Hypnotized By The Title Of House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy Found Himself Trapped By President Trump.

MAGA knows McCarthy is the swamp doorman. Polite and quaint but just as devious and selfish as the inhabitants he surrounds himself with.

What just transpired in American politics regarding the appointment of the House Speaker to lead the 118th Congress was political history in the making. Wow what a time to be alive in America! and that’s not the first time I’ve said that since Trump not only came to power, but announced that he was running for the Office Of The President.

Nothing of this magnitude has been seen in over 100 years. It took 15 rounds of voting to seat The Speaker Of The House. At one point I wasn’t sure if I was watching the vote count again or the long awaited sequel to “Ground Hog Day.” Imagine how Kevin McCarthy felt sitting there night after night, Vote after Vote, being denied what he felt he had “earned.” I’d imagine it felt something similar to going on 14 blind dates that end up with you walking home alone for 14 nights in a row.

Sad AND pathetic.

I was amazed that he stayed in that hot seat for that long instead of saving some face, and perhaps some deodorant, and bowing out. It got so bad I was actively rooting for Trump to jump in the ring and save his unconscious partner before Boebert and Gates leg dropped the helpless Congressman from California once again.

Trump didn’t end up doing that, but he did take the opportunity to run a few victory laps around the prideful but humbled McCarthy on social media after it was made clear that his Speakership only came to fruition by the hand of President Donald J. Trump himself.

See, this was a trap the whole time. The first tip off was Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG). I watched as day after day as she threw her coat down in the mud so Kevin could walk across and grab that gavel. Her constituents and myself, were lambasting her in multiple comment sections but she kept doubling down and coming back for more.

MAGA knows McCarthy is the swamp doorman. Polite and quaint, but just as devious and selfish as the inhabitants he surrounds himself with.

We all remember him from the Benghazi hearings- it wasn’t about actually holding Hillary responsible you silly peasants, it was optics to bring her polling numbers down a few notches for the upcoming election. And she got away with murder because Gowdy and McCarthy are part of the swamp just like Hillary and in that world, show trials are just, well, for show. At the end of the day swamp protects swamp once they take their 10% off the top of course.

Sometimes that fee is levied in the form of financial capital, and sometimes it’s political capital. Similar to the way the mafia deals with incidents of friendly fire. You know, when you accidentally bump off someone’s protected cousin when things get out of hand at the bar and the machismo and banter gets the better of the beast? No? Well regardless, someone’s gotta pay.

Of course if the mark is someone big enough, an eye for an eye will be the community consensus but most kerfuffles are settled with padding someone’s pocket or having a BIG favor tucked away for a rainy day.

If you’ll remember Kevin McCarthy had one of those rainy days when Liz Cheney released leaked and unsavory audio of McCarthy talking about a motion to remove Trump from office if he didn’t accept Bidens victory in the days after the election:

“I am seriously thinking about having that conversation with him tonight. I haven’t talked to him in a couple days. From what I know of him, I mean you guys all know him, too, do you think he’d ever back away?

“We know it’ll pass the House, I think there’s a chance it’ll pass the senate even when he’s gone. And I think there’s a lot of different ramifications for that. … The only discussion I would have with him is I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation that he should resign,”

“That would be my take, but I don’t think he would take it,” McCarthy said. “But I don’t know.”

Oof! When it rains it pours.

And when Trump endorsed the man who uttered those words in secret, for the House Speaker role, it took many of us by surprise. How could he? Did he forget? Did he not just watch ol’ Kevin give that money to Ukraine while wearing a Ukrainian lapel pin and pocket flag? He had done more for Ukraine than America at that point and Trump was all in?

And Kevin, what a fool. He had the golden ticket in his pocket, the Trump endorsement so coveted as it is, that he didn’t even feel the need to put his tough guy mask back on when Zelensky showed up in town in an Uber, wearing a sweat shirt with matching dockers and work boots. The guy probably reeked like cigars and San Francisco Marijuana but McCarthy still gave him a heroes welcome and a heroes helping of Americas treasure.

Kevin was so busy acting like Charlie from Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory in DC, that he forgot to monitor his flanks. Trumps raucous Freedom Caucus were like Lions moving to box in their clueless prey for the kill.

I’ve never seen MTG so friendly and flirty before but here she was hanging on McCarthy, taking selfies, hugs, and touching galore. But there she was with Kevin doing all the previous mentioned PDA’s when it was time for the long secured anointment to be held.

I recently watched a body language specialist discuss MTG’s body language around McCarthy during the nomination and she was left with the impression that there might be more than friendship between the two.

I’ll leave that for the body language experts to decipher because perhaps those aren’t the visuals we are all here for. Am I right? Yes, of course! But one thing that was clear, is that MTG was keeping McCarthy close. Enemy close. More on that in a bit.

The Mighty 21.

The 21 House Republicans who hadn’t voted for McCarthy in the first night are Reps.-elect Andy Biggs of Arizona, Dan Bishop of North Carolina, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Josh Bechreen of Oklahoma, Michael Cloud of Texas, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Eli Crane of Arizona, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Andy Harris of Maryland, Ana Paulina Luna of Florida, Mary Miller of Illinois, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Chip Roy of Texas, Keith Self of Texas, Byron Donalds of Florida and Victoria Spartz of Indiana.

