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Senator John Kennedy froze and then properly zoned out—forcing Fox to cut the interview short.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the interview where he learned that you don’t need to swear on a bible. It broke his head. His jaw was agape while he struggled with that news.

Do you have a link? I'd like to see that.

There are still just a whole lot of dumbasses that think America - a secular nation - was designed to be, and is, a xtian nation. This gomer is just one of them.

One of my favorite things to ask one of these types is to tell me where their little book club - or the protagonist of that book club - is mentioned in the Constitution. I've seen multiple cases of them shorting out over this. Most of them just flat refuse to believe me. Of course. I tell them to "do their own research" on the matter. 🤣

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think this is what they're talking about, it wasn't the same guy.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, they both have that ham faced look.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Thing about Kennedy that is so infuriating is that Foghorn Leghorn homespun salt of the Earth/local yokel act is even more ridiculous when you know he went to Oxford.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Holy shit, I agree with one of the first comments, "Flagging this video for depicting a murder".

JFC - "I know DAhnawld truhmp did it".

And oh, that attempt at the "Merry Christmas" dig at the end. Real sick burn, dude. FFS, these people. They use a fucking holiday as a way to really stick it to others, just like Jesus would have done.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I should have come armed with a link. My bad. I’ll see if I can dig it up at some point. It’s so awkward you nearly feel bad for him. His whole world looked like it was crashing down around him.