Current consequences for Maga include their funding of tax cuts for President Musk and the Billionaires... and yet another dysfunctional Trumpers House.

My prediction for Speaker is. after 17 votes, Hulk Hogan!

Somewhere Wissy is happy.

Hey... once they paid off all the holdouts it was over.

Did he even get all of his own Party's votes?

I heard that Trump had to call at least two of them before the vote... something about horse heads in their beds.

Hakeem Jeffries addresses the 119th Congress following House speaker vote

"There are NO Election Deniers on our side of the Aisle."

Jeffries does a great job in a short speech, telling the other side, who will only have the slightest of majorities, which is a little better than Trump not winning even half of the votes... and much more realistic than the silly, "Mandate!" lies we hear...

... telling Johnson to his face where the Line is drawn on cutting Social Security and Medicaid to give Leon and the Oligarchs, who currently pay less as a percent of their income in taxes, and often no taxes at all, than YOU do.

Very good speech!

America is
bigger than any one campaign any one
election or any one
individual

America the land of the free
and the home of the brave let us never
forget that our country is free not
simply because we are strong America is
strong because we are
free

that
freedom is now under assault there are
some in this country who apparently
believe that the freedom of Economic
Opportunity that made them wealthy
should not apply to everyone else

our
message to that crowd is simple
Democrats will never abandon the Long
Walk toward Freedom we will fight hard
to defend the freedom of opportunity
that makes the American dream possible
we will fight hard fight hard for the
freedom to vote and to fight for a
government of the People by the people
and for the people

we will fight for the
freedom to organize and join a union of
your choice we will fight to defend the
free enterprise
system but work hard to make sure that
it actually works for working class
Americans

and we will always defend a
woman's freedom to make her own
reproductive Health Care decisions

America promises one nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all that's the America house Democrats
will fight hard to preserve God bless
you God bless the House of
Representatives may God continue to
bless the United States of
America

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