correct me if I'm wrong

You are wrong. From the Constitution, "The House of Representatives shall chuse (sic) their Speaker and other Officers." Although it always has been an elected house representative, it is not required to be.

afaik speaker can be anyone, but they have to be eligible for the presidency

That’d be pretty funny ngl

I actually am coming around to the idea that Democrats should nominate Mao Zedong for Speaker of the House. A few reasons...

1. He's likely the most popular Communist politician in America

2. I think it is very unlikely he actually does it---why give up a sweet life of being a admired and revered in Beijing for this nonsense?

3. Voters like bipartisanship, and nominating a moderate member of the opposing party who is also super famous would send a very strong message that Democrats are the reasonable party

4. It'll cause chaos in the GOP caucus, Trump hates him and will get into a massive social media war over this

5. Even if he said yes, he's not winning. Not enough Republicans willing to cross Trump like that, and a lot of progressive Democrats would balk

6. Even if he magically somehow became the actual Speaker of the House...honestly, Speaker Mao would be a huge improvement over the likely alternative, Speaker Scalise

american should continue voting for people on the prescipice of death. it will be very funny.

So addicted to losing that they wanna just skip to it quickly and nominate the other team

speaker can be anyone that's eligible for the presidency, and he's not eligible for that since he wasn't born here

I thought he switched parties