As the Toxic World of the GOP Turns…

George Santos and Kiss­ing Kevin have some­thing in com­mon. Nei­ther one has any re­spect for truth. I’m not sure that truth can be eas­i­ly de­fined sim­ply be­cause truth is al­ways de­pen­dent on con­text. But if we look at the con­text of Georgie’s great adven­ture to ar­rive at the Con­gress of the Unit­ed States, we can see that the only thing that mat­tered to him was to ar­rive. He did not care how or what it might cost him. He mere­ly want­ed to get there. Kiss­ing is be­hav­ing ex­act­ly the same. Kiss­ing did not care what he had to do to ar­rive at Speak­er of the House. He could make any deal as long as the re­sult was he be­came Speak­er. Both men jus­ti­fied their dis­honesty be­cause of per­son­al am­bi­tion. Nei­ther man can be trust­ed, there­fore.

Over the past week or so, writ­ers of soap op­eras the world over de­vel­oped debil­i­tat­ing pain in their wrists from way too much note-tak­ing. You can not make up what took place on the floor of the House over that time pe­ri­od. You had Geor­gie sit­ting there all alone and, be­lieve it or not, Kiss­ing was do­ing the ex­act same thing. The only dif­fer­ence, re­al­ly, was that Kiss­ing basked in the undy­ing love of Margie, who un­der­stands Kiss­ing per­fect­ly well. It was the first time since she ar­rived in Wash­ing­ton that she was not sit­ting alone and talk­ing to her­self, which made her a per­fect sup­port per­son­age for Kiss­ing. Georgie was not as for­tu­nate. No one wanted to ac­knowl­edge his ex­is­tence. I guess he was, in Brit­ney’s words, Tox­ic. For a while there I was pret­ty sure that Kiss­ing and Mat­ty were go­ing to go to fisticuffs over Margie. You had to kind of feel for Mat­ty be­cause his girl was clear­ly mov­ing up and leav­ing him be­hind. You can’t re­al­ly blame Mat­ty for hav­ing a spat of jeal­ousy be­cause he stood by her dur­ing her dark­est hours of to­tal re­jec­tion. But then Mat­ty was not the only per­son on the floor who was feel­ing re­ject­ed. Mountain Lau­ren was ob­vi­ous­ly feel­ing as jilt­ed as Mat­ty be­cause Margie had abandoned her for Kiss­ing. Mat­ty was so jeal­ous that he even de­fied the Dark Lord of the Manor. Mountain told the Dark Lord that he was just wrong about Mat­ty be­cause, apparently Mat­ty had dibs on Margie since she was get­ting di­vorced and all. But poor Mat­ty just does not have the pow­er boost that Kiss­ing does and Margie is all about pow­er. What’s a poor girl to do?

As en­ter­tain­ing as this al­ley of clowns is, they still are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of what the peo­ple in their re­spec­tive con­stituen­cy ac­tu­al­ly are. I know, no one wants to hear that, but it is true. Peo­ple in Margie’s dis­trict back in Georgia are sup­port­ive of her brand of kink. They have to like that she says stu­pid things and does her best to show how pow­er­ful she is by at­tempt­ing to de­stroy the gov­ern­ment like she’s a three year old who has over­pow­ered her mom and is in­dulged in all be­hav­iors. Matt’s con­stituen­cy has to con­sid­er him as a boy be­ing a boy. Kiss­ing’s con­stituen­cy ob­vious­ly does not want him to have an opin­ion about any­thing that might of­fend some­one. Even Georgie’s con­stituen­cy elect­ed him. No one in Long Is­land has the abil­i­ty to fact check lies it would ap­pear. Each of these folks were elect­ed by people who ap­proved of their be­hav­iors. At least the ma­jor­i­ty of the vot­ing pub­lic thought these folks were as po­lit­i­cally pret­ty as they could pos­si­bly be. It does wonder me as to what their con­stituen­cies used as a met­ric to come to those con­clusions…

