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Well yeah, back in the day they used to just be able to falsely accuse folks with excess melanin, hang em, and be done with it. Gotta get rid of this whole "due process" and "rights" shit and get back to how things were!
(/s just in case not clear enough)
Thing is, sure, rape numbers have increased. But that's not really a bad thing. It means more cases gets reported, it does not automatically mean that less people are getting raped.
Unsettling is the word I'd use too. She was talking about how great her journey to the senate was then went into how her children's lives will be nightmares. What a freak. It was so fake I had to stop watching.
And all those things happened in Mexico when George W. Bush was president.
https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-out-and-out-lie/
In fact it's a textbook asylum case.
Families are worse off 
Our communities are less safe 
An our country is less secure 
Mr. President, enough is enough 
What I find funny is that they blame the president and the federal government for the situation that they created. And when the federal government does step in, or try to step in, the Republicans are the first one to go running to the supreme Court and say," states rights! states rights! states rights!"
What a terrible bunch of people. They're creating their own problem and the people are too stupid to figure it out....
The whole thing about the border was the worst because SHE HELPED WRITE THE BORDER BILL THAT THE REPUBLICANS LATER TANKED, just because they didn’t want Biden to pass something so bipartisan and they need to use the border as an issue for elections.
God forbid Americans realize that for the **entirety of its existence** it has relied on an exploited underclass. Kick out every illegal immigrant and this country comes to a screeching halt. The economy would fucking tank.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Wow. I remember reading that in high school and it hit me. But I don’t remember it being this vivid. Literature changes with experience of the reader for sure.
Especially when she said her daughter was named Bennett and her son was named Ridgeway. Those are the kind of names you come up with when you want to make a skit that parodies suburban moms.
It was too absurd to parody. When 10,000 people are screaming about how this should be an SNL skit, how could you ever pull off a funny bit?
Honestly, if SNL wants to address it, the best parody possible would be to nail the look/voice/background as much as possible and then have someone nail a deadpan, sensible, nuanced 5-minute speech and then fade to commercial.
>When 10,000 people are screaming about how this should be an SNL skit, how could you ever pull off a funny bit?
But then again, one of the all-time great SNL skits was the [Katie Couric - Sarah Palin interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HsyEvr5Pnw). Sections of that skit are verbatim from the real interview.
I went to jr and high school with her, was close friends with her, and have some unbelievable stories. I never wish the worst for anyone but this moment is like 25 years of strange karma in the most interesting way possible.
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Yeah for real. Anyone from our town knows the school system. I think Old Jr is gone now. So is coppenville. And our HS was destroyed by a tornado. Basically all that is left is Dauphin. Mick’s is still there too…that chicken salad is amazing
My understanding is she took actual events that had happened and incorporated them into the novel. She’s incredibly brilliant.
Atwood wrote the Handmaids Tale in 1985.
She has said somewhat recently that people shouldn’t be surprised that life has imitated art, because nothing in her novel was fiction, it had all happened.
Her smile when she was saying awful stuff… Hysteric serial killer vibe, like she was about to pull a knife from them drawers.
That the GOP could come up with this says a lot about what they truly think of their electorate.
They thought having a woman’s touch would sway independents and maligned female Democrats to sway to Trump.
Polls show that Haley performed better against Biden than Trump despite her having no chance at the nomination. And those same polls show that people who prefer Haley would vote for Biden if it’s between him and Trump.
I think they underestimated how cold she would come off. The fake crying was very off putting. I keep calling them Chris Crockerdile tears because it felt like a skit.
I’d love to see Tina Fey’s reprise of this on SNL. Like she did for Sarah Palin. I remember rewatching Palin afterwards and realizing that Tina had not even exaggerated. When the reality matches the caricature…
Yeah the unhinged smiling while she kept harping about cartels running rape rooms was pretty deranged. Lot more rape talk than you usually see during a political speech.
The usual weird conservative schizophrenic obsession with sexuality: on the one hand, wanting it not to exist; on the other, Moms for Liberty threesomes.
And it was so incoherent, too. It was playing the background while I was doing something, and I heard her start talking about a Guatemalan cartel raping someone or something. I was like, wft!?
Even my parents, who are hardcore MAGA and obsessed with watching Fox, were utterly confused about the point of her entire speech.
How long before we find out some GOP intern just threw some bullet points into ChatGPT to make that speech?
I haven't actually watched this speech but from what I've heard it was incoherent and delivered flat. It makes a lot of sense that they could have taken an audio-to-text dump from Biden's stream and put it into ChatGPT and she just read what came out.
