Eight votes later, the House GOP's utter chaos over electing a speaker is “not what we all signed up for,” @DeliaRamirezIL says. “But honestly, it’s worse than that … They’re paralyzing Congress and the American people.” Watch her full convo w/ @mehdirhasan on @MSNBConPeacock.

At the start of a new Congress, what was House Republicans’ first order of business? It wasn’t electing a speaker, @mehdirhasan says. Nope. In the GOP-majority House, it was saying goodbye to safety, reason and common sense. WATCH:

Climate activist Greta Thunberg may have owned social media personality Andrew Tate in a now-viral Twitter exchange. But engaging with "creepy, horrid" trolls like Tate play right into their hands, @jsrailton says: “He was doing great marketing … [and] executing on a strategy.”

“He’s in a weird, self-destructive tailspin at this point.” @MollyJongFast tells @mehdirhasan the barrage of Elon Musk coverage won’t last forever: “This kind of attention tends to peter out pretty quickly."

As the saying goes, "Don’t feed the trolls." But what are you supposed to do, @mehdirhasan asks, when one of those trolls is one of the richest people in the world *and* the owner of a hugely influential communications platform? What’s a Twitter-addicted journalist to do?

Since his Twitter takeover, Elon Musk’s popularity and influence has exploded — and that’s posed a bit of a problem for the media. How do we cover Musk without strengthening his dangerous rhetoric? Watch @MollyJongFast and @jsrailton discuss w/ @mehdirhasan on @MSNBConPeacock.

Dysfunctional, divided, in disarray — no matter your word of choice, one thing remains the same: the Grand Old Party has become a joke. @JulianCastro and @DavidJollyFL join @mehdirhasan to discuss. Watch their convo: peacocktv.com/mehdi

House Republicans are in a state of chaos with the conference unable to elect a speaker. Should Democrats just sit back and watch the dysfunction, or is there room to capitalize on the crisis? Hear @JulianCastro’s response to @mehdirhasan:

.@DavidJollyFL says the House GOP’s chaotic speaker vote is “very telling of the state of the party." “We have one chamber of our bicameral legislature that is now not functioning,” he tells @mehdirhasan. “That creates an image of instability across the world stage.”

The new GOP majority Congress has been in chaos from the start. As @mehdirhasan points out, “This is what happens when the GOP as a whole becomes a party of extremists and nihilists.” One thing is clear, Mehdi adds: “The Republican Party is broken.”