John Oliver Exposes GOP’s Most Pathologically Unhinged Candidate

Republicans might still be fighting among themselves over who shall lead them as the next Speaker of the House, and John Oliver on Sunday night flicked through the options, while also singling out a mayoral candidate in Tennessee for her outrageous claims.

Oliver couldn’t help himself first, though, in noticing that temporary House Speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), looks like “Patton Oswalt as a ventriloquist dummy” who’s “dressed like a 4-year-old who’s going to fuck up the whole wedding.”

And Oliver was flabbergasted to find out that House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) once described himself as “David Duke without the baggage.” Oliver added: “To describe yourself as David Duke—the former grand wizard of the KKK—without the baggage is a choice, because that man is all baggage. Without it, he’s just a crypt keeper with a patchy bleach job.”

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