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This Makes Me Ridiculously Happy

by WaterGirl|  May 24, 20235:58 pm| 133 Comments

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Speaking of ridiculous…

Holy shit. Democrats just burst out laughing at Marjorie Taylor Greene as she’s presiding over the House when she told them to have “decorum.” She kept hitting the gavel and they kept laughing at her. (@acyn) pic.twitter.com/r3mhFgWOC6

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 24, 2023

Watching that 45 seconds of video was a great antidote to all the stress of what’s going on.

And this is the icing on the cake – 4.5 years for this fucker to think about what he did

UPDATE: Richard Barnett, the nitwit who ransacked Nancy Pelosi’s office during J6, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison.

Plenty of time to put his feet up and contemplate his actions. pic.twitter.com/GwqwYiRGXj

— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) May 24, 2023

Totally open thread.

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  1. 1.

    Rebel’s Dad

    May 24, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    I love this, and no I’m not ashamed to be this petty.

  2. 2.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    May 24, 2023 at 6:01 pm

    @Rebel’s Dad: Come sit by me.

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    May 24, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    Takes up smoking.
    Lights one up.
    Stubs out Marlboro on MTG’s copy of “Mein Kampf” in the original Piglatin.
    And that’s a Wednesday wrap.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:03 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    As I said to my mom when I was 13:

    Respect is given where respect is due.

    side note: that did not go over well with my mom.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:03 pm

    @trollhattan: In the original Pig Latin!  hahaha

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    I also enjoyed this from (not the real) Jack Smith who retweeted the top tweet with this comment:

    Howler monkey bangs gavel in Congress.

    Does dog love us this much?  Yes he does.

  7. 7.

    Sure Lurkalot

    May 24, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    She’s so fucking high on her own supply that she thinks her presence commands deference and respect.

    Wrong as usual, Marge.

  8. 8.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 6:13 pm

    WaterGirl, in the MTG Tweet replies there’s an image of her you need to capture!😂 It’s labeled *sensitive* but only if you’re Margie.

  9. 9.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    May 24, 2023 at 6:14 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot: Decorum for me but not for thee…

  10. 10.

    Burnspbesq

    May 24, 2023 at 6:14 pm

    Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy, gets sentenced tomorrow. Hoping Judge Mehta gives him what he deserves.

  11. 11.

    piratedan

    May 24, 2023 at 6:17 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot: well the position does/should…. but coupled with her behavior and statements (and likely involvement with J6) she personally doesn’t warrant that respect.

    I do expect the media to flood us with takes on the Dems disrespect for the office and the norms not being observed because that’s how they roll.

  12. 12.

    RaflW

    May 24, 2023 at 6:18 pm

    Rhonda Santis’ campaign launch just crashed Twitter Spaces. Murphy the trickster loves some fun times.

    Ben Collins @oneunderscore__
    Fewer than 500,000 people are trying to listen to this Ron DeSantis campaign launch on Twitter spaces and it is crashing everyone’s phones. Imagine what would happen if a large amount of people actually showed up.

    Ben Goggin @BenjaminGoggin
    Imagine being Ron DeSantis right now… there’s no way an in-person campaign announcement could go this poorly

  13. 13.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 6:18 pm

    @Burnspbesq: 🤞🏻🤞🏻

  14. 14.

    CaseyL

    May 24, 2023 at 6:21 pm

    @RaflW: Half a million people to watch a campaign announcement sounds like a pretty good-sized audience to me.  How many were they expecting to tune in?

  15. 15.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    May 24, 2023 at 6:24 pm

    @RaflW: Ron DeSantis right now… there’s no way an in-person campaign announcement could go this poorly

    Counterfactual Rhonda Sandtits: Hold my beer.

  16. 16.

    RaflW

    May 24, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    @CaseyL: IDK. But don’t major stars and influencers use Musk’s Spaces platform? Shouldn’t it be robust enough to just stream info to people’s devices?

    eta: Musk is also attending the space that is crashing!

    Ha ha ha, la de freaking HA!

  17. 17.

    Cameron

    May 24, 2023 at 6:26 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Hold your beer?  Eewww.  I don’t want pudding all over my hands.

  18. 18.

    Suzanne

    May 24, 2023 at 6:26 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: @Rebel’s Dad: Joining you both. Bringing good pasta to share.

  19. 19.

