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Much overused gif but this is me this morning
So this morning I see a tweet from Todd Starnes about Empty Greene. It was a transcript of what she said. The whole point of the former Fox News moron Starness twitter seems to be for people to make fun of him. Everyone was replying she didnt say gestapo as was in the transcript. Okay...no idea, then I see a clip on Morning Joe (Simpsons Seinfeld Oliver Twist etc) and it all came together and I was howling laughing.
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)I can remember times I enjoyed listening to our legislators because they were smart and put their words together so nicely. You certainly cannot count on that anymore.
This is all funny but nothing is better than that simple tweet by AOC.
What a country.
MissMillie
(38,597 posts)despite her obvious stupidity.
Seriously--she is what the GA 14th thinks of as "qualified" to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives.
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)I hardly have room to complain about another state and their dumb asses!
I know, isn't it something? I thought at first we were being pranked but.......
lonely bird
(1,694 posts)The stupid is strong in this state. The redistributing maps just got kicked back again. Republicans keep trying to slide their bullshit by the courts and failing.
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)They have chopped Dem cities out of NE counties and stuck them in with the farthest West counties. They are going to get away with it I fear unless the few Dems we have remember how they took care of this under Brownback. My god it sucks so much right now.
underpants
(182,984 posts)Family there. My brother in law is a Republican- his folks are new Deal Union Dems.
She cant lose there. BUT, she put in the work. Soccer fields and baseball diamonds on weekends. A friendly drive thru place let her press the flesh at their place. She put in the work. I have to give her that.
Aviation Pro
(12,223 posts)This is not work.
underpants
(182,984 posts)I remember when the Lions of the Senate came out to roar. Kennedy Byrd Dole John Warner etc. and it was worth watching just for the speech writing and presentation. I know shes in the House but even there it used to be you got in there, started raising money, and did a few specific things to go back to your constituents with that. Now its out outraging each other everyday. Chasing after their own propaganda tail.
I have family that live in Empty Greenes district. They think shes a joke but shell never lose there.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)oh, yeah, the Boehner! He was fun...
wryter2000
(46,122 posts)Every word out of her mouth was a gem.
HighFired49
(351 posts)Probably the person who most influenced me to become a Democrat. She was wonderful.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)Listening to her speech in the Nixon impeachment hearings cemented me as a liberal! She was a national treasure!!
wryter2000
(46,122 posts)I first encountered her in the Nixon hearings. I was so impressed with her.
Turns out, in high school she was the debate partner of a very well respected editor of romance novels and the founder of Romance Writers of America (which, sadly, is in death throes because of racism). And, Stacy Abrams writes romance. We romance writers are a very impressive bunch.
pandr32
(11,637 posts)They exemplified an ideal of those who represented us in the halls of Congress. They inspired us and helped us to have confidence in and respect for the offices held.
Now we have brazen liars, jacket-less goofs, jean wearing mouthpieces, and garbage spewing clowns.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)MT came to be the best she could be.
liberalla
(9,273 posts)To hell in a hand basket! Ban the books!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)absolutely no idea what I was talking about in something I'd read related to his field.
I'd already come to realize he was very conservative and begun to suspect he might have a tendency to mine the thick books he always had with him for confirmation of his beliefs. I didn't suspect the half of it.
We often wonder at the intense ignorance of people who simply aren't interested in knowing anything that conflicts with what they believe, or often anything at all, but here it was, impossibly, in someone who imagined he was, and managed to get work as, a scholar and academic.
A lot of things bring him to mind these days. Like Empty and her nonexistent book shelf.
hippywife
(22,767 posts)almost got a spit take from me.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)Let's see how the Rethugs double-down on this one.
Thanks for posting this, underpants. Great chuckles for this morning!......
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)wryter2000
(46,122 posts)I know dich is correct, informal.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)wryter2000
(46,122 posts)My German isn't all that good. I do know "dich" is correct, though, if you use the familiar.
Lucky Luciano
(11,267 posts)Harker
(14,069 posts)lonely bird
(1,694 posts)Sorry, Ill see myself out.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Link to tweet
The ventriloquist died, the dummy lives on.
Link to tweet
Gazpacho Police are a reasonable response to weaponized stupidity.
Link to tweet
underpants
(182,984 posts)Thats it ✅
maxrandb
(15,378 posts)has anybody thought to unplug the Retrumplican Party, wait 10 seconds, and plug it back in?
wryter2000
(46,122 posts)A virus scan.
lonely bird
(1,694 posts)Throw the whole damn thing into a landfill and buy a new one.
lonely bird
(1,694 posts)The mayor of Hudson is an idiot!
lastlib
(23,356 posts)If I was going to, I'd wait at least 10 YEARS! not 10 seconds.
But I'd prefer to just pull the plug and dump it in the landfill. Or an abandoned coal mine in Pennsylvania......
wryter2000
(46,122 posts)She honest to God said gazpacho police instead of Gestapo? Lord help us all.
CaptainTruth
(6,614 posts)underpants
(182,984 posts)gab13by13
(21,478 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)calimary
(81,559 posts)I definitely think you should leave the turbo team. They dont offer chips or guacamole.
PunkinPi
(4,882 posts)TygrBright
(20,776 posts)PunkinPi
(4,882 posts)Hekate
(90,948 posts)PatrickforB
(14,602 posts)That is hysterical.