Aldous G. Pennyfarthng calls some of them members of the House Goober Gang in his diary today: “House Goober Gang, including Greene and Gaetz, run off by protesters during cynical publicity stunt.”
From this story: “Mike Lindell who is now hoping Supreme Court allows a do-over election: ‘Maybe that’s a thing’” to this: “Rep. Elise Stefanik Gets Dragged For Not Understanding Medicare” to anything about Lauren Boebert, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley (see “Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred”), Ron Johnson, Rudy Giuliani, Kevin McCarthy (see my diary from yesterday), and articles about any number of the less luminescent of the dim bulbs in the Republican marquee like Madison Cawthorn who tired to bring his Glock onto a plane, we have a collection of disgusting and crazy GOP members of Congress who media editors deem worthy of publishing stories about.
It is true that, depending on your tolerance for theater of the absurd combined with dark comedy some are as colorful in their own way as the doggie poop bags in my photo. For example, Lauren Boebert with photos of her and assault rifles or a Glock and her Second Amendment solutions, and Marjorie Taylor Greene with her NAZI-Covid comparisons.
(The names above are all links to recent articles.)
Taken individually we can try to gong them off the stage as too ridiculous to take seriously:
Ask not for whom the gong gongs, it gongs to warn Americans who cherish our democracy that it is imperiled. If only these people could be just gonged into the oblivion they deserve.
These people have an insidious and dangerous hold on and influence with a significant number of Americans who don’t realize that each of them is a bag of dog shit in a container controlled by this guy.
It’s time to put him where he belongs:
