Congress: it's what lunatics are having for breakfast these days

If you think that the U.S. House of Representatives is plagued with unpalatable politicians already, candidates like Bill Fawell and Nathan Larson will make you feel downright nostalgic for the likes of Paul Ryan in the exceedingly slim likelihood they get elected.

First, some quotable material about Fawell:

Bill Fawell, a real estate broker who is running against incumbent Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos for Illinois’ 17th District, secured a spot on the ballot for November after an uncontested primary. The district voted overwhelmingly for Bustos in 2016 but also narrowly for Trump.

In rantings on blogs, as well as in a 2012 book, Fawell supported many popular conspiracy theories, including that 9/11 was an inside job. According to his arguments, a controlled explosion demolished the 7 World Trade Center tower in order to destroy secret CIA documents.

He also believes in the widespread practice of a satanist cult among those in power, along with a theory that contends that the illuminati run the country through powerful and influential public figures.

In a blog post in which he encouraged everyone to watch the Animal Planet Puppy Bowl instead of the Super Bowl—therefore withholding support for “godless” illuminati-associated Beyonce in the year she performed the halftime show—he called Madonna “the high priestess of Kabbala, that ever narcissist skank with the crooked teeth” and referred to Beyonce’s husband as “Beyonce’s cretin friend/manager/squeeze Jay-Z???”

In other posts, he laid out evidence that Michelle Obama is really a man; that New York City would be destroyed by the “U.S. Deep State government” to convince America to support war; and that Tony Podesta’s red shoes mean he is a satanist.

Think that's hinky? Read on about Larson. You ain't seen nuthin' yet:

An ex-con, self-declared racist with openly misogynistic views is running for Congress as an independent candidate in Virginia's 10th Congressional District.

In an interview with HuffPost on Thursday, Nathan Larson, 37, of Charlottesville, Virginia, was reportedly "open about his pedophilia" because he doesn't want to be constrained by political correctness.

"A lot of people are tired of political correctness and being constrained by it," Larson said. "People prefer when there's an outsider who doesn't have anything to lose and is willing to say what's on a lot of people's minds."

Larson admitted to HuffPost he was behind the websites suiped.org and incelocalypse.today, which no longer exist but provided forums for pedophiles and misogynists.

Though he never claimed to engage in sexual acts with minors in posts on these websites, Larson allegedly expressed a desire to do so. In his various writings, Larson also endorsed incest, kidnapping and rape.

In Larson's view, women are not "competent to make their own sexual decisions at any age."

Larson also admitted to Business Insider he once confessed to raping his ex-wife but said that was a "mistake" and he now wishes to "recant" that confession.

Meanwhile, Larson's campaign manifesto includes praise for Adolf Hitler and vehemently anti-feminist language.

He described Hitler as a "white supremacist hero" and in a section supporting gun rights stated, "Guns don't kill people - feminists do." Larson argued in order to prevent future school shootings "patriarchal" rule must be reinstituted in American families.

There's more, of course, but I figure that anyone who's read through all of the above will need to get a fresh air-sickness bag to read the rest.