Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro posted this cringe video full of Gen Z speak. Voters don't need you to be their cool friend! They just want to know you're fighting for what they care about!
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I'm as pissed off as the next constituent at all the dem lack of anything resembling a spine, but, this is a particular trend that was going around, and I'm guessing she didn't just release this.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-women-immense-power-keep-061530823.html
They are now among the most powerful women in Congress. But when they were first elected in the 1990s, they were often overlooked or even talked down to. Deja vu all over again 2025? Only if you don't know who they are or what they know and what they've done.
Rosa Delauro, known forever for her colorful wardrobe, bright streaks, and enormous brain and progressive outlook, takes on the FDA for arsenic in rice, advocates for medical research, tackles complex budget issues, Co-chairs House Steering committee, Second woman to chair House Appropriations
Rosa DeLauro: London School of Economics, Master's Degree Columbia Univ. CoS & Campaign Mgr. Senator Chris Dodd. 1990 def Thomas Scott 52%–48% CT 3rd District, been re-elected 16 times, always over 56%. A progressive forever. Never a bully. Policy wonk who chaired many committees. Appropriations etc
Obama wasn’t the first (Clinton playing the sax, Nixon on laugh-in) to do this but he really took this schtick to the next level and they really must think his was a huge part of his appeal. Bernie avoids most of this junk and had/has huge youth support
i *believe* this was a satirical bit from last fall..? my sense of time is wonky but this has been around for a minute and folks were saying it was (at least mostly intended as) a joke.
This is a TikTok trend “I had the gen z intern write the commercial” museums, libraries, various companies are all doing it. It’s funny. She can deliver all the dry talks she wants, but if young people don’t see them what’s the point
The Simpsons - "Mr Plow" moment where Homer starts rapping and Bart frantically implores him to stop and he does, then Bart says with a remarkable combo of relief and disgust "Don't EVER do that again!"
She's an outspoken progressive. This was supposed to be funny and "cute"--obviously, playing off the fact that she's old. It's kind of dumb, but it doesn't mean she's not fighting.
If she had decided to retire, people would be screaming that she had given up.
Yes. This video is not as well executed as others in the trend but the point is getting an old person to make a tik tok video using zoomer language that sounds weird coming out of them. Ken’s reaching which he doesn’t have to. Plenty of better examples of Dem’s ineptitude.
I’m not watching that. Why can’t they just be professional and businesslike and calm and studied and inspiring and make us feel like we have competent coherent plans to counter this unfolding disaster. Democrats seem all over the place.
You're wrong. We need to reach people that didn't vote, and many of them were young. This is her humorous attempt at that. She's a senior with purple hair who speaks plainly and isn't afraid to step out. I think she's inspirational and admirable.
You’re clearly missed this trend Ken. There’s a lot of various organizations having old people do this. The point is it’s weird for them to be saying this.
You youngins don’t appreciate a good joke from your elders. I don’t care how she presents herself. She’s already got purple hair so that’s a clue,Rosa is not conventional. I care how she votes and so far she’s fights the good fight. Don’t toss aside old lefties until there’s a good replacement.
your bullshit need to "take the high road" is hella liberal and condescending and why you probably don't have any friends you don't buy tupperware from 🫶
Why do you harder so much age related hatred. Is that the only type of hate you can socially acceptably express currently? It must be tough having so much hate and so few ways to express it.
Anne here's a tough pill that we all have to swallow. Aging is part of life. Getting too old for things is part of aging. It's gonna happen to all of us. It's actually not okay to make the fact that none of us like that literally the entire rest of the world's problem 🤷♀️
Dismissing people for qualities assumed based on ones group identity is prejudice. You can either transcend it and value everyone, or you can divide people into groups and hate and dismiss them that way. Your choice.
maybe because members of our government have been secretly living in assisted living facilities, filling prescriptions for Alzheimer's medication, and having their governance run from the shadows by staffers bc their dementia is so advanced yet they won't retire
It’s a real galaxy brain take to try and blame a birth cohort, the oldest part of which has only been voting for 10 years, for the Democrats’ trash #FossilCaucus clutching power in their liver-spotted hands for term after term…
She’s a Democrat. Are you so naive to think you get an electoral choice when it comes to Israel? Your choice is crappy Democrat or ethnic cleansing. Gaza will not be saved by voting.
Just hateful name calling. Why don’t you talk in ideas instead of hateful labels? Just Knee jerk hateful judgements. It doesn’t further a dialog just illustrate the person you are.
You just hurl weak insults based on a lack of information. You’re trying to say something about me but in the end you’re just demonstrating your lack of imagination and ability to think critically.
Yeah, and a lot of these people are like the MUN dorks (no offense), like these aren’t the cool kids. Or even the cool nerds. They’re inherently cringy.
Also I get the feeling that a non insignificant number of people here are mid 30s and up. Yeah, the world’s on fire, but it’s ok to intersperse with levity.
See, I don’t know what else this lady is doing. She’s not my congressperson. My understanding based on other posts is that this was a TikTok trend from a while ago. Like a bit to do. So if one of this lady’s staffers said, hey let’s do this bit to try to reach normies, then fine. So be it.
It's very funny. Rosa is a wonderful, competent, nice person. She grew up in the Woster St. part of New Haven, Connecticut, which has the best pizza in America.
