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  Yeah but the back is more convenient for when McCarthy is standing in front of a camera
context: There are few things in the world that make me as happy as Kevin McCarthy being miserable. >
  
  Mitch McConnel and John Roberts being miserable? >
  
  Yes, please. Also, any of the republicans who voted against the certification of the vote, aided and abetted an attempted coup with their cowardice and complicity, like Mike Lee with his plan to submit false and vexatious electors to subvert the democratic election of representatives in support of John Eastman's cowardly plan for Trump to illegally and autocratically seize power despite losing a free and fair democratic election, etc... 
  More than anything, I just want deserving Republicans to experience the same degree of misery, in aggregate, that they intentionally inflict on Americans and non Americans alike in order to feed the base instincts of their cultivated marks.
  Some, I assume, are good people who don't deserve that. >
  
  Also all of the Republicans who went to Russia to meet with Putin on the 4th of July, and also Rand Paul. >
  
  Never forget the Manchurian Members Moscow Marching Orders Meeting. >
  
  ...which means that—assuming no Democrats vote for him, and god help any who do—with six new members already on record as refusing to vote for him, McCarthy is two votes short of what he needs.
  Also:
  Democratic Members of Congress are considering nominating Liz Cheney to become Speaker. If the entire Democratic caucus voted for Cheney, it would only take 5 moderate Republicans to make Cheney Speaker. >
  
  
  Democratic Members of Congress are considering nominating Liz Cheney to become Speaker. If the entire Democratic caucus voted for Cheney, it would only take 5 moderate Republicans to make Cheney Speaker.
  
  are they really? can you source that? cause ive been making a joke on here about that happening for weeks. >
  
  
  If the entire Democratic caucus voted for Cheney
  
  The Squad doubled in size. Even if it didn't, who thinks AOC, Pressley, Tlaib, and Omar would vote for Cheney? >
  
  "You get McCarthy or Cheney, pick one." >
  
  the squad is the anti-imperial caucus, they cannot pick Cheney, they would abstain. Glen Greenwald would troll them to the ends of the earth. >
  
  I agree with the sentiment, but Greenwald doesn't seem to be the man he once was. >
  
  he's just anti-dem now, doesn't talk about anything else >
  
  Here's the thing I don't get about McCarthy.  He was basically ordained to be Speaker and has been in House GOP leadership for years...but he seems really BAD at this.
  Like say what you will about Pelosi but she's always on message and knows where her votes are.   
  McCarthy is a poor public speaker.  He meanders, doesn't have the force of personality to bulldoze through difficult questions, and he seems like a phony and a whiner when he's hitting the talking points about the border, or fentanyl, or Hunter Biden.
  But even with that he doesn't seem to have the will to get people behind him. If you look at January 6th fall out stuff it seems like he is constantly being dragged around by his nose.  He's presses by the more centrist GOP about Trump's involvement....and then days later he's kissing Trump's rung.
  Kevin seems to want to he Speaker so he can say he's Speaker but that's his only goal.  There no policy vision or plan.  At least guys like McConnel have visions that last beyond them: like remaking the Judiciary.  Paul Ryan had his "cut entitlements" stuff.  Even if I find it heinous there's a method there. >
  
  Greene's at least seven devils in a tomato-red pants suit with billowy ruffles where the sleeves should be. >
  
  six demon hobag >
  
  Kevin McCarthy's Ambitions ~~Are Going to Take~~  Have Taken Him to Some Dark Places
  FTFY. >
  
  Like in a poorly maintained/lit bathroom used exclusively by the freedum caucus on Capitol Hill but..yes…places. >
  
  Just say "glory holes" and be out with it, Man!" >
  
  Yet somehow he will still end up getting shafted more with each and every rotten deal. My man just radiates that mythical neo-con, bigly, alpha energy. >
  
  Nothing is worse than kissing Trump's ass and he's already done that. >
  
  McCarthy put his self interest above his country. He went down to kiss the ring of the person responsible for attempting to put an end to our Republic. Anything else pales in comparison and I really could give a crap about this sorry POS. >
  
  Bargains with the devil are part and parcel of being a republican, tho? >
  
  He has no soul to deal with the Devil. >
  
  Then he needs to beat him in a fiddle contest. >
  
  McCarthy’s main problem is he’s just not very bright. Will be way over his head as Speaker, which will manifest as anger and frustration. Pass the popcorn. >
  
  If you have to make deals with everyone to be speaker, you are not speaker.  You are a puppet.  Puppet McCarthy.  Get used to it. >
  
