Round 15

Today, we bring you an almost, very special edition of RoundSeventeen, compliments of your very own Grand Old Party. As you probably know, they went 15 rounds before picking a Speaker of the House, falling just 2 short of a magical event. 

For me, at least.

If the shenanigans of the past 6 years did not convince you of the utter, unAmerican cravenness of Republicans, including two impeachments, incitement of an Insurrection, the theft of Top Secret documents, the tanking of the economy due to a botched handling of a pandemic that killed more than a million people, then surely last week's Gavel Grabapolluzza probably didn't sway you one bit.

Nevertheless, it merits an autopsy. If for no other reason than to talk about the post-Trumpian fuckknuckles who are now commandeering the Halls of Congress. The same hallways that were stained with trailer park feces from their very own constituents two years ago.

Let's back the GOP shitwagon up a little, shall we?

Because the 2022 Mid Term Red Wave, promised by stalwart and always-accurate right wing media like The Daily Wire, Epoch Times, Breitbart, Fox, NewsMax, OAN, New York Post and The Blaze, never materialized, the margin in the House was slim. Very slim, at best.

And like it did in the Senate from the 2018 election (see Manchin and Sinema), it put decision making power in the hands of a very few. Including the intellectual heavyweights of the GOP: Boebert, Gaetz, Gosar, Biggs, Clyde, and the charismatic Chip Roy, who, if you've heard him speak (ramble) seems to be missing a few chips in the old brain case.

Together these clowns make up the American Freedom Caucus. 

Which is not concerned about America at all. Has little to do with Freedom, unless we're talking the freedom to ram their religion, their dogma and their intolerance down our throats. The only thing accurate about their name is Caucus. 

As in all Caucasoid.

Their agenda is best summed up by: "A woman in every kitchen and two AR-15's in every household."

I jest, but there's nothing to laugh about. 

If these Learning Annex graduates had their way there'd be no reproductive rights for women, no restrictions on gun ownership (or advanced weapons of any kind), the state religion would be Christianity (not the kind, generous, welcoming Christianity as seen in the Bible) and the country would be guided by an ugly disdain for anyone who doesn't fit their default settings for what constitutes a Real American. That would include LGBTQ+, Asians, People of Color, and of course, those with Hebraic Seasonings.

Given that we're living in the long shadow of the Holocaust, it is scary to witness the rise of populist Neo-Fascism. Maybe not for you, but certainly for (((me))).

The only saving grace to all this is knowing these know-nothings live and operate on the fringe. 

Moreover, they're more performative then they are strategic. And even moreover, they are the Lower Chamber. So, because of their never-ending fecklessness and the archaic rules of the Congress, they will never be able to pass any legislature.

Thank god for our institutionalized American incompetence.