That should instantly disqualify her from holding office. You should have a basic understanding of American history in order to govern properly, and it’s obvious she doesn’t know shit about the history of this country despite arrogantly acting like she does.
let me ask the major news corps about this
“have you considered that her being in congress gets us a lot of ad revenue as we write articles about how we read twitter posts? eat shit” - corporate media
I don’t think the barrier should be "do you know history trivia?’ but rather “can you read and understand a wikipedia article?”
Except that would immediately turn into Jim Crow era literacy tests and be used for evil. You’d want an electorate that cares and a press that asks revealing questions, though.
I can excuse someone for not knowing details because not everybody is a history major (hell I don’t even know who all signed that document), but these people build their whole identity and politics around jingoism, so they better back it up.
I mean the Jim crow literacy test thing was used against voters. These are people that are supposed to govern. I kinda draw a distinction there.
Yes I do believe that voters and the press should be caring more and asking more revealing questions, but media literacy in this country is low, voter involvement is low, and our press is nothing more than arms of the ruling class so they rarely ever ask the necessary questions to allow voters to truly understand who’s on the ballot.
I mean the Jim crow literacy test thing was used against voters. These are people that are supposed to govern. I kinda draw a distinction there.
If we had any sort of “you must pass this test to be an elected official”, it would without a doubt be used against minorities.
I would love to have that kind of test, but I don’t know how to have one that wouldn’t be corrupted.
I had to pass a civics test to get out of 8th grade. Why is it not required for someone to be a congressperson?
I thought she would be finished when she was going on about Jewish space lasers. But that is my fault for thinking they would get rid of their jester.
Your fault for thinking they consider her a jester
I dunno… in a way, that’s representation in its purest form - angry, stupid Republicans have one of their own in office.
🇷🇺 Russian representation
I wouldn’t mind that as much if it were actual proportional representation.
There’s be way more stupid people in office then lol.
But there’d be more poor and collar workers too which would HOPEFULLY get more progressive legislation on the board…
Or more MAGA crazies so…
MAGA crazies are dramatically over represented in politics because of gerrymandering and FPTP voting systems.
I think bootlickers are overrepresented just by being Republican but I don’t think the vast majority of them are full on MAGA brainwashed like Marj.
Wouldn’t stay poor for long with all that insider trading money
It’s going to be an awkward conversation but she is officially off the trivia team. If she thinks I’m switching trains to get to Capital Hill just to lose, she’s got another fact to learn.
She has, conservatively (ahem), several facts to learn
The killer bit is apparently she looked up their ages in 1776 and just didn’t bother confirming who signed.
From here:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/signers-factsheet
Yeah, average age was 44.51.
56 people signed it.
Oldest was Ben Franklin at 70.
Youngest were Thomas Lynch Jr. and Edward Ruteledge, both 26.
28 people were under the age of 45.I thought she just got caught with a live question. But no, she hand crafted this claim with all the time in the world and utterly biffed it. What a joke.
biffed it
Damn, haven’t heard that one in a long time
have i been sounding weird for saying it so frequently?? (late gen z with biffed it in my daily vocab)
I wonder if it came from Biff Tannon. He always messed up.
Bet you she claims that the history books have been changed by the Demoncrats
Her flowchart must be Charlie from It’s Always Sunny.
Or the Jewish space lasers
Firecracker
I rolled my eyes at first during that. Then realized it actually happened in real life, and got a little more depressed.
Lmao wait what? Real life??
It’s a line taken from Marjorie Taylor Greene, yes
I see your shwartz is as big as mine. Touché.
People no say Marge smart. MARGE SMASH
Nah. Deeeefinitely pass on Marge.
I would if any smart people ever ran for office.
Yeah, she does strike me as a “Herby Hancock” kind of person.
I just hear Chameleon start playing in my head.
that synth sound will never get old
You guys have to look at it in context. She IS representing her district. She’s actually above average around those parts. It’s sad and off putting when viewed through your eyes but in her district she is a towering intellect, the likes of which will rarely be repeated in the future. We should all celebrate her efforts to participate in representative government.
Who do they think is doing the voting ???
Every presidential election in my lifetime has had a candidate that has been attacked as “the dumb one” and another that has been attacked as “the smart evil one” (note: the might not be this, but they were attacked as if they were this)
The “dumb one” has won every time.
I concur, except I didn’t get those vibes during Obama v Romney. Who was who then?
There wasn’t a “dumb” one in that one. But there was massive hypocrisy from the GOP because Romney is the embodiment of the Elite, while they tirelessly touted Bush Jr as an everydayman (“dumb”) while villifying the Elite.
This was just 4 years later.
Has there ever been a time without massive hypocrisy from the Republicans?
They’ll swallow the party line and that’s all there is to it.
Wait! Obama was the dumb one and John McCain the smart? D:
TBF McCain was spot on on Putin in a way that Obama was not.
Are you talking about the debate with Mitt Romney?
Obama was seen as severely lacking in foreign policy credentials, he was only in his first Senate term and didn’t have any other national political experience before running in 2008. That was part of the reason he picked Biden for VP in the first place, it offered some reassurance for voters who thought Obama was weak on foreign policy.
Even so, when Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 Obama kind of just yawned and let him. The UN passed a few resolutions, but that was that. I don’t think Biden would have rolled over if he were President at the time. I think if you asked Biden about any major disagreements he had with Obama, that might be at the top of the list.
I also think McCain would have handled it differently, too. He would have made a good President, even if I would have disagreed with him more. He was better than the absolute trash the GOP puts up these days.
And yet everything else policy wise he was a dinosaur.
Man, B6 is such a goddamn embarrassment
B6?
A hilariously apropos insult leveled at her by a fellow representative whilst calling her out on some hypocrisy a little while ago: bleach blonde bad built butch body
Alliterative, snappy, and didn’t even have to stoop to the obvious profane jab that would work under that constraint (thus running afoul of chamber decorum rules). Props to Rep Crockett for that. I like to shorten it to B6.
smart, mentally stable people never get in to politics and instead find enjoyable work they can be proud of.
My God, how does such an ignorant, sophomoric, and patently ignorant take have so many upvotes on Lemmy? Some of the most intelligent and kind people I know have gone into politics, but mostly have just been local.
But even at the top, without even thinking I can point to Obama who went to Harvard law.
Granted, I agree that politics does not select specifically for intelligence, as mtg among many others prove, but the idea that smart and mentally stable people don’t go into politics is just ridiculously stupid.
fine fine. mentally stable people rarely make it big in politics. even local in my region has some sketchy shit going on where nothing gets done about it even after its made public. The seemingly nice politicians that actually care about the people never get voted in here, only the ones that make empty promises and never deliver, or just outright bait and switch.
Counterpoint: Bernie
Yes. Edge cases are fun to point out.
“Never” is asking for one
