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[–] [email protected] 141 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Julia Ioffe, Washington correspondent for Puck News, said: “Imagine you’re sleeping over at a friend’s house and you get up in the middle of the night to pee and you hear a weird sound so you follow it to the kitchen, where your friend’s mom is drunk, crying, and rambling about the national debt. Those are the vibes from Katie Britt right now.”

Fucking amazing. So so accurate.

Watts said: “Senator Katie Britt says sexual assault is the worst thing that can happen to a woman while encouraging Americans to vote for a convicted sexual predator.”

Watts on point.

Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’

So... did nobody review what she was going to say, or how she was going to say it, before they filmed it?

The scariest thing about this isn't even Britt's speech, it's that there must be a group of people around her who were totally on board with it. This is the message they wanted to send.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Like most cults (and Trump/conservative have become one).

Getting to positions of power is based solely on dedication to the cult. NOT competency at the job. It usually ensures the least qualified person is in charge.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It happens to ALL fundamentalist movements.

Partial list of organizations severely infected with or taken over by fundamentalist movements:

GOP

College Democrats

CCP

Catholic Church

Evangelical Protestants

Certain Muslim denominations

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’m somewhat suspicious that there are huge swaths of the Republican Party that simply refuse to talk to each other or coordinate in any official capacity. Like, some of them are coordinating with the old guard, some are coordinating with Trump directly, some are coordinating with the national GOP, and some are just doing what they think Trump would want them to do.

All that said, it’s deeply disconcerting to see that their ramshackle organization still has a shitload of momentum simply due to the fact they’ve kinda converted into a cult.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kinda? My dude, it is a cult.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was going for ironic understatement lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Q tards are some of the scariest people I've ever encountered.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Holy fuck - my girl goes from her kids & her kitchen table to graphic descriptions of sexual assault in like 0.2 seconds.

Give a fucking warning or some shit at least, you awful excuse for a “lawmaker”. Think of the “children” who you consistently use as an excuse to take actions against the LGBTQ community that cause them and their families to live in constant fear. Because those families don’t matter like yours, obviously.

Also, all the economic shit you bitch about - why people are poor and have no retirement - that’s on you and your friends’ watches. And to your “fellow moms” who struggle - lower the cost to childcare. Help single mothers. Make real maternity and paternity leave a thing. Lower the cost of healthcare.

Or just keep screaming into that camera like the fake POS you are. That’ll help.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (10 children)

lower the cost to childcare. Help single mothers. Make real maternity and paternity leave a thing. Lower the cost of healthcare

After the tax cuts for the rich there's no money left for this. And who did those cuts? The previous president.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Not just the former guy. Trump, Bush, Reagan all gutted tax revenue by repeatedly handing tax breaks to the wealthy who neither needed nor deserved them.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

It's honestly so bad that it's actually getting it more views and it's being covered everywhere including the Daily Show. Part of me wonders if that's the intent but then I realize much of the GOP is completely incompetent.

Also, since the BoRDeR CriSiS is going to literally be the GOP's only attack this election cycle, let' remind them of a couple things:

  • Republicans blocked the border plan THEY originally wanted and which the Border Patrol themselves endorsed. <--- Republicans chose politics over policy.

  • iLlEGal ImMiGraNts actually commit less violent crime as a whole than American citizens themselves...

  • Right-Wing domestic extremists are far more violent.

  • Such undocumented immigrants yield a net-positive to our economy as a whole.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago (7 children)

There is something extremely creepy about her tone of voice and body language. One second it feels like she is trying to convince you that she is genuine but she tries too hard which immediately make you think she is faking it. All of a sudden she sounds angry in a very serious way which makes me think she is a psychopath and she about to stab me in the neck with an ice pick. My immediate instinctive reaction is to stop the video. Last time I was this creeped out was watching Anthony Hopkins' performance in Silence of the Lamb. Of course that was just really good acting of a fictional character and this is a real life person which makes it even more disturbing.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

And through the whole thing she's using her submissive wife voice https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It sounded like she was out of breath and being held at gun point lmao. Fellas this is like the end game of don't stick your dick in crazy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

It legit looked like something Vaught made to defend Homelander in The Boys. It was laughably bad.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was so disturbing I couldn’t physically make myself watch it, and I’m a news junkie obsessed with this crap.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I had to turn it off halfway through. My kid was playing switch and said Daddy, what's she talking about? And I had to turn it off out of fear that he would take any of it at face value. I told him she was lying to try to get votes and turned it off.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Show me your “There is no war in Ba Sing Se!” face.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If only there was a bipartisan border bill which consists of nothing but concessions from democrats. Katie's one of the people who killed the bill.

