powerful part of the party.
Speaker 2: You have the evangelical stuff. But I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: the consequence of this, and the consequence of the sort
Speaker 2: of shift right of American politics has been you now
Speaker 2: have this party where there are like libertarians alongside neocons,
Speaker 2: you have more moderate conservatives, and you have basic people
Speaker 2: who are effectively neo Nazis. And the fact that the
Speaker 2: coalition is like this now, the fact that it is
Speaker 2: genuinely more so than it's been in a long time,
Speaker 2: a very broad and diverse coalition, this has made the
Speaker 2: House of Representatives effectively unmanageable. Okay, and this has been
Speaker 2: a real issue in the Republican Party for a while
Speaker 2: now actually because you know, and this is this is
Speaker 2: why we're getting the government shutdown stuff. Like a big
Speaker 2: part of Republican strategy for the last decade, basically since
Speaker 2: Obama took office, has just been shutting down the government
Speaker 2: and doing arch obstructionism, so you know, nothing can get done. Wait, care,
Speaker 2: have you have you been? Do you remember the last
Speaker 2: government shut down? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was only like two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it feels like maybe maybe it was longer. It feels
Speaker 3: like it was pretty recent. There was no it was
Speaker 3: it was in twenty eighteen. I think it was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I see, because in my brain we're still in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they were actually funny.
Speaker 3: So what I said when I say two years ago,
Speaker 3: what I mean is twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and it's that one was funny because
Speaker 2: that was a that was a Republican president. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: which is very funny. But yeah, but you know, but
Speaker 2: back when Obama was in office, like this just happened
Speaker 2: all the fucking time, like every other week. There was
Speaker 2: like a threat of a government every single time a bill,
Speaker 2: like a funding bill was going to pass Congress, Like
Speaker 2: I had a bunch of family members get furloughed well
Speaker 2: at one point because the government actually did shut down
Speaker 2: for a long time. But there's a real problem with this,
Speaker 2: which is that this political strategy encourages, effectively the it
Speaker 2: encourages creating chaos, right, and this is something that Trump
Speaker 2: has been very good at sort of exploiting. But it
Speaker 2: also means that there's now this like qudra of politicos
Speaker 2: who've come up who are like incredibly right wing, and
Speaker 2: effectively the only thing they know how to do is
Speaker 2: obstructing anything from functioning. And this is what McCarthy ran into.
Speaker 2: He ran into Gates and his sort of like band
Speaker 2: of Mary. I don't know. I was gonna call him
Speaker 2: a band of Mary weirdos, but that's way too complimentary.
Speaker 2: His band of like absolute fanatics. And the real issue
Speaker 2: here is that, Okay, so there's currently two vacant seats
Speaker 2: in the House, So this means right now, to win
Speaker 2: a vote in the full House to become Speaker of
Speaker 2: the House, you need two hundred and seventeen votes. Sorry,
Speaker 2: hold on, there's new shit happening, like right now. McCarthy
Speaker 2: thinks that Jim Jordan has two hundred and seventeen votes.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe him. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 2: I'll just explain what's happening now and then we'll put
Speaker 2: that at the end as like breaking news.
Speaker 3: Insert that at the end, Daniel, thank you or keep
Speaker 3: it in right now is a funny bit, yes, because
Speaker 3: this situation is still developing as of time of recording.
Speaker 2: So yeah, like as yes, it's the only we should mention.
Speaker 2: You know, this process is complicated enough that like, yeah,
Speaker 2: as we are recording it, stuff is changing. Rapidly, like
Speaker 2: stuff has been news is coming in. So what's been
Speaker 2: making it hard is that in order to get two
Speaker 2: undred and seventeen votes right, the Republican majority is only
Speaker 2: they only have two hundred and twenty one votes. So
Speaker 2: if you want to become Speaker of the House, you
Speaker 2: can only lose four total votes. And this means you
Speaker 2: have to win both the moderates and Matt Gates's coalition
Speaker 2: of fanatics. And this is effectively impossible. It is, it
Speaker 2: is un believably difficult. McCarthy was able to do this
Speaker 2: because he pulled votes from the far right by like
Speaker 2: promising things like impeaching Biden and stuff like that, and
Speaker 2: also sort of cutting cutting his own deals with a
Speaker 2: lot of people like Marjorie Taylor Green who like and
Speaker 2: this is and this is the other thing about about
Speaker 2: this impeachment vote is that it's not actually a purely
Speaker 2: ideological lines like far right versus moderate vote, because.
Speaker 3: No, like he he even split the more extreme contention
Speaker 3: of the Republican Party in Congress. It's it's it's really bizarre.
Speaker 3: Well it's not bizarre because you can't like understand it,
Speaker 3: but it is certainly interesting. Where where the dividing lines
Speaker 3: and ended up being for a lot of the people
Speaker 3: that we consider mostly being on the same side right
Speaker 3: because usually people imagine like Matt Gaet's and Marchie Taylor
Speaker 3: Green usually in the same kind of far right voting block.
Speaker 3: And to see like divisions over over this vote is
Speaker 3: certainly an interesting aspect of you know, possible fractures within
Speaker 3: even the extreme contingent of the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this and this has been a really interesting dynamic,
Speaker 2: but it also makes it just like impossible, Like you
Speaker 2: have to in order to do this, you have to
Speaker 2: somehow appease the moderates and gates, like you're dealing with
Speaker 2: multiple different right wing fringe factions. Yeah, and then and
Speaker 2: this is you know, we'll be talking more about the
Speaker 2: Freedom Caucus in a little bit, but you have to,
Speaker 2: like you're at a point where you're trying to appease
Speaker 2: so many different groups of people who all have kind
Speaker 2: of competing agendas, who also just have like personal beef
Speaker 2: with each other, And as of right now time of recording,
Speaker 2: which is two pm Pacific time on Friday, no one
Speaker 2: has been able to actually pull together this vote. We're
Speaker 2: gonna take an ad break, and then we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna do you know who else actually needs to be
Speaker 3: appeased by these same people?
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Speaker 2: is podcast?
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Speaker 3: as you were saying.
Speaker 2: So, what has happened after that? The answer is an
Speaker 2: absolute clown show. I mean, if this is this is
Speaker 2: one of the most like James.
Speaker 3: Let's let's not disparage clowns, shall we. That's true, this
Speaker 3: is unfair to be We could have clowns in the audience,
Speaker 3: We could have closeted clowns in this phone call.
Speaker 2: That's true. That's true, Okay, I I yes, I've been
Speaker 2: being unfair to clowns by comparing him to the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: This has been this has been one of the most
Speaker 2: pathetic displays of politics I've ever seen. And I have
Speaker 2: followed the political trajectory of Israeli labor like this is
Speaker 2: this has it's been truly awful. So all right, So
Speaker 2: so McCarthy is ousted. The problem immediately is that no
Speaker 2: one has anywhere close to enough votes to replace him,
Speaker 2: like like and when I say no one like mc
Speaker 2: McCarthy went down by he lost eight votes from the Republicans. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: no one else is within like sixty, right, Like what like.
Speaker 3: This wasn't just a power move for Gates then? Like
Speaker 3: he he was like was was he looking to take
Speaker 3: the spot or no? No, get the gate. There's Gates
Speaker 3: has absolutely no shot of winning. He would get like
Speaker 3: votes maybe like basically nothing. What he was trying to
Speaker 3: and this is this is kind of Gates is in
Speaker 3: this kind of obstructionism thing where he's trying the thing
Speaker 3: he's trying to do basically is he's trying to like
Speaker 3: he's trying to set up himself as a political flank
Speaker 3: of like the most Republicans, Republicans and everyone else, are
Speaker 3: these like sellouts to work with the Democrats. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: he's he's also been trying so so. Gates' preferred candidate
Speaker 3: is a guy named Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan is the
Speaker 3: found he was the founding head of the powerful far
Speaker 3: far right Freedom Caucus. And he's a real he's a
Speaker 3: real piece of work.
Speaker 2: He's mad.
Speaker 3: I feel like Jim Jordan has been a recurring character
Speaker 3: on this show.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he's not a he sucks, Like he's not quite
Speaker 2: like a full on neo Nazi in the way, like yeah,
Speaker 2: but like he's not good. He's he's he's from like
Speaker 2: the far right. He's what I guess you would call
Speaker 2: the like the more acceptable far right of the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: Like he's from the Freedom Caucus, like is is a
Speaker 2: like a very right wing organization even within the Republican Party.