    Another Scott

    May 24, 2023 at 6:27 pm

    @CaseyL: I assume 20% are press people (mostly unpaid interns hoping for their big break), 79.999% are bots attached to Ronda’s campaign.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  20. 20.

    karen marie

    May 24, 2023 at 6:28 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot:   She’s jonesing for the speakership.  I’m a little surprised McCarthy allowed her the gavel.

  21. 21.

    karen marie

    May 24, 2023 at 6:29 pm

    @Jackie:   Twitter does that to block people who don’t have accounts from seeing it.

  22. 22.

    Zzyzx

    May 24, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    So what happens when you fire all of the devs and try to roll out new features? Who could have predicted this?

  23. 23.

    BlueGuitarist

    May 24, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    @RaflW:

    When DeSadeness’s announcement crashed, Biden posted

    ”This link works” for link to his donation page

    political wire labels it “troll of the year”

  24. 24.

    West of the Rockies

    May 24, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    So rich, a call for decorum, coming from the jack ass who brayed on and on during President Biden’s SOTU address.

  25. 25.

    Mo MacArbie

    May 24, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    @RaflW: Well, don’t that just wax yer bees.

    No, I don’t know what that means either. It’s fun to say though.

  26. 26.

    Math Guy

    May 24, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    Thank you for posting that. I do need to try to laugh a little more these days.

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 6:31 pm

    Oh Majorly Trashy Gasbag…

  28. 28.

    RaflW

    May 24, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    Biden campaign did a tweet about 16 minutes ago with a link to their Act Blue:

    “This link works”

    Someone very snappy on that social media account today!

    .

    eta:  @BlueGuitarist got there first :)

  29. 29.

    Tony Jay

    May 24, 2023 at 6:34 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot:

    But she ‘won’, and she’s got a gavel, so that means those limp-twisted, rule-following, bourgeois Democrats have to give her respect and deference.

    Thing is, Marge, you MAGOP morons are using the old rule book, from the old game that people enjoyed for a long time until your friends ruined it by cheating constantly. Those guys and girls laughing at you? They’ve got the new and updated version, the one with whole pages explaining how to asskick trolls, throatpunch orcs, and even rip the guts out of that disgusting sub-species of Mickey Rourke-skin wearing ogre that can be heard howling and growling around the Capitol after the three bottles for $5 singles-bars have shut for the night.

    They got your number, and they don’t even need a 20 sided dice to roll it.

  30. 30.

    JPL

    May 24, 2023 at 6:36 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: omg She was suppose to run in my district, and the repubs recognized that would be a wipeout.   They carved out a prettty little area where she can’t lose.   Since then my district was redrawn but we can win it back.

  31. 31.

    Ken

    May 24, 2023 at 6:36 pm

    @RaflW: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/ is amusing.  Though it’ll disappear in 24 hours – maybe some kind front-pager will post a screencap…

  32. 32.

    zhena gogolia

    May 24, 2023 at 6:37 pm

    @RaflW:
    JL Cauvin has done his interpretation. His rendition of the laughter of the two men, which ends the video, is epic:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky7R7J1NzyQ&t=1s

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:38 pm

    @Jackie: ??

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:39 pm

    @RaflW: But, but… he’s a bold trailblazer!  hahaha

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:41 pm

    @CaseyL:  500k seems like a lot to me, too.  In the middle of the day!

  36. 36.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 6:41 pm

    UPDATE: Richard Barnett, the nitwit who ransacked Nancy Pelosi’s office during J6, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison.

    Fucked around, now finding out.  And he can go fuck himself!

    Same asshole who threw a tantrum over Zoom during one of his court appearances because he didn’t like being in jail.

    None of us who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 stormed the Capitol building, or even tried.

    Fuck ’em!

  37. 37.

    Geminid

    May 24, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    Washington Post Capitol Hill correspondent Marianna Sotomayor reported 4 hours ago that the entire Democratic caucus has signed on to the discharge petition for Rep. DeSaulnier’s bill. Caucus Whip Catherine Clark said that it shows that House Democrats are united.

    The discharge petition does not seem that likely a solution to the debt ceiling impasse, but Democrats are still pressing it forward.

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    @Another Scott: You are probably right about bots.

  39. 39.

