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| Source:Brian Tyler Cohen with a look at President Donald J. Trump's senior partner in slime, Elon Musk. |
From Brian Tyler Cohen
"Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Ca.) made a dick joke about Elon Musk during a House hearing on the Department of Government Efficiency, on Wednesday — and later had to defend the insult to a CNN anchor who wondered if it was “effective messaging.”
During the House Oversight subcommittee hearing on DOGE, Garcia tried to troll Musk while also taking a dig at the subcommittee’s chair, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Since Greene once showed Hunter Biden’s “dick pics” at a July 2023 House Oversight Committee hearing, Garcia decided to follow that precedent.
“I find it ironic, of course, that our chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene, is in charge of running this committee. Now, in the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our oversight congressional hearing, so I thought I’d bring one as well,” Garcia said, before setting up his bit.
Garcia then showed a photo of Musk in a tuxedo, and some of the people in attendance laughed at the joke.
“Now this, of course, we know, is President Elon Musk,” he said. “He’s also the world’s richest man. He was the biggest political donor in the last election. He has billions of dollars in conflicts of interest, and we know that he’s leading a power grab also abided by and encouraged by Donald Trump, and, of course, the chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene...
From The Huffington Post
"Rep. Robert Garcia said he was going to show "a dick pic" in the DOGE Subcommittee hearing this morning and then displayed a photo of
@elonmusk
.
Why'd he do it?
"Well, he is a dick."
From CNN anchor Brianna Keilar
Before some political escaped mental patient (also known as a MAGA member) goes off on me for comparing Elon Musk to a serial murderer, I'm not doing that. But this discussion leads me to a hypothetical.
Imagine a true crime documentarian was doing a documentary about a serial killer, who is currently in prison, either on death row, or serving life without the possibility of parole and that person (because they get TV in their cell, or watch TV in the day room...) not only finds out about this documentary, but gets angry about it because in the documentary the murderer keeps being referred to as a serial killer or serial murderer. So then this inmate sues the filmmaker for libel because he referred to him a serial killer, or serial murderer. How far in court do you this convicted killer would get? Well, unless the judge is either drunk or high, (perhaps both) it would get thrown out of court very quickly.
As Representative Garcia told CNN anchor Brianna Keilar:
Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging?
Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.
As my colleague Fred Schneider said about this story the other day:
Calling a "dick", a "dick", is like calling a horse a horse. If you don't want to be called a "dick", don't be a "dick".
Political decorum in Washington and in American politics in general, escaped the Republican Party and Washington politics in general, when the Republicans nominated Donald John Trump for President in 2016. Not only did it escape the Republican Party and Washington politics, but it’s never been seen, or heard of again. Just a lot of Elvis sightings from people sort of acting like we need it back. The Democrats have just been slow to react to that and have been late to this political party, as if they couldn't find a date, but manages to get their cousin to be their date. And 1 think I agree with Brian Tyler Cohen here that the mainstream media holds the Democrats to a higher standard than the Republicans on this issue. Maybe thats because they tend to be Democrats as well and expect better from their own party. I don't know.
The situation as it relates to decorum that we are in now thanks to Donald and MAGA, is where Congressional hearings and press conferences, can sound like an HBO original series or Cinemax late move, a "reality TV show", where it becomes about landing the last, big, vulgar, verbal shot, at your opponent, so you can "go viral" on social media. And where serious government events, like a Congressional hearing or press conferences, can look like a completely unserious "reality TV show".
My final point here, if you get up every morning to see how many times you can kiss Donald Trump's feet, (to put it mildly) or bullshit (to be frank) the American people by denying that he did exactly what he did, or said exactly what he said, you are 1 of the last people in the world to be complaining about vulgarity in American politics.
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