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China Congress GOP WTF?!

Matt Gaetz Gets Shredded When He Quotes From A Chinese ‘Propaganda’ Publication: Video

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) thoroughly humiliated himself during a session of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, quoting from a Chinese state-run publication to “prove” that U.S. aid to Ukraine was being used improperly.

Gaetz was questioning Colin H. Kahl, Under Secretary of Defense, and he asked the official:

“How about CIA? Are they training folks in Ukraine?”

Kahl replied:

“Not going to talk about that in an unclassified setting. Happy to talk about that further in the classified briefings.”

Gaetz then inquired, “Is the Azov battalion getting access to U.S. weapons?”

Kahl:

“Not that I’m aware of, but. If you have information…”

The Florida Republican announced:

“I intend to enter into the record The Global Times investigative report that talks about training. It’s from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab. Citing the Azov battalion was even getting stuff as far back as 2018.”

After the article had been entered into the record, Gaetz asked Kahl:

“Any reason to disagree with that assessment?”

Kahl responded:

“Is this the, I’m sorry, is this the Global Times from China?”

Gaetz: “No, this is…”

Kahl: “Well, that’s what you read.”

Clearly unsure of what he had read, Gaetz was forced to admit, “Yeah, it might be, yeah. Would that be a reason?”

Kahl told the congressman:

“I as a general matter, I don’t take Beijing’s propaganda at face value.”

Rather than move on, Gaetz asked Kahl: “Yeah. Just tell me if. If the allegation is true or false, I mean.”

Kahl reiterated what he had just said:

“I don’t have any evidence one way or the other. As a general matter, I don’t take Beijing’s propaganda at face value.”

Before moving on to another topic, Gaetz remarked:

“Fair, fair enough. I would agree with that assessment.”

Could it be any clearer that Matt Gaetz is a complete idiot?

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GOP Social Media WTF?!

Lauren Boebert Walks Into A Massive Self-Own When She Tries To Give Americans A Civics Lesson

If you thought you’d seen and heard all of the laughable ignorance that can possibly come from Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, she outdid herself today, and it resulted in one of the most humiliating (and hilarious) self-owns you’ll ever encounter.

For some reason, Boebert decided that she’d offer a lesson in civics to everyone on Twitter, posting this:

“This is your daily reminder that America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.”

Is Boebert right? Nope.

Yes, we are indeed a Constitutional Republic, but if we weren’t also a democracy, then what would be the point of the republic?

As the Washington Post rightly noted in a 2015 article:

The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it’s only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.

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To be sure, in addition to being a representative democracy, the United States is also a constitutional democracy, in which courts restrain in some measure the democratic will. And the United States is therefore also a constitutional republic. Indeed, the United States might be labeled a constitutional federal representative democracy. But where one word is used, with all the oversimplification that this necessary entails, “democracy” and “republic” both work. Indeed, since direct democracy — again, a government in which all or most laws are made by direct popular vote — would be impractical given the number and complexity of laws that pretty much any state or national government is expected to enact, it’s unsurprising that the qualifier “representative” would often be omitted. Practically speaking, representative democracy is the only democracy that’s around at any state or national level.

Long story short: The United States is a republic governed by the Constitution, but it’s also a democracy because we elect those who represent us to make the laws by which we’re all governed.

So Boebert is wrong yet again, which isn’t surprising when you consider that she needed multiple attempts before she passed the GED high school equivalency exam.

Twitter users couldn’t resist reminding the Colorado Republican that she had once again managed to prove her own ignorance.

https://twitter.com/XandraCarre/status/1628805320700198912?s=20

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Donald Trump QAnon WTF?!

QAnon Members Angry With Trump For Eating McDonald’s Because ‘They Use Human Meat In Their Burgers’

During his visit to East Palestine, Ohio, disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached ex-president Donald Trump decided to stop by a local McDonalds, where he bragged that he probably knew the menu better than the people who worked there.

