Kevin McCarthy, who rarely passes on an opportunity to display what an idiot he is, posted to Twitter yesterday a video of himself speaking to an audience and forcefully asserting that “In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward.”

Yes, that would be the same Kevin McCarthy whose own district, the California 20th, was ceded to the United States – along with the rest of California, Utah, Nevada, and large chunks of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico – by Mexico in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War. And of course that is only the most obvious of contradictions to McCarthy’s rediculous and historically ignorant assertion, the U.S. also acquired territories from Britain after the Revolutionary and 1812 wars, from Spain after the Spanish American conflict and, well, Native Americans would also like a word with the former Speaker…

What a clown:


There you go again, bringing facts to a Kevin McCarthy posting.


Hear, hear.


At this point is that even possible?


Yup


He must have ditched class that day…


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Not the first time… or the last.


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Please.


A little late for that.


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McCarthy has uttered a lot of stupid crap in his day but this has to rank up there with his stupidest.

But what can you expect from the Einstein that had his a$$ handed to him by Matt Gaetz?

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  1. Does the coup d’état against Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawai’i and forced abdication by American companies backed by US Marines followed by the annexation by the US Government not count either?

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  2. In addition to what many pointed out on twitter I’d add something else. Take a look around the world and you’ll see it dotted with U.S. military bases. Some of them quite huge. Yes, we “pay” countries to maintain bases in say Okinawa (where my Marine Corps’ 3rd MarDiv and Air Wing are based) or Ramstein in Germany but how to you think we got that land in the first place? Via war, and those (and other) countries weren’t exactly in a position to say no when we first established ourselves on those spots for basically open-ended time frames. And despite our helping countries defeat mutual enemies there’s usually a resentment from not just locals but populations of some countries (Korea, Japan/Okinawa and even Germany for example) over our continued, large presence.

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  3. Mr McCarthy might want to consider that little prison we have in Cuba–properly known as “Guantánamo Bay” (but lovingly nicknamed “Gitmo”). The US kind of got that because of war–that little brouhaha with Spain which gained us Guam and Puerto Rico also got us the island of Cuba. The US, however, had never planned on keeping Cuba as a formal colony–just helping the locals set up a government BUT we did insist on keeping Guantánamo Bay under a lease agreement (technically, the US pays Cuba a nominal amount but the Cuban government has refused to accept the money, preferring instead to have the territory returned to Cuban sovereignty) and we wouldn’t have that if we hadn’t gained control of Cuba following the Spanish-American War.

    And, it should be noted also that the US has a lot less territory now that it gained from war than it used to. The Philippines, for instance, was gained after the Spanish-American War and it was an American possession from 1898 to 1946 (with that little 1941-1945 intervention by the Japanese; the Philippines established an unrecognized republic from 1899 to 1902 which led to a war between the US and that republic, and a second republic was established during the Japanese occupation but it was really just a Japanese puppet state). Also, the Northern Mariana Islands–to the north of Guam–came under US control after World War 2; the territory had been under Japanese control prior to the war (originally as a League of Nations mandate but it became a full colony after Japan withdrew from the League in 1933). After the War ended, the Northern Mariana Islands–along with the current independent nations of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (which had been part of Japan’s “South Seas Mandate” under the League of Nations)–became part of the US-governed “Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.” Between 1978 and 1981, the districts of the Territory would gain a limited independence but only the Northern Mariana Islands remained a part of the US (its people ARE citizens of the US and they send a non-voting delegate to Congress).

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    • Unfortunately his name is totally inappropriate to begin with.
      In its original Irish it is Caoimhín Mac Carthaigh (the small gentle son of the friendly man)

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  5. Not much of an orator, our Kevin. His overwrought, “I’m oh so serious” demeanor coupled with his punctuation via hand gestures (keep pointing that finger, Kevin, and somebody’s going to break it off!) scream middle school drama class.

    And Kev? About that tie.

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  6. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984

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  8. I can’t decide whether Republicans are actually this ignorant or know better but are counting on their voters being that ignorant. Either is appalling. How did these arrogant creeps ever get elected?

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