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  Ignore.
context: Precedent has been set that subpoenas can just be ignored without consequence. >
  
  Yup, I’d be claiming executive privilege all day everyday and twice on the weekends >
  
  No, Biden should set the example that subpoenas should be honored.  Biden has nothing to hide. >
  
  You think Republicans follow “example” >
  
  No, they don’t,  but you don’t become a Fascist to spite a Fascist, >
  
  This high road bullshit is going to cause your democracy to die. 
  This is an existential fight for America and the other guy pulls no punches. 
  “But we Democrats are better than that!”
  No, you’re not. The US is a global source of murder and instability, no one has their hands clean. Everyone is a direct beneficiary of blood money in the states; stop pretending to be better than others and save your democracy. 
  The fascists won’t take the high road and you’ll be on the list. >
  
  As a trans person my plan is just to wait until they murder me tbh. >
  
  I'm so sorry that you're faced with hatred,  intolerance and bigotry for just trying to live your life as you.
  Fuck everyone who chooses to hate others based on any imaginary threat to their own twisted prejudices and insecure personality. >
  
  Speaking about the hate, I'd like to add: also, based on an imaginary sky daddy and "his" book with outdated fairy tales...
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  edit: "  " >
  
  Ahh... But it's a book that has something for everyone - a bit of a pick-n-mix, but where people can pick only the bits that they want. "Literal word of God" they'll crow.... >
  
  When Jordan is in charge, his whiney circus announcer voice makes me want to jump off a bridge. >
  
  Don’t do it. Just vote, I guess, and contribute what money you can to support blue candidates in tight races, not safe ones.
  And if you’re so inclined, march/demonstrate/protest when possible >
  
  Better yet if your name is close to the conservative canidate in primaries register Republican and run against them diluting their votes. Any luck you win the seat and oust a Republican. Republicans did that in Florida..... >
  
  
  It stems from a memo sent by Garland in 2021 about a “spike in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence” against school officials.
  
  Send copy after copy of whatever ANYONE has on the inquiry into Gym's systemic rape cover-up at OSU and just say, "Oops, we thought you asked for material related to any harassment, intimidation and threats of violence by school officials.  Our bad." >
  
  I also hold OSU partly responsible for not holding JJ accountable.  Other BG10 schools sent people to prison over sh8t like this but THE OSU won't do that to Slippin' Jimmy. >
  
  *sheightt >
  
  Jordan defied a congressional subpoena.
  What makes him think anyone will honor his? >
  
  Donald Trump just answered one with a chant of "I take the fifth" "same answer same answer same answer same answer" for 400 questions straight. >
  
  Man who refuses to comply with congressional subpoenas demands others comply with congressional subpoenas. Honestly it would be impossible to make up a dumber scenario than this. >
  
  the boldness it takes for him to pull this shit is truly incredible. i realize these guys and shame parted ways a long time ago but it's still amazing to watch this shit happen. >
  
  They have no bottom. >
  
  that is why they are full of shit >
  
  Looking forward to two years of posturing and wasting tax payers money over completely irrelevant topics >
  
  Pounding the table as usual. >
  
  JJ --- the guy who facilitated the sexual assault of young men at Ohio State?  That moral dude? >
  
  Gymnasium Jordan belongs in prison. >
  
  Jordan ignored the Jan 6 subpoenas but I'm sure his are "real ones" and not "political theater". What an asshat. >
  
  I learned from the Trump Admin that subpoenas are optional >
  
  I predict the media will fault the democrats if they do not obey the subpoenas after letting republicans ignore them for years...double standard... >
  
  Of course they will. >
  
  Anyone who has been paying attention to this knows the government wasn’t targeting parents because so many of the people making these threats don’t have children in schools in the school board system that they made threats to. 
  This is the new Benghazi. How many millions of dollars and how many identical investigations will there be? >
  
  Jim likes to watch rape. >
  
  And they should ignore them. >
  
  This was inevitable that they’d expect others to follow the laws rules etc but no, not themselves >
  
  It makes the game easy when you have no shame at all. >
  
  Highly doubt this guy will be holding his own party accountable for exponentially more egregious offenses >
  
