Interview with the woman whose story Katie Britt misrepresented
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw-J7b1HdiI
Katie Britt's Rep response
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From H C Richardson 3/10/24
“Britt’s dramatic delivery of the rebuttal had already invited parody and concern about the religious themes she demonstrated. The news that a central image in it was a lie just made things worse. “Everyone’s f*cking losing it,” a Republican strategist told The New Republic’s Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling. “It’s one of our biggest disasters ever.”
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From H C Richardson 3/10/24
“Britt’s dramatic delivery of the rebuttal had already invited parody and concern about the religious themes she demonstrated. The news that a central image in it was a lie just made things worse. “Everyone’s f*cking losing it,” a Republican strategist told The New Republic’s Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling. “It’s one of our biggest disasters ever.”
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I'm actually feeling like I got put into the Wayback Machine and this was the next act after Dan Quayle attacked Murphy Brown for some reason. Murphy Brown was a television character. Our political class, R, D, or the mainstream media, is often badly out of touch with our own society and culture. When they try to act like they are "with it" they inevitably look weird, creepy, or just plain pathetic.
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Pal, that is the video of the first guy who caught the lie. The posts here have been explainers of the lie she told of the woman who was traffic'd.
Jim, note that she's still claiming that the woman was 'raped by the cartel' when the woman who is the subject of her story has stated that she was put into a brothel by a pimp, not associated with any cartel. And the brothel was in Mexico. Not sure what the point of her story is or how it supports the Rep position of not passing the border Bill.
The story of rape would be appropriate in the case of the Russian soldiers raping the Ukrainian women, where again the Rep's refuse to sign onto aid.
Or the story of rape and abuse would be appropriate to the exposure of Hamas raping women and children in Israel on Oct 7.
Jim, note that she's still claiming that the woman was 'raped by the cartel' when the woman who is the subject of her story has stated that she was put into a brothel by a pimp, not associated with any cartel. And the brothel was in Mexico. Not sure what the point of her story is or how it supports the Rep position of not passing the border Bill.
The story of rape would be appropriate in the case of the Russian soldiers raping the Ukrainian women, where again the Rep's refuse to sign onto aid.
Or the story of rape and abuse would be appropriate to the exposure of Hamas raping women and children in Israel on Oct 7.
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Now - this disgusting woman is doubling down on her lies - “it’s the fault of the liberal media”!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... n-rebuttal
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Now - this disgusting woman is doubling down on her lies - “it’s the fault of the liberal media”!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... n-rebuttal
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Because we are not the intended audience. Britt's response was intended for members of the cult. There is no intention to change minds or persuade others to join their cause. In fact, quite the opposite. So from the outside looking in her schtick looked bizarre and kooky, but it presses all the buttons for the right-wing yahooligans and keeps them in the fold and keeps them believing.
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The CBP figures ARE at the border. There is no other ‘before they came in’.
Again….7.3 million is where in the figures I provided?
Please stop with the hogwash.
But, back to the story at hand - before you derailed it with made up scary border numbers - yes, Britt is deceitful, lying, and 2 faced. With her breath-y mom voice, all sanctimonious.
Why would the r party ever think thy could get away with such trash…and not be called out? They can’t even bother to fact check their own stuff!
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From The Status Kuo (Jay Kuo)
By now you’ve probably heard the news: Sen. Katie Britt’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union was not just a painfully bad theatrical performance, one worthy of an SNL cold open by none other than Scarlett Johansson. It also contained at its core a bold-faced lie: that a sex trafficking victim, who was raped repeatedly at age 12, had met with Sen. Britt and was a stark example of Biden’s failed border policies.
The lie was surfaced quickly by freelance journalist Jonathan Katz, a reporter with “years of experience as an Associated Press foreign correspondent in Haiti and Mexico, where he covered things that would make Katie Britt cry real tears,” according to reporting by AL.com. Katz quickly proved that the sexual trafficking and rapes referenced by Senator Britt took place 20 years ago—during the George W. Bush administration. They also took place not in the United States, as Britt had all but declared, but rather in Mexico, and far from the border.
