Kagro in the Morning - October 13, 2023

<div class="story__text"> <div> <p><strong>David Waldman</strong> embeds <a href= "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/13/2199081/-Kagro-in-the-Morning-is-LIVE-at-9-AM-ET" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his machete of veracity into the forehead of falsity</a> on today’s special <em>KITM</em>.</p> <p>Fascists are <a href= "https://www.salon.com/2023/10/13/in-total-chaos-so-much-for-fascist-order-and-discipline/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supposed to run their trains on time</a>, but the MAGA crazy train crashed before it could even depart from <a href= "https://www.aol.com/dysfunctional-race-us-house-speaker-151830300.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dysfunction junction</a>. The Gop’s <a href= "https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1712378724937535762.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hand-picked fascist</a> Steve Scalice <a href= "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/12/2198940/-Scalise-s-bid-for-speaker-on-shaky-ground" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bailed out of the House Speaker race</a> once he realized that his<a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/us/politics/scalise-jordan-house-speaker.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 113 votes could never beat Jim Jordan’s 99</a>.  With Jim Jordan on his own, <a href= "https://news.yahoo.com/gma/scalise-eyes-jim-jordan-house-143800908.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the speaker position is now Gym’s to lose</a>. But what would be the <a href= "https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-speaker-motion-to-vacate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chaotic fun</a> in that? And so, Donald Trump’s <a href= "https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-slamming-israel-babbling-barack-092650223.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wandering eye</a> now rests <a href= "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-race-for-speaker-of-the-house-elise-stefanik-emerges-as-trump-s-choice/ar-AA1i6ClC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upon Elise Stefanik.</a></p> <p>Proud Boys and Moonies seem like <a href= "https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bp8y/proud-boys-gun-ch