A tough old bird making an informative short with some fun is good. Somewhere along the line maybe you lost your sense of humor, maybe you just feel the need to put her down. Lots of bigger targets if you look around
If she was talking months ago about them trying to abolish the DoEd that seems like a decent use of messaging resources, given how the party leadership still seems to be struggling to say much about it and Project 2025 coherently
It was charming from the library because I would die for a librarian. Only thing a politician can get from me is a bucket of my piss if they're literally on fire and even then only MAYBE
This type of "the Gen Z interns wrote this" video has been a meme on both tik tok & reels, & this video isn't even very recent. I follow you, but this post just makes you look out of touch & unaware. I also do not give a shit about any short form video that any representative has posted.
this trend was like 6 months ago & she nailed it lol, it would be cringe to drop it now but it's old and there's so much more to be mad at dems about my guy
Old video, old congresswoman
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but have any of you looked her up? She is a fighter and this is obviously a bit of humor with a message. Geez if we all lose our sense of humor we’re doomed.
there is a cultural divide. and they are mistaking it for a trend. Its the same way they mistake human rigts issues for 'identity' issues. Becausethey were brainwashed to believe their whole lives that the job of politics is to lie to us to get uis to do what the conservatives want us to do.
I think what really bothers me is, their choosing to campaign. This is campaigning to the youths. We are in danger, and you’re trying to get the vote out for an election happening in TWO years.
They are in a different reality.
They’re probably panicking cause we are all realizing the party that is supposed to save democracy is just old man Petain running Vichy. Sad old ghouls too arrogant and greedy to step aside and let the country live.
There was a speech by an Australian gal, that used brain rot slang and it came off so much better because 1) she sounded young enough that she potentially wrote it herself, not from an intern, and 2) it was at least somewhat relevant to what she was talking about (banning social media for kids)
This is somewhat less cringe in terms of how she speaks, but she LOOKS like she should be committed. I would have said "homeless," but I doubt people living on the street can dye their hair purple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOLUIqmQgA
I want a "my gen-z employee wrote the script lol!" video that's just "TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. OUR GENERATION WAS ALREADY SOLD AND BETRAYED, AND THIS OLIGARCHY MUST END THE SAME WAY AS ALL THE OTHERS. WE WILL REMOVE THE BOOT FROM OUR NECKS, THEN REMOVE THEIR HEADS FROM THEIR NECKS"
She does more than a majority do; don’t get me wrong, I’m mad as hell at most of the Dems., for their weak responses, and many should retired long ago. But I do see those like Jasmine, AOC, Goldman, Raskin, and a few others stepping up. They all should have walked out with Al Greene.
She is a Nancy disciple. They are out of touch and need to step aside for new blood. The world has changed and they are just going along like it’s 1998.
I don’t pay much attention to her; it’s not my district. You, however, are cringe every time you’re shoved into my feed. If you’re what passes for a Left, the Left deserves its fate.
I grew up as her constituent. Rosa does a great job for Connecticut, and she truly cares.
You, on the other hand, have very few clues and do nothing but tear things down, which is very easy compared to actually building something up. You're also an arrogant, smarmy little weasel who needs a good...
Sigh. That’s my rep. My district. She’s been right on a lot of things and speaks out more than most Dems. I still want to go stand by her office on my way back from yoga class with a sign that says “that Gen z video was cringe.”
Maybe some chalk on the sidewalk. Let the staffers know.
We truly live in a different universe than these people. It’s wonderful to see that the dems are giving out of touch, clueless, octogenarians their due, we’re up to what 87% elderly running this shit party? Hopefully we can get that up to 100%
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Can a person die from secondhand embarrassment?
They are now among the most powerful women in Congress. But when they were first elected in the 1990s, they were often overlooked or even talked down to. Deja vu all over again 2025? Only if you don't know who they are or what they know and what they've done.
If she had decided to retire, people would be screaming that she had given up.
Slow day in the Klippenstein salt mines
The only thing dumb is pathetic Kenny boy calling it cringe.
Seriously dude have some fucking journalistic standards.
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Democratic Party: “Skibidi rizz that sussy baka gyat straight bussin no cap, bet!”
Public:
You see … Congress is made up of representatives, some of them are progressives.
And that’s not what I was saying at all. Try again.
is that the only thing you fucks can cling to?
The oldest edge of Gen Z is 27/28 years old.
It’s a real galaxy brain take to try and blame a birth cohort, the oldest part of which has only been voting for 10 years, for the Democrats’ trash #FossilCaucus clutching power in their liver-spotted hands for term after term…
Considering the frequency with which these people demonstrate being unfit for office, I think its perfectly fine to start telling them, "enough."
Don't like it? Neither do we. Thats the point
Hey kid...nice student loans you got there. Would be a shame if they got...remitted somehow
You’re welcome.
https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-tracking-plane-sized-asteroid-approaching-earth-today-2040530
Signed, a teacher (and parent) of 18 year olds.
It's the worst possible scenario.
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but have any of you looked her up? She is a fighter and this is obviously a bit of humor with a message. Geez if we all lose our sense of humor we’re doomed.
That's you. Let this old woman be cringe.
They are in a different reality.
https://youtu.be/hycoCYenXls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOLUIqmQgA
Why not just vote for people who aren't elderly?
https://youtu.be/uQi9uFPEOWY?si=cuYfGN73gX92-nf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCv9foCLFw
Sometimes it’s ok to not lean into a stereotype.
absolutely cooked consultancy brains
You, on the other hand, have very few clues and do nothing but tear things down, which is very easy compared to actually building something up. You're also an arrogant, smarmy little weasel who needs a good...
Maybe some chalk on the sidewalk. Let the staffers know.
There’s only a few Al Greens. The rest, retire