The 42-year-old Alabama senator is a rising Republican star but her kitchen table speech did not land well even in her own party
  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

  • n0m4n@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

        • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          I would respectfully disagree. The speechwriters crafted a fairly strong piece of rhetoric, but it wasn’t particularly substantial and the delivery was substandard, that’s just the honest truth.

          Also “one of the greatest in history because it happened now” is not a great argument. Nunc pro tunc, as they say.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Part of me wonders [whether] that’s the intent

      Definite agreement here. How many chess-moves ahead is she?

      literall–

      … turns to downvote.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        douchebaggery

        Literally instantaneous down-vote and dismissal at point-of-contact.

        …

        Only two periods for an ellipsis? Clear laziness.

        Using two hyphens for an em dash? Disgusting.