3 weeks. 0 House Speaker. 1 imploding Republican Party.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

- Hell has frozen over because Harris Faulkner ([link removed]) praised Nancy Pelosi on Fox News

Republicans are up shit creek without a paddle because they lit the paddle on fire.

* After eight members of the House GOP boarded the merry-go-round from hell that is the current race for House Speaker, the conference chose House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) ([link removed]) . It quickly became clear that Emmer had over two dozen holdouts, despite winning enough votes internally to be speaker designate, and would not get to the magic number of 217 votes without a fight. Just over four hours later, Emmer became the Anthony Scaramucci of the speaker’s race, and withdrew his bid.

* The total time Emmer spent as speaker designate was four hours and eleven minutes, according to Bloomberg ([link removed]) . That’s shorter than a flight from New York to Los Angeles, or five episodes of an HBO prestige drama, or a screening of “Killers of the Flower Moon” including the line for concessions, previews, and a bathroom break after the credits. Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) ([link removed]) (who initially threw his own hat in the ring only to quickly withdraw it) said it best, perhaps: “This race has gotten to a point where it’s kind of gotten crazy…This is more about people right now than it should be. It should be about America.” Ousted former speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) sounded downright depressed ([link removed]) when he said, “We’re in a very bad place… We have been three weeks without a speaker…” like
he was dictating the world’s most pathetic captain’s log.


* Disgraced former president Donald Trump swiftly took to Truth social to help tank Emmer’s nomination, calling him “totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters,” ([link removed]) and a “Globalist RINO.” The classic Trump insults! He then got on the phone with members of his bloc of Congressional supporters to further nail shut Emmer’s coffin. Emmer’s crime, according to Trump, was, of course, criticizing him following the January 6 insurrection and then not defending him loudly enough against multiple indictments the way Trump’s other Congressional sycophants did. Emmer also voted to certify the 2020 election result: a big no-no in MAGA country. With both Reps. Emmer and Steve Scalise (R-LA) having barely emerged from the starting gate, it seems unlikely that Republicans will try to nominate another member of McCarthy’s leadership team to succeed him.

Speaking of unhinged, dysfunctional Republicans, let’s check in with the far-and-away frontrunner for the 2024 GOP primary!

* Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen took the stand in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday as part of Trump’s ongoing civil fraud trial ([link removed]) . It didn’t take Cohen long to begin characterizing his former boss as a criminal and a fraudster as Trump sat feet away shaking his head angrily. This was the first face-to-face interaction between Trump and Cohen in five years. Cohen answered questions from a prosecutor about his own federal crimes, including lying under Congressional oath, which Cohen insisted was “at the direction of, in concert with and for the benefit of Mr. Trump.” Over the course of his testimony, Cohen said he helped manipulate financial statements at Trump’s demand, consistent with claims he had made previously.

* Mark Meadows, who served as Trump’s last chief of staff in the White House, is working with Trump’s prosecution. Meadows spoke with DOJ special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times in the past year, including once before a federal grand jury. The latter testimony only took place after Smith granted Meadows immunity in exchange for speaking under oath. Meadows reportedly informed Smith’s team that in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election, he repeatedly warned Trump that claims of significant voter fraud were baseless ([link removed]) . He also apparently told federal investigators that Trump was being “dishonest” with the public when he first claimed to have won the election just hours after the polls closed on November 3, 2020 before the final tallies had come in. We really wanted to see Meadows do jail time, but I guess we will have to settle for him turning on Trump.

As the final cherry on top of this Republicans-going-down-in-flames day, another one of Trump’s former lawyers—and his Fulton County co-defendant—Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty to illegally conspiring to overturn the 2020 election on Tuesday ([link removed]) . She is now the third attorney implicated in the case to accept a plea deal from Georgia prosecutors. Turn it up, they’re playing our song!!!

