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Conservatives are having a five-alarm meltdown after Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris committed what they saw as a truly diabolical act.
While flying on Air Force Two to Guatemala as part of her effort to tackle the migrant issues at the U.S.-Mexican border, she gave members of the press cookies.
Even more heinous to the Republicans among us? The cookies—donated by a local bakery—were decorated to look like Harris.
Truly, this ranks up there with the most egregious of political scandals!
The kerfuffle all started when a member of the press shared a photo of one of the cookies on Twitter.
@vp made an OTR visit to the back of the plane and delivered cookies decorated with the shape of her likeness as we… https://t.co/A4lABQi1aP— Courtney Subramanian (@Courtney Subramanian) 1623026634.0
The conservative outrage was fiery and immediate and their bones of contention were myriad and based on misinformation.
Several right-wing commenters raked Harris over the coals for disrespecting veterans and members of the military by sharing the supposedly narcissistic cookies on the anniversary of D-Day.
@cmsub @VP Good optics on D-Day. Men died for taxpayer funded frosted cookies to be given to the press. The Founder… https://t.co/1NB28rEupc— Mark In Akron (@Mark In Akron) 1623032782.0
The cookies were donated by a Black owned small business, so no tax payer dollars were harmed in the making of this friendly gesture.
@cmsub @VP People are missing the context. These cookies were given by a black owned business and VP gave them to t… https://t.co/r2F84B1qUs— lotus (@lotus) 1623028913.0
@cmsub @VP Translation: VP Harris shared her personalized gifts from a Black bakery to the press that has vehementl… https://t.co/NpPZ4FmW1R— Madam Vice President Harris is GOAT! (@Madam Vice President Harris is GOAT!) 1623069313.0
Meanwhile, in a very on-brand flourish of conspiracy theory, far-right media personality Jack Posobiec seemed to suggest VP Harris was using the cookies to bribe the press in advance of her somehow taking over the Presidency.
@cmsub @VP The Heiress prepares— AntifaBook.com (@AntifaBook.com) 1623033332.0
Others attempted to draw a parallel between Harris and Marie Antoinette for giving out cookies while supposedly doing nothing about the migrant issues at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Handing out cookies with her face on them as the border crisis rages… The modern-day equivalent of “let them eat… https://t.co/s35hNmGgAj— Ronna McDaniel (@Ronna McDaniel) 1623089268.0
Not exactly an apt criticism given the cookies were handed out during a flight to Guatemala to... deal with the causes of the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In slightly less bonkers but nonetheless melodramatic territory came complaints like those of California Republican congressional candidate Buzz Patterson, who cried foul about narcissism and misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
Patterson tweeted:
"As a former Military Aide during the Clinton administration, I never even imagined this level of narcissism. And, all on YOUR tax dollars America! Democrats, even you can't be cool with this."
@cmsub @VP As a former Military Aide during the Clinton administration, I never even imagined this level of narciss… https://t.co/cfciCCrui6— Buzz Patterson (@Buzz Patterson) 1623041403.0
As several of the less conservatively inclined on Twitter pointed out, Harris did not pay for the cookies at all.
They were given to Harris's team by a Black-owned D.C. bakery, Cupcake Dreams, as a gift which Harris then chose to share with the press gaggle on the flight.
FIFY: @vp made an OTR visit to the back of the plane and delivered cookies decorated with the shape of her likeness… https://t.co/yitQGs9zqk— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher) 1623098635.0
Regardless of whatever the truth of these diabolical cookies is, right-wingers on Twitter went absolutely ballistic about the sweet treats.
Kamala Harris went around Air Force 2 on D-Day to hand journalists frosted cookies in her image. 81,000,000 votes.— Errol Webber (@Errol Webber) 1623068329.0
Fixed that faceless Kamala Harris cookie. https://t.co/vHpZwmGBxz— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) 1623072341.0
Instead of trying to fix the Democrat-made #BidenBorderCrisis that's wreaking havoc on our southern border, Kamala… https://t.co/TJpn3s5YbM— NRCC (@NRCC) 1623080101.0
@cmsub @VP They do stuff like this in North Korea. They think the leadership is a deity.— John T (@John T) 1623070584.0
But President Trump was egotistical and a narcissist, right? Riiiiight...... https://t.co/DOfT6SfLL5— Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert) 1623118530.0
There was no shortage of liberal-minded people rolling their eyes in response to conservatives ignoring a violent insurrection but whining about cookies.
Republicans are mad about Kamala Harris giving cookies to reporters. Let that sink in.— Santiago Mayer (@Santiago Mayer) 1623029870.0
@cmsub @VP The number of ⚪ supremacists triggered by this cookie is amazing. No wonder their life expectancy is going down.— BlackWomenViews Media (@BlackWomenViews Media) 1623037586.0
Liberals: Trump incited an insurrection to overturn an election he lost fairly. This is a crisis of our democracy.… https://t.co/mm9ClZkq1H— Daryl Sturgis✊🏽 (@Daryl Sturgis✊🏽) 1623061624.0
@GOPChairwoman My stocks are up, I’m vaccinated, and my employer raised my salary and Big Ronna wants me to be upset about cookies? 😂 Okay.— MJG ⛳️🇺🇸 (@MJG ⛳️🇺🇸) 1623089454.0
Hopefully once this all calms down we can focus on the real problem I have with these cookies—the ghostly vision of cookie-Kamala's featureless face.
Yikes!
But at least it wasn't a tan suit.