Please. I beg you people, do not drink psycho moms sweet tea. There's something in that shit.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Katie is one of the people who helped WRITE the bill AND who helped kill the bill.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (9 children)

The contrast of one of the greatest SOTU speeches in history to an utterly creepy call to gather a nut-fringe group to take over the Republican tent is a two piece diorama of what we are today. We are the UNITED States. I hope everyone spends some time thinking of what that means.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Any time a country has an adjective in its name that adjective is always wrong.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think we can give Northern Ireland a pass though

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The absolute terrible acting here will not be picked up by the South. That very reflective Jesus Cross around her neck is an obvious prop. All the fake crying in the world won't derail those people. Sickening.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Fortunately, there are only a handful of states that actually have a chance to alter the outcome and several of those states will have a lot of conservatives going "wtf was that?" Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin are the four I expect would see the most suppressed republican voter turnout from this train wreck of a speech

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I've lost all faith in conservatives to think logically or use common sense.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The general election is still eight months away. No one will remember this train wreck by then, since there'll be all new ones.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Didn't hear what she had to say but a friend said is was definitely going to be the basis of SNL's cold open this weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I mean it's sad but predictable when your sanest member still sounds like a lunatic because that's what the Republican party wants in their leaders.

However I do understand what she was going for in the whole kitchen aesthetic, you know trying to connect with the old boomers that have kitchens talking about their "Kitchen Table" issues.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

This is what happens when Republicans try to seem like they are down home people instead of corporate shills. The cracks in the mask show

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I had to watch that clip twice because I thought it was fake with the way she was speaking lol.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Her manner of speaking reminds me of the sermons you get at 'modern'/nondenominational churches here in the south. Just the way phrases are timed, the intonation, the need to make every minute factual statement sound emotionally profound...

I have to wonder if she is consciously trying to speak in that way. I don't know why they would think that was a good approach for a political speech lmao. It's just so bizarre I can't actually process it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Jesus Christ, are they cloning Stefanik?

This woman needs albuterol, STAT

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That evil fake fucking smile...

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What’s the opposite of a slam dunk called? Because this is it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

That would be a dam slunk.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Remember, she only got the job because she's one of Trump's in-crowd. He'll try to distance himself from this flop but he owns it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What, are they saying that creepy dead-eyed stare and the overall Gilead vibes are a bad look for them?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

I'd never heard of this person until my wife suddenly started seeing so many pictures of her on Facebook that she asked me who it was... After I said I had no idea she proceeded to Google it and then told me her name... Which I promptly forgot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Delivering the official State of the Union response can be a thankless task, as the former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the Florida senator Marco Rubio, deliverers of previously panned speeches, would ruefully attest.

Nonetheless, the 42-year-old Alabama senator is a rising Republican star, widely respected on Capitol Hill and her selection to respond to Biden was a golden opportunity to introduce herself to the wider American electorate.

As a Gallup poll showed 57% of American voters think the US would be better off if more women were in elected office, Alyssa Farah Griffin, a Trump aide turned never-Trumper, said: “Senator Katie Britt is a very impressive person … I do not understand the decision to put her in a KITCHEN for one of the most important speeches she’s ever given.”

Among satirical responses, Tom Nichols, an anti-Trump conservative columnist, spoke for many when he said: “There is no way that this Katie Britt address does not end up as part of the Saturday Night Live cold open.”

With wavering voice, the senator described meeting a migrant woman who she said described being “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12” and who, Britt said, spoke of being repeatedly raped “on a mattress in a shoebox of a room”.

Last month, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was ordered to pay $83.3m in a civil defamation case arising from a rape allegation a judge said was “substantially true”.


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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup, we had to stop it just a few minutes in when it appeared she was turning herself on over the rape story she mostly made up.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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