George Santos: Made in America

 In 48 hours, George Santos lined up more than his annual Congressional salary ($174K) by joining Cameo. (source)

America is a failure.

Think of all the lessons you were taught growing up about the "American Dream" and what it took to achieve it: honesty, perseverance, hard work, playing by the rules, being your best self, treating others the way you want to be treated. Virtually none of this turned out to be true.

Observe how some of the most honest, hardest working people are almost always broke... while top-to-bottom, total frauds like Santos and Trump lead lavish lives and fall back upon an endless supply of golden parachutes - furnished by a society obsessed with celebrity and transfixed by performative, outrageous behavior as the modus operandi.

People might be tempted to invoke retributive metaphysics like "karma" or "Judgement Day," but it's fairly obvious that these are just moral fantasies fed to the public to mollify their discontent and make them feel better about how often vice and avarice pay, while modesty and virtue yield only squalor, sweat, and hardship.

Gangsta Dems walk articles of impeachment to the Senate

Damn, it feels good to be a Congressional Gangsta
(music by Geto Boys)

Greater Republican Diversity in Congress

The Republicans are really stepping up their diversity with the incoming Congress.  The new and improved GOP has added many more styles of comb-over and receding hairlines on the white men they're sending to Washington!

Oh yeah, and shout out to Carol Miller (R WV-D3) - the Smurfette of incoming Republicans!

A Portrait in Political Ineptitude

For years, Congressman Jason Chaffetz was obsessed with wasting taxpayer dollars investigating Benghazi over and over with no finding of wrongdoing. He also moved to sell off public lands for private mineral extraction.

A few months ago, Chaffetz suggested that people could afford healthcare if they simply didn't buy a new iPhone. After that backlash, he announced he wasn't running for office again so he could "spend time with his family" (in Washington, nobody actually means that).

Now, Chaffetz wants an annual $30,000 housing stipend for members of Congress. "It's cost prohibitive to work in Washington" Chaffetz explained. Congressional reps already receive $174,000, plus healthcare, 401k, pension and $1.2M in their annual staffing budget.

And despite all this, or more likely because of it, Fox News thought it was a great idea to sign Chaffetz as a political contributor to their network.