During debate Friday on the Inflation Reduction Act, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) borrowed a line from former president Ronald Reagan that quickly came back and bit him squarely on the ass.
In a speech on the House floor, McCarthy asked, “Is America better off today than they were two years ago?” which referenced a question Reagan asked during a 1980 presidential debate with then-President Jimmy Carter.
McCarthy: Answer me this question. Is America better off today than they were two years ago? pic.twitter.com/w3RwXX77Pd
McCarthy’s memory, however, must indeed be very short, because as Twitter users quickly reminded him, two years ago the United States (and the entire planet) were in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic which has so far killed over a million Americans.
The impact of the COVID pandemic was magnified in the U.S. in large part because then-president Donald Trump refused for months to acknowledge the seriousness of the disease and told the country it would dissipate as soon as the weather grew warmer in the spring and summer.
Trump also suggested using disinfectant inside the body to destroy the virus and infusions of “light” into people to counter the disease.
While McCarthy’s question was clearly meant to be rhetorical, he was pelted with responses for the complete tone-deafness of what he said.
Kevin, two years ago things were so bad that THE REPUBLICAN PARTY voted to let everyone – not just rich people – have free money. https://t.co/cIz4sqLy84
— Johnny McNulty (parody of former self) (@JohnnyMcNulty) August 12, 2022
Two years ago we were in the middle of the deepest recession since the Great Depression, we had no Covid vaccines, and the unemployment rate was more than double what it is today. https://t.co/BSzlEz0g55
Yes. No refrigerator trucks, people not dying at the rate of thousands a day due to hateful 45 death policies, and a president who works for the country instead of enriching himself and working with Putin.
Perhaps you’re wondering what’s going today in the World of Stupid. If so, it probably won’t surprise you to learn that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is one of the headlines in that particular department.
Out of nowhere Wednesday, Boebert posted this on Twitter:
“Don’t beg for acceptance from people who hate you.”
Don't beg for acceptance from people who hate you.
And this is in reference to what exactly? She failed to make that clear, which isn’t exactly new when it comes to Boebert. After all, this is the same woman who has previously left us all scratching our heads with these pearls of idiocy:
Regarding calls for gun control to reduce mass shootings, Boebert remarked, “When 9/11 happened, we didn’t ban planes, we secured the cockpits.”
She attacked the Walt Disney Company by misspelling the name of Mickey Mouse.
Next year, the woke Disney lobbyists will ask Congress to extend Micky Mouse’s trademark.
Or perhaps you prefer a lovely Thanksgiving message:
“Today I’m thankful to have ZERO Brandon voters in my family! Just enjoying the day maskless, not waiting in the garage to do a PCR test, and no soy replacement meat in sight.”
Today I’m thankful to have ZERO Brandon voters in my family!
Just enjoying the day maskless, not waiting in the garage to do a PCR test, and no soy replacement meat in sight.
No one hates you, we hate your hypocrisy. You spread lies to instill fear about guns & freedoms being taken, while you are all to happy to support the taking of woman's freedoms. Kansas let the #GOP know loudly, they aren't having it! #KansasSaidNo
Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the most bigoted, disgusting, and hateful people in the entire Congress, and yet she’s now asking us to feel sorry for her because someone keeps meddling with an anti-LGBTQ sign she has posted outside her House office.
And now Greene is claiming to be the victim of a hate crime, according to a report from LGBTQ Nation:
Greene is angry about the vandalism of posters she hangs on the wall outside her office. One of the posters – her infamous “There are TWO genders: MALE & FEMALE. ‘Trust The Science!’” poster that she put up last year to cancel out a nearby transgender pride flag – keeps getting vandalized, so she put up another poster accusing Rep. Jake Auchincloss’s (D-MA) chief of staff Tim Hysom of being the vandal.
Now that poster has been vandalized, enraging Greene further.
In a video she posted on Twitter, Greene ranted and raved, sounding at times like someone in need of an extended stay at a mental health facility:
“You wanna know what happened? Another sign got taken off the wall.”
According to Greene, the second sign she posted was of an arrest warrant Capitol police had issued against Hysom for vandalizing her sign:
“They can’t take the fact that there’s only two genders, male and female. They’ve been attacking this sign. Tim Hysom, chief of staff for Jake Auchincloss.”
