GOP Will Shit Itself

[Mongrel]

[beatbandito]

His mom died on 9/11. 195 months later they took her corpse away from him.

[Mongrel]

[Thad]

[Thad]

McCarthy fails to get a majority of votes for Speaker on first ballot.

The last time this happened was the last time we had a year ending in '23. All hail discordia.

[Thad]

I think they made it to the third ballot and still nobody managed a majority. (ETA it was the fourth.) They've adjourned.

Elie Mystal:

People saying that Dems are going to get *tired* and leave to make McCarthy speaker really don't know about the recuperative powers of watching a guy who threw his hat in with people who came to your office to kill you suffer repeated humiliations.

[Crick]

The Christo-Fash doesn't have enough to take over the whole show it seems.

[Mongrel]

My favourite so far

Santos votes for McCarthy, "who fought by my side on D-Day at Normandy."

Also,

Elie Mystal:

People saying that Dems are going to get *tired* and leave to make McCarthy speaker really don't know about the recuperative powers of watching a guy who threw his hat in with people who came to your office to kill you suffer repeated humiliations.

[Mongrel]

But wait, what if...

[Grath]

[Mongrel]

"Will update as needed" (imgur meme)

[Mongrel]

Hello? 911? I'd like to report a murder.

[Thad]

He almost made it this time. I think he'll probably pull it off. Maybe not today, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was confirmed by the end of next week.

Course, I also wouldn't be surprised if the crazies decided to keep sowing chaos instead.

[Mongrel]

[Mongrel]

OH MY GOD, HE'S STILL DIGGING.

[Mongrel]

Slightly more seriously...

WaPo: New details link George Santos to cousin of sanctioned Russian oligarch

According to the Washington Post, Santos “has deeper ties than previously known to a businessman who cultivated close links with a onetime Trump confidant and who is the cousin of a sanctioned Russian oligarch”

(link should work, as it's one of WaPo's own non-paywall share links)

[atog]

"So George, we heard you mention you're an ex-pro football player. What's that all about?"

"Yeah I led my campaign team in Russian last season"

[Grath]

Today's "revelations":


and the worst one: He stole the GoFundMe money for a veteran's service dog's lifesaving surgery. (citation)

[Mongrel]

Yeah that last one kinda shifts it from "This guy's gonna be joke fodder for decades!", to "I want to strangle this miserable fuck with my bare hands."

[Mongrel]

Not linking it, but they have the full text history, just in case there was the slightest doubt. Imagine being the kind of person who sees a dog in pain and thinking to yourself "Man, I bet I could make a quick couple bucks off this!"