It took a bit of asking from folks online why mainstream media had not picked up such an important story, but in a report finally published on Saturday, the Washington Post was able to confirm the gist of Katz’s reporting. The woman whose story was relayed by Sen. Britt before the entire nation was Karla Jacinto Romero, according to a confirmation by Sean Ross, Britt’s communications director.
Romero is a sexual trafficking victims’ rights advocate. Her story is widely known. In fact, she testified before Congress in 2015 about being forced to work in Mexican brothels from 2004 to 2008—again, back when George W. Bush was president. Yet Sen. Britt took that story and made it one about the border, which it most certainly was not.
In today’s piece, I’ll focus on three things:
A breakdown of the dangerous deception perpetrated by Sen. Britt, following the analysis of Katz and the Washington Post;
The moral depravity it takes not just to lie this way but to actually exploit the story of a sexual trafficking victim for political gain; and
The deep irony at the heart of Sen. Britt’s emotional plea that we pay attention to stories like the one she told America.
Upgrade to paid
Sen. Britt willfully scammed the American public
It’s hard to forget the moment when Sen. Britt first brought up the story of a woman who, at the age of 12, had been repeatedly raped by cartels. Here were her words on Thursday night before a national audience of millions, fake emotion crackling in her voice:
We know that President Biden didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days. When I took office, I took a different approach. I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas. That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped. The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoe box of a room, and they sent men through that door over and over again for hours and hours on end. We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace.
After Sen. Britt was called out for connecting this story somehow to President Biden, reporters began asking her office to confirm a few things. Even with some pressing, her communications director insisted in a written statement that the “story Senator Britt told was 100% correct.”
That’s why we need to unpack the rhetorical jujitsu Sen. Britt deployed to achieve this deception.
As the Washington Post observed, the story above unfolds in five parts.
• She first blames Biden for the surge of migrants at the border.
• Then she says she visited the border shortly after she took office. That would be 2023.
• At length, she details the story of an unnamed victim that she says she met on her trip. The implication is that the woman recently crossed the border — because of “sex trafficking by the cartels.”
• She strongly suggests that her abuse took place in the United States: “We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it.”
• She ends by reinforcing that such alleged trafficking is Biden’s fault: “President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace.”
And yet, Biden, the border and the cartels had nothing to do with Romero. According to her testimony, cited by the Post, after her mother threw her out of the house, a pimp took advantage of her, and she spent four years in a brothel, escaping at age 16.
Nor was Romero ever trafficked across the border to the U.S. Instead, she was the victim of sexual tourism, with “foreigners visiting my city looking to have sexual interactions with minors like me.” That is horrifying in its own way, but decidedly not about the border.
As Jonathan Katz noted in his now viral TikTok video about Britt’s lies, the senator had made it seem like she had met the woman “sitting by the banks of the Rio Grande, … holding her hand … getting her to tell her the story that she won’t tell anyone else.” In fact, Britt met Romero at a press conference organized by three GOP women senators, including Britt, and a Fox News reporter known for inflammatory pieces on immigration.
Sen. Britt tried to scam the entire nation by trying to spin a story from two decades ago about a child victim of sexual tourism into a story today about Biden’s failed policies, sex trafficking across the border, and cartels. For that, the Washington Post gave her four Pinocchios—its worst rating, a real whopper.
Stolen pain and fear-mongering
It takes a complete absence of a moral compass to leverage someone else’s tragic story—one she has carried for decades and made her life’s mission to tell others—into a tool for raw and cynical political gain. But that’s what Sen. Britt did, perhaps because, as the New York Times observed in its follow-up piece, “As a rhetorical device, it would be hard [to] conjure up a more powerful and resonant example.”
The Times found Romero and interviewed her directly about how she felt knowing her story was being leveraged by Britt for entirely different, political purposes. Because we as a nation owe Romero an apology for allowing our dysfunctional politics to overtake and derail her important work, I want to highlight what she told the paper:
Ms. Jacinto, who spoke with the Times Saturday from Mexico, said she had not been informed ahead of time that Ms. Britt would be discussing her in the speech and only learned about it after a video pointing out the deceptive framing of the senator’s speech was posted by the independent journalist Jonathan Katz on TikTok on Friday.
