Saturday, March 05, 2022

Devil in the details? Or an insight there? MTG and Bobert examined at DWT.

DWT link. A "Midnight Meme of the Day." Opening image.

From the commentary -

f you ever need to ask yourself whether House Minority Leader Kevin Q. McCarthy supports Colorado's beloved Lauren Boebert and backwoods Georgia's Moonshine Marjorie Traitor Greene, just ask yourself why he decided that his two favorite hyenas should sit together for Tuesday's State Of The Union speech. In sympathy, I know it must have been hard for him to pick two laughing braying hyenas out of a whole party of nothing but non-stop laughing braying hyenas, but, for whatever reason, he made his choice. [...]

Parting Shot: Imagine yourself flying across the country in the middle seat on a plane with these two on either side of you. What would you do?

Enter the devil in the details. As to the "What would you do" question. NBC News posted of the event using an image from about the same time, but differing in perspective - this image

If in the middle airplane seat as the DWT post suggests, I'd do exactly what the gentleman between them did. You can't just walk out, there or in an airplane, but you'd also have to be thinking, "Jeez! Should have said, can't make it, got Covid."