The arsonists in the Republican Party are out there blaming the wind for burning down the house they set ablaze.
Cuz that’s the brand, right?
Imagine if you will, a band of armed marauders breaks into your home one afternoon while you’re at work— they steal your food, upturn your furniture, drink the milk out of the carton and then leave it on the counter, they hide the remote, forget to flush, use your toothbrush, instruct every Alexa device in the house to full-volume blast the Kars4Kids jingle on a never ending loop (which the ICC has officially identified as a human rights violation), finish that pint of pumpkin cheesecake ice cream you’ve been thinking about all Fucking day long, and on their way out, they pee all over your favorite faux fur fall throw (that’s a red line folks) before heading out to do the same to every house in the neighborhood. Leaving a path of chaos and destruction in their wake.
And as you attempt to grapple with the ruination of urination that has become of your perfectly prepped for ‘all things fall y’all’ domicile, the neighbor rings your doorbell.
“Have you seen the news?” Janet asks. “They caught the marauders.”
“Good. I hope they get what they deserve!” You say while wiping maple syrup off the wall.
“Well…” Janet continues… “Not exactly… they’re blaming… you… for everything.”
“ME!!!???” You scream while whipped cream drips onto your head from the ceiling above. (Clearly, confections are the weapon of choice for this particular band of vandalizing marauders which certainly does make them unique but also is extremely reflective of the gang’s pervasive puerility, but I digress).
“Yes, they’re saying you’re really to blame because you didn’t stop them. That you could have stopped them, but you didn’t put the whole neighborhood first.” She says with a shrug before walking off to chat with Bob across the street who has also seen the news and is shaking his head at you disapprovingly.
This is basically what we are looking at here folks, only somehow— what’s unfolded and continues to unfold in the Toddler Caucus controlled House of Representatives at present, is even MORE ridiculous.
In the Republican-controlled House, a bunch of far-right Republicans forced the Republican leader to change a rule and then those same Republicans used that very rule change to remove said fellow Republican from his Speakership.
Republicans: We blame the Democrats for this!
The only Republicans NOT pinning Kevin McCarthy’s ouster on the Democrats are the 8 mutineers who led the charge FOR his ouster. Which is wildly ironic given the fact that they’re citing the Democrats as the reason they wanted him removed to begin with. Because Kevin’s unforgivable sin was avoiding a government shutdown by working WITH the very democrats the Chaos Crew ended up needing in order to facilitate his removal.
There’s a whole “boy math” thing trending on TikTok, and this one kinda fits the bill.
Boy math is when it took 15 votes and 1 changed “motion to vacate” rule to make it possible for 8 Republicans to remove the one Speaker they were ever able to agree on and as a result, it’s all the Democrat’s fault.
McCarthy has no one to blame here but himself of course. He handed all his power to the very same Coalition of Stupid who would inevitably seal his infamously historic fate.
All for a useless title and an impotent gavel.
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