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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Furious at Representative Liz Cheney and Representative Adam Kinzinger for participating in the January 6th commission, the G.O.P. leadership in the House is punishing the two rogue Republicans by forcing them to spend an hour with Ted Cruz.
Speaking to reporters, the House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, said that the decision to subject the two dissidents to an hour with Cruz should leave no doubt about how seriously we take their offense. Make no mistake, he said, an hour with Ted Cruz is the ultimate punishment.
According to McCarthy, Cheney and Kinzinger will be locked in a room with Cruz, who will then speak, uninterrupted, for an hour on a topic of his choosing. Ten minutes in, theyll come to regret what theyve done, McCarthy predicted. No one has lasted fifteen.
McCarthys decision to subject the two Republicans to an hour of Cruz drew a strong rebuke from Representative Cheneys father, the former Vice-President Dick Cheney. Much as I have been a longtime supporter of torture, this goes too far, he said.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/gop-to-punish-cheney-and-kinzinger-by-forcing-them-to-spend-hour-with-ted-cruz
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)GOP means business.
malaise
(268,967 posts)I just knew it was the great Borowitz
FSogol
(45,481 posts)Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)They must have really screwed up bad to deserve that level of punishment...
Wicked Blue
(5,832 posts)about this cruel and unusual punishment
Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)An entire hour? Talk about cruel and unusual punishment! Their brains will be wiped clean, like running a neodymium magnet over a hard drive.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)I saw the OP title and
I know it's been hard for him the past 4 years, to do satire that actually wasn't an exact rendition of "real life news events", but this was good.
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)But rather a small locked closet
Without ventilation
lindysalsagal
(20,679 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)griloco
(832 posts)Traildogbob
(8,729 posts)Liz would kick the shit out of him within 20 minutes. I will take the one hour challenge.
New game show, can ya spend 20 minutes with him without punching that doughy face? Winning prize
..kicking his ass AND Gohmerts.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)Like all first-rate satire, it is painfully close to the truth.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Marcuse
(7,479 posts)Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)this cruel and unusual punishment, the ACLU and Amnesty International should be immediately notified, and requested to remain on standby.