“I only found out via social media,” said Ms. Jacinto, who continues to speak frequently about human trafficking and who is supported by a U.S.-based nonprofit, Reintegra, that provides educational grants to victims of sex trafficking in Latin America. “I thought it was very strange.”
She said she preferred to keep politics out of the question of human trafficking. “I am involved in the fight to stop trafficking and I don’t think it should be political,” she said. “The work I do is not a game.”
Not a game, indeed. U.S. voters, particularly suburbanites who are looking at the question of immigration more closely now and assessing the positions of both parties, may begin to understand the extent to which the GOP is sensationalizing the issue.
Already, the Republicans have pressed the tragic story of Georgia student Laken Riley, who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant, as far they can, mentioning her at every opportunity and even inviting her family to meet with Trump at his recent rally in the state. The point of this is clear: The GOP now seeks to paint all migrants with the same broad unfair brush of criminality. This of course defies government statistics showing that migrants commit fewer crimes than non-migrants and that there is no evidence of the “migrant crime wave” that the Republicans and Fox have raised repeatedly. Instead, crime rates in cities where migrants have been heading are actually down, which would be an inconvenient fact for the GOP narrative if facts actually ever mattered to their base.
Republicans also appear to care far more about this one death, horrific as it is, than about the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by their other policies, from vaccine denialism to their failure to enact sensible gun restrictions. It means, simply put, that they don’t really care about Riley. They just find her death at the hands of a migrant useful.
The cynicism and hypocrisy is breathtaking.
The ultimate irony
I want to close by highlighting a glaring contradiction within Sen. Britt’s rebuttal. On the one hand, she begs us to think of victims like Romero who are suffering, she claims, from being trafficked across our border and sexually assaulted and exploited.
But the logical conclusion of that plea is that we should show more compassion in our asylum laws for women like she described. Instead, Britt supports the kinds of draconian policies that would deny legal protection to sex trafficking victims.
As former Congressmember Tom Malinowski noted,
It’s not just that Katie Britt’s story was false (since the woman she cited was trafficked by cartels within Mexico).
It’s that the border policy she supports would be to send victims like that back to Mexico into the hands of the cartels, with no chance to seek asylum.
The recent House election in NY-3, where the positions of the parties on immigration were tested before voters, proved that Republicans don’t automatically have a winning hand when it comes to the border. This is especially true now that the GOP has rejected the only bipartisan solution to the issue, all because Donald Trump wants to keep wielding it as a political weapon.
It is incumbent upon the media, the public, and our Democratic leaders to call out the cheap ploys and race-baiting that Trump, Britt and the rest of the GOP deploy to rile up the public, all while doing nothing to actually fix the problem.
As President Biden said in his State of the Union, we can fight about fixing the border, or we can fix it. All that GOP officials like Sen. Britt offer are more lies, rank hypocrisy and fear. And those have never led to sound policies or solutions, just more division and anxiety.
By now you’ve probably heard the news: Sen. Katie Britt’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union was not just a painfully bad theatrical performance, one worthy of an SNL cold open by none other than Scarlett Johansson. It also contained at its core a bold-faced lie: that a sex trafficking victim, who was raped repeatedly at age 12, had met with Sen. Britt and was a stark example of Biden’s failed border policies.
The lie was surfaced quickly by freelance journalist Jonathan Katz, a reporter with “years of experience as an Associated Press foreign correspondent in Haiti and Mexico, where he covered things that would make Katie Britt cry real tears,” according to reporting by AL.com. Katz quickly proved that the sexual trafficking and rapes referenced by Senator Britt took place 20 years ago—during the George W. Bush administration. They also took place not in the United States, as Britt had all but declared, but rather in Mexico, and far from the border.
It took a bit of asking from folks online why mainstream media had not picked up such an important story, but in a report finally published on Saturday, the Washington Post was able to confirm the gist of Katz’s reporting. The woman whose story was relayed by Sen. Britt before the entire nation was Karla Jacinto Romero, according to a confirmation by Sean Ross, Britt’s communications director.
