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  Disbelief? Surely we are well past that.
context: Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership. >
  
  Kevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot. >
  
  Paraphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’ >
  
  Liz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once >
  
  I mean that's solidly above average for a republican. >
  
  She's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. 
  I disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election. >
  
  Warmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists >
  
  They're the opening act >
  
  Yup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao. >
  
  Now now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water. >
  
  The woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. 
  Make it make sense, America >
  
  The Nazi rise to power
  
  The ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people.  
  ~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again. >
  
  Excellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power. >
  
  There was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch. >
  
  Yeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. 
  It's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel >
  
  Donald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god. >
  
  I wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media? >
  
  I'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that. >
  
  Bin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001. >
  
  In December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners. >
  
  Was this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century. >
  
  All while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings.  Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap... >
  
  But, but he stained that nice girl’s dress. >
  
  I do believe it was a group effort. >
  
  Clinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward. >
  
  The way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.
  I'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time. >
  
  This is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security. >
  
  Yep.  Insane isn’t it? >
  
  Her first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber? >
  
  I believe without a doubt it was her.  She's that level of insane. >
  
  The only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off. >
  
  
  battery-licking stupid, 
  
  As someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended. >
  
  It depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure. >
  
  What about business and pleasure? >
  
  They make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose >
  
  they are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles >
  
  I guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate. >
  
  If these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves. >
  
  They are still going to try with just the house.   Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy. >
  
  There will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets >
  
  Maybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role. >
  
  She was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.
  You can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023. >
  
  Of course she was
  The Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle >
  
  Many of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that. >
  
  This should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government. >
  
  She literally called for Marshall law >
  
  Backflip kick your way to power >
  
  She's a literal domestic terrorist enabler.  She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means. >
  
  Not an enabler. Direct participant >
  
  She literally has zero qualifications for this role. >
  
  This is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role. >
  
  This reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that. >
  
  These fuckers are out of their goddamn minds. >
  
  No they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. 
  Whatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians. >
  
  A lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans. >
  
  What does this self-described "fucking Canadian" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position
   by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.
  Do Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our "Republic." >
  
  I bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery. >
  
  So this is why she pretended to disavow Q. >
  
  Thought same >
  
  And there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.
  Edit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy
  Edit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means >
  
  
  If you actually want to get something done,
  
  The GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways.  The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up. >
  
  I completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed >
  
  It is exactly like that time period all over again.  A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.
  The GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform.  Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally. >
  
  Ironically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP >
  
  Can Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee? >
  
  This is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy >
  
  It's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it. >
  
  
  It's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged
  
  Ftfy
  Some of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game. >
  
  Oh, it's completely believable. >
  
  They put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee. >
  
  Yet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy. >
  
  Doubt you’ll catch a scoff here >
  
  The backroom deal Kevin said he did not make. >
  
  Russia just got their mole. >
  
  *Another mole >
  
  foxes guarding the henhouse >
  
  They put Santos on the small business committee.  If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave. >
  
  They put him on a committee at all? >
  
  This is going to end badly. For everyone. >
  
  GOP is a plague >
  
  So is conservatism in general. >
  
  “Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm! >
  
  We should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now. >
  
  Well now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people. >
  
  The people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. 
  Everyone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it. >
  
  Republicans have no ideas.  They are the "do whatever Democrats don't like" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee. >
  
  It is so she can sell the info. >
  
  I struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes. >
  
  Can she find her home state on an unlabeled map? >
  
  She can’t find her ass with both hands. >
  
  A terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans >
  
  Let’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong? >
  
  15 votes has got to buy something! >
  
  Sorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔 >
  
  Honestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce. >
  
  I read the first half of your comment and was gonna say "no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country. >
  
  
  By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.
  
  Yeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch >
  
  Could Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one? >
  
  So. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it? >
  
  Anger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen. >
  
  She made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly? >
  
  Wild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it. >
  
  She was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself.   None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option.  Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb. >
  
  Before taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires. >
  
  Why do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess. >
  
  We’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys! >
  
  This is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost. >
  
  MTG should not be anywhere near public service.
  Do those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense? >
  
  What a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are? >
  
  Republicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED >
  
  Russia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins. >
  
  I can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.
  But the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all. >
  
  Hopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s >
  
  Beyond sickening.  I don’t want to live in interesting times any more. >
  
  B should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show. >
  
  McCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.
  Otherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us. >
  
  That's pretty crazy.