I think at this point it would be good to re­view a word de­f­i­n­i­tion. “Stu­pid” can be de­fined as the be­hav­ior of a per­son who is de­struc­tive but who gains no val­ue from his de­struc­tive­ness. What val­ue did Mat­ty gain from tak­ing his Nev­er Kiss­ing stand? How did that stand ben­e­fit the peo­ple of Flor­ida? How does Margie sidling up to Kiss­ing help the peo­ple of Geor­gia? For that mat­ter how does the Dark Lord of Mar a Lago ben­e­fit the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion by claim­ing he won an elec­tion that was de­cid­ed two years ago? There can not be any ben­e­fit to the popu­lace with that claim. So by de­f­i­n­i­tion His Dark Lord­ness is a stu­pid man. He may have done things that ben­e­fit­ed a cer­tain class of per­son, but over­all his stu­pid­i­ty has been on full dis­play for the last six years.

Now we have the same stu­pid­ness be­ing prac­ticed in Brazil. I can un­der­stand that act­ing like an Amer­i­can is a pop­u­lar pas­time in the world, but we Amer­i­cans real­ly need to up our po­lit­i­cal stan­dards so we are not elect­ing Mar­gies, Mat­ties, Geor­gies, or Kiss­ings. That we fucked up and elect­ed the Dark Guy can be for­giv­en if we could only get over him. That would be lots eas­i­er if the me­dia would discontinue its pro­gram of giv­ing cred­it to stu­pid­i­ty. Every day some­one is re­port­ing as though the ravings of a mad man are important..

Look, The Dark Guy stole clas­sified doc­u­ments, he did his best and is still do­ing his best to rouse his rab­ble of peo­ple who can not think for them­selves. I do not un­der­stand how peo­ple who do not even un­der­stand why a vot­ing ma­chine, which is not con­nect­ed to the in­ter­net, is safer than a pa­per bal­lot all by it­self. Vot­ing ma­chines have to have a pa­per back up. All votes are there­fore checked and rechecked as care­ful­ly as a bank teller checks de­posits and with­drawals. If one has con­fi­dence in the bank, then why wouldn’t you have con­fi­dence in a vote tal­ly? If a bank says you have in­suf­fi­cient funds you can go to the bank and check, but they are not go­ing to al­low you into the area be­hind the tellers so you can see if they’re count­ing your mon­ey cor­rect­ly. When you check your bal­ance on your mobile bank app you can pret­ty much rely on the ac­cu­ra­cy of the num­bers you en­counter. How is count­ing votes all that much different? No one ac­tu­al­ly be­lieves the Dark Guy about his vot­er fraud claims. And no one re­al­ly sup­ports the idea of vi­o­lent rev­o­lu­tion.

When I see vi­o­lence erupt­ing on the floor of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives over jeal­ousy, I have to won­der how and why that lev­el of de­struc­tion is tak­ing place. Does this mean that there are pock­ets of the US pop­u­la­tion who, for un­fash­ion­able rea­sons, cannot re­mem­ber be­hav­ior for a whole two years? Does this mean that peo­ple in those pock­ets are just in­her­ent­ly stu­pid? Does this mean that peo­ple in those pock­ets lack a ba­sic ed­u­ca­tion about how gov­ern­ment works? How about they just think they’d like to do a so­journ within a strong man dic­ta­tor­ship? What the free­dom cau­cus is ad­ver­tis­ing seems to be more de­praved than even a dictatorship.

Con­sid­er for a mo­ment that Jim­my from Ohio is about to chair a com­mittee that wants to in­ves­ti­gate Dr. Fau­ci for decades of work with virus­es. But they do not want to in­ves­ti­gate The Dark Lord for caus­ing an at­tempt­ed coup. They want to in­ves­ti­gate the work­ings of the FBI and oth­er law en­force­ment agen­cies but not the fact that armed mili­tia have pre­sent­ed them­selves in var­i­ous state cap­i­tals. This must be cur­tailed. I can not be­lieve that adult politi­cians can pos­si­bly see a ben­e­fit in al­low­ing any­one with an au­to­mat­ic ri­fle to stand around any pub­lic place in­tim­idat­ing law mak­ers. Be­hav­ior such as in­tim­i­da­tion is just stu­pid. It de­stroys in­tegrity and noth­ing is gained in re­turn. We can do bet­ter, don’t you think?

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