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  Conservatives are enemies of the American people.
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?