One of the ironies of the Republican Party’s success with gerrymandering and its lack of meaningful policy solutions is that it has allowed its far-right wing to grab a solid chokehold over the rest of the party. There was a time when more politically savvy conservatives could make compromise deals in order to at least claim they were part of working to make America … great.
After underperforming this past midterm election cycle, the Republican Party’s slight majority in the House is a circular firing squad of corrupt politicians. The conservative media landscape is equally lost, with even its top right-wing propaganda dogs spending most of their time attacking anamorphic candied chocolate advertisements as a policy platform.
On Tuesday, the right-wing propaganda outlet known as Newsmax sent out its White House correspondent to ask a question of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. What did this think tank of a man come up with? After a sizable meandering lead-up about the concept of “woke-ism,” a thing that really doesn’t exist, Newsmax’s best and brightest asked:
“If we couldn’t begin with a threshold question, to wit, is President Biden ‘woke’?”
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After I recovered, having laughed myself into a brief coma, I realized that, yes, the question he asked was, Is President Joseph Biden … woke? And yes, he also said, “To wit.” Holy mackerel, right?
Does Newsmax have something to add to this? Is the Republican Party asking for the defense budget to be cut of “wokeness?” What does that look like, exactly? No women in the armed forces? No Black people in the armed forces? Nope.
The Republican Party has nothing it wants to cut except for Social Security and Medicare, but since no one actually wants that, especially the seniors who make up a considerable block of the conservative base, they’re hoping President Biden—and by extension, White House press secretary Jean-Pierre—can give them some ideas.
This isn’t Karine Jean-Pierre’s first foray into a conservative bouncy house. She decided the best way to deal with this was to explain that “what the president cares about and what's important to this president” has nothing to do with “what Republicans are trying to do in creating political stunts.” More specifically, Jean-Pierre says that what the President is interested in is what benefits the American people, not pretend culture wars that the Republican Party believes “benefits them politically for their own, for their own ability to move forward.”
She then reiterated the facts of the matter: The Biden administration is continuing to be galactically more fiscally responsible than any Republican administration has ever been, while the Republican Party continues to say that they want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
The Recount did some excellent work highlighting the responses of actual reporters sitting in Newsmax’s vicinity and responding to his personal moment of humiliation.
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