Members of Congress routinely make inflammatory statements in congressional hearings to gain attention and cable news hits. But Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has managed to become a perpetual content machine. Her profanity-laced tirades against Elon Musk provide plenty of fodder for both MSNBC and Fox News. In 2023, Crockett went viral when she attacked Republicans’ introduction of articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden at one hearing, holding up photos from Trump’s indictment of classified documents stored in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. “These are our national secrets, looks like in the shitter to me!” she said.
Last May, she and Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got into a colorful spat during a hearing, during which Crockett suggested Taylor Greene had a “bleach blond bad built butch body.” Not long after, Crockett filed a trademark on the phrase and used it to start her own merchandise collection, branding her dig as “A Crockett Clapback.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell
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