House Dems Blast McCarthy For Joking About Violence Towards Pelosi If He Is Speaker | Talking Points Memo

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You had me at “Kevin isn’t man enough”…

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I’m not either. If the R’s take the House in the midterms (makes “avert” magic sign) it will probably be someone even worse like Stefanik or Boebert. McCarthy has nothing to show for his time as minority leader.

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“It will be hard not to hit her with it but I will bang it down.”

This is what you get when you don’t punish the encitement of insurrection in the Capitol. The whole GOP brand has veered towards stoking violence.

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I was expecting you were going to end with “the bottle.”

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“…joking that it would be ‘hard not to hit her’ with the gavel if he becomes House speaker.”

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McCarthy is an idiot and a coward… as such he well represents his constituency of trumper right wing traitors.

Screw these people and their ongoing assault on our democracy.

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If he were man enough, he wouldn’t have said it in the first place.

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Is he man enough to testify?

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I hope he doesn’t have a choice. Frankly, I want to see him sweat.

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Nope that’s just fair.

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So, when I become speaker, I’ll have McCarthy and any reactionary member with the Tea Party in their intellectual heritage drawn and quartered and broken on the wheel.
And, to add insult to injury, I’ll have my caucus pass bills of attainder against all of their immediate family’s members.
Now, wasn’t that funny?

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I was just thinking to myself that i can somewhat appreciate where he’s coming from. After all, it’s going to be so damned hard not to indict him when he’s found guilty for his role in the insurrection.

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Gonna be interesting:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext

ETA :Link goes to.British research paper on Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19

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The killer part of that is NO ONE knew about it until a few days ago.

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“Locker Room Talk” about workplace violence against women.

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Reading that report made me suspect that Republicans have been suffering those cognitive declines from Covid for several decades.

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I’m of the opinion that every medal or award Trump gave as President is worthless. Absolute trash. This may be unfair to some recipients, but I suspect not many. And the simple reason is because Trump always bases someone’s worth or merit on what that person has done for him personally, and not on their contributions to society at large or for America.

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I didn’t think I missed that. Medal of Freedom? Really?
Of course, he gave them out like bribes or rewards for support and/or donations, so I really didn’t pay much attention to his recipients. Undeserving scumbags.

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