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  This sounds a little hot
context: I seem to remember someone saying that it would be hard to not hit Pelosi over the head with the Speaker's gavel when she hands it over to him. 
  Was that Kevin? I think that was Kevin. >
  
  That was Kevin. >
  
  Hey look everybody Kevin’s back! >
  
  We need to talk about Kevin. >
  
  Underrated movie. And yeah he is a goddamn Kevin. >
  
  So delicious; 6 failed votes to the point they have to adjourn. The rumor is that if he fails one more they’re going to disband and put up someone else.
  ….and that’s when the real infighting start lol >
  
  
  The rumor is that if he fails one more they’re going to disband and put up someone else.
  
  Really cause his latest quote is 
  
  “I still have the most votes,” McCarthy said at the start of the session. “At the end of the day, we’ll be able to get there.”
  
  1) He doesn't have the most votes 2) we aren't getting anywhere by the end of the day except to bed. >
  
  Yeah, this is a game of chicken where one side is sane and the other side doesn't care if they live.. 
  McCarthy is having a hard time because fascist dont care about anything except winning power.. 
  they don't care about governing, they don't care that this is bad for everyone else in the party it'll be good for them as long as they don't back down.. so they won't. >
  
  Are you implying that McCarthy is not a fascist but the others are? All I see is fascists all around. >
  
  I would contend there's two kinds of fascists. Believers and opportunists.
  The opportunists need the believers. The believers are where their power comes from. The best way to achieve their goal is to actually create as many believers as possible and make those believers' beliefs stronger and deeper.
  But the opportunists don't actually believe. They don't actually care about what the believers care about, in either direction. They're happy to let innocents suffer at their hands or the hands of their followers, but they'd also be perfectly happy in a world where everything is pretty much okay for everyone, so long as they are in control either way. But of course, it's much harder to come in to power over a world like that than a world of fear and anger.
  Believers meanwhile, believe. They've drunk the koolaid. They're the fuel for the fire.
  Problem is that belief is very hard to control. It's a shortcut to power, but that power will always be unstable. Sooner or later, the anger you've stoked will be turned on you. 
  Opportunists like McCarthy don't care about abortion. They don't think about trans people or gay people at all. They don't worry about taxes, or immigrants, or government spending. They don't go home and pray for guidance every night, or if they do, they don't bother to wait for answer before doing what they wanted to do anyway. They do whatever makes them more powerful moment to moment. And I think, I hope, they're starting to realize the price they paid for the power they once had. It won't save him, or us, but I hope it makes him miserable. >
  
  Guys like McCarthy, McConnell, and Graham all fit the opportunist description. They don’t care about anything, and thought they could use the fanatics to achieve their goals. They may have succeeded, but everything has a price. That’s the thing about riding a tiger: the tiger decides when the ride is over. >
  
  As for the other guys, the 20-ish holdouts, I'm beginning to wonder if they're not really the fascists I've thought they were, but are instead anarchists. I'm not sure if all of those holdouts really have a vision of America that they want to see executed at all costs so much as they want to just watch the whole thing burn. I think some of them are more akin to extreme libertarians who believe the best government is essentially no government at all, and as such they're actually enjoying this chaos as opposed to being ashamed of it. >
  
  Tinfoil hat theory: once McCarthy backs down and the Republican house is tired, those 20 hard-Rs float Trump as the unity candidate for speaker. Trump then gets to lead endless investigations into Hunter Biden’s dick pics.
  Not that the plan would work, but it seems about as solid a plan as possible from the minds behind Stop the Steal can come up with >
  
  Speaker is a thankless job with toms of long hours.  I can’t see trump actually doing that job… >
  
  He wasn’t qualified for his last job by that metric, still didn’t stop him from trying >
  
  The guy just don’t know when to give up. A sore loser, 6 times and counting >
  
  Do it again! Maybe it'll be different this time!
  If it worked with Brexit, it can happen here, folks >
  
  
  Brexit
  
  DON'T CROSS STREAMS! >
  
  The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man has been deployed to your area.
  Do not be alarmed. >
  
  
  McCarthy’s Republican opponents are right in surmising that he believes in nothing and will yield under pressure; the evidence is his inability to stand up to them. His mistake was convincing himself that a party obsessed with dominance would reward submission. >
  
  That last part sums it up perfectly. These Republicans have a kink. Trump spanked their bottoms and insulted their wives and they loved it. Now McCarthy's groveling is a turn off to them.