  Can we call him Muppet McCarthy?  Has a better ring to it IMO >
  
  Democrats considering nominating Liz Cheney is the most Democrat move ever.  Too cute by half and overthinking what should be an obvious strategy - let McCarthy flail around and let the Republicans look weak, disorganized, and incompetent (which they are).  But no, instead they think throwing them a lifeline instead is actually the smart political move. Barf! >
  
  Having a completely dysfunctional legislative branch for two years can be problematic for a country though. 
  And it creates a "let them fight" scenario. Cheney vs. Trump instead of McCarthy going after Biden. All while Cheney and her supporters in Congress owes Pelosi a significant number of favors. >
  
  McCarthy and the GOP going after Biden and his family with pointless hearings probably helps Biden politically >
  
  Right, but the trouble is that the democrats have constantly been considering what's best for the country instead of what's best for themselves politically, because they're actually in office to get stuff done instead of power for power's sake. >
  
  I mean if they were all about beating the GOP no matter what and didn't care at all about governing the country, how would they be different from the GOP? >
  
  I'm agreeing with you, lol. >
  
  I'm agreeing with you too? LOL >
  
  F him >
  
  It’s pretty humorous how weak this is all making him look. I really want Nancy to sarcastically applaud him at the next SOTU. >
  
  I mean, he sucked off Trump for years, even after he unleashed a violent mob on him and his colleagues, so I doubt there is any low he won’t stoop to. >
  
  He is very used to dark places! That’s how the GOP works! >
  
  I love seeing the GQP in full nuclear meltdown. They deserve it. >
  
  In the rare alternate timelines where DOJ lived up to it's name, the "Devils" that McCarthy is getting into bed with, would be facing expulsion under the fourteenth amendment. Instead, we got the one that lets a child sex trafficker walk, and lets Republicans embezzle campaign funds at will. >
  
  Wherever the Speaker of the House goes so shall the country; if he goes to some dark places, so shall we. >
  
  His groveling is becoming legendary. I'm counting on him to lower himself much further. >
  
  Does anyone here know if Pelosi keeps her office when the D no longer hold the house. I mean the physical office, I'm basically wondering what the big perks are aside from being 2nd in line and the power and prestige. Is there only one speaker of the house office and the person has to move out of it and then move back in it if their party wins it back in 2 years? >
  
  The speaker has an office inside the capitol building and an office in an adjacent building on the complex grounds. 
  Yes, the current speaker will vacate the speaker's office for the incoming speaker. >
  
  Ah thank you! >
  
  Was it worth it, Kevin? >
  
  He already did that when he joined the Republican Party >
  
  McCarthy will prevent GOP being taken seriously >
  
  My Fellow Americans 
  This republican party traitor cannot get any lower than treason 
  The republican party sold out to the trump devil in 2016 >
  
  You can't even describe the deal McCarthy is going to have to make a "Deal with the Devil".  Because the Devil at least will always hold up his side of the bargain, just the price on the end will be too steep.  The pack of chaos monkeys that McCarthy is selling his soul to are going to use every chance they have to force McCarthy to act as the proxy for the worst of their impulses.
  He is going to be nothing but a marionette sitting on the dias with five people yanking on the strings; and in the end, he won't last a year before they evict him from it. >
  
  Seriously the Democrats have a chance to back somebody who will totally and royally screw the Republicans over, you'd think they could get enough votes behind MTG or somebody else horrific and throw the R's into disarray >
  
  It's like they actually care about the consequences for the country or something >
  
  Morning would be worse for the country than having a competent Republican in the speaker position.
  The speaker actually has to do a job and one of the whacky Republican turds is simply going to do a bad job, not destroy the country... Because speaker isn't as easy as a fox news interview >
  
  The one thing worse than Republicans as a party is trying to lead them. Got it. >
  
  MGT gonna clap those cheeks. He’s all “don’t worry about the lube the blood will do it.” >
  
  Fuck McCarthy, he's a spinless asshole. >
  
  Probably never happen, but it would be amazing if a Middle of the road / slightly "progressive ie not battshit insane" GOPer challenged him, got a few votes from the GOP and all the Democratic votes. As it the whole House that votes for speaker, not like the Senate where it is only the GOP that votes for majority leader >
  
  There is no Kevin McCarthy anymore. 
  There is just a Kevin-McCarthy-shaped puppet with a Trump-sized hand-hole* in its back.
  *lady's petite >
  
  Most classic puppets have holes in the bottom, not the back, which is even more fitting here.