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Kevin McCarthy Ascends to Power Via Begging, Humiliation, Threats, and Concessions to MAGAs

Well, it took a full 15 rounds of voting, as well as some very serious behind-the-scenes deal-making with the Republican Party’s hard-core MAGA, Christian Nationalist, and insurrectionist election deniers, but Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) finally came up with enough votes from that angry, bickering mob posing as a political party, to elevate himself to that cherished position of power he has so desperately desired for oh so many years, Speaker of the US House of Representatives . Luckily for him, all Kevin McCarthy had to do to secure the Speakership, was simply agree to allow the House GOP to go full QAnon on the country.  He’ll now have the privilege of presiding over a nest of half-witted, venomous pit vipers, exhibiting varying degrees of sanity.   That said, if he thinks he’s given them all they will ever want, he’s greatly mistaken.   That’s because these are the kind of folks whose mantra is simply, “all I ever wanted from life, is more! Frankly, as a veteran, citizen, an...