Congress Chaos and the Risk of Ignoring Evil
Well, doesn’t that beat all? The House of Representatives is once again without a speaker and, at the moment, the best that they can offer is that guy from Ohio. The one that used to be a wrestling coach or something. I reckon he thought that when he saw athletes and school officials boning, he should keep his mouth shut and not make waves. I don’t think he was right or wrong really, but I do know that he was not familiar with the nuggets of wisdom which we can still receive down through history from the likes of da Vinci, for example. You know the one? “He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
But then it just could be that Shirt Sleeve Jim is the perfect representative for the entire Republican Party. After what we all endured during the near reign of The Teacher, as played by D. Jailbird Tramp. That would make Shirt Sleeve out to be playing Silas, the self-flagellating monk. Even though these two characters are from a fantasy version of The Da Vinci Code, I don’t suppose one cosplay would be more ridiculous than the other, in reality. The Congress is suffering from self-inflicted wounds so maybe Silas would be a good analogy for Shirt Sleeve. He’s been a real champion of self-inflicted wounding while serving as chairman of the Judicial Committee. Just ask Ms. Willis from down in Georgia.
The Shirt Sleeve is not from Opus Dei, he’s from MAGATVILLE. I don’t think that’s something that can be held against him, however. The disqualification that applies from my perspective is that Shirt Sleeve refused to punish evil. That’s the same shadow that hung over the last speaker of the house. That one lost his virginity and his credibility with a single visit to Mar a Lardo to kiss The Teacher’s ring or something to that effect. We all have the image of Kevin standing tall and denouncing the events of January 6th. Then less than a month later we got the next indelible image of Kevin standing next to The Teacher in an appropriate posture of submission. It’s one of those things you can never unsee. Speaking of unseeing, does anyone really think that Shirt Sleeve Jim is any less submissive? Me either.
When you stop and think about it for a moment it seems that the entire Republican Party is running scared. The media has reported that the reason for them all running like scared rabbits is that they are afraid of being primaried. In other words, they all be scared of mean tweets from The Teacher himself, no less. Apparently mean tweeting is a major cause of death in the Republican caucus. Is it any wonder that this bunch of scaredy cats can’t find their behind with both hands? They obviously do not practice thinking for themselves. It kind of looks like they’re more worried about how pretty they are in The Teacher’s eyes as opposed to working within the accepted set of rules as outlined in the constitution.
It’s hardly surprising that the Grand Old Party is struggling to find itself. Because under The Teacher’s tender tutelage, they learned the fine art of conning the people by insisting that lies were actually nothing less than alternative facts. In other words, they were not lies, any more than sanitation engineers are really garbage men with a wordy names. They spent an entire presidency basing all of their current and future platforms on what can only be called fantasy. I guess they didn’t have much experience in that realm though. They were not aware that everyone sees fantasy the way they personally wish, simply because fantasy can not be verified. There is nothing real in a fantasy so there is nothing to verify. How could my imagined fantasy be the same as yours? That fantasy is never going to exist in reality. I don’t care how many twins are added to that fantasy. That lapse of paying attention to how different people interpret fantasy has allowed chaos to become viral within the caucus. Or as da Vinci said, “…commanded it to be done.”
Reddit writers and the GOP have one thing in common, they both possess active and colorful fantasy lives so they can apparently compensate for low self-esteem. At least low self-esteem is understandable enough to cut them some slack. The only other identity option I can imagine is one of a make-believe moral high ground, but then that would have to be based on the idea that they are right because God told them, personally, what is right and what is wrong, which is a great illustration of the point. The basis of their pretend rightness argument is a fantasy conversation with the creator of the universe. That God would converse with a member of Congress is one hell of a fantasy, I’ll tell you that.
At the very least, some of these purists forget that they are interpreting The Word of God and interpretations always favor the experience of the interpreter. It is so bad that one has to wonder if there are folks in Congress who have the ability to consider what they think. If there is, I certainly would encourage them to run for an even higher office. The crowd that’s in charge over there in Congress ain’t doing much, except shooting themselves in the foot and I’d be afraid of catching that virus.
Fortunately, our history suggests that we will continually ratify the constitution, if only by the narrowest of margins (Rhode Island ratified the constitution in 1790 by just two votes¹.) Here comes the moral of this story, if we can call it a story. Da Vinci was correct. If evil is not punished, there exists a de facto command to be as evil as possible or at least as evil as polite will allow until it gets serious, like with Supremes or maybe Hunter Biden. There is a faction of Congressional Republicans who have steadfastly refused to punish evil or even acknowledge when it’s biting them in the butt. It’s inevitable that such behavior is going to bring about chaos. The entire Republican caucus refused to vote to punish D. Jailbird for attempting to stage a government takeover so he could remain president. Shirt Sleeve Jim knew the battle plans.
So we have the specter of Shirt Sleeve Jim aka Self Flagellating Silas leading the “we’re too nice to impeach our fearless tweeter because he might tweet out instructions for MAGATs to vote against us caucus” because frankly, they ain’t about to stop the gravy train of status quo. If that snake eating its tail set is not a recipe for disaster, there isn’t even a 10% chance of the occasional disaster in the entire universe, measured in meteorological percentages. But we’re talking about the Congress of the United States. Chaos reigns supreme in that body. It would be shocking if that chaos were to simply evaporate into political vapor. That is not likely to occur. What is more likely to occur is that this unholy alliance will damage the United States both domestically and on the international stage. Shirt Sleeve was just demanding the DA in Fulton County Georgia defend herself to him, as head of the Judicial committee, even though he has no jurisdiction over her at all. But he certainly would not abuse his power as the second in line in the succession to the Presidency of the United States, would he?
When I think about the power of the Speaker of the House of Representatives I think of Nancy Pelosi. Another one of those indelible images you can not unsee, is Nancy tearing up D. Jailbird’s State of the Union notes. That lady could punish evil and she did so in front of the entire world. Love her or hate her, the lady knows fact from fantasy and has a set of gonads that clank when she walks. Maybe Trucker C was right. Maybe if the Republican congressmen got tanned down there they’d be man enough to punish evil. I don’t know what Marge, Laura, and the Scarlet Letter Lady from South Carolina can do. I suppose they could still legally change their names to Karen, but they still would not have tanning in all the right places.
References
1. Glass, A. (2014, May 29). Rhode Island ratifies Constitution, May 29, 1790 — POLITICO. Politico. Retrieved October 17, 2023, from https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/this-day-in-politics-107177
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