Second Thought For The Day

Cloudy With A Chance Of Hail (Of Bullets)

January 6, 2023

The last guy nearly ruined this place,
he didn’t know what to do with it.
If you think this country’s bad off now,
just wait ‘til I get through with it.
                       Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding*

As you are all too well aware, the Ratpublican Clown Caucus now has a majority in the House. They have now completed four stupid days and thirteen idiotic votes (the greatest number of futile attempts since 1858) and Keving McCarthy finally leads Democrat Hakeem Jeffries in the vote count. Jeffries only needs six Ratpublicans to realize that their party is riddled with rubes who can barely tie their own shoes let alone govern a huge, diverse nation. McCarthy now only needs four votes to begin his doomed speakership. On Stupid Day Three one of these knuckleheads actually nominated the head insurrectionist from two years ago today – Donald Trump, the guy who wants (wanted?) Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker – to be the next Speaker of the House.

It's Not My Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To

The party that is insanity personified continues to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again, dimly expecting a different result. To quote Forrest Gump's mama , “Stupid is as stupid does.” She never imagined this.

Partners/opponents Trump and McCarthy have a meeting of the “minds”

Though they remain unable to carry out what should be the easiest task they will ever face – electing one mental defective among them to be Speaker of the House – they did manage to have the metal detectors (not to be confused with mental detectors) removed from the Capitol. You remember the Capitol – the place these same Ratpublicans attempted to take by force in order to overthrow the government they now claim to work in. The metal detectors were put in place in response to the attempted coup two years ago today.

So now, presumably these hair-brained, hair-triggered numbskulls in the Ratpublican carcass…I mean caucus can walk around the Capitol packing heat in order to protect themselves from themselves. What could possibly go wrong? Maybe they need some Second Amendment solutions to settle their pathetic attempt to choose a leader.

Capitol building metal detector – notice hand sanitizer dispenser,

which will likely be removed because sanitizer dissolves freedom

Lord Of The Fleas

Congresschild Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who has inquired about carrying guns into the Capitol, said that Republicans were turning the House chamber back "into the people's House" by removing the scanners.

Boebert recently had to shutter her gun-themed Shooters Grill in (not making this up) Rifle, Colorado, which is scheduled to become a Mexican restaurant.

Rep. Boebert seen here desperately trying to remember

her name and where she safely stored her guns

Who knows, maybe something good will come out of this. Can you say Steve Scalise?

For the record, it is uncertain whether the House of Representatives can even be said to exist at the moment since no one can be sworn in, nor any work done until a Speaker has been elected. Except apparently for having metal detectors removed. If only they had used their powers to remove the mental defectives. Once again Ratpublicans prove that government doesn’t work…when they have the majority.

Never forget, this is the party that brought you Donald Trump.

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* Also the slogan of wannabe Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the raison d'être of Ratpublicans

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