Blowing The Lid Off

 You may remember about nine months ago when I wrote about an irritant named Mace. At that time I was addressing the ugliness brought by one Nancy Mace to the halls of Congress last Fall when she decided to make an issue about bathrooms and who should use them. At the time, the transphobic argument brought by Macey was taken up by her nominal boss, the Speaker of the House Mike "he won't eat it, he hates everything" Johnson and he issued his command: "Go where we tell you to go!"

With that issue solved, Congress went back to working on being the least productive legislative body in our nation's history. 

It might be the bathroom thing, or it could be the lack of passing any meaningful bills, but when only eight people showed up for a speech in her home state of South Carolina, the event was cancelled. Organizers had encouraged guests to RSVP since "space will be limited." As it turns out, this was not an issue. The entire production could have taken place inside a Kia Telluride. In spite of the ridiculously low attendance at this gathering, Macey insisted that she had plenty of support for her upcoming run for the office of governor of her state. Moms For Liberty, who sponsored the big show, couldn't seem to drum up enough support for their gubernatorial aspirant to get past the "meet and greet" threshold. 

Which might be why later in the week, Macey decided to put herself out there once again, this time on social media, warning students and staff of an active shooter on the University of South Carolina campus. Very civic minded of her, except that there was no shooter. Just some kid carrying an umbrella, whose picture was posted by Ms. Mace. A picture that was not initially posted by any law enforcement agency. A picture that might possibly have gotten this young man killed.  The active shooting alert turned out to be a swatting incident, after two calls were made to university police saying that there were shots being fired in the school's library. Members of Columbia Police, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, SLED, the FBI, ATF, Columbia Fire, and EMS were put on alert. 

As it turned out, the incident was not unlike the rest of Ms. Mace's recent political agenda. 

A hoax. 

Tune in next week when Nancy uncovers a plot by aliens from another world to steal the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken.