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Bucky

(54,094 posts)
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 07:09 PM Mar 11

Too many premature Katie Britt obituaries

People keep saying this speech was bad for her career.

I think it's silly assuming, just because her speech was emotionally deranged, riddled with dishonesty, factually dubious, comically manipulative, and tonally bipolar, that this is going to somehow hurt her with the Alabama electorate. If she'd only had to sense to boil an actual bunny in that kitchen set, she'd be a shoe-in for Vice President nominee.

I'd say Supreme Court nominee too, but she's past 40.

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Too many premature Katie Britt obituaries (Original Post) Bucky Mar 11 OP
She's probably still on trump's VP list. Irish_Dem Mar 11 #1
She wants to be VP but she blew the audition Walleye Mar 11 #2
Maybe not. Irish_Dem Mar 11 #4
The key is easy to manipulate. LiberalFighter Mar 11 #13
Yes she will humiliate herself on national TV. Irish_Dem Mar 12 #36
Trump has a history of buffoonish veeps, after all Bucky Mar 12 #47
Yes she fits the bill. Irish_Dem Mar 12 #49
She's not a clone from Fascist Oligarch eXtremists network. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 12 #32
She sure does a superb imitation of one. Irish_Dem Mar 12 #37
She would have to dye her hair and buy some kidneys to attract traitortrump. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 12 #44
If she becomes his VP, watch her morph. Irish_Dem Mar 12 #48
She was never going to be the VP candidate for 2024. TwilightZone Mar 11 #10
My guess would be Tim Scott, I've never seen a more craven display of sycophancy in my life Walleye Mar 11 #17
Donald J. Shitstain with a black VP candidate? Not in this universe . . . hatrack Mar 11 #18
You could be right, I don't think he'll pick a woman either for the same reason Walleye Mar 11 #19
Like the Black Community won't Vote en masse Against Cha Mar 11 #20
For some reason the Republicans don't realize that. Walleye Mar 11 #23
Walleye, you said: dmr Mar 11 #24
LOL. Etched in my mind like Romney blowing him at Mara Lardo. mobeau69 Mar 12 #29
Yes, if he was back in the oval office we would see nothing but that kind of thing Walleye Mar 12 #33
Did she though? Bettie Mar 12 #38
Something was up with Katie when she did that little cameo. Aussie105 Mar 11 #3
What do you think was up? Irish_Dem Mar 11 #5
Drugs? niyad Mar 12 #28
I wondered about that too. Irish_Dem Mar 12 #35
Wager that Katie Britt is angry and mean at present, focused on how to PufPuf23 Mar 11 #6
Your title sentence could stop with the word "mean" . . . . hatrack Mar 12 #34
She already has her defense: she didn't technically lie about where or when that brutal rape took place Bucky Mar 12 #43
gee can one imagine melania doing the submissive wife in the kitchen thing? nt msongs Mar 11 #7
It will go over about as well as her stab at gardening NanaCat Mar 11 #11
takes a lot of talent to wear them shoes in the mud! jcgoldie Mar 11 #15
We have to remember... Think. Again. Mar 11 #8
Remember Bobby Jindal's 2009 Republican response to Obama's "State of the Union" address? nevergiveup Mar 11 #9
Jindal didn't suffer as many consequences as people think NanaCat Mar 11 #12
I said he "nationally" pretty much disappeared. nevergiveup Mar 12 #25
You're right. I must have misread that part NanaCat Mar 12 #30
No problem at all. nevergiveup Mar 12 #41
I suspect Katie Britt's ego won't let her slink away into obscurity. calimary Mar 12 #26
They almost elected a child molester to that seat jcgoldie Mar 11 #14
No, that was Alabama's other Senate seat misanthrope Mar 12 #31
Nobody has said it was bad for his CURRENT career... brooklynite Mar 11 #16
No it's NOT "silly". Not Cool to insult DUers over katie Twitt. Cha Mar 11 #21
oh, she's done. I went by the rethug site to see what they thought ecstatic Mar 11 #22
Maybe Tuberville can throw some more gas on the dumpster fire to help it along Blue Owl Mar 12 #27
this isn't advocacy, it apathy bigtree Mar 12 #39
There's always going to be tons of cash to pay these people to make us miserable. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 12 #40
Eh. limbicnuminousity Mar 12 #42
I think she is fnished outside of Alabama. Demsrule86 Mar 12 #45
People said the same thing about Bobby Jindal BannonsLiver Mar 12 #46

Irish_Dem

(48,097 posts)
4. Maybe not.
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 07:22 PM
Mar 11

Trump knows she is stupid and easy to manipulate.
And young enough to dress the part of a trump woman.

LiberalFighter

(51,389 posts)
13. The key is easy to manipulate.
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 10:02 PM
Mar 11

And she is willing to do it.

Maybe someone should ask her if she is willing to be hanged if Trump tells his followers to do it?

Irish_Dem

(48,097 posts)
36. Yes she will humiliate herself on national TV.
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 09:37 AM
Mar 12

Make herself a national laughingstock if she thinks it will get votes. Someone told her the speech was a great idea and she agreed.

Trump could play her for even more of a fool. Who knows maybe he gave her the speech.

TwilightZone

(25,518 posts)
10. She was never going to be the VP candidate for 2024.
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 07:34 PM
Mar 11

She brings nothing to the table, pun intended.

The VP candidate will be someone more high profile, but not someone who would overshadow him. He values nothing more than absolute loyalty, so it'll be one of his sycophants. Scott, Stefanik, Noem, Lake, etc.

hatrack

(59,606 posts)
18. Donald J. Shitstain with a black VP candidate? Not in this universe . . .
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 10:59 PM
Mar 11

Can't think of anything more likely to cut into the Cletus and Bubba vote than that, and that's pretty much the only voting bloc that the Ambulatory Bag Of Septic Garbage Of The United States has left.

dmr

(28,364 posts)
24. Walleye, you said:
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 11:47 PM
Mar 11
I've never seen a more craven display of sycophancy in my life


Yes you have, remember TFG sitting around the big oval table with his Cabinet? Fawning all over him? It was disgusting, and kinda funny in a sick kind of way.

