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  And gutting the Social Security and Medicare of the brainwashed fools who voted for them
context: And covering up their own crimes. Also, they effectively shut down the independent ethics office, as their first order of business with their rules package. It's shocking what they are doing! Republicans do not care about our laws. All political games and false messaging all the time. Zero principles. Brought to you by Repubkican voters' addiction to Fox News lies. >
  
  This was going to be my point. Many of them are implicated directly or indirectly, which forces them together. It’s an organized crime tactic that worked extremely well in congress sadly. They share the wealth and the crime so their fates are inextricably tied >
  
  They need to share a jail cell. >
  
  Unfortunately when you get to be your own judge and jury it’s unlikely you choose to convict yourself >
  
  In the past, it didn't work that way because we had the 4th branch ... the people's branch ... the media. But now Republican voters self isolate within Fox News, which is purely Republican propaganda. >
  
  Obligatory "Fuck Ronald Reagan". >
  
  Fuck every conservative. They hate americans. Fuck em >
  
  Throwing more hate into the mix would not necessarily be helpful, but I understand the sentiment in general. >
  
  But if I don't let the hate flow through me, how will I be able to throw a bus with my mind? >
  
  You've got a point >
  
  
  one of the first changes McCarthy pushed through the House involved a series of rules meant to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent body empowered to investigate complaints about members of Congress. It's no mystery why this is a top priority for so many Republicans in Congress
  
  Party of corrupt traitors. >
  
  
  an independent body
  
  Yeah fucking right. If this office is supposed to oversee a specific group of people, that very same group cannot be allowed to determine it's funding. How the hell can they call that "independent?" >
  
  Constitutionally, only Congress can fund it. >
  
  That doesn’t make it independent.  It just means any body funded by the government to oversee Congress is not independent so they should stop using that word.
  I think the press and it’s “freedom” was meant to be the body overseeing Congress…but we’ve seen that go full dumpster fire. >
  
  The press doesn’t have subpoena power. >
  
  Does the Office of Congressional Ethics have any meaningful subpoena power (meaning, one that can’t be completely wholly ignored without some repercussion against the person be subpoenaed)?  I don’t think they do.  
  If any sanction came to someone ignoring the subpoena it would have to come in the form of public opinion, the road to which leads through reporting by…the press. >
  
  Party of law and order everyone. 
  Republican voters are the dumbest people on earth. >
  
  Many who vote republican would be happy to have health care and social security, if the dems would just stop trying to take their guns. >
  
  Bullshit. 
  Show me any legislation actually put forth and advanced by dems to take away guns.
  I posit that everyone who votes Republican and isn’t very wealthy is just very easily controlled by easily disproven propaganda. >
  
  Licensing requirements are not taking guns away… >
  
  If you fail to acquire a license because the police chief doesn’t like you, what do you think the result is? >
  
  That’s not the result of a law then that’s the result of a corrupt individual >
  
  And the result is…? >
  
  That an individual had a right denied by a corrupt individual, which has nothing to do with a law and is in no way the same as saying a city outlawed guns >
  
  
  is in no way the same as saying a city outlawed guns
  
  Nice straw man. That wasn't what I was saying, nor where you started your argument from.
  
  Show me any legislation actually put forth and advanced by dems to take away guns.
  
  What is the point of licensing requirements? To take guns away, nominally out of the hands of people who should not have them, but that is the entire point of a licensing system.
  I bet you're willing to argue that capitalism is broken, because look at billionaires, but you're using the exact same argument that libertarians use: System's not broken because of corrupt individuals, the system is perfect. >
  
  “Trump committed crimes as a Republican President, and we must protect the Party. After all, our motto is Party above all, fuck the People!” -Republicans >
  
  Well, Republicans are the only true Americans, you know.  Everyone else is dirty commies. >
  
  Republicans can weasel their way out of Federal crimes but state crimes and the court of public opinion are fair game. NY and GA better hurry the hell up.
  I think Democrats need to start playing dirty here, too. Leak away. Yes, I mean stooping to their level for this fight. This shit is never going to be decided by law because they act like they are above the law (and they're not wrong because when has a Republican EVER been held accountable for anything). >
  
  Total agreement here... >
  
  Covering up a crime is also a crime. Take them down too. >
  
  They have learned absolutely nothing from the mid-terms clobbering they received lmao. Good, make it even easier for Dems in 2024. >
  
  That's what I'm saying... No one sane can take this shit... It's getting old. 
  The Ukraine war is gonna be the nail in the coffin for republicans because most the lies come from Russia and once their disinfo campaigns end with their collapse it should get better for the Dems/politics in general.
  American Independents are watching along with gen Z that produces 18 year old left voters in numbers every year while old republicans are dying off in numbers from age/COVID and losing voters every year. >
  
  That’s why they are trying to take our voting rights away. They wont be able to win legitimately  anymore. >
  
