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  There's been some good titles lately. Still, it's a good article.
  
  The movement these characters are part of — one McCarthy hoped would carry him to power — isn’t simply ideological. It’s also a set of defiant, paranoid, anti-system attitudes, and a version of politics that prioritizes showboating over legislating. That’s why McCarthy has found himself unable to negotiate with the holdouts. There are no real policy stakes, no concessions he can make on issues. The anti-McCarthy faction’s demands are largely about power and visibility, and whenever he meets those demands, they move the goal posts.
  They don’t want policy; they want airtime.
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. >
  
  This sounds a little hot >
  
  Definitively being hot rn >
  
  
  Five of them are freshmen — these are people who are part of Trump’s remaking of the Republican Party. Arizona’s Eli Crane, for example, is a former contestant on the business reality show “Shark Tank,” where he pitched bottle openers made of dummy .50-caliber bullets. (“Shoot open some bottles in the manliest way possible,” says an ad for the product.) Florida’s Anna Paulina Luna, an ally of the Trump die-hard Matt Gaetz, is a veteran and former swimsuit model who built a career as a conservative rabble-rouser,
  
  How's this not the onion.. >
  
  They were saying on MSNBC that Boebert wouldn’t have won without his fundraising. She’s straight up roundhousing the gift horse in the mouth. >
  
  That's the actual title.  Spectacular. >
  
  From the NyTimes too, not just TheRoot or Salon. >
  
  I genuinely thought an Onion article had slipped through moderation until I saw the URL. >
  
  Hell of a headline. >
  
  Hell yeah >
  
  Kevin McCarthy learned why it is not a good idea to play with political insanity
  You can't control crazy because crazy can't control itself >
  
  Kevin McCarthy hasn't learned anything. He's a fucking idiot. >
  
  Which is why his campaign donors like him
  He isn't smart enough to come up with his own ideas >
  
  In between these votes today, McCarthy was just goofing around in the corner. I don’t see how that would change any votes. >
  
  My understanding is McCarthy and his possy wanted to adjure from the start today, because they knew they didn't have the votes and wanted more time to try to convince more people to vote for him. The democrats and the never kevin crew objected. I guess McCarthy wasn't expecting any progress today. >
  
  Posse, adjourn >
  
  Being a descriptivist means not having to know anything. That might be wrong, but I don't care because I'm a descriptivist. >
  
  “It’s simply that Trump sycophants are ultimately undermined by their weak and flabby character.”
  LOL >
  
  If this keeps up much longer Kyrsten Sinema is gonna have to do something SUPER dramatic to get some attention back on her >
  
  Underrated comment >
  
  And on the 7th vote, Trump rose
  /s please no >
  
  Maybe if Kevin brought them all a bunch of pink starbursts, maybe then they vote for him. >
  
  Why specifically the pink ones? Is there an inside joke on not aware of? >
  
  Well, and Red.  Apparently the story is basically that Kevin picked through a bunch of Starburst so he could gift the red and pink ones to Trump after he noticed that he only ate the Strawberry and Cherry flavors. >
  
  Oh, I'd not heard that. Those are the best flavors of starburst, but I would figure Trump only eats the orange ones. >
  
  Trump doesn’t think he is orange. >
  
  I think he should wait until just before the 12th vote before taking his name out of contention.  Keven loses number eleven has a special ring to it. >
  
  Kevin Eleven does roll off the tongue quite nicely. >
  
  Please please please let that happen >
  
  At the rate this keeps going, there's going to be a nationwide shortage of popcorn. >
  
  If I had an award, I’d give it to you. >
  
  I’m assuming he’s putting together some forged speaker ballots to mail in to congress, and has some Oathkeepers “standing by” if the next vote ~~is stolen from him~~ doesn’t go his way. >
  
  
  Kevin McCarthy nurtured the spirit of reactionary nihilism in the Republican Party
  
  Good description of Republicanism's descent during McCarthy's time in office. >
  
  Isn't this exactly the kind of situation that ranked-choice voting was invented for, as a potential solution? >
  
  And why the founding fathers warned against a two party system. >
  
  I shared this because hashtag best title. >
  
  There's been some good titles lately. Still, it's a good article.
  
