In one of the most bizarre political glitch-in-the-matrix moments of the year, Representative Tom Kean of New Jersey has finally materialized in the real world. The congressman, who has been completely absent from the swamp in Washington, D.C. since March, randomly answered the door of his New Jersey home on Wednesday evening. The kicker? He was wearing a full suit and tie, looking like he just stepped out of a corporate rendering, despite having skipped out on his actual day job for the last several months.

Let’s look at the absolute state of our representative democracy. For those keeping track at home, March was a very long time ago. While regular tax-paying citizens are grinding away 40-plus hours a week to survive the relentless inflation economy, politicians apparently have the luxury of going completely AFK (away from keyboard) for nearly half a year. Imagine not showing up to your shift for five months, only to open your door to a visitor while wearing your work uniform as if nothing happened. It is peak clown world energy.

The mechanics of this disappear-and-reappear act are wild when you look at how the House of Representatives is actually supposed to run. According to Article I, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution, the House has the power to compel the attendance of absent members. Yet, somehow, a sitting representative can just vanish from the capital for months on end while the deep state continues to run on autopilot. In a closely divided House where every single vote counts to stop disastrous spending bills, having a member of your squad just go completely MIA is a massive tactical fail.

Historically, politicians who go missing are usually embroiled in some major scandal or health crisis, but the complete lack of information surrounding Kean’s absence has left the internet to do what it does best: meme the situation into oblivion. The image of Kean answering his door on Wednesday evening in a full suit and tie—looking like a default video game skin that just loaded into a suburban map—is peak comedy. Did he sleep in the suit? Was he waiting by the door in full business attire for months just in case someone knocked?

The sheer audacity of the political class is unmatched. While the Congressional Research Service maintains extensive reports on the rules of member attendance, these rules seem to apply only in theory. In practice, the ruling class operates under an entirely different set of standards than the rest of us. If an average working-class American tried to pull a multi-month "no-call, no-show," they would be fast-tracked to the unemployment line and evicted from their home. But if you’re a congressman, you get to chill at your New Jersey residence and answer the door looking like a high-end defense attorney.