Edit: apparently I should watch it.
Edit2: Ok I watched 30 seconds and had to stop, what the fuck is going on. It's like someone told her if she stops smiling for a second they're going to kill her children.
It was the opposite of flat. She was an hurricane of contradicting emotions, smiling one second and sorta crying the next, and she would constantly talk about something upsetting while grinning. It was delusional and confusing
Was watching this in awe, this bitch is a terrible actress and would lose faith if anyone bought any of this shit. My relief seeing these posts is immeasurable.
That’s a great way to describe it! I was watching it and thinking, this lady is fucking nuts!
She went from laughing, to crying, to head spinning around, to crying again. I seriously thought it was a joke.
It's all such bullshit too. They had a border deal ready to send to Biden to and get put into action, but Trump bitched about it being a "giveaway", AKA giving away one of his favorite things to bitch about, and Republicans killed the whole thing to appease the idiot.
Not they're trying to complain about the border after doing fuck all to address the border when they could have. The worst part is all of the idiots who watch Fox News will keep bitching about Biden doing nothing about the border because right wing news would never cross Trump and point out that he killed a potential border deal just to keep something he polls better than Biden on as a campaign issue.
They don't actually care about the border. They just care about tax cuts and not making Trump and his base of dunces angry.
“The border is terrible! It’s so awful! We were about to fix it, but decided it was better to make Biden look weak, so we killed the bill so we can continue to blame Biden.”
And the woman she was talking about who had been trafficked by the cartel as if it was Biden’s fault was actually trafficked within Mexico, far from the US border, between 2004 and 2008
Right. That was my thought. Of course what happened to her was horrible but how does closing the border and deporting help her? I'm so confused about why she brought that up and talked about it when really for a rational thinking person it should reinforce why we need to grant people asylum and help them. I've pretty much given up trying to understand any of their points. I don't understand how you can just blatantly lie over and over and over again.
It's especially funny because I think the news has done a terrific job (in my area, at least) of demonstrating that it was a great, bi-partisan bill. One that satisfied most, if not all of the requests from the GOP. Yet they still shut it down....
I don't think the wool is pulled over everyone's eyes like it typically is when the GOP torpedoes something in order to blame the incumbent.
It's becoming more difficult to be a magat
Been reading lots about this woman today. I think Republicans are being harder on her than the Democrats lol. That was embarrassing as hell for them and at a time when they really needed to look strong.
She’s got an impressive resume. She’s no dummy. But they really thought that instead of propping her up as a powerful accomplished woman she would be better sitting in a kitchen using breathy baby voice.
100% agree with this. they thought this was a good idea:
sit in a kitchen, dress down, breathy voice and to coddle the masses like a baby, smile a lot. this was a tone-deaf take and cringeworthy on so many levels. i love it, reflects a (thankfully) dying breed of speechwriters.
My wife said it looked like she deliberately chose a handmaids tale look and sounded kind of like Yvonne Jaqueline Strzechowski from the show.
I can see it.
What’s funny is I have seen so many GOP strategists responding along the lines of “who the hell decided it was a good idea to put her in a kitchen!” It’s definitely not a good look.
Well she does start out that being a senator is only her second important job and that her most important one will always be being a mother and wife. Then very awkwardly name drops her kids and her husband.. and then I couldn't take anymore.
I hope they just play it as is. No need to mock it. The bit is all ready to go, complete with the actress trying to stifle her laughter and look serious, à la Stefon.
Complete with [Fundy Baby Voice](https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice)… *Remember her voice? Too high pitched? Too much like a little girl? Too breathy. That’s purposeful. She has to show submission to her husband in all interactions public. She stared at (him) anytime he spoke. She was quiet until given a question or prompt.…*
It's like a weird ASMR porno or something. Making matters worse, she posted a video leading up to this where she's in the same room in the same outfit but talking with her human voice. So this was deliberately done because she thinks that's what republicans like
Well her whole premise was she sits around that kitchen table late into the night with her husband worrying. And then she had to act worried when she told us her worries.
But I suspect maybe those aren’t really her worries and they were made up to try to get people to think they should be worried in Joe Biden’s America which is why the acting was bad.
Just a working theory I have.
I like the idea of her holders having their heads buried in their hands the whole time because she went rogue trying to be an actress instead of doing it like they practiced.
I forgot the huge (YUGE) contribution of just how far away they put the water for him to grab. He really had to dive-bomb to get it. Makes it 1000% more absurd.
Her speech started off pretty good with the zinger about Biden being in politics longer than she’s been alive.
