comment: >
  
  SINO.
  Of course.   🤣
context: I hope he gets nothing he wanted and everything he deserves. >
  
  He will get less than he desires and more than he deserves. >
  
  I don't like half of you half as well as I should, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. >
  
  Well said Mr Baggins >
  
  The best part of his speech was when he likened himself to Lincoln in that when he was bored, he watched a clock Lincoln once did. >
  
  That’s the pinnacle of Lincoln’s achievements which McCarthy can match.
  Clockwatching. >
  
  It's the gov't way. >
  
  His name is Reek >
  
  I thought that was Putin's pet name for Trump. >
  
  It was piss boy >
  
  The House Whimperer >
  
  Breaking news: luke-warm, limp, lettuce leaf elected speaker >
  
  Breaking news: actual pair of stereo speakers elected speaker >
  
  Don't blame me. I voted for Bose. >
  
  Voted for Bose and ended up getting a no name speaker that's light as a feather. >
  
  Happy Cake Day! >
  
  Ah fuck I didn't even think about the debt ceiling. Government shutdown here we come. >
  
  Oh yeah, debt ceiling fight is going to be awful. Best outcome is they do a last minute deal and our credit rating drops only a little... Because rest assured, those idiots will drive us right off the fucking cliff if truly given the chance >
  
  With Freedom Caucus members on the Rules Committee, the debt ceiling debate won't make it to the House floor. >
  
  And inflation will skyrocket. How could dems do this to us? will be the chant. >
  
  Actually the polar opposite would happen if we defaulted on our loans. We would end up with a crippling deflationary cycle and a depression. >
  
  A US default would have both inflationary and deflationary effects.
  Interest rates would quickly increase with credit risk, which would severely dampen demand and investment (deflation).
  The value of the US dollar would get destroyed leading to rapidly increasing import costs and inflation as a net importer.
  I'm not sure what the net effect would be, but either way not good. >
  
  And posts like this make we want to buy a lot of guns and build an underground bunker.  But alas I’m poor so I’ll just die with everyone else! >
  
  The people who bought all the guns and built the bunkers are giant wimps and cowards. 
  Alpha play is to just push them down and take their stuff if they end up causing society collapse with their abject stupidity and selfishness. 
  Honestly, look at pictures or video of these mouth breathers. They’ll get winded screaming at you and their fingers are too fat to get in trigger guards. >
  
  You don't need to be in physical shape to murder someone with a gun >
  
  Speaker, thy name is Cuck. >
  
  Cuck McCarthy >
  
  Kevin McCucky >
  
  This guy became speaker and stood aside while Jeffries eviscerated the republican party alphabetticaly in front of the world >
  
  The alphabetical evisceration was the best part. Great speech. 
  Hakeem Jeffries’s First Speech >
  
  It was amazing. Best speech I’ve heard since the Obama years.
  Edit: the whole alliteration part was incredible. >
  
  That’s exactly how I felt too! Was a good feeling to have >
  
  Say and think of her what you want, Nancy Pelosi is a fucking Queen. 
  Democrats had the exact same majority over the last two years and got some incredible pieces of legislation done and never once did we worry about the government shutting down, let alone wondering who the Speaker was going to be. >
  
  Pelosi didn't get the credit she deserved, for putting her years of experience to use cajoling votes and finding pathways to a deal. But to be fair, neither did the Democratic congressmen and women.
  For as much as Reddit (looking at you, r/neoliberal) likes to try and find ideological cracks between the Dems, and howl about how obstructionist and divided the left are, when it came down to it, they voted as one. >
  
  She got more credit from Republicans. The way all of them hated her tells a lot. They wouldn't hate her as much if she was less effective. >
  
  
  They wouldn't hate her as much if she was less effective.
  
