McCarthy Falsely Denies Voting To Overturn Election Results | Talking Points Memo

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday denied that he, in fact, voted to overturn the election results as he failed to take responsibility for egging on former President Trump’s incitement of the mob behind the deadly insurrection of the Capitol earlier this month.


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I did not set fire to that building! I only poured gasoline on it after it was already burning.

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”McCarthy Falsely Denies Voting To Overturn Election Results.”

He realizes we can hear him, right?

(They have this thing now, called “recordings”.)

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Fuck Unity. Lets screw their brains out!

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The era of getting away with that sort of shit ended at noon yesterday, Kev.

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Any GOPPER on the defensive is a good thing. I got a chuckle some days ago when Lawrence was talking with Adam Schiff about some statement that McCarthy said that sounded a tad cooperative.

Schiff (who, himself, chuckled a bit when he replied) opined that McCarthy does things for McCarthy and that purpose

ONLY

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“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”

– Charlie McCarthy

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Go peddle your “white” wash elsewhere asshole

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Just play back his speech and ask for a mental health assessment afterwards. Any congressional member who can’t remember what they said two weeks ago should be replaced. Next?

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His ability to add layer upon layer of deniability so seamlessly is quite impressive.

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The legend in the photo describes McCarthy as House Minority Leader, which he is. Thus, he has no power and I really don’t care what he thinks.

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This is what ultimately happens when you wave the Reality-Based Community bye-bye. Even recorded facts, preserved on paper, digitally, video, and sound are somehow not relevant: “reality” is whatever you are saying at the current moment. There is no “memory”, not even that of millions of other folks in agreement as to what they’ve witnessed.

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And when the firefighters came I accused them of causing water damage.

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Sounds to me like he’s worried about losing his position as Minority Leader. I don’t know how his spine holds him up.

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Almost as sincere a liar as pence

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The GOPers only hear parts of the recordings they want to hear. It is their superpower.

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Rats scurry for shelter when they realize there’s a cat in the kitchen, eh, Kevins?

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It’s so hard to decide how much is stupidity and how much is cynicism. But the Internet remembers, dude.

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I didn’t parachute from the plane so much as take the shortest distance back to the airport.

And no, your honor, I didn’t shoot the man. I just cleaned my bullet with his torso.

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Pelosi will take her time, and she will come down on the insurrection caucus when it’s most useful.

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