r/worldnewsvideo • u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty 🩺🧬💜 • Mar 21 '24

Live Video 🌎 Rep Jasmine Crockett: “I haven’t asked you a question...When I ask you a question, that’s when you answer. Otherwise, I’m talking.” Tony Bobulinski: “Excuse me?”

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u/DaddyDontTakeNoMess Mar 21 '24

“Well spoken” is an odd expression for a congress person. There are very few who aren’t, especially on the Dem side. Why we gotta use this adjective for black people? “The highly educated and high achieving black person was well spoken”. Of she is, she’s a freakin congress woman, and is likely a lawyer. It’s not surprising. It’s the norm.

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u/Erisian23 Mar 21 '24

They expect all of us to sound like we on B.E.T.

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u/RhodyGuy1 Mar 21 '24

Hahahaha (45M white)

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u/limitlessEXP Mar 21 '24

This comment is ironic.

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u/villain75 Mar 22 '24

Just know it was likely intentional, we often codeswitch between dialects.

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u/procrastinator2112 Mar 22 '24

You weave in and out of your well spokenness seamlessly. You may just be invited to a Civil War reenactment and infiltrate the southern army. Very clever.

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u/BaraGuda89 Mar 21 '24

I’m mean sure, most Dems are ‘well spoken’ but considering what we see coming out of congress from some of the loudest talkers, it IS nice to know that some of our representatives can articulate their positions instead of spouting off nonsense. I’d say this of Katie Porter as well

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u/aguynamedv Mar 21 '24

Of (course) she is, she’s a freakin congress woman, and is likely a lawyer. It’s not surprising. It’s the norm.

Not only the norm, but a comfortable majority of Congress are either lawyers or have had legal education (ie: they have a JD, but are not bar admitted).

Just shy of 3/5 of the House and just shy of 60% of the Senate are attorneys.

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u/MightFew9336 Mar 22 '24

I 100% get your point and try to avoid that term for that reason (I'm not the person you're replying to), but as a former litigator and current judge, I think I can comfortably agree that she's incredibly well spoken, beyond the norm. Not everyone with her education and in her position has such a facility with (spoken) words, so the ones who do tend to be the ones who come to mind for comparison.

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u/SirCollin Mar 22 '24

Playing devil's advocate here, it could be just that so often when people see congress in the media it's of the ones making buffoons of themselves and that's a lot of people's exposure to them. I've seen people use the same line for Jeff Jackson on his TikToks. Most of the time congressional videos go viral it's because they're looking stupid, like when they are asking stupid questions about if "TikTok accesses the WiFi network" or congressmen bringing snowballs in to disprove climate change.