  Republicans hated Hillary Clinton for 30 years, yet she still got >2.7m more votes than Trump. 
  It warms my heart to see them hate AOC so much, because that means they're recognizing her as a massive threat to their power. >
  
  Agreed. >
  
  He wanted the title so bad that he gave up any and all power it might have so he can look in the mirror and say, "Hey Mr Speaker." >
  
  "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggonnit, people like me." >
  
  Who will have lasted longer: Liz Truss, the head of lettuce, or this eunuch that just got elected speaker. >
  
  His footnote in history books is all he really wants. Even a politician as dim as McCarthy knows the 118th Congress will accomplish little more than world class poo flinging. >
  
  As a side note, that speech Hakeem Jeffries made before introducing McCarthy as speaker was fucking great.  He’ll make an amazing speaker when Dems take back Congress. >
  
  I'm beginning to think after listening to his speech he fought so hard to be the speaker just so he could use the gavel. >
  
  Doesn’t he also get a nice portrait? >
  
  Not sure but probably, it will include him holding that gavel. >
  
  "And in losing place, is the USA!" >
  
  I dunno, call me crazy, but I don't think this is the end of it >
  
  You’re crazy but you aren’t wrong. >
  
  I’m expecting a weekly vote to remove him since all it takes is one voice now. >
  
  Ah.
  So now the speaker is a puppet. >
  
  After giving away the store, the only thing McCarthy will have is the gavel. The Freedom Caucus and other MAGA Republicans will have all the power. >
  
  Well, if all he has is the gavel then someone   should give him one of those toddler toys where the child bangs the multicolored pegs into the wooden board. At least he'll be able to get something done each day. >
  
  The GOP has become so evil, how could we not expect an emotional bloodbath. It's only a matter of time before a GOP Congress person goes mass shooter. >
  
  Well, they removed the magnetometers from the Capitol already... >
  
  Sino Rino >
  
  Always remember and never forget, a majority of the Representatives did not vote for him.
  There are 434 Representatives (one Democrat died before Congress started, otherwise it would have been 435)
  216 Repubs voted for him.
  212 Dems plus six Repubs = 218, which is a majority, did not vote for him >
  
  SINO? I'll be damned >
  
  Oh shit he's Chinese now?? >
  
  Speaker for the ~~Dead~~ Dying. Leading the final crusade of the boomers against all progress because he promised he'd flip-flop on command faster than anyone else.
  Truly a patriot. >
  
  I agree, but please don't use boomer as an epithet. There are many of us who were in these political trenches against fascism before many of you were born.
  Use the appropriate word, fascist, and even nazi. Many of these assholes are of your generation too (whatever it is). Thinking that the problem is with boomers and not the racists, nazis, and fascists is naive and doesnt help >
  
  In MI boomers went D in all three statewide offices >
  
  The MAGA Republicans believe not raising the debt ceiling will just shut down the Federal government. They don't realize that if the US defaults, it will damage the US worldwide. >
  
  Agreed,  they also don’t realize it’s money already obligated. Not raising the debt cieling is akin to defaulting on a loan payment.  They are reckless arsonists to be even contemplating such moves. How anyone can vote them into power is beyond me. If they want to curb spending, they have to do that in the budget,  not simply default on obligations. >
  
  Thankfully, there's enough "rational" members of the GOP caucus that understands those ramifications.
  Their mega-wealthy donors do not want their portfolios affected in such a self-inflicted blunder. >
  
  Unless they are all shorting the Dow…. >
  
  It's still pretty dangerous to welcome that sort of volatility, though.  It's like smashing open a piggy-bank with a hammer.
  There's easier (and far less risky) ways for an oligarch to grow their portfolio. >
  
  True. It’s very short sighted >
  
  So, today was day one of the New Congress. Did they read the Constitution like he promised? >
  
  This is when the real GOP stupidity starts … they’ll bicker so much amongst themselves that Democrats will actually get stuff done with the help of a few Republicans that just can’t stand their own kind. >
  
  GOP so busy fighting each other in the House they have no legislation for the Senate to take up, Ds will be able to confirm hundreds of judges. >
  
  Senator Schumer is going to need a bigger desk, because almost all of the bills coming out of the House over the next 2 years are going directly into one of those desk drawers, never to see the light of day in the Senate. >
  
  Eh. Took them 15 votes to agree on a leader. 4 days to make one choice. I don’t think they’re going to be very productive over the next two years. Fine by me. Status quo is preferable to a downward spiral. >
  