    RSA

    May 24, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    Holy shit. Democrats just burst out laughing at Marjorie Taylor Greene

    And it sounded pretty spontaneous!  For some reason I didn’t realize that members of Congress probably have the same view of MTG as ordinary people.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    @Tony Jay: Marge is so dumb that when they laughed at her the first 3 or 4 times… she thought that maybe with one more gavel – this time she means it! – she will get the respect she will never deserve.

    She’s an embarrassment.

  41. 41.

    RaflW

    May 24, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    It just gets better and better.

    Jon Favreau @jonfavs
    So Ron DeSantis chose a glitchy audio-only format with an audience 1/20th the size of a Fox primetime show to just….read his stump speech?

    Replying to Jon:

    David Corn @DavidCornDC
    Well, his screechy voice is his strongest asset, right?

    Dunno what the total Spaces audience is now, but after the re-launch, it was holding at about 100K listeners for a while. He probably would have reached a couple mil on Fox primetime so Jon’s point stands that his political & comms instincts (ie sucking up to Musk) are — of course — poor.

  42. 42.

    karen marie

    May 24, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    I can’t find anything about MTG’s stint today as speaker pro tempore.  She’s apparently gotten to do it, I think, two other times previously.

    Here’s something to make you gag.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) placed a winning $100,000 bid Tuesday for a lip balm stick used by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who also promised a visit with the winner’s donors and supporters.

     

    Absolutely foul.

  43. 43.

    karen marie

    May 24, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:  You heard about Tim what’s his name, right?

  44. 44.

    C Stars

    May 24, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    At this point incompetence is a part of the GOP brand, right? Like if an event didn’t go horribly off the rails the mouthbreathers would probably find it untrustworthy and elitist.

     

    Open thread? I had been doing a great job of staying away from news and politics lately by taking up exercising: hiking and/or an exercise class every day. Now I have peroneal tendinitis. Bah.

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:47 pm

    @Ken: Ask and you shall receive.

    This Makes Me Ridiculously Happy

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    May 24, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    Greene Convene Scene Demeaned
    – (imaginary) Variety
    :)

  47. 47.

    Alison Rose

    May 24, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    @Rebel’s Dad: Likewise, friend.

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    @RSA: The Dems were pretty raucous at the 1-15 votes for The Squeaker, as I recall.  Or was that pushback at the State of the Union.  I don’t remember for sure, but these are not our father’s Democrats.

    (apostrophe after S?)

  49. 49.

    Manyakitty

    May 24, 2023 at 6:49 pm

    @RaflW: I love everything about this.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 6:50 pm

    @Rebel’s Dad:

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    @Suzanne: Mind if I join you three?

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 6:51 pm

    @karen marie:

    She’s jonesing for the speakership. I’m a little surprised McCarthy allowed her the gavel. 

    Where is Joe Kevin btw?

  52. 52.

    prostratedragon

    May 24, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    How wonderfully spontaneous!  I  busted a guffaw right with them, so I guess they’re representing me.

    As for Barnett, I hope he doesn’t already have a lot of time served. For him to be that much a goof at his age suggests things take a while to sink in.

  53. 53.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 6:53 pm

    @karen marie: Oh my god, that’s disgusting.

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    May 24, 2023 at 6:54 pm

    @mrmoshpotato

    Smokin’ Weepin’ in the boys cloakroom.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 24, 2023 at 6:55 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
      Wait until you find out what she does with it.

  56. 56.

    Ken

    May 24, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    @WaterGirl: Thank you!  Mind you, 391 is not a huge reported outage — I’ve seen it over 8000.

  57. 57.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 24, 2023 at 6:57 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: ok clearly your account was hacked. You have never posted three times in a row—or even two times—without using the word “shitstain”

  58. 58.

    Baud

    May 24, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    None of us who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 stormed the Capitol building, or even tried.

    I did.

  59. 59.

    NotMax

    May 24, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    @Steve in the ATL

    Literally.
    ;)

  60. 60.

    Princess

    May 24, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Imagine trusting all your political hopes dreams and aspirations on something run by Elon Musk. Imagine. They touted the “millions” who would tune in. It crashed with a piddly 250k viewers.

  61. 61.

    Baud

    May 24, 2023 at 7:01 pm

    Aside from the crash, was there anything noteworthy about the announcement?

  62. 62.

    Baud

    May 24, 2023 at 7:01 pm

    @Rebel’s Dad:

    If I could play the guitar, I’d be Tom Petty.

