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Agreed. There is no better word/term for a person who would fuck over the entire country in order to make himself feel a little bit better for a month or 2.
Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) blasted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a new interview this week, calling the California lawmaker a "piece of sh*t" who will "say whatever he needs to say to stay in power."  
Kinzinger called McCarthy a "piece of sh*t" while casting doubt that McCarthy would remove embattled Rep. George Santos from his committee assignments given the party's narrow majority in the chamber. >

I’m sure most of voters for Santos feel betrayed. It’s a swing district so there’s a good chance it will go Democratic so definitely not. >


voters for Santos feel betrayed

...hoodwinked, bamboozled, lead astray, run amok and flat out deceived. >

I understand from a voters perspective but how did the democrats not uncover this prior to election day? Seems like pretty poor campaign management. >

He’s a republican. How did the GOP (ya know, the party he’s joining) not properly vet him as a candidate? >

How is the gop not in charge here? 
Couldn’t they revoke his r status and make him an independent?
At the end of the day this falls on the R’s. It’s their party he’s a part of. >

Pretty much every fucked up aspect of this stupid ass country falls on the R's.  They don't give a fuck. >

He actually fits the R profile. Tell the voters anything, tell them what they want to hear, get elected and line your pockets at the expense of the average American. >

Bottom line evaluation!  Spot on! >

It's Friday. Perhaps a motion to remove him as speaker is in order? >

Pledge, prayer, motion to remove the speaker. >

He's just not ready to be president of the Ag hall. >

Grade-A piece of shit >

5.15 inches from the base. >

Allegedly >

He’s a part of “the lifestyle” >

Kinzinger's fellow former IL GOP REP Rodney Davis thinks the same thing, but he's too cowardly to say it.  Rodney Davis.  Dude got to congress attacking "Obamacare", couldn't find a spine during Trump and lost his primary to someone who literally fawned on Hitler. >

You should’ve seen raw dog davis talk to my high school class back in the day. A bunch of 17/18 year olds made this man crumble with what you would think are basic questions. Even the teacher chuckled after he left, and said “I didn’t think a high school class would overwhelm him.” >

Oh how I wish there was a video >

God, me too. One kid, who I was friends with and knew he didn’t smoke pot, asked how he planned to address a growing number of people supporting legalization of marijuana. He resorted to calling the kid a pot head instead of anything even close to a real answer.
Edit: There is also the girl who asked what his thoughts on fracking were. He asked to borrow a kids Gatorade in front of him. Held up the Gatorade and then talked about how this is all chemicals and it’s fine. That was awesome. He clearly thought the younger generation was mentally inferior or something. It was honestly insulting if I didn’t find it so funny at the same time. >

McCarthy's hair is definitely slicked back. >

The leader of the Dangerous Nights crew. >

Lives for New Year's Eve. >

Sloppy steaks at Gervanni's. >

I used to be a piece of shit.  People can change! >

Sounds like your hair isn't slicked back, it's PUSHED back. >

McCarthy thanked the most powerful domestic terrorist in America for his help in securing his speakership. >

Kinzinger - the only truthful republican.   Disagree on his politics, but can't call him a liar like the rest. >

This is what I wish it came back to. You can think someone is okay but just not agree with policy. I wish we could get back to this. 
If he were to run for President and win, there is no doubt in my mind that he would be making decisions on what he believes is best for our nation, even if I disagree with those decisions. Now we have GOP people that are openly in it to enrich themselves or fuck everyone else over. They don't care about America or American's. >

Yeah, the fact that a majority of Republicans are solely a party of "Fuck the other side" is galling.  Like seriously?  How do we have so many adult 7 year olds? >

No education. No sense of community. Over reliance on religion and a religious basis of "obey the authority/leader".
Then add in large amounts of fear, racism/sexism/etc, declining job prospects, people who don't ever leave the area they grew up in, and weaponized 24/7 propaganda on TV and social media. Sprinkle in lead, and now likely microplastics, messing with our our bodies.
Humanity is definitely at an inflection point. >

AGI is going to be the inflection.  Savior or extinction event?  Hell on earth or utopia?  Tune in at 11 to find out! >

What does AGI mean in this context? >

Artificial general intelligence, an AI with true sentience. >

Damn I like Kinzinger more each day! >

If only he would realize conservatism is a bankrupt ideology and become a liberal. Then he'd make for a great Democrat. >

From a European perspective, most of the Democrats are pretty conservative anyhow, while the GOP clearly resembles any fascist party. >

That is actually incorrect. Based on independent analysis (from the Germany-based Manifesto Project; I can provide a chart if necessary, but it's a hassle to get to), the Democratic Party is a pretty normal center-to-center-left party (similar to the Lib Dems in the UK and Labor in Australia, and to the left of Canada's Liberals).
But American Republicans are so far right compared to even the rightmost mainstream conservative parties, it makes it incredibly hard for Democrats to actually act on their ideology. (Which is why you see Democrats seizing opportunities they DO get to do as much as possible, like when Democrats got a trifecta in Virginia for the first time in decades and passed more significant legislation in 2 years than had been passed in the 20 before.)
The polarization of the two major parties in America is unlike pretty much any other developed country. The only other one I can think of is Brazil. >

There’s no way democrats are to the left of liberals in Canada is there? They’re closer to our conservatives here. >

Trudeau literally got upset because we canceled the expansion of their oil pipeline.
Dems are to the left of Canada's Liberals. >

Going to need more than one data point. >

Ok.
(A holistic score from the Manifesto Project plotted on a left vs. right axis.) >

What is it trying to say? There's zero explanation.
I read up on this a bit, and I just don't think this is a useful presentation of the days given my biases. It appears to be a count of unweighted individual policies.
So abortion is one point, nationalized healthcare is one point, etc. If they weighted these, there's no indication of it in this chart.
There's a lot of 'progressive values' I would compromise on for nationalized healthcare, mass transit, police accountability, etc.
This chart seems to be missing the forest for the trees. >

That's informed by, as you mention, your personal biases and things you prioritize. Your subjective priorities do not inform objective analysis of ideology, as what may be a priority for you may not be a priority for others.
And, to use your argument, you're now basically saying that your preferred data points are more important than other data points. Basically saying "because the Liberals are further left on this one issue, they are further left overall." And that's just completely untrue. >

It just proves any honesty gets you kicked out of the Republican club. >

mcmurray is a piece of shit >

I could go for one of those cock suckin’ G and Ts though. >

I concur >

Well, Kevin is going to put ~~Anthony Devolder~~ George Santos on committees. Oh, don’t panic, not the “big ones”, just the ones vacated by Lauren Boebert while she serves on the “big ones” >

No shit, Sherlock! >

To be fair, McCarthy is more than just a piece of shit.
He's a piece of shit that HAS TO stand there and smile while being called a piece of shit because if he doesn't he will be ejected. And he chose for it to be that way. >

A little louder for the Reps in the back! >

Shit is useful.
McCarthy is not. >

California lawmaker a "piece of sh*t" who will "say whatever he needs to say to stay in power."
Awesome news. With only 33% turnout in Kern County and a district win only because California unilaterally disarmed from partisan gerrymandering we can own McCarthy! >

to be fair, McCarthy IS a piece of shit >

Every time I see Kevin McCarthy, I think of Worm Jerry >

We know.