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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,239 posts)
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 03:37 AM Mar 2024

'My Heart Is Broken': Katie Britt Plays Victim, Launches Political Fundraiser

‘My Heart Is Broken’: Katie Britt Plays Victim, Launches Political Fundraiser After Being Exposed for Misleading State of the Union Rebuttal Speech

Britt has since launched a fundraiser, according to Raw Story, in which she said, “Following my speech, the left-wing media didn’t waste a second flooding the airwaves with despicable, disgusting messages about me. They attacked my character. They attacked my faith. They attacked my identity as a mother and a wife.”

Britt’s pitch continues, according to Raw Story, “My heart is broken. Not just for myself, but for my children, your children and the ENTIRE next generation of Americans. Why? Because I didn’t prepare a 20-minute speech and stand up to Biden in front of millions of Americans for ME. I did it for them, for YOU and your children, Friend!”

Roger Sollenberger, a senior political reporter for the Daily Beast, shared a screenshot of a fundraising email from Britt via X. The email states, according to the screenshot, “I just gave the official Republican response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union and the left is FREAKING OUT over my message,” along with a button asking readers to “rush a small donation” to “help Republicans win.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/my-heart-is-broken-katie-britt-plays-victim-launches-political-fundraiser-after-being-exposed-for-misleading-state-of-the-union-rebuttal-speech/ar-BB1jMFZO

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'My Heart Is Broken': Katie Britt Plays Victim, Launches Political Fundraiser (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2024 OP
They've learned so much from Jim and Tammy Faye. CincyDem Mar 2024 #1
A cynic might think she was set up to faceplant... Girard442 Mar 2024 #2
I'm a cynic. live love laugh Mar 2024 #13
The martyrdom is a thing to behold. madaboutharry Mar 2024 #3
Double down Debbie Downer BaronChocula Mar 2024 #4
She doesn't seem to mention that some of the right wing also ridicules her for her her own incompetent keithbvadu2 Mar 2024 #5
Faux victimhood is synonymous with maga. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2024 #6
My heart is broken! iwillalwayswonderwhy Mar 2024 #7
Same here, and now my head hurts! niyad Mar 2024 #11
I did llmart Mar 2024 #12
Fuck that christofash, white nationalist berk. Celerity Mar 2024 #8
You can't break what you don't have. NanaCat Mar 2024 #9
Sympathies. I know exactly how she feels. ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2024 #10
Won't someone think of the children?!? Gimme money! Cry! Gimme money! Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2024 #14
I say we cut out the Stepford Senator and give the money directly to the children. Hugin Mar 2024 #17
Sounds Trumpian. He pulls the same shit all the time. live love laugh Mar 2024 #15
It's on page one of the MAGA Cult playbook. bluesbassman Mar 2024 #30
Katie, Katie, Katie... jmowreader Mar 2024 #16
Did she include a video of her overly dramatic lip sync to My Heart Will Go On? tanyev Mar 2024 #18
She needs a new kitchen countertop dalton99a Mar 2024 #19
Whine and cry. TSExile Mar 2024 #20
More fleecing the base. republianmushroom Mar 2024 #21
"I'm a VICTIM! SEND MONEY!" Aristus Mar 2024 #22
pure Trumpian playbook, great pithy description Celerity Mar 2024 #34
Thank you. Aristus Mar 2024 #35
It's written into the script she confuses well-earned mockery with 'freaking out.' Torchlight Mar 2024 #23
Oh boo-hoo, Katie. calimary Mar 2024 #24
Conservatives, always the victims Johonny Mar 2024 #25
So there is a positive for her to her fiasco - badhair77 Mar 2024 #26
LOL That wasn't "the left-wing media," Sen. Britt. That was just America. n/t Beartracks Mar 2024 #27
Ms. Britt: Thank you for your services to the Democratic Party. Paladin Mar 2024 #28
Has Lara Trump already pulled Katie's RNC funding? Freethinker65 Mar 2024 #29
She's using the same victim tactics Trump is. ificandream Mar 2024 #31
she "stood up to Biden?" mike_c Mar 2024 #32
Tough shit, DIAF. limbicnuminousity Mar 2024 #33
katie Twitt Broke her own Stupid "heart" GMAFB. Cha Mar 2024 #36

CincyDem

(7,392 posts)
1. They've learned so much from Jim and Tammy Faye.
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 03:53 AM
Mar 2024

I’m sure there were grifters before but I always associate this whole “ I will suffer for you” style of bull chit with them. And Swaggert.

