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 Apart from who is substantively worse, I want Jordan to lose because my visceral loathing for him is extreme, greater than for any other member of Congress except Ted Cruz, and if he becomes Speaker I’ll have to see and hear him a lot more often, and I don’t need to be angrier.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7sZRVLW4AA298S.jpg 
 McCarthy’s farewell fuck-you to the 8 members who voted him out applies to Trump and the whole base of their party: “They don’t get to say they’re conservative because they’re angry and they’re chaotic. They are not conservatives and they do not have the right to have the title.” 
 Former Trump WH Chief of Staff John Kelly. Amazing. 

Very much wish would say all of this on camera. 

https://bird.makeup/@jaketapper/1708950853975949487

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7hX4mVXMAAHVia.jpg 
 New York State Supreme Court judge’s ruling on Trump’s business fraudulence: “Defendants’ world…is a fantasy world, not the real world.”

And in a footnote he quoted Chico Marx’s famous Duck Soup line: “Well, who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/nyregion/trump-james-fraud-trial.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare