{"id":9983,"date":"2023-01-04T23:15:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/04\/world-of-warcrafts-leeroy-jenkins-marked-wild-day-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T07:41:58","slug":"world-of-warcrafts-leeroy-jenkins-marked-wild-day-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/04\/world-of-warcrafts-leeroy-jenkins-marked-wild-day-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft\u2019s Leeroy Jenkins Marked Wild Day In Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 eLNveM align--bleed js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" data-id=\"2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1080\" data-height=\"607\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"Art shows Leeroy Jenkins screaming with a sword and a chicken leg. \" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\">\n<div class=\"sc-1eow4w5-2 loxZOX has-data img-wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"max-width:1080px\" data-alt=\"Art shows Leeroy Jenkins screaming with a sword and a chicken leg. \" data-link-reference=\"\" data-link-target=\"\" data-syndicationrights=\"true\" data-imagerights=\"other-license\" data-hide=\"false\" data-hidecredit=\"false\"><span class=\"sc-1eow4w5-0 dnhHtZ js_lightbox-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.2%\" class=\"sc-1eow4w5-3 lktKQM image-hydration-wrapper\">\n<div><img alt=\"Art shows Leeroy Jenkins screaming with a sword and a chicken leg. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_80,pg_1,q_80,w_80\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 80w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_140\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 140w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_265\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 265w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_340\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 340w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_490\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 490w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_645\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 645w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_740\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 740w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_965\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 965w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1165\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 1165w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1315\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 1315w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1465\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 1465w, https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,f_auto,g_center,pg_1,q_60,w_1600\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 25em) calc(100vw - 32px),(max-width: 37.31em) calc(100vw - 32px),(min-width: 37.37em) and (max-width: 49.94em) calc(100vw - 32px),(min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 63.69em) 800px,(min-width: 63.75em) and (max-width: 85.19em) calc(66.5vw - 32px),800px\" draggable=\"\" data-chomp-id=\"2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-alt=\"Art shows Leeroy Jenkins screaming with a sword and a chicken leg. \" data-anim-src=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span data-id=\"2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/2fe38505f31d9847d13631de0b029e0a\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-width=\"1080\" data-height=\"607\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"Art shows Leeroy Jenkins screaming with a sword and a chicken leg. \" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Since Tuesday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has misplaced six rounds of voting to change into the subsequent Speaker of the Home in Congress. <span>These humiliating defeats<\/span> have left the legislative department of the U.S. Authorities in limbo and even led one bored congressman to go full <span>Leeroy Jenkins<\/span> on the Home flooring because the worst components of the Republican social gathering eat it alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">In case you haven\u2019t been following alongside, a better-than-expected exhibiting by Democrats in final November\u2019s midterm elections left Republicans with a slim majority within the Home of Representatives. Whereas McCarthy had been maneuvering for the position of Speaker as the previous Minority Chief, he hasn\u2019t truly managed to win the assist of Trump barnacles like Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). That\u2019s left him greater than a dozen votes wanting the quantity wanted to make him third in line to the presidency, however it hasn\u2019t deterred him from exhibiting his ass in vote after vote after vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Throughout a type of rounds simply after midday at the moment, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) determined to have somewhat enjoyable whereas casting his vote, shouting out the title of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) within the type of Leeroy Jenkins, the notorious <em>World of Warcraft <\/em>meme.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twitter-embed\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=twitter-1610739224038211590&amp;autosize=1\" autoresize=\"true\" id=\"twitter-1610739224038211590\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"500\" height=\"159\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Huffman, 58 years previous, confirmed as a lot in a tweet in a while. \u201cYup, I mentioned what I mentioned,\u201d he wrote, clearly very happy with himself. \u201cIf Republicans are going to make us sit by means of this repeated self-flagellation, we&#8217;d as effectively make it memorable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">For anybody unfamiliar with Leeroy Jenkins, which in all probability contains most of Gen Z at this level, it was one of many earliest viral memes on the web. A gaggle of <em>WoW<\/em> gamers attempt to rigorously plan and coordinate a boss struggle, however Leeroy goes out of pocket and will get the entire crew massacred. Handed round for years as an epic fail, <span>it was truly staged<\/span> by gamers Ben \u201cAnfrony\u201d Vinson and Ben Schulz, ultimately changing into immortalized by reference within the sport itself. The meme has now made it into the official congressional report <span>due to C-SPAN<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">At this charge, it doesn\u2019t appear seemingly Republicans will handle to agree on a brand new chief tomorrow both. Loads of time for somebody to sing the whole <em>Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/em> <span>opening credit tune<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/world-warcraft-leeroy-jenkins-congress-mccarthy-gaetz-1849951155\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Since Tuesday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has misplaced six rounds of voting to change into the subsequent Speaker of the Home in Congress. These humiliating defeats have left the legislative department of the U.S. Authorities in limbo and even led one bored congressman to go full Leeroy Jenkins on the Home flooring because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[812,240,5632,5631,5633,5630,192,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9984,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}