  I think the play here is to justify their own disobediance to congressional subpoenas by tricking democrats into ignoring their subpoenas. Kinda puts democrats into a lose lose situation. Either water down their own arguments for Republicans ignoring the rule of law or bring the focus on themselves with a plethora of nonsensical subpoenas.
  Hard to say which is the right choice since this strategy worked so well on Hillary Clinton and the whole Benghazi thing. No matter how well she explained herself, voters believed the whole "where there's smoke, there's fire" thing. >
  
  That is fair. >
  
  Time to see if Republicans care about government officials ignoring subpoenas now. >
  
  He already set the president that subpoenas can be ignored.  I would remind him, what goes around comes around. >
  
  Except we’re ignoring subpoenas now, remember? >
  
  Well i for one, think its very cool and neat that a guy who blatantly ignored a congressional subpoena for assisting in an insurrection now gets to issue subpoenas. Very dope and fresh >
  
  This has got to be a joke!  This man who disrespected and ignored subpoenas for the simple reason that he himself deemed he shouldn't have gotten one is now  issuing them. This is  hispocrisy  on full display >
  
  This motherfucker needs to be charged for J6. >
  
  GQP set the precedent that you can just ignore subpoenas >
  
  My only response would be a request that Gym remind me of the specific excuses he used to avoid complying with a subpoena himself.
  I would then “study” those excuses as long as I needed to. >
  
  Yes. There likely is at least some written communication between Gym/his lawyers and the Jan 6 committee providing his excuse for not complying with the subpoena. Throw the language back at him. >
  
  By precedent at by Republicans, a sitting president can ignore any subpoena. >
  
  Pedophile protector has no business in leadership. >
  
  Benghazi the return 🙄 >
  
  Gym: please don’t ignore these subpoenas like I ignored the wrestlers abuse >
  
  Just wish one wrestler would visit Jim to chat about him being a groomer and enabler. >
  
  
  Why Isn’t Jim Jordan in Prison?
  
  Republican Philosophy 101:
  Krusty: He framed me for armed robbery, but I'm aching for that upper class tax cut. >
  
  Everyone should show up, swamp the witness list, and take the 5th on every question. >
  
  LOL! Does Gym Jordan think he has valid subpoena powers? Isn’t he part of the party that dismantled them last term? >
  
  And I hope they treat subpoenas the way Gym Jordan treats subpoenas. >
  
  Why should anyone have to honor a supeona of a GOP sham investigation thats only purpose is to gaslight and rile up the maga crowd over an issue that doesn't exist.  DOJ is looking into  people threatening violence against elected school boards/city council members, who should be held accountable.  The GOP magas in congress are using their lies to conduct an illegitimate investigation wasting everyones time and our tax payer dollars.  There should be a legitimate issue for all investigations, not issues they make up, like MTG's badgering witnesses with her stupid claim that an elementary school in Illinois received over 5 billion dollars in Covid relief to teach CRT, and stating like it's fact that Covid money was being spent on drag queen story time.    No one should have to be subjected to such ignorant idiot  questioning. >
  
  Now, I don’t like the tit for tat. But I think they should do everything, verbatim, that the Trump republicans did.  With addendum stated that “All will comply, after a law is passed to guarantee future cooperation “. If we have learned one thing from Trump, it’s that if it isn’t clearly a law, he will break it. >
  
  Gym the one who ignored the college sports abuse. >
  
  Why would anyone respect a subpoena from a guy who doesn't believe he needs to respond to them himself? >
  
  Still can’t believe this douche bag is a leader of anything. >
  
  This is what these morons do when the country is in dire need of intelligent leadership. 
  Way to go red hatted morons. You must be making Putin proud because you're certainly doing nothing for us. >
  
  What a waste of taxpayers' money. What exactly is JJ's committee investigating? This is probably at best a low level investigation by the FBI and does not rise to any immediate national problem. >
  
  How about this.... the Democrats should say they won't honour any subpoenas until the Republicans pass legislation, that gets passed in the Senate without filibuster, that makes these congressional subpoenas enforceable with serious consequences for ignoring them. Then the Democrats will obey the subpoenas, and there will be teeth there next time the Democrats hold the House. Of course, the Republicans will never agree to do this... >
  
  The Republicans have already established the precedent which Democrats should follow.
  If the right-wing extremists want to install changes they should demonstrate how they would hypocritically force compliance. >
  
