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Right off the bat the GOP votes to prevent ethics investigations. All you need to know.
The GOP tried to kill it in 2017 as well.
This all spurs from the GOP getting into massive trouble for being bribed
I wonder who else could be bribing the GOP these days. >

Russia, and large corporations >

Gaetz mtg and boebart are all Russian pawns. Guaranteed >

Not all Republicans owe Putin money. Some of them support Putin just because they agree with his positions on democracy and human rights. >

Seems naive to think they aren’t somehow being bribed. It’s more than obvious when you look at (see article above) how much they insist on keeping their donors private >

Ex-president and undisputed MMA champion George Santos? >

Yes, former astronaut, Medal of Honor recipient, nuclear physicist, and inventor of sliced bread, the honorable, very, very honest George Santos. >

Nobody ever talks about how he was the first man to swim across the English Channel, and the only person to ever believe it’s not butter. >

Didn't he invent the question mark? >

If this is the first priority they had I think it's funny as shit they didn't mention it when campaigning -- they were pissing and moaning about how crime was out of control and inflation was ruining them and immigration was a threat to the nation.
They get in and their first priority is not to fix the supposed crises but instead they rush to remove any accountability mechanisms they might run afoul of.
There is no other conclusion than Republicans are lowlife scum and trash. >

They want to tear it all down, because for some reason have the worlds largest economy, the majority of the global economy being tied to the dollar, and having the ability to project our power nearly worldwide, they want something else.
What the Republican Party wants is Christian nationalism and I promise you they are going to try and get it no matter the things they need to destroy along the way. >

They want the poors to live by their version of christianity, under the rule of the rich, in a system that would bear a remarkable resemblance to feudal europe. The rich can do what they want, be as hedonistic as they like, because they are in charge. 
Meanwhile the rest of us must remain pious and pure so as to give our entire lives to our employers for pennies a day. >

It’s crazy how un-American the GOP is >

The GOP is the latest face of democracy's most ancient enemy.
Monarchism.
Fascism is another mask this same enemy wears. >

The logical endpoint of "small government" isn't "no government." It's one guy controlling everything: monarchism. >

You mean like a dictatorship? Like Trump's favourite people? >

Ppl don't realize how recently "being ruled" got a second option
And a lot of people apparently seem to want it back >

God dammit, was Loki right?!? >

Why would Republicans need ethics? They just get in the way of doing the things they want to do. >

it blows my mind that they do reprehensible shit like this and republican voters say "this is fine" >

Republican voters are shielded from this type of news by their choices in media. >

Thats letting many of them off the hook. 
Where I'm from plenty of people are fully on board with unethical behavior. For some its justified in order to attack their enemies, others see Republicans as agents of God and mortal oversight as tools of unholy opposition (fundamentalists are the norm in my hometown), but most are just so far gone they no longer recognize what reasonable people might consider "ethics." 
To my parents, for example, lying, cheating, and stealing are normal human actions. Human beings are inherently greedy, after all. Its the ones talking about equality and fairness you have to worry about. 
Thats why they vote for Republicans. They're the "honest" ones. The liberals and socialists in the Democratic party are all lying about ethics.
This and more brought to you by a lifetime of cold war propaganda. >


To my parents, for example, lying, cheating, and stealing are normal human actions. Human beings are inherently greedy, after all. Its the ones talking about equality and fairness you have to worry about.

Exactly, that's what they really mean when they use the term "virtue signaling". >

Every accusation is an admission. It's always projection, all the time and every time. >

So you admit to self-plessure at as steep a discount as possible? That user name 🤣
But yes, your statement is incredibly accurate in this era. >

So much for 'accountability is coming'. >

Accountability for thee, cronyism for me >

For my friends everything, for my enemies the law. >

How do their supporters reconcile "draining the swamp" when they gut ethics bodies? >

Same logic as with the FBI and DOJ.  If it's ever used to rein in a Republican for unethical or illegals acts it's "weaponized" and needs to be take apart.  I am sure when they hear "ethics board" they translate it to "woke agenda" without thought. >

Because woke people are the only ones who live up to Amy ethical standars. >

Amy's ethical standards are no joke. Wait, is this Amy Poehler, or Amy Winehouse? >

The Baking Company. >

Legit ethics right there. >

Who needs The Onion? >

Flip side: given the current state of the GOP, the Onion could do straight reporting. It wouldn't be satire, but it'd definitely be farce.
Q: too early to make George Santos the Onion's Man of the Year? >

I want nothing more than for the Onion to start publishing more accurate material than FOX >

They have been doing that for a while now. >

George Santos personally studied ethics with Aristotle. >

Then came away looking perplexed, saying "It's all Greek to me!" >

Greek-ish* >

It blows my mind that they are not only doing this, but also talking about it, as if it's a win or something. And just because McCarthy gave away every fever dream the crazies wanted just so he could have a fucking portrait in the hall. 
And people will continue to vote for this because apparently Democrats are going to make being transgender mandatory or some shit. wtaf. >

It blows my mind that you can vote on rules that govern a board that investigates your possible ethics violations. It should be run by members of the executive or the judiciary. It's like being able to fire the prosecutor at your own trial. >

