Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., attends a Senate Banking, Housing, and City Affairs Committee listening to within the Dirksen Constructing on Jan. 11, 2024. | Supply: Tom Williams / Getty
On Thursday, President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union Handle on the Home ground. It was a fiery speech throughout which the president pulled no punches as he went after Donald Trump, whom he solely known as “my predecessor,” the SCOTUS members who overturned Roe v. Wade, and addressed everybody’s points together with his age.
Like many SOTU addresses prior to now, Biden’s had its highs and lows, however regardless of the lows have been, they have been utterly overshadowed by the Republican rebuttal, which was, effectively, a factor to behold.
Meet Sen. Katie Britt.
The freshman senator from Alabama was chosen to provide the official GOP response to Biden’s speech, however what she truly gave was extra like an audition for an element in a D-list made-for-TV drama that even Tubi executives would flip their noses up at.
To make certain, Britt has all the correct GOP speaking factors, taking part in on Biden’s mature age by calling him a “doddering and diminished chief,” and, after all, harping on the border disaster since Republicans’ favourite factor to do exterior of preaching from their anti-woke bibles is remind their constituents that brown persons are coming into the nation whereas mendacity concerning the non-existent rise in violent crime that they’ve induced. Nonetheless, nobody is de facto speaking about any of that, as a result of they’re too distracted by Britt’s absurdly melodramatic supply and the truth that she seemed to be delivering it reside from her kitchen.
Severely, why does she sound like this?
“Proper now the American dream has become a nightmare for therefore many households,” Britt started, her voice cracking, her tone and cadence fluctuating dramatically like she’s Juliet calling out, “Romeo, wherefore artwork thou, Romeo” in a bargain-basement manufacturing of Shakespeare’s iconic play.
Britt appears like she ready for this speech by learning hours of infomercials about ravenous kids in Africa. Was this a State of the Union rebuttal or a cheat sheet for tips on how to land a task in a Lifetime film?
Nah, you simply know Katie is a real Karen. This should be the tone she makes use of when she’s on the telephone with the cops after some Black or brown particular person refuses to point out her their ID or lemonade stand allow. You simply know that kitchen she’s sitting in is an entire crime scene the place many a potato salad has been violently violated with pointless raisins. There was in all probability a inexperienced bean casserole smoldering within the oven as Britt did her finest impersonation of the “Depart Britney alone” Britney Spears fan.
One optimistic factor that resulted from Britt’s speech is the 42-year-old united an more and more divided nation, if just for a second, as Democrats and Republicans alike considered her speech and puzzled to themselves, “What the hell am I watching?”
There you might have it, of us—bipartisan cringe. If Katie the Karen gave us nothing else (and she or he actually didn’t), she gave us that.
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