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As Republicans went into round two of what we can only hope will be many, many rounds of voting for a new Speaker of the House, the former king of the extremist right and noted locker room observer Jim Jordan, demonstrated what was undoubtedly meant to be a show of unity by standing up to nominate Keven McCarthy. That moment of unity was followed roughly zero seconds later by America’s skeeziest congressman jumping in to demonstrate that any idea that Republicans would now fall in line after a single ceremonial round of disagreement was about as silly as the idea that Jim Jordan could be the voice of reason.
In nominated Jordan, who nominated McCarthy, Gaetz not only praised Jordan, he ground McCarthy under his heel, making it clear that a good deal of his contempt for McCarthy is generated expressly from McCarthy’s willingness to do absolutely anything to win the position. To recap: Jordan is a monster, McCarthy is a slime mold, and Gaetz is admires the one man in Congress whose moral record may be worse than his own. It’s a very special day in Congress.
