Freedom Caucus Calls Press Conference to Denounce Speaker Johnson

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8. Holy shit! Johnson too? Is no one evil enough for them?

Will they not be satisfied until a hooded nazi-flag-waving idiot takes the speakership wearing full kkk regalia at the podium? Who can possibly fulfill their grotesque standards?

While slightly amusing to behold, I feel a great shame for my country. Whatever faith my youthful self once had in my fellow Americans has been shattered a thousand times over; now, as I near the end of my story, I feel mostly despair for our future and regrets for the past. Our better natures have risen admirably to meet some of the challenges of the time and left the rest lying broken on the floor around us.

We will be remembered, if any remain to do so, as the ones who let American democracy slip away into tyranny.

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
-- T.S. Elliot, "The Hollow Men" part I