Julia Ioffe, Washington correspondent for Puck News, said: āImagine youāre sleeping over at a friendās 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 friendās mom is drunk, crying, and rambling about the national debt. Those are the vibes from Katie Britt right now.ā
Fucking amazing. So so accurate.
Watts said: āSenator 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.ā
Watts on point.
Republicans baffled by Katie Brittās State of the Union response: āOne of our biggest disastersā
Soā¦ 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 isnāt even Brittās speech, itās 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.
Iām 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, itās deeply disconcerting to see that their ramshackle organization still has a shitload of momentum simply due to the fact theyāve kinda converted into a cult.
Not to invoke Godwinās Law, but decentralization like this worked GREAT for the Nazis before they took power. Itās real terror-cell tactics - if one of them gets busted saying or doing something thatās totally fucking whack, the national GOP can just say āwell we werenāt coordinating their messages, those words and actions donāt represent us, etc etcā.
Fucking amazing. So so accurate.
Watts on point.
Soā¦ 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 isnāt even Brittās speech, itās 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
Iām 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, itās deeply disconcerting to see that their ramshackle organization still has a shitload of momentum simply due to the fact theyāve kinda converted into a cult.
Kinda? My dude, it is a cult.
I was going for ironic understatement lol
The Q tards are some of the scariest people Iāve ever encountered.
I honestly wonder if that BrainDead tv series was cancelled because it was too close to home and some right wing billionaire made it happen.
Not to invoke Godwinās Law, but decentralization like this worked GREAT for the Nazis before they took power. Itās real terror-cell tactics - if one of them gets busted saying or doing something thatās totally fucking whack, the national GOP can just say āwell we werenāt coordinating their messages, those words and actions donāt represent us, etc etcā.
I love Julia Ioffe, especially her takes on Russia. Sheās always so good at saying the important thing in a very succinct and straightforward way.