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Impressively bad

by David Anderson|  March 1, 20186:22 pm| 53 Comments

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I have to applaud the Utah House members for trying to educate the public on basic civics, but WOW

The Utah House of Representatives made a rap video about how a bill becomes law, and somehow it's worse than you would expect pic.twitter.com/Dq3U7RwGBu

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 1, 2018

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  1. 1.

    oatler.

    March 1, 2018 at 6:33 pm

    “dum dum dum”

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 1, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    Fuck you. I want that one minute and sixteen seconds back.

  3. 3.

    charluckles

    March 1, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    There has to be easier and less embarrassing ways of informing the world you are comfortably encased in an impenetrable bubble.

  4. 4.

    ChaunceyBaker

    March 1, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
    — Dean Wormer

  5. 5.

    Frankensteinbeck

    March 1, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    @ChaunceyBaker:
    Pick one, two tops.

  6. 6.

    evodevo

    March 1, 2018 at 6:38 pm

    Boy, did they leave a LOT out of the process – I didn’t see even ONE lobbyist or ALEC contact lol

  7. 7.

    Mike J

    March 1, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    Better news in the world of internet video, Youtube nuked Jerome Corsi’s channel.

  8. 8.

    Steve in the STL

    March 1, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    PSA for all non-rappers, including but not limited to Utah legislators, sorority girls, and other white people: do not rap. It will go badly. It will embarrass you. It will not be “kewl”.

    And a reminder to male lawyers: don’t send dick pics.

    Thank you for your attention to these matters.

  9. 9.

    Gozer

    March 1, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    That was the whitest shit I think I’ve ever seen.

  10. 10.

    Fair Economist

    March 1, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    It says a lot about the legislators that they refer to a quarter century old TV show that most younger people haven’t even seen.

    It would be a lot better if they’d practiced their lines a bit.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    March 1, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    I didn’t listen, but the guy with the half-sideways baseball hat and the guy who sticks his tongue out at the end are the worst sights.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    March 1, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    Is there a Grammy category for misspoken word?

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    March 1, 2018 at 6:43 pm

    @ChaunceyBaker:

    “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”

    They’re Mormons. They manage to be that bad without needing to be drunk.

  14. 14.

    Noskilz

    March 1, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    On one hand, they seem to have had the best of intentions. On the other, that was a bit on the excruciating side – but having something that’s just ill-considered silly rather than ill-considered evil makes for a nice change of pace these days.

  15. 15.

    piratedan

    March 1, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    i give them props for trying… to be fair, most of them don’t.

  16. 16.

    Cluttered Mind

    March 1, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    Mormons: White people’s white people.

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 1, 2018 at 6:47 pm

    Goodness. Is there a Mormon phrase for “bless their hearts”? Or have half of them spent the last 150 yrs somewhat nervously waiting for someone else to say something out loud?

    I have never met a mean or unpleasant Mormon, but they vote for some truly nasty bastidges

  18. 18.

    Corner Stone

    March 1, 2018 at 6:49 pm

    You understand that I hate your guts right now.

  19. 19.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    March 1, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    @Fair Economist: To be fair, it airs on Nick & Nite and BET mornings, as well as VH1.

  20. 20.

    ? Martin

    March 1, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    White mormon hip-hop is the art form at its more pure.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    March 1, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    @Steve in the STL:
    You’re in St Louis now?

  22. 22.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 1, 2018 at 6:52 pm

    The Simpsons of course has the definitive educational video about the legislative process.

  23. 23.

    ? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?

    March 1, 2018 at 6:52 pm

    @Fair Economist:
    When I was younger I caught some episodes on Nick @ Nite. It was pretty funny.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    March 1, 2018 at 6:52 pm

    So that’s how they regulate abortion?

    Interesting.

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    March 1, 2018 at 6:52 pm

    @Mike J:

    Youtube nuked Jerome Corsi’s channel.

    Oh well. As long as he has space on the op-ed page of USAToday under the guise of “fairness”, I am sure he will be fine.
    (cupping ear) Wait a second… I’ve just been told that he in fact will not be fine. He is a flaming conspiracy theory asshole nutjob that has no place in society. We’re still waiting to confirm why such an inveterate scumbag was ever allowed to show up in a mainstream media publication. DTF.

  26. 26.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 1, 2018 at 6:57 pm

    @Steve in the STL:

    And a reminder to male lawyers: don’t send dick pics.

