Twitter link:
pete hoekstra post
Which reads:
Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.
How many ways is this wrong? Below the fold.
- Number of dead Republican members of the House: zero. Getting killed is pretty important, idiot.
- This idiot equates being in the minority with being in the majority and ignored. Pete - YOU LOST. You are supposed to have very little power.
- This idiot is on the house intelligence committee. He is in a good position to know what real oppression looks like. What it does. Do you fear for your life, Pete? No, you don't. You know you are full of crud.
- The Iranian people are trying to overthrow one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet. Being in the minority in the US House? Not quite the same thing. Hey, Pete - wasn't it a President of your party who called Iran part of the "Axis of Evil"? Is Nancy Pelosi taking over for Saddam as the 3rd member? Idiot.
- The Iranian protesters probably represent a majority of their nation. The House GOP represents 20% of this nation. Innumerate idiot.
- The only way these brave Iranians have to communicate is Twitter. You'll always have Fox News to get your message out, Pete, even when it completely contradicts reality.
7)
Iranians twittering is an ingenious method of staying in touch with each other and the world.
#wewontgo was a pointless wankfest that accomplished nothing but proving (again) how infantile and out of touch Republicans really are.
Then to equate the two ... well, Pete really has nothing left, does he?
- Republicans steal elections. They don't get elections stolen from them.
I can't go on. Pete Hoekstra is a big fat idiot.
Update: #7 above, H/T to liberalis.
Update 2:
I think this means we have to stop making fun of Twitter. In the right hands, it documents an uprising. In the hands of Goposaurs, it is comedic gold.
Update 3:
Per TPM, massive mockitude has Twittered upon Hoekstra
A sample:
paganmist @petehoekstra Had to move all my stuff to a new office w/o a corner view. Now i know what the Trail of Tears was like. #GOPfail