Slow Clap for Congress

Sarcastic clapping is my favorite.

 Looking for a way to express your disgust with Congress?

Do you enjoy sarcastic clapping?  Then why not make a Slow Clap for Congress video?

I just did.

Like a lot of people on Sunday afternoon, Baltimore-based software developer Chris Ashworth was frustrated with the way Congress had handled the important but often routine business of raising the nation’s borrowing limit.

“When the debt deal goes through,” he mused on Twitter to what he describes as a fairly modest following, “can we start a meme where we all make videos of ourselves slowly & sarcastically applauding our politicians?”

That was the beginning of Slow Clap for Congress, what is at present a very basic website hosting Ashworth and a handful of other folks doing — well, you get the idea.

~snip~

“I think everybody’s responding to the fact that politicians are generally just behaving immaturely,” Ashworth told me today by phone, “and that’s just frustrating when there are so many things that we can have disagreements about that we can have in a mature way.”

[My Slow Clap for Congress video is after the jump]

Thanks a lot, Congress.

[via Tech President]

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21 Responses to Slow Clap for Congress

  1. I too would like to give the Congress clap.

  2. Your expression really sells it. :)

  3. Thanks for making a video! I just added it to the site.

  4. bahahaha i love it! your thousand yard stare says it all.

  5. Love the slow clap!

  6. Tossing your Chanels on the coffee table with complete disregard…you really were fed up. ;)

    P.S. Sometimes…I really miss having you to talk to.
    P.P.S. Someday we need to wear green sweaters together again.

  7. Great. Now I’m in love with you.

  8. what were you listening too it added to the whole ambiance?

  9. Oh. Yes. Note to self: figure out how to use my cell phone camera and teach it to my husband.

  10. It’s the “I am dead because you have killed me dead” look in your eyes that really does it. With the “YOU – you did this to me!” shakes of the head.

    Oh sigh. Slow clap indeed.

  11. Hilarious expressions and meme! The others are pretty funny too.

  12. LOL
    :-)

    That was funny!

  13. Haha! I am the “Ted” that’s immediately to your right on the slowclapforcongress website , ABL. I follow you over at Balloon-Juice. Funny that I ended up shoulder to shoulder with you clapping for Congress.

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