  Sure, but if it's just going to do break down into a situation where nobody ever feels like they should obey congressional subpoenas ever again, then long term, the power of Congress will be diminished and as will democracy and responsible government in the US. That plays into the hands of the Republicans. It would be in the Democrat's interests to try to use this situation to give more teeth to Congressional investigations. Short term that doesn't seem like a win to the Dems, but given there seems little they have to hide (at least compared to the GOP), they could play the long game since they will be back in power in the House before too long. And having enforceable subpoena power against Republicans who do have a lot to hide would be very useful. (Which is why I don't think there is any chance of Rs going for this, I'm just throwing the idea out there. Proposing it would at least force the Rs to fight against it, even further revealing they have no real interest in proper governance). >
  
  Hasn’t the power of Congress already been diminished?
  I think we should hear from Republicans reasons they think a subpoena is only valid if it requires compliance by Democrats.
  There should be one standard.
  No matter what Democrats do now, the Republicans will revert shamelessly to their previous position when it’s convenient.
  It’s unfortunate that the Rs broke Congress, but we have no obligation to accept separate “standards” for each party. >
  
  
  Hasn’t the power of Congress already been diminished?
  
  Yep, but it can continue to get worse.
  
  I think we should hear from Republicans reasons they think a subpoena is only valid if it requires compliance by Democrats.
  
  How do you propose to make them give a real and direct answer to that question? They have no problem constantly deflecting from their blatant hypocrisy. Trying to catch them out with difficult "questions" goes nowhere. They just don't care how their inability to answer makes them appear to anyone with any standards. All they care about is maintaining power and appeasing their idiot supporters.
  
  No matter what Democrats do now, the Republicans will revert shamelessly to their previous position when it’s convenient.
  
  Well exactly, and that's why I'm suggesting a strategy that might give more power to Congressional investigations, such that subpoenas will be enforceable and they won't have a choice to ignore them in the future. Again, I don't think it's possible as the Rs won't support it, but it would be a positive strategy for the Dems, and making them appear in favour of strengthening the institution that is Congress is a better look to their own supporters and independents than merely saying, well the Rs ignore congressional subpoenas, so we're just going to be the same. Better to say, we will ignore them until the Rs put stronger legislation in place.
  
  It’s unfortunate that the Rs broke Congress, but we have no obligation to accept separate “standards” for each party.
  
  I didn't say the Dems should cave in, but that they should state they will only comply once Rs meet their requirement for pushing through the legislation I mentioned. Until then, no compliance. >
  
  Really? What a waste of time, yes the Democrats went after Trump for January 6th but if the tables we're turn Biden would be in jail and not running for office again. >
  
  Jordan sent a subpoena to Garland. At least he's motivating Garland to accelerate DOJ's investigation of Jordan's involvement in the insurrection. >
  
  The subpoenas make it clear he is trying to find out what the DOJ knows about the GOP, and their investigations into January 6th, fake electors, etc. >
  
  Personally I would comply and make them look like shit on the record . >
  
  They will call be ignored...  Another waste of taxpayers money.... At a time when unemployment is the lowest in almost 50 years... >
  
  Gym Jordan, first question:  Mr. President, do you like movies about gladiators? >
  
  I hope they ignore it. >
  
  I wouldn’t ignore it.
  I would ask Gym, specifically, to explain why he thinks his subpoena is more valid than the ones he personally ignored.
  In his view, are there separate sets of laws—and distinctly different “standards” which depend strictly upon one’s party affiliation? >
  
  What a joke >
  
  Another two years of chewing on this nothing burger.... >
  
  Ignore all requests. Claim executive privilege. . >
  
  Jordan is defending terrorists who threatened violence against teachers. What a world we live in. >
  
  I'm sure the Biden Administration will get right on that with all the diligence Jordan gave the judiciary committee when it issued his subpoena during the January 6th investigation. >
  
  So appear before his ludicrous committee and respond to everyone one of his questions with questions why he supported an insurrection and throw a curve ball every so often by asking when did he quit abusing OSU athletes. >
  
  In my opinion he’s not a legitimate member of congress given his J6 stance. >
  
  Republicans are now fully entrenched in being sexless idiots who just drool because they have nothing to offer humans except bitching, crying and being useless replaceable losers. >
  
  nobody would ever argue otherwise, including idiots like ted Cruz who run and cry because they are absolutely amoral and useless. >
  
  This is what you get when there is no accountability. >
  
  FAFO
  Something something glass houses Gym. This pendulum comes around and goes around. Biden and his team are pretty politically savvy.