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  So, are they going to investigate themselves too or is this just another show to make the Democrats look like their the only bad guys here?
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. >
  
  
  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. >
  
  It sick’s that the liars and fascists now have the majority, and can basically write whatever narrative they see fit. We are so frakked. >
  
  You'll be ok >
  
  Excellent. You can start with the Supreme Court. >
  
  Republicans can't win fairly, and their crimes being prosecuted. This is their last-ditch effort; there are few other avenues left open to them. The idea that they can investigate the Justice Department and interfere with ongoing investigations, would be laughable except for the fact that it will rile up their base even more and play well in the news. As unrepeatingbullshit points out, the headline should be, "GOP Further Weaponizes Government in Face of Growing Legal Risks." But the news news is, as usual, playing into the Republican narrative. It’s tiresome. >
  
  The law should be applied equally to everyone. I don’t think any democrats dispute that. If these lawmakers think conservatives are disproportionately being punished, maybe they should stop doing illegal shit like trying to overthrow the fucking government. >
  
  Subsequently, creating the weaponization of government.  What a bunch of morons. >
  
  Jfc these fuckheads >
  
  It’s pretty cool that mr orange was allowed to weaponize the government with complete lock and step from these same individuals who are crying now. The entire GOP platform is a fucking joke. Everyone who votes red is a fucking joke. Everyone who believes this bullshit is a fucking joke. >
  
  GOP = domestic terrorists >
  
  Without a sense of irony >
  
  Well of course the government has frequently been weaponized but that's not their real concern here. They just want to make sure it's weaponized against the right people. >
  
  I can’t wait to see how this lowers inflation, stops the housing crisis, and solves the high cost of healthcare. /s >
  
  You think theyll investigate when Trump deployed Guard to clear the square with tear gas for his upside down Bible photo? >
  
  I was so surprised when I read the first half of the headline, then the second half made it make sense. Not that it makes any sense at all. 
  “They have added other complaints to their ledger to investigate, including allegations that the federal government encouraged Twitter to discriminate against Republicans and the treatment of conservative or right-wing protesters at school board meetings and abortion clinics.”
  You mean the only protesters in the country that don’t get shot at by police? >
  
  You want parents to be shot at school board meetings??? >
  
  They know if they were looking for all political bias in government it would reveal conservatives using government to oppress others. That's why the investigation is narrowed to only look for bias against conservatives. Also if we counter investigated this it would give them a ramp to poison the well with a both sides argument out of one side of their mouth while simultaneously arguing that ours is fake and theors is real.
  Basically the GOP wants to be a protected class which they think would make them immune to criticism. >
  
  Sooo…if I understand this right, the leopard is going to eat the leopard’s face? >
  
  Even /r/conservative views these committees as a joke. >
  
  Representative Jordan who is a sympathizer of the attempts to overturn the election weaken our democracy and overthrow government now wants to use his subpoena power to conduct investigations. The very subpoenas that he ignored and deemed not valid because he didn't think he should get one...wow >
  
  The GOP definitely has an irony deficiency. >
  
  Breaking: neo Nazis announce investigation into the Hague for anti-Nazi bias. >
  
  The most metaist meta that's ever metaed. >
  
  The circus is in town >
  
  Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.. (breathe) ..ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.. >
  
  They are not going to get anything done but then again all they seem to do is grandstand. >
  
  Another 2 years of the GOP lead house doing nothing to benefit the citizens of the US >
  
  I cant wait until they find that the ones who tried to weaponize were Republicans and they then bury the report. >
  
  so you mean wasting more money becouse people are doing their jobs , but still without a actual indicment for trump this all is a waste of money. yeah lets probe the weaponization of the Justice department and not what voters actually care about , idk like inflation ( which I remind you all this is what they ran on fighting inflation), holding big coorperations responsible for price gauging, the soaring rise in the cost of basic utility needs, or the over inflated military budget...... yeah lets invetigate the supposed weaponization of the DOJ thats what will get us votes..... not the weaponization of the legislative branch when a politican IDK announces student loan relief, and the gov giving people the help they need , while republicans vigorusly vote to destroy it, yeah this will help to put us in office again...... yeah no freaking way.............,. >
  
  “We’re probing the limitations of weaponizing government so we can eliminate barriers to a GQP fascist take-over with the next president.” >
  
  The most egregious weaponization of government in my lifetime and probably every living person's lifetime was the Benghazi Select Committee. >
  
  The GOP is turning the House into a circus and it's going to destroy them in 2024. >
  
  Based on previous examples, this probably means the GQP is planning on weaponizing the government >
  
  Too bad ole Gym Jordan wasn’t as interested in investigating the rapes of male students by teachers that were under his purview. >
  
  Little did they realise it was their own republican stunts that appeared to be in their crosshairs. >
  
  What a bunch of f’ing clowns. >
  
  “We want to investigate why the government is always investigating the crimes we constantly commit.” >
  
  
  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. 
  
  Jordan projecting and playing the victim. Criminal-Malcontents everywhere thank you. >
  
  Is this an attempt to retaliate first against the special prosecutor?  How will this play out in the event of Jack Smith bringing indictments against the republicans that worked with trump to overturn the 2020 election. >
  
  It will work to delegitimize any and all charges brought against any GOP member by recasting all charges against conservative as baseless and discriminatory, and 40% of voters will slurp it right up and ask for more >
  
  Welcome to Neo-McCarthyism >
  
  Like what? Can someone give an example for “weaponization of federal government” against conservatives?
  Did the federal government asked for a list of church attendants?
  Did feds bus conservatives from democratic to republican states?
  Every example of feds stepping in to do something against conservatives is when conservatives try to push their beliefs or ways of life on others. >
  
  Perhaps they should start at the beginning... Lewinski, Benghazi, emails... >
  
  Constantly projecting.  They cannot imagine it ever being smart to not weaponize the government, so they assume their opponents must be trying to do it all the time just like them. >
  
  These people are rubber headed idiots. >
  
  These Grifters are just grandstanding for their base.  The DOJ and FBI do not have to respond to any of their nonsense. >
  
  Those who complain the most about the weaponization are the ones who were complicit in Jan 6 and pre-emptively asked for pardons. >
  
  The fuck does that even mean? >
  
  Hypocritical fucking criminal shitweasels. All of them. 100 fucking percent. >
  
  The Right doesn’t understand irony. >
  
  Right. Let’s just ratchet the infighting up to 11. Unbelievably, these fools continue getting re-elected. SMH. >
  
  Every accusation is an admission.  Sorry fucks. >
  
  By the GOP… they know that, they are just trying to distract us… that’s Gim Jordan’s speciality >
  
  It’s almost as though they love to obstruct and refuse to govern. This should be a two year shitshow. >
  
  Surely they'll be investigating how Trump tried to sic the IRS and Department of Justice on his perceived enemies, right? >
  
  I thought they liked weapons? I guess I’ll just never figure those guys out. >
  
  The victim class >
  
  I'm so upset. Please just one Republican, just one, anyone, tell me how you're going to help the American people. Any plans, any ideas? Just one of you. No? >
  
  Where were these disingenuous asses when Trump was doing that . Yeah what I thought silence when he sicked his deranged followers on senate when Pence wouldn't do his bidding >
  
  It appears their hypocrisy knows no bounds. >
  
  I had this (very small) hope that 10-15 Republicans would vote with Democrats to prevent all of the batshit crap from happening. That hope has quickly died. >
  
  This is what weaponization of government looks like. >
  
  This headline is whitewashing dogshit that's become standard fare at the NYT. 
  This "inquiry" was opposed by literally every Democrat. The GOP ramrodded this through and is not being called out for it. >
  
  Hang on. I’ve got a mirror here somewhere… >
  
  This is just their answer to Jan 6th inquiries. Further down the spiral we go. >
  
  GOP weaponizes the house to investigate weaponization of government. Did I get that right? >
  
  New Look, Same Great Hypocrisy! >
  
  Aka the Trump grievance committee what a joke >
  
  Finally, just what America needed to bring down inflation and gas prices!!!….oh wait. >
  
  As a lib, I am so owned right now >
  
  I hope they look into Ron Desantis weaponizing the state against Disney. >
  
  Gym Jordan is excited to study weapeniszation >
  
  This is DEFINITELY NOT going to be a massive waste of time, energy and taxpayer dollars!!!     Freaken clowns. >
  
  I’ll take obvious projection for 800, Alex. >
  
  They're masters at projecting the very thing they're guilty of on others in an attempt to get ahead of the "message" which is always something stupid and counterproductive. >
  
  They seem to be conflating 'Conservative' with 'criminal'
  I wonder if they realised? >
  
  
  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.
  
  I mean, their attempts at destabilization to prop up their pawns deep into the government have certainly been targeted, but sadly not nearly enough to be effective. >
  
  It wasn’t a “divided House”, it was very united, within the party line. The New York Times has been sugarcoating Republican extremism for over a decade, if this were the Democrats, they will surely frame it as “partisan vote”.