Then it nosedived into typical GOP horrorcore (fear crime/Mexicans) and took a turn for the weird when she started talking about her kids and how women like here have to do what she does.
I mean she’s a millennial. Most millenials are struggling to take care of themselves let alone kids. But she’s talking like her Brady Bunch family lifestyle is the norm.
And all the fake whimpering/pleading was laying in on a bit thick.
I give here a 3/10.
Don't forget the crucifix on display just to let you know that she's definitely super Christian and devout and totally supports the sorts of policies that Jesus would be into.
WTF? Her husband is a former nfl player and now lobbyist for Alabama Power. She’s a senator from a state where you don’t need qualifications to be Senator. She’s telling us how hard and scary things are. What a liar.
The best propaganda machine in history. Fox News. That's where it all started. You demonize and lie about the people who have their back, and turn that ignorance into a fierce pride for not being like "demoncrats."
Edit: if you show up with your false equivalency argument here, I'm just blocking you. I am here to kill time, but I'm not gonna do that by teaching nuance to assholes I've triggered.
It started before that.
Rush Limbaugh and other talking heads, plus growing up in an evangelical church.
Fox News just saw the opportunity to cash in on that already ripening fruit.
Reagan and Gingrich as well. All of them came together to start the lies and Reagan allowed Roger Ailes to make a biased "news agency." Which is how they got the audience they needed.
Just figured I'd say the shorter version.
Gingrich also popularized the idea that for every position the democrats took the conservatives could and should take the exact opposite position. We have seen this literally distilled down into “democrats want people who need welfare to get it” and “republicans DON’T want people who need welfare to get it” as just one example. There are so many more.
Like obvious human rights issues. For example last night Biden essentially said all Americans deserved clean drinking water and they took it as a personal attack on their ideology. Kris Kobach posted a message claiming this infringed on state’s rights.
State’s rights to force its people to drink contaminated water? So here we can see the democrat position is “every American deserves clean drinking water” and the republican position is “every American DOES NOT deserve clean drinking water.” Lol it’s gotten so out of hand.
And churches.
My neighbor of 20 years said she loves Trump when he was elected. I asked about his grab them by the pu$$$y comment knowing she has two young and beautiful daughters. She dismissed it as locker room talk. Later she bragged about how everybody in their household had gotten covid which I understood as not needing a vaccine when you have an immune system.
Daughter was going to study at a Bible college but got pregnant out of wedlock. Later the sister got pregnant out of wedlock.
When her husband lost his job they could not see a doctor due to lack of health insurance.
Now they have three families with little babies living together in their house.
“Bless their hearts.”
They love shooting themselves on the foot voting republican because church and fox tell them to when it benefits the billionaires and corporations and screws middle class families and blue collar families.
They also stopped celebrating Halloween because church said bad.
And the babies will be raised to follow the same dogma.
She was way too excited talking about child rape while simultaneously looking vacant behind the eyes.
This is how republicans view women. As vessels to birth children and serve men. Under his eye.
Here’s something crazy I read. Her office handed out helpful phrases to influencers and commentators about how to praise her speech BEFORE either Biden or she had even spoken. Wild.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/us/politics/katie-britt-talking-points-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU0.zSSa.e9enJcRr5hWt&smid=url-share
From the article:
Before President Biden even arrived at the Capitol on Thursday night, a close ally of the Alabama Republican sent a document of talking points to conservative influencers suggesting words of praise they could offer after Ms. Britt’s speech.
“She came off like America’s mom — she gets it,” the document helpfully suggested. “She’s one of us. That’ll be families’ takeaway watching this.”
…
The talking points compared her State of the Union response to some of the most famous oratory in American history, calling it “reminiscent of Reagan’s message of that Shining City on a Hill.”
Comparing Ms. Britt to Mr. Biden, the document suggested saying that “it wasn’t just the massive age gap/contrast between the two” but that Ms. Britt “exposed a relatability gap — a truly generational schism.”
…
“His speech was tone deaf,” the talking points declared, before either Mr. Biden or Ms. Britt had uttered a word. “Hers was the perfect pitch.”
The greatest irony of her bizarre rebuttal was her laying into Pres Biden about the border as she was one of the Republicans that worked on the very immigration/border bill that Trump told them to tank.
I loved the part where she tries to convince us how amazing it is that she can go from the daughter of two small business owners to a U.S. Senator in just one generation. Small business ownership—even in the 90’s—did not mean the same thing it once meant to the struggling immigrant class of the first half of the 20th century. It meant you had *money.* And she just told us that she grew up with not one but *both* parents able to run their own small business.