  The movement these characters are part of — one McCarthy hoped would carry him to power — isn’t simply ideological. It’s also a set of defiant, paranoid, anti-system attitudes, and a version of politics that prioritizes showboating over legislating. That’s why McCarthy has found himself unable to negotiate with the holdouts. There are no real policy stakes, no concessions he can make on issues. The anti-McCarthy faction’s demands are largely about power and visibility, and whenever he meets those demands, they move the goal posts.
  They don’t want policy; they want airtime. >
  
  
  …and whenever he meets those demands, they move the goal posts
  
  This has been the GOP negotiating tactic against the Dems for years. Amazing to see they’re finally screwing themselves over it. >
  
  Who could have guessed catering to the craziest part of your base would backfire? >
  
  I find myself rooting for the leopards:) >
  
  The leopards can eat all the other leopards' faces, and then voters will hunt and kill the surviving leopards in 2024.  Let's go! >
  
  His worst nightmare.... and he wrote the script..... >
  
  …..”I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face!” - keveypoo >
  
  The face-eating irony leopards have to be my favorite modern idiom. >
  
  His mistake was to think that Republicans, who by definition love to feel power and control, would be happy to reward his submissive actions. Of course, this was naive. This party would naturally view submission as a weakness, an inability to defend oneself or maintain one’s own interests. The lesson he learned from this experience should clear: In politics, only those who are willing to fight can survive, and Kevin is a coward! >
  
  He supported the insurrection, then signaled maybe he didn't, then when it was clear the base supported overthrowing democracy violently, he was back on board the trump train.  
  Coward is far too weak a description.  I am thinking something in the neighborhood of  "American Quisling" >
  
  By the time this is done, McCarthy is just going to be a picked over skull. The Leopards will have eaten everything else.
  His embarassment and defenstration is complete and total. If he's even elected Speaker, he'll be the weakest Speaker in history. >
  
  i enjoy this headline immensely. >
  
  r/leopardsatemyface >
  
  THIS is the best they got?  THIS is them leading?
  What a mess. >
  
  Simply put, Kevin isn’t qualified. We all know why. >
  
  Jeffries for speaker! >
  
  The right is being held captive by the far right, and this isn’t good news. >
  
  They are reaping what they have sown for more than a decade.  This party needs to die a violent organizational death so something new can arise.  This is great news, although it won't be as fun when the US fails to raise its debt ceiling later in the year.  The next 2 years will be very interesting! >
  
  This isn’t a path for the right to reap what they sow, this is a small hyper partisan extreme voting bloc that will wield equal power in the house to the republicans and democrats by blocking every bill and threatening to shut down the government every time twenty people don’t get there way >
  
  Yeah, but for once, it's the Republican's problem. >
  
  I think there is a Never Gym block of voters. This is the reason Gym does not want to run because he doesn’t have the votes. >
  
  They want authority w/o responsibility. >
  
  He even got a nod from trump, but that’s not a positive thing anymore, even amongst the magas. Who knows, maybe trump even gets indicted. >
  
  At least Hunter Biden's laptop has a speaker. >
  
  Reddit is leaking again. >
  
  It's from Twitter, though >
  
  And the author cites the OP. It's like they didn't even read it. >
  
  All that valuable outrage investigation time going to waste for the Q kids. >
  
  r/leopardsatemyface >
  
  Is there a rule about how many times you can vote.  This is like your teacher handing your test back until you pass. >
  
  Imagine being a foreign language speaker learning English and trying to parse what this headline means. >
  
  Can someone explain the etymology of this phrase? 
  Like it has to have a really grim origin that has just been satirized. It reminds me of the ol' "dingo ate my baby" >
  
  Headline: "I Never Thought They Would Eat My Face!" sobs woman who voted for the Leopards-Eating-Faces party. >
  
  Will Kevin McCarthy survive and what will be left of him?! >
  
  Best caption of the day! >
  
  This.
  
  Unable to corral his caucus for what is usually an easy vote, there is no chance McCarthy would be able to get them on board for hard ones, like keeping the government open or raising the debt ceiling to avoid plunging the country into default. >
  
  You can take the boy out of the trump, but you can’t take trump out of the boy. >
  
  NYT reads Reddit >
  
  r/leopardsatemyface >
  
  I’m curious how dems base would respond if let’s say 210 votes turned unanimously voted for Rep. Donalds as speaker and foil republican preferred bid. >
  
  This is literally a wet dream 
  Trump destroyed these low iq specimens better then any democrat ever could 
  Go trump! >
  
  At least it's not bears - Libertarians >
  
  If only this were literal. >
  
  What exactly is the holdup? Is there some specific concession that could get McCarthy the votes he needs? I read Boebert wants term limits. Is that it? >
  
