Republicans- An excuse to play Russian Roulette with six full chambers

Would you want to be stranded on an island with MTG, Paul Gosar, and Thomas Massie? I'd rather juggle razor blades as I walk barefoot across broken glass.

(courtesy of

Thinker at the Gates

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Seriously, would you want to be trapped on a desert island with these three moral and intellectual black holes? That would be a “Hell, no!” from me—not even if you threw in Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and the Swedish Bikini Team at no extra charge. You couldn’t scrape together a functional IQ or moral center between the three of them (or four, if you added Gaetz to the mix).

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t have a high bar for Republicans in this Congress, at least not since Lord Stumblefuck spent four years soiling the Oval Office. Congress has become the playground for the lowest life forms the GOP has to offer- the mentally and morally deficient, the barely literate, and those who refuse to play by any sort of rules.

But now many of those single-celled organisms have risen to something resembling leadership positions (at least in their minds) and are using their newfound prominence to do their absolute worst. If it looks and sounds like they’ve forgotten that they were elected to do a job…well, it’s because they have. MTG has convinced herself that she’s a Congresswoman of power and influence when she’s actually a joke and an abject embarrassment. And Reps. Massie and Gosar are intellectual and moral nonentities who can barely function. Despite that sad reality, they’ve somehow managed to convince themselves that they matter.

Everyone’s favorite MAGA spokesperson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, is back in the spotlight after promising that she’s going to officially bring a vote to vacate the Speakership to the House floor as soon as this upcoming week. She’s been the loudest MAGA member so far, the leader of the pack.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s main transgressions, from her point of view, has been to recently allow the House to vote and pass basic government funding, renewal of FISA warrant surveillance, and military support for Ukraine….

Her loud, undaunted, and unrelenting criticism of Mike Johnson and Republicans who have voted along with Democrats to actually get things done that the American people want has been like a primal scream in the wind. (I’ve written earlier editions of this saga here and here).

It’s difficult to take someone seriously who’s discoursed at length about Jewish space lasers and other topics she knows little to nothing about. Few other Congresscritters, with the possible exception of Lauren Boebert (R-CO), have so willingly exposed their massive knowledge gaps so willingly and frequently and with such a complete lack of self-awareness.

MTG is this Congress’ poster child for the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

MTG’s ignorance might be pleasantly amusing if her attitude toward those she feels superior to (pretty much everyone) wasn’t so malevolent. Seldom has someone with so little self-awareness and so thoroughly in the grip of the Dunning-Kruger Effect been in a position in which she can get away with being such a loudmouth and a fool.

As it turns out, though, there are lengths to which even MTG can’t go.

WASHINGTON ― A long-running threat to Speaker Mike Johnson’s hold on power in the House of Representatives ended Wednesday with a whimper rather than a bang as most Democrats joined all but 11 Republicans to set aside a move to ouster him.

Though the vote to table the motion by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was overwhelming ― 359 to 43, with seven voting “present” ― it’s unclear if the result means an end to a weeks-long intra-party struggle or just the beginning of a new chapter of infighting inside the House Republican conference.

“I appreciate the show of confidence from my colleagues to defeat this misguided effort,” Johnson (R-La.) said after the vote, in which he got the support of 196 of the 217 House Republicans.

“Hopefully, this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress.”

Greene was unrepentant.

“I’m proud of myself because this is the whole reason I ran for Congress,” she told reporters after the vote.

So, you ran for Congress so the entire nation could witness what a complete fucking tool you are?

Mission accomplished. Well played, yeah?

Only Marjorie Trailer Greene could create a situation so toxic that it would result in an American Taliban mullah like Mike Johnson relying on Democrats to retain his position as Speaker.

“I didn’t come up here to put it into cruise control and ride along and make it easy and just vote however they tell me to vote. I’m done with that Republican Party. That Republican Party has held hands with the Democrat Party for so long,” Greene said.

AYFKM?

I don’t know what planet MTG has been inhabiting for the last few years, but the reason nothing has been gotten done on Capitol Hill is that Republicans have screamed “NO!!” to everything Democrats have proposed. To accuse the GOP of “holding hands” with Democrats borders on the absurd.

MTG got her time in front of the camera on the House floor. Sure, she got booed by her colleagues and her motion was voted down decisively, but she got a lot of face time on national television, which in a campaign year is priceless. She can go back to her district and crow about the “principles” she was standing up for.

It’s performative politics at its absolute worst, but in this Congress, that’s been all we can reasonably expect from this Republican Congress, especially the Freedumb Caucus.

She’s not the face of the Republican Party. She doesn’t speak for us. You all give her a lot of attention, but she’s not the Republican Party.

- Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.)

Whether or not MTG is the face of the GOP is a valid argument that those who are so inclined could engage in, but I’ll sit that one out. My contention is that she’s been more effective as the other end of the horse. As the ass-end of the GOP, she’s been able to act the fool and become one of Lord Stumblefuck’s favorite Congresscritters.

There have even been rumors bandied about that MTG may be one of Donny Diaperfull’s VP candidates—and Good Lord, wouldn’t that be an absolute clusterfuck? It would be like a far more malevolent version of Sarah Palin.

At least Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar are ineffective, inept, and impotent enough to remain in the background. They’ll make noise now and again, but for the most part, they’re generally harmless because no one cares enough to take them seriously.

MTG is just stupid and cunning enough to be dangerous…and Heaven help us all if she becomes Trump’s VP.

If you need me, I’ll be juggling razor blades and tap-dancing through a field of broken glass.

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