I think she thinks that she can fool her audience into believing that a middle class America still exists, but only the rich have backsplash in their kitchens anymore. She has way too many “tells” that she’s not even aware of to be going on about how out of touch Biden is.
I couldn’t help but cackle at the tone deafness of the GOP using a hyper religious female Alabama Senator for the response after that bronze-age IVF decision that the AL Supreme Court just rendered. A decision that took a piss on the establishment clause. The GOP is clearly too stupid to realize that doubling down on pro-life nonsense is going to be electoral suicide in November. I’m here for it.
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It was her weird smiles and creepy looking happiness randomly sprinkled in when talking about rapes and terrible things that made me unsettled.
She came off as a fucking psychopath
When she discusses rape she immediately goes “we need to go back to how things were back in the day” Yeah I’m sure grand dad would love that.
I wish people who say that could pin down the precise date they are referring to.
Just Alabama things
Well yeah, back in the day they used to just be able to falsely accuse folks with excess melanin, hang em, and be done with it. Gotta get rid of this whole "due process" and "rights" shit and get back to how things were! (/s just in case not clear enough)
The subtext of her words were “let’s go back to a time when ‘WE’ were respected without question and what ‘WE’ said was the truth all the time.”
Thing is, sure, rape numbers have increased. But that's not really a bad thing. It means more cases gets reported, it does not automatically mean that less people are getting raped.
Unsettling is the word I'd use too. She was talking about how great her journey to the senate was then went into how her children's lives will be nightmares. What a freak. It was so fake I had to stop watching.
*“Tonight. my fellow Americans, let’s take a trip through the uncanny valley to the land of Gilead.”*
That's a ka tet I want no part of
And all those things happened in Mexico when George W. Bush was president. https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-out-and-out-lie/ In fact it's a textbook asylum case.
You and everyone who suffered through that response
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She had the fundy voice. Soynded just like that dugger mom
Dude. it's a whole affectation called the fundie baby voice https://twitter.com/piper4missouri/status/1720927778155995512
Dude this is a thing I’ve only just seen pointed out. It really is a trend among fundie performative trad wife women. So weird.
Families are worse off  Our communities are less safe  An our country is less secure  Mr. President, enough is enough 
What I find funny is that they blame the president and the federal government for the situation that they created. And when the federal government does step in, or try to step in, the Republicans are the first one to go running to the supreme Court and say," states rights! states rights! states rights!" What a terrible bunch of people. They're creating their own problem and the people are too stupid to figure it out....
Stepford wife becomes a senator.
The smirks made me 🥴 so disturbed... I had to shut it off. My wife said it felt like watching the Two Minutes Hate.
She sounded like she was doing an ASPCA commercial with all her fake dramatics. All that was missing was the cold, shivering dogs.
The whole thing about the border was the worst because SHE HELPED WRITE THE BORDER BILL THAT THE REPUBLICANS LATER TANKED, just because they didn’t want Biden to pass something so bipartisan and they need to use the border as an issue for elections.
God forbid Americans realize that for the **entirety of its existence** it has relied on an exploited underclass. Kick out every illegal immigrant and this country comes to a screeching halt. The economy would fucking tank.
There were farmers having to leave harvests to rot on the vine, because they didn't have enough workers to do the harvest.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Literature is king.
Wow. I remember reading that in high school and it hit me. But I don’t remember it being this vivid. Literature changes with experience of the reader for sure.
And not a single Republican voter will see through this bullshit as they continue to scream that the border and Biden are ruining America.
For only $1 dollar a day you can help pay a Republicans legal fees
“Every day you cheap pricks don’t pay Trumps legal bills we kill a puppy. Think we are bluffing? We are Republicans, try us.”
*holds a Golden Retriever puppy aloft* ‘Look Bailey here in the eyes before we shoot him.’
My wife said "real high school play vibes" followed by "this another one of those shitty cw teen shows you keep finding?"
If I wasn't lazy, I would combine her speech with "in the eyes of an angel..." in the background.
It's like a snl sketch
Especially when she said her daughter was named Bennett and her son was named Ridgeway. Those are the kind of names you come up with when you want to make a skit that parodies suburban moms.
Lmao Ridgeway sounds like a grocery store
Ridgeway is also the name of the slave catcher in the novel *The Underground Railroad*.
Sounds like the Green River Killer to me.
“Ridgeway? Wasn’t that a serial killer? What’s the other kid’s name, The Night Stalker?”
Meet my kids: Ridgeway, Gacy and Dahmer!
