 there's headlines about the chaos this and that yesterday our colleagues on the other side of the aisle were tweeting their bags of popcorn that they had out they love it the schadenfreude is palpable but i think my friends on the democratic side misunderstand what's happening here sure it looks messy but democracy is messy democracy is messy by by design you just listened to republican congressman mike gallagher whine about how democrats are laughing at the republican party but it's not just democrats who are laughing at the republican party and i can assure you this isn't about democracy coming from the party who has spit in the faces of anyone who believes in democracy over the course of the last couple of years this debacle is hilarious because it shows that the republican party they're just not serious so i record right as kevin mccarthy lost his sixth vote to become the house speaker with 19 republican switching from jim jordan to byron donald's on the fourth vote after he joined them in voting for jim jordan on the third vote and all of this comes after failed closed door negotiations that reportedly got heated and this debacle has been so embarrassing that donald trump himself had to step in to try to save mccarthy writing on truth social vote for kevin close the deal take the victory and later adding kevin mccarthy will do a great job and maybe even a great job just watch but even donald trump could not save kevin mccarthy as he was met with mockery by the individuals who are refusing to vote for kevin mccarthy take a look at how lauren bobert responded to donald trump so let's work together let's stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against us even having my favorite president call us and tell us we need to knock this off i think it actually needs to be reversed the president needs to tell kevin mccarthy that sir you do not have the votes and it's time to withdraw with that i yield thank you so they are not relenting and you see an open revolt against kevin mccarthy and an all-out mutiny and things are deteriorating because you have republican infighting that is escalating as a result of this debacle matt gates even responded to trump by saying sad this changes neither my view of mccarthy nor trump nor my vote now gates actually took it a step further by suggesting that kevin mccarthy was breaking the law by unlawfully occupying the speaker's office saying kevin mccarthy is not the speaker of the house he lost three consecutive votes at the time today i'm demanding answers from the architect of the capital so you have trump sycophants within the g.o.p openly rebelling against donald trump and my favorite response to the response from the 19 or 20 now that are rebelling against kevin mccarthy came from tony gonzalez who basically said they're going against daddy trump tisk tisk on fox news his response was amazing and just immature but so good let's listen i'm a little i'm a little upset you know here we had president trump come out with a very powerful endorsement of kevin mccarthy and you have 20 members of our caucus essentially thumb their nose at the former president saying we are above it's not above the house we're above the party how dare you defy father daddy daddy did you see they're not listening to you daddy i'm listening daddy i'm a good boy daddy and and to be honest to be fair to tony gonzalez which i don't have to be but to be fair to him i did actually think that trump saying vote for mccarthy would maybe hold a little bit more sway but you can see that donald trump is losing his hold on the republican party when even the biggest kool-aid drinkers are rebelling and the infighting is getting really really bad you have marjorie taylor green calling out matt gates saying he's a liar publicly let's listen when you have matt gates and the rest of the group going out there saying jim jordan's going to be speaker but yet jim jordan doesn't want to be speaker that's lying to the american people charlie and i'm not going to support any line to the american people that was good right but it gets so much better than that listen to her call out other republicans by name well you just saw byron donalds only got 20 people byron donalds is not going to gain and support he's not even a serious candidate so people need to understand who they're following scott perry scott perry voted for gay marriage that is right before his general election that is voted for it and he's chairman and he's leading this fight against kevin mccarthy and so i'm sick of these people that are that have done things that are hypocritical truly hypocritical and the base would hate them for it and they would be screaming at them for it but the base doesn't know because the only bad the only person they're hearing being chewed apart is kevin mccarthy well scott perry who's leading the charge against other republicans he voted for gay marriage but i have a terrible marjorie greenaxe and i have a terrible southern accent in general but i i just love the gotchas that they're all playing against each other like we see open infighting within the gop and it is getting uglier and uglier as time goes on and to be fair to marjorie taylor green i think that from a pragmatic standpoint she does have the winning argument here she pointed out via twitter that the republicans who are opposing mccarthy have no plan except never kevin it's a total failure and it pains me to say this but that's actually an astute observation from marjorie taylor green because she's right the folks who are opposing kevin mccarthy they're doing so all because of political theater and there's no real policy disagreement at the core of this entire kerfuffle and it really doesn't even matter anyways because they only control the house and not the senate so it's not like they can get anything that they want passed because if they pass something too absurd biden would simply veto it and kevin mccarthy has already agreed to all of the investigations and impeachments and all the bullshit that they want so what exactly is the reason for all of this that's the question that we're all asking and nobody really has an answer it's all political theater to build up their own name recognition and it makes them look even more unreasonable considering that kevin mccarthy has already made major concessions he's agreed to allow just five rank and found members of the house to force a vote of no confidence on him but they're demanding that just one republican should be allowed to trigger a vote of no confidence against kevin mccarthy which is incredibly unrealistic the fact that he budged on the five member thing in and of itself is pretty huge considering that you need half of members to force a vote of no confidence but he's giving them a pretty huge gift and they're proving how unreasonable they are and so to be in this situation where marjorie taylor green looks like the voice of reason it's making the entire republican party look just terrible but the penalty for being reasonable in the republican party even if traditionally that's not how you behave is full-on excommunication because marjorie taylor green's former associate neo nazi nick fuentes is basically declaring war on her so patriot takes on twitter shared some of his posts on telegram and he writes marjorie staked her political career on a mccarthy speakership that she is now realizing will never happen she should go on home back to georgia and repair her failed marriage instead of trying to play politics with the boys because she sucks at he went on to make fun of her for her jewish space laser conspiracy theory and hinted that they have dirt on her saying paul and jason might be a good time to publish that recording from the afpac three green room you know the one i'm talking about so this is incredible because you have republicans openly fighting against each other and both sides refuse to relent and both sides are now threatening to destroy the other and it's just glorious it's beautiful to watch it makes the republican party look like a circus and i think that this is a win for america i hope that this goes on for as long as it possibly can i hope that it's more drawn out because i love watching this shit show unfold now the question is how exactly is this going to end well it could end in a number of ways kevin mccarthy could actually become the speaker they could relent or he can choose to bow out and that would pave the way for steve's gliss the second highest ranking republican to become the speaker and if he fails and is also forced to drop out then the next in line would be at least a phonic or we could see a compromise the hill reports that republicans like don bacon hinted at the prospect of reaching out to democrats who support a consensus candidate and roe conna has reportedly been open to that idea or kevin mccarthy could still become speaker at the end of the day if enough democrats choose to bail him out and vote president which would lower the vote threshold needed to become speaker so we don't know what's going to happen how this will transpire and i hope that it is drawn out and grueling as it possibly can be and i hope the democrats don't choose to bail out republicans and kevin mccarthy because this is the bed that they've made for themselves and at the end of the day it doesn't matter because nothing is going to get accomplished in this congress anyway right we're going to see anything that the house passes be rejected by the senator ultimately viewed by jail biden and all they're going to do once they're seated and sworn in is do a bunch of dumb investigations that are completely pointless they're going to try to impeach biden they're not going to accomplish anything so i think the best scenario here is to just let them sink watch them attack each other hopefully this feels even more infighting for the future and just grab your popcorn and enjoy it because these republicans are genuinely terrible people and the fact that they're all at each other's throats is a victory for the country and the world literally