  If she really said she wants term limits, that may be the only sensible thing I've ever read about her talking. >
  
  If not Kevin, who will they be able to elect? >
  
  «…Trump sycophants are ultimately undermined by their weak and flabby character.»  2nd to last paragraph >
  
  McCarthy is a sentient hemorrhoid >
  
  I'm sorry, but I don't think McCarthy gives a rat's butt about public humiliations.  He's humiliated himself so profusely in his quest for power.  He will capitulate to anything to get it. >
  
  I apologize in advance. I just haven’t been following this as closely as I should… but as someone who hasn’t paid enough attention…. Is there a time when it this stops being funny? Do I have to start worrying again or can I just enjoy? >
  
  Showing their true spots >
  
  I wish a leopard would eat that meme >
  
  Do you think the Supreme Court can fix it for Kevin? >
  
  There were no leopards. >
  
  Jon Snow vibes….. >
  
  Seven Kevin >
  
  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. >
  
  This sounds a little hot >
  
  Definitively being hot rn >
  
  
  Five of them are freshmen — these are people who are part of Trump’s remaking of the Republican Party. Arizona’s Eli Crane, for example, is a former contestant on the business reality show “Shark Tank,” where he pitched bottle openers made of dummy .50-caliber bullets. (“Shoot open some bottles in the manliest way possible,” says an ad for the product.) Florida’s Anna Paulina Luna, an ally of the Trump die-hard Matt Gaetz, is a veteran and former swimsuit model who built a career as a conservative rabble-rouser,
  
  How's this not the onion.. >
  
  They were saying on MSNBC that Boebert wouldn’t have won without his fundraising. She’s straight up roundhousing the gift horse in the mouth. >
  
  That's the actual title.  Spectacular. >
  
  From the NyTimes too, not just TheRoot or Salon. >
  
  I genuinely thought an Onion article had slipped through moderation until I saw the URL. >
  
  Hell of a headline. >
  
  Hell yeah >
  
  Kevin McCarthy learned why it is not a good idea to play with political insanity
  You can't control crazy because crazy can't control itself >
  
  Kevin McCarthy hasn't learned anything. He's a fucking idiot. >
  
  Which is why his campaign donors like him
  He isn't smart enough to come up with his own ideas >
  
  In between these votes today, McCarthy was just goofing around in the corner. I don’t see how that would change any votes. >
  
  My understanding is McCarthy and his possy wanted to adjure from the start today, because they knew they didn't have the votes and wanted more time to try to convince more people to vote for him. The democrats and the never kevin crew objected. I guess McCarthy wasn't expecting any progress today. >
  
  Posse, adjourn >
  
  Being a descriptivist means not having to know anything. That might be wrong, but I don't care because I'm a descriptivist. >
  
  “It’s simply that Trump sycophants are ultimately undermined by their weak and flabby character.”
  LOL >
  
  If this keeps up much longer Kyrsten Sinema is gonna have to do something SUPER dramatic to get some attention back on her >
  
  Underrated comment >
  
  And on the 7th vote, Trump rose
  /s please no >
  
  Maybe if Kevin brought them all a bunch of pink starbursts, maybe then they vote for him. >
  
  Why specifically the pink ones? Is there an inside joke on not aware of? >
  
  Well, and Red.  Apparently the story is basically that Kevin picked through a bunch of Starburst so he could gift the red and pink ones to Trump after he noticed that he only ate the Strawberry and Cherry flavors. >
  
  Oh, I'd not heard that. Those are the best flavors of starburst, but I would figure Trump only eats the orange ones. >
  
  Trump doesn’t think he is orange. >
  
  I think he should wait until just before the 12th vote before taking his name out of contention.  Keven loses number eleven has a special ring to it. >
  
  Kevin Eleven does roll off the tongue quite nicely. >
  
  Please please please let that happen >
  
  At the rate this keeps going, there's going to be a nationwide shortage of popcorn. >
  
  If I had an award, I’d give it to you. >
  
  I’m assuming he’s putting together some forged speaker ballots to mail in to congress, and has some Oathkeepers “standing by” if the next vote ~~is stolen from him~~ doesn’t go his way. >
  
  
  Kevin McCarthy nurtured the spirit of reactionary nihilism in the Republican Party
  
  Good description of Republicanism's descent during McCarthy's time in office. >
  
  Isn't this exactly the kind of situation that ranked-choice voting was invented for, as a potential solution? >
  
  And why the founding fathers warned against a two party system. >
  
  I shared this because hashtag best title.