I've seen the video, and now I'm reading the NYT article, "The Ugly Effect of Physical Insults/A recent congressional meeting devolved into a back-and-forth that reflects a changing norm in politics — one that rarely makes anybody look good."
I don't approve of the unprofessionalism, but if we're just comparing insults and taking into account that Crockett didn't start it, I want to say "bleach blond, bad-built butch body" is impressive — with 6 B's in a row and the unforgettable "butch body." And can we analyze the extent to which "bad-built butch body" violates the norms of progressive speech. It's not just body shaming, it's expressing contempt for a woman's failure to have a body in the stereotypical female form. That's transphobic (in the broad sense).
By contrast, fake eyelashes are not part of a person's body, so the attack is less personal, more like making fun of a person's clothes. I'd say it's like pointing out a toupee, but I think a toupee is worn surreptitiously and used to hide what is believed to be a physical insufficiency. Fake eyelashes are simply enhancements, like lipstick, worn frankly and not hiding anything.
Ah, but I see, at CNN, that Crockett is crying racism: "That’s all it is, it is racism. And she decided that she was going to be that person out loud and out front on yesterday. The difference is I just wasn’t going to take it laying down.”
ADDED: TikTok loves this incident. This is the best I've seen there:
@therachelmaria Who knows if TT will show this. I’m in doghouse for DUETING a public interview. Lol #marjorietaylorgreene #AOC ♬ original sound - rachelmaria
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MTG has balls. I like that in a woman.
Speaking metaphorically.
Cat fight!
Transphobic seems a reach.
To me the fun part is Chair not comprehending Crockett and inviting repeat, and Crockett's reaction to that ....
Shouldn't that video be entitled "Eyelashing Out"? Just sayin.....
Ah, but I see, at CNN, that Crockett is crying racism...
AOC did the same thing.
Oh well, won't the world be a nice place when women run it?
Bimbos.
"Transphobic seems a reach."
I said transphobic in the broad sense: She's acting as though it's disgusting for a woman to have a body that reads as male.
I should also have said homophobic. To use "butch" as an insult is to say that it's bad to be butch. It's not bad!
Biden restored our Democratic norms.
I so wanted your take on this, and you did not disappoint.
Labels, judgments, and progressivism in the spirit of DEI. Let's raise our bimbos in a toast to liberalism.
Auditioning for House Wives of Congress. Bravo is taking notes for a new series.
Not very professional but entertainment for viewers that like that sort of thing.
We need more women in politics.
Not necessarily a fan of the overall tone, but MTG's comment was at least 50% directed towards Crockett's insult to Greene. The oversight committee was holding a hearing on whether to hold Garland in contempt for refusing to release the audio of Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, despite having already released a transcript (Biden is claiming executive privilege over the audio, despite the transcript having already been released - how bad must the "stutter" have been - or how inaccurate was the transcript - to look to withhold the audio???). MTG posed the question of whether any of the Dems on the committee employed Judge Merchan's daughter, which while a tangent, might be fair game to identify prejudices in committee members. Crockett suggested that MTG did not "know why we are here," and MTG responded with the fake eyelashes comment "messing up what [Crockett} was reading." Crockett insulted MTG first, rather than raising a rationally-phrased objection, and MTG responded suggesting that Crockett did not understand (or had not read about) the issues before the committee. Neither was particularly classy, each made their point, would have been better for everybody to just move on (or for Comer to demand an answer as to who was using Merchan's daughter, who is actively fund-raising for Dem candidates on the Trump trial), but for some reason, AOC decided to play the "white knight" and assume that Crockett, a black woman, was somehow incapable of defending herself and to take that role on for Crockett, which I thought was anathema in this day and age and certainly suggests that, deep in her heart, AOC agrees that Crockett is a dipshit.
Also, there is no way that was a spontaneous insult, seemed like something Crockett (or her writing staff) had in their pocket, waiting for a chance.
I’ve made this comment before, but I always find it interesting how quickly liberals resort to gay slurs when they attempt to shut down a conservative.
There is only one way to settle this, according to the Constitution:
Foxy Boxing
You left out one of the "B-s"--the beyotch that hurled the insult. But as long as we are on Bs and personal insults, howzabout "Brooklyn bartending bimbo"?
This whole thing has all the class of a hairpulling match in the girl's restroom in a lower class middle school.
Comer was pounding the gavel for order, but Jeremy Raskin as the ranking minority member couldn't keep a straight wheh the bleached blonde with a bad butch body insult was hurled.
