# When Kevin McCarthy speaks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 24, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176 "2021-07-24T04:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StraightTalk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straighttalk/32/9982_2.png) [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/1 "2021-07-24T04:21:09Z")
When Kevin McCarthy speaks, I think he sounds like he’s reading to children during story time at the public library. Oh wait. He is (the redumblicans). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/2 "2021-07-25T00:49:27Z")
# [When Kevin McCarthy speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176) …a poor little anole kicks it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/3 "2021-07-25T19:32:20Z")
When McCarthy speaks I hear shrieks. (Apologies to [Martin Fry & Mark White](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Smokey_Sings).) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/4 "2021-11-14T05:55:27Z")
Apropos of nothing much, except the mention of Kevin McCarthy – I just noticed that there’s an Assemblyman in the California State Legislature named Kevin McCarty (note the spelling). He’s a Democrat. Seen in this snippet from an L. A. Times article today: [California college students live in vans and hotels as campus housing plans spark backlash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-12/california-housing-crisis-hits-unhoused-college-students) > [@](#): > > But Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, said increasing student housing was key to legislative goals to boost UC enrollment of qualified California students — tens of thousands of whom were rejected by their campuses of choice this year. That concern prompted him to help secure the state’s first substantial contribution to student-housing projects this year, amounting to $2 billion through 2023-24, for the UC, Cal State and community college systems. [His Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarty) also links to a disambiguation page that lists several other past or present politicians named Kevin McCarthy – all Democrats except for you-know-who. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/5 "2021-11-15T03:25:11Z")
Wasn’t he the guy in the original _Invasion of the Bodysnatchers?_ And later the classic Weird Al film? Ah, _UHF._ ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/6 "2021-11-15T06:34:48Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Ah, _UHF._ “This community means about as much to me as a festering ball of dog snot!” A line I also wouldn’t be shocked to hear from the politician either. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/7 "2021-11-18T22:55:53Z")
Yes yes. I have noticed this. He makes his mouth do little (imaginary smoke) rings and acts infantile a lot. Maybe they found out it pleases the dumb base. Also it’s pathetic and discourages anyone from asking tough questions. I hope he loses and loses and loses. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/8 "2021-11-19T01:10:21Z")
McCarthy has decided that going maximum-indecency is his road to success: > Owning the Libs for the BIG BIG WIN!!!1!!! What a pathetic little follow-the-leader tool he is. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/9 "2021-11-19T01:53:57Z")
I might be impressed if Donnie T. could drink water while McCarthy speaks. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/10 "2021-11-19T02:02:13Z")
It takes Donnie two hands to drink water. How’s he gonna work the puppet? Don’t answer that. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/11 "2021-11-19T06:15:41Z")
There is some speculation that the leopards may be coming for Kevin McCarthy too. I came across this brief blurb on Raw Story today. I searched for something more substantive on the topic, but didn’t come up with anything immediately obvious. > **['Growing discontent': Former House Republican speculates Trump allies...](https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-2655761578/)** > > Former Republican Congressman Charlie Dent told CNN on Thursday that he believes many allies of former President Donald Trump are unhappy with Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and that they could deny him the speakership should they win back the... There is allegedly some grumbling to the effect that, if the Pubs re-take the House in 2022, they will oust McCarthy and choose a more Trumpy speaker, because, you know, McC isn’t Trumpy enough. This is further connected with the talky-talk of making Trump Hisself the Speaker. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/12 "2021-11-19T17:31:23Z")
I confess that I read Trump’s news releases as they come out, and he hasn’t backed off from the idea that the election was stolen from him in the Crime of the Century and this wrong must be righted before the country can move forward. In fact, he’s doubled down on it and he’s spending way more time attacking Republicans than he does Democrats. Here’s a quick summary of his last few missives -newest first! 11/18/21 -a brave state senator from Michigan has put forward a beautiful resolution to decertify the totally fraudulent 2020 Presidential election. He needs a co-sponsor in order to advance the bill. If you are a Michigan state senator that wants Trump to be your best friend forever, this is your opportunity! It’s like a twisted help wanted ad. 11/17/21. Mitch McConnell, the Broken Old Crow is a stupid incompetent RINO that brought all his problems on by allowing a fraudulent President that lost the election to take office. It would’ve been better to let the country declare bankruptcy than to help Biden pass any legislation ever. This one is particularly long and unhinged but that’s the gist. 11/16/21 - a short mini-rant about the Afghanistan withdrawal. 11/15/21 - A long unhinged rant about former Trump White House employee Alyssa Farah, an inglorious lightweight backbencher. Apparently Farah is on Trump’s radar because she went on The View and said that Trump knew he lost the election. Trump wants everyone to know that he knew no such thing, he won, he always knew he won, the Crime of the Century was committed on November 3rd 2020. The evidence is mounting yada yada 11/15/21 - another Mitch McConnell rant, I guess someone reported that the only reason Trump didn’t go to Biden’s inauguration was that McConnell circulated a letter asking him not to go. Trump wants you to know he didn’t go because the election was totally fraudulent, but if McConnell or anyone had tried to keep him away he would’ve gone. Total oppositional defiance. 11/14/21 - No one has been persecuted like Steve Bannon and the USA sucks. A lot of cognitive dissonance in that one. 11/14/21- why are they investigating Patriots that waved the flag near the Capitol but not investigating election fraud. Election Fraud Election Fraud I’m a victim they should be prosecuting the Nov 3rd Crime of the Century. 11/13/21 - a call to primary some RINOS. Get rid of the RINOS that hate Trump. 11/13/21- Brian Williams sucks. 11/13/21 Old Crow Mitch McConnell sucks 11/12/21 - I’m a totally vindicated winner because one of the approximately 200 lawsuits I’m fighting was dropped. Yay me! 11/11/21 - I’m sending Ric Grennell overseas to negotiate some foreign policy because I didn’t lose the election and I’m still the real President or something. Try and stop me. 11/10/21 Liz Cheney sucks 11/09/21 Mitch McConnell really sucks 11/09/21 I’m the real winner of the election. I’m the biggest victim ever. FRAUD! FRAUD! FRAUD! 11/09/21 CNN is Fake News! I’m the real winner of the 2020 election. FRAUD! FRAUD! FRAUD! 11/08/21 Chris Christie wants to move past the 2020 election. He doesn’t care about fraud. He sucks! 11/08/21 - Patriots are making great progress in their quest to overturn the 2020 election! Stay tuned! I’ll stop here, but you get the drift. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/13 "2021-11-19T17:58:46Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I confess that I read Trump’s news releases as they come out, . . . You have my condolences. Prolific dude, ain’t he? Thank you for reading and reporting all of Trump’s drivel so the rest of us don’t have to. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-kevin-mccarthy-speaks/947176/14 "2021-11-19T18:03:51Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Mitch McConnell, the Broken Old Crow Good thing that cognitive test didn’t ask him to distinguish between crows and turtles.