Otherkins are Gaining Ground
In The Republican Universe
Thomas Massie and Devin Nunes are otherkins, strange creatures not of this earth who are not entirely human.
Both are posing as elected members of Congress but don’t be fooled, the are otherkins or more specifically, politiciankins, whose main attributes are the ability to offend and a proclivity to feign legitimacy. The oldest Internet reference for Otherkin is the Elfinkind Digest, a mailing list started in 1990 by a student at the University of Kentucky for “elves and interested observers” which is coincidentally the home state of Massie. Hmmm.
Massie is a GOP congressman from Kentucky who never made much of a ripple in the news until he sent out a Christmas card last week, showing him with six family members, each with broad holiday smiles and each holding a rifle with the holiday wishes “”Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.”
Nunes, a Republican congressman from California, known for being a chief lickspittle for Gen. Bone Spurs, has announced he’s quitting Congress because he’s been named the CEO of Bone Spurs’ new media and technology company.
More about them in a moment but now let me explain about otherkins, of which there are many kinds, including Fictionkin, those who identify as fictional characters; Conceptkin, who identify as abstract concepts; Weatherkin, who identify as weather systems; as well as Politiciankins, who embody the basest of qualities; and a number of other more obscure categories, such as Elementals or Elementkin, Celestials or Celestialkin, Forestkin, Nightkin, Oceankin, Spacekin, and Shadowkin.
Politiciankins are often toadies who are generally incapable of being honest and who live far beneath what all may consider rock bottom. Herewith some examples of recent behavior of Massie and Nunes which point to them, indisputably as politiciankins.
Nunes was likely to be the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee if Republicans win back the House in 2022. But instead of being poised to be one of the most powerful Republicans on the planet, Nunes chose to jump full ahead on the trump train and will quit Congress at the end of the month to head Trump Media & Technology Group or TMTG, a company which has yet to begin operating.
Nunes, 48, told his followers to be “Rest assured, I have not, by any means, given up our collective fight — I’ll just be pursuing it through other means,” and that would translate into a promise of lots and lots of money.
The ex-pretender to the presidential throne called Nunes a “fighter and a leader… Devin understands that we must stop the liberal media and Big Tech from destroying the freedoms that make America great.”
Of course, Nunes’ protestations are beyond reproach, unless one considers that a proposed redistricting would move Nunes from a relatively safe Republican-leaning district to one where Democrats have the advantage, meaning he ought to get out while the getting is good.
A 10-term congressman, Nunes was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee chairman in 2017 until he was forced to recuse himself from his own panel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election the year before for revealing classified information. Nunes later was one of trump’s chief boosters when Democrats launched impeachment proceedings against trump for pressuring Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 elections.
Politiciankins also have a strong tendency to fulfill Shakespeare’s warning not to “hoist with one’s petard” translated loosely to mean you play with fire, you will get burned. And another fair warning to the veteran congressman, if trump goes down and he throws you a life preserver, check if it’s made of concrete.
A skunk, it is said, cannot smell its own stench. Trump’s new scam has raised $1 billion from an unidentified “diverse group of institutional investors.” Could these investors include foreign governments, like maybe, Saudi Arabia, who are hoping to buy favor with trump, should he try for the presidency in 2024? If anyone can spell collusion, it would be Nunes.
Politiciankins also have little in common with Jesus Christ, the Prince of peace who preached for love among all. Politiciankins also are marked with the quality of having no shame. That brings us to Massie who sent out his vile Christmas greeting marking the birth of Christ and sent it out just days after a 15-year-old Michigan boy allegedly shot and killed four classmates. It can’t be a coincidence that Massie’s suggestion to “please bring ammo”is eerily similar to the accused, school shooter’s note on his phone the day before he massacre that he was searching for ammunition. And it also can’t be just serendipity that Massie’s reference to gun violence comes a week after words of hatred from his partners in the Republican Idiot Brigade, including anti-Muslim comments by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Color., Ariz.; a cartoon video from Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.,depicting killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; and the ongoing broadsides of hate, bigotry and extremism by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
The bizarre Christmas card elicited general criticism including a tweet from Fred Guttenberg who replied with a photograph of his daughter, Jaime, who was killed in the Parkland high school shooting in Florida in 2018.
Guttenberg tweeted: “since we are sharing family photos, here are mine. One is the last photo that I ever took of Jaime, the other is where she is buried because of the Parkland school shooting.”
But not everyone chastised the politiciankin from Kentucky. Todd Starnes, a far right columnist for Fox, tweeted the guns and Christmas image and wrote: “Best Christmas photo ever!”
Boebert also stood behind Massie while Republican Jose Castillo tweeted: “All I want for Christmas is… more elected officials like Thomas Massie.”
“I’m proud to stand with great patriots like Congresswoman Lauren Boebert to support Thomas Massie in his free expression and support of the Second Amendment,” said Castillo, a Republican candidate for congress from Florida.
Massie represents Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District which stretches across Northern Kentucky and 280 miles of the Ohio River. He lives on a cattle farm with his high school sweetheart and their four children. To say he is a leading conservative in Congress befouls the word conservative. Hate mongerer is more accurate for the staunch opponent of gun controls, COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates and funds to fight climate change.
Among his stellar congressional performances, he was among the few members of Congress to oppose the recertification of the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a crime to fraudulently claim having received a valor award, with the intention of obtaining money, property, or other tangible benefit.
He also was the only member of Congress to vote against a renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 which prohibits manufacture, sale or possession of any firearm that is not detectable by walk-through metal detection. Massie also introduced bills to abolish the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency. He lost.
Nobody had a good word for Massie last March when he gained the nickname “Mr. No” after he forced Congress to return for an in-person vote on the $2.2 trillion package to fight the pandemic. He claimed he wanted Congress to be held accountable for the vote, in person. Never mind that at the time, in the heat of the pandemic, lawmakers had sheltered in place in their districts for fear of spreading the virus. Even trump got on Massie, calling him a “third rate (g)randstander,” while John Kerry said that Massie had “tested positive for being an asshole” and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., tweeted, “@RepThomasMassie is indeed a dumbass.”