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All of them might be murdered--though the terms "social euthanasia" or "delayed abortion" would also work--but I'm pretty sure many of them would not be at all tasty.

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Wtf. They simply need to choose someone to speak for their conference and introduce their “legislation.” They really can’t choose anyone? And Gaetz didn’t remove McCarthy. 8 Republicans did. Gaetz merely had the power, granted to him by McCarthy, to bring a no-confidence vote. But he needed help to bump McCarthy. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gaetz asks McCarthy to “do him a favor” in return for the gavel back. Nobody else is closer than he is. It’s absurd that he lies and says Dems voted to shut down the House. Rs could have replaced McCarthy and resumed flinging poop the very next day.

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Ta, MM. No time to watch videos now, but I'll watch the Seth Meyers and Joker stuff later.

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"We imagine it would go a lot like the Joker's"tryouts"..."

I'm not seeing the problem.

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The Joker left these words for those doing the tryouts: "Make it fast."

That was the last we ever saw of them.

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Maybe Republican caucus members could resolve this issue if they exercised their 2nd Amendment rights at their next meeting.

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For all the people who keep suggesting Liz Cheney is some sort of "moderate" because she hates #PAB (please, that's the lowest of fucking bars), I would just say listen to what she says. She is the wretched spawn of Dick Cheney. Listen to her response when asked to comment on President Biden's absolutely true statement that after 9/11, we used rage and thirst for revenge (paraphrasing here), and mistakes were made. Mistakes like torturing prisoners, offering bounties, then shoving people without establishing any probable cause except the word of bounty hunters, into the hellhole at Guantanamo, unleashing bloodthirsty hoards of unaccountable Blackwater mercenaries onto Iraqi civilians, drone strikes on civilians, etc., etc. All perfectly fine according to that goddamn bitch.

Listen to Liz claim that the ONLY mistake that was made after 9/11 was President Biden's courageous act (the dude has more balls than all 3 former Presidents combined, and makes Dick Cheney's chicken hawk balls look microscopic) of getting us the fuck out of Afghanistan. We set trillions of dollars on fire, managed to savagely murder thousands of people, destroyed lives, and accomplished not one fucking thing of any lasting value whatsoever. But that's the only mistake that fucking, asshole Liz could identify.

She then goes on to beat that long dead horse (GOP "kept us safe") using policies embracing torture, carpet bombing civilians, imprisoning and torturing random people for DECADES, lying to American voters too stupid to look at the evidence right in front of their faces, which distracted them from the real GOP goal of massive handouts to the idle rich. She resurrects that idiotic trope about Dick Cheney and his Renfield, Bush the Lesser, "keeping us safe" AFTER 9/11. The problem with that bullshit is, Bush the Lesser, and the Cheney cabal DIDN'T "keep us safe" when it actually mattered, BEFORE 9/11. Fuck Liz Cheney (spit). And fuck every member of the Bush family (spit). The only ones who get a pass from me are Millie (the Springer spaniel), and that Scottish terrier Bush used to drop on the tarmac, like a stupid, fucking idiot.

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Fucking Newt Gingrich. Again?

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If they did lock up the Repubs together, I wonder how many would be murdered and how many would be eaten?

Note that I am not saying this would be a bad thing.

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AOT,K

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Other primates are following this and going “Christ, this is embarrassing. And I’m a fucking lemur with eyes the size of baseballs—I know embarrassing.”

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Our closest relatives are best-known for shitting in their own hands just to have something to fling at you at the zoo. You know the chimps now are all going "Dammit, we got to up our game!"

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The monkey likes

to fling his poo

and you better duck

or he'll aim at you

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Welker, though no great shakes, outperforms her immediate predecessors.

A host who moves in for the kill when a big, juicy lie is right there but that is not the modern concept of the program.

That is probably why I haven't bothered with it since the days of Lawrence Spivak.

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One reason McCarthy continues to blame the Democrats is because he made a grave miscalculation about the patience of the Democratic Party and he’s shocked they didn’t save him. He assumed the Democrats wouldn’t want to risk anyone new (the devil you know) and thought he’d be safe. FAFO, Kevin. Anyone asking Newt’s opinion on matters concerning Congressional dysfunction is just trolling the masses at this point.

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Bully shocked when the bullied fight back. Finally.

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"They should have stayed in. When they get back here, they should stay in, they should go into a conference, not come out, bring food in and stay there, and very simple test, can you get 217 votes? They shouldn't bring anybody out until they have 217."

Tell me you spent a lot of time round the Vatican without saying you spent a lot of time around the Vatican.

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IIRC, there was one Papal election at one stage where food WASN'T brought in. To encourage a speedy resolution to the issue.

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The next time one of these asshats tries to blame Democrats for this horrific mess of their own making, I would like an interviewer to ask them once, just once, if the shoe were on the other foot and the numbers were reversed, would Republicans vote to save a Democratic speaker, especially after being wrongfully and falsely excoriated on tv? Democrats aren’t the ones who moved to remove McCarthy in the first place. Idiot did that to himself.

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if only

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McCarthy was the OG Nazi adjacent MAGAT. Smear tactics were his stock in trade, but he started by getting the Malmadey murderers out from under capital punishment.

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"I know Ike, let's have a spelling contest!"

Ike Clanton, OG MAGAt.

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