U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

Change you can believe in!

xxpost Love AOC in the back of that photo... obv enjoying herself

mccarthy is pretty good at not making That Facial Expression. he makes a lot of other ones, but he keeps the edges of his mouth from turning downward

It's a face I would call the 'before' to goatse's 'after'

Just how many times does McCarthy need to beg for a belly rub from the Freedom Caucus by giving in to every single demand they can dream up, before he so completely disgusts a half dozen Republican reps from districts which aren't heavily gerrymandered in their favor that they bolt to make their own deal with Jefferies?

Rep. Hern, who got Boebert and someone else's out-of-pocket vote this go-around, has a very mysterious and isolated deet in his wiki bio:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FluzOOTWYBE8qiS?format=jpg&name=large

i read that clay higgins tweet in benoit blanc's voice

Unfortunately Kevin Hern's McDonalds also couldn't get 7-Up

that detail in the wikipedia entry just caused a true LMAO for me. i mean the challenger disaster hit us all hard, but

McCarthy has lost for the 8th time

Hern votes for McCarthy.

where did the Boebert nom even come from? did she talk to him? was she just craving mcdonalds?

can't wait for Woody Harrelson to play McCarthy in the Adam McKay Netflix movie about this

past few days pic.twitter.com/Bd9ua6I6Qo

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) January 5, 2023

Crazy that he keeps making concessions without any actual negotiations happening or any deals being made in return for those concessions. He's an idiot.

the SNL skit about this is going to be really boring

GOP 2021: fuck democracy
GOP 2023: hey, give us a break, democracy is messy

CNN at it again with their doofery:

Some members are voting for Rep. Kevin Hern, chair of the Republican Study Committee.

He supports Rep. Kevin McCarthy but CNN has heard his name is picking up steam among conservatives.

It is unclear if he, or anyone, could earn a winning number of votes this round.

He has three votes, there are 209 votes left, and the threshold if one person votes 'present' is 217, what's 'unclear' about that.

Crazy that he keeps making concessions without any actual negotiations happening or any deals being made in return for those concessions. He's an idiot.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, January 5, 2023 2:25 PM bookmarkflaglink

it really is a "dance, McFly, dance!" scenario

Asked why it’s been so hard for him, McCarthy said: “I think it’s great. If you think it’s so hard, when it comes, I want to see what you write.”

Asked by CNN at what point will he make a realization that the outcome won’t change, McCarthy said: “After I win.”

can we just start with the 20 obstructionists and that way we know whether we can abort the vote

Ceding the limelight to them even more is a profoundly terrible idea

what limelight, only sadists are watching this

and don't forget the masochists!

I admit it would keep them away from Fox News cameras for awhile

this is a game of chicken where everybody hopes both people die

I know the Dems are a party and the GOP a pathology, but, really, Pelosi's achievement at holding her people together looks more remarkable every hour.

I nominate King Arthur, who slept straight through WW2 and is ready to lead through this crisis

I nominate Shaquille O'Neal

I nominate Lyndon LaRouche.

let's just keep going with McCarthy, just keep taking vote after vote after vote

this seems unlikely, but given the current shitshow you can't rule it out

https://i.imgur.com/F0f83CO.png

Holy fuck, Ilhan Omar is cold.

Kevin McCarthy walking into the new Congress with a fresh majority pic.twitter.com/Qfx2K7agk1

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 5, 2023

Kevin McCarthy and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Downfall. pic.twitter.com/LBIBJvI9Ja

— FriendlyKozak 🇺🇦 (@KvotheTheArcane) January 4, 2023

the outfits are perfect

back in 2016 there were a ton of articles written about why it was actually a really bad idea to cede so much of your party to the extremists and nihilists, something I think most conservative politicians at the time intuitively understood. obviously it didn't get talked about much after Trump won but I feel a lot of that has been coming to roost over the last few years.

also lmao @ Charlie Kirk saying Trump could come in and fix this in two hours, as though he didn't pretty much singlehandedly lose them like 25 House seats

The wink, I mean ...

Rosendale calls out Maxine Waters by name but then denies he did so just seconds later. Very weird. pic.twitter.com/5B9TNG5O6K

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2023

yikes that omar tweet doesn't seem like a great idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9lh7lqZojc

(xp)

Boebert formally nominates Kevin Hern, whose life changed after witnessing the Challenger disaster, when he knew that he had to operate McDonalds franchises. This is the second person that Boebert has nominated today. Very surprising, I thought she was a huge fan of Donalds, it seemed very genuine

if there's anything that can end this mess, it might be bipartisan unity in wanting Boebert to stfu

these fuckers are weird: no speaking skills, no sense of how they're perceived, no checks, no balances, no speaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEbfeG2oAE

Those glasses were intense, there were times when I wondered if Heavy D had eyes

gaetz changes his tune and votes for Kevin Hern, a household name in american politics that was on the tip of everyone's tongue yesterday

Would be funny to see Gaetz vote for someone different every time now, while grabbing his balls and pointing/glaring directly at McCarthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-y9Pv-CJA

lol here's from Hern's house bio:

"After undergrad, Kevin went on to work as an Aerospace Engineer for Rockwell International. When the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster rocked the aerospace industry, Kevin was out of work."

he minored in fast-food management as a fall-back

Rosendale is a rep I have never heard of or seen before today. He seems annoying as fuck.