Democrat Rep From Virgin Islands Earns Dumbest Person Of The Year Nomination

Will Stacey Plaskett win? It is super early in the year, plenty of time for other nominees

And Democrats get best supporting moonbat for cheering

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CSPAN gets a nomination for worst media outlet for failing to explain exactly why she was wrong, namely that the US Virgin Islands are a territory, not a state, and that’s the way they want it, much like Puerto Rico and Guam. One would think CSPAN would know better. Plaskett does have a voice, it’s loud, and inappropriate, considering she’s been in Congress since 2015, a lawyer, and should know better.

But, no worries, MSNBC, a dying Credentialed Media outlet (just barely), joins in with their own version of stupidity. No worries, this is the Yahoo News version, so, they get no hits

Time for derp owls

We’re just three days into 2025, and Stacey Plaskett has already filed a strong entry for this year’s “top truth-teller in Congress” award.

You may have missed her powerful moment from Friday’s House speakership vote if you’re not a C-SPAN junkie like me, but you ought to see it. The Democrat from the U.S. Virgin Islands made a parliamentary inquiry to ask the House parliamentarian to explain why the six nonvoting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia aren’t allowed to vote for speaker.

Yeah, 2015. Lawyer. Has she heard of Google? Did she consider reading the rules? No, she was just trying to grandstand. Here’s where it gets even more stupid

The parliamentarian’s response was, in essence, “Them’s the rules.”

There was certainly no moral justification offered, so what Plaskett essentially did was give viewers and her colleagues a textbook lesson in American imperialism. And it was quite a sight to see her being booed by Republicans for doing so.

Here we are in the United States, a country that salutes its founders for their refusal to live under British imperialism. And nearly 250 years after bloodshed over this, a Black woman who dared to question why the U.S. is foisting similar imperialism on her and her people was literally silenced.

This was a remarkable snapshot that perfectly summarizes our current political moment.

Those territories could have voted to be states, but, they didn’t. They’re happy being American protectorates. Oh, and not paying all those federal taxes that the US Congress has voted for. Huh. What she wants is representation without taxation.

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