This came to me as a bolt out o the blue today, and I’m running with it, so here we go. Strap in and get ready for the ride.
As much as we may not wish to be, we are all unfortunately intimately with the bigger blowhards of the Freedom caucus. They’re like bad weather, they’re everywhere. And therein lies a major problem for the GOP, especially GOP House candidates going into 2024.
The Freedom Caucus is not interested in governing, or moving the country forward. Instead they’re only interested in performance art, getting face time in the media so they can build their egos, campaign war chests, and Leadership PAC’s. Which is fine, but gets them time on FUX News, where the only people who see them are brain dead Trombies.
But now that they’re in control of the US House of Representatives, like a failed lab experiment, they’re starting to ooze over into new ground.
- Recently Machine Gun Marjorie flounced around the halls of the Capitol like an over-the-hill Can-Can dancer, screeching into every camera she could find how she had just ripped a new one to the career professional intelligence officers who had given the House a briefing on the Chinese balloon.
- At the same time, Lugar Loaded Lauren is running around the halls desperately seeking air time so that she can earnestly explain why the only recipe to avoid a repeat of January 6th is for members of the House of Representatives to pack heat on the floor of the chamber
- House Trumptards like Sugar Daddy Matt Gaetz and Gum Bag Jordan are using their platforms on sham House committees to endlessly screech insane Q-Anon theories at poor, innocent witnesses who thought they were there to deliver actual testimony. They’re not just using it as a platform to get on FUX News, they’re hoping that since it’s an official House hearing, they’ll glom some national news media time as well. And they’re getting it
But here’s the problem for the larger GOP. Not counting lifeless people like me who spend all-day-every-day on MSNBC or CNN looking for tidbits to feed you guys, and other than brain dead Trumptards watching FUX News 24/7, the vast number of moderate conservative and independents have actual lives. And they tend to get their news, political and otherwise, from their local nightly news.
And what are they seeing on that local news? Are they seeing their moderate, swing district GOP representative talking about the pressing issues for his district, and what he’s going about them? Of course not. What he or she is seeing is five minutes of Return to Monkey Island. And you know what? When that’s what people are seeing, then that’s what their impression of the Republican’s party becomes.
Let me give you a scenario here. Let’s say you’re sitting at home watching television. Dinner is in the oven, and there’s a knock on the door. You look through the Judas hole, and there’s a guy in black or khaki pants, a short sleeve white dress shirt, a pressed black tie, and a bike helmet. What’s the first thing that goes through your head? That’s right, Jehovah’s Witness! And no way are you opening the door to put up with that shit!
But what if it’s not a Jehovah’s Witness? What if it was a mail room guy from your company, bringing you a package for work for your signature? What if it’s a Door Dash guy who just got off of work at an insurance company who’s picking up some spare scratch delivering your BBQ Pork Egg Fu Yung and egg rolls? You’ll never know, since your preconceived prejudice keeps you from opening the door in the first place.
And that’s the problem for any Republican House candidate wanting to run for office in a swing district. The majority of people you meet when you introduce yourself will automatically see Laborious MTH, Sugar Daddy Matt Gaetz, Gym Bag Jordan and Paul Gosar. This ass clowns are the public face of todays Republican party. Good luck overcoming that.
I can’t resist the urge to tell how my dad got the folks at our local Jehova’s Witnesses “Kingdom Hall” to stop including our house in their rounds. (My hometown still had about 10k people back then) Dad was never, ever without his t-shirt for reasons I’ve explained before. But once evening rolled around if he was home he’d take off his pants and if he moved about the house it was with nothing but his t-shirt and tighty-whities on, and if we had friends over so what? was his attitude. Well, one evening those folks showed up (they’d do so every three or four weeks) with their copy of The Watchtower (I think that’s what was on the pamphlet) and getting rid of them had always been tough. I could see who was knocking through a living room window and complained out loud they were back again. Dad called out he’d handle it. He stopped at his dresser (his bedroom was in the front of the house) a second and went to the door. There he stood glaring at them, all 6’7 1/2″ of him and he held out his hand with a coin and not shouting but a little louder than necessary said “Here’s you goddamned quarter. Give me your goddamned pamphlet and get the hell out of here!” And slammed the door in their faces. After the third time he happened to be home (I think he kind of tried to be around the house around the time they were due to come back) we never saw them again. It was clear word got around their “Kingdom Hall” to skip the Elliott household!
