None of them give me the creeps quite like Clay Higgins, R-La. There’s something about the intensity of his belligerence and MAGAtude combined with his smooth talking that sends shivers up my spine.
Yes. I’m very unfortunate in having George Santos as my Congressperson. Creeps, disgust, shame, any negative feeling you can name, that’s my response to him.
So many do! And they aren’t all Republicans (although all the ones I can think of right now are men). The one who springs to mind first as someone I wouldn’t want near a teenager is Matt Gaetz.
So Greene and Boebert don’t make your list?
They’re loathsome, but neither of them gives the vibe that they might have a basement freezer full of pelts harvested from neighborhood pets. They trigger dislike, not … a sense of recoiling from the uncanny, I suppose.
Exactly! To me, “creepy” includes the feeling that someone is an immediate physical, often sexual, threat. I’ve met creepy women, but creeps are much more often men. I feel that Boebert and, more especially, Greene pose a threat to our government and society, but that doesn’t make them creepy.
Yeah. I would guess the most unpleasant skeleton in MTG’s closet is something like she used to shoplift cigarettes from the corner gas mart in high school. Otherwise all her terribleness is out in the open on full display.
Edit to add: The above is not to suggest I don’t believe MTG made liberal use of racial slurs in her youth (and probably now in private), and similar nastiness. I take stuff like that as a given, not as a “skeleton.”
Gaetz has always struck me as just a little too far down the slope of the Uncanny Valley for comfort.
Yeah, Gaetz 100% has a huge folder on his computer he really, really doesn’t want anyone to know about.
Gaetz is literally a trafficker, so yeah.
Paul Gosar probably has an SS uniform in his closet.
Matt Gaetz looks like a cross between a tv evangelist, used car salesman, 1970s porn star, and undertaker. He exudes sleaze from every fiber of his being. If his appearance isn’t enough, his attempts to wreck the government and economy just to own the libs on its own makes him a creep. Then there’s the fact that he got his first high school girlfriend while in his 30s.
I consider both House members and Senators to be “Congresspeople.” With that in mind, here is a quick 'n dirty list off the top of my head of those who inspire physical revulsion in me.
Senate:
Mitch McConnell
Lindsey Graham
Chuck Grassley
Mike Crapo
Mike Lee
Ted Cruz
Tommy Tuberville
Tom Cotton
Marco Rubio
Rick Scott
J. D. Vance
Rand Paul
Josh Hawley
Tim Scott
Ron Johnson
Kevin McCarthy
House:
Paul Gosar
Andy Biggs
Matt Gaetz
George Santos
Steve Scalise
Mike Rogers
Darrell Issa
Mike Collins
Greg Pence
James Comer
Ryan Zinke
Patrick McHenry
Jim Jordan
Cliff Bentz
Scott Perry
Ronny Jackson
Chip Roy
I’m sure there are more, but I haven’t had sufficient experience with them to get a vibe one way or another.
Every person on this list is of no value in government and in fact imposes more harm on the country every day. I won’t get my wish, but we’d be immensely better off if they were all gone.
And yes, they all give me the creeps.
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Greene just seems garden variety awful, but Boebert strikes me as the sort of person who breaks into their ex’s home and cooks their pet.
Nobody comes close to Gaetz for pure creep factor, though. He has resting “Vincent-D’Onofrio-right-before-he-shoots-the-drill-sergeant-in-Full Metal Jacket” face.
McConnell nothings me. He’s just an empty shell of ambition. I only have reactions to humans. Gosar? Uuuurg. When your own family campaigns against you, that says something.
Wasn’t Gosar the one whose own siblings made a commercial telling people not to vote for him?
Any Congresspeople who don’t?
I haven’t met that many of them, but most of the ones I have could inhabit a creepy Halloween thriller without having to assume a different persona.
Many are somewhere on the spectrum between annoying and loathsome, but I find that few are truly creepy.
I starting thinking that Rand Paul gave off such vibes, ever since he made that comment about “parents own the children” (in reference to vaccination).