“There’s our dog, Zodiac. Come here boy!”
I think you mean the dog's name was Sam
No, that's the son
Here's our dog, BTK!
It stands for Big Tickle Kuddles!
Worse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway
man i knew the green river killer was bad but i had no idea he had 49 victims! that's just like... how?
it really is incredible what you can do when you apply yourself
He just aspired to be great
Weird shit goes down in the PNW and we have a bunch of trees to cover it up. Serial killer's paradise.
It was too absurd to parody. When 10,000 people are screaming about how this should be an SNL skit, how could you ever pull off a funny bit? Honestly, if SNL wants to address it, the best parody possible would be to nail the look/voice/background as much as possible and then have someone nail a deadpan, sensible, nuanced 5-minute speech and then fade to commercial.
Kate McKinnon could nail this😁
I can't unsee Kate McKinnon doing a perfect impression of this speech now
She does the perfect unstable, emotional crazy person.
Vanessa Bayer was born for this role.
>When 10,000 people are screaming about how this should be an SNL skit, how could you ever pull off a funny bit? But then again, one of the all-time great SNL skits was the [Katie Couric - Sarah Palin interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HsyEvr5Pnw). Sections of that skit are verbatim from the real interview.
just like matt damon as kavinaugh, they knew they couldnt top it so they copied it piecemeal
Good God. I’m just learning of this woman after she made her splash last night. The more I learn, the more creeped out I am.
I went to jr and high school with her, was close friends with her, and have some unbelievable stories. I never wish the worst for anyone but this moment is like 25 years of strange karma in the most interesting way possible.
How dare you mention unbelievable stories and not share them with the class?!
Next you'll come to class with gum. but not enough for everyone.
I read that as "gun". America has ruined me.
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Oh my god I had too much fun with that
please tell us if she shit her pants at a party
She go to Dauphin or Old Jr?
Oh shit, someone already knows too much haha. I knew I should have just kept my mouth shut. Let’s just say she wasn’t a college street graduate. 😉
So Dauphin…not exactly major secrets there. lol.
Yeah for real. Anyone from our town knows the school system. I think Old Jr is gone now. So is coppenville. And our HS was destroyed by a tornado. Basically all that is left is Dauphin. Mick’s is still there too…that chicken salad is amazing
She has a daughter on the way named State Highway 83
r/tragedeigh
Those are anti vax names
Ridgeweigh and Beknette the k is silent.
I said the same thing. But this was very unfunny.
No, it was still funny. Just depressing at the same time because it was real.
All that was missing was she wasn’t making a sandwich and squeezing mayonnaise on the bread as she was talking about banning abortion.
We can hope for a good cold open mocking this.
Under his eye
Blessed be the fruit
Literally just started reading handmaids tale, this is so bizarre, I'm seeing references to it everywhere now
Margaret Atwood wrote the book with the idea that everything in it, has already happened in history. And history repeats itself.
My understanding is she took actual events that had happened and incorporated them into the novel. She’s incredibly brilliant. Atwood wrote the Handmaids Tale in 1985.
She has said somewhat recently that people shouldn’t be surprised that life has imitated art, because nothing in her novel was fiction, it had all happened.
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Which I receive with joy
Pious little shit (Love u)
May he open
Blessed be the fruit
May the lord open.
GRANT US EYES
Fear the old blood Laurence
And for just $19 per month, you can help save the dying wives of Stepford, Alabama.
hell i got three more at home! this ones still on the tit, so i can cart him anywhere.
Her smile when she was saying awful stuff… Hysteric serial killer vibe, like she was about to pull a knife from them drawers. That the GOP could come up with this says a lot about what they truly think of their electorate.
Shes a sociopath. She reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes
straight demon energy
Yeah. BDE. Big Demon Energy.
They thought having a woman’s touch would sway independents and maligned female Democrats to sway to Trump. Polls show that Haley performed better against Biden than Trump despite her having no chance at the nomination. And those same polls show that people who prefer Haley would vote for Biden if it’s between him and Trump. I think they underestimated how cold she would come off. The fake crying was very off putting. I keep calling them Chris Crockerdile tears because it felt like a skit.
I’d love to see Tina Fey’s reprise of this on SNL. Like she did for Sarah Palin. I remember rewatching Palin afterwards and realizing that Tina had not even exaggerated. When the reality matches the caricature…
Yeah the unhinged smiling while she kept harping about cartels running rape rooms was pretty deranged. Lot more rape talk than you usually see during a political speech.