  63. 63.

    NotMax

    May 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm

    @Princess

    You mean the tech genius also promising self-driving cars?
    //

  64. 64.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 7:02 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Marge is so dumb that when they laughed at her the first 3 or 4 times… she thought that maybe with one more gavel – this time she means it! – she will get the respect she will never deserve. 

    Marge, you’re not our real mom!

  65. 65.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    May 24, 2023 at 7:03 pm

    @Baud: I had no idea what to expect going into the link. Just delightful.

    @karen marie: I heard every Republican’s “I have a friend” had announced but not the mic incident .

    I’ll consider the current state of the Republican primary an auspicious omen.

  66. 66.

    Tony Jay

    May 24, 2023 at 7:04 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    That’s the thing with these Kewl Rool-Braykin Edgegods of the MAGOP, give them a single tremulous droplet of actual institutional authority and they morph straight into Keith Poindexter, Hall-Monitor Emeritus. The second Marge got hold of that gavel she instantly became a six year old in a too-big blazer and lots of lipstick playacting as “Mommy in one of her meetings”. 

    They can’t help it. They’re very immature people with no earthly idea of how adults act other than what they’ve seen Democrats doing, which is why they’re terribly bad at it. 

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    May 24, 2023 at 7:04 pm

    @Baud

    Sadly, I play guitar like Richard and drive like Tom.
    :)

  68. 68.

    Ohio Mom

    May 24, 2023 at 7:07 pm

    That outburst of discourteous laughter at MGT is karma in real time. I enjoyed every moment of it, watched it several times in order to savor it.

    @Another Scott: Eternally levelheaded Scott, you are right, no need for any of us to panic that Desantis has that many fans. Please know that your comments have calmed me many times.

    @BlueGuitarist: Obviously, Biden does not monitor or maintain his twitter feed but whoever does, has captured his voice. I can see in my mind’s eye, Biden announcing “This link works” with a big grin and a twinkle in his eyes, thoroughly relishing the opening given him.

  69. 69.

    TaMara

    May 24, 2023 at 7:08 pm

    Worth an embed. His social media team deserves a raise, or at least a double scoop tonight. This after Spaces crashed:

    This link works: https://t.co/9PzIJkseYI

    — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2023

  70. 70.

    Suzanne

    May 24, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Pasta and schadenfreude for everyone, friend! There’s plenty more.

  71. 71.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Quick!  Someone mention Dump!

  72. 72.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    @karen marie: I was able to see it and I don’t have an account. I just clicked the “view.” I just wanted WaterGirl to see it 😊

  73. 73.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 7:10 pm

    @Baud: Was thinking Monty Python before I clicked!

  74. 74.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:10 pm

    @BlueGuitarist:

    😂😂😂

    Dark Brandon strikes again!

  75. 75.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 24, 2023 at 7:13 pm

    @Ohio Mom: I still like to think of him typing it himself.

  76. 76.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 7:13 pm

    @Suzanne: YUMM-O!

  77. 77.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:14 pm

    @WaterGirl: I wonder how many were Dems attempting and succeeding in crashing the site🤔

  78. 78.

    Roger Moore

    May 24, 2023 at 7:14 pm

    @RaflW:

    Imagine being Ron DeSantis right now… there’s no way an in-person campaign announcement could go this poorly

    Rudy Giuliani at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

  79. 79.

    kalakal

    May 24, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    @WaterGirl: Ohio diners mysteriously empty reports FTNYT

  80. 80.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    @WaterGirl: There’s a meme in the comments of the MTG tweet you posted that’s worth viewing. It’s marked sensitive so you have to click “view” to open. It made me lol.

  81. 81.

    Geminid

    May 24, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    @Baud: Not sure if it’s noteworthy, but according to Ron Filipkowski, DeSantis said he’s “been preparing for this primary all my life.” Kind of a left-handed compliment.

  82. 82.

    Layer8Problem

    May 24, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    @C Stars:  The word “Ow” springs to mind.  Sorry to hear.

  83. 83.

    Baud

    May 24, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    @Geminid:

    He’s been practicing his laugh in the mirror.

  84. 84.

    kalakal

    May 24, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot: I would have thought the words “Fisher Price” on the gavel they gave her should have been a clue

  85. 85.

    Captain C

    May 24, 2023 at 7:19 pm

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    Rhonda Sandtits

    Is that Puddin’ Fingers’ drag name?

