Hilarious opinion piece on Katie Britt at AL.com:

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Whitmire: Is Katie Britt for real?
Updated: Mar. 08, 2024, 2:08 p.m

Don’t adjust your television. What we saw wasn’t an AI deepfake. That was Katie Britt. That speech happened.

But don’t call it real.

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There’s nothing I can quote from Britt’s speech that can convey the strangeness of it — the mismatched emotions, the smiles in the wrong places, the jaw clenched when it shouldn’t have been — just the indescribable weirdness. It was something that had to be seen, but even then, couldn’t be understood — like postmodernism, avant-garde performance art or an involuntary behavioral science experiment.

Katie Britt glitched out on national television and left millions of Americans asking what the heck they just watched.

Even had she not, the odds were stacked against her. The rebuttal to the State of the Union has always been a trap for the politically ambitious. It doesn’t matter how many bleached bones lie at the bottom of that pit, someone new will try to jump across when given the chance — a dangerous shortcut to becoming a national political figure. And they’ll be impaled at the bottom on its spikes with all the rest — somewhere between Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio’s water bottle.

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Full article

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Ouch!

[rubbersole]

1. This was the worst yet.

Bummer.

[bamagal62]

27. Definitely, she wins

The prize. We’ll never hear from her again.
The sacrificial lamb. It was bizarre and extremely creepy. That breathy voice and inappropriate smile. I have family in alabama and this was the first I’d ever heard of her. She just tanked her career. She is from Enterprise Al which is the place of the boll weevil festival. (The boll weevil is a pest that infects cotton plants. I wonder if she was boll weevil Queen?)
Enterprise is quite close to the red neck Riviera, near Pensacola. Which is a hotbed of MAGA.

[Ferrets are Cool]

30. We may never see her again on the national stage, BUT, the idiots down here are too fucking stupid

to vote her out.

[misanthrope]

45. She will be re-elected in Alabama as many times as she wishes

The state GOP and their friendly punditry will tell everyone within earshot that Britt is being unfairly treated by the same outside media that cruelly stereotypes Alabamians as being shoeless and moronic. That kind of tribalism and victimhood has worked like a charm in the Heart of Dixie for centuries and still produces dependable results.

[malaise]

2. Must Read

Pathetic is kind for that disaster - it was weird on steroids

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4. I thought it was really well done. I'm sorry I couldn't post his comments on her rank lypocrisy

on things like te wall and drug prices. He really skewered her.

[malaise]

5. She is a hypocrite and a liar

Amazing how they pretend to be so saintly

[rsdsharp]

3. Well, at least she didn't talk about wearing bread bags on her shoes,

but then she was a cheerleader, so. . .

[Irish_Dem]

6. The sexual segment in her speech was odd.

[MuseRider]

8. OMG really?

I did not make it that far, I am very glad I did not.

[Irish_Dem]

10. It was graphic and detailed.

Made me wonder what was going on with this senator.

[MuseRider]

12. Thank you for the answer.

I don't think I can take that. Gross.

[Irish_Dem]

13. I don't blame you.

[SunSeeker]

16. And she would force that raped 12 year old to have her rapist's baby!

So ironic that she would bring up rape. In Britt's state of Alabama, there is no exception for rape or incest.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Yes it was a bad strategy in a number of ways.

Bringing up rape when her party is running a known rapist for president.
And there is no abortion exception for rape victims in her state.

And her graphic detail sounded odd in a professional speech.
Another MAGA seeming to enjoy talking about sexual activity.

[malaise]

31. So true but these morons only want thoughts and prayers for victims of gun crimes including the same children they clsi

Rape and gun crimes committed by foreigners are all that matter

[calimary]

42. Yeah, I gave up after less than an agonizing minute.

The “I’m so shaken by all this that I’m on the VERGE of TEARS!” lady. Oy! I’ve seen bad soap opera “acting” better than that!

[thucythucy]

11. From the article: "Britt seems to care

about sexual predators, except when they're picking running mates..."

[Irish_Dem]

14. Exactly.

She hoped her speech would put her on Trump's VP list.
But bringing up rape was a very bad idea when she wants a job with a rapist.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. Was that the part where she describes

A woman on a mattress in a box sized room with men going in over and over again? Yeah, the details added nothing to her message except just more weird creepiness.

And the kitchen table? Really? Where is six-year-old Anthony Fremont from the Twilight Zone to send someone to the cornfield when you need him.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yes.

Yes it was creepy.

And she seemed to enjoy talking about it in more detail than necessary for
a national professional political speech on TV.

[Farmer-Rick]

33. Yes

She seemed to relish telling the details.

[MuseRider]

7. I finally flipped all the way out

at 8 minutes. I could do no more. That is the well coached Church Lady cadence. I have been surrounded by these people my whole life and I just clench my teeth and try to get away as soon as possible. Too many girls and women's meetings in the LDS church or my relatives conservative evangelical churches. ***I remain free***

If you don't know, it is all taught. All fake. Every one of these ladies can become a snarly, hateful, rabid freak in one single instant, the batting of one eyelash. You want to see insanity just challenge them, Ka BOOM!