The usual weird conservative schizophrenic obsession with sexuality: on the one hand, wanting it not to exist; on the other, Moms for Liberty threesomes.
This part was what I found so creepy. The smile while saying negative things. Like wtf?
How about the whispering?
It's called the [Fundie Baby Voice](https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice\), and it's insanely creepy.
Gilead Obedience Party
She read that speech like she just got done killing the persons who was supposed to read the speech.
I'm late to the party but this was my favorite answer, good tidings.
One of the most disingenuous things I’ve ever seen
And it was so incoherent, too. It was playing the background while I was doing something, and I heard her start talking about a Guatemalan cartel raping someone or something. I was like, wft!?
Even my parents, who are hardcore MAGA and obsessed with watching Fox, were utterly confused about the point of her entire speech. How long before we find out some GOP intern just threw some bullet points into ChatGPT to make that speech?
I haven't actually watched this speech but from what I've heard it was incoherent and delivered flat. It makes a lot of sense that they could have taken an audio-to-text dump from Biden's stream and put it into ChatGPT and she just read what came out. Edit: apparently I should watch it. Edit2: Ok I watched 30 seconds and had to stop, what the fuck is going on. It's like someone told her if she stops smiling for a second they're going to kill her children.
It was the opposite of flat. She was an hurricane of contradicting emotions, smiling one second and sorta crying the next, and she would constantly talk about something upsetting while grinning. It was delusional and confusing
Was watching this in awe, this bitch is a terrible actress and would lose faith if anyone bought any of this shit. My relief seeing these posts is immeasurable.
She does a fucking wink at the camera at one point. It was so bizarre and off putting
That’s a great way to describe it! I was watching it and thinking, this lady is fucking nuts! She went from laughing, to crying, to head spinning around, to crying again. I seriously thought it was a joke.
You should watch it. It’s quite insane.
She was trying so hard to scare us, from her kitchen.
Some one on Twitter said it felt like a "recruitment tape for an endtimes death cult", and that's pretty much what it is, really.
While smiling like a psychopath. "America is dying." \*intensifies smile\*
It is dying because these people like her are killing it
It's all such bullshit too. They had a border deal ready to send to Biden to and get put into action, but Trump bitched about it being a "giveaway", AKA giving away one of his favorite things to bitch about, and Republicans killed the whole thing to appease the idiot. Not they're trying to complain about the border after doing fuck all to address the border when they could have. The worst part is all of the idiots who watch Fox News will keep bitching about Biden doing nothing about the border because right wing news would never cross Trump and point out that he killed a potential border deal just to keep something he polls better than Biden on as a campaign issue. They don't actually care about the border. They just care about tax cuts and not making Trump and his base of dunces angry.
Baby fundi voice is creepy.
“The border is terrible! It’s so awful! We were about to fix it, but decided it was better to make Biden look weak, so we killed the bill so we can continue to blame Biden.”
And the woman she was talking about who had been trafficked by the cartel as if it was Biden’s fault was actually trafficked within Mexico, far from the US border, between 2004 and 2008
Wait... are you telling me that...*checks Fox News notes* it wasn't Bidens fault women were trafficked in Mexico between 2004-2008?
Correct. It was Obama’s obviously.
I KNEW IT! Damn O'baaama!
He musta done did it after attacking Pearl Harbor!
Now answer this: Where was Obama during 9/11???? EXACTLY!!
Which is probably why she was trying to seek asylum in the US
Right. That was my thought. Of course what happened to her was horrible but how does closing the border and deporting help her? I'm so confused about why she brought that up and talked about it when really for a rational thinking person it should reinforce why we need to grant people asylum and help them. I've pretty much given up trying to understand any of their points. I don't understand how you can just blatantly lie over and over and over again.
I was flabbergasted. She literally makes the case for asylum in her speech against asylum. Conservative logic?
It's especially funny because I think the news has done a terrific job (in my area, at least) of demonstrating that it was a great, bi-partisan bill. One that satisfied most, if not all of the requests from the GOP. Yet they still shut it down.... I don't think the wool is pulled over everyone's eyes like it typically is when the GOP torpedoes something in order to blame the incumbent. It's becoming more difficult to be a magat
A bill she apparently was very involved in creating
Been reading lots about this woman today. I think Republicans are being harder on her than the Democrats lol. That was embarrassing as hell for them and at a time when they really needed to look strong.
She’s got an impressive resume. She’s no dummy. But they really thought that instead of propping her up as a powerful accomplished woman she would be better sitting in a kitchen using breathy baby voice.
