Don't get me wrong fuck this guy, but I hate the fact that CNN and other "mainstream media" people don't say "The fuck is wrong with you dude? Are you for real bro?" live. They offer ZERO push-back or resistance, they go "hmm... let's cut to ads", and then they wonder why everyone hates them.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

It's the banality of evil. CNN has no real stake in checking power so they just go "hmm OH WELL" and move onto Trump cutting israel another 500 billion in aid.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He was 13 in 1981. He was born in 1968. He must have picked those berries when his private school sent him out to the vast verdant farmlands of Portland, Oregon. He was a Marine and he's a Doctor of Medicine. I guess it's just a matter of time before Taylor Sheridan does a biopic on the prick.

Rich McCormick

Richard Dean McCormick (born October 7, 1968) is an American politician and physician. A member of the Republican Party, he has represented Georgia in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. As of 2024, McCormick was reported to represent the wealthiest congressional district in the state of Georgia. As of 2025, he represents Georgia's 7th congressional district.

Education and military service

McCormick was born in Las Vegas in 1968 and graduated from Central Catholic High School in Portland, Oregon in 1986. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Oregon State University in 1990. He earned his Master of Business Administration from National University in 1999 and his Doctor of Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine in 2010.

McCormick served in the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy for over 20 years, spending time in Africa, South Korea, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf. In the Marine Corps, he was a Naval Aviator and helicopter pilot; in the Navy, he was a Medical Corps officer and reached the rank of commander. He is an emergency physician and works at Gwinnett Medical Center.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

doubt

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

On the other hand, a child tourist like him picking up berries on the plantation and extrapolating that experience to plantation ~~slave~~ migrant labor wouldn't be surprising.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

100% he got dragged to a pick-your-own-berries farm as a kid and is now claiming that makes him understand agricultural child labor

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Now that I'm thinking of it - it's possible he and his classmate picked berries for fun on a school excursion to the countryside. Maybe even more than once. The best lies often have some truth in them.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Was definitely gram-gram telling him to pick berries so she could make a pie and he threw a fit over it.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

"But gram-gram - it's soooo hot outside."

"Put this hat on."

"But graaam-graaam!"

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

Damn he looks good for someone born in the 1920s

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago

Dick McDick.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 8 points 3 days ago

He was born 30 years after the FLSA lol what the hell

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

This dude went to a private highschool, no fucking way he was picking berries at 13 for survival. Maybe he had a deal with a local farmer for spending money or something, but I don't believe for a second his family was destitute.