Yep.. I'm still trying to decide what I think about the holdouts who eventually capitulated. I've read (and already assumed) that the swamp leadership was threatening to end careers and basically keep any positions of power (committee positions, etc.) out of the hands of the holdouts. But then, what about the fact that (in theory at least) the only people who can "end a politician's career" to begin with are the voters? So then why should the holdouts even give a fuck about swamp threats? The entire system has been corrupted and is rigged... so if you're a congressman who actually gives a shit about doing the right thing, I can see why/how you'd have to "play the game" within the current system to at least some extent...but then that's also precisely the problem. And then where's the line between "playing the game" to an acceptable degree to achieve things that you need to achieve to be considered at all effective VS "playing the game" because you've been defeated and are now owned by the very fucksticks you went there to fight in the first place? And if the MAGA folks hold the key to the speakership, as you say, then what the fuck just happened? I know Trump was endorsing the guy, and I can't even begin to understand why... McCarthy was undermining Trump as much as any other swamp rat was, as far as I can tell.