California Congressman Kevin McCarthy, the shortest serving Speaker of the House in over 140 years,

is ending his extraordinary 2023 by throwing in the towel.

Now it is time to pursue my passion in a new arena. While I'll be departing the house at the end of this year,

I will never ever give up fighting for

this country that I love so much.

If you blinked, you might have missed Mr. McCarthy's 10-month term as the country's highest Republican elected official and that's not just because it was so short

It was also entirely unproductive

McCarthy bargained away basically everything to win the speaker's gavel and he got

nothing in return for it.

That is the lesson for people who court the far right who do the bidding of Donald Trump

who look the other way and right now Republicans all across the country are

learning that lesson. Remember Trump's fake electors plot in the 2020 election, the coordinated

effort to get fake slates of electors to cast pretend electoral votes for Donald

Trump? Well those fake electors

cosplayed those dramas in seven states. They got nothing for it and they are now

the subject of some very real investigations.

In Georgia, Fani Willis has charged three of the 16 fake electors in that state as part of her

conspiracy case against Donald Trump.

In Michigan, 16 fake electors have been charged by the state's

attorney general. One of them is already cooperating with prosecutors. Today in

Nevada a grand jury announced that it has indicted six of Nevada's fake electors.

All of those cases are making their way through the courts.

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