It’s Day 20 without a House speaker, and Republicans are starting over. They convened again Monday evening without any idea who will lead and when they will be able to get Congress back to work.

Republicans gathered late in the evening to hear quick speeches from the congressmen seeking the job, though none has a clear shot at the gavel. Eight candidates are in the running for one speaker after one dropped out. Behind closed doors, they made their elevator pitches to colleagues ahead of internal party voting.

Senior-most among the hopefuls is Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, but neither he or the other lower-level Republican lawmakers are expected to quickly secure a majority. Instead he and others are reaching out to Donald Trump for backing ahead of elections to choose a nominee. One, Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, dropped out.

“They all called asking for support,” said Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential race, who was in New Hampshire registering for the state’s primary ballot.

  • stifle867@programming.dev
    16·
    1 year ago

    As a non-US citizen I’m waiting for updates on the whole UFO issue. I’m not sure but I believe this stalemate would effectively prevent that.

    • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
      31·
      1 year ago

      There are no aliens discovered on Earth, there you go, now you don’t need to wait around for an update.

      • stifle867@programming.dev
        1·
        1 year ago

        This doesn’t fully address my comment which mentioned UFOs not aliens. It seems completely credible to me that UFOs do currently exist and there’s no definitive answer as to what they are.

        • Billiam@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          there’s no definitive answer as to what they are.

          …yeah, that’s what the “unidentified” in “unidentified flying object” means.

          Are there things flying around that we currently don’t know what they are? Certainly.

          Are those things controlled by extraterrestrial intelligences? Almost certainly not.

          • stifle867@programming.dev
            11·
            1 year ago

            I thought I would spell out the obvious because apparently people (including you) take me being interested in what these unidentified objects actually are, and conflating that with “oh this guy believes in aliens”. I never once said that I want them to reveal aliens! In fact I have already pointed out that I didn’t even mention aliens. All I said was I want them to get to the bottom of it and it seems at a glance that the house not having a speaker would at the very least delay investigations into it.

            Nobody asked my opinion on the matter, they just downvote and make comments assuming my opinions on things which is pretty frustrating but also not unexpected.

            • Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
              11·
              1 year ago

              Look, the problem is that it’s so fucking irrelevant. It’s not gonna be anything important. Weather phenomenon, bird, who cares. But to say that that is what’s most important to you about the US government shutting down is just so far removed from reality. This is people’s actual lives that are at stake. So don’t then bring up something that is so ridiculously unimportant. I promise you, there isn’t some grand conspiracy that’s gonna be uncovered by some UFO hearings.

              • stifle867@programming.dev
                1·
                1 year ago

                There’s really no point engaging with you unless you want to engage with the what I’m actually saying. I’m happy to have a discussion but you’re devolving it into a shouting match. I never once said it’s what is most important to me, which is besides the point because I can bring up any issue that I care about and I won’t accept anyone telling me that I have no right to bring it up.