Homophobic seems more on point. That was kinda my reaction to butch. Maybe the whole Trans and Transphobic thing still too new and infrequent for me to comprehend.
"but for some reason, AOC decided to play the "white knight" and assume that Crockett, a black woman, was somehow incapable of defending herself and to take that role on for Crockett"
To be fair, anyone who would need AOC to play "white knight" in their defense *is* a dipshit.
I have discovered a whole new genre. Here is a scene from Irma La Douce. Here is the ever amiable Gwyneth Paltrow. And then I stumbled on a Ukranian Cat Fight——some kind of "reality tv" I guess.
Time to get back to work.
I remember when we were lectured to that women in politics would civilize it.
Be honest. Wouldn't you enjoy watching the members of our congress fight it out with spike covered baseball bats versus shafting us with their horrible, liberty and freedom-destroying legislation? Just imagine the great ratings on C-SPAN.
Fake eyelashes, scales… whatever.
The phrase in question originally comes from the Bible, in the book of Acts, wherein it describes the final event in the Apostle Paul’s conversion to Christianity.
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
Acts 9:18 (KJV)
Preceding the verse above was that fact that Paul had been struck blind during an encounter with Christ. Luke, the author of Acts, used the metaphor of scales falling from one’s eyes in an attempt to heighten the drama of the incident. In one instant, Paul went from being blind to having sight.
I am shocked that after almost eight years of being told that Trump never said he grabbed anyone by the pussy (only that he could if so inclined), that you are now accusing Rep Crockett of saying these mean things about MTG. Crockett was merely posing a hypothetical.
Why was this Committee meeting being held at night? Was it to allow delinquent Republicans to travel back to Washington from New York, where they had done performative work trying to help Trump defy the gag order, attacking Judge Merchan's daughter as a favor to Trump without Trump's actual fingerprints on the comments? And did the Republicans have too many cocktails on the flight?
A celebration of bimbo politics?
The best part is AOC acting like she's some sort of gangsta instead of a rich bitch from Westchester : )
"I remember when we were lectured to that women in politics would civilize it."
He's not wrong.
"That's transphobic (in the broad sense)."
I see what you did there.
People of Black, and transphobes/homophobes, are notoriously albinophobic.
Homophobia is the projected hate or fear of sex-correlated gender (e.g. sexual orientation). Homophobia is what motivated the progress of manufacturing politically congruent (PC) constructs, including couplets "=" to couples. Transphobia is an equitable and inclusive psychological condition that includes homophobia. Transphobia is the projected hate or fear that a male can simulate (e.g. neutering, bimbofication) the feminine gender but never become the female sex (e.g. large gamete production), and the social justification of males dominating/replacing females on the job, in competition, and through violence.
Says Viva Frei on X:
"“if I come and talk shit about her, y’all gonna have a problem”
Is this the same woman who threatened to “bury this orange heathen under the jail” (Donald Trump) in a tweet?
Why yes, @JasmineForUS you are."
Ah, Jasmine Crockett. She claims to have been the victim of "a series of hate crimes" while in college. Despite being represented by Johnnie Cochran's law firm, her allegations could not be substantiated.
She pretended to be the lawyer representing a murder victim. The family had to issue several requests that she stop using his image in her campaign literature, then had to file a cease and desist order when she continued pretending to be his lawyer to run for office.
She should have been disbarred.
Her twitter feed is the most foul-mouthed series of anti-white slurs ever uttered by a sitting Congresswoman. She likes to slur white legislators as "raggedy" and uses the word "sh*t" prolifically to describe whites. She also retweets posts calling Republicans "klansmen." She should be investgated, right back to those fake hate crime claims and censured by Congress for overtly racist acts.
"You won't behave the way
A big girl should
It's time to give the whip a crack
I'm gonna have to send you back to
Bitch School"
https://genius.com/Spinal-tap-bitch-school-lyrics
"Ladies, you can't fight here. This is the War Room."
I want C-SPAN put this on loop to show at airports and airplanes to releieve tweedium
I think this is an insult Crockett has used for MTG before, just not to her face. MTG was only insulting Crockett's reading ability. Her lashes are objectively fake. It's only an insult if she thinks they look natural.
'It's only an insult if she thinks they look natural.'
Maybe she ought to not appropriate the hair of white folks...
Lilly, a dog said...
"There is only one way to settle this, according to the Constitution:
Foxy Boxing"
Not at all. This has mud wrasslin written all over it.
Rabel: "MTG has balls. I like that in a woman."