    Whew. Good thing I’m not a lawyer.

  27. 27.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    March 1, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    @Corner Stone: Jerome Corsi is “down to fuck?”

  28. 28.

    geg6

    March 1, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    Uh uh, not gonna click on that ever. Mormons doing the hippity hop thang is not something I need to see, no matter how good the intentions. White people are just so excruciatingly embarrassing, says the super white woman.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    March 1, 2018 at 6:59 pm

    @geg6: Why can’t they stick to polka? They’re good at polka.

  30. 30.

    Gozer

    March 1, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    I think this was the inspiration for that clip…

    BEHOLD! COUNTRY HIP HOP DANCING!!
    https://youtu.be/UOacUWjHgiE

  31. 31.

    ruemara

    March 1, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    I suppose I can stop side-eyeing the white women around me in zumba for thinking that they’re twerking or when they dap. Fine. Also, stop doing this.

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    March 1, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I am going to guess “Yes”? But I was going with Details To Follow, you sick perv.

  33. 33.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    March 1, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    @Corner Stone: I actually thought you meant “what the fuck” and that the D was a typo.

  34. 34.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    March 1, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    I lasted 24 seconds, till the tortured rhyme of “there” and “chamber”.

    There were no baggy pants, were there? Or dancing? Tell me there were no baggy pants or dancing.

  35. 35.

    Mike J

    March 1, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    @Corner Stone

    : But I was going with Details To Follow,

    Details tk is traditional.

  36. 36.

    efgoldman

    March 1, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    @piratedan:

    i give them props for trying…

    Legislating for the Sesame Street set.
    One of several outwardly attractive places that couldn’t get me to move there for a bazillion-kazillion bux.
    Florida and the traitor states also too

  37. 37.

    Central Planning

    March 1, 2018 at 7:20 pm

    Why wouldn’t they dust off the Schoolhouse Rock video… “I’m just a bill…”

  38. 38.

    JCJ

    March 1, 2018 at 7:24 pm

    @Cluttered Mind:

    “Mormons: White people’s white people.”

    Bravo!

  39. 39.

    Steve in the STL

    March 1, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    @Amir Khalid: temporarily, but I had to change only one letter in my nym and couldn’t resist the temptation

  40. 40.

    Trollhattan

    March 1, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    Will Smith

    Is 49

  41. 41.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    March 1, 2018 at 7:53 pm

    Shit so white it’s translucent.

  42. 42.

    tobie

    March 1, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    OMG…what comes next. Amish rappers?

  43. 43.

    JAFD

    March 1, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    @Steve in the STL: Well, my career as a rapper was back in the primordial days of answering machines….

    “Four-seven-one-seven-eleven-zip
    That’s the number you called, now let me give you a tip
    ‘Cause I ain’t at home, like you thot I might be
    So when you hear the tone, leave a message for me
    Let me know what you’re thinkin’ and what’s goin’ on
    And I’ll get back to you when I stop bein’ gone

    So give me your number, in the digits of ten
    (not binary, please)
    Speak loud and clear, then repeat it again
    ‘Cause you gotta let me know how to get back to you
    Speak up now, cause my rap is thru”

  44. 44.

    Shana

    March 1, 2018 at 8:39 pm

    @evodevo: There was a guy in a MAGA hat though, at least in the small part I watched.

  45. 45.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 1, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    @JAFD: Couldn’t you have just gone with “You Know my Name, Look Up the Number”*?

    *That’s The Beatles for you young folk.

  46. 46.

    mad citizen

    March 1, 2018 at 8:59 pm

    That was the longest minute and sixteen seconds of my life.

  47. 47.

    MobiusKlein

    March 1, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    @tobie: Weird Al did it.
    Lookup ‘Amish Paradise’ and respect it.

  48. 48.

    Fair Economist

    March 1, 2018 at 9:17 pm

    @JAFD: I would never have left a message after an outgoing message that long so – very effective!

  49. 49.

    Just One More Canuck

    March 1, 2018 at 9:46 pm

    @Gozer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFvXt2PFnB8

  50. 50.

    bobbo

    March 1, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    Why?

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    March 1, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    @JAFD:

    I bet your callers really loved that long-ass message after the 50th second time they heard it.

  52. 52.

    Steve in the ATL

    March 1, 2018 at 10:41 pm

    @JAFD: the binary reference is so effing street!

  53. 53.

    Stan

    March 2, 2018 at 11:15 am

    Comic Sans, yet.

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