As Newsweek reports:

Trump told employees that he knew what was on the restaurant’s menu “better” than they did on Wednesday while visiting a McDonald’s in the eastern Ohio village, near the site of a toxic train derailment earlier this month.

A clip of the moment captured on video and shared to Twitter by The Recount had been seen more than a million times as of Wednesday evening.

“What’s your specialty today? Hello everybody. That’s a nice, beautiful group of people.
“So, I know this menu better than you do. I probably know it better than anybody in here.”

However, some of Trump’s most ardent constituents in the QAnon movement were not happy with the Donald being at a McDonald’s because they claim the fast food chain uses “human meat” in their hamburgers.

Take a look at some of the madness that circulated on social media:

That led to endless mockery of the QAnon nuts.

 

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Jill Biden WTF?!

Conservatives Lose Their Angry Minds After Jill Biden Places ‘Valentine To The Country’ On White House Lawn

It doesn’t get said often enough, but one of the best things about having Donald Trump out of the White House is that his wife, Melania Trump, had to leave with him.

Sure, Melania said she wanted to make cyber bullying the issue (remember #Be Best? What a joke that was!) that she focused on as first lady, but she never once addressed the bullying her husband did each and every day on social media when he wasn’t busy trying to stage a coup and overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Now we have First Lady Jill Biden, and what a refreshing change she’s brought, making sure to reach out to all Americans.

For example, with today being Valentine’s Day, Ms. Biden decided to put valentines to the country on the White House lawn, The Hill reports.

Early on Tuesday morning, a massive “Valentine to the country” was installed on the North Lawn of the White House.

Alongside illustrated versions of the Bidens’ furry family members, German Shepherd Commander and cat Willow, was a message: “Reach out with open hearts and helping hands this Valentine’s Day.”

The blue- and red-colored handprints featured on the lovey-dovey display come from students enrolled at a child development center at the Fort Drum Army Base in New York. Biden visited the base last month as part of her Joining Forces initiative.

But to see the reaction of conservatives, MAGA morons, and other assorted right-wing trash, you’d have thought Ms. Biden had sent out messages of hate and loathing to the nation. In other words, it was the same shit you see each and every day from people who have no hearts, no souls, no brains, and certainly no class.

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Boebert Says She’s Still Angry With Biden For Shutting Down Schools In 2020 – Before He Became POTUS

Bless her little ignorant heart, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R) just can’t help but humiliate herself on a regular basis because, quite simply, she’s an imbecile.

Boebert is lashing out (as she often does) at President Joe Biden for remarks he made during Tuesday’s State of the Union about how bad things were in the U.S. during the worst days of the COVID pandemic.

At one point, the president directly referenced, “When schools were closed,” adding, “Our schools were robbed of so much.”

That led the Boebert to accuse Biden of being the one who closed them, even though that would have been impossible because schools began closing in 2020 while failed one-term former president Donald Trump was still in office.

“When schools were closed.” – Biden Hey Joe, YOU CLOSED THEM!

Nope. Not even remotely true, as PolitiFact pointed out:

That is inaccurate. School closures began in spring 2020 when former President Donald Trump was still in office, and those decisions were made by state-level education officials and governors. 

“State leaders govern education in the U.S., and the federal government has very little say in what decisions governors or education chiefs make about schools,” said Christine M. T. Pitts, of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University.

Inaccurate. That could easily be Lauren Boebert’s middle name because when she isn’t losing grasp of recent history, she’s just flat-out making shit up and/or spreading conspiracy theories that have absolutely no basis in fact or reality.

Of course, Bobert’s middle name could also be Moron, because she certainly qualifies on that count, too. Hell, she makes Marjorie Taylor Greene look like damn particle physicist!

Twitter users quickly leveled out Bobo’s internet karma, making sure to let her know that the only difference between her and a 2-watt bulb is that the bulb is at least somewhat bright, especially in total darkness such as exists in the space between the congresswoman’s ears.

https://twitter.com/adchick22/status/1623174439645880320?s=20&t=tcw413lFttekpXpNqiljnQ