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Showing Original Post only (View all)Breaking: Republican Intern Named Zach to Be Speaker of the House [View all]
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/republican-intern-named-zach-to-be-speaker-of-the-house?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Borowitz_10132023&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=639d8f242bd81a04de0da4d8&cndid=72191988&hasha=fe8bc45b402994c6754f546553256d09&hashb=d52437994f776ceb222bcc6a2655628fedf2a0d6&hashc=f6a0d94c816fe5ba8d662ac9ee83dfdbae1a51d1a7fb8eba2a9d0718e9759a89&esrc=BX_Multi1st_Borowitz&utm_term=TNY_BorowitzThis is gonna be dope, he said.
By Andy Borowitz
October 13, 2023
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)In what they are hailing as a consensus choice, House Republicans have nominated a college intern named Zach to be the new Speaker of the House.
The freshly minted G.O.P. nominee acknowledged that he was kind of surprised to be chosen as Speaker but said that he was totally stoked about wielding that hammer.
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Breaking: Republican Intern Named Zach to Be Speaker of the House [View all]
lindysalsagal
Oct 2023
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"Weilding the hammer" - that acting, pinhead Speaker (WHN) swung the gavel with a vengeance.
EarnestPutz
Oct 2023
#12
Zach orders the office of the Member who cursed him and other interns reassigned to a men's room.
Marcuse
Oct 2023
#13
Let me guess: he slept with half the 'velvet mafia' in the Republican caucus
peppertree
Oct 2023
#23