As for these asshats you talk about in your article, I think you have a point that for typical, non Fox devoted Americans and even some Fox viewers who don’t drink as much Kool Aid as others these are uninvited guests in homes when they show up in the news. And they paint a picture of not just themselves but the entire GOP that’s annoying as hell.
I’ve heard of people giving JWs a spiel about Druids or Olympian Zeus or something similar. (We had to deal with them at the laundromat.)
When I lived in CA we had a couple of olive trees in the front yard, I walked a couple of them to the end of our drive, broke off a small olive branch and told them “now you can tell them that you received an olive branch from a witch”. And they NEVER came back.
“You look through the Judas hole, and there’s a guy in black or khaki pants, a short sleeve white dress shirt, a pressed black tie, and a bike helmet. What’s the first thing that goes through your head? That’s right, Jehovah’s Witness! And no way are you opening the door to put up with that shit!”
I don’t know, Murf, but that description sounds more like a Mormon missionary rather than a Jehovah’s Witness. I can’t really attest to any personal interaction with any Jehovah’s Witness door-to-door evangelism so I can’t really say that the provided description is inaccurate (the only evidence I’ve ever seen that a Jehovah’s Witness has been around is seeing copies of “The Watchtower” lying around, like some kind of animal spoor–you don’t actually see the animal but you know it was there at some point). I *have* had encounters with Mormons–I give them their 10 seconds at the door, explaining why they’re there before refusing anything more.
You sound ignorant when you don’t know the difference between Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
I understood your analogy. I did worst. I answered the door in my skirt and bra while yelling to an empty house I will right there sweetheart and telling the ladies at the door time is 💰 they never came back. Mon invited me home cooked me my favorite meal and ask me to do the same for them🤣🤣🤣🤣 I sure did and now they too are WITNESS, FOX and Trump free.
You should do a little research. Jehovah’s Witnesses are a branch of Christianity that believes in the second, imminent coming of Jesus. They eschew politics and do not participate in elections because they believe the only authority is God. Unlike some other sects, they study the scriptures and scrupulously practice the teachings. Some of my best friends are members and I can honestly say I have not met finer people. Comparing them to the GOP is a deep and unjustified insult.
You fail to clarify that they are ruled by their Governing Body in N.Y. and have to adhere to their interpretation of the Bible or else. They control every minute aspect of members’ lives and also hide the serious problem of sexual abuse by members, including those in position of power, like elders and ministerial servants.
My Oma on my mother’s side was a Jehovah’s Witness, as well as an evil & crafty woman. Their family lived in Germany in the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. As many of you know, people were starving in Germany, esp in the 1930’s. Oma put my 10 year old mother alone on a ship to America to be raised by an aunt. Mom didn’t hear much from Oma during those years. In the 1950’s she started writing my Mom saying how she missed her little girl and Mom was delighted. So my parents brought her to America to live with us. The very next day she had a Jehovah’s Witness pick her up and that was about all we saw of her. My poor mother was devastated. Abandoned twice. She suffered from suppressed anger and depression all her adult life, then died of a heart attack at 43. She never had a chance. Us children finally got invited to Oma’s home in another city and spent the afternoon fending off her proselytizing. That was the last we heard from her until years later a young Witness showed up at our door to say she had passed.
Religion! Hrumph! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
It does sound more like Mormons than JW o me also, but I haven’t seen either one for so long that who knows (Also, who knows what I did or didn’t do to become free of them.)
And Roger, up there, you need to chill. Murf is not slandering JWs, or for that matterMormons. He is not referring to them as human beings, but to the effect their intrusive style of proselytizing has on others, Christians s well as atheists, Buddhists as well as Muslims, in fact any and everyone. And in that he is spot on.
Buddhists don’t Proselytize.
When I was working as IT manager for e Belfast youth club, we had a pack of Mormon ‘missionaries floating around. One day, a Catholic priest was in to ask me to lok at their computer and one of the Morons up a conversation
Moron: “You know, we’re really in the same business. We should get together some time for a chat”
Priest: “That may work – call round to our house for a cup of tea”
(I was sitting in the corner trying NOT to laugh out loud at that line)