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(MSN)   Many GOP congressmen are not clever men. Maxine Waters however, is an extremely clever woman. So, it was a REALLY bad idea for Rep. Nick Longworthy to have her as a witness in his "hearing" to denounce "socialism" in the US   (msn.com) divider line
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5733 clicks; posted to Politics » on 01 Feb 2023 at 10:42 AM (8 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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BizarreMan [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 9:54:04 AM  
They aren't bright men.
 
Znuh [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:10:46 AM  
It's nice to see it happen. I don't know how we do it, but rebuttals and logic isn't going to change the course of the Rs. They're all in with Fascism.

What we're seeing in Florida is particularly hair-raising.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:12:53 AM  
The problem is, these are easy rebuttals. AOC could have wiped the floor with him. It doesn't matter, it all happens where no one really sees it and everyone in that room knows that.

It's a slap fight and no one wins.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 10:19:00 AM  
a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.
 
Rev.K [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:27:17 AM  
It's obvious that Mr. GQP mush-head has absolutely no f*cking idea what socialism is.

Now, a normal person would be ashamed and embarrassed of being publicly exposed that they are completely out of their depth, but not here, loud opposition to a phantom idea is incredibly popular and these useful idiots are more than happy to play along.
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 10:28:46 AM  

NewportBarGuy: The problem is, these are easy rebuttals. AOC could have wiped the floor with him. It doesn't matter, it all happens where no one really sees it and everyone in that room knows that.

It's a slap fight and no one wins.


One of the reasons I submitted it, I want more people to see this, to see the abject humiliations of a would-be bully who ended up YEILDING HIS TIME rather than continue an argument he was losing so badly, And that  to a woman he called as a witness because he thought she'd be a punching bag because he'd internalized and genuinely believed the racist caricature of her that his party has created.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:34:34 AM  

Magorn: NewportBarGuy: The problem is, these are easy rebuttals. AOC could have wiped the floor with him. It doesn't matter, it all happens where no one really sees it and everyone in that room knows that.

It's a slap fight and no one wins.

One of the reasons I submitted it, I want more people to see this, to see the abject humiliations of a would-be bully who ended up YEILDING HIS TIME rather than continue an argument he was losing so badly, And that  to a woman he called as a witness because he thought she'd be a punching bag because he'd internalized and genuinely believed the racist caricature of her that his party has created.


I wish we could put it on during the Super Bowl or something but it's tough to make people care about this stuff.
 
Rev.K [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:37:08 AM  
Also, that f*cking page has a link to itself so you can watch the video.

Asinine.
 
thornhill
2023-02-01 10:45:54 AM  
In case you wanted to know what a man with a small penis looks like:

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fiddlehead
2023-02-01 10:47:16 AM  

FlashHarry: a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.


.Our business today is to consider H. Con. Res. 9, sponsored by Representative Salazar of Florida. This concurrent resolution denounces socialism in all its forms and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.

In recent years, many American politicians have ignored the brutal history of socialism and have openly embraced the label of "socialist" or pushed socialist policies, despite the long history of human rights violations at the hands of socialist or communist regimes in pursuit of their ideology. The resolution before us condemns socialism, grieves the human loss at the hands of socialistic regimes and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States. America is a bastion of freedom and a beacon of hope to the rest of the world, and I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will join us in supporting this resolution.

What the shiat indeed.
 
rudemix [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:47:55 AM  
It's fortunate that these things happen and conservatives are exposed for their stupidity, or when someone drops zingers on them on twitter, and they get humiliated on other social media outlets because it takes the sting away from the fact people this stupid and ignorant and willfully flushing our nation down the toilet.
 
Night Train to Wakanda
2023-02-01 10:48:04 AM  
Jesus. My boner can only get so erect, and I bet the sphincter of every Republican in that room just tightened up hard enough to shiat a diamond.

Madame Maxine... I love you.
 
