Is the GOP a Reality TV Show or a Soap Opera?
Unless This Thing is Rigged the Votes are In
It’s time for the first ever annual “Fool’s Names and Fool’s Faces Awards.” This was a difficult contest to judge, but honorable mention has to go to the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives. I can only compare the current House of Representatives majority party to a campy soap opera with a Hee-Haw-does-dry-British-humor as a plot line. That’s how nonsensical some of the news about Republicans actually sounds to me. The best part of this whole charade is that these folks in the news are thought of as right wing or even as conservatives. But then, that is probably the most relatively accurate description we have in our current lexicon of descriptive terminology for “batshit-crazy-nonsense-spouting-mother’s-sons.” Far right wing is clearly easier to say.
For example, the other day, Little Margie was talking to a bunch of young far right winger types. Margie was wearing a long black dress with a most daring slit up to there as she wowed the crowd with visions of how she would have made January 6th much more memorable simply by making sure the storm trooperettes were all armed. It was a well-received story but it would be better if it had been filmed as a comic come-on scene filmed in a frat room in the aftermath of a Toga Party. She’s a gay divorcee so I can understand her desire to cater to what men like in a most brazen and dashing way. You kind of have to admire Margie’s gumption (if you know what I mean.) She talks like she’s got a pair that clank when she walks, but she also just got divorced, so that act does not seem to be working so well.
Then we have the Lady of the Lake out in Arizona. The girl must be made of money. There is absolutely no sense in what she’s claiming about the election she recently lost. She is the only person really screaming and yelling about how she should have won. But she didn’t win. She lost. How does it make sense if anyone is in an election and they lose but other people in the same rank and file did not lose is the problem in the way the votes were counted? Or is the problem in the way Lake Lady thinks about herself? But then if she can’t deal with reality then maybe she can change it by taking it to court. That would be the ticket.
Maybe the best example of a notable lack of common sense is Kissing Kevin. The line on the boy is that he wants to be Speaker of the House in the worst of worst ways. It stands to reason that he would do what is necessary to get the object of his desire. So I have to wonder about the good sense of agreeing with the Orange Guy after the OG just did his dead-level best to overthrow the very government he wants to represent as Speaker of the House? How does that make sense? Anyone with even a little bit of horse sense could understand the kissing up thing showed him to be a cowering weakling. That’s not to say he is that, but it is to say it sure does look that way. It would have been ever-so-much better had he simply stayed with his original observations, but like so many folk he had to second guess himself over what he had to know was misrepresentation. His life would have been ever-so-much simpler had he stood in what he knew to be true. He wouldn’t be in the bind he’s in now with Little Margie showing her leg in a bid for power. He wouldn’t have 34 members of his caucus in jeopardy of wearing orange suits and he probably would have won his 30 or 40 seat majority. But did he do that? No! He prat-planted, choked, chickened out or whatever you want to call it. But he did not do what Speaker of the House office holders have done in the past. He did not or maybe could not call wrongdoing, wrongdoing, but for a brief moment of unsustainable courage.
Another fella with no sense is Mrs. Graham’s young’un that growed up and went up to Washington, Lindsey. That boy don’t know what he shows about himself to folks. Think about it. When John McCain was still with us, Lindsey was kind of leachy-like with John. Lindsey was like John’s second banana. But when John passed away the boy was lost until he found the Orange Guy. This was someone who could appreciate Lindsey’s talented subservience. Orange became Lindsey’s crush. Now let me ask you something. Would you not enjoy a movie trailer with this story line? Little South Carolinian country carnival barker meets New York flim-flam man and they live happily ever after? Now that is a plot line worth years of advertising revenue but no one would believe it. It’s just too bizarre.
Speaking of the front runner in our concourse, we have The Big Orange Guy himself. It seems delusional to insist that reality is other than it is. At least it makes sense to call that kind of behavior delusional and it would seem to me that someone would have to be verging into foolishness to insist that reality will bend to his will alone. Which is perhaps the determining factor in choosing The Big Orange Guy as our first place winner. There is no award for this honor, but the award does distinguish one in a special kind of way.
There is a women’s organization known as the Purple Hat Club. When the ladies meet the only thing they have in common is the purple hat they wear as a requirement. The reason I’m veering so far off course here is to point out a peculiar phenomenon. As far as I have been able to research, which I’ll admit right here was not exhaustive, I still have not found anyone in the “Reality is what I say it is” club who does not coincidentally show their loyalty to the club by wearing a particular red hat. I suppose this is the Red Hat Society but I can not for the life of me quite understand why they find this crop of self-realizing far rightists lovable. To tell the truth, knowing some of these fly-over people who wear those red hats I have to consider that a number of them are more than likely just enjoying the show. If you consider all these shenanigans from the perspective of being a soap opera or maybe a reality series that might run for another two years or more, depending on how it does in the ratings, this all becomes rather entertaining. Another way to consider it, is as people posturing for their fifteen minutes of fame. Outrageousness counts in every aspect of scoring in this division. They are part of the tapestry of this Democracy. And really they are sometimes all we have as comic relief. I’m not sure that is the best use of their time however. Doesn’t make sense what they’re doing, at least to me it doesn’t.
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
Forging Agreement’s newest on-demand workshop is available on Teachable now. Learn more about the ideas that John introduces in his blogs in the Program Theory On-Demand Workshop!
One way to think about how your mind works is to consider it as a biocomputer. It has an operating system and different types of applications and programs that run when called, in similar fashion to a regular computer. The results of this workshop will give you new ways to consider your own beliefs, emotions, feelings and logical thoughts and how you can choose to modify them to meet your own requirements.
The workshop combines a series of on-demand videos with group discussions. Program Theory is taught by John Worthington and Paul Grenci. Contact @forgingagreement on Facebook or Instagram or email [email protected] for more information!
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
The most recent online Reality Creation Through the Dyad Workshop has just wrapped up. The Dyad workshop is an exploration into the relationship that exists between two people- any two people. A Dyadic relationship can be with a spouse, significant other, business partner, co-workers, family members, etc. These relationships can be wonderful and challenging all at the same time, but that is the beauty of relationships; traversing the good, the bad and everything in between.
In this interactive workshop, couples/individuals are afforded the opportunity to examine ever so common problems and tried and true solutions that guarantee an ongoing relationship if one is warranted.
This workshop will be happening on a monthly basis and runs over 2 weeks of 4 consecutive evenings. Contact @forgingagreement on Facebook or Instagram or email [email protected] for more information!
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
If you would like to support John, please consider subscribing to Medium using his referral link. Due to Medium not supporting mobile-based referrals, please use a desktop browser to sign-up. This ensures that a portion of your commission goes straight to John to support his work on this blog. You will get unlimited access to all of John’s blogs, plus unlimited access to thousands of other writers. Thank you!
