Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’
Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’
The 42-year-old Alabama senator is a rising Republican star but her kitchen table speech did not land well even in her own party
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.
Not to invoke Godwin's Law, but decentralization like this worked GREAT for the Nazis before they took power. It's real terror-cell tactics - if one of them gets busted saying or doing something that's totally fucking whack, the national GOP can just say "well we weren't coordinating their messages, those words and actions don't represent us, etc etc".
I love Julia Ioffe, especially her takes on Russia. She’s always so good at saying the important thing in a very succinct and straightforward way.
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.
Trigger warnings don't work or help.
Conclusion Existing research on content warnings, content notes, and trigger warnings suggests that they are fruitless, although they do reliably induce a period of uncomfortable anticipation. Although many questions warrant further investigation, trigger warnings should not be used as a mental-health tool.
I’m curious to understand more of the setting where they collected this data.
If they collected it from volunteers who signed up for studies, then I’d question whether or not the data collected is reliable. In a clinical setting people are more likely to push through discomfort than they are at home on their phone. I don’t have the stamina to look through every referenced study to try and suss it out though.
They absolutely should be used if it's not apparent from the cover. A person with rape induced PTSD will benefit from knowing they need to either not consume this media or be ready with their coping skills.
What's not helpful is putting them everywhere there is even a tangential chance of something. This speech could do with one. Some streamer using the word rape pejoratively does not. And of course it isn't going to make the anxiety any better. That's not the purpose of a trigger warning.
The difference between having your coping tools at the front of your mind and ready to go versus being surprised by graphic depictions of your trauma can literally be weeks of depression and panic attacks versus a few minutes of mindfulness exercises.
Edit to add - for a bunch of psychology professors they miss the point pretty impressively.
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--
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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.
It was so disturbing I couldn’t physically make myself watch it, and I’m a news junkie obsessed with this crap.
I had to turn it off halfway through. My kid was playing switch and said Daddy, what's she talking about? And I had to turn it off out of fear that he would take any of it at face value. I told him she was lying to try to get votes and turned it off.
Show me your “There is no war in Ba Sing Se!” face.
My favorite commentary:
https://twitter.com/tomorrowventure/status/1765952347451130127?t=LZYJ3mF-a_d-3Ssgum4lrQ
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Remember, she only got the job because she's one of Trump's in-crowd. He'll try to distance himself from this flop but he owns it.
Hires only the best people, that he has never met before and are secret Democrats...
Maybe some covfefe runners?
Pretty sure he already praised it.
I'd never heard of this person until my wife suddenly started seeing so many pictures of her on Facebook that she asked me who it was... After I said I had no idea she proceeded to Google it and then told me her name... Which I promptly forgot.
What, are they saying that creepy dead-eyed stare and the overall Gilead vibes are a bad look for them?
No, they just don't like the stare.
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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Yup, we had to stop it just a few minutes in when it appeared she was turning herself on over the rape story she mostly made up.
The rape story is apparently true... from Mexico... back when George W. Bush was President.
Yup. She made up everything about it except that it happened. Then she went into the weirdest description of it, while appearing to lose her breath over it.
I don't understand why they didn't have Trump give it... like I'm not rooting for Trump and the GOP deserves to be in chaos, but Trump would have done an infinitly better job. Like "look at me, I'm your other choice. Here's what I'm claiming to bring to the table." Instead they gave us Senator Mrs. Whomever talking weird.
I'm starting to wonder if they're putting her in the limelight as setup for her being Trump's VP pick.
Crazy eyes.
Holy shit, did she just echo “manifest destiny”?
Just getting the sounds bites in. Facts? What are those?
That link doesn't work for me, but this one did:
https://twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1766308578904998127