Jim Jordan: Too Honest for the House of Representatives?

Three tries—considerably fewer than Kevin McCarthy’s fifteen—and a healthy, Trump-aligned Jim Jordan no longer qualifies as the GOP’s House speaker nominee. After McCarthy’s fall, the Catholic Church offered Steve Scalise, whose primary skill of bellowing unoriginal talking points remains unaffected after a gunshot wound and blood cancer diagnosis. Scalise’s failure to follow McCarthy enraged several GOP members, who were likely expecting kickbacks from foreign aid outlays. I suspect the process involves “aid” sent first to Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan, then repurposed without any possible audit back to American companies “serving” the (proxy) war cause. No other logical reason explains the military-industrial complex and why Congress is perpetually pro-Israel while every non-Trump ally is fanatically pro-Ukraine. Native-born Americans like foreigners, but not that much, unless their bills are being paid or the rating is at least NC-17. (Palestinian politics is as corrupt as everywhere else, but until they can use “aid” to improve themselves and the West’s economy, a two-state solution will never happen.) More wars—preferably against smaller nations with natural resources—mean more foreign aid, more kickbacks, and more campaign contributions. Hunter S. Thompson wrote about a generation of swine, but he never imagined the complexity of the trough. 

[Continued at https://open.substack.com/pub/lononaut/p/jim-jordan-too-honest-for-the-house?r=g5jaj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] 

© Matthew Mehdi Rafat (October 2023)