  At what point does someone with any degree of power come out and state that the GOP is an active religious radical insurgency that has infiltrated the government at its highest levels, and is the most existentially threatening domestic enemy since the Confederacy?
  They literally want to genocide the rest of us; Trump and co tried this by redirecting medical supplies during the initial covid outbreak from cities and blue states (who paid for them) to rural red areas (who didn't). To anyone paying attention, it's been clear for 30 years they want to round us up in camps. That's the end goal to purify their Christian ethnostate. "Us" being anyone who doesn't support them. 
  Something needs to be done to stop this house from burning to the ground, and it's not more slow-walked investigations with no prison sentences at the end. >
  
  George Santos ain’t goin nowhere >
  
  Prolly the Whitehouse in a few years because that’s the new normal >
  
  I have doctorates for sale, if anyone needs one. >
  
  And so the tightrope walk begins. On one hand Trump still commands a large cross-section of GOP voters, on the other, he's so toxic to everyone else that he's actively costing them elections. If they dump him entirely they lose his voters forever, but if they rally behind him, they look forward to a repeat of the 2022 elections for the foreseeable future.
  So they will sweep everything he did under the rug and get back to playing offense, working with Fox News nightly to make sure the average GOP drone believes that Hunter Biden doing drugs with sex workers is 1000x worse than Watergate. >
  
  
  they lose his voters forever
  
  And they would instead vote for who, exactly? >
  
  Came here to say this >
  
  When they didn't convict him on the insurrection it should have been clear what their goals are. >
  
  They had no power to convict… that’s the DOJ and they have an open investigation into his role in the insurrection. >
  
  They had 2 years to show concern for national security.  They sure should investigate weaponizing government by starting with themselves. >
  
  Gym Jordan is experienced in coverups! >
  
  I'm amazed that Republicans still cover for traitor Trump. >
  
  Some of the house members built their career on MAGAism, and they made it really clear during the speaker vote that they have enough influence to hold up or go with the majority of the GOP. >
  
  GOP: “because if we don’t he will expose us.” >
  
  Be honest, now: did you really expect anything else? The lunatics are running the asylum, strap in tight, it will be a bumpy ride. >
  
  I don’t know how they think they could cover it up at this point, everything is out in the public and has been turned over to the DOJ.
  Sure, there’s the stuff we don’t know about, but he was in the White House, which is an entirely different branch of government.
  Also, these people aren’t very bright and fight amongst each other, and they’re not bright in a way that makes them sloppy. >
  
  Insurrection 2.0 commencing thanks to Garland hiding under his desk for two years. >
  
  Shame on every person that voted GOP >
  
  My question is how did they get control of the house to begin with? Did everyone just forget Jan 6? >
  
  Conservatives are enemies of the American people. >
  
  They're covering up their complicity in his crime spree. >
  
  House republicans going to vote to restore tump to be president each week for the next 2 years as part of the deal to make McCarthy speaker. >
  
  I do hope the rest of America other than that 71 million idiots who worshiped trump like a cult leader do not let them forget it.
  I keep saying this hoping that people will take it up.
  Politicians are employees of we the people. And we need to start treating them as employees. How does your employer treat you? You do your job within the rules and regulations of the company or your ass is out looking for another job.
  One of the biggest concerns right now is this legal idea that politicians cannot be penalized for their actions in office. And while that might be law, is certainly is not bullet proof nor is it even just.
  We have politicians every year who are charged with crimes while they are in office. What we need to do is expand what is considered a crime by a politician. The greatest example of such a expansion would be to make it criminal for a politician to introduce or vote yes for legislation that is clearly violates the constitution based on the fact that after consulting legal teams who inform them that their legislation does not pass the constitutional test and they move forward with it anyway they are acting in willful negligence, a position where we already have a body of law that covers the position.
  The lack of accountability of politicians to anyone outside of their own clique is shared by law enforcement and the military. All of which are employees of We the People. And we the people need to take back the owners position of this nation and ensure that our employees are acting in and only in our best interest.
  Even right now, this removing income tax and the IRS should be political suicide. And yet its barely getting a yawn from those whom it would affect the most. You know they are considering a VAT style consumption tax that is regressive on those who only spend what is essential due to the poor wages of this nation for that group.
  Creating a trickle up economics where everything returns back to the top one way or another. No price control and a tax on consumption. I can see where this is beneficial to corporations and the rich but I sure as HELL can't see where its beneficial to those who are already robbing Peter to pay Paul from paycheck to paycheck.
  That extra income from the removal of income tax will be replaced by a consumption tax. A tax on living. Such taxes are unconstitutional and a crime against humanity. >
  
  What ever happened to “We the people”? >
  
  Reagan and the moral majority happened >
  
  Very telling their first order of business isn’t fighting inflation or you know, anything that would benefit the American people. It’s to make sure there’s no accountability or oversight in the future. Who the fuck votes for these people? >
  
