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‘ShamWow Guy’ Running for Congress

Offer Shlomi, aka Vince Shlomi, aka Vince Offer, is best known as the “ShamWow Guy” from his glory days hawking the infamous ultra-absorbent ShamWow towel. His infomercials were ubiquitous in the aughts, especially in late night hours.

ShamWow towels were not total frauds; they did absorb a surprisingly large amount of liquid. However, they earned the label “sham” because they did not fully deliver on their sensational promises.

The ShamWow dude is tailor-made for infomercials, televangelism, or politics. He was destined to be a MAGA politician. He has the perfect resume and profile for a Republican candidate: he looks sleazy, has a shady background (he engaged in a brawl with a sex worker in a hotel room), and he is a political novice. He would fit in perfectly with Trump’s carnival of freaks like Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Tom Homan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Laura Loomer, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance.

The sleazy shyster has filed to run in Texas’ GOP primary, challenging Republican Rep. John Carter, 84, who is seeking another term after more than 20 years in office.

I predict that the ShamWow guy, a spring chicken compared to his octogenarian opponent, will wipe the floor with Carter.

I cannot wait to see his political commercials, they are destined to become classics, just like his infomercials.

Outrage: Christians Overrepresented in Congress

“Pew Reports `Christians overrepresented in Congress`: 55 percent Protestant, 30 percent Catholic, 6 percent Jewish

The new Congress that was sworn in Thursday afternoon is significantly more religious and Christian than the nation it represents, according to an analysis of religions claimed by House and Senate members.

Most notable, while 23 percent of the nation claims to be unaffiliated, atheist, or simply `none,` there is just one member of that group. Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said that she is religiously unaffiliated, said the analysis from the Pew Research Center.”

Washington Examiner

Christians, especially evangelicals, often lament that they suffer discrimination and persecution at the hands of the federal government, but the fact is that the United States is the only democracy where evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians control the levers of power.

In fact, according to Pew, Christians are overrepresented in Congress, and that`s an intolerable state of affairs in a pluralistic democracy.

Granted, some of the members of Congress identify as Christians out of political expediency, and they are probably atheist or simply nonreligious. But there are still too many Christians in Congress.

America wasn`t founded as a Christian nation, and it`s not a Christian nation now, and it behooves us to elect politicians who are more representative of our religiously diverse nation.

The new Congress is significantly more diverse, ethnically and religiously and gender- wise, than any other Congress, but we still have a long way to go in creating a more perfect union.

It`s a sad indictment of our society that evangelical Roy Moore, who was credibly accused by several women of molesting them when they were girls, was almost elected to the Senate, but a candidate who is openly atheist has no chance of winning any election, even dogcatcher.

I`m not an atheist or a Muslim, but I long for the day when an openly atheist or Muslim is elected President of the United States. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/pew-christians-overrepresented-in-congress-55-percent-protestant-30-percent-catholic-6-percent-jewish