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- I don’t know how else to say this except: Kevin McCarthy is jeopardizing the fate of the United States by caving to demands from the radical right nihilistic fringe of the GOP and handing them significant power so that he can achieve personal glory. That is the most unpatriotic action one can do. His duty as an elected official is to the country, not his political ambition.
- January 2021: Republicans fail at the peaceful relinquishing of power. January 2023: Republicans fail at peacefully assuming power. They’re not very good at government.
- Golf clap to Dark Brandon for telling election deniers to fuck off in the classiest possible by giving the Presidential Citizens Medal to the people who stood up to intense pressure–from job threats to political suicide to actual physical violence–to defend the 2020 election. Celebrate democracy on the anniversary of their attempted coup.
- The way the Speaker will be elected–with a weakened McCarthy ultimately appointed and the Gaetz/Boebert/Biggs et al faction now pariah in their own Party–is the most dee-licious for Democrats short of Hakeem Jeffries winning the title because of Republican chaos.
- Can’t help but think the Tantrum Caucus sees the writing on the wall for their television appearances. With Republicans in charge of the House, senior Republicans will get the airtime on major networks and Fox, and these junior Representatives’ appearances drop. This is their way of ensuring their relevance for the next two years.
- After disastrous midterms for his high-profile endorsees, another of Trump’s chosen, McCarthy for Speaker, fails, humiliated on national TeeVee, and even his most ardent acolytes reject Trump’s lead. So starts Trump’s Death of 1,000 Cuts.
- In a stark real-time comparison: while GOP infighting paralyzed the House, President Joe Biden was literally celebrating building bridges in Cincinnati while standing between Republican and Democratic politicians from Kentucky and Ohio.
- How state borders will change due to rivers shifting because of climate change/drought. West Virginia’s border, for example, is partly made up of the Ohio River–and, well, all along the Mississippi. As rivers shift, should the borders also to make the water the border as the Founders wanted? (Yeah, yeah, might not have been the actual Founders. I get it.)
- George Santos is this Congress’s Madison Cawthorn, or as people refer to him now: “Who?”
- Armchair legal argument: Donald Trump should be charged with committing the assault on law enforcement for attacking the two Secret Service agents in his vehicle, which was obviously a continuation of the crimes of inciting the crowd to violence and of attempting to overturn the election, not to mention a precursor to the violence at the Capitol.
- Why did the Fates push three Aeschylus quotes to me on the same day? I’m not studying ancient fragments anymore.
- If a Scaramucci is 10 days long, is a McCarthy a period of nil time? A time that does not exist? A time when nothing gets done.
- Enjoy the first-ever graphic random thought:
- Planning the vegetable garden becomes significantly more complicated (and expensive) once you realize you tore out the four raised beds two years ago.
- Sometimes you get them. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes I overestimate the hilarity. Sometimes I overestimate the hilarity. I thought Guatamalapalooza would play more than it did. You found Schlapp happy amusing. Some of you have left enigmatic comments that at least leads me to believe you found the Easter eggs I occasionally plant. But no one–no one–has ever noted the post I did surreptitiously honoring the Housemartins throughout.
- Whaddaya know. Another radically homophobic conservative “thought leader” has a dirty little secret. This is what shame and self-loathing do to people.
- By kowtowing to the radical right, Kevin McCarthy has disempowered the office he aspires to so badly he’s harming himself, his Party and his political future. It will be two years of the GOP slapping–Schlapping–itself silly.
