#us house elections

[daddysakic]

It’s FINALLY over

[enderexplorer1212]

Guide for whats going on for nonamericans

So you may be wondering, what the hell is happening in the U.S? You might ask yourself that a lot, but this time, I can explain. So the house of representatives is the lower house which creates bills and stuff and is based on proportional representation, thats not important. But the republicans have a 4-seat majority, which is astronomically small. The house has to nominate and then vote on a speaker, which works similar to how parliamentary governments work, with a prime minister decided by a majority. Now imagine if you had parliament (or whatever legislature you have), and there were only two parties, the sorta left party, and the very right party. The very right party is voting for a prime minister, but not everyone in the very right party wants this prime minister, they want a different, more rightwing guy. They also don't like the nominee for prime minister, so they are holding up the entire process since they only need 4 people to disagree to prevent a prime minister from being chosen. So normally, this would be a hung parliament, and it goes to a snap election or something, but thats not how it works. Instead, they have to vote again, and they have to keep on voting until a prime minister is chosen. The sort left party meanwhile is letting the very right party tear itself apart because A. it is the easiest possible argument as to why you shouldn't vote for the very right party, and B. none of the very right party people would agree to working with the sorta left party. So basically, it's a hung parliament, but you have to keep voting until you get a prime minister. This is problematic, because you can't get any bills passed in congress without the house, and representatives don't get paid until the 14th, so by the time the 14th rolls around, if they don't get a speaker, no ones getting paid. If it does drag out that long, then the republicans will be kinda screwed because of how long its taking. Hope this helps :)

[instantbee]

On the one hand, not having a Speaker of the House is indicative of very serious issues in the American populace. It shows a divisive political dialogue and a country in crisis. The last two times this happened both preceded horrible periods of disruption in our country by about 10 years, the Great Depression and the Civil War. So it's not a great look and does make one nervous about what is coming down the pipe On the other hand it is genuinely so fucking funny

[pilgrimshadow]

once again, timeless quote

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain

[hippieghost]

So for those unaware, right now 1/3/2022 the US house is election it's speaker. Typically the speaker ends up being from whichever party gets the majority, but the GOP are so against the candidate they picked that he just lost plurality to the Dems despite being the majority party

Unfortunately, dems need a majority to win, so it's going to another round of voting, but...

Republicans seem determined not to vote for their own guy

Dems are actually maintaining unity and rallying behind their 1 candidate

Anyone voting "present" can lower the vote threshold

For each round, McCarthy (R) can't have more that 5 Reps defect or he can't get majority. This round he got nearly 20.

If this somehow gets us a Dem speaker in a GOP house I am going to die of laughter

[cedarkiller]

US Republican House budget proposition

I just read some of the propositions for the GOP house budget for 2023 out of curiosity as someone posted their document. I’m an LGBT minority in Eastern Europe, and a lot of policies the US does end up echoing hard with people demanding the same here. The current propositions will do a lot of things, like cutting down on many public funding projects and giving many tax cuts to private companies. One thing that just sickened me was the propositions for anything related to gender affirming care and gender identity. This kind of stuff terrifies me, because during Trump’s presidency there were thugs organized and inspired by US conservatives, seeking to beat up LGBT people on the streets. This kind of stuff is just scary to think about.

Here’s the Republican budget document in question, if you’re curious: https://banks.house.gov/uploadedfiles/rsc_2023_budget_final_version.pdf

Also including some screenshots of the frankly psychotic American cons.

[loomus]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it is. so weird to me that I'm having to say this again after a real-life cartoon supervillian already once ran for president on a platform of hatred & fascism and won, but.

it's November, please fucking vote

[scarletcarmensmith]

ULTRA MAGA GO FOR IT👊

[enderexplorer1212]

McCarthy L

L L L

I cannot deny my absolute glee at McCarthy losing by ONE fucking vote. It is absolutely hysterical and I cannot believe how amazing this is, oh my god.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[sardonic-saccharide]

You know for a second there I was scared we were gonna miss my favorite American holiday, Government Shutdown, but we actually got the ✯Centennial Special Edition✯: No House of Representatives!!! Thanks for the present, Uncle Sam!

[neurotypical-karen]

There's never been a better time to be friends with polisci majors. It's finally paying off. They are liveblogging the senate livestream like it's fandom drama

[thestompinggroundshowappropriate]

[hotcinnamonsunset]

the memes are writing themselves tbh

[destielmemenews]

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