  I would check out if I was Kevin. just do what the freedom cocksucks want I’m taking a nap. >
  
  SINO.
  Of course.   🤣 >
  
  Speaker Consort. >
  
  Barely even that. Get ready for complete chaos and gridlock for the next two years. Fake investigations, clown caucus shenanigans, etc. >
  
  This was always gonna be the outcome when the republicans squeaked over the line to control the House. >
  
  The next two year will be a fcking shitshow with this scumbag and his MAGA GQP in charge.
  I predicting we will have minimum 1 government shutdown. What a shitshow >
  
  
  For many, if not most, of the renegades, that was precisely the point. They saw the modern speakership, whether in Republican or Democratic hands, as a vessel for corrupt deals that resulted in too much spending and a bloated federal government. If a by-product of decentralizing power in the House is dysfunction, they reasoned, so be it.
  
  ... WTF Atlantic? Nobody believes that is their motivation, were they even claiming that? >
  
  Yeah. I think the Atlantic might have gotten the modern House Freedom Caucus confused with the founding House Freedom Caucus and members like Justin Amash who have in fact argued precisely this point. The restoration of democracy in the House by reducing the Speaker to their proper role as a president of the body rather than a dictator. >
  
  Inmates are in charge of the GQP insane 118th congress. Good luck Americans. This will be the worst 2 years you could imagine. You will have less than  2 years to smarten up just in time for 2024 election to fix this shit show. >
  
  Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, seen here learning who the new Speaker of the House is. >
  
  SINO!  I like it >
  
  The name is all McCarthy was ever after. >
  
  "What did he sacrifice to get it?"
  -sad Thanos face- >
  
  There should be a limit on the number of times you can run (be nominated) for speaker and that number is far fewer then 15 >
  
  Some speaker nominations took over 100 voting rounds. >
  
  Well well well..... elected with NOT a majority.... how apropos.... >
  
  Aww poor Kevy needs a hug. >
  
  I wonder what strategies the House Dems are developing? >
  
  McCarthy officially applied for name change to Dikk Sukkir. >
  
  SPINO: spine? No. >
  
  How long before his new rule allowing a single congressperson to call for a resolution against the Speaker is launched? Is today too soon? >
  
  This speech is my recital >
  
  Is SINO pronounced "see-know" or "sigh-know"? >
  
  Season One of ‘So You Want To Be A Marionette’ was pretty good. Congrats, Kevin! >
  
  
  SINO
  
  Hmm... >
  
  If the shoe fits >
  
  He said it himself: he deserved this >
  
  Let's never forget that Gaetz accused McCarthy of squatting in the speakers office and told us that Crenshaw wears an eye patch solely to look tough, he actually has a glass eye. >
  
  Oh damn I didn’t realize he finally got the votes. Well at least Gaetz will be resigning, right? ….. right? >
  
  Lol. No. Gaetz negotiated his freedom caucus into wielding a lot of power. >
  
  "Speaker in Name Only."  Kevin is preferable when we can't hear him.  One would assume that 15 rounds of voting would boil the gop down to a palatable syrup but McCarthy's speech remained disagreeable tree resin. >
  
  He is just a sign on the door now. >
  
  “Squeaker” of the House >
  
  No SPINO >
  
  He spoke quite clearly when he thanked Trump >
  
  John Boehner is laughing SO hard right now >
  
  He'll be out of Congress by end of year. >
  
  Dead man speaking. >
  
  There are not many SINOphiles in congress? >
  
  That’s all he wanted. Idk why this is hard to understand. >
  
  Excellent article, thank you.
  My prediction: McCarthy has NOT been given a mandate but he'll nevertheless act and speak as if he had. His involvement with the 06Jan coup attempt will be mercilessly and repeatedly swept under the rug as his staffers and supporters alike point in some random direfction and shout "OOOOOHHH! LKook at that shiny thing over THERE!!.!...!)
  There will be more than one "scorpion and frog crossing the river" stories over the next couple of years. Many of these will be handled in dark alleys (more likely figuratively than in any  until such time as McCarthy can build up a supporting base to give him freer hand. >
  
