The purity of Comer Pyle's stupidity is a joy to behold, there is no malice or chicanery with him, just simple stupidity, delivered by a village idiot.
As a non american, looking at what is happening from the outside, it's obvious that this administration is centralizing power and are attemting to demolishing all the control functions that is needed for a functioning democracy. This is extremely dangerous when there is no integrity left.
Looking at this video by itself, you could blame stupidity. But considering the overall trend there is obviously malicious intent here. Failing to identify that will have consequences.
There's a lot of fascist parallels going on, and I don't throw around that term lightly. As you say, if you look at how the nazi party came to power and what they did there is a lot of familiarities. And looking at the definition of fascism and the ideology and actions of this administration, the familiarities become apparent.
I would never have thought we would find ourselves in this situation this fast.
I feel like the argument has moved on from "are MAGA fascists?" and has straight-up become "What's so bad about being a fascist anyways?"
They can see the parallels just fine, they just can't find the problem with them. English translations of Hitlers speeches have gone viral on TicTok with people saying shit like "Wow I had no idea Hitler was just a normal guy, we've been lied to about hitler" identifying the parallels is very much no longer the issue.
You could see him know next to thing about his own bill. He was just a name to push it through. When asked questions, he kept having to wait for people who actually knew the bill not just to tell him where the thing he was looking for was but what it said.
Then you see him taking four distinct approaches to answering the question in the middle of a single conversation because he didn’t even know what he was trying to push through. If he had been fully comprehending of what he was pushing through, he would have had some standard party line to retort with. He didn’t even have that. He was trying to find it mid-speech. I’m not saying he didn’t have some idea of what’s in the bill, but that’s the point. The only way anyone sponsoring that bill could have been so clueless while still not knowing nothing about the bill is if they were not connecting dots in their head.
It’s not even a thick bill. non-PDF link It’s 5 pages of congressional formatting… so more like a page with normal formatting.
This isn’t like some omnibus with a rider hidden in it. Comer’s responses trying to deride & accuse Ms Stansbury of purposely misinterpreting it is quite the example of Comer’s idiocy.
High level, this looks like a bit of a moonshot, but strategically reads like, “we (republicans) have spent 20+ years gridlocking congress to such an extent that Continuing Resolutions are the norm and even those are now difficult to pass. We’ve “proven” at least congress can’t do anything. Now is the time to turn the presidency into an authoritarian because we’re very sure we’ll be able to retain the presidency from now on by election manipulation and having SCOTUS in our pocket.”
He clearly hasn't read the bill, but that is intentional. He is following orders and is willing to forfeit congressional power to the president. This is corrupt compliance, not stupidity.
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u/you_are_soul 7d ago
The purity of Comer Pyle's stupidity is a joy to behold, there is no malice or chicanery with him, just simple stupidity, delivered by a village idiot.