Ep. 814 - For the first time ever, the United States Congress has no Speaker of the House

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

You've heard me say this before, but it's VERY hard to know a moment in history when you are living in it. Well, we continue to live in a very peculiar and disturbing time in American history - in the shadows of thousands of people trying to overthrow the American government, Republicans have now cannibalized one of their own, and voted out their own Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. That has never happened before. And for the next week, or longer, the United States Congress won't even have a Speaker of the House because Republicans, who control the House, don't even have enough votes to select a replacement. It's just another clue at how unstable this place truly is. Let me unpack and explain it. To listen to today’s FULL EPISODE of The Breakdown go now to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and search for “The Breakdown with Shaun King.” Subscribe there for FREE and listen to the whole podcast. If you are already on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you enjoy your podcasts, please subscribe, listen, share, leave reviews, and listen daily to the entire episode. The more of it you listen to, the better it is for us. Also, PLEASE BECOME A MEMBER of The North Star now @ TheNorthStar.com. Love and appreciate you all. Shaun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you've listened to this podcast for any real amount of time, you've probably heard
0:06.5	me say the phrase I'm about to say.
0:09.5	It's hard to know a moment in history when you're in it.
0:15.4	And right now, I just need us to understand that we are in a very peculiar moment in American
0:23.7	history where for the first time in all of American history, and our country is not insanely
0:33.4	old, but we've been around for hundreds of years.
0:37.0	The United States does not have a speaker of the house.
0:41.3	And it's primarily because the Republican Party is so deeply dysfunctional that they
0:49.9	just cannibalized one of their own.
0:53.6	Let me unpack and explain it.
0:55.2	And let me tell you why it's really troubling for all of us.
0:59.7	It's a degrading of really important knower.
1:03.9	I'll unpack and explain it.
1:05.3	Glad to be here.
1:06.3	I've been fighting a sinus infection for these past few days.
1:09.1	I'm glad to be back.
1:10.1	This is Sean King, and you're listening to The Breakdown.
1:14.7	I was telling my doctors just a few days ago that during the entire pandemic, I did not
1:38.7	get a single sinus infection.
1:42.0	One huge part because my kids were not bringing back any germs to the house.
1:49.1	And when you have five kids, and for a period of time, my five kids were spread out over
1:54.5	schools all over New York City.
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