Romero is a sexual trafficking victims’ rights advocate. Her story is widely known. In fact, she testified before Congress in 2015 about being forced to work in Mexican brothels from 2004 to 2008—again, back when George W. Bush was president. Yet Sen. Britt took that story and made it one about the border, which it most certainly was not.
In today’s piece, I’ll focus on three things:
A breakdown of the dangerous deception perpetrated by Sen. Britt, following the analysis of Katz and the Washington Post;
The moral depravity it takes not just to lie this way but to actually exploit the story of a sexual trafficking victim for political gain; and
The deep irony at the heart of Sen. Britt’s emotional plea that we pay attention to stories like the one she told America.
Upgrade to paid
Sen. Britt willfully scammed the American public
It’s hard to forget the moment when Sen. Britt first brought up the story of a woman who, at the age of 12, had been repeatedly raped by cartels. Here were her words on Thursday night before a national audience of millions, fake emotion crackling in her voice:
We know that President Biden didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days. When I took office, I took a different approach. I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas. That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped. The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoe box of a room, and they sent men through that door over and over again for hours and hours on end. We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace.
After Sen. Britt was called out for connecting this story somehow to President Biden, reporters began asking her office to confirm a few things. Even with some pressing, her communications director insisted in a written statement that the “story Senator Britt told was 100% correct.”
That’s why we need to unpack the rhetorical jujitsu Sen. Britt deployed to achieve this deception.
As the Washington Post observed, the story above unfolds in five parts.
• She first blames Biden for the surge of migrants at the border.
• Then she says she visited the border shortly after she took office. That would be 2023.
• At length, she details the story of an unnamed victim that she says she met on her trip. The implication is that the woman recently crossed the border — because of “sex trafficking by the cartels.”
• She strongly suggests that her abuse took place in the United States: “We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it.”
• She ends by reinforcing that such alleged trafficking is Biden’s fault: “President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace.”
And yet, Biden, the border and the cartels had nothing to do with Romero. According to her testimony, cited by the Post, after her mother threw her out of the house, a pimp took advantage of her, and she spent four years in a brothel, escaping at age 16.
Nor was Romero ever trafficked across the border to the U.S. Instead, she was the victim of sexual tourism, with “foreigners visiting my city looking to have sexual interactions with minors like me.” That is horrifying in its own way, but decidedly not about the border.
As Jonathan Katz noted in his now viral TikTok video about Britt’s lies, the senator had made it seem like she had met the woman “sitting by the banks of the Rio Grande, … holding her hand … getting her to tell her the story that she won’t tell anyone else.” In fact, Britt met Romero at a press conference organized by three GOP women senators, including Britt, and a Fox News reporter known for inflammatory pieces on immigration.
Sen. Britt tried to scam the entire nation by trying to spin a story from two decades ago about a child victim of sexual tourism into a story today about Biden’s failed policies, sex trafficking across the border, and cartels. For that, the Washington Post gave her four Pinocchios—its worst rating, a real whopper.
Stolen pain and fear-mongering
It takes a complete absence of a moral compass to leverage someone else’s tragic story—one she has carried for decades and made her life’s mission to tell others—into a tool for raw and cynical political gain. But that’s what Sen. Britt did, perhaps because, as the New York Times observed in its follow-up piece, “As a rhetorical device, it would be hard [to] conjure up a more powerful and resonant example.”
The Times found Romero and interviewed her directly about how she felt knowing her story was being leveraged by Britt for entirely different, political purposes. Because we as a nation owe Romero an apology for allowing our dysfunctional politics to overtake and derail her important work, I want to highlight what she told the paper:
Ms. Jacinto, who spoke with the Times Saturday from Mexico, said she had not been informed ahead of time that Ms. Britt would be discussing her in the speech and only learned about it after a video pointing out the deceptive framing of the senator’s speech was posted by the independent journalist Jonathan Katz on TikTok on Friday.
