yesterday, House Republicans held their Big Secret Vote for a Speaker nominee. the choice was clear: vote for Jim Jordan, vote for Steve Scalise, or guzzle bleach. in the end, there wasn’t much drama. Repubs picked Scalise on the very first ballot.

Jimmy Jords was soundly defeated. when all was said and done, nobody really wanted to have an under-dressed rape-enabler shouting at them all day long. bleach guzzling ran a close third.

now of course Steve has his own thorny little issue: he’s a fucking white supremacist — and he’s been one for a very long time. in 2002, Scalise was guest of honor at a white supremacy conference. it doesn’t get more whitely supreme than that. Supreme Steve hasn’t tried to hide any of this — he’s only tried to sugar-coat it.

so, how do you put a happy face on racism? pretty clumsily, it turns out, by saying the most dipshittiest things imaginable. most famously, Scalise has called himself “David Duke without the baggage.”