“Our dishwasher broke yesterday. I was informed that a replacement will take over a year. I barely remember the Carter years. No one will ever forget the Biden years. A year to wait on a common appliance. Socialists have made building things in America a Green Nightmare.”
Matt Schlapp, Tweet, 1:37 PM · May 11, 2022 [1]
It is extremely difficult to tell how it was that Matt Schlapp rose to the top of CPAC. Perhaps they couldn’t find a whiter man in the country, one that better embodies that plastic veneer of the Christian Conservatives, the kind of guy that marries a woman named Mercedes. (Yes, that’s a cheap shot but go with it.)
Matt was doing what people in the MAGA movement do. He was lying, big. And when a prominent guy tells that big a lie that is so easily disproven, a lot of people LEAP to prove him wrong. The first and best to leap is one of our favorite spunky reporters on MSNBC, Stephanie Rhule:
Head over to @HomeDepot [2] – lots of options. Delivery 5/17 #heretohelp [3] @mschlapp [4] https://t.co/8rXglZra3d [5]
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) May 11, 2022 [6]
Matt should have taken his lumps. He should have realized who he was dealing with. Stephanie Rhule is tiny and yet was a titanic banker and must have gotten bored or felt that she had a higher calling, and went into media, working with MSNBC. She is a force of nature when it comes to talking about the economy for women and the poor of every color. But Matt didn’t walk away. He thought he had something:
Yo @SRuhle [7] how nice for you to reach out after so many years. We go to Mom and Pop stores and we avoid big retailers. Mom and Pops are suffering very low inventories as the big guys like Amazon have it wired. I remember when your side used to care about the little guy. https://t.co/JbveDXYLA4 [8]
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) May 12, 2022 [9]
Right.
Matt likes to get his hands dirty, kick the doors, roll the rolls, ask about drying time, etc., then look for a special deal because he’s “Matt Schlapp, Trump’s friend.” Right.
You can only imagine what came next:
I would pay to see a reality show where Steve Schmidt takes Matt Schlapp dishwasher shopping
— George Conway🇺🇦 (@gtconway3d) May 13, 2022 [10]
Anyone know if Matt Schlapp figured out the whole dishwasher thing today? Hadn't seen anything, was getting worried
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) May 12, 2022 [11]
Matt Schlapp may sound like a sexually transmitted disease, but he's actually much worse. And he needs a dishwasher, damn it! https://t.co/X5f4pGX3s6 [12]
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) May 13, 2022 [13]
Jimmy Carter could probably fix Matt Schlapp's dishwasher, but he's busy building houses for the disherwasher-less.
— Linda Tilsen (@Goddessljt) May 11, 2022 [14]
matt Schlapp complaining about socialist appliances is my favorite stupid tweet of the day
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 11, 2022 [15]
Matt Schlapp is a functionally literate pork chop on hind legs https://t.co/LkcSVu3XdI [16]
— Jeff Timmer (@jefftimmer) May 13, 2022 [17]
Matt Schlapp looks like he's about 80, but he was 13 when Jimmy Carter left office. https://t.co/3MjfYsn1oi [18]
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 11, 2022 [19]
Matt Schlapp is a fucking filthy fascist liar.
I was just at Home Depot and they have all kinds of dishwashers.
What a fucking dick. pic.twitter.com/6wEwc9OT7E [20]
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) May 11, 2022 [21]
Yes, that’s about that, Matt. Don’t take on Steph, or America’s liberals, Matt. It may work with the MAGAs but not us.
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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman