So, GOP Congress critter Ralph Norman made some news yesterday.
Appearing on wingnut TV’s Real America’s Voice he intimated to the talking head there that he and the other Congress zeros opposing Kevin McCarthy’s ascension to House Speaker have a super-duper secret candidate who will swoop in after all the swearings-in to deter the California RINO cypher from his quest for the ring…
Rep. Ralph Norman, who opposes McCarthy for Speaker, says the renegade Republicans have a secret candidate to run against him who is not a House member: “It will be apparent in the coming weeks who that person will be. I will tell you, it will be interesting.” pic.twitter.com/anD60jvNky
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) December 1, 2022
Though Norman was mum about the identity of this presumably MAGA hero, was it just coincidence that House Judiciary Minority Leader Gym Jordan deleted his tweet about potential candidates on the same day? Was his doing so meant to preserve the secret until the GOP was firmly in control?
Remember this one from @JudiciaryGOP? pic.twitter.com/TBMnhtHhVY
— Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) December 1, 2022
Hmmm.
Now, I don’t think Musk has the time for Leading the House Republicans… I mean between going to Mars, building exploding cars and shit-posting on Twitter, how’s a guy going to squeeze in gaveling down on impeachment hearings?
Still, little Elon IS the competitive sort, so he sought to cripple some of the completion by suspending Kayne West (left, above) from Twitter after he appeared on Alex Jone’s crapfest of a television show and proclaimed his love for Hitler. Oh, and tweeted out this hideous symbol that set Twitter on fire rightly calling for his ouster from the site…
Horrifying – a swastika embedded within a Jewish star.
Does Kanye West have to physically hurt a Jewish person before you act @elonmusk? pic.twitter.com/VUs1MdhK4o
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) December 2, 2022
Though many speculate it was not so much the anti-Semitism that Musk objected to, but this final Kayne Tweet making fun of him:
Kanye’s last tweets before getting suspended from Twitter:
Kim K having sex with Chris Paul ✅
Ari Emanuel hosing down a shirtless Elon Musk ✅ pic.twitter.com/Cyrk3HfISa
— Stephanie Sidley (@StephanieSidley) December 2, 2022
There are limits after all, I suppose.
If Kayne is out that leaves just the busy, busy Musk left standing and the masked piece of shit pictured (right, above). Who does Ron Filipowski’s audience think will emerge victorious?
SO many freaks to choose from. pic.twitter.com/Of3hd9sNn1
— Heather Thomas (@HeatherThomasAF) December 1, 2022
It’s a conundrum to be sure.
I’m hoping all the Republican picks for Speaker are behind bars before then.
— Lily🌻 (@LilyinIndiana) December 2, 2022
That would be sweet.
Dark horse? 👇👇👇
This guy? pic.twitter.com/DZePXluCYS
— Engledink Humplebert (@Slytle1261Lytle) December 1, 2022
Is it JFK, jr?
— Russell The Texan (@TexanRussell) December 1, 2022
Why not?
If it’s Trump, he’ll be
Speaker of The Big House.— Bill Johnson (@Bill43111) December 1, 2022
🤞 🤞 🤞
— John Fischer 🇨🇦✌🇺🇸 (@JohnCFischer_) December 1, 2022
But isn’t Karl Marx deceased?
😂😂😂
I guess we’ll just have to wait a few weeks to find out.
Unless the handful of sane GOPpers in the House want to join with the Democrats to save their party, and themselves, a huge embarrassment.
Probably not.
More empty threats…it’s as good as saying that they’ll not be supporting McCarthy, despite him being their best chance. This performative defiance is going to cost them dearly if they stay on this course.
Didn’t former Speaker John Boehner make an appearance on the Hill?
Yeah, but Boehner is more likely to a coalition candidate for moderate rethugs/dems than to be a freedumb caucus candidate. I’m actually a little shocked that his appearance at the House a day or so ago didn’t receive more coverage.
Boehner won’t take that job again…why would he? He was miserable in it the first time and is much happier where he’s at.
I don’t know. He hated the freedumb caucus and the opportunity to knife them might appeal to him. If he’s Speaker of a coalition of rational republicans and moderate democrats, he might go for it. He did, after all, show up at the House for some non-ceremonial purpose. You may be right, we’ll know in Jan.
It’s going to be interesting the GOPers do try to put Trump in as Speaker of the House. They’re probably forgetting that, as a NON-elected individual, he will NOT enjoy the same legal immunities that ELECTED members of the House enjoy. (The Constitution doesn’t go into detail about the Speaker’s role when handled by someone who is not an elected member of the House but I’m not seeing how that bunch of “originalist” and “strict Constitutionalists” on the Supreme Court would be willing to *give* a non-elected Speaker any rights and/or privileges that aren’t clearly defined in the Constitution. Then again, we’re talking about a group whose ideas about “original intent” and “strict reading” really depend on how the wind’s blowing on any given day.)
Goddamn!!! Andy Kaufman is alive & going to do his Mighty Mouse routine on the house floor! ‘Here I come to save the day’!!! Get ready to become the court jester of world politics.
The house judiciary committee celebrating 3 nazi traitors with a tweet that has stayed up. Oh don’t worry…fascism can’t take America according to those WHO HAVE NEVER SERVED OR BEEN TRAINED FOR WAR. Ostrich heads in the sand.