Cokezeroinacan
2023-02-01 10:48:29 AM  
How is she not in jail after her vicious assault on Michael Tracey?
 
leviosaurus [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:48:44 AM  
These R's complain about government inefficiency, they when they are in government, they waste all of our time with stupid and useless showboating. Good for Waters for handing him his ass.
 
Jack Sabbath
2023-02-01 10:48:59 AM  

BizarreMan: They aren't bright men.


This.  And this is what is so frustrating, as they are SO easy to outwit, to turn the tables on, to make look like absolute morons, and yet it so infrequently happens.

It should be a cakewalk for Democrats to slaughter the Republicans politically.  Just use their own words, their own stances.

But it is a rare occurrence.

Been happening more lately I suppose. Needs to happen more.
 
HotWingConspiracy
2023-02-01 10:50:37 AM  
Waters then asked Langworthy if he believed the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a socialist initiative, citing the number of Republicans in Congress who took funds from the PPP program. Langworthy said it was not a socialist initiative because it was done during "an extraordinary time when we shut down the government."

LOL stay in school, kid.
 
Night Train to Wakanda
2023-02-01 10:50:56 AM  

Cokezeroinacan: How is she not in jail after her vicious assault on Michael Tracey?


Because it's got all the gravitas of Elizabeth Warren emasculating a marine.
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-01 10:51:09 AM  
I'm sure he thought "Black, female, democrat.  This'll be easy"
 
Glockenspiel Hero [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:51:13 AM  
FOX News headline: "GOP Congressman destroys Maxine Waters in socialism debate"
 
fiddlehead
2023-02-01 10:51:42 AM  
Dems on the committee giving the finger with their revisions:

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Smoking GNU [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 10:52:38 AM  
Never ask a question when you don't already know the EXACT answer you're gonna get.
 
BeansNfranks
2023-02-01 10:53:10 AM  

FlashHarry: a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.


Yeah, i'm completely lost too. Like, what sort of national problem are we solving with this.. uh.. 'thing'? I seriously don't get it.
 
DrD'isInfotainment [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:54:41 AM  
First of all Representative Langworthy sounds like a Porn Star name, and his head kind of plays along if you see what I mean.

Secondly Maxine Waters has been the butt of racist jokes from the GOP for something like 30-40 years. She is one sharp woman who knows her way around finance/banking/economy, and enjoys mopping the floor with racist rednecks from Texas, Ok, etc etc, so dis gone be fuun.
 
JerkStore
2023-02-01 10:55:06 AM  
It's like when these waterheads used to go on the Daily Show thinking that Jon Stewart was just some dumb comic and that they'd be able to wipe the floor with them. Then he's immaculately prepped and wickedly quick and just burns them to the ground. Always delightful.
 
EwoksSuck
2023-02-01 10:55:11 AM  
I thought the word "woke" was the Republican's go to overly misused buzz word to instill fear amongst their masses? "Socialism" is so early 2000's fear mongering. You know like Obamacare is Socialism! Get Socialism out of my Medicare!
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-01 10:56:21 AM  

Smoking GNU: Never ask a question when you don't already know the EXACT answer you're gonna get.


He thought he was going to get a sound bite that could be aired on Fox News later that night.

He was sadly mistaken
 
odinsposse
2023-02-01 10:56:32 AM  

BeansNfranks: FlashHarry: a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.

Yeah, i'm completely lost too. Like, what sort of national problem are we solving with this.. uh.. 'thing'? I seriously don't get it.


Theater is all they can do. What are they supposed to do, work for a living?
 
here to help [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:57:48 AM  
With most "isms" I can understand the arguments against them, even if I disagree.

But I don't think I have EVER once heard and argument against socialism that has more substance that "Socialism bad!! SOCIALISM BAAAAD!!!"... usually delivered with unhinged fervent and wild eyed hate.

I'm serious here because maybe I simply don't know what socialism actually is (it seems to be a moving target depending on the source) but what, EXACTLY, is the argument against it?

Why is it considered bad for society?

