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Rafi Schwartz

Madison Cawthorn’s latest House speech was wildly detached from reality

When he’s not busy helping foment a violent insurrection against his coworkers, or trying to smuggle weapons into places weapons don’t belong, Madison Cawthorn is — unfortunately — a lawmaking member of the United States House of Representatives. Most of the time, that means he does things like make spooooooky proclamations about Satan or get into stupid shouting matches with his own Republican colleagues. Sometimes, however, it involves actually showing up at the office and pretending to know what he’s doing.

That brings us to Tuesday afternoon, and Cawthorn’s turn at the mic during the House’s “one minutes” time set aside for general speechmaking and pontification. Let’s see how that went for Madison, shall we?

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