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.
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Show me your “There is no war in Ba Sing Se!” face.
And through the whole thing she's using her submissive wife voice https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice
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.
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.
Kinda? My dude, it is a cult.
I was going for ironic understatement lol
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's plenty of money in the Pentagon budget. We don't need to increase taxes on anyone to pay for social programs. We need to stop spending it on crimes against humanity.
Por que no los dos?
EU did that and saved on military spending. Now they have a Russia infestation. Just fully cutting the military budget is impossible.
Also the use of military force is tied to the economic system. You can't change one without the other.
EU was able to do that because they know the US will jump in if there's trouble. We're funding European defense while they fund social programs and act smug about it on the internet.
The US has thousands of nukes, oceans to the east and west, and allies to the north and south. We do not need this much military spending to defend ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
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.