Future generations will think 2023 might be the year we lost our collective minds.
“Woke” M&M "‘spokescandies’. Apparently swapping a stiletto for a pump and trading go-go boots for sneakers is the beginning of the end of America. At least for FOX. Mars’ minor updates to the spokescandies lineup caused Tucker Carlson to opine that Brown was “deeply unappealing” and Kat Timpf (also from FOX) called Green “an opportunistic, evil bitch”. That’s…quite the take from the daily outrage machine.
George Santos. Apparently getting elected to Congress isn’t that hard. At least if you invent your name, occupation, education, ‘is he even gay?’, the life stories of your grandparents and mother, an alternative-facts drag persona, that you were mugged, and that you received death threats and survived an assassination attempt. And that’s what I can remember off the top of my head. And somehow this wasn’t even George/Anthony’s first run for Congress. Does no one do oppo research anymore? But for Speaker Kevin McCarthy, it’s still “the voters elected him to serve”. Well not exactly. They elected a version of George “Fabulist” Santos that is - from what we can tell - a complete fiction. But Kev has finally learned how to count votes. He realizes that the one thing worse than a four-seat majority is a three-seat majority.
There will be smokes! One of the first things the new House Republican majority did after taking over was to end the ban on smoking in Capitol Hill offices. Smoking indoors has been illegal in DC for two decades but the Capitol is federal jurisdiction. Glad their priorities are clear (along with slashing Social Security and Medicare which are beloved by [waves hands] everyone) and, of course, Tucker loves it.
Only in America, folks.