Help a brutha out.
 
wrenchboy [BareFark]
2023-02-01 10:58:20 AM  

Magorn: NewportBarGuy: The problem is, these are easy rebuttals. AOC could have wiped the floor with him. It doesn't matter, it all happens where no one really sees it and everyone in that room knows that.

It's a slap fight and no one wins.

One of the reasons I submitted it, I want more people to see this, to see the abject humiliations of a would-be bully who ended up YEILDING HIS TIME rather than continue an argument he was losing so badly, And that  to a woman he called as a witness because he thought she'd be a punching bag because he'd internalized and genuinely believed the racist caricature of her that his party has created.


Nick Langworthy is the NY State GOP chair that is responsible helping get President Dr. George Santos Esq. on the ballot.
 
Rapmaster2000
2023-02-01 10:58:23 AM  
He had this narrative in his mind where he totally checkmates her and an eagle flies into the room and lands on the flag and everyone stands up and starts clapping and they don't stop until he marries Dana Loesch on horseback.

The problem is that when he said X, she didn't say Y like he imagined she would.  Then everything went wrong.

These people spend all day consuming Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro videos where they DESTROY strawmen who aren't in the room with them.
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This is what he thought he was going to do.
 
PirateKing [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:58:27 AM  
For a guy who hates socialism so much, he sure seems to like being publicly owned.
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 10:59:05 AM  
GQP viewpoint: Socialism is for the rich, the poors need to be more bootstrappy.
 
BeansNfranks
2023-02-01 10:59:12 AM  

thornhill: In case you wanted to know what a man with a small penis looks like:

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Why? I ask, nay.. plead with all of you... WHY does every one of these fascist farks look like a god damn chode? All of 'em. Every single one.

Is that weird? I feel like that should be weird. But it's true. Anymore you can pick out the idiot fascist just by one random picture.
 
MusicMakeMyHeadPound [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 10:59:30 AM  

BeansNfranks: FlashHarry: a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.

Yeah, i'm completely lost too. Like, what sort of national problem are we solving with this.. uh.. 'thing'? I seriously don't get it.


I'm worried that it's the pretense they're building to attempt a conversion to authoritarianism since "our democratic-republic is fundamentally flawed".
 
Fairmont
2023-02-01 10:59:47 AM  
"We will not have a cradle to grave dependency," Langworthy said in the hearing. "This country will not be all things to all people. We cannot create an expectation that government is all things to all people."

So he thinks that a country that tries to take care of all its citizens, from birth to death, to the best of their expectations is a... BAD thing???
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-01 11:00:56 AM  

fiddlehead: Dems on the committee giving the finger with their revisions:

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I love the additions of the VA programs.

LOL

I invite people to just sit in any VA waiting room for about 30 minutes and you'll invariably hear a few conversations about how Socialism is the end of American and everyone who wants the government to do things is a Communist.

"Sir, you're next!"
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 11:02:55 AM  
No socialism?  There goes the Military Industry Complex.
 
Fiatlux
2023-02-01 11:03:42 AM  

here to help: With most "isms" I can understand the arguments against them, even if I disagree.

But I don't think I have EVER once heard and argument against socialism that has more substance that "Socialism bad!! SOCIALISM BAAAAD!!!"... usually delivered with unhinged fervent and wild eyed hate.

I'm serious here because maybe I simply don't know what socialism actually is (it seems to be a moving target depending on the source) but what, EXACTLY, is the argument against it?

Why is it considered bad for society?

Help a brutha out.


It doesn't redistribute wealth upwards so it's bad. See?
 
Dr Dreidel [BareFark]
2023-02-01 11:03:46 AM  

BeansNfranks: FlashHarry: a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.

Yeah, i'm completely lost too. Like, what sort of national problem are we solving with this.. uh.. 'thing'? I seriously don't get it.


Stopping the creep of socialism, duh.