These 21 MAGA members of The House threw a big wrench in McCarthys ascension to the throne on day one of the vote. Ouch. Kevin began rummaging through his pockets, turning them inside out like a mad man telling everyone and anyone that would listen that he did indeed have the ticket, his Mar-a-Lago trip was really real, and he absolutely left with that shining golden ticket that Trump gave him, “just give me a minute, its got to be here somewhere” he muttered as vote after vote left him a day late, and a golden ticket short.

At some point in this stressful event Trump had to have called McCarthy to calm him and let him know that the ticket was genuine currency.

The 45th President hadn’t said anything on social media indicating the ticket was counterfeit, and he hadn’t issued it to anyone else in the building, so what was going on? Trump would certainly have timed this call to coincide with the exact moment Kevin was at his lowest, most hopeless and helpless point in the ordeal.

This was probably shortly after MTG phoned the Firmer President to let him now “nows the time boss, he’s hit rock bottom and is out of options.” Or maybe it was after Matt Gaetz went out on the House floor and nominated President Trump to come down and be the next Speaker.

“Oh no!!! now Gaetz has done it!” McCarthy probably thought. “How can I compete with former President Trump should momentum build for him to throw his hat in the ring for Speaker?” The truth is he wouldn’t, at least not at this juncture in time. [Future Marker] See, the court jester has no chance against the King. Especially a jester that’s gotten to big for his britches and is about to be reprimanded in the most publicly savage of ways.

I’d also imagine that when that call from Trump finally came in, and Kevin wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with an American, not Ukrainian flag handkerchief, the first words out of Trumps mouth had to have been a direct reticle of the leaked conversation McCarthy had with Cheney back in 2020 with the most notable portion being emphasized:

“I am seriously thinking about having that conversation with him tonight. I haven’t talked to him in a couple days. From what I know of him, I mean you guys all know him, too, do you think he’d ever back away?

They don’t call him “the Don” for no reason.

#SavageSilentRevenge

After that boomerang bounced off of the back of McCarthys head and his senses cleared, Kevin was surely realized the other shoe had finally dropped and began blabbering to Trump, half of that time being incoherent, with the only clear words coming through most often being that he’d do “anything.”

“I want my golden ticket to clear the bank, whatever it takes, just name the price I’ll do anything I will be Speaker!!”

The price paid at the end of it all would basically be that he only gets a fancy title, and his name in the history books because he is now a toothless vessel for the Freedom Caucus to investigate those most deserving, and for the GOP to act as a shield for the badgered American people against the Biden agenda. Oh, and he gets to bang that gavel and feel really important on the days when that’s called for.

McCarthy being the swamper that he is, agreed. Surely plotting that he just needed to buy some time for himself and find a way to double cross Trump. He’s a snake, he can slither out of any promise no biggie. Trump took to social media that night and assured America that great things were coming for America.

All indications at this point coming from the boss was that a deal had been cut and the holdouts were being converted into believers. One text message at a time. This process with no end in sight, would now end with a Speaker Of The House having an R by their name, not a D. The threat of having Hakim Jeffries as Speaker Of The House kept many of us awake that night.

But Trump had a little birdie on McCarthys shoulder watching, listening, and reporting back in real time. That little birdie was MTG. She was telling Trump the inside scoop and McCarthy was being disingenuous.

The next round of votes still came up short for McCarthy. Granted there were less hold outs now, but still not enough had relented to give him the crown. “Does Trunp know I negotiated in bad faith?” McCarthy sure pondered. News reports began coming in saying that the demands given to McCarthy were not being taken seriously or put in writing by the Speaker elect and everyone knew about it. I can’t say I blame the guy for trying, I mean nobody wants to wield an unloaded weapon. But a deal is a deal and clearly Trump had someone on the inside feeding him actionable Intel.

These demands were meant to handicap and neuter the hopeful Speaker as he knew to genuinely accept and implement them means this was all for not. With each round of failure, McCarthys colleagues kept calling wondering when they could end this ground hog day and go back to their respective districts and families.

Can the Speaker Elect get this done? He has the majority why isn’t he being a skilled negotiator and making the back room deals that can end the long nights?

Vote after vote the history books inked another asterisk* by future Speaker McCarthys name. It had never taken 14 rounds of votes to seat a House Speaker before, but these are desperate times and desperate measures were being taken. Trump was watching, the MAGA hold outs weren’t budging and Trump wasn’t going to be bluffed. Especially not by this little weasel that got caught months ago on leaked audio committing the gravest of betrayals. McCarthy knew any attempts to sour the deal with Trump wouldn’t end the way he wanted. It was time to admit Trump has the upper hand and negotiate in good faith.

These safeguards for votes were put in place by Trump and his band of 21 rebels to DRAIN THE SWAMP.

On the 15th and final round of votes at a hair past midnight on January 7th, Trump had called off enough defectors to cash the golden ticket for Kevin. He had done it. He was finally, the Speaker In Name Only.

McCarthy had to agree to all the demands, with the most notable being the new rule that says only a single member of the GOP caucus is needed to initiate a vote to remove the Speaker for non compliance. I’m sure that Boebert and Gatez have been given those exclusive NFT cards.

So as fate, or perhaps strategic planning would have it, Donald Trump is now the Shadow Speaker Of The House.

From his golden couch at Mar-a-Lago, while wearing a robe and a MAGA hat, President Trump can remotely detonate the political suicide vest that Kevin McCarthy agreed to wear when he took “the deal.”

And this can be done at anytime with the swipe of a phone, or an anonymous tip from any one of The Mighty 21 keep their enemy Kevin McCarthy, ever so close.

Fully saved and controlled. The boss is back in town.