{"id":1796551,"date":"2023-01-05T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1796551"},"modified":"2023-01-05T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:50:23","slug":"look-at-all-these-journalists-and-other-nerds-cracking-jokes-about-our-cherished-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/look-at-all-these-journalists-and-other-nerds-cracking-jokes-about-our-cherished-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a look at All These Reporters (and Other Geeks) Splitting Jokes About Our Cherished Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flook-at-all-these-journalists-and-other-nerds-cracking-jokes-about-our-cherished-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1796551&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\"> Kevin McCarthy speakership drama resembles the Super Bowl for these freaks<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 January 5, 2023 3:40 pm <\/p>\n<p> Jen Psaki no longer works as President Joe Biden&#8217;s press secretary, which implies she does not need to lie any longer to keep her task.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The saga of the speakers votes this week may just be what DC political Twitter has been training for,&#8221; Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1610798595380330496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Wednesday on Twitter, the immigrant-owned social networking platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Reality check<\/strong>: Real!<\/p>\n<p> Political reporters and other helpless geeks will never ever desert Twitter due to their fixation with publishing snarky remarks about unknown procedural drama on Capitol Hill. The Republican politician Celebration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/mccarthy-offers-concessions-to-holdout-republicans-in-bid-to-secure-speakership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ongoing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/republicans-fume-over-cost-of-a-speakerless-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggle<\/a> to choose a speaker of your home is an ideal example.<\/p>\n<p> Typical individuals with real lives might not care less. They are wise adequate to comprehend that selecting a celebration leader in Congress becomes part of our valued democratic system of federal government. Politics geeks, on the other hand, can&#8217;t stop speaking about it and attempting to impress each other with their amusing quips and contrasts to sports and popular culture.<\/p>\n<p> This is their Super Bowl: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaBreedlove\/status\/1610677239732998147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;What if they tried a rose ceremony instead?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RalstonReports\/status\/1610406299879247874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Can&#8217;t wait to see this go to penalty kicks tomorrow on the House floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRubinBlogger\/status\/1610498155405053952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>3)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Well GOP crazies actually did stop the transfer of power \u2013 to themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raywert\/status\/1610371767264227328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>4)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;SOURCES: Jim Harbaugh in talks with House GOP leadership to step in as Speaker if an NFL Head Coach job doesn&#8217;t become available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonIsbell\/status\/1610444303666388994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>5)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;We just picked out new speakers for our house took us 5 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Trigger caution: Transphobia&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gtconway3d\/status\/1610694645255933952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>6)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Look, the thing that matters, and what we need to respect, is that Kevin McCarthy *identifies* as Speaker of the House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRickWilson\/status\/1610472676967030784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>7)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;It&#8217;s outrageous that Antifa has delayed Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s ascension to Speaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7im\/status\/1610731251748712449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>8)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;I know it&#8217;s early in the season but at 0-5 I&#8217;m beginning to worry about McCarthy&#8217;s playoff chances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sam_Jeske\/status\/1610416525394993153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>9)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;They should start the next Speaker vote with a runner on second base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkLeibovich\/status\/1610724617370636289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>10)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Support building in House GOP for Carlos Correa \u2014 pending a physical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Trigger caution: Plagiarism&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveweigel\/status\/1610341965790580738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>11)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;Straightforward from here \u2013 McCarthy needs to call Brad Raffensperger and ask him to find nine votes.&#8221; (1:26 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElieNYC\/status\/1610406594600402946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>12)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;McCarthy is so desperate that he&#8217;s about to call Brad Raffensperger asking him to find him 15 more votes.&#8221; (5:43 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gtconway3d\/status\/1610825156007542786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>13)<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;How many Kevin McCarthys does it take to screw in a light bulb?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greenfield64\/status\/1611010551798456323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>14)<\/strong><\/a> &#8221; In fact, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political journalists and other hopeless nerds will never abandon Twitter due to their obsession with posting snarky comments about obscure procedural drama on Capitol Hill.<br \/>\nThe post Look at All These Journalists (and Other Nerds) Cracking Jokes About Our Cherished Democracy appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1796554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[10847,4092,13526,5521,13524,5548,4738,13525],"class_list":["post-1796551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-and","tag-beacon","tag-cherished","tag-democracy","tag-geeks","tag-jokes","tag-reporters","tag-splitting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}