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‘My God, Are You Ok?’ Swalwell Confronts Jim Jordan in Committee Hearing for Reposting Bizarre Image of Trump

What in the hell is this?! The chairman tweets, “Protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio” because he goes down some crazy rabbit hole, completely debunked that aliens are eating pets. My God, are you ok, Mr. Chairman? Because last year, for a very long time, you tweeted and promoted Kanye West as he was calling for genocide against the Jews and you kept it up. And now when we have victims coming here, you’re tweeting this nonsense.

I, I don’t know why you would do this. I hope you’re ok. I don’t know if the aliens who are eating your ducks are in the room with us right now. But, Mr. Chairman, this is a serious issue. These people have loved ones who have been lost. And you tweeted this.

cybervseas ,

My goodness I think this style of response is the best I’ve seen yet.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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They’re really doing the ‘there’s something fundamentally wrong with these people’ thing well. And it’s working.

Gradually_Adjusting ,
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I’m not entirely at ease with the characterization of this as them doing it performatively, or as part of a narrative. Everything nowadays is slavishly reduced to “optics” and agendas.

I will equivocate though; Swalwell’s reaction here is effective because it mirrors the reaction many of us have had to the dark turns of our friends and loved ones in recent years. This madness has frayed our social fabric, maybe irreparably.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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If optics is how you win elections, then go with the optics. And it seems to be optics.

FaceDeer ,
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Yup. I would personally love it if the electorate studied the various policies of candidates that wished to be their representatives, decided which ones' positions were the most beneficial to themselves and to the country as a whole (which is indirectly beneficial to themselves, after all) and then selected that one on a rational basis. If we lived in that world then each candidates' campaign would ideally focus on debating issues and presenting their views.

We don't live in that world, alas. I've become cynical about democracy of late because the electorate are a bunch of sports team fans who just want "their guy" to win. Well, so be it then. It's kind of an emergency right now so play whatever strategy keeps the regressive loons out of power.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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“When they go low, we go high” has been proven to be a losing strategy over and over.

kent_eh ,

We don’t live in that world, alas

We don’t even live in a world where more than half of thw eligible voters even show up, let alone can name a single policy point of any of the candidates.

spankmonkey ,

Only took a decade, but at least it is progress.

NegativeLookBehind ,
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Those god damned democrats are coming for my ducks

FlyingSquid OP ,
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And it’s rabbit season!

FuglyDuck ,
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Normally, it’s kinda hard to figure out why the cat wants to kill them.

This time it makes perfect sense.

ccunning ,

Are we really taking ducks off the menu?

FlyingSquid OP , (edited )
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I mean, I don’t eat meat at all myself, but I seem to remember ducks are farmed for their meat…

Also, the big, manly hunters these folks love hunt ducks.

ccunning ,

Yup! They’re farmed for meat and eggs.

My wife loves duck but they’ve gotten too expensive to buy regularly. Definitely a special occasion thing.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I had duck eggs once. They tasted fishy. I did not have duck eggs again.

ccunning ,

Wild duck meat can also taste kinda fishy, I think due to their natural diet.

Haven’t noticed it in the eggs but if I’m eating duck eggs they’re usually salted duck eggs which is a whole ‘nother experience.

Drusas ,

Farmed duck eggs generally don't taste fishy, but they are richer and a little different than chicken eggs.

ABCDE ,

They shouldn’t be fishy at all; I’ve had hundreds in my life (they are the standard here), they’re just richer.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I can’t help what they tasted like…

Drusas , (edited )

I'm so glad that the price of duck has not gone up around me. And surprised, now that I think about it. I love duck. Cook them once or twice every year.

ikidd ,
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Wild duck tastes good.

greenshirtdenimjeans ,

It can stay on the menu only if each one is tortured for their liver.

thisbenzingring ,

The thing is, they aren’t tortured when they are overfeed, so they become Foie gras. It’s pretty well understood that they fuckin love being overfeed. Watch some of the videos, they don’t mind at all. Doesn’t really make it right but it’s not torture anymore than it’s torturing that much of the processed food humans eat has the same results when someone has low self control.

I don’t eat Foie gras because I think it’s grotesque but it’s not torture.

greenshirtdenimjeans ,

Lol

CyanideShotInjection ,

Yeah I don’t think they enjoy it that much…

youtu.be/idfE2iCNHjA?si=uVuV09bc3KM95Fl-

ABCDE ,

Watch some of the videos, they don’t mind at all.

Yeah, watch some of the damn videos, mate.

oxjox ,
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🤔 which is more news worthy:
1 - the chairman of the house judiciary committee tweeted a picture of trump hugging a kitten and a duck.
2 - a member of the committee calling him out and asking if he’s okay because he posted the picture.
3 - The claim that “aliens are eating pets”.

The origin of the claim that Haitians are eating pets in Ohio appears to stem from right-wing media accounts running with a Fox News story about an Ohio woman named Allexis Telia Ferrell, who was arrested for allegedly killing and eating a cat. The report about the lone woman sparked claims that Haitians are kidnapping people’s pets and eating them.

cybervseas ,

It’s a fake picture, too.

protist ,

Prove it!

MeekerThanBeaker ,

The hands are of normal size.

iAmTheTot , (edited )

Holy shit that’s a real thing that an official government account posted. What the fuck is this timeline.

collapse_already ,

If somehow Gym Jordan ends up committed, but DJT is free to rape and plunder…

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