Video of this momentous meeting at link.

[link:http://.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/12/15784894/trump-cabinet-meeting-praise|]

Bettie

(16,151 posts)
38. Did she though?
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 09:39 AM
Mar 12

I mean, she was not quite as deranged as he is most days, but close enough that he'd recognize a kindred spirit.

Aussie105

(5,500 posts)
3. Something was up with Katie when she did that little cameo.
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 07:18 PM
Mar 11

Can't quite put a label on it.

To be polite though, perhaps she should get a script writer?
And a fact checker of course.

Irish_Dem

(48,097 posts)
35. I wondered about that too.
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 09:33 AM
Mar 12

She was so labile, exaggerated, nonsensical.
Really poor judgment.

I thought perhaps she had been drinking.

PufPuf23

(8,858 posts)
6. Wager that Katie Britt is angry and mean at present, focused on how to
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 07:25 PM
Mar 11

spin the event for her advantage to her ignorant and similarly self-centered supporters.

Many Christian Nationalist young women now view Katie Britt as a role model.

Part of the audience liked and are inspired by Britt's performance art.

Bucky

(54,094 posts)
43. She already has her defense: she didn't technically lie about where or when that brutal rape took place
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 02:02 PM
Mar 12

She only heavily implied that the brutal rape the anchored her speech was in any way connected to the rest of what she was talking about.

Apparently she wants us to believe that she just happens to break off from her policy speeches to mention brutal sexual assaults as she goes about doing her job.

Think. Again.

(8,892 posts)
8. We have to remember...
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 07:33 PM
Mar 11

....she's working the rightwing side of the street, so I assume her performance the other night was a boon to her career prospects.

nevergiveup

(4,772 posts)
9. Remember Bobby Jindal's 2009 Republican response to Obama's "State of the Union" address?
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 07:33 PM
Mar 11

He was suppose to be a rising star in the Republican party but after his disastrous speech he nationally pretty much disappeared into the wordwork.

NanaCat

(1,551 posts)
12. Jindal didn't suffer as many consequences as people think
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 09:03 PM
Mar 11

Despite a disastrous SotU, he easily won re-election as governor. It was when he tried to run for POTUS that the SotU speech hurt him. So he did fine with his state's constituents, even if he crashed and burned with people outside the state.

Same thing with Rubio. He's done on the national stage after his SotU flameout, but what consequences has he really faced beyond sacrificing his POTUS aspirations? He's still a Senator, and probably will be for a very long time, given the state he represents.

Britt will undoubtedly win re-election in her Senate race, a statewide office. Like Jindal and Rubio, she won't suffer any consequences for her dishonesty and stupidity in her home state, but she has now hit her ceiling for elected office at the national level.

calimary

(81,608 posts)
26. I suspect Katie Britt's ego won't let her slink away into obscurity.
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 01:51 AM
Mar 12

Much as she really should do EXACTLY that.

jcgoldie

(11,662 posts)
14. They almost elected a child molester to that seat
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 10:06 PM
Mar 11

Katie Britt''s creepy stepford wife speech won't hurt her one bit in Alabama.

misanthrope

(7,436 posts)
31. No, that was Alabama's other Senate seat
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 03:04 AM
Mar 12

The seat held by Tuberville was previously held by Doug Jones. Jones won the 2017 special election to fill Jeff Sessions' seat after Sessions became Trump's AG. Jones won by a scant margin of 49.97 percent to 48.34 percent for ephebophile and federally censured former judge Roy Moore.

At that time, Britt's current seat was filled by longtime Senator Richard Shelby, the man who employed Britt from 2004-2007, then again from 2015-2022.

brooklynite

(95,012 posts)
16. Nobody has said it was bad for his CURRENT career...
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 10:12 PM
Mar 11

...she'll get re-elected without a problem in 2028.

The only thing that died was her prospect as Trump's VP choice.

ecstatic

(32,798 posts)
22. oh, she's done. I went by the rethug site to see what they thought
Mon Mar 11, 2024, 11:19 PM
Mar 11

The first article I saw sealed her fate.

I'm not going to link their crap, but the headline was: Mitt Romney Issues Complete and Total Endorsement of Katie Britt as Vice Presidential Pick.

LOL. I'm not sure if Romney was being serious or not, but trumpers HATE him, so any suggestion from him is met with a lot of suspicion and hate.

Also, some of them openly admitted that Katie did a terrible job in her rebuttal.

bigtree

(86,021 posts)
39. this isn't advocacy, it apathy
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 09:43 AM
Mar 12

...it's cynicism that assumes this person is politically omnipotent because she's supported by enough cretins to make her relevant in her own creepy way.

The political value for Democrats isn't in Alabama, it's that republicans put her forward as the face and voice of their party. If we can't win campaigns against that representation of our opponents, we're not really trying.

limbicnuminousity

(1,407 posts)
42. Eh.
Tue Mar 12, 2024, 12:35 PM
Mar 12

She didn't lose credibility with Alabama voters. Alabama lost credibility with the United States.

The voting majority in Alabama seems to want to live in the dark ages. The judges responsible for the IVF ruling are elected. The citizens of Alabama voted for Tuberville. They voted for Britt. Britt may remain in office but it will be over a decaying and declining state that lacks the necessary means to support public education and health. Maybe their god can save them but I expect the American southwest to start looking like it's going through the plagues of Egypt in the coming decades.

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