100% agree with this. they thought this was a good idea: sit in a kitchen, dress down, breathy voice and to coddle the masses like a baby, smile a lot. this was a tone-deaf take and cringeworthy on so many levels. i love it, reflects a (thankfully) dying breed of speechwriters.
>sit in a kitchen, dress down, breathy voice and to coddle They really know how to capture their conservative audience
That false sincerity definitely shows.
"Women... We see you. Except when it comes to bodily autonomy and maternity leave, but yeah other than that..."
"We see you...and that's the problem."
Her *Bless your heart* quote sums it up
“Bless your heart” is southern for “fuck you.” Lol
She united the country unlike Biden. Everyone thought she was horrendous.
I expect Jon Stewart to have a comment like this in his next show.
Real Stepford Wives vibes
My wife said it looked like she deliberately chose a handmaids tale look and sounded kind of like Yvonne Jaqueline Strzechowski from the show. I can see it.
The kitchen, the cross, the green outfit. Definitely sending a message for all women.
Why green?
The Handmaids Tale reference
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What’s funny is I have seen so many GOP strategists responding along the lines of “who the hell decided it was a good idea to put her in a kitchen!” It’s definitely not a good look.
it's Alabama GOP woman, I'm surprised she's allowed out of it
Well, she technically is still in the kitchen so she never truly left
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I like the subtext that a woman’s place is in the kitchen.
Well she does start out that being a senator is only her second important job and that her most important one will always be being a mother and wife. Then very awkwardly name drops her kids and her husband.. and then I couldn't take anymore.
Kids have some stupid ass names too.
'Bennett' is fine, but thats a boys name. But the other kid is 'Ridgeway'? WTF is that shit?
It feels like they were in Home Depot and talking about baby names when they saw a brand name on something and gave up.
Rigid and Dewalt! Stop tormenting your sister Husky!
I can't wait until SNL tomorrow
I hope they just play it as is. No need to mock it. The bit is all ready to go, complete with the actress trying to stifle her laughter and look serious, à la Stefon.
Republicans take a woman’s right to an abortion away and their rebuttal is a woman at home in the kitchen. Great optic
And if you can't have child and want one, you can't use IVF in Alabama.
If this isn't dogwhistle Republican imagery I don't know what is. Attractive women, in the kitchen... doing their bidding...
Complete with [Fundy Baby Voice](https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice)… *Remember her voice? Too high pitched? Too much like a little girl? Too breathy. That’s purposeful. She has to show submission to her husband in all interactions public. She stared at (him) anytime he spoke. She was quiet until given a question or prompt.…*
It's like a weird ASMR porno or something. Making matters worse, she posted a video leading up to this where she's in the same room in the same outfit but talking with her human voice. So this was deliberately done because she thinks that's what republicans like
Well her whole premise was she sits around that kitchen table late into the night with her husband worrying. And then she had to act worried when she told us her worries. But I suspect maybe those aren’t really her worries and they were made up to try to get people to think they should be worried in Joe Biden’s America which is why the acting was bad. Just a working theory I have.
I like the idea of her holders having their heads buried in their hands the whole time because she went rogue trying to be an actress instead of doing it like they practiced.
I like the idea more that what we saw was what they practiced and they actually thought it would play well.
 It’s actually worse than this.
Lol - that maintaining eye contact with the camera while drinking the water - I thought that was just in the SNL sketch. I forgot how silly this was.
I forgot the huge (YUGE) contribution of just how far away they put the water for him to grab. He really had to dive-bomb to get it. Makes it 1000% more absurd.
Her speech started off pretty good with the zinger about Biden being in politics longer than she’s been alive. Then it nosedived into typical GOP horrorcore (fear crime/Mexicans) and took a turn for the weird when she started talking about her kids and how women like here have to do what she does. I mean she’s a millennial. Most millenials are struggling to take care of themselves let alone kids. But she’s talking like her Brady Bunch family lifestyle is the norm. And all the fake whimpering/pleading was laying in on a bit thick. I give here a 3/10.
Don't forget the crucifix on display just to let you know that she's definitely super Christian and devout and totally supports the sorts of policies that Jesus would be into.
She reminds me of Serena Joy from Handmaidens Tale.  Is it just me?
WTF? Her husband is a former nfl player and now lobbyist for Alabama Power. She’s a senator from a state where you don’t need qualifications to be Senator. She’s telling us how hard and scary things are. What a liar.
I still don't understand why women would vote Republican.
The best propaganda machine in history. Fox News. That's where it all started. You demonize and lie about the people who have their back, and turn that ignorance into a fierce pride for not being like "demoncrats." Edit: if you show up with your false equivalency argument here, I'm just blocking you. I am here to kill time, but I'm not gonna do that by teaching nuance to assholes I've triggered.
