Madison Cawthorn, meet party corruption
You don’t get to run for Congress unless they say you do.
Former Congressman Madison Cawthorn was arrested on September 10th of this year resulting from a bench warrant issued due to a ticket he got issued for driving without a licence on August 19th. The result for the party establishment was phenomenal:
They got a great mugshot of him looking like a crook
Took the steam right out of his run in Florida
Reddit even joined in to twist the knife for good measure
I wasn’t born yesterday – I know what it’s like having serious traffic violations in my past driving record. Believe it or not, there was a time when I had a suspended licence! The simple fact is, I screwed up twice and got two separate hefty speeding tickets. It was a cut-and-dry affair and the second time had me distraught enough that I learned my lesson after all by then. I managed to work through the consequences of my mistakes and earn back my driving privileges, and now, since driving across the country and back plus making a dozen trips to Princeton, I haven’t been pulled over once. God willing, I never will again. This sucks for Cawthorn, but I think you already know that I’m not here to take this naïve angle about his screw-ups while driving.
Drawing on my past experiences dealing with these same problems, I want to make a couple of educated guesses as to what sorts of things probably happened to lead to this magical epic caption-able moment that the cabal of criminals gleefully blast onto all our mainstream media platforms.
Firstly, when I had my tickets and court appearances (I never got a ticket that was minor enough to simply be paid off), I had a consistent correspondence with my attorney about what was going on and what I needed to do. He was affordable, too; only about $600 and he would even show up in Court for me. He picked up the phone, told me what to do, and that’s honestly more than you tend to get from most attorneys, especially for that kind of money. I afforded it working dead-end blue collar jobs. Now, I have to think that whatever equivalent Cawthorn had of this sort of help was conspicuously absent, helping to greatly increase the chances of this magical epic caption-able moment happening. Has it occurred to Cawthorn to perhaps ask if certain people he trusted were being grossly negligent? I would be wondering that right now if I were him.
Secondly—and this one is more to blame his own affluence on—is Cawthorn aware that you can check the status of your licence on the NC DMV website? My husband sure was and checked it all the time for me. Nobody wants to be caught driving on a potentially suspended licence. It’s not crazy to presume that Florida has one of these services in some form too, but I could be wrong. In any case, the onus was on him to be proactive in checking this sort of thing. Does Cawthorn have the survival skills necessary to self-sustain without being propped up by helpers and enablers from party machines?
The bottom line for me when it comes to asking, “where does the buck really stop for Madison Cawthorn?” is painfully simple: the Party made it abundantly clear to him that he is out. His orders are to go home and do something else that doesn’t involve him running for election anywhere. He’s not doing that, so the punishment continues. I have to wonder how aware he even is that this is being done to him. This is painfully obvious from the outside.
The fix was put in his electoral career in March of 2022, the same month he decided to publicly mention being invited to one of their orgies on Capitol Hill: the GOP had dirt of him being gay, and that’s not very heckin’ Republican of you, so we’re just going to forcibly primary you, and run you out of town, no no you’re totally unelectable now, so stop trying, just go away.
The GOP can’t afford to allow him to stand for election because they understand that their kompromat of him doesn’t actually hold water: people very well may vote for a gay man if he is charismatic enough and they feel like he better represents their interests than the default wrinkled rusty crooked asshole Jack Republican Holden Bloodfeast demonspawn. I don’t wonder why they invited him to the orgy—just look at him—and I think they’re credibly scared shitless of him using those looks to win over the people without their permission.
We have media rags reminding us of the conspicuous and borderline-irrelevant facts, treading the line between journalism and propaganda as always.
We have captured social media drumming up false consensus that looks like “this is what people think” if you just got out of a time capsule from 2014. The CIA is along for the ride on this one.
At the end of the day, it all shapes up to one thing: you don’t get to decide who you want to vote for.
By the way, the GOP might be the pioneers of electing new publics in the last 60-odd years, but they’re not the only ones who are doing this. It’s going to get worse before it gets better guys, so hold on.