A Republican congressman operating to characterize Missouri within the U.S. Senate launched a five-point platform on Thursday that’s extremely, extremely unlikely to ever achieve success ― except its purpose is just to troll Twitter customers.
Rep. Billy Lengthy’s platform is a doozy and depends on a really unbelievable plan of getting Vice President Kamala Harris to resign in order that President Joe Biden can appoint Donald Trump as her alternative — after which resign in order that Trump can take workplace as soon as once more.
Oh, and Lengthy desires to complete the Keystone XL pipeline and the U.S.-Mexico border wall as nicely.
Sure, that’s the plan. And right here’s the unique submit in all its unformatted glory.
Lengthy most likely gained’t be capable of persuade Harris to resign the second-highest workplace within the land. He is also unlikely to persuade Biden to nominate “the previous man” as his vice chairman and to then resign so Trump can take over.
But when Lengthy’s purpose was to be mocked on social media, he succeeded masterfully.
Twitter customers totally mocked his “platform,” questioning whether or not he supposed to troll them or pander to low-information voters.
Others thoughtfully added lacking planks to Lengthy’s doubtful platform.
Others thought Lengthy’s tweet was extra of an inadvertent cautionary story for others.
Lengthy appears to be on a roll with making outrageous statements.
Not too long ago, he advised a Missouri radio station that the present rash of mass shootings will be traced again to when abortion grew to become authorized nationwide.
“Once I was rising up in Springfield, you had one or two murders a 12 months,” he stated. “Now we’ve two, three, 4 per week in Springfield, Missouri.”
“So one thing has occurred to our society. I am going again to abortion, once we determined it was OK to homicide youngsters of their moms’ wombs. Life has no worth to numerous these of us.”
Whether or not his scorching takes win him a seat within the Senate stays to be seen. He presently solely appeals to eight% of GOP voters, according to RealClearPolitics.com.