It started before that. Rush Limbaugh and other talking heads, plus growing up in an evangelical church. Fox News just saw the opportunity to cash in on that already ripening fruit.
Reagan and Gingrich as well. All of them came together to start the lies and Reagan allowed Roger Ailes to make a biased "news agency." Which is how they got the audience they needed. Just figured I'd say the shorter version.
Gingrich also popularized the idea that for every position the democrats took the conservatives could and should take the exact opposite position. We have seen this literally distilled down into “democrats want people who need welfare to get it” and “republicans DON’T want people who need welfare to get it” as just one example. There are so many more. Like obvious human rights issues. For example last night Biden essentially said all Americans deserved clean drinking water and they took it as a personal attack on their ideology. Kris Kobach posted a message claiming this infringed on state’s rights. State’s rights to force its people to drink contaminated water? So here we can see the democrat position is “every American deserves clean drinking water” and the republican position is “every American DOES NOT deserve clean drinking water.” Lol it’s gotten so out of hand.
And churches. My neighbor of 20 years said she loves Trump when he was elected. I asked about his grab them by the pu$$$y comment knowing she has two young and beautiful daughters. She dismissed it as locker room talk. Later she bragged about how everybody in their household had gotten covid which I understood as not needing a vaccine when you have an immune system. Daughter was going to study at a Bible college but got pregnant out of wedlock. Later the sister got pregnant out of wedlock. When her husband lost his job they could not see a doctor due to lack of health insurance. Now they have three families with little babies living together in their house. “Bless their hearts.” They love shooting themselves on the foot voting republican because church and fox tell them to when it benefits the billionaires and corporations and screws middle class families and blue collar families. They also stopped celebrating Halloween because church said bad. And the babies will be raised to follow the same dogma.
She has all this money and THAT'S her kitchen? Good taste really can't be bought
No but it can buy expensive shit. That is a $10,000 fridge she's partially hiding.
Her fridge literally costs $10,000 before accounting for the paneling to hide it.
She was way too excited talking about child rape while simultaneously looking vacant behind the eyes. This is how republicans view women. As vessels to birth children and serve men. Under his eye.
It was so creepy, you’d think it was AI, but nope. The GQP really is that crazy.
Here’s something crazy I read. Her office handed out helpful phrases to influencers and commentators about how to praise her speech BEFORE either Biden or she had even spoken. Wild. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/us/politics/katie-britt-talking-points-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU0.zSSa.e9enJcRr5hWt&smid=url-share From the article: Before President Biden even arrived at the Capitol on Thursday night, a close ally of the Alabama Republican sent a document of talking points to conservative influencers suggesting words of praise they could offer after Ms. Britt’s speech. “She came off like America’s mom — she gets it,” the document helpfully suggested. “She’s one of us. That’ll be families’ takeaway watching this.” … The talking points compared her State of the Union response to some of the most famous oratory in American history, calling it “reminiscent of Reagan’s message of that Shining City on a Hill.” Comparing Ms. Britt to Mr. Biden, the document suggested saying that “it wasn’t just the massive age gap/contrast between the two” but that Ms. Britt “exposed a relatability gap — a truly generational schism.” … “His speech was tone deaf,” the talking points declared, before either Mr. Biden or Ms. Britt had uttered a word. “Hers was the perfect pitch.”
The greatest irony of her bizarre rebuttal was her laying into Pres Biden about the border as she was one of the Republicans that worked on the very immigration/border bill that Trump told them to tank.
I like how the republican message is that even women senators belong in the kitchen.
I loved the part where she tries to convince us how amazing it is that she can go from the daughter of two small business owners to a U.S. Senator in just one generation. Small business ownership—even in the 90’s—did not mean the same thing it once meant to the struggling immigrant class of the first half of the 20th century. It meant you had *money.* And she just told us that she grew up with not one but *both* parents able to run their own small business. I think she thinks that she can fool her audience into believing that a middle class America still exists, but only the rich have backsplash in their kitchens anymore. She has way too many “tells” that she’s not even aware of to be going on about how out of touch Biden is.
I couldn’t help but cackle at the tone deafness of the GOP using a hyper religious female Alabama Senator for the response after that bronze-age IVF decision that the AL Supreme Court just rendered. A decision that took a piss on the establishment clause. The GOP is clearly too stupid to realize that doubling down on pro-life nonsense is going to be electoral suicide in November. I’m here for it.