You've come to right decade.
I, for one, wish these ladies would sort out their differences the old fashioned way: bikini mud wrestling.
Canadian and British Parliament members insult each other. I was shocked when I first heard some of it decades ago. (I was young and naive and thought they would show more respect to one another.) The Canadians are on about the same level as American Congresspeople as far as the wit shown in their insults. The British are much better.
It has been said that "the US Senate is the world's most exclusive club."
Maybe so, but the US House of Representatives sure looks to be the world's most exclusive Mean Girls Club.
Gotta love democracy: the electorate gets the government they deserve, and they get it good and hard.
MTG is the classier insulter.
Its incredibly boring the way:
every powerful black person cries racism when attacked
Every powerful Jewish person cries anti-semitism when attacked
every powerful women cries mysoginy (sic) when attacked
evey powerful Gay man cries homophobia when attacked.
I mean just shut the fuck up. And a lot of people need to be "Body shamed" and lose some weight and learn how to dress.
The Capitol's dome should be converted to Thunderdome. Two cats enter; one cat leaves.
These are our elected 'betters'. The crème de la crème. All 3 should apologize, and do better. Of the 3, MTG is the biggest disappointment. The 2 others are approximately on par.
The six Bs insult, while apparently clever at first glance, collapses upon minimal inspection. Stripping away some of the extraneous Bs, we are left with: "somebody's ... blond ... body." Makes no sense. Hair is blond, but not a body. I suppose someone might have blond body hair, but that's clearly not what Crockett was saying. No one bleaches their body hair blond. At least, it's not common enough that anyone would understand her to be saying that. So for that reason, Crockett's bigoted blond butch bashing bombs bigly.
Well… that was fun!
Disappointed that the chair doesn’t have an option to put anyone in a timeout. They’re all supposed to represent their districts, FFS, not their egos.
Seen on TwiXter:
“‘Y’all talk noise and then you can’t take it. Cuz if I come and talk shit about her, y’all gon’ have a problem.’
- The Ghettosburg Address”
Nobody can do an actual argument.
That insult Crockett used had a robust, Shakespearean ring. I gather that she had used it previously so it wasn't just off the cuff. Still, it was impressive. They all looked kind of bemused. I guess they all think that the highlight reel will play well with their constituents.... If they took it to the mat, MTG would be the favorite unless they went two on one with her. But that would be unfair and unworthy of Congress people....I guess it's too much to ask people in public life to display the kind of decorum that Trump brings to the forum.
Says Viva Frei on X:
"“if I come and talk shit about her, y’all gonna have a problem”
Is this the same woman who threatened to “bury this orange heathen under the jail” (Donald Trump) in a tweet?
Why yes, @JasmineForUS you are."
They should fight at dawn with pistols. Either that or grow up. We aren't sending our best, that's for sure. I suppose they are meant to represent the people though...
Doesn't anybody speak jive anymore?
Field Marshall Freder: "I am shocked that after almost eight years of being told that Trump never said he grabbed anyone by the pussy (only that he could if so inclined),..."
Still pushing the hoax quote I see. Freder gonna Freder.
Comer was so lost he never knew who needed to be recognized. His aides had to tell him. Robert's Rules of Order, among other things, are beyond him.
Seinfeld, Catfight.
Democratic congressmen used to beat Republicans with canes and shoot each other. This is an improvement.
Camille Paglia said one of the most horrifying things she could imagine was to let women rule the world.
She was right.
MrLiberty said...
Be honest. Wouldn't you enjoy watching the members of our congress fight it out with spike covered baseball bats versus shafting us with their horrible, liberty and freedom-destroying legislation? Just imagine the great ratings on C-SPAN.
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In Taiwan's congress they are (once again) throwing chairs and moo goo gai pan at each other.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/lawmakers-brawl-taiwans-parliament-descends-into-chaos
Bikini mud wrestling pay-per-view with the money going to pay down the national debt.
"I should also have said homophobic."
Althouse should have said ill-mannered, unseemly, or better still, boorish and contemptible. As for transphobic or homophobic, their best use is as backfill for a latrine. Along with islamophobia, they're all stupid and illiterate neologisms coined by stupid and ill-literate people that denigrate the users of those concatenations far more than the intended targets of such puerile obloquies.
It’s just like the WWE.
Catfisk...
"...That's transphobic (in the broad sense)..."
In the broad and narrow sense. Comparing Ms. Green's vision for America coming to fruition, versus Ms. Crocketts. Your trans and your phobia's (ie. your humanity) is considerably safer with Ms. Crockett!
