Before Ben Sasse retired from the Senate to go down to the University of Florida and get his fair share of abuse, he coined the term, “performative jackassery,” to describe the theatrics of his colleagues who were more interested in getting a segment on Fox News than governing. The comical part of is is that he was sitting right beside Ted Cruz when he made the comment. The image is burned in my memory.
Another image that will stay burned is Clay Higgins threatening to play fascist dictator, or something, and imprison Twitter employees who assisted in sabotaging the 2020 election.
Naturally, from his darkroom at Mar-a-Lago, or wherever he makes those horrid videos, along came Donald Trump. Finally. Finally somebody in Congress was talking about his favorite topic, the stolen, stollen election.
Trump’s favorite part of the hearing today was Clay Higgins threatening Twitter employees with jail. pic.twitter.com/0gQ8qYzWjR
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 8, 2023
You are looking at 100% of the reasons why these hearings are happening. For this ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/i98MAlCNMU
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 8, 2023
And here are delusions of adequacy from Clay Higgins.
Higgins has power……🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— mod (@patmodica) February 9, 2023
Higgins is going to huff and puff and boy are you in trouble.
And that’s just today. Did you catch what he did on Sunday? CNN:
Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins had enough. It was time to fight back. So he took to Twitter on Sunday and dropped this truth bomb:
“You millennial leftists who never lived one day under nuclear threat can now reflect upon your woke sky. You made quite a non-binary fuss to save the world from intercontinental ballistic tweets.”
Except what, exactly, is Higgins talking about? He didn’t offer any further explanation – on Twitter or anywhere else. Heck, even the dictionary was confused.
“We’re not entirely sure what this tweet is supposed to mean, and we’re literally the dictionary,” tweeted Dictionary.com.
So, let’s break down the Higgins tweet – sentence by sentence.
“You millennial leftists who never lived one day under nuclear threat can now reflect upon your woke sky.”
Higgins is clearly mad at millennials – those who were born between 1981 and 1996 – for having “never lived one day under nuclear threat.” But that’s not technically accurate since the Cold War between Russia and the United States didn’t formally end until December 1989. So older millennials have lived under a nuclear threat from Russia. And the younger end of the generation has been impacted by efforts from North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
As for Higgins’ claim that millennials can now “reflect upon your woke sky,” well, that’s a tougher nut to crack. He seems to have wanted to get a shot in at so-called “woke culture,” but sort of ran out of ways to do it. So he used it as an adjective to enhance “sky,” which, from a purely technical point of view, makes no sense.
Go over to CNN and read the rest of it. It’s a complete hoot.
“Reflect upon your woke sky.” I will, Clay, I will. With my good eye. While eating pie. Until I die. Till then I’ll cry. Sigh.
Higgins is looking to be Ted Cruz’ understudy and it looks like he might make it. Meantime, Trump is glowing. And Rupert Murdoch is jumping up and down on one foot. He was so hoping to have a smooth segue from Trump to Prince DeSantis and now it looks like the stolen election madness is starting up all over again. Damn.
Well, ‘Sky’ is the Murdoch brand on this side of the pond. Maybe the fact that the Murdoch Media Empire is sort of souring on Donald (the soon to be convict) could be connected.
That makes as much sense as his original diatribe
The woke sky. It’s poetic. Maybe we could do a movie script or something. The Night The Sky Woke Up. The Hills Have Eyes and They Look At The Sky. Let me ponder this a bit.
This is just another case of my assertion that if you teach morons a new word, you will then hear it repeated a million times……just never in it’s correct context.
It’s like Alice In Wonderland, the words mean what you want them to.
There’s another way of considering it from The Princess Bride – Inigo’s line “I do not think that word means what you think it does.”
LOL
What’s really dumb about this is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist’s Doomsday Clock is currently set at ninety seconds to midnight. And Putin has been threatening us with nuclear annihilation for about a year. So, the entire country is under nuclear threat. Even those “woke sky” millennials. Smh.
Does this braying ass think a nuclear-armed device is dropped from a balloon? Someone needs to clue this fool into this: dirty bombs need not be dropped at all and ICBM’s do not need balloons to get them to their targets.
The bottomless well of stupidity running so rampant in this country will be the thing that destroys us, not nukes. Our enemies know this or at least if they have been paying attention since last week they know this now.
Eff you, moron! Today is looking to be a mass exodus from Twitter to my new social media platform Spoutible. You can keep the dead bird app and watch it fall to MySpace status thanks to Musk’s blithering incompetence.
Uh…asshole ALL OF US have lived under the threat of nuclear Holocaust since Truman vaporized Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. Then we were the only ones with the ability to cause such mass destruction. Now there are TENS OF THOUSANDS of these weapons scattered around the globe, including thousands in the hands of soulless evil dictators. We had a running joke in the Navy that, given the number of warheads on our Trident submarines scattered around the world, we could turn an entire country into a parking lot in a matter of minutes. Problem is it would spark the old acronym MAD(mutually assured destruction). Is there need of any further proof we live on a planet run by madmen? I think not. Just watch the death cult in congress and tell me I’m exaggerating.
‘Delusions of adequacy’
The perfect summation.