Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’

Julia Ioffe, Washington correspondent for Puck News, said: “Imagine you’re sleeping over at a friend’s house and you get up in the middle of the night to pee and you hear a weird sound so you follow it to the kitchen, where your friend’s mom is drunk, crying, and rambling about the national debt. Those are the vibes from Katie Britt right now.”

Fucking amazing. So so accurate.

Watts said: “Senator Katie Britt says sexual assault is the worst thing that can happen to a woman while encouraging Americans to vote for a convicted sexual predator.”

Watts on point.

Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’

So... did nobody review what she was going to say, or how she was going to say it, before they filmed it?

The scariest thing about this isn't even Britt's speech, it's that there must be a group of people around her who were totally on board with it. This is the message they wanted to send.

Holy fuck - my girl goes from her kids & her kitchen table to graphic descriptions of sexual assault in like 0.2 seconds.

Give a fucking warning or some shit at least, you awful excuse for a “lawmaker”. Think of the “children” who you consistently use as an excuse to take actions against the LGBTQ community that cause them and their families to live in constant fear. Because those families don’t matter like yours, obviously.

Also, all the economic shit you bitch about - why people are poor and have no retirement - that’s on you and your friends’ watches. And to your “fellow moms” who struggle - lower the cost to childcare. Help single mothers. Make real maternity and paternity leave a thing. Lower the cost of healthcare.

Or just keep screaming into that camera like the fake POS you are. That’ll help.

It's honestly so bad that it's actually getting it more views and it's being covered everywhere including the Daily Show. Part of me wonders if that's the intent but then I realize much of the GOP is completely incompetent.

Also, since the BoRDeR CriSiS is going to literally be the GOP's only attack this election cycle, let' remind them of a couple things:

• Republicans blocked the border plan THEY originally wanted and which the Border Patrol themselves endorsed. <--- Republicans chose politics over policy.

• iLlEGal ImMiGraNts actually commit less violent crime as a whole than American citizens themselves...

• Right-Wing domestic extremists are far more violent.

• Such undocumented immigrants yield a net-positive to our economy as a whole.

There is something extremely creepy about her tone of voice and body language. One second it feels like she is trying to convince you that she is genuine but she tries too hard which immediately make you think she is faking it. All of a sudden she sounds angry in a very serious way which makes me think she is a psychopath and she about to stab me in the neck with an ice pick. My immediate instinctive reaction is to stop the video. Last time I was this creeped out was watching Anthony Hopkins' performance in Silence of the Lamb. Of course that was just really good acting of a fictional character and this is a real life person which makes it even more disturbing.

If only there was a bipartisan border bill which consists of nothing but concessions from democrats. Katie's one of the people who killed the bill.

Please. I beg you people, do not drink psycho moms sweet tea. There's something in that shit.

The contrast of one of the greatest SOTU speeches in history to an utterly creepy call to gather a nut-fringe group to take over the Republican tent is a two piece diorama of what we are today. We are the UNITED States. I hope everyone spends some time thinking of what that means.

The absolute terrible acting here will not be picked up by the South. That very reflective Jesus Cross around her neck is an obvious prop. All the fake crying in the world won't derail those people. Sickening.

Didn't hear what she had to say but a friend said is was definitely going to be the basis of SNL's cold open this weekend.

I mean it's sad but predictable when your sanest member still sounds like a lunatic because that's what the Republican party wants in their leaders.

However I do understand what she was going for in the whole kitchen aesthetic, you know trying to connect with the old boomers that have kitchens talking about their "Kitchen Table" issues.

This is what happens when Republicans try to seem like they are down home people instead of corporate shills. The cracks in the mask show

I had to watch that clip twice because I thought it was fake with the way she was speaking lol.

Jesus Christ, are they cloning Stefanik?

This woman needs albuterol, STAT

That evil fake fucking smile...

Didn't spew enough N-words?

What’s the opposite of a slam dunk called? Because this is it.

Remember, she only got the job because she's one of Trump's in-crowd. He'll try to distance himself from this flop but he owns it.

I'd never heard of this person until my wife suddenly started seeing so many pictures of her on Facebook that she asked me who it was... After I said I had no idea she proceeded to Google it and then told me her name... Which I promptly forgot.

What, are they saying that creepy dead-eyed stare and the overall Gilead vibes are a bad look for them?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Delivering the official State of the Union response can be a thankless task, as the former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the Florida senator Marco Rubio, deliverers of previously panned speeches, would ruefully attest.

Nonetheless, the 42-year-old Alabama senator is a rising Republican star, widely respected on Capitol Hill and her selection to respond to Biden was a golden opportunity to introduce herself to the wider American electorate.

As a Gallup poll showed 57% of American voters think the US would be better off if more women were in elected office, Alyssa Farah Griffin, a Trump aide turned never-Trumper, said: “Senator Katie Britt is a very impressive person … I do not understand the decision to put her in a KITCHEN for one of the most important speeches she’s ever given.”

Among satirical responses, Tom Nichols, an anti-Trump conservative columnist, spoke for many when he said: “There is no way that this Katie Britt address does not end up as part of the Saturday Night Live cold open.”

With wavering voice, the senator described meeting a migrant woman who she said described being “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12” and who, Britt said, spoke of being repeatedly raped “on a mattress in a shoebox of a room”.

Last month, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, was ordered to pay $83.3m in a civil defamation case arising from a rape allegation a judge said was “substantially true”.

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Yup, we had to stop it just a few minutes in when it appeared she was turning herself on over the rape story she mostly made up.

I don't understand why they didn't have Trump give it... like I'm not rooting for Trump and the GOP deserves to be in chaos, but Trump would have done an infinitly better job. Like "look at me, I'm your other choice. Here's what I'm claiming to bring to the table." Instead they gave us Senator Mrs. Whomever talking weird.

Crazy eyes.

Holy shit, did she just echo “manifest destiny”?

Just getting the sounds bites in. Facts? What are those?

Can’t wait to see how the tankies try and defend this because that was some cringey acting. The put on emotion and creepy little smiles during her phony forced voice cracks… just wow. And the story is as embellished and overly dramatic as it sounded. People are tearing it apart.

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