Elise Stefanik did not use to be this bad. Honestly. She used to be a semi-reasonable young woman with a promising political future. This is not a case of “Wonder what happened?” because Trump happened, Trump and the oldest motivation of all, the dream of climbing the ladder to power.

As everyone knows, Stefanik will be elevated to the number three spot in the House Republican caucus because that’s the spot the GOP reserves for a woman, just close enough to the microphones to be seen, not high enough up to threaten any of the men. So with Liz Cheney’s ouster, only women were considered as replacements (it’s almost comical) and Elise proved her Trump bona fides during the first impeachment, only to follow it up in the second. It is easier to shame your flower bed.

To that end, Stefanik continued to buttress her MAGA-end by appearing on Steve Bannon’s podcast – which, that alone, is enough – to say with a certain nonchalance and say that she has the support of “the president,” which is news to us because we didn’t know that Joe Biden had an opinion on the matter. But we suspect that the MAGAs know what Stefanik meant: (LINK)

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) appeared on former Donald Trump aide and white supremacist sympathizer Steve Bannon’s podcast on Thursday to make her case for ousting Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from the No. 3 spot in House GOP leadership.

My vision is to run with support from the president [sic] and his coalition of voters,” Stefanik told Bannon. “This is also about being one team,” Stefanik added. “And I’m committed to being a voice and sending a clear message that we are one team, and that means working with the president and working with all of our excellent Republican members of Congress.”

It is not unheard of to call former presidents “President Obama” or “President Bush” when addressing them personally or referencing them appearing somewhere. It is most certainly unheard of to reference any of them as “the president” in the third person, especially during the midst of a Constitutional crisis in which 70% of Republicans believe that the election was stolen. Stefanik knows this and that is precisely why she’s doing it. It takes a willingness to look like a jackass and presumptuous to make it today’s GOP. It also takes groveling at the altar of Trump. Elise is willing and that’s why she’s getting a promotion.

She wants that disrespect out there, it is how she got herself in this position in the first place and she’s not about to fck it up now. Go Elise, go, you’ve lost all self-respect and our respect already.

Appearing on Steve Bannon's podcast, @EliseStefanik flaunts her Big Lie bona fides. pic.twitter.com/g5CqoR1bk8

— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) May 6, 2021

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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