The Republican Party Mascot Problem

 

"I think any rational Jewish person didn't like what happened in Nazi Germany & any rational Jewish person doesn't like what's happening with overbearing mask mandates."

I asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about her comment comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust @12News pic.twitter.com/8SVljeXjSM

— Bianca Buono (@BiancaBuono) May 22, 2021

The elephant deserves way better than the Republican party, don't you think? Ironic, after all, that the party of gun-fetishists with their share of stupid macho big game hunter wannabees who love to forget who they were an entire minute ago when the winds change chose an animal now being hunted to extinction by poachers that's known for its memory as their mascot, right?

Well, to the extent that the mascot they chose is also reflective of a dumb. brutal lie, I guess it's on-brand for them. But let's just take a look at Marjorie Taylor Greene, who definitely does like to get looked at, or she wouldn't act the way she does, who is the whole actual real and signifying mascot for the GOP right now. 

I think it was about 2013 I finally got that the GOP wanted mascots because they were done with the idea that parties had anything to do with policy. They can have an ethos, an ideology--but the fiddly government bits are a lot, so why not just have satisfying stunts and grope towards a future where the electeds are just people who hate the right stuff? 

Marge hates. She's incredible at it. She right there loves Jewish people so much she can tell them what it would be reasonable for them to think and equate the pretty basic hygienic dress code of wearing a mask in public spaces with the privation and constant assaults on humanity and dignity that included mass deaths from, among other things, plagues like typhus, in the camps. She's using a tragedy to signify her half-baked horror at being expected to--give a shit about other people? 

But wait--there's more! Her behavior towards AOC is exceptionally idiotic and demonstrative stalking, Like some trollmoth attracted to actual light. She doesn't do a lot to dispel the notion that her radical friends were among those who "toured" the Capitol on January 6. She isn't appalled by those folks--she stays appalled at her new colleagues. Except for actual alleged minor-f*cker Matt Gaetz, in whom she has found a kindred spirit--another Holocaust-minimizing attention whore silver spoon bitch ass loudmouth punk. Both of whom floated up on the coattails of Trump, whom could now be said to have an unraveled bolero. 

But how do we get an MTG? One of the things I can't stop thinking about is how her Democratic opponent bowed out. Her district had her as a choice, and they went with her, in all her ignorant and robustly delusional glory. 

I don't know what the Republican Party wants to be seen as: but to me they are not just basically Trump's party, but Margorie Taylor Greene's. They represent bad people who are saved by having enough money to let them get away with doing and saying horrifically stupid and bad things. Ted Cruz puts on his clown shoes every morning and hopes to be stupid and bad enough to live down to the modern Republican party. Josh Hawley is a thirsty and useless man who votes against everything he can these days to show his disdain for the system he thought he'd excel in and can't with Trump both in his way, and being the way. These are the alleged intellectuals, and so is life-support system for an Adam's apple Tom Cotton, who stays forever in my mind as the traitor who wrote a love letter to the Iranian hardliners in favor of a war no one should ever want. 

They are petty folks begging to be the mascot, never demonstrating any actual competency. And anyone of them at any moment could be the star of Twitter or Facebook, but who cares? Would you trust a GOP mascot to run a lemonade stand? Could they compete on Celebrity Apprentice? 

See--this is the problem--running a government isn't a reality show, and we have a government now that is about doing the real things. Democrats don't want that signifying mascot life. They want real people who do real work. I want to see things done, not have sweet nothings whispered into my ear. Especially not sweet nothings that are conspiracy theories, or a huge lie.