Is this Congress, or the Playground?
The Maturity (or lack thereof) of the Republican Party
Is there a law that prohibits thought from crossing state lines? Maybe there is and I just don’t know about it. But it seems to me that when people go to Washington they leave their common sense at the state line. They all seem to have minds of their own but they forget how to use them once they arrive in Washington. It’s like when politicians arrive they revert to how they were back in grade school. Can you imagine how insufferable Margie would have been in second grade telling everyone how big her daddy’s gun is in show-and tell? Or how about Ronnie Di being a know-it-all bully in the third grade going on about the finer points of pinochle? Can’t you just see that serious little round face holding forth in front of indulging aunties about how he is always right because he can count cards and he knows exactly how many cards are in the deck because he counted them all? See what I mean? Kevin must have wanted to be called on to explain lessons of world history to his sixth grade class so badly but, alas, he was never called. He just didn’t ever know enough to speak about the goings on in the world because he couldn’t get the context right. For example, just because Hannibal got a herd of elephants over the alps does not make him a Republican no matter what Margie says.
I can see how that piece of history could be misinterpreted though. Hannibal fought a war with elephants and Republicans are depicted as elephants but those two ideas can not even be viewed in the same context. It could be that a childlike mind could conflate the two ideas. Rather like the Graham boy from South Carolina, Kevin has problems discerning the difference between agreeing because he thinks something is correct and nodding his head as though he were agreeing. He is actually kissing ass, mistaking approval from an authority figure as a substitute for actual independent thought. If he knew the difference, he would not be making deals with the Georgia Succubus. But that behavior is not evidence of maturity.
Consider for a moment the behavior of a young kid. They can tell you all of the things they know but they can not decide to do anything for themselves. The only thing they can say is “No!” That’s all that Jimmy from Ohio, Matt from Florida and Margie from Succubus Georgia can say, too. I don’t think that takes a great deal of political savvy to say. I know and have known any number of three year olds who could also say “No!” They couldn’t talk politics though and they didn’t know left from right. But by the time they got to second grade they knew.
I don’t think some of these so-called Republicans got good reviews on that “plays well with others” box on their report cards when they were in grade school either. It kind of sounds like they were part of that gang of kids back in grade school that would chant, “na na na, na na” over and over just to remind some kid they didn’t like just because they could. It made that gang of kids feel better somehow. Kind of like what Margie and Ronny Di are doing with all the threats against Anthony Fauci for daring to put a lifetime into protecting all of us from all manner of nasty bugs. That kind of behavior is thought of as immature for kids in grade school. What do we think about that same behavior with a member of the United States House of Representatives? We are okay that that’s what represents the United States on the world stage? And I thought Jimmy from Ohio was a little shit. The Succubus is way more brazen and thoughtless. That poor McCarthy boy, he looks at that Succubus like Ron Weasley entranced by Hermione. It’s the same vacant gawk. I have trouble visualizing how that love-struck individual should be third in line for the presidency much less Speaker for the House of Representatives to the world. Doesn’t make sense for him to Speak for the House when he’s only speaking what the Succubus of the House wants him to speak.
No one told him to run on down to the Den of Iniquity down there in Florida to kiss up to the Lord of the Manor. What did he think that loser’s endorsement would do for him once people began to relax, once the blaring subsided and they course corrected to the direction of progress? If he miscalculated on that obvious manifestation of the body politic, how badly could he miscalculate on the world stage? I don’t think we really want to repeat the mistake of sending the Orange One to speak for all of us on the world stage. Who can forget the time when he grabbed the leader of Montenegro by the arm so Orange could get a better look at the camera? That unfortunate event was somehow demonstrating an attempt at being manly, at least. When I imagine Kevin in a similar setting, like Nancy going to Taiwan for instance, I can only imagine that vacant gawk that we all know and love as he tries to remember what had incited Margie about this country. Or was it something about them not allowing open carry handguns?
The agenda the House of Representatives is advertising includes Hunter Biden’s laptop, the wrongdoing of Dr. Fauci, the examination of transsexuals in sports, and the Biden crime family. I know those are all issues for which I’m intently interested to see the predictable final episode of the season. But they are not issues which will yield much in terms of legislative competence.
Regulating social media will make health care regulation look like a vegged out afternoon on the couch with nothing on the honeydew list. I can understand why the new congressional majority would rather talk about Hunter than talk about a contentious matter like Twitter. But then when I consider the maturity levels some of these folks from places other than Washington demonstrate, I could pretty easily see that the speech on Twitter would seem normal to them. It’s the same kind of speech found on nearly any playground at any school anywhere in the world. That’s true. At the same time it is also true that the same speech heard on any playground is considered appropriate for a playground. The rub comes in the idea that playground speech is not appropriate as a means of conducting a public forum. The problem is on a public forum immature people should have a right to express their thought processes for review. But review requires that someone else is doing the same thing and the two thought processes have not found a harmonic way of expressing.
That looks to be just mind numbingly difficult for the likes of Margie, Kevin and the Republican congressmen to wrap their collective minds around. But if they could understand the insanity of trying to get Mikey to turn over the election, they shouldn’t have any trouble at all with something that doesn’t require nearly as much imagination: reality.
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