It's supposed to be the voters...well, that and actual law enforcement agencies when it comes to criminal behavior. 
edit:sorry for the long rant, but it's late and I'm sad about my country
I'm so disappointed in my countrymen. They've gone all-in on buffoonery and utter incompetence as a platform. This is the result of an empty platform that is premised on "government bad", with various factions within the party having a range of understandings of that statement's concept. 
Recently, the party has been overrun with people who understand that concept as a virtue to be found within a candidate; do they hold to that virtue or not? Thus anything Democrats do is morally wrong, because it involves expansion or reinforcement of government structures. And all the GOP must do is reduce government anywhere to signal that virtue to their base, so that base may forget about critiquing exactly what is being reduced. 
It's maddening because the reasoning of the GOP is in such bad faith, they've poisoned the well when it comes to discourse with their voters. It's a slog getting to basic, productive discourse with them as you have to peel back layers of misinformation, cognitive bias, and deep cultural prejudices. I fear for this democracy if we can't improve this degradation. >

We were done in 2016... we are just a slowly bloating and routing corpse that thinks its still alive, but we aren't alive,  all of it is just the movement of maggots and corpse feeding scavengers picking our carcass clean before we collapse into a failed state. 
We allowed our government to be corrupted by wealth and those that control American businesses. Much like Jefferson predicted....
"... England exhibits the most remarkable phaenomenon in the universe in the contrast between the profligacy of it’s government and the probity of it’s citizens. and accordingly it is now exhibiting an example of the truth of the maxim that virtue & interest are inseparable. it ends, as might have been expected, in the ruin of it’s people. but this ruin will fall heaviest, as it ought to fall, on that hereditary aristocracy which has for generations been preparing the catastrophe. I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country."
Particularly that last but about crushing the aristocracy in its birth... well we sadly embraced the aristocracy in the drug fueled haze of late 70s and 80s excess. But it's almost worse today as so many still believe the myth of "self made individuals" (sure, they exist but are statistically the oddity, and not the norm), that we are a merit based system, or that "we the people" have actual representation in our Government (again, we may have a little, but it's so small and meaningless, it's a if the will of the majority doesn't matter). 
If we had "we the people" representation and not an "aristocracy of our monied corporations," we would not be here. >

It's... Its just a disaster. They're gonna mess shit up so bad. They always do. I do NOT understand how some of these people keep getting elected, despite screwing over their very own constituency multiple times. >

Because they tell their constituents that's it's all the other guys' fault.
And because their constituents are generally idiots who would vote for a turnip if it had an R next to it on a ballot, they believe them. >

I just don't get it. >

Its like sports. Doesnt matter if your team sucks and cheats, gotta root for your team. Asking them to care is like asking a Patriots fan to admit Tom Brady purposely deflated the ball. Right and wrong no longer matter. >

This vote make it seem that republicans don’t like ethics and oversight. 
Why’s that? >

They want accountability in politics...for Democrats only >

The Rittenhouse-Reinoehl paradox >

People don’t understand the modern Republican Party is a nihilistic group. The goal is to destroy our government. It’s the only way to continue with minority rule >

Bacon Bannon even said it: the goal is to destroy the established way and create a new world order. >

Make the government so dysfunctional and openly corrupt that everyone is ready to burn it down and then use that opportunity to create a system that firmly entrenches the oligarchy. >

This is a change to House procedures, not a bill. >

It’s like none of them read 1984.
What you’re SUPPOSED to do is run an “ethics committee,” appoint all of your buddies, and then use it as branch of government that enforces and justifies your unethical behavior.
It is truly idiot amateur hour. If you’re going to be an evil disney villian at least be fucking good at it. >

You imply these fascist can even read they haven’t even read the bible >

Or that our governmental system will even punish them. They are seeing what’s happening with trump and officials involved in Jan 6 and seeing they can get away with it >

So they are planning on doing unethical things. >

Planning? That implies rationality.
Have been DOING, are DOING and in perpetuity will be DOING unethical things. >

Murdoch's Fox News and other Republican news media companies, along with conspiring with Russia and China to undermine American elections and politics at all costs. For decades. >

Good thung Americans are too smart to fall for that.
But what is the goal of undermining American politics... Like, why bother? >

Tony Gonzales (R-TX 23) the lone Republican NAY vote, interestingly he represents the Uvalde area. >

You know this right here... This is the issue with every fucking republican, nothing matters UNTIL something happens to them.
I'm glad he voted correctly, but the only reason is because babies were gunned down in his district.
Republicans never do the right thing, or show compassion, or forethought UNTIL something bad happens to them, then it has to be everyone's top priority.
Anyone who ever utters the phrase bOtH SIdEs again needs to be yeeted into the sun. >

As the party in charge, they are responsible for running these committees. Since they have NO ethics, they have no idea how to run that committee. Honestly, they have no idea how to run anything other than criminal organizations but I don’t think there is a House Criminal Organization Committee…yet. >

The special committee on the weaponization of the federal government. That's one of the things the crazies got. >


Town bank removes all security measures, local bank robber calls it fantastic. >

Hold on to your butts people. The next two years are going to be a wild ride. >

It’s so good they didn’t also get the Senate. They could have done so much more damage. >

Yup. At least the next 2 years will be a whole lot of nothing passing rather than a whole lot of insanity passing.
Hopefully 2024 swings things back in a more sane direction but I'm not holding my breath. >

Vote and get people to vote, we proved it works last election. >

Why the “f” does any governmental body have the authority to slash any investigative body into their own ethics?  Investigate them all.  24/7 audits.  Nothing should be off limits for those that legislate for the rest of us. >

It’s beyond fucked. The GOP is really good at finding and abusing weaknesses in the system.