Gasps and boos quickly spread across the room as members on both sides reacted to the sudden disruption.
... holding a sign is a "sudden disruption?" Ffs...
Remind me, were MTG or Bobert booted from the SOTU when they literally yelled at Biden?
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Or the asshat who yelled "you lie" at Obama.
That dipshit, Joe Wilson, is still in the House of Representatives. He was pissed because Obama said illegal immigrants wouldn't benefit from the ACA.
His yelling at Obama was making political hay; scaremongering that "undeserving" people might get healthcare in the richest country in the history of the world.
That asshat is a SCOTUS "justice" and it was in response to Obama essentially saying "Citizens United was an awful ruling that will (do everything we've now seen it do, handing even more political influence to corporations)"
So, no, Mr.Asshat "Justice," he did not in fact lie.
Rep from SC, not SCOTUS.
Ahhh, I mixed that up with Alito saying "not true."
https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-now/2010/01/justice-alito-mouths-not-true-024608
Dems are held to decorum, the right isn’t.
Look at this picture:
Caption:
Nicole Malliotakis laughing and pointing towards the exit and she jeers a somber Al Green
It's like those civil rights pictures of people yelling at black people sitting in a cafe.
I hadn't heard of her before, but she certainly is a wretched little cretin.
I guess he's no longer "one of the good ones."
He looks like a badass
Gasps that our president is a racist, right?
To the conservatives, having someone accuse you of racism is more offensive than actual racism.
Republicans are more scandalized that someone called the president out for doing something incredibly racist than they are that the president did something incredibly racist.
Also, they have no room to talk about decorum...
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He's wrong though. We're all apes, regardless of race.
We’re all boney, ray-finned fish.
I for one identify as a hagfish
Yes. Unfortunately, racists deny that little technicality and think they're the superior other. So their usage of "apes" is offensive in this context.
This feels like a "read the room" kind of comment.
All humans are biologically considered animals, and there are many times when I feel that viewing human behavior through that lens genuinely encourages compassion and understanding, and yet: there is a long history of people being called "animals" as a dehumanizing measure in order to justify doing the same horrible things to them that humans routinely do to non-human animals. This is particularly true for historically marginalized groups.
Likewise, there is a long, racist history of white people calling Black people "apes" or "monkeys" to justify racist systems and treat Black people the way they view monkeys and non-human apes, as resembling humans but not fully human.
This representative is specifically responding to a video shared by Trump, who has a long history of racist behavior, in which the Obamas were depicted as distinctly non-human apes (I cannot recall the specific ape and cannot readily look it up. Gorillas, I think?), echoing that racist trope.
When someone responds to Trump trafficking in racist tropes with "Black people aren't apes," they are not getting into the nitty gritty of taxonomical clades, they're countering that trope. "Well, actually"-ing about humans technically being apes is undercutting the focus on countering Trump's racism. Time and place.
It wasn't meant as a serious statement, more so like another commenter put it, we're not not apes.
I know what he meant, and it's why I specifically mentioned that it's not a question of race.
Yeah, but it feels weird for the pro science party to be doing this...
So let's govern like they govern on the discovery channel
Monki~
Every single Democrat should have done something to get kicked out
I had to laugh at watching little Mikey Johnson pretending to be wringing his hands over Democrats boycotting the SOTU (oh, the CIVILITY!), and he just cannot fucking help himself because he knows who he is doing this little performance for, and it's not normal Americans:
He says:
We've never done that. It doesn't matter if there's a Democrat (sic) president, you go and respect the office, you respect the decorum, the institution, the tradition of having had this speech made.
These little weasels simply refuse to get the name of the party right. They do it all the time, and the Murc's Law media never calls them on it. They quote little Mikey and don't even put the sic in there as they should.
So the guy is pretending to be claiming that the SOTU is all about coming together, let's have some civility here, etc., and even in the process of doing that, he does the little Republicunt insult that all of them do, constantly.
Civility. He can kiss my red rosy.
We all share DNA with monkeys…
And bananas