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

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)


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. >

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