But Greene was only getting warmed up, and she continued with her unhinged rant:
“I’m sure Jake doesn’t get awards like this for actually having a great voting record,” she said, showing off an award she happened to be carrying. It’s not clear what organization gave her the award for voting in line with their ideology.
“They attack this because they hate my faith, they hate my religion, and they hate the fact that I’m a woman! The Department of Justice is not going to prosecute them.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 20, 2022
Keep in mind that while she’s busy accusing others of crimes, Greene tried to get a last-minute pardon from failed, one-term former president Donald Trump for her role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and may still be charged for her part in that attempted coup.
Karma is starting to catch up with Marjorie Taylor Greene, and she doesn’t like it one little bit.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) loves to brag about how she managed to start a small business even though she didn’t graduate from high school. To hear her tell it, she pulled herself up by the bootstraps and got her piece of the American dream.
But that dream — which Boebert named Shooters Grill — is now a failure and a little more than a bad memory, according to Colorado Pols:
As readers know, Shooter’s Grill lost hundreds of thousands of dollars during its few years of operation according to tax filings, and the eatery never lived down the 2017 incident in which Boebert’s food truck sickened dozens of spectators at a local rodeo. Quality food and service was never the draw of Shooter’s Grill, of course, bringing in customers (at least once for the novelty) with their armed and generally young female wait staff.
Boebert reportedly waited until after the June 28th primary to make the decision about closing Shooter’s Grill after the building’s landlord signaled his intention to cancel Boebert’s lease at the end of August. With Boebert’s Republican primary opponent dispatched, Boebert’s cash flow from her newfound fame looks secure enough to dispense with the dirty work of running a small-town greasy spoon–management of which Boebert had reportedly already farmed out to political supporters.
Join the good citizens of Rifle in wishing Shooter’s Grill a fond covfefe.
You probably recall one of the things that made Shooters so unique (not to mention absurd) is that all of the employees were encouraged to openly carry weapons in keeping with the right-wing belief that guns were given to us by God and therefore deserve to be worshiped like some sort of fire-breathing idol.
The closing of Shooters also deprives Boebert of her talking point about being a successful businesswoman. Instead, she’s a miserable failure, just like her tangerine lord and savior, Donald Trump.
Now that karma is catching up with Lauren in such a big way, we can also hope that voters in her district will kick her to the curb come November.
A Republican voter in Georgia who tried to blame “Antifa” for the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection could only shrug his shoulders when asked why Trump failed to stop the rioters.
“Morning Joe” contributor Elise Jordan was speaking with voters in the Peach State one the eve of the primary election. Failed, one-term former President Donald Trump was supporting ex-Georgia Sen. David Perdue for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, but polls show Perdue is losing by as much as 32 points to incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.
When Jordan asked a question about Jan. 6, one man told her:
“There was a lot of bad stuff that happened that day, I agree. But I believe the portion of people that were troublemakers is very small. No. 2 how many of those troublemakers were actually Antifa or intentional troublemakers?”
The man then continued:
“There’s a whole series of questions that don’t add up, and you have to go through this much boilerplate and crap to find the three nuggets of truth or hard fact or information that really matters. I’m frustrated by the entire thing, I want to forget about it, but I looked at every photograph in the [Atlanta Journal-Constitution], about 20 photos that day. All the ones smashing and bashing and crashing, 25, 28 years old, skinny jeans with the beards. I said to myself, ‘That’s not the normal Republican.’ I mean, look at us here. I mean, maybe he was paid to do that.”
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the man began spinning all sorts of debunked conspiracy theories about what transpired on Jan. 6:
“None of it makes any sense. When you read about, you know, Ray Epps being at the one gate that fell first, when you read about the Molotov cocktails left at the DNC the night before with only a mechanical kitchen timer, not anything remotely triggered, so after 60 minutes, the timer can’t be activated. Kamala Harris went to the DNC. Bombs were found by her crew at 11:50, 12:50, within five minutes of Ray Epps giving the orders to crash the first barrier barrier. Then the riots started because the police had to withdraw from that area and investigate the molotov cocktails. There is so much going on when you bore down into the facts.”
Jordan perfectly shut down the man by asking:
“Let’s take a step [back]. So if this was happening, and it was Antifa, then why didn’t President Trump whip into action and stop it? He didn’t tweet, he didn’t call off the dogs. Why was that?”
The man could only smile wanly and shrug his shoulders, unable to find a single word to back up his nonsensical fantasies.