…all cowered in fear of the Gazpacho Police:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of using her “gazpacho police” to spy on members of Congress.
“Now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens,” Greene said on One America News Network’s “Real America” program Tuesday, apparently confusing the chilled tomato soup with the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.
Hilarity ensued:
Last but not least, Popehat has had way too much fun with this:
Voltaire’s prayer has never been more efficiently granted:
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.'”
Open thread, y’all.
Image: William Merritt Chase, Still life with vegetables, 19th c.
Hoodie
I believe the Gazpacho Police were formed shortly after the debut of Almodavar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown to prevent the illicit spiking of gazpacho.
Mike in NC
We had gazpacho at a lunch place in Florida and liked it so much that I whipped up a big batch and shared it with neighbors.
Baud
She’s a literal soup Nazi.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: ?
West of the Rockies
Christ, what an imbecile. And lazy. Take 15 damn seconds to review your “work.”
anon
the gazpacho police were wearing baklavas to hide their identities
Raoul Paste
@Baud: Superb
phdesmond
oh, what a pleasure!
mrmoshpotato
Lisa made enough gazpacho for all!
Jerzy Russian
Please tell me you hacked into Twitter, several major news sites, etc. and planted this story. Pretty please? I can’t deal with living in a universe where those events actually happened.
Poe Larity
Souper!
Everything she says sounds better in the original German.
Baud
Conservatives using the wrong word in an “amusing” way goes back to at least Archie Bunker.
Never forget that she won’t hesitate to send you to the camps if she’s able.
Tom Levenson
@Baud: I know that, and she’s not funny.
But she is an idiot, and I can pause for just a moment to take pleasure in dunking on her before I go back to packing my go bag in the event of the fascist apotheosis.
debbie
This country has become a humiliation.
HumboldtBlue
Who is the proudest great-uncle hanging around this juke joint at this moment? Well that would be me, moi, me, myself and I.
That’s because a 10-year-old West Virginia schoolgirl who is very near and dear to my heart traveled to Charleston with her Gigi today to speak at a committee hearing on a bill she strenuously opposes.
The young firebrand brooks no patience with the racists and the ignorant, and she let the committee know in her statement, in which she is quoted as saying:
She also wrote in her statement that she comes from a very large and diverse family with LGBTQ, Black, Jewish, Japanese people she loves and I was bawling.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Gin & Tonic
@HumboldtBlue: Sounds like a damn good reason to be proud.
The Dangerman
Potato, Tomato, Potatoe, Tomatoe, let’s call the whole thing off.
Seriously, I’d be embarrassed enough to resign and live the rest of my life In anonymity.
ETA: Dan Quayle can rest easy.
Gin & Tonic
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I can’t wait to see tomorrow’s NYT story on this, top right of Page A1.
JPL
@HumboldtBlue:?????
JPL
@Gin & Tonic: Accidentally, trump removed classified information.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
I think it’s important to highlight when one’s opponent is being ridiculous. Ridicule is the most effective weapon to use against people who desire above all else to be taken seriously.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
?
Jackal in training.
gwangung
@HumboldtBlue: Damn straight you should be proud of her
@Baud: Training her right!
different-church-lady
Our representative government is truly representative, is it not?
Wapiti
Arrgh. Even saying Gestapo Police is wrong. It stands for Geheime Staatspolizei ( secret state police) and Getapo police is redundant.
raven
@Roger Moore: As she ensures her reelection.
danielx
@Gin & Tonic:
Right next to the story about Rudy Guiliani asking the prosecuting attorney of Antrim County MI to seize voting machines.
Mental picture of editors saying “how the hell are we going to “both sides” this shit”?
eta: Alternatively, they could go with a page one story about how the Biden Administration is giving away crack pipes. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
FTFNYT
danielx
@HumboldtBlue:
Most excellent!
different-church-lady
@Dorothy A. Winsor: oh my gosh, the 8 point headline on page A10 of the NYT is going to be blaring!
Josie
@JPL: Wouldn’t removing classified material involve some criminal liability?
JPL
@Josie: One would think, but he was the president, and he could have unclassified the documents.
Tom Levenson
@HumboldtBlue: Win!
You have a great descendent.
different-church-lady
deleted due to some serious FYWP behavior
HumboldtBlue
Sage’s full statement (without the on-page edits and notations in the margins, which just melt my heart even more than it’s a puddle already):
Josie
@HumboldtBlue: Please let her know how many of us out here are applauding her.
debbie
@HumboldtBlue:
Impressive!
ETA Especially that last paragraph! ?
raven
@Roger Moore:
Ridicule
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic: You left off a zero.
danielx
@Josie:
You bet, just ask Reality Winner. On the other hand, It’s not like Trump has ever given a fiddler’s fuck about criminal liability for anything whatsoever. And he has grounds for that belief, since he has never been held to account for anything in his life.
Josie
@JPL:
True, but what if he neglected to do that and took them? Then they are still classified and he can no longer change that since he is not president any more. Ok, I’m dreaming again.
JPL
@Josie: It wouldn’t surprise me if we discovered that he was charging money for people to take a look.
Baud
@raven:
TIL pre-revolutionary French society was a precursor to social media.
different-church-lady
@Wapiti: You can never have too much Gestapo!
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
Goddamn right!
@JPL:
Hell Yeah!
@Baud:
Indeed!
@danielx:
Absolutely!
@Tom Levenson:
Totally awesome kid!
@Josie:
On it!
