Good afternoon and welcome to this emergency meeting of the Nerd Avengers, Norm Ornstein.

I'm so happy to see you.

Wonderful.

And it has to be during the 9th vote of Kevin McCarthy's ritual humiliation.

Let the humiliation continue.

Wow.

I mean, Norm, we're dealing with something that has that sort of started off with lots of

joy and shodden for the north side, but it's devolved into just a startling stark indictment

of the not just the Republican Party, but those in the Republican Party who are just revealing

themselves to be the most un-American, unpatriotic people on the planet.

And yet, you know, they're there to pick a Republican leader.

No, Mary, I was just listening before we started to Matt Rosendale from Montana, who was

nominating Donalds again, and who said how proud he is to serve.

And every one of his colleagues represents the United States of America.

And you know, I thought to myself that I tweeted, not exactly.

If you aided and abetted and encouraged an insurrection against the Capitol and the United

States, you don't represent the United States of America.

If you want to burn the place down, you don't represent the United States.

If you are an election denier, which is the vast majority of those members, you don't

represent the United States.

So this is discouraging in a whole host of ways.

I want to make one large point that I think we need to start to focus on.

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