  Americans in name only >
  
  I hope he gets nothing he wanted and everything he deserves. >
  
  He will get less than he desires and more than he deserves. >
  
  I don't like half of you half as well as I should, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. >
  
  Well said Mr Baggins >
  
  The best part of his speech was when he likened himself to Lincoln in that when he was bored, he watched a clock Lincoln once did. >
  
  That’s the pinnacle of Lincoln’s achievements which McCarthy can match.
  Clockwatching. >
  
  It's the gov't way. >
  
  His name is Reek >
  
  I thought that was Putin's pet name for Trump. >
  
  It was piss boy >
  
  The House Whimperer >
  
  Breaking news: luke-warm, limp, lettuce leaf elected speaker >
  
  Breaking news: actual pair of stereo speakers elected speaker >
  
  Don't blame me. I voted for Bose. >
  
  Voted for Bose and ended up getting a no name speaker that's light as a feather. >
  
  Happy Cake Day! >
  
  Ah fuck I didn't even think about the debt ceiling. Government shutdown here we come. >
  
  Oh yeah, debt ceiling fight is going to be awful. Best outcome is they do a last minute deal and our credit rating drops only a little... Because rest assured, those idiots will drive us right off the fucking cliff if truly given the chance >
  
  With Freedom Caucus members on the Rules Committee, the debt ceiling debate won't make it to the House floor. >
  
  And inflation will skyrocket. How could dems do this to us? will be the chant. >
  
  Actually the polar opposite would happen if we defaulted on our loans. We would end up with a crippling deflationary cycle and a depression. >
  
  A US default would have both inflationary and deflationary effects.
  Interest rates would quickly increase with credit risk, which would severely dampen demand and investment (deflation).
  The value of the US dollar would get destroyed leading to rapidly increasing import costs and inflation as a net importer.
  I'm not sure what the net effect would be, but either way not good. >
  
  And posts like this make we want to buy a lot of guns and build an underground bunker.  But alas I’m poor so I’ll just die with everyone else! >
  
  The people who bought all the guns and built the bunkers are giant wimps and cowards. 
  Alpha play is to just push them down and take their stuff if they end up causing society collapse with their abject stupidity and selfishness. 
  Honestly, look at pictures or video of these mouth breathers. They’ll get winded screaming at you and their fingers are too fat to get in trigger guards. >
  
  You don't need to be in physical shape to murder someone with a gun >
  
  Speaker, thy name is Cuck. >
  
  Cuck McCarthy >
  
  Kevin McCucky >
  
  This guy became speaker and stood aside while Jeffries eviscerated the republican party alphabetticaly in front of the world >
  
  The alphabetical evisceration was the best part. Great speech. 
  Hakeem Jeffries’s First Speech >
  
  It was amazing. Best speech I’ve heard since the Obama years.
  Edit: the whole alliteration part was incredible. >
  
  That’s exactly how I felt too! Was a good feeling to have >
  
  Say and think of her what you want, Nancy Pelosi is a fucking Queen. 
  Democrats had the exact same majority over the last two years and got some incredible pieces of legislation done and never once did we worry about the government shutting down, let alone wondering who the Speaker was going to be. >
  
  Pelosi didn't get the credit she deserved, for putting her years of experience to use cajoling votes and finding pathways to a deal. But to be fair, neither did the Democratic congressmen and women.
  For as much as Reddit (looking at you, r/neoliberal) likes to try and find ideological cracks between the Dems, and howl about how obstructionist and divided the left are, when it came down to it, they voted as one. >
  
  She got more credit from Republicans. The way all of them hated her tells a lot. They wouldn't hate her as much if she was less effective. >
  
  
  They wouldn't hate her as much if she was less effective.
  
