The Most Bonkers Things Kevin McCarthy Said While You Were Sleeping

[Zorro]

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) spoke for over eight hours Thursday night into Friday morning, breaking the record for the longest “magic minute” as he used his time at the mic to delay the final vote on the reconciliation bill.

While the bill passed Friday morning, McCarthy seemed to have an ulterior motive: ingratiating himself with the right wing of the party as he embarks on his bid for the speaker’s gavel, should Republicans win the House in 2022.

“I don’t know if Speaker Pelosi stays around,” he said during his grueling soliloquy. “The damage she’s doing is a lot. Personally, I hope she stays. I want her to hand that gavel to me. I want her to be here.”

The speech was replete with gruesome imagery of life under President Joe Biden: apocalyptic cities, a border so porous that children can’t play outside in their own backyards, Americans freezing to death due to high heating costs, China lapping the United States in innovation, baby carrots. (Yes, baby carrots.)

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Joke's on him when t*** is Speaker.

[vlyons]

2. or as Chicken Little famously said

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

[abqtommy]

3. Ya don't have to be insane to be a Fascist, Kevin, but it helps, doesn't it? nt

[shanti]

4. He spent a whole lot of time

talking shite on every California Dem he could think of. Newsom, Pelosi, Schiff, you name 'em. It really bakes his cookie that he has no power here.

[JanMichael]

5. The freezing was mostly in the deregulated Texas market...

[Skittles]

6. fucking moron

just an example: people froze to death in Texas due to REPUKE POLICIES (during the polar vortex)