“I only found out via social media,” said Ms. Jacinto, who continues to speak frequently about human trafficking and who is supported by a U.S.-based nonprofit, Reintegra, that provides educational grants to victims of sex trafficking in Latin America. “I thought it was very strange.”
She said she preferred to keep politics out of the question of human trafficking. “I am involved in the fight to stop trafficking and I don’t think it should be political,” she said. “The work I do is not a game.”
Not a game, indeed. U.S. voters, particularly suburbanites who are looking at the question of immigration more closely now and assessing the positions of both parties, may begin to understand the extent to which the GOP is sensationalizing the issue.
Already, the Republicans have pressed the tragic story of Georgia student Laken Riley, who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant, as far they can, mentioning her at every opportunity and even inviting her family to meet with Trump at his recent rally in the state. The point of this is clear: The GOP now seeks to paint all migrants with the same broad unfair brush of criminality. This of course defies government statistics showing that migrants commit fewer crimes than non-migrants and that there is no evidence of the “migrant crime wave” that the Republicans and Fox have raised repeatedly. Instead, crime rates in cities where migrants have been heading are actually down, which would be an inconvenient fact for the GOP narrative if facts actually ever mattered to their base.
Republicans also appear to care far more about this one death, horrific as it is, than about the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by their other policies, from vaccine denialism to their failure to enact sensible gun restrictions. It means, simply put, that they don’t really care about Riley. They just find her death at the hands of a migrant useful.
The cynicism and hypocrisy is breathtaking.
The ultimate irony
I want to close by highlighting a glaring contradiction within Sen. Britt’s rebuttal. On the one hand, she begs us to think of victims like Romero who are suffering, she claims, from being trafficked across our border and sexually assaulted and exploited.
But the logical conclusion of that plea is that we should show more compassion in our asylum laws for women like she described. Instead, Britt supports the kinds of draconian policies that would deny legal protection to sex trafficking victims.
As former Congressmember Tom Malinowski noted,
It’s not just that Katie Britt’s story was false (since the woman she cited was trafficked by cartels within Mexico).
It’s that the border policy she supports would be to send victims like that back to Mexico into the hands of the cartels, with no chance to seek asylum.
The recent House election in NY-3, where the positions of the parties on immigration were tested before voters, proved that Republicans don’t automatically have a winning hand when it comes to the border. This is especially true now that the GOP has rejected the only bipartisan solution to the issue, all because Donald Trump wants to keep wielding it as a political weapon.
It is incumbent upon the media, the public, and our Democratic leaders to call out the cheap ploys and race-baiting that Trump, Britt and the rest of the GOP deploy to rile up the public, all while doing nothing to actually fix the problem.
As President Biden said in his State of the Union, we can fight about fixing the border, or we can fix it. All that GOP officials like Sen. Britt offer are more lies, rank hypocrisy and fear. And those have never led to sound policies or solutions, just more division and anxiety.
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And yet at least 7.3M have been let in the country under Dementia’s ‘catch and release’. Trump stopped them BEFORE they came in, of course there were fewer to deport! Maybe look at the whole picture dufus. Oh, yawn.
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Yawn…..it just is so easy…
CBP own figures show Biden’s enforcement numbers exceed pee-pant’s numbers…..
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp- ... statistics
Put down the fox nooz kool-aid, Ken. It’s rotting yer brain.
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Yawn…..it just is so easy…
CBP own figures show Biden’s enforcement numbers exceed pee-pant’s numbers…..
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp- ... statistics
Put down the fox nooz kool-aid, Ken. It’s rotting yer brain.
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Good sheep! Just repeat the programming. At least Obummer did deport.
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“Kids in Cages” happened in 2019 under Guilty donnie.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... -not-2014/
Not that ‘No Source Ken’ would ever bother to check, or offer any proof; instead just blathering on with bs, fantasy and conspiracy. As usual.
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“Kids in Cages” happened in 2019 under Guilty donnie.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... -not-2014/
Not that ‘No Source Ken’ would ever bother to check, or offer any proof; instead just blathering on with bs, fantasy and conspiracy. As usual.