Speaker 2: But they're not seen as like weird fringe fanatics in
Speaker 2: the way at the very least.
Speaker 3: Hold the door open towards people that are even like
Speaker 3: like even way way more extreme.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and that's been true.
Speaker 3: He's been serving in Congress since like twentus and seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a very he's a very high He's one
Speaker 2: of the guys. He's he's been like the architect of
Speaker 2: a lot of well not the archetym, he's been one
Speaker 2: of the figures behind a lot of the sort of
Speaker 2: like government shutdown stuff. He's been, he's he's been one
Speaker 2: of the guys who's kind of like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: like he didn't he cause he didn't come in on
Speaker 2: the tea party wave. He came in before that. But
Speaker 2: he's been he's been a guy who's been pushing that
Speaker 2: kind of sort of like that kind of very very
Speaker 2: rote with politics. His his original opponent was Steve Scalise,
Speaker 2: who is a kind of semi McCarthy ally kind of
Speaker 2: and you will see him described as being more moderate
Speaker 2: then than Jim Jordan, And that is maybe kind of
Speaker 2: true in the sense that like he's being back in
Speaker 2: the fact that like like Jim Jordan is being backed
Speaker 2: by like Marjorie Terry Green, Matt Gates and like Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: This is after Trump gave up his bid to like
Speaker 2: become speak of house himself.
Speaker 3: He backs which would have been the funniest com.
Speaker 2: Yeah, would have been very funny. But however, we don't.
Speaker 2: We don't live in the funniest off possible timeline, satur
Speaker 2: we live in the worst one. Yeah yeah, so that
Speaker 2: didn't happen. So the problem is the other guy is
Speaker 2: is again this is Steve Scalise, and again he's called
Speaker 2: him moderate. Scalise also wants there there is a report
Speaker 2: of him calling himself and I quote David Duke without
Speaker 2: the baggage, and in in in the early two thousands,
Speaker 2: he spoke at a David at at a rally for
Speaker 2: a group founded by David Duke. Mm hmmm, what without
Speaker 2: the baggage? What is left of David Dude?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: How what is what does actually mean? Like we should
Speaker 2: I guess we should have mentioned so David Duke if people
Speaker 2: don't remember David Duke was the Grand Wizard. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: So when he says David Duke without the baggage, what
Speaker 2: he means is that he he has David Duke's politics,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't have the immediate what the fuck association
Speaker 2: you get when you mentioned the head of the fucking
Speaker 2: KKK that that that's what he was going for, right,
Speaker 2: So this is not a good guy. He's being presented
Speaker 2: as and again, this is what passes for like a moderate.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's kind of in the modern right of
Speaker 2: the part, but like, this is what passes for a
Speaker 2: fucking moderate Republican in twenty twenty three, right, Like these
Speaker 2: people have always sucked, They've always fucking been like this,
Speaker 2: and you know the problem, Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's
Speaker 2: it's a real issue that again, like this guy who
Speaker 2: is like speaking at like it should like in any
Speaker 2: even remotely normal political system, having given a speech at
Speaker 2: a rally for an organization ran by David Duke would
Speaker 2: immediately be disqualifying. But you know, no, like you can
Speaker 2: just do that. You can do that and you get
Speaker 2: to be a moderate in twenty twenty three. But the
Speaker 2: problem with the problem Scalise has is that Sclee's problem
Speaker 2: isn't that again like clan bullshit. It's the fact that
Speaker 2: the way that votes for the Speaker of the House
Speaker 2: work is that so there's an internal blind vote inside
Speaker 2: of the inside of the Republican Party where each each
Speaker 2: each representative gets to anonymously vote, like each Republican representative
Speaker 2: gets to a anonymously vote for their preferred candidates. So
Speaker 2: Jim Jordan like kind of narrowly loses out to Scalise
Speaker 2: in the first rounte in the first vote, So he
Speaker 2: loses one hundred and thirteen to ninety nine, and so
Speaker 2: Scalise comes out as the guy who's the nominee for
Speaker 2: the Republicans.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Problem is, Scalise lasts one day as that guy because
Speaker 2: the problem is to actually become a speaker, you need
Speaker 2: to win a vote on the House floor, and the
Speaker 2: vote on the House floor with everyone in the House,
Speaker 2: including the Democrats, that's where he needs to win two
