Remember when didn't take things at face value?

An alternative way of interpreting this is to convince MAGA they "won" and McCarthy is impotent. I don't believe that the uniparty would have let McCarthy keep embarrassing all of them with vote after vote if they believed this to be the case. But I would agree that McCarthy experienced a fairly nice ballsack snipping.

If Schiff were not shilling, he would be targeting the "crazies" directly and not who was supposed to be his first line of defense - McCarthy. Piling on McCarthy is not helpful in bolstering his utility. If he was impotent, you sure as hell wouldn't want to make it worse if you were Schiff.

The counter to my argument is that Schiff is setting the stage for a quick removal of McCarthy due to his impotence. But I think that is a big stretch. Especially when any plan b replacement uniparty candidate would have already been trotted out before vote 15. It will have to be Republicans removing the speaker. So Schiff has no need to steer this narrative.