You Know, Normally I Can Find Some Glimmer of Grounding in Trump's Rants 🥗

If there was an Olympics for delusional malignant narcissism, this would win the Gold Medal hands down. pic.twitter.com/xviO05PBq5

— Spiro’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) January 5, 2023

Oh, I mean, he's completely wrong about Ruby Freeman:

"The lies about Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss have been proven false over and over again, but they have nonetheless upended my clients' lives and continue to threaten their safety." FIN

— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) January 4, 2023

Just as he's completely wrong about everything he lies about. But that statement above, has completely left the planet. His statements about his own election are wild fantasies, but his "argument" about the debacle that is the election of the Speaker of the House (one unmatched since 1923 and unheard of before that since the Civil War ended) is just: word salad.

Up is down; failure is winning; defeat is victory?  He's completely abandoned all sense of coherence.  I mean, just compare and contrast:

Look, Leader McConnell and I don’t agree on everything. In fact, we disagree on a great deal.

But the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law showed that when we work together, we can get things done and move the nation forward. pic.twitter.com/I4T5h5Odhr

— President Biden (@POTUS) January 4, 2023

An adult, v. a petulant, ignorant child (and 20 shrieking idiots who can't even get themselves, or anyone else,  sworn in as members of the House yet). A child who is 75 years old; but calendar years have nothing to do with maturity. Meanwhile:

"If people think these guys are trying to clean the swamp, then why is his progress toward the speakership all about a backroom deal over money?" - @clairecmc wonders if this was even done legally pic.twitter.com/icTDwOKo1e

— Alex Wagner Tonight (@WagnerTonight) January 5, 2023

"You're the swamp! I'm the upstanding representative of the American people!"

Yeah, that's pretty much as far as that argument ever goes.  Chip Roy and Ronnie Jackson and Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar (and about 17 others at this point) are all convinced they alone speak the vox populi, and no one else does.  Especially not the 212 Democrats who have consistently voted for Hakeem Jeffries:

Fact: a majority of the people voting for Speaker of the House have now voted for Hakeem Jeffries six times.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 4, 2023

Actually it's only a plurality, or Jeffries would have won the nomination by now. Still, he's consistently pulled more votes than McCarthy.  And we still have Nancy Pelosi around to remind us what real leadership looks like:

Pelosi to a few of us on deal McCarthy’s super PAC cut with the Club for Growth: “That's shameful,” she said.

“That's really not in the spirit of the code of conduct for members of Congress. And so that is something that they should be more ethical about what they are doing.” pic.twitter.com/aT2OxqQeeV

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 5, 2023

Which is not to throw any shade on the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries and minority whip Katherine Clarke:

Hakeem Jeffries: "All we are asking is House Republicans to get along with each other." pic.twitter.com/iH2ahK9q2N

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2023

Interesting how they both manage to echo Biden and Pelosi. I'd say the GOP is making it easy for them, but that would diminish their accomplishments.  Rather, let's say true leadership shines out brightest against the darkness of childish self-interests.