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.
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.
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
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.
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:
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Republicans blocked the border plan THEY originally wanted and which the Border Patrol themselves endorsed. <— Republicans chose politics over policy.
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iLlEGal ImMiGraNts actually commit less violent crime as a whole than American citizens themselves…
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Right-Wing domestic extremists are far more violent.
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Such undocumented immigrants yield a net-positive to our economy as a whole.
Don’t let them distract you with it in the first place.
They’re being quiet about the Comstock act which they will use to make mailing Mifepristone, an abortion medication, illegal.
Part of me wonders [whether] that’s the intent
Definite agreement here. How many chess-moves ahead is she?
literall–
… turns to downvote.
douchebaggery
Literally instantaneous down-vote and dismissal at point-of-contact.
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Only two periods for an ellipsis? Clear laziness.
Using two hyphens for an em dash? Disgusting.
Would you have preferred the Gen Z “low-key” instead of the Millennial “literally”?
They didn’t care either way. That was a stream of consciousness of projected insecurity.
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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.
And through the whole thing she’s using her submissive wife voice https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice
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.
I bet this one is a total nut in the sack, but given my anecdotal experiences - it’s never worth it. Definite bunny boiler vibes…I get the same vibes from Boebert, BTW. The fact that she was having a grope sesh in public was probably the least surprising Boebert news, ever.
It legit looked like something Vaught made to defend Homelander in The Boys. It was laughably bad.
Show me your “There is no war in Ba Sing Se!” face.
Last time I was this creeped out was watching Anthony Hopkins’ performance in Silence of the Lamb.
I had the same feeling watching it, and there’s a reason for it.
Filming the movie, Anthony Hopkins and the director and editor collaborated around making sure he basically never fucking blinks on camera. It causes a very unsettling effect when there’s long periods of not blinking.
Katie seems to have inadvertently adopted the same technique. I’ll take Marco Rubio grabbing water like a man dying in the desert any day over this creepy Stepford wives thing.
My favorite commentary:
https://twitter.com/tomorrowventure/status/1765952347451130127?t=LZYJ3mF-a_d-3Ssgum4lrQ
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.
Katie is one of the people who helped WRITE the bill AND who helped kill the bill.
Pedro: Man, what is in this sh*t, man?
Man Stoner: Mostly Maui Waui man, but it’s got some Labrador in it.
Pedro: What’s Labrador?
Man Stoner: It’s dog sh*t.
Pedro: What?
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.
Any time a country has an adjective in its name that adjective is always wrong.
I think we can give Northern Ireland a pass though
It’s pronounced “Norn Ir’n”, thanks. 🤘🏽
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You mean the United Kingdom? I always loved that name. Neither United nor a Kingdom. Regular attempts to secede and proudly an empire.
We have a king and are a union of 4 countries. What do you mean?
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It’s mostly a joke but the reasoning is in the comment.
The Great bit refers to it being the largest of the islands that make up the British Isles. GB is a land mass, not a country.
It was in reference to an Eddie Izzard bit. Simmer, youngin.
PEOPLE’s Republic of China
Except for the Federal Republic of Germany. It’s much too federal, actually.
Greatest SOTU in history…? I mean, cmon.
One of the greatest, but certainly not the greatest of all time. It seems apt for the moment we’re in as a country.
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.
Yeah, I agree. It was well-written, and I thought it was good, but saying this was the best SOTU of all time seems a bit far-fetched. Biden straight-up isn’t a great orator, and that’s fine by me. I would rather someone who can do the job than make wonderful speeches.
Now, how Biden dealt with the hecklers was pretty great, I’ll say.
I wouldn’t say because it happened now, but because it fits the state of the country very well.
The greatest that ever will be, too!
We’re deep in it here.
Wow, just watching that now. She needs to go back to her streaming channel and 500 viewers
It should be clear to everyone, now that we are not united and never have been and holding this country together is a bigger challenge than anyone these days realizes.
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.
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
I’ve lost all faith in conservatives to think logically or use common sense.
Believe it or not there are still moderate ones out there, they just have shut up because they’re embarrassed
But they call themselves “common sense conservatives”! What more do you want? Gosh!
If they’d stop voting for psycopaths simply because they have an R next to the name, that’d be greeeaaat.
The general election is still eight months away. No one will remember this train wreck by then, since there’ll be all new ones.
The decision to stay home on election day isn’t made of a single event. It’s a chain of them that demoralizes someone into apathy
Deep south Louisiana here. Recognized the fake sincerity in both her awful “I’m a good Christian wifey” voice and her “fake fake fake concerned” facial expressions, the fake automated and often inappropriate smiles. Yuk.
I’m sure this will fly right over the heads of Evangelical/Fundie idiots, because that’s all they’ve ever known. But those of us who’ve dipped our toe into the waters of a wider world are noticing, and we are not being fooled at all.
Even some Republicans down here noticed…my neighbor asked me if I saw her “little talk in her kitchen” and called it a shit show. She’s not wrong, but I don’t think she even knows to what extent.
Tens of millions of women are angered by the overthrow of abortion rights and her “mommy and wifey” as her primary role in society is going to anger them further. The Republican woman is being shown as submissive with little value to the party; she literally belongs in the kitchen! That’s a big no-no to many women, even some Republican ones.
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.
Was that friend the person quoted in the article?
How can I watch it outside the USA?
The individual skits, monologues, and musical sets are usually up on YouTube within 24hrs after it airs
Thanks.
Not sure about any geographic restrictions tho
Definitely subscribe to the channel on YouTube. Sunday afternoon is SNL day for us.
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.
The same kitchen table that their kids refuse to sit at now
https://www.persuasion.community/p/coleman
https://www.newsweek.com/parenting-family-mom-dad-children-estrangement-cut-off-1739384
Let’s not dive into baseless speculation as fact that Republicans do so very much now.
“A study in 1997 explored family relationships in later life and found that 7 percent of adult children had cut ties with their mother and 27 percent from their father. In 2020, research by sociologist Karl Pillemar showed that 1 in 4 Americans are estranged from their families—roughly 67 million people.”
From the second article that provides links to the studies
Provide a citation that her kids have cut ties with her then because the stuff you’re posting isn’t about her family here.
…“the old boomers that have kitchens talking about their “Kitchen Table issues.””
This is what I was referring to and from the articles I thought that would be clear to anybody who read them and nested studies I linked
Edit: Also it’s why I said “their” and not “her”
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
I had to watch that clip twice because I thought it was fake with the way she was speaking lol.
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.
It’s a good approach because their base is open to it. They are used to listening to that cadence and inflection with openness and willingness to swallow whatever poison is in the message, and that conditioning makes it so that the content doesn’t matter, only the delivery.
I doubt she even recognizes that she’s doing it too. She’s just used to authority with a microphone speaking this way and so she does it too. It’s exactly how I used to be before I got out.
Yep. The same bunch that would buy the qtarded conspiracy theories, or fall for Satanic panic, or that Jaysus is going to come back any day now and start up some bad fan-fic ala Left Behind is totally going to eat this drivel up with a spoon.
She’s just acting. You can see the crazy in her eyes. She’s literally insane.
Jesus Christ, are they cloning Stefanik?
This woman needs albuterol, STAT
That evil fake fucking smile…
It’s giving Stepford vibes
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What’s the opposite of a slam dunk called? Because this is it.
Own goal .
That would be a dam slunk.
Dam slunk?
I’m not sure if that’s more or less accurate because he did in fact make the block.
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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