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[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around…." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency", ">\n\nNah, simply not the same." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency", ">\n\nNah, simply not the same.", ">\n\nYea, exactly the same" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency", ">\n\nNah, simply not the same.", ">\n\nYea, exactly the same", ">\n\nJust like the democrats useless, baseless lies on Russian trump collusion." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency", ">\n\nNah, simply not the same.", ">\n\nYea, exactly the same", ">\n\nJust like the democrats useless, baseless lies on Russian trump collusion.", ">\n\nSo the over hundred contacts between Trump’s campaign and the Russians were what? Invitations for a tea party to show off his golden toilet?" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency", ">\n\nNah, simply not the same.", ">\n\nYea, exactly the same", ">\n\nJust like the democrats useless, baseless lies on Russian trump collusion.", ">\n\nSo the over hundred contacts between Trump’s campaign and the Russians were what? Invitations for a tea party to show off his golden toilet?", ">\n\n“Dems have a golden opportunity to distinguish themselves from McCarthy” because policy wise, they’re indistinguishable. (Let the downvotes ensue)" ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency", ">\n\nNah, simply not the same.", ">\n\nYea, exactly the same", ">\n\nJust like the democrats useless, baseless lies on Russian trump collusion.", ">\n\nSo the over hundred contacts between Trump’s campaign and the Russians were what? Invitations for a tea party to show off his golden toilet?", ">\n\n“Dems have a golden opportunity to distinguish themselves from McCarthy” because policy wise, they’re indistinguishable. (Let the downvotes ensue)", ">\n\nThis post has to be parody." ]

[ "McCarthy’s deal with the far right also resulted in the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Chaired by Representative Jim Jordan under the Judiciary Committee, the weaponization subcommittee seems to be the broad sword Republicans will wield over the next few years. \n\nGet ready, we're going to hear a lot about them", ">\n\nIt is their new House Unamerican Activities Committee and it will be just as fraudulent and ultimately embarrassing.", ">\n\nI doubt it will be as \"successful\". Republican politicians don't actually care about the investigations, they do it to con their voters and their financial backers. There is no ideological motive this time around, just grift.", ">\n\nThey use this as outrage theater and to keep 'dem under investigation' headlines churning. They found nothing during the 8 benghazi investigations, but they kept hillary out of the whitehouse.", ">\n\nYeah I think people too easily forgot that those investigations, while fruitless, muddied the water enough to make a tangible difference", ">\n\nSo simple: keep them out of the news cycle. No talk = no issues.", ">\n\nGood luck with that one.", ">\n\nAt this point I honestly believe the best thing Democrats could do is openly mock these idiots. MTG wants to investigate space lazers? Play along, then point and laugh. McCarthy wants more Hunter's Dick for his collection? Play along, then point and laugh. Geatz wants to investigate