  This article is spot on!! America is now completely under facist control using the name " republican party". And, as usual, trump will skate, as will his supporters. At 76 years old, I have become frightened of my own government. >
  
  They’re protecting their own traitorous asses. Otherwise they would let the fat turd hang like he should >
  
  Do they not realize the problems this will cause in 2024?  If they cover up Trump's crimes he will win the primary and guarantee Dems win the white house again. >
  
  I hope you’re right >
  
  Which also covers up their involvement and support in his crime spree. They aren't doing this to protect tRump. They are doing this to protect themselves. >
  
  They have no intention of trying to do anything for the people. Just cause a complete shit show >
  
  The secondary priority bring the further concentration of wealth into the hands of the few. >
  
  The more they look at anything at all related to Trump the worse it will be for him. The ship is already at sea. >
  
  Like how tRump is showing his stoopid lackey how to grab his tiny man stick while su(king him to stay in his good graces. >
  
  The GOP and far right movement is at war with America and human decency. It’s time we act like that’s the case. The DOJ can start first. >
  
  Grotesque Orc Parade >
  
  What a sick fucking party the Republicans are >
  
  The GOP is a crime syndicate >
  
  Pretty obvious. Obstruction of justice. Arrest them all. They are all the same >
  
  Because they have never read the Constitution, and don't know that the protections against prosecution for Congressional Malfeasance, explicitly says except in the instance of Bribery or Felony. Obstruction of Justice and Intimidation are Felonies. >
  
  Why?  If they think he is now toxic, why not go after him and get rid of him?  I mean, I know why, but it is pretty disappointing Republicans always choose political expedience over doing the right thing. >
  
  The Party of traitors and wackos. >
  
  To be fair, it’s not Trump they’re protecting, it’s their own rank and file who were complicit in his crime spree >
  
  When you’re a star they let you do it. >
  
  The Republican party is an organized crime family.    I see no difference. >
  
  His crime spree = the GQP crime spree >
  
  Because most of the are accomplices...of course they would! >
  
  This is how democracy dies.😞 >
  
  I think the GOP is set for civil war in 2024. Clearly many aren't willing to dump Trump just yet no matter what they say >
  
  It’s all good keeping him out of jail leads to lost elections. >
  
  Coup-2 2024 release date. >
  
  My Kevin :)
  -trump >
  
  I have to cuz if they don't cover up for him he'll tell everything they did so it's really a cover up for themselves >
  
  Y’a cause too many of their names are attached to his actions. >
  
  jokes on them. we already have all the evidence. >
  
  Good thing they got rid of the ethics panel first! >
  
  So basically, NOTHING has changed. >
  
  That’s their agenda for the year. That, and taking away more right of women >
  
  All the money he lost each year went to paying off people, apparently. >
  
  Then that makes them accessories to his crimes, which is a crime itself, making them an organized crime institution. >
  
  What can I do as a regular citizen to stop this? >
  
  Vote... that's all we can do >
  
  This is exactly why I wanted the doj to stop wasting time and just indict Trump on something... but it has become increasingly clear but the doj never had any real intention to prosecute Trump >
  
  Nah....their first priority is covering up their own crime spree by setting up a coverup committee to harass the FBI.
  Then they'll concentrate on buttering up Donald Trump to look like a saint. >
  
  republicans are trash. Whether willful ignorance, complacency, or sheer stupidity, that statement holds true. >
  
  Gym's going to do what Gym's good at not doing... >
  
  I’m looking forward to their plans backfiring soon. >
  
  As an European, I can tell you that I find USA politics to be one of the funnier news that I read here on Reddit.. it seems so stupid !
  I mean, ours is not perfect either, far from that, but at least it's not like yours .. >
  
  Republicans are the party of Trump and will protect his presidential crime spree as well as his prior criminal life at all costs.  It’s that simple. Republicans motto -fuck democracy! >
  
  I don't think after the past 8 years I could ever even stomach voting republican again. It might be hard to do the right thing, but it is certainly easy to sell your soul for a few bucks. >
  
  But but Inflations and high prices???? >
  
  and Hillary's emails! >
  
  Inflation solved! >
  
  Imagine being a conservative voter and thinking the GOP gives one single fuck about you lmao >
  
  What is most shocking is how people seem to always forget this is how they have always operated and keep voting these same people into office convincing themselves it will be different this time. >
  
  This isn't shocking.  This isn't a surprise.  Hell, this isn't even remotely different.  The GOP is nothing but a pack of thieves and liars covering for the rich, in the hopes that they will get a share.  Now they are covering their own asses at the expense of us and Fox News won't stop propagating the lies.  Seriously, at what point do people start to realize that they don't care about anything but their own pocket books?  They are the party of lies, of corruption, of questionable ethics, and of backstabbing. >
  
  So they are still invested in him.  Sounds like they aren't done with him, yet.