  86. 86.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s an image I don’t need in my head, thanks a lot!

  87. 87.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    @karen marie: Makes me wonder if Mrs McCarthy approves of Kevin and Margie’s closeness. Myself? EWWWWWW🤢🤮

  88. 88.

    Captain C

    May 24, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    @RaflW:

    eta: Musk is also attending the space that is crashing!

    And he’s probably already fired all the Spaces people he could possibly fire without making it completely kaput.  Didn’t he get rid of a bunch of servers, too?

  89. 89.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    Lewis Black describes the Floriduh insanity against anyone who’s gay as “Orwellian comedy.”

  90. 90.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    @kalakal: Squeak!  Squeak!

  91. 91.

    Maxim

    May 24, 2023 at 7:26 pm

    The laughter felt rehearsed to me (especially how loud it was and how long it went on), but either way she deserved it. And her voice — good grief. Like a bad SNL impression of a whiny baby.

  92. 92.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    @TaMara: There was an article about their new social media hire a few weeks/months ago.  Looks like she is as good as expected.

  93. 93.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    @Jackie: Interesting thought!

  94. 94.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    @kalakal: Ha!  Or maybe there were so many connecting from the diners that it took out the wifi.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    @Jackie: Oh, in the comments!  I’ll be right back.

  96. 96.

    Manyakitty

    May 24, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    @TaMara: okay, fine. They earned my donation 😀

  97. 97.

    karen marie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:   It’s probably already got her DNA on it.

  98. 98.

    JaySinWA

    May 24, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    @WaterGirl: There are a lot of comments, I think Jackie will have to be more specific.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    @Jackie: I’m not seeing anything marked Sensitive. ??

    But I found this gem.

    Butch, banging for DECORUM in the HOUSE is the funniest thing I’ve heard today. Imagine, the howling banshee from not one, but two joint sessions of Congress for not one, but two State of the Union addresses is demanding DECORUM. pic.twitter.com/X7W5mBkW4n

    — bmichael (@brolivor) May 24, 2023

  100. 100.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    @WaterGirl: Banging for decorum.

    I think that would be a lovely rotating tag. :-)

  101. 101.

    karen marie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    @Jackie:   I didn’t bother because something else I had followed a twitter link to that had a “restricted for content” or some such demanded I log in.

    I hate that place and try to click through as infrequently as I can anyway.

  102. 102.

    Craig

    May 24, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    @WaterGirl: OT. sometime last week people were talking about work from home and you posted an app that helps track your time on projects. I’m starting a new project soon and would love to check out that app. Can’t find the post if you wouldn’t mind reposting the link.

  103. 103.

    Roger Moore

    May 24, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    @Jackie:

    Makes me wonder if Mrs McCarthy approves of Kevin and Margie’s closeness.

    I would guess anything that lets her spend more time away from her husband is fine in her book.

  104. 104.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    @kalakal: She’s so dumb, she thinks she gets more power by banging harder.

    She never watched Nancy SMASH who didn’t need to prove she was the big dog, she would most often lightly tap the gavel and got everyone’s attention.

  105. 105.

    Ken

    May 24, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    @Geminid: DeSantis said he’s “been preparing for this primary all my life.”

    Well, it’s a cinch he’s not been serving as governor.

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    How immature would it be to have a How Dumb Is Marge thread?  It’s probably beneath me, but it is fun to think about.

  107. 107.

    Geminid

    May 24, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    @Maxim: What may have triggered the laughter was how Greene admonished members to observe “decorum of the House. She left out a “the” in front of decorum, so it sounded like she said “de corum of the House.”

    And Greene might actually think that decorum is two words, like how she confused gazpacho with Gestapo.

  108. 108.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 7:40 pm

    @Craig: That’s easy!

    Toggl

  109. 109.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 7:43 pm

    @WaterGirl: Ironically the how dumb is MTG was a meme I was trying to direct you to in the Twitter comments. She’s holding a sign which says something like “I’m so stupid I don’t know how stupid I am.” I had to click a view box to open it – it was marked sensitive content.

  110. 110.

    Connor

    May 24, 2023 at 7:48 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    side note: that did not go over well with my mom.

    When I was 9 or 10 my mother, who had been drinking, called me a “son of a bitch.” I immediately replied “Mother! Don’t talk about yourself that way!”

