The thing about watching a Congressional committee in full -- not in sound bytes -- is that it becomes very apparent that the most bombastic members are not able to actually deliver a complete and intelligible question or comment
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Empty barrels make the most noise?
@Tazor Welp, I’m stealing this for future use.
Go for it. It is a common saying in Denmark. Guess we have many empty barrels, hehe.
@Tazor @brian_wolf In English we have "An empty wagon makes the most noise," but one doesn't hear it often nowadays.
@anwong some of them don't even appear to be attempting to do so, and probably realize that there isn't much use in trying, because that isn't where the payoff lies
@anwong but if they got the clips, that’s all their handlers need!
@tiffanycli Yes, they are definitely working on a system of quantity over quality.
What strikes me as they stumble through their speeches is how much they are relying on luck that something usable comes out.
It's funny in a laugh-cry-despair-for-democracy kind of way.
@anwong can you imagine being the comms person for one of the, uh, more shouty politicians? Just waiting to grab the 10 seconds when your boss sounds semi-coherent
@anwong overall their constituents “ain’t much for book learnin’”, so it’s fine
@anwong To the Fox News crowd, angry monkey screeching qualifies as insightful discourse.
I think there's a fairly standard amount of material available for people to do things with. Thoughtful folks tend to be seen as duller, and the bombastic types tend to not think so deeply....
This is a continuum and there are outliers this is not y=4.378x.
Dunno, it's a chicken/egg personality thing.