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This is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency
McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. 

Get ready, we're going to hear a lot about them >

It is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing. >

I doubt it will be as "successful". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift. >

They use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse. >

Yeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference >

So simple: keep them out of the news cycle.  No talk = no issues. >

Good luck with that one. >

At this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. 
I'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well "going high" went. >

"Going high" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast "we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean," so-called "strategy."
Does anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?
Whenever I hear a whine about "civility" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting "blood and soil" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor. >

A lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).
That's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog. >

Fair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him. >

I know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office. >

I think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place. >

There was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020. >

Let’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy. >

It should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy. >

The go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats. >

I miss Dark Biden >

The problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.
When you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job. >

Not elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. 
Also cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools! >

Republicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care. >

It's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity. >

Non-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about. >

We have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters. >

The non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the "voting matters" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail. >

I disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that. >

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When Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.
The high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.
Comer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.


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The problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.” >

The average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have  become. >

If they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead. >

Yes >

How about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters >

My favorite part of these "investigations" are the White Boards.   I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers.  Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake.      Rainbow lettering and glitter optional. >

I havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk? >

GOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good. >

The thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane. >

I don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to. >

Conservatives can't govern. >

That’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work. >

And they’re the ones who broke it! >

They've been doing that for quite a while now... >

Unfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive. >

Awesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? 
I know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any. >

Ignore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em. >

Honestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns. >

Republicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. 
And now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. 
Please proceed, governor. >

These investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden. >

It’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this. >

Agreed >

Are you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid? >

Yeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters…… >

Any dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments. >

doesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines.  at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan. >

Can Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! 
Not back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him. >

The author is out of touch.  The distinctions have been there for quite some time.  “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes. >

Bold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence. >

There's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work.      
There's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered. >

I've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way.  Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to.  Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.
Yeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are. >

That’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. 
And truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like. >

NONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the "wittiest" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments. >

This isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.
This is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio "investigated" Obama's birth certificate. >

But that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief. >

Narrator: But they won't.. >

Haven't yet! >

Democrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party >

Wonder what they will uncover. >

“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan >

This headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious >

the "Weaponization" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing. >

Looking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television. >

Maybe start by asking Kevin "Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans?  Do you have more decency, sir???" >

Agreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit >

Jim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool >

As things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon. >

make things work if they just find the elusive "moderate" Republicans. >

Get ready for McCarthyism 2.0 >

no die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do.  They are locked in. >

Gym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short... >

It waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire. >

Republicans weirdos. Great name for their party. >

Out of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿 >

I always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore. >

There is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom. >

So.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now? >

yep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.