The family text thread has exploded and my sister (Sage’s Gigi) said she was warmly greeted by lawmakers, given tons of credit for her poise and statement and shown around the joint a bit following the hearing.
Stone-cold buzzing for the kid.
The Dangerman
@Josie: If I had taken classified materials home back in the day, it would have instant slammer time.
Doug R
https://twitter.com/petridishes/status/1491531205925384200
the use of gazpacho tactics by Nancy Pelosi is chilling
dexwood
Marjorie Terror Greene – inner ugly ascendant with stupid on the rise.
JPL
@Doug R: AOC wins with her comment, though.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: “At least she leads by example. She clearly banned all books from her house years ago” / Twitter
Betty
@HumboldtBlue: Bravo, Sage! And congratulations to her parents and her teacher.
danielx
@HumboldtBlue:
Although I bet the flying monkeys are preparing to take wing right now, poor kid.
Another Scott
@raven: She knows what she’s doing. She’s throwing up a word salad of scary charges, and if something gets more people to pay attention, then she’s succeeded.
“Republicans don’t lie to be believed – they lie to be repeated.” – LOLGOP
#NoSoupforQ
Cheers,
Scott.
dexwood
@HumboldtBlue: I learned long ago. while teaching, never give up on students, the kids are alright.
HumboldtBlue
@JPL:
Goddamn, that’s gonna sting.
dexwood
@dexwood: Too late to edit. Should add, it was the fucking career-oriented administrators you couldn’t trust. The fuckin’ fucks
Ken
You all laugh now, but when she’s found drowned in cold tomato soup, remember she warned us.
SiubhanDuinne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
TFG didn’t pack those boxes himself. Who was/were the staffer/s who
assistedabetted him in this larceny?SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
What an amazing young woman! No wonder you’re proud!
Another Scott
Todd Rundgren – Lockjaw (4:02)
Lockjaw’s late. :-(
Cheers,
Scott.
RevRick
These gazpacho police sound kind of fishy. We need an in depth investigation to get to the bouillabaisse of this.
Ken
@SiubhanDuinne: We’ll find out when they get underbussed.
HazumuOsaragi
While what she said is funny, laughing at her won’t make her go away. I found this somewhere. I think it bears reading/sharing:
terben
@Wapiti: What appalling ignorance. She should be banished to the middle of the Sahara desert, or the top of Mt Fujiyama. Throw her into the La Brea Tar Pits or Lake Tahoe.
phdesmond
@HumboldtBlue:
good for her! dang! we’re all proud of her!
NotMax
Mrs. Malaprop on the verge of apoplexy from raucous laughter.
H.E.Wolf
Oh, I remember those mazel tov cocktails. Best rejoinder I saw at the time:
https://twitter.com/eleanorkpenny/status/1269304568845930496
different-church-lady
@Another Scott:
It could be like that theory about why all those email Nigerian Prince scams have such bad grammar and spelling: they’re trying to deliberately weed out anyone smart enough to not fall for the scam.
opiejeanne
@RevRick: Are you casting asparagus at them?
phdesmond
@H.E.Wolf:
ah, so it’s “shabbat kablam”! seems appropriate.
Grumpy Old Railroader
I confess that I have always taken MTG for granite
Dan B
@HumboldtBlue: Me too. Bawling and from a diverse family, being one of the diverse along with my nephew and his Persian husband, my former sister in law and her black boyfriend, etc.
Reason to be proud!
Omnes Omnibus
@HazumuOsaragi: It might not change the minds of the committed, but it could keep the the undecided from falling into fascism.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
@terben: I’d suggest the lava lake at Halemaumau on the big island in Hawaii, but even Pele has standards.
Felixmoronia
@terben: MTG is toxic, therefore the only place for her is the Berkeley Pit. A toxic lake in Butte, MT.
mrmoshpotato
@Felixmoronia: That bitch isn’t worth a 3 dollar admission fee.
NotMax
@Felixmoronia
Scenic Lake Karachay.
//
RaflW
MTG. From Soup to Nuts.
gwangung
@Omnes Omnibus: You RARELY aim at the committed. You aim at the bystanders and the loosely committed to chip away at the block.
And carry the big stick for the demented committed.
BellyCat
@HumboldtBlue: Simply amazing! If only more adults listened to the wisest among us — those not yet silenced by adulthood.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Pelosi is imprisoning 1-6 patriots in a Soviet style Goulash.
Gvg
Those don’t teach what makes you feel bad laws are orders to teachers to lie. I hope some teachers say that loudly. We aren’t liars. Law makers are ordering us to lie to kids. Use the word liars a lot.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Hell with ridiculous. My prayer is for my enemies to be made harmless.
…what? Once they’re thoroughly and legally hanged, they can’t do any more harm, right?
Geminid
Ohio Senate hopeful J.D.Vance thought his faltering Senate campaign could be energized when M.T. Greene endorsed him two weeks ago. She’s campaigned with him once since then. I hope Greene makes it to more of Vance’s upcoming “town halls;” the two make a perfect couple.
Brantl
@HumboldtBlue: Great kid!
Brantl
@Josie: He’s just written up a retroactively dated document in magic marker and posted it on the door of Marred-Old-LardAss, so take that!
dyspeptic
These are bouillabaiseless accusations
Miss Bianca
@raven: I just watched that movie, because some other jackal mentioned it the other day!
WaterGirl
@dyspeptic: Your first comment has to be manually approved, but now that I’ve done that your comments should be visible to people right away.
Welcome!