Chuck Schumer Deleted His Father's Day Post After Getting Ratio'd for Putting Cheese on a Raw Hamburger

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If there's one thing that makes an election year not just tolerable, but actually entertaining, it's watch elected officials and elected official wannabes try too hard to prove they're just folks. The same as you and me. Sure, they reap the benefits of the literally trillion dollar deals they make with our money. And perform financial miracles investing in the very same companies they regulate and award government contracts to. And as you're reading this, people in far away lands are being slaughtered by the hundreds thanks to the very policies they endorse. But in the words Us Weekly uses when fawning over celebrities, "they're just like us!"

And the latest example of one of these kleptocrats humiliating themselves with a pathetic attempt to pander to us great unwashed masses is Sen. Chuck Schumer's fantastically out-of-touch - and since deleted - Father's Day post:

Happy Food Poisoning Day to you dads everywhere! Instead of a tie or a World War II book, enjoy the gift that keeps on giving, Salmonella-induced explosive diarrhea.

I mean, this is just such a perfect representation of our ruling class. The fact he's got a slice of cheese on a raw burger. A frozen one, at that. The grill has one burner going, and it's clearly just been turned on because there's so smoke coming off those hockey pucks. No thought was given to how he's supposed to flip a patty when the cheese is already on it. And yet his entire PR staff consulted with each other, came up with this idea. Carefully arranged and posed the photo. Then checked the phone, scrolled through all the different takes, and arrived at this one as the most post-worthy. Then presumably stepped back, admired their handiwork, and said, "This'll appeal to all the Johnny Lunchbuckets out there. They'll look at the Senator and say, 'He's just a regular Joe like me.' We've done good work here."

How many vegans were involved in this stunt, your guess is as good as mine. But it definitely wasn't zero. Or one. Because this whole tableau screams, "I've never operated a propane grill in my life." But they have worked in government for their entire careers, that I can assure you. And that includes the guy holding the spatula and leaving his glasses on the cutting board. 

And just to confirm that this is not a Democrat vs. Republican thing, it's a Them vs. Us thing, here's a short list of other political hacks from both parties degrading and humiliating themselves in feeble attempts to relate to regular schmoes like you and me. This is bipartisan douchebaggery:

John Kasich (R) on the campaign trail, infamously eating pizza with a knife and fork:

Elizabeth Warren (D), talking like any regular Joe Sixpack with her very natural, "I'm going to get me, um … a beer."

George HW Bush (R), mesmerized by a supermarket scanner about 10 years after they became universal:

Mike Dukakis (D), the Gen. Patton of the 1988 campaign:

There are millions of other examples, but you get the point. The full body cringe that results practically any time someone who's never held a real job outside of government is a uniparty problem. These people are vaguely human-shaped aliens living among us, trying to imitate our language, customs and mannerisms in order to blend in. And any time they do, it backfires. Hilariously. The election is just about five months away, which means we're going to be seeing a lot more examples as it gets closer. Let's just hope no one gets poisoned by the next attempt.