I know we're living in the crapsack timeline, but I didn't realize it was a crapsack made of little shit people that the Republicans sculpted like they were Play-Doh and then threw them in the sack and made screaming noises, pretending the little shit people were screaming, before declaring that sack to be their new second-in-command after Trump.
Becoming speaker makes him 3rd in line for the presidency and that sweet, sweet executive immunity. 4 more years before he could be prosecuted, and let's be fair it's about even odds he'd live that long.