Post-its & pizza: My visit to our Congressional office buildings in DC
How the freak did I end up totally lost and stranded in the
sub-sub-basement of the Rayburn office building in Washington DC last
week? Long story. I was actually trying to find the offices of
Congressional Representatives Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar so I
could shake their hands and tell them how wonderful they were -- but
got seriously distracted by the temptation of gluten-free pizza on offer in the
congressional cafeteria instead. Unlimited toppings! Yummers!
While waiting for my order to finish baking, I asked several
pizza-eating Congressional aides for directions regarding how to get to
AOC's and Omar's offices, and one of them told me to take an elevator
down to the connecting tunnels that run beneath the Rayburn, Cannon and
Longworth buildings -- but I must have pushed the wrong button because I
ended up lost in some dark spooky narrow sub-sub-basement hallway littered
with unwanted office furniture and black garbage bags. But that was
okay because I still had my pizza-to-go so I wouldn't starve before
someone found me months later.
Seeing that I was buried in the bowels of Congress already, it seemed
appropriate to start contemplating the actual underground nature of our
government and its tenancy to bury inconvenient facts and hide
corruption (as well as unwanted furniture) out of sight of us taxpayers
-- stuff like how lobbyists run Congress, how the Pentagon "misplaced" 21
trillion bucks but wasn't even investigated and how Zionists and Saudis
are the real powers behind the throne in America these days. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/18/nearly-100000-pentagon-whistleblower-complaints-have-been-silenced
But then a middle-aged bureaucrat in a grey flannel suit wandered by
and showed me the light -- down four corridors, up three staircases,
through two doors marked "employees only" and onto an elevator going to
the second floor of Longworth. Or was it Cannon?
In any case, I found Rep. Omar's office first and shook her aide's
hand, shook her other aide's hand and also signed the guestbook. "Keep
up the good work!" Top government officials who happily commit genocide
for fun and profit need to get a reality check every so often, but that
clearly hasn't happened in DC since before the Korean and Vietnam
"wars," back in the dark ages when America really was truly "great" --
at mass murder. But Omar is definitely calling their bluff now. No wonder the powers-that-be hate her. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-tulsi-gabbard-eviscerates-trump-saudi-arabia-s-bitch-n939011
Then I visited AOC's office too. What a delight! One entire wall in
front of her office was covered with post-it notes saying, "We love you,
AOC!" or words to that effect. Lots of stars and hearts too. And
inside her office was another entire wall with hundreds of post-it notes
saying basically the same thing.
"Can I sign a post-it note too?" I asked.
"Sorry, we've run out." So I signed the guest book instead. Yay! I
also love Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez! We need far more ex-waitresses like
her in Congress. And also a lot of former bus-drivers and teachers and
farmers and all other kinds of salt-of-the-earth types as well. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-powerful-video-vision-of-green-new-deal-future
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