The gazpacho police they live inside of my head
Some fascinating insights from J.D. Vance’s new BFF:
Have you ever heard two unfamiliar words, and assumed they’re different pronunciations of the same word? It has happened to all of us at some point. For most of us, though, it has not happened with a word like “Gestapo,” which is a very well-known term in politics and history.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, in the midst of a rant against Nancy Pelosi, accused the House Speaker of having a “gazpacho police.”
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After I wrote about Taylor Greene’s claim that the Rothschild family used space lasers to start forest fires so they could buy the land to build a rail project, she replied that she didn’t know the Rothschilds were Jewish. I found it implausible that she would not have heard of possibly the most famous Jewish family in the world and the centerpiece of a century’s worth of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. But now I think maybe it’s possible she actually didn’t know.
The party’s future!
Meanwhile, speaking of Republicans who almost certainly Really Are That Dumb:
I’d say the fact that Kentucky is responsible for both bourbon and this guy about evens things out.