"Republicans have no clear shot at him any more. There is no longer a strong case against Biden’s re-election. With that, I think what we are beginning to see is the election is increasingly becoming a referendum on Trump and not Biden."
I’ve raised over $20,000 for Democrats since the #SOTU, but the bulk has been for Senate races. While these are important & I’m promoting them as well, it’s STATE LEGISLATIVE RACES which are in most need of funding. Pick a state & donate today! #Blue24 https://Blue24.org/state-leg
I’ve raised over $18,000 for Democrats since the #SOTU, but the bulk has been for Senate races. While these are important & I’m promoting them as well, it’s STATE LEGISLATIVE RACES which are in most need of funding. Pick a state & donate today! #Blue24 https://Blue24.org/state-leg
"The former president mimicked his rival while at a rally over the weekend. For those who stutter, his remark 'hits that familiar humiliation feeling.'"
And big name news outlets got beat to it by #Johnathan#Katz, a guy with a newsletter and a TikTok account
♦️Why didn’t the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, or any other news organization have this story?
♦️Would any of them have eventually fact-checked that portion of her speech?
♦️Would they have all just let it slide?
It is a lot like what happened in 2022 as the story of then-Rep.-Elect #George#Santos (R-NY) began to unravel.
The Times reported on it, but missed it until after the election was over 💥and proceeded to get really irritated at the implication that the New York Times should do in-depth pre-election reporting on New York congressional races💥
Here is Katz's exposé on #TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/7344090454985624862
"Throughout [Katie Britt's] remarks, her face was frozen into a ghastly cheerleader’s rictus—an effect that became especially gothic as she doted with unseemly relish on the details of alleged immigrant rape, sex-trafficking, and other mayhem."
Apple is pulling some next level bullshit. A beloved internet production studio is kill. A message in a bottle returned after 40 years. The US SOTU happened and I would have preferred to forget. TikTok is on the chopping block again.
“Because here is real danger in what Katie Britt did. And I want to take a moment and sit in the danger and talk about the fact that she weaponized someone's story, not to actually get something done, not to make someone's life better, but to score political points. It's just about the ugliest thing you can do in American politics.” — Alicia Menendez, on MSNBC’s The Weekend.
Jay Kuo zeroes in on the "bold-faced lie" Katie Britt told in her SOTU rebuttan — "that a sex trafficking victim, who was raped repeatedly at age 12, had met with Sen. Britt and was a stark example of Biden’s failed border policies."
As he notes, Jonathan Katz, a freelance journalist and reporter with years of experience as an AP foreign correspondent in Haiti and Mexico, surfaced Britt's bold-faced lie.
The NYT big-ups independent journalists below
It happens much more than you’d think— this story uncovered from an independent person and given no credit.
Republican Katie Britt Tells Big Lie
The victim was from Mexico, who was abused there, which Katie was speaking against. So, I guess her point was pro-trafficking outside the U.S? KATIE made up the whole part that the crime happened in the US. In fact, it happened in Mexico.
The party of propaganda, disinformation, insurrection, election crimes, theft, voters suppression, rapist, defamation, forced birth, taking away Healthcare, & trying to install a rapist, fraud, insurrectionist as dictator..... that Republican party lied in the response to the #sotu
David Pepper discusses the huge lie Katie Britt told in her SOTU rebuttal about Karla Jacinto Romero, a trafficking victim. Britt placed the story of what happened to her in the US under Biden, when it's clear Britt knew this happened in Mexico in 2004-8.
Journalist Jonathan Katz fact checked Katie Britt’s horrific rape story from her over-the-top rebuttal.
Despite all the drama, it turns out to be a story that happened 20 years ago - and not in the U.S. but in Mexico. It’s a story that was recounted in Congressional testimony in 2015.
Katie #Britt lied when she blamed this on Joe #Biden’s border policies and when she said it happened in the U.S. #SOTU
"As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey."
~ Jess Piper
And the reason this matters — should matter to all of us — is that these white evangelical women not only want this for themselves: they want to impose it on all the rest of women.