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And then Obiden goes on to say some bizarre ‘but what about the thousands killed by illegals….?’ But he’s totally on top of things and only Rs/Orange monster are crazy and evil. I thought you guys are completely against ‘whataboutism’? Oh that’s right, just a pejorative to use against your enemies when useful (idiots).
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Katie Britt admits to her lie. https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-ad ... falsehood/
Ken, MTG called out to Biden to 'say her name' and in her callout she mispronounced the woman's name and then did it again in an interview at Newsmax.
Yes Ken, the cages were built prior to Trump's admin. The cages were used as 72 hour holding stations during a period when there was a huge spike in unaccompanied children, that separated out boys from girls while the processing was taking place. Trump tore babies and minors from their parents and kept them for prolonged periods there in terrible conditions and then we all had to watch as the children were bussed and flown to distant locations and to this day not all of those children have been accounted for or returned to their families.
Now, about Katie Britt rewriting history. Probably a good time to remind folks that while she was ranting away with her false story she voted against the border Bill that was on the table that her party helped negotiate. Funding for the border is subsequently lacking...gee wonder why that is?
Ken, MTG called out to Biden to 'say her name' and in her callout she mispronounced the woman's name and then did it again in an interview at Newsmax.
Yes Ken, the cages were built prior to Trump's admin. The cages were used as 72 hour holding stations during a period when there was a huge spike in unaccompanied children, that separated out boys from girls while the processing was taking place. Trump tore babies and minors from their parents and kept them for prolonged periods there in terrible conditions and then we all had to watch as the children were bussed and flown to distant locations and to this day not all of those children have been accounted for or returned to their families.
Now, about Katie Britt rewriting history. Probably a good time to remind folks that while she was ranting away with her false story she voted against the border Bill that was on the table that her party helped negotiate. Funding for the border is subsequently lacking...gee wonder why that is?
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This coming from the group that’s more worried about not calling the animal who bashed the nursing student’s head in “illegal”after Dementia Joe mispronounces her name. Stones in glass houses! Remember ‘kids in cages’? That was Obummer but never truth and accountability there. If not for double standards, you guys have no standards at all.
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SNL did not disappoint
https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/17666 ... wXM6wU5Fco
https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/17666 ... wXM6wU5Fco
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Now, it looks like the story of the 12 yr old immigrant who was raped and trafficked in the sex trade might be either:
- entirely made up, or
- took place more than 15 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... buse-story
Not surprising, I guess. There are few lows to which the trump party won’t stoop.
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Now, it looks like the story of the 12 yr old immigrant who was raped and trafficked in the sex trade might be either:
- entirely made up, or
- took place more than 15 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... buse-story
Not surprising, I guess. There are few lows to which the trump party won’t stoop.
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The Rep response to Britt has been extremely harsh. SNL cold open tonight should be historical.
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Another analysis….from a woman who has ‘been there’ in the fundamentalist speech area.
https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice
I’m thinking this SOTU rebuttal will really wow the 85+ women voters? Under 80….nah, not so much.
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Another analysis….from a woman who has ‘been there’ in the fundamentalist speech area.
https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice
I’m thinking this SOTU rebuttal will really wow the 85+ women voters? Under 80….nah, not so much.
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Rarely do we see Right wing pundits stunned into silence but Katie Britt managed to pull it off
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/stat ... UnTGDbLpVg
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Re: Katie Britt's Rep response
So a Democrat gave a good speech, and a Republican had a lame response. It happens. No need to get all butt hurt about it.
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Re: Katie Britt's Rep response
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it is, however, perfectly fine to portray women as trapped in the 1950s - i.e. stuck in the kitchen - like something out of ‘The Stepford Wives’. You know, if that’s what you really believe women should look like. The reboplican party evidently does.
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it is, however, perfectly fine to portray women as trapped in the 1950s - i.e. stuck in the kitchen - like something out of ‘The Stepford Wives’. You know, if that’s what you really believe women should look like. The reboplican party evidently does.
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Re: Katie Britt's Rep response
So slamming women for how they look and sound is perfectly acceptable. Got it.
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