'Silent but deadly': Far-right caucus mocked over new group with unfortunate acronym

[Tom of Temecula]

Rumors are circulating on Capitol Hill that the Freedom Caucus is preparing to launch a FART war. The far-right House Republican group Thursday appeared to be plotting a defensive tactic against moderate counterparts and has assembled to assist them in this effort a Floor Action Response Team, or as Politico's Congress reporter Olivia Beavers dubbed it in acronym, a FART.

"House Freedom Caucus members are signing up to take shifts to guard the House floor in order to prevent resolutions they’d consider unsavory from slipping through that could curb their power," Beavers reported on X. "This Floor Action Response Team ('FART') aims to guard against a voice vote or unanimous consent vote where action could be stealthily taken against them and their members."

Beavers received word from anonymous sources, as did Punchbowl News's Mica Soellner. "Freedom Caucus members plotting defensive tactic to man the House floor today to avoid any meddling by moderates," Soellner reported.

The unfortunate acronym was not lost upon social media users who reacted as social media users are apt to do. "I’m sure the Floor Action Response Team will not be silent, but deadly," replied @Jp10E. Added @neodocjdg, "I knew something stunk with that House 'Freedom' Caucus."

https://www.rawstory.com/freedom-caucus-2667810851/

[Permanut]

1. Next will be the Special House Interrogation Team.

[NBachers]

2. Those who smelt it dealt it

Looks like they're generating a lot of fallout.

Will they know who the leaker is?

They're a bunch of dingleberries.

[Doc Sportello]

3. Can't pass a bill

But they can sure pass gas.

[applegrove]

4. In Canada when the Conservative Party merged with the

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Alliance/Reform Party they called it The Conservative Reform Alliance Party of Canada or CRAP. They quickly changed that the the Conservative Party of Canada CPC. I guess conservatives/republicans don't often step outside of themselves and see the world through the eyes of others......... lack of empathy.

Or the Canadian Reform Alliance Party. Something like that.

[Cha]

5. Asshole FARTS.

[niyad]

6. I had to check the link. I thought for sure this was Borowitz ot The Onion.

[Renew Deal]

7. Is FART team redundant?

Should they just be called the FART?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. They are thinking of renaming it to Floor Response Action Team team

The FRAT team. Teams are so good they had to include it twice! Yay team team!

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. You'd think after previously christening themselves as "teabaggers"

they'd exercise a brain cell or two before announcing stuff like this. But noooooooooo...

[JoseBalow]

9. "It's not clear who supplied the FART acronym, but no one has denied it."

"Either way, it was successful in keeping the House floor empty..."

While reporting on this tonight on All In, Chris Hayes slips that by at 26:20,
totally cracking up Eric Swalwell

At 26:20

[mercuryblues]

11. True trump followers

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218876484

Trump is stinking up the courtroom...literally!

[sakabatou]

12. Did no one in their team look the phrase up?