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  Hillary only had favorability amongst diehard democrats. She was not popular with progressives or moderates
  
  This is objectively incorrect though if you're referring to pre-2015.
context: Weaponizing government to prove government can be weaponized.
  So GOP >
  
  Totally on-brand.
  They're gonna look at Florida right?
  ... Right? >
  
  They should look at what Trump's administration did, what with the pressure to prosecute BLM protesters and the IRS to audit James Comey and Andrew McCabe. >
  
  I wonder if that is the actual plan. "Awesome.  You want to investigate that? Great. Let's start with blm and auditing political opponents by the irs." No not like that? You want to drop the subject now? Okay >
  
  The plan is to scream "HUNTER BIDEN" into a Fox News microphone for 2 years straight. >
  
  So the same as the last two years?  I think they are all jealous the dude is packing more heat than all of them combined. >
  
  
  attempts violent coup to overthrow US govt on Jan 6 
  opens investigations to intimidate the agencies investigating their attempted violent coup
  
  The GOP is a rogue Domestic Terror organization which is openly waging war on American Democracy and the Rule of Law from the inside.
  The only faction “weaponizing government” is them. >
  
  It’s always projection >
  
  
  Republicans pushed through a measure to create a powerful new committee to scrutinize what they have charged is an effort by the government to target and silence conservatives.
  Mr. Jordan, who was deeply involved in Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has for months been investigating what he says is a bias in federal law enforcement against conservatives
  
  LOL. What a bunch of hypocrites. >
  
  
  investigating what he says is a bias in federal law enforcement against conservatives
  
  What?  
  Conservatives break the law, and are held accountable = bias >
  
  This type of thing already worked twice to successfully stop federal attentions/ investigations.
  One was when the IRS realized pacs with certain keywords in their names were far more likely to commit fraud, but were also far more likely to be conservative. The other was when DHS released a report saying domestic right wong terrorists are a big threat to the US.
  Both times the GOP said the government was unfairly targeting conservatives because they were conservatives.
  I 100% expect this to lead to the end of many DOJ investigations into republicans, almost definitely including those on this committee. >
  
  I 100% expect DOJ to challenge every subpoena in court…and win. This committee can pound sand. >
  
  They definitely should, but I doubt they will. One thing dems are great at is falling for republican framing on everything >
  
  If you think the DOJ will just hand over documents into ongoing criminal matters (what they’d be subpoenaed for) you don’t understand the DOJ. 
  They aren’t going to hand anything of substance over, and that’s mostly why this committee was created. The GOP will scream how the DOJ is stonewalling and hiding something nefarious when they’re just protecting their investigations. >
  
  Didn’t say they would hand everything over, I said they would fallow their framing and probably will treat all investigations with baby gloves even more then they already are >
  
  …what? >
  
  Welcome to the circus. What a fucking joke our tax dollars hard at work ladies and gentleman. Anything they can do to make themselves the victims. >
  
  WH and all federal agencies should just stonewall, keep appealing endlessly and waste 2 years.. Trump has set a precedent which must be followed.. >
  
  No they should testify and start with a statement that outlines the things that Gym Jordan has been accused of.  They could even say “I had some tell me “sir, Gym Jordan is a pedophile.”” >
  
  The committee members will continuously interrupt and prevent anyone from saying anything they don't want said. >
  
  This is going to be a non-stop clown show. Suddenly right wing violence and corruption are untouchable so long as folks claim to be part of the Republican party, apparently a new protected class of people. 
  Bravo fellow, Americans. You got the "bipartisan" split government you wanted because you were BoReD. >
  
  i wish they would have a moment of clarity and introspection but the indoctrination runs too deep >
  
  The only hope is that the nut-jobs and the wackadoos eat each other’s faces >
  
  Nope, speaking as the son of a father who let himself get scammed into homelessness just to "own the libs" of our family, there is no hope for these people.
  He died proud of what he "accomplished" (penniless and homeless).
  They get the consequences and see it as a badge of honor and dig in even deeper, all the way to death.
  I give the US 10 years AT MOST, there is no way we can survive as a country when half of them are willing to give their fortunes and even lives to "own the libs". >
  
  There's hope for change, the GOP mostly has support from old people who are dying of old age, shrinking their voter base. A lot of them are against vaccines, which is accelerating this trend. >
  
  The young republicans filling their shoes are the ones marching with the proud boys. They are much more open and fiery with their hate for LGBTQ and non white christans than the republicans of old. >
  
  But they’re far far fewer in number >
  
  A fascist vanguard doesn’t need majority support to seize power 
  It needs complacency from centrists >
  
  The party that weaponized the government wants to investigate the weaponization of the government. Truly a mystery worthy of Sherlock 🙄🖕🏻 >
  
  I am already heartily sick of the words weaponized and weaponization.
  Hearing them coming out of Gym Jordan's mouth is going to give me a migraine. >
  
  Hearing anything other than “I’m sorry for ignoring all that sexual abuse” come out of GYM! Jordan’s mouth gives me a migraine >
  
  Ignore. Let's not forget the recording of him pleading to a wrestlers to protect their abuser. >
  
  The GOP has absolutely no interest in governing.  They only want to secure power for themselves and their descendants, forever.  We are witnessing an organized and very well-funded movement to replace democracy with permanent single-party rule.
  And it has a pretty decent chance of succeeding, because Americans have such great faith in their "founding fathers" design that they think it can't be corrupted.  In the end, American voters' complacency might very well end American democracy.  They can't be convinced to fear this threat, so they worry more about taxes. >
  
  It’s also because many of us are highly misinformed or apathetic. Literally no one I know talks about or is even aware of a lot of political current events. But will be quick to bring up some conspiracy or fake data that I can disprove with a quick search.
  Look at the youth voting numbers in Texas. There is a collective lack of interest and “nothing matters” attitude that are making it easy for these people to cause confusion and get away with whatever.
  A lot of people feel that we’ve already lost >
  
  IMO apathy is what will be the downfall of our society. >
  
  It won't even matter if this finds nothing -- the purpose is to give the perception that the system is stacked against conservatives. 
  Propping up phony investigations and unfounded impeachments serves to delegitimize real investigations and founded impeachments. From a casual onlooker's perspective, they will just see "two sides" both flinging poo at each other. >
  
  The so-called centrist Republicans are just as insane as the most right wing crazies. You can't trust any Republican to govern responsibly anymore. >
  
  
  ~~The so-called centrist~~ Republicans are just ~~as~~ insane ~~as the most right wing crazies~~. You can't trust any Republican ~~to govern responsibly~~ anymore. >
  
  Can't trust any politician anymore. >
  
  Username checks out >
  
  "How dare the government investigate our previous Republican president for the crimes he committed! After all, it could come for us, who aided those crimes, next!" -House Republicans >
  
  Fuck off forever to every Republican and every Republican voter.  I truly despise all these people and all this bullshit. >
  
  Jim Jordan is a massive piece of shit that doesn’t belong near any kind of power, the dude literally covered up rape at Ohio State and is still avoiding answering questions about it. >
  
  I’d say he’s the bottom of the barrel, but in this Republican House the barrel is all bottom. >
  
  Weaponization of government.   Oh, I get it.
  You mean, like, when the White House organizes a Jan 6th insurrection, engineers riots, uses the Justice Dept to threaten states to change their vote tallies, and defrauds the IRS to investigate Trump's opponents.   Okay, that weaponization.  I see now.
  Right Repubs? >
  
  The whole Benghazi investigation where Kevin McCarthy admitted that the only reason it existed was to “hurt Hillary” that one? >
  
  A.k.a., the Committee to Obstruct Justice >
  
  I'd like to remind everyone that Hillary Clinton had a 66% favorability rating in 2012, and a 41% favorability rating in 2016, what happened in between were repeated politically motivated House Republican investigations into Benghazi and her email server.  
  Republican muckraking cost America the 2016 election, it cost us trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. 
  Don't take this lightly:  Republicans will do everything in their power to win the 2024 elections, no matter how many lies, scams, and shams they have to sell to do it.  Your opinion won't be swayed by their dishonesty, but your neighbor's opinions may be; we don't need to panic, but we do need to be mindful.  Republican muckraking cost America the 2016 election, it cost us trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, and they're all too happy to do it again.  
  And as a fair reminder: The media will not help us in this. They prefer the story of the fight over telling the truth; Hillary Clinton's private email server was the one of the most talked about stories of 2014, 2015, and 2016, and it's why Hillary Clinton got more negative coverage from the "liberal" media than any other candidate in the field. 
  Be vigilant in your defense of the truth, because Republicans will be vigilant in selling the lie. >
  
  We democrats kinda had to vote for Hillary's coronation, I don't know one person that even talked about the emails other than to make fun of how much people brought up that boring shit. I did NOT want to vote for the war hawk but I did. Some people I spoke to did not want another Clinton or Bush ever again. But voted along party lines or didn't bother to vote. I honestly don't think the email bullshit affected how much we all disliked Hillary. She was just an awful candidate. Even awful by the party of Dukakis standards. >
  
  And you're completely wrong about that. The email coverage devastated her favorability. >
  
  Hillary only had favorability amongst diehard democrats. She was not popular with progressives or moderates, and she was evil incarnate to conservatives.
  Honestly, the biggest things that made Hillary loose, in my stupid opinion, was Comey announcing an open investigation into her, but not Trump, as well as her failure to return the Rust Belt after she won the party nomination. I bet most of it was just not going back to the Rust Belt.
  Her campaign slogan was the worst one I have ever seen. Even Ross Perot had a passable, "United We Stand." While the slogan is probably not a reason she lost, "It's Her Turn" really made people think that it was more Hillary's gender than her ability. Bush had some shitty slogans, but generally, winning slogans tend to include a large group rather than focused on the candidate.
  Biggest reason I didn't want to support her was because of her time on the Walmart board of directors and her support of the Third Way Democrats that paved the way for our government to slide right every election. She spends too much time with big money donors, which is great for the Democratic party, but does fuck all for us nobody voters.
  Still can't believe people voted for Trump over Hillary though. That's like voting to vomit & get non-stop diarrhea at the same time because you don't want to eat your veggies.