Speaker 2: hundred seventeen votes. He did not have it. He so
Speaker 2: incredibly did not have it. That again, within a day
Speaker 2: of him winning this vote, he is out. So Scalice
Speaker 2: is now out of the race. What has been so
Speaker 2: the developments Literally as we are recording this, Jim Jordan
Speaker 2: has won a vote to become like the next uh,
Speaker 2: he's the next person to win a vote because he
Speaker 2: was running against just a fucking clown. Sorry I'm being
Speaker 2: offensive to clowns. He's just like a nobody, like just
Speaker 2: like some dipshit the Republicans like picked off off the street. Right,
Speaker 2: Like this is where we're at, Like there's no one
Speaker 2: like if if Jim, if Jim Jordan can't do this,
Speaker 2: like there's like I don't know, like you would like
Speaker 2: bring McCarthy back, Like there's nothing he like Jordan. Jim
Speaker 2: Jordan's like the last even semi serious political figure the
Speaker 2: Republican Party who could even conceivably do this. Jim Jordan
Speaker 2: has won the vote inside the Republican Party, however, come
Speaker 2: and and also the other important thing that happened literally
Speaker 2: as we were recording, is that he's been endorsed by
Speaker 2: McCarthy now, which is kind of a big deal. McCarthy
Speaker 2: has said publicly that he thinks that Jim Jordan has
Speaker 2: the votes. I don't believe him, and I don't believe
Speaker 2: him because immediately after he said that, it came out
Speaker 2: that Jim Jordan is sixty vote short on the floor
Speaker 2: of the House, sixty six zero. He is screwed. There's
Speaker 2: no way, like he has to get through sixty sixty
Speaker 2: votes and there's no way. I don't see a path
Speaker 2: for him to do this, even even with McCarthy's support, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's way for him to do this.
Speaker 2: As of time of recording. The thing that has happened
Speaker 2: is that the Republicans have all gone home because they
Speaker 2: get out at five, and he's going to try to
Speaker 2: spend the weekends like building up support, trying to build
Speaker 2: up enough votes in the House to like win speakership.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this has not seen where it seems like
Speaker 3: it's it seems like a pretty uh pretty chance.
Speaker 2: It's it's possible that like on like Monday or Tuesday
Speaker 2: or something when they're like when this comes out, I'll
Speaker 2: be eating crow and I'll have to record like it
Speaker 2: that's true because it's his date.
Speaker 3: But yes, because this does come out after the weekend,
Speaker 3: so yeah, but we will.
Speaker 2: I don't buy this. I I absolutely just do not
Speaker 2: buy that Jim Jordan has enough votes. This is this
Speaker 2: is this is this is this is my analysis. If
Speaker 2: I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but guessing get sixty votes and
Speaker 2: like there's no way, there's no way. So this is
Speaker 2: this is this is a fact. This is the current
Speaker 2: state of Congress right now, Like we don't we don't
Speaker 2: have a legislave branch. Everything everything is in chaos, nothing
Speaker 2: but down. Two more to go. We're almost there, fellas. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: the executives, if it cannot come, the executive if we
Speaker 2: can not go be executive, the judiciary will fall by itself. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's that is certainly certainly exciting. There's always always
Speaker 3: good things to look forward to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But you know, I think I think a closing
Speaker 2: note on this is that the fact that the US
Speaker 2: effectively can't do anything right now, while it's in the
Speaker 2: middle of a pretty serious like a couple of well
Speaker 2: likee one is in the middle of like several very
Speaker 2: very serious international political crises and wars, is has I
Speaker 2: don't know, it's it's it's been the thing right now
Speaker 2: that has been restraining the US from just like really
Speaker 2: going all out and trying to get it when a
Speaker 2: Palestine killed So I guess there's that, But I don't know.
Speaker 2: Our government is a joke, yeah, and like and I
Speaker 2: guess I guess. The last thing I want to say
Speaker 2: is I want to invite all of you, everyone is
Speaker 2: listening to this, to look at these absolute numb skills,
Speaker 2: Like look at what they're doing right now. They can't
Speaker 2: even pick the one guy who is necessary for the
Speaker 2: entire letislative branch to function. And I want you to
Speaker 2: ask yourself, could we do this? Could like any of
Speaker 2: you and like your neighbors and your friends run a
Speaker 2: political system better than this, Because I bet the answer
Speaker 2: is yes.
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