Pod Save America will be live in Louisville, Kentucky and Cleveland, Ohio on October 28th and 29th. We’ll be joined by Journalist Perry Bacon, Kentucky Congressman Morgan McGarvey, Representative Pamela Stevenson, co-host Alyssa Mastromonaco, abortion rights advocate Kellie Copeland, and more! It’s the runup to Halloween, but we’re doing no tricks, all treats! And the treats? Delicious, delicious takes. Head to crooked.com/events ([link removed]) to get your tickets now and see where else we’re headed this year.
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During a daylong United Nations Security Council meeting on Tuesday, tempers flared as calls rose for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Senior U.N. officials, foreign ministers of Arab nations, and other diplomats noted that the number of Palestinian civilians killed—now well over 5,000—was increasing every day since the devastating October 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,400 Israeli civilians. U.N. secretary general António Guterres condemned Hamas’s terrorist attacks and simultaneously called for a ceasefire ([link removed]) as Israeli airstrikes continue to pummel Gaza. Guterres called the October 7 attacks “appalling,” but said they did not justify the “collective punishment” of civilians in the Gaza strip, where Israel said it had struck more than 700 targets in just the past two days. The Gaza Health Ministry reported the highest single-day death toll of the war on Tuesday, with at least 704 people killed in airstrikes on
homes, a refugee camp, and other sites.


Many other speakers drew attention to the rapidly-deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, where, among other tragedies, doctors in neonatal intensive care units are trying to find fuel and essential medicine needed to care for premature infant patients ([link removed]) (at the moment there are 130 premature babies across Gaza), who could die within minutes if their incubators lose power. The United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) said that of Gaza’s 2.3 million-person population, more than half—about 1.4 million—have been internally displaced. Many have sought refuge in overcrowded U.N. emergency shelters. Doctors in Gaza have also reported patients arriving in hospitals showing symptoms of diseases caused by overcrowding and poor sanitation after Israel cut the blockaded enclave off from electricity, clean water, and fuel. Only small United Nations convoys of food and medicine
are now getting in through the Rafah crossing ([link removed]) . Those convoys are arriving at a rate of about twenty trucks per day, far fewer than what the United Nations and the World Food Programme say are needed.

Israel Defense Forces tanks have congregated at the Gaza border as a ground invasion looms. Experts have warned that a ground invasion could cause some of the worst urban street combat since World War II. ([link removed]) White House spokesperson John Kirby reiterated that the Biden administration does not support a ceasefire ([link removed]) and believes such deescalation would only benefit Hamas. Kirby seemed to accept the continued civilian casualties as part of the price of defeating Hamas, saying “It’s ugly and it’s going to be messy, and innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward.” On Tuesday, a different senior U.S. official added ([link removed]) , “While we remain opposed to a ceasefire, we think
humanitarian pauses linked to the delivery of aid that still allow Israel to conduct military operations to defend itself are worth consideration.”

33 states filed lawsuits against Meta Platforms and their subsidiary Instagram, accusing the company of repeatedly misleading the public about the substantial dangers of its platform ([link removed]) to young children and teenagers.


The ghouls at the No Labels Party have now gained ballot access in 12 states ([link removed]) ahead of the 2024 presidential election.


U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday they have determined with “high confidence” that Israel was not responsible for the explosion at Ahli Hospital in Gaza City ([link removed]) that killed hundreds of people last week. Analysts are still unable to determine with certainty who launched the rocket at this time.


China ousted its defense minister on Tuesday ([link removed]) , the second such removal of a senior official in three months.


A 20-year-old Ohio man who threw two Molotov cocktails at a church in the hopes of burning it down—because the church planned to host two drag events—pleaded guilty on Monday to violating the Church Arson Prevention Act ([link removed]) as well as using fire and explosives to commit a felony crime. Investigators had found that the man is a member of the neo-Nazi group White Lives Matter.


The United Kingdom did away with a decade-old limit on banker bonuses inherited from the European Union ([link removed]) , signaling a clear shift in post-Brexit financial rules among the country’s conservative-majority government.

Missouri’s Speaker of the House Dean Plocher is the target of calls for his resignation from his fellow Republicans after an investigation revealed that Plocher falsified expense reports he filed with the legislature ([link removed]) .
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Goats and sheep are being called up from the reserves to help thin vegetation in Europe and the United States in areas with high risk of wildfires ([link removed]) . Patriotism!

The National Hockey League has backed down from its ridiculous ban of players displaying support for social causes with their stick tape ([link removed]) . The ban primarily silenced players who used Pride-themed rainbow tape.
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