  Republicans hated Hillary Clinton for 30 years, yet she still got >2.7m more votes than Trump. 
  It warms my heart to see them hate AOC so much, because that means they're recognizing her as a massive threat to their power. >
  
  Agreed. >
  
  He wanted the title so bad that he gave up any and all power it might have so he can look in the mirror and say, "Hey Mr Speaker." >
  
  "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggonnit, people like me." >
  
  Who will have lasted longer: Liz Truss, the head of lettuce, or this eunuch that just got elected speaker. >
  
  His footnote in history books is all he really wants. Even a politician as dim as McCarthy knows the 118th Congress will accomplish little more than world class poo flinging. >
  
  As a side note, that speech Hakeem Jeffries made before introducing McCarthy as speaker was fucking great.  He’ll make an amazing speaker when Dems take back Congress. >
  
  I'm beginning to think after listening to his speech he fought so hard to be the speaker just so he could use the gavel. >
  
  Doesn’t he also get a nice portrait? >
  
  Not sure but probably, it will include him holding that gavel. >
  
  "And in losing place, is the USA!" >
  
  I dunno, call me crazy, but I don't think this is the end of it >
  
  You’re crazy but you aren’t wrong. >
  
  I’m expecting a weekly vote to remove him since all it takes is one voice now. >
  
  Ah.
  So now the speaker is a puppet. >
  
  After giving away the store, the only thing McCarthy will have is the gavel. The Freedom Caucus and other MAGA Republicans will have all the power. >
  
  Well, if all he has is the gavel then someone   should give him one of those toddler toys where the child bangs the multicolored pegs into the wooden board. At least he'll be able to get something done each day. >
  
  The GOP has become so evil, how could we not expect an emotional bloodbath. It's only a matter of time before a GOP Congress person goes mass shooter. >
  
  Well, they removed the magnetometers from the Capitol already... >
  
  Sino Rino >
  
  Always remember and never forget, a majority of the Representatives did not vote for him.
  There are 434 Representatives (one Democrat died before Congress started, otherwise it would have been 435)
  216 Repubs voted for him.
  212 Dems plus six Repubs = 218, which is a majority, did not vote for him >
  
  SINO? I'll be damned >
  
  Oh shit he's Chinese now?? >
  
  Speaker for the ~~Dead~~ Dying. Leading the final crusade of the boomers against all progress because he promised he'd flip-flop on command faster than anyone else.
  Truly a patriot. >
  
  I agree, but please don't use boomer as an epithet. There are many of us who were in these political trenches against fascism before many of you were born.
  Use the appropriate word, fascist, and even nazi. Many of these assholes are of your generation too (whatever it is). Thinking that the problem is with boomers and not the racists, nazis, and fascists is naive and doesnt help >
  
  In MI boomers went D in all three statewide offices >
  
  The MAGA Republicans believe not raising the debt ceiling will just shut down the Federal government. They don't realize that if the US defaults, it will damage the US worldwide. >
  
  Agreed,  they also don’t realize it’s money already obligated. Not raising the debt cieling is akin to defaulting on a loan payment.  They are reckless arsonists to be even contemplating such moves. How anyone can vote them into power is beyond me. If they want to curb spending, they have to do that in the budget,  not simply default on obligations. >
  
  Thankfully, there's enough "rational" members of the GOP caucus that understands those ramifications.
  Their mega-wealthy donors do not want their portfolios affected in such a self-inflicted blunder. >
  
  Unless they are all shorting the Dow…. >
  
  It's still pretty dangerous to welcome that sort of volatility, though.  It's like smashing open a piggy-bank with a hammer.
  There's easier (and far less risky) ways for an oligarch to grow their portfolio. >
  
  True. It’s very short sighted >
  
  So, today was day one of the New Congress. Did they read the Constitution like he promised? >
  
  This is when the real GOP stupidity starts … they’ll bicker so much amongst themselves that Democrats will actually get stuff done with the help of a few Republicans that just can’t stand their own kind. >
  
  GOP so busy fighting each other in the House they have no legislation for the Senate to take up, Ds will be able to confirm hundreds of judges. >
  
  Senator Schumer is going to need a bigger desk, because almost all of the bills coming out of the House over the next 2 years are going directly into one of those desk drawers, never to see the light of day in the Senate. >
  
  Eh. Took them 15 votes to agree on a leader. 4 days to make one choice. I don’t think they’re going to be very productive over the next two years. Fine by me. Status quo is preferable to a downward spiral. >
  
  I would check out if I was Kevin. just do what the freedom cocksucks want I’m taking a nap.