Send me a dollar so you don’t have to suffer.

Girard442

(6,887 posts)
2. A cynic might think she was set up to faceplant...
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 03:55 AM
Mar 2024

...so they could segue seamlessly to "poor me."

madaboutharry

(42,033 posts)
3. The martyrdom is a thing to behold.
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 04:04 AM
Mar 2024

It is shameful, actually. They think it makes them Jesus-like. In reality, it makes them weak and pathetic along with revealing their true intentions
…grifting.

BaronChocula

(4,555 posts)
4. Double down Debbie Downer
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 04:24 AM
Mar 2024

If you think the best way to get over criticism of your fabricated indignation is with more fabricated indignation, you must be maga.

Good luck with that.

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
5. She doesn't seem to mention that some of the right wing also ridicules her for her her own incompetent
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 04:31 AM
Mar 2024

and ridiculous portrayal of their values and policies.

She gets the overactor trophy for this rebuttal.

And the kissass award.

She should be naming names for those who advised her.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218767999

GOP Rep Says His Party Threw Katie Britt 'to the Wolves'

iwillalwayswonderwhy

(2,728 posts)
7. My heart is broken!
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 04:44 AM
Mar 2024

How many, besides me, read her money pitch in her breathy baby voice with wringing of hands included?

llmart

(17,617 posts)
12. I did
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 05:23 AM
Mar 2024

and all I could think was she's setting herself up for more ridicule because of it. Maybe she'd be better off auditioning for a soap opera.

 

NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
9. You can't break what you don't have.
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 04:47 AM
Mar 2024
They attacked my character.


That's what happens to liars. You're a liar. Like you are in the next breath:

They attacked my faith. They attacked my identity as a mother and a wife.


Nobody attacked you over that. They criticized you for being a liar, manipulator, bigot and fraud.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,681 posts)
10. Sympathies. I know exactly how she feels. ...
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 04:50 AM
Mar 2024

... I remember the feeling of being gut-punched in November of 2016 when Trump was announced as winner.

It's a low feeling. I shoulda started a GoFundMe, I felt so bad.

jmowreader

(53,194 posts)
16. Katie, Katie, Katie...
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 07:57 AM
Mar 2024

They didn't "attack your identity as a mother and a wife." They called you a right-wing troll. The two are not mutually exclusive.

tanyev

(49,294 posts)
18. Did she include a video of her overly dramatic lip sync to My Heart Will Go On?
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 09:45 AM
Mar 2024

I assume one exists.

Torchlight

(6,830 posts)
23. It's written into the script she confuses well-earned mockery with 'freaking out.'
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 01:07 PM
Mar 2024

The role of Oppressed White Politician demands it for character-development in the next act.

calimary

(90,021 posts)
24. Oh boo-hoo, Katie.
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 01:14 PM
Mar 2024

You’re the one who stuck your neck out after a big-ass speech that would be seen my multitudes, and you hoped to hitch your wagon to those audience numbers.

That you were a catastrophic fail - in public, on prime time TV, as the attachment to a presidential event, isn’t anybody’s fault but YOURS, girlfriend.

Don’t know if she pushed or lobbied for it, or was selected by GOP higher-ups, plucked out of the crowd to showcase to a national audience cuz they thought she had the chops for future campaign possibilities. She flopped.

Johonny

(26,178 posts)
25. Conservatives, always the victims
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 01:37 PM
Mar 2024

Never accept blame for their mistakes. For the record, most conservatives bashed her terrible job too. She is the only one that thinks she did a good job.

Freethinker65

(11,203 posts)
29. Has Lara Trump already pulled Katie's RNC funding?
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 01:59 PM
Mar 2024

Her husband cannot provide for her master bath remodel? She needs a flashier larger cross pendant?

mike_c

(37,051 posts)
32. she "stood up to Biden?"
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 02:40 PM
Mar 2024

How brave of her, lol. That's one of the most absurd things I've read today.

limbicnuminousity

(1,416 posts)
33. Tough shit, DIAF.
Wed Mar 13, 2024, 02:44 PM
Mar 2024

She is broken. It would be great if she slithered under a rock and remained there until she figured out how to be a human being.

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