Late last month, Rep. Andy Barr [R-KY] “invited” Congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit the coal miners in his Appalachian
district, by way of rebuttal to her brilliant response to the charge that the Green New Deal was a rich, city-person’s luxury, taking no account of working, poor and rural people.
AOC took him up on the invitation, saying “It’s a complete injustice the
cancer levels that a lot of these communities are confronting. We have
to plan a future for all of our communities, no matter what. Failure to
plan is planning to fail and I feel like we’ve been failing Appalachian
communities for a very long time and it’s time to turn that ship
around.”
Now, Barr has rescinded the invitation, blaming it on her defense of Rep
Ilhan Omar, who has been smeared by Republicans and establishment
Democrats with the racist slur that she supports Islamic terror. Barr
said he was dismayed by her “lack of civility.”
In response, AOC tweeted:
“GOP’s getting scared that up close, their constituents will realize
I’m fighting harder for their healthcare than their own Reps .”
The one detail that seems to be left out of all these headlines, which is perhaps the most important in understanding Barr’s decision, is that there are no coal miners in his district. He made up complaints from people that don’t exist, then panicked when AOC agreed to meet them.
Damn, republicans even stereotype themselves lmao how he invoke coal miners and he don’t have any coal mines in his district? Lmao
It’s literally exactly what it looks like: eighty pages of improperly sourced photos of
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
military transport
helicopters and/or chinstrap penguins, run through a shitty Photoshop edge detection filter to produce a crude facsimile of a colouring book.
I cannot conceive of who this benighted thing’s intended target audience is.
Well, apart from me, apparently. I feel privileged to have a friend who took one look at something so objectively awful and immediately thought “Dave would love that” – because so help me, I do love it. Unironically, even.
I could imagine this being marketed to boys, but not to adults.
The fact that “Chinook” and “chinstrap” are adjacent to each other in an alphabetical list implies to me that this is a procedurally generated coloring book series with thousands of entries.
Well, of course. Somebody wrote an algorithm to steal photos from Google Image Search and other zero-cost sources, run them through a series of Photoshop filters, and package them up into “coloring books”. They then dumped an alphabetised list of animal names into it and walked away, and human oversight was either too absent or too indifferent to pick up on the fact that all of the top image search results for “chinook” were for aircraft rather than fish – and the result is a shitty colouring book full of deep fried JPEG artifacts with the utterly inexplicable subject matter pairing of cute penguins and military transport helicopters. Like, this is it. This is the inassailable culmination of everything deep-fried memes aspire to be, and it was devised by a brainless machine. We live in the stupidest cyberpunk future, and it is awesome.