    What happened next was momentarily painful, but oh so worth it…

  111. 111.

    prostratedragon

    May 24, 2023 at 7:50 pm

    @Jackie:  What I wonder is why on earth such an item was up for auction.

  112. 112.

    Maxim

    May 24, 2023 at 7:56 pm

    @Connor: On behalf of smartass kids everywhere, I salute you.

  113. 113.

    Captain C

    May 24, 2023 at 7:57 pm

    MTG hammering the gavel reminds me of this part of this scene from Animal House.

  114. 114.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    @Connor: LOL!  Quick mind there!

  115. 115.

    Maxim

    May 24, 2023 at 8:01 pm

    @Geminid: I keep thinking that she’s not as dumb as she acts, that it’s all a very cynical shtick to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Not that it matters; her deeds are reprehensible regardless.

  116. 116.

    Roger Moore

    May 24, 2023 at 8:02 pm

    @Connor: ​
     
    There is a similar story about Esther Edwards Burr, daughter of famed preacher Jonathan Edwards and mother of Aaron Burr. Supposedly, her father once called her “child of the devil” for waking up late, and she just responded, “Good morning, father“. Yes, it is unwise to criticize your children’s parentage.

  117. 117.

    PaulB

    May 24, 2023 at 8:03 pm

    @WaterGirl:  I assume this is the tweet that Jackie was referring to. It’s an image of Marge holding a (photoshopped) sign that says, “The tragic thing is I’ll never be smart enough to realize how stupid I am.”

  118. 118.

    Bill Arnold

    May 24, 2023 at 8:08 pm

    @Jackie:

    I wonder how many were Dems attempting and succeeding in crashing the site

    The internal Twitter postmortem/toot cause analysis on this will be amusing.

  119. 119.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 8:08 pm

    @prostratedragon: Makes one wonder what else was being auctioned.

  120. 120.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 8:11 pm

    @PaulB: Yes! Thanks PaulB!

    It made me 😂

  121. 121.

    zeecube

    May 24, 2023 at 8:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: It can be found in the tweet by “Peter”, about 12 comments down.  Good will hunting.

  122. 122.

    Miss Bianca

    May 24, 2023 at 8:22 pm

    @Jackie: and how much MTG paid for Kevin’s jockstrap.

  123. 123.

    zhena gogolia

    May 24, 2023 at 8:26 pm

    I love it when she’s in a hearing and she’s wearing “smart glasses,” and she keeps taking them on and off. She thinks she looks like an intellectual.

  124. 124.

    NotMax

    May 24, 2023 at 8:27 pm

    @Miss Bianca

    She went for the set. Each tastefully embroidered with a day of the week.
    //

  125. 125.

    cckids

    May 24, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    @prostratedragon: Yes! They couldn’t find a pen he’d used, or his favorite tie, or . . . LITERALLY ANYTHING NORMAL?!

  126. 126.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 8:45 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Used?

    EEEEWWWWWW!

  127. 127.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 24, 2023 at 9:19 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I love it when she’s in a hearing and she’s wearing “smart glasses,” and she keeps taking them on and off. She thinks she looks like an intellectual. 

    Haha!  Burn!

  128. 128.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 10:13 pm

    @Jackie: Sorry I didn’t find that one!

  129. 129.

    WaterGirl

    May 24, 2023 at 10:14 pm

    @Maxim: She is cunning and conniving and ambitious, and yet still dumb.

  130. 130.

    Jackie

    May 24, 2023 at 10:50 pm

    @WaterGirl: PaulB found it. Comment 117😊

  131. 131.

    Rebel’s Dad

    May 25, 2023 at 2:07 am

    @Alison Rose: I cackled!

  132. 132.

    Geminid

    May 25, 2023 at 2:23 am

    @Maxim: Personally, I would not neccesarily say that Greene is stupid. But college degree or no, she’s definitely uneducated.

    Greene lucked out when she entered politics. She started running in the suburban Atlanta 6th(?) CD, where she would have faced Lucy McBath. Local Republicans wanted Karen Handel though, and Greene was steered to the 14th CD, whose Republican Congressman was retiring. Bordering Alabama on the west and Tennessee on the north, the 14th is probably Georgia’s safest Republican district.

  133. 133.

    Paul in KY

    May 25, 2023 at 12:20 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I wish you hadn’t written that…. Yeeeiccckkkk

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