I love Jasmine Crockett. She gets under MTG's skin like no one else. And.... no one deserves it more than Marge.
Comer looking befuddled is just a side benefit.
Vicki from Pasadena
Thanks to Tina T at 759 for providing the context that allows us to understand this rising star within the Democratic Party. This is a party with a deep bench of gifted leaders who will bring our great country forward. She is Al Sharpton with a lower IQ and XX chromosomes.
MTG — still a persistent termagant who never met a woman she did not try to trash. Don’t be fooled by her move to be nice — she’s a loathsome character through and through.
Is this worse than anything else that happens in Congress?
I've always enjoyed the rough-and-tumble nature of the House over the faux comity of the Senate, but this is embarrassing.
"If only women ran the world!"
And just yesterday, my law partner and I were ridiculing a recent dictat from the state bar requiring a unit of civility in MCLE.
- Krumhorn
I distinctly remember being told that when there were more women in government, government would be better.
Country white loudmouth ladies and black activist grandstanding ladies hurling personal insults at each other on the floor of Congress is a win not just for women, but for civilization.
In my mind's ear, I can hear Warren Zevon belting out "Bimbos In Congress".
Rich, Vicky, MDer, Rotwang's Cabana Boy -- all the total Scheißköpfe who visit this site without a crumb of wisdom or knowledge to share, they all praise the disorder and abuse because the disorderly and abusive are political incendiaries like themselves.
Greene is a piece of ass, the girl works out, Crockett not so much.
MTG is making fun of other people’s appearance…now that is rich. But "bleach blond, bad-built butch body" kinda rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
"Personal attacks at committee meetings are a bad look" ~ Speaker Mike Johnson
But he needed to go to criminal trials and make fun of the presiding Judge's family, that is much more dignified….
"The Ugly Effect of Physical Insults/A recent congressional meeting devolved into a back-and-forth that reflects a changing norm in politics — one that rarely makes anybody look good."
Actually, I thought Crockett and Occasional-Cortex looked pretty good. You just have to turn the sound down.
Kirk Parker: "In my mind's ear, I can hear Warren Zevon belting out "Bimbos In Congress"."
The reality is Rep Crockett is the product of private schools and can speak perfectly proper english. She just chooses not to im order to maintain her democratical street cred.
Here's a side by side presentation of that:
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1791847940836790327?t=KcPW3sHVdJGnEKq5yKAJZQ&s=19
Totally surprised that Waffle House had a branch in the Capitol Building.
They need to wrassle it out.
Vicki of Pasadena: I'm no fan of MTG1. But she's no racist, just a weird happenstance. I think of her as our sad version of Sheldon Whitehouse, though she's not descended from DC royality.
Your little pal is a hate-filled racist with decades of evidence of near-psychotic anti-white behavior, threats, and lies. To each their own, I suppose.
"a hate-filled racist with decades of evidence of near-psychotic anti-white behavior, threats, and lies"
The price of admission to Progressiveland, many are eager to pay it.
any footage from Knesset?
By the way, Althouse, Crockett did start it. The internet tries to hide her longtime slurs against MTG, but they're available.
And this isn't about transphobia. The media, politicians, and celebrities had orgasms over Michelle Obama's athletic, strong arms. It is all about racism towards whites, especially white women, full stop. Don't be afraid to just say it. MTG has many faults, but racism isn't one of them. When you come up in Atlanta's political climate, you know the anti-white slurs and exactly what they mean.
Unfortunately, Netflix just turned A Man in Full into full-on, sloppy, black revenge porn against whites. I was looking forward to it. They misrepresented every damn thing in that extremely accurate book. Just rewriting a little history. To avoid depicting the wife-beating, bribe-collecting, imprisoned Mayor Bill Campbell, who actually moved all public housing OUT of Atlanta with Bill Clinton's help to make a playground for the rich, they just, risibly, make the mayor a fighter for housing for the poor, and make his palatial office look like a filing room closet.
I guess you have to read the book, if you haven't.
By contrast, fake eyelashes are not part of a person's body, so the attack is less personal, more like making fun of a person's clothes.
Bingo, Althouse.
MTG mocked Crockett's choices. The Dems whined about "attacking someone for their characteristics" (a lie, she's was being attacked for her choices, which is always a legitimate target), then attacked MTG for her actual characteristics.
If you ever want to know what Democrats are doing / planning on doing, you simply have to look at what they accuse the other side of doing.
Because the Dems ALWAY project
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