{"id":50481,"date":"2023-01-09T14:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=50481"},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:31:40","slug":"can-you-overdose-on-schadenfreude-or-popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/09\/can-you-overdose-on-schadenfreude-or-popcorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Overdose on Schadenfreude \u2026 OR Popcorn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it possible to overdose on schadenfreude? \u00a0Asking for over 81 million friends.<\/p>\n

Democrats have so enjoyed watching the GQP in such a state of confusion, crisis and chaos (why, I even read they were in \u201cDISARRAY\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 a descriptor the MSM has heretofore reserved for Democrats) that Pres. Biden found it necessary to order the release of several metric tons of our nation\u2019s Popcorn Reserves<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt you have all been closely following clownish antics of McCarthy, Gaetz, Boebert and other GQPers, so I\u2019m going to try and find some that might have slipped under your radar.<\/p>\n

As seen in this candid photo, it began when Kevin McCarthy first addressed the GQP Caucus as they set out to elect a Speaker for the House:<\/p>\n

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He appealed to their sense of unity when he closed his opening speech with this plea:<\/p>\n

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But to no avail.\u00a0 As you all know, the voting dragged on and on and on and \u2026<\/p>\n

It got to the point that sports fans recalling the recent FIFA World Cup felt it was time to go to penalty kicks.<\/p>\n

Putting a positive spin on it, other sports fans said that at the rate Kevin was losing round after round of voting, he at least was assured a first-round pick in this year’s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Others not so sports-minded thought that Rock Paper Scissors<\/em><\/strong> would have been a better \u2013 and quicker \u2013 way to get this done.<\/p>\n

But this is what America was stuck with:<\/p>\n

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(Maybe they should have tried unplugging the House and the plugging it back in again)<\/em><\/p>\n

Someone was able to procure a list of concessions McCarthy was ready to offer to the Taliban 20 in the Freedom Caucus to get their votes:<\/p>\n

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Ad while all that was going on, on the other side of the aisle the Democrats demonstrated decorum, decency and dignity.\u00a0 Why, Rep. Katie Porter even took the time to improve her mind by reading a tome that will undoubtedly prove useful over the next two years.<\/p>\n

No, it was NOT this one:<\/p>\n

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C-Span was able to get a view of her selection:<\/p>\n

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And then Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries gave the speech that McCarthy should have \u2013 but didn\u2019t \u2013 literally spelling out from A<\/em><\/strong> to Z<\/em><\/strong> how a responsible party prioritizes issues.<\/p>\n

It won both laughter as well as cheers.\u00a0 And needless to say, it went viral and has been viewed more than 2.4 MILLION times<\/a>!<\/p>\n

All in all, I think this clip from the Daily Show<\/strong><\/em> does more than justice to how Kevin McCarthy\u2019s past week went:<\/p>\n

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But I want to close on a serious note, because THIS<\/em><\/span> is what happens when you have no principles or core beliefs \u2013 just blind ambition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to remember that the people blocking McCarthy were also largely the ones named as co-conspirators in the ex-president\u2019s efforts to overthrow our government.\u00a0 The great majority claim Trump won in 2020, and all but one of them voted against vote certification of the 2020 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/01\/04\/us\/politics\/house-speaker-republicans-vote-against-mccarthy.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Is it possible to overdose on schadenfreude? \u00a0Asking for over 81 million friends. Democrats have so enjoyed watching the GQP in such a state of confusion, crisis and chaos (why, I even read they were in \u201cDISARRAY\u201d \u2013 a descriptor the MSM has heretofore reserved for Democrats) that Pres. Biden found it necessary to order […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5265,5266,5263,5267,5264],"class_list":["post-50481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gqp","tag-house","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-republicans","tag-speaker","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}