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
Open thread
oatler.
“dum dum dum”
Gin & Tonic
Fuck you. I want that one minute and sixteen seconds back.
charluckles
There has to be easier and less embarrassing ways of informing the world you are comfortably encased in an impenetrable bubble.
ChaunceyBaker
“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
— Dean Wormer
Frankensteinbeck
@ChaunceyBaker:
Pick one, two tops.
evodevo
Boy, did they leave a LOT out of the process – I didn’t see even ONE lobbyist or ALEC contact lol
Mike J
Better news in the world of internet video, Youtube nuked Jerome Corsi’s channel.
Steve in the STL
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.
Gozer
That was the whitest shit I think I’ve ever seen.
Fair Economist
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.
Mary G
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.
NotMax
Is there a Grammy category for misspoken word?
Roger Moore
@ChaunceyBaker:
They’re Mormons. They manage to be that bad without needing to be drunk.
Noskilz
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.
piratedan
i give them props for trying… to be fair, most of them don’t.
Cluttered Mind
Mormons: White people’s white people.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
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
Corner Stone
You understand that I hate your guts right now.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Fair Economist: To be fair, it airs on Nick & Nite and BET mornings, as well as VH1.
? Martin
White mormon hip-hop is the art form at its more pure.
Amir Khalid
@Steve in the STL:
You’re in St Louis now?
Major Major Major Major
The Simpsons of course has the definitive educational video about the legislative process.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
@Fair Economist:
When I was younger I caught some episodes on Nick @ Nite. It was pretty funny.
Baud
So that’s how they regulate abortion?
Interesting.
Corner Stone
@Mike J:
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.
Gin & Tonic
@Steve in the STL:
Whew. Good thing I’m not a lawyer.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Corner Stone: Jerome Corsi is “down to fuck?”
geg6
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.
Baud
@geg6: Why can’t they stick to polka? They’re good at polka.
Gozer
I think this was the inspiration for that clip…
BEHOLD! COUNTRY HIP HOP DANCING!!
https://youtu.be/UOacUWjHgiE
ruemara
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.
Corner Stone
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): I am going to guess “Yes”? But I was going with Details To Follow, you sick perv.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Corner Stone: I actually thought you meant “what the fuck” and that the D was a typo.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
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.
Mike J
@Corner Stone
Details tk is traditional.
efgoldman
@piratedan:
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
Central Planning
Why wouldn’t they dust off the Schoolhouse Rock video… “I’m just a bill…”
JCJ
@Cluttered Mind:
“Mormons: White people’s white people.”
Bravo!
Steve in the STL
@Amir Khalid: temporarily, but I had to change only one letter in my nym and couldn’t resist the temptation
Trollhattan
Will Smith
Is 49
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Shit so white it’s translucent.
tobie
OMG…what comes next. Amish rappers?
JAFD
@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”
Shana
@evodevo: There was a guy in a MAGA hat though, at least in the small part I watched.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JAFD: Couldn’t you have just gone with “You Know my Name, Look Up the Number”*?
*That’s The Beatles for you young folk.
mad citizen
That was the longest minute and sixteen seconds of my life.
MobiusKlein
@tobie: Weird Al did it.
Lookup ‘Amish Paradise’ and respect it.
Fair Economist
@JAFD: I would never have left a message after an outgoing message that long so – very effective!
Just One More Canuck
@Gozer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFvXt2PFnB8
bobbo
Why?
Steeplejack
@JAFD:
I bet your callers really loved that long-ass message after the
50thsecond time they heard it.Steve in the ATL
@JAFD: the binary reference is so effing street!
Stan
Comic Sans, yet.