Senator John Kennedy froze and then properly zoned out—forcing Fox to cut the interview short.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    He literally froze up when he got caught in the Christan Nationalist logical trap.

    Literally got stuck in the loop when his lips said, “I’m sure Jesus loves them, but everybody else…”

    The topic they were discussing was Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities.

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 days ago

    That’s insane to me that the Fox News host tried to pretend it was an issue with the mic. It’s so clear the mic was working fine, what the fuck. This is the kind of obvious propaganda that I’d expect from North Korea

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      Fox News is way better and more sophisticated as a propaganda machine than whatever NK has.

      It’s one thing to brain wash people that have no access to education or outside sources it’s a completely different level to do it in a western country.

      • Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca
        11·
        3 days ago

        Not really. Is there much difference between no education and an American education?

        It doesn’t really count if you just make up all the facts and history.

        • aesthelete@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          I often think about how many people I went to school with felt that high school was difficult. High school in America is a fucking joke. I understand that high school is difficult if you have a disability of some sort, and I even buy the cultural bias argument for standardized testing, but I went to high school in a lilly white suburb with lots of supposedly normative kids and some of them barely made it through graduation.

          The American populace is chock full of idiots. Most of the people that even graduated high school here (which is not everyone) went on to never pick up another book again.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
            3·
            2 days ago

            College too. I used to study in the business school beacuse it was new and the chairs were excellent. I’d frequently run into students doing the whole “Math is hard!” thing.

            So I’d offer to help, super basic high school algebra type stuff.

            I’d explain it and they’d go “Wow! You’re smart! What classes are you taking here?”

            “Oh, I’m an English major, I’m just here because the chairs don’t suck.”

  • womjunru@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    remain in office for far longer than they should, usually out of pride and denial.

    These cunts keep getting elected.

      • womjunru@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        0·
        2 days ago

        I’m curious to know how you feel the democrats have done this? Please be specific, and please have something more recent than Jim Crow.

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
            3·
            2 days ago

            Kennedy is a Senator. Gerrymandering doesn’t apply to state-wide elections. Only congressional seats.

          • womjunru@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Are you assuming democrats have drawn new lines to prevent people from voting? Or, are they just trying to draw it back? Do you have any examples? Because you’re really sounding like you have very little evidence to support the claim that both sides are equally fucking over the voters. You’re sounding very MAGA right now.

              • womjunru@lemmy.cafeEnglish
                3·
                1 day ago

                I didn’t say you are, I said you sounded like one. But I can see that you don’t have any examples and you don’t know what you’re talking about. The vast majority of the shitty politicians are Republicans. You can try to both sides this all you want, you will continue to come up short just like you have

    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      He’s the only name the voters recognize, probably.

      Anyone who would oppose him doesn’t have the funding to force their name into everyone’s mouths.

  • flandish@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 days ago

    running should only be allowed at an age less than that of retirement, and at federal minimum wage. want to fix issues for working class and elderly? Fix them while you’re in office while you are becoming too old to run again. Get the fucking zombies out of DC.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      They should have term limits. Funny how they gave the president term limits but didn’t vote on ones for themselves.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        They also vote on work requirements for things like health care benefits and then clock a zero hour day at their own fucking jobs.

        Congress should have to work a standard forty hour work week to receive benefits and make time off requests like the rest of us.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      the minnimum wage thing only means that the people that go up for the job are the corrupt bastards cutting favors and deals.

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              Yes. We should have anti-corruption laws being reliably forced, and have anti-corruption laws strengthened.

              that won’t happen if all the good ones leave because they can’t afford to live in DC.

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              there is a problem with minimum wage, yes.

              but you’re solution isn’t a solution. it will lead to the exact opposite of what you want. even more so than now.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 days ago

    The host knows this is a video right? We can see the senator’s lips not moving. It’s not an issue with the mic 🤣