As one might have expected Missouri senators Eric Schmitt’s epic faceplant in his interrogation of Jack Smith provided great fodder for late night comedians.
Here is Jordan Klepper.
And here is Seth Meyers
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One question we ought to ask ourselves, as a country, is “how is it that we can have someone in our highest legislative body, who is such a chuckle-fuck that comedians feast on his every word?”
Seriously. The US has been patting itself as being “a city on a hill” and all that sort of nonsense, while ignoring that the hill is a garbage tip and the lunatics not only are in charge, they think they are geniuses.
The all too frequent clown shows are often amusing, in a dark and sometimes schadenfreude-laden way, but I’d still rather live in a world where politics were merely a boring necessity. Though historically “boring” has meant “no real progress for minority rights”, so I also mean that in the context of a world where fights for minority rights are no longer necessary.
But until then, at least the abject incompetence frequently displayed by Republicans is entertaining enough to partially counter the horrors of WTF is wrong with those people, so keeping track of politics more tolerable than it would otherwise be.
As people have been noting for years, fascism and ‘idiots in power’ always go together, because loyalty up the hierarchy is more important to advancement than competence. So you get people who are convinced that complicated problems should have simple solutions because the simple solutions are the only ones they can imagine.
Sadly, somebody who can be unswervingly confident can get a lot of people believing in them, even when (and sometimes especially when) they are unswervingly, confidently wrong.
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“Sadly, somebody who can be unswervingly confident can get a lot of people believing in them, even when (and sometimes especially when) they are unswervingly, confidently wrong.”
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You have just described the British government under Boris Johnson. In fact, you have described most of the tory ministers including their four latest PMs.