They teach young girls that way of speaking. ALL of it and we can all do it if we need to. Control baby is the name of the game and how could you ever be mad at the sweet church ladies? They may be stupid but look how much they care.

They will snap and snap hard. Explode and go right back into their quiet, sweet talking. The most dangerous of all, like a cobra. Ssssssss

[Doc Sportello]

29. Excellent take

Thanks for the info on a subject I was not familiar with. Right after it, I tuned in to CNN and that Alyssa Farah, former trumpie, went on and on about the kitchen but otherwise thought Birtt was great. I thought she, too, was insane.

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9. The fact that she let them put her in a kitchen tells me her judgement is suspect.

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Come on, we're not in the '50s anymore. Any woman wanting to be taken seriously as a political figure would reject that as a bad idea. And as a US Senator her objections would have to be taken seriously.

You'd think...but it's obviously the maga male-dominated party that apparently doesn't take women seriously.

[3Hotdogs]

15. But did they let her put shoes on?

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19. Heehee. Good question. Now she's off to Bobby Jindal and Little Marco Land...

where SOTU respondents go to die politically.

[OMGWTF]

24. Sen Tommy Tubaville of Alabama said they chose her because SHE'S A HOUSEWIFE!!!

She may be a vapid, creepy twat, but she is still a US senator. Rethuglicans really fking hate women.

[RussBLib]

28. ...and Tuberville said they picked Britt because....

...."Democrats hate families." Where they come up with that shit I know not. Most likely their hateful asses. Can't think of a single Democrat that "hates families."

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[Cha]

18. And It Was In The Kitchen! Really Bad Optics for the magats bc

that's where they want women

TY

[Warpy]

22. Ithink the honly thing that was unreal was that kitchen, likely a stage set

I doubt the woman has set foot in a kitchen for many years, she has staff for that.

You know, Marthas.

[swong19104]

23. I forget...

did that O'Donnell woman ("I am not a witch&quot gave a SOTU rebuttal to Obama? Another in that pit, I suppose.

[Hekate]

41. I have never been able to forget her voice & intonation when she said, "I am not a witch"...

…oh so plaintively. Good golly Miss Molly, that was cringe-inducing, and showed her and her audience to be breathtakingly ignorant.

Yes, I know witches and pagans. However, millions of non-pagan non-witchy women around this country have met and still do meet to have rituals related to being women within their particular religious and cultural traditions. The ones who have the most trouble bringing it back home are Protestant and Evangelical Christians, and I think we all know why by now.

[RainCaster]

26. Republicans put their woman in the kitchen for a reason

That's the message they intended to send.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

34. Even with his "oh shucks Mayberry RFD" act, Bobby Jindal tried to be real.

After a few minutes, I had to put Katie Britt on MUTE. Her whole spiel was nothing short of an audition for an ASPCA commercial begging for monthly donations to save animals. The emotional, tear jerking act was more of a turn off. No wonder she is getting hit with criticism.

And then Sen. Tubby responded with "Democrats HATE families!"

[live love laugh]

35. Republicans' motto: If you can't be good be really really bad.

Remember Melania’s red XMAS trees? And her “Really don’t care” jacket and plagiarized speech? Trump’s paper towels?

This is that.

#republicans have nothing to offer America #performative politics

[appleannie1]

36. Have to admit I tuned out around half way through

Every time she grimaced I lost another quarter inch of teeth. She sounded like a kindergarten wannabe for Mary in the Christmas play or maybe the Grinch in the psych ward play.

[Beartracks]

37. "Britt seems to care about sexual predators except when they're picking running mates."

This quote from the article is spot on.

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[Beartracks]

38. Her phony performance...

... aptly and succinctly embodied the outright political theater that the entire GOP has been engaged in for years, in all its fakery, pearl-clutching, and disconnect from provable facts. Nailed it!

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[drmeow]

39. "The rebuttal to the State of the Union has always been a trap for the politically ambitious.

It doesn’t matter how many bleached bones lie at the bottom of that pit, someone new will try to jump across when given the chance — a dangerous shortcut to becoming a national political figure. And they’ll be impaled at the bottom on its spikes with all the rest — somewhere between Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio’s water bottle."

I wonder if that is also true of rebuttals by the Democrats when there is a Republican President. I suspect it is less the case - because Democrats can do something other than just whine.

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40. Agreed. I can't think of any cringe-worthy performance by a Democrat

And you're right -- I think it's because we have actual ideas.

[liberalla]

43. What a hoot! I really enjoyed this opinion piece by Kyle Whitmire!

[0rganism]

44. Sen. Zombie Bratt (R-Uncanny Valley)

I keep saying this, it was seriously the most Stepford thing I've ever seen. Her speech had a very peculiar effect, simultaneously fascinating like a high-speed 20-car pileup on a suburban sidestreet and revolting like "oh gross get that thing off my shoulder". With that single presentation she earned her spot as the dictionary illustration for "creep". I've never seen anything quite like it before.