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To: Mongo2116 who wrote (1387460)	1/16/2023 12:43:56 PM
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Moron. You haven’t a clue what war costs. Impeachment coming as is your parole officer.. MAGA moves forward Welcome to the Matt Gaetz Era of the America First Movement The Florida congressman’s stand against Kevin McCarthy ushered in a new era. By Gavin Wax January 15, 2023 Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has built his political career around being a firebrand, but it was not until last week that he showed how his brand of leadership can take hold of the political system to achieve major results for conservatives on a scale not seen in generations. Last year, I contended that Gaetz would emerge from a leftist-promulgated, absurdly falsified sex scandal as the “model America First leader” because he has nothing to lose. He saw that the GOP machine, with which he had already battled publicly on many occasions, would do nothing for him except aggressively hammer the nails into his political coffin at any possible opportunity. There is no more point in gentlemen’s agreements; there is no more pretense of party unity or the genteel notion of playing on the same team. The veneer of civility had been wiped clean. All that remained was to drag these lowlifes into the gutter and wage total war against them. To go for their throats. To play dirty whenever possible. To punch them while they were down. And the GOP establishment, despite its carefully constructed propaganda campaign faulting candidate quality and other absurd tropes for their dismal midterm performance, was down. The base knew that the likes of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) allocated funds to defeat America First primary challengers that could have been used to win elections in November. RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney-McDaniel was too busy with other concerns to appropriately administer funds during the midterms. The result was a catastrophe of monumental proportions. There were weeks of non-stop browbeating about the need to go back to the good ol’ days when the establishment picked the likes of Mitt Romney and John McCain to lose with honor, and Republicans would periodically be given table scraps when the Uniparty decided the country needed a release valve. Phony staged fights featuring some scripted WWE-style yelling and chest-thumping from a weak beta like Trey Gowdy while trillions of dollars go down the toilet without accountability. This was the future set out by the RINO establishment, with Kevin McCarthy as the man steering the ship back toward mediocrity and managed decline. This was what the Republican Party was doomed to live out. But not if Gaetz had something to say about it. Gaetz rallied other heroes—most notably Reps. Matthew Rosendale of Montana, Eli Crane of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Bob Good for Virginia—to take a stand against McCarthy’s anointment as House Speaker. They held out, refusing to give McCarthy the necessary votes to become Speaker, and used their leverage to demand meaningful concessions. In making this play, they put McCarthy in a tough spot. McCarthy had spent years brownnosing Trump and many close to the president, hoping that doing so would give him political cover during this very moment. Gaetz and company blew his cover. Now, McCarthy had to either legitimize the anger against the status quo from Freedom Caucus members and their allies, or move to the Left and appease Democrats, which would have sent the conservative base into an apoplectic rage and doomed McCarthy’s speakership before it even started. They put McCarthy through the wringer for 15 rounds of voting, humiliating McCarthy and debauching his reputation for an entire week. Congress deservedly became the laughingstock of the country. Republicans and Democrats could not have looked more pathetic as they gave repeated standing ovations for their hand-picked pawns placed in positions of power because of their willingness to serve at Moloch’s feet. It was a revolting display, one that disgusted every poor soul who tuned into C-SPAN and watched this debacle. But, in the end, the good guys came out on top. On January 6, Gaetz led a congressional insurgency to win back our lost freedom. Let that day live on for generations to come as the day we stood proudly and seized our sacred birthright.