Like how 20 cents of your every tax dollar goes to support the defense industry and veterans' health (which, despite not being counted as "defense spending", seems like the other side of the same coin), and how rich people get to pay lower tax rates than everyone else.

Oh wait, that's fascism. ...hmmm, looks like I also have no idea what problem we're addressing or trying to solve.

// they want to kill Social Security and Medicare/aid (and CHIP, and every other health insurance program), they just don't want to say it in those exact words
// that's what they wanted Bowles-Simpson to say as well, and then when they instead came back with "tax rich people just a tiiiiiiiiiiiny bit more, and also let's stop spending (some of the) 3/4 of a trillion dollars on military materiel every two years", Republicans bailed like DB farking Cooper
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-01 11:03:51 AM  
Waters then asked Langworthy if he believed the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a socialist initiative, citing the number of Republicans in Congress who took funds from the PPP program. Langworthy said it was not a socialist initiative because it was done during "an extraordinary time when we shut down the government."

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Sin'sHero [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 11:03:53 AM  

BeansNfranks: FlashHarry: a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.

Yeah, i'm completely lost too. Like, what sort of national problem are we solving with this.. uh.. 'thing'? I seriously don't get it.


The next step is to ban AP classes in Socialist American History.
 
supremesaltine
2023-02-01 11:04:34 AM  

PirateKing: For a guy who hates socialism so much, he sure seems to like being publicly owned.


I regret that I have but one upvote to give. Well done farker.
 
RasIanI
2023-02-01 11:04:52 AM  

here to help: With most "isms" I can understand the arguments against them, even if I disagree.

But I don't think I have EVER once heard and argument against socialism that has more substance that "Socialism bad!! SOCIALISM BAAAAD!!!"... usually delivered with unhinged fervent and wild eyed hate.

I'm serious here because maybe I simply don't know what socialism actually is (it seems to be a moving target depending on the source) but what, EXACTLY, is the argument against it?

Why is it considered bad for society?

Help a brutha out.


Actual socialism is when the state takes over the running of the economy -- Texas oilfields to who gets to run a 7-11 and where. Privateering, individual profit incentives - the actual stock market, etc, are all gone. Healthcare and education are covered from beginning to end - as well as an an old age/retirement pension.

What Republicans are carrying on about since FDR is what is considered "democratic socialism" as practiced in every G20 nation out there: open democracy with capitalism, but with enough progressive taxation collected so as to provide healthcare, pension and education supports, but with a free market economy operating freely.
 
UltimaCS
2023-02-01 11:05:04 AM  
Boy, it's a good thing we didn't let a Socialist win. That would've handed Republicans a free talking point. *wanking motion*
 
LL316
2023-02-01 11:05:33 AM  
I really like the "sometimes you pretend like you don't" line.  Chef's kiss.
 
The Lone Gunman
2023-02-01 11:05:46 AM  

FlashHarry: a hearing to denounce socialism? what. the. fark.


The next hearing will be about when Biden stopped beating his wife.
 
Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicle
2023-02-01 11:06:36 AM  
It went much better when he rehearsed it in his head.
 
HotWingConspiracy
2023-02-01 11:07:06 AM  

HotWingConspiracy: Waters then asked Langworthy if he believed the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was a socialist initiative, citing the number of Republicans in Congress who took funds from the PPP program. Langworthy said it was not a socialist initiative because it was done during "an extraordinary time when we shut down the government."

LOL stay in school, kid.


I just have to revisit this because it highlights that socialism was the only answer to an extraordinary problem that a capitalist market had no ability to solve. His only play here was to carve out some exception without realizing what he has just conceded.
 
RasIanI
2023-02-01 11:07:29 AM  

Walker: GQP viewpoint: Socialism is for the rich, the poors need to be more bootstrappy.


Which is what Waters so effectively pointed out, re; the PPP program - which Longworthy did not appreciate..."thats different! That's for rich people!!"
 
Tax Boy
2023-02-01 11:12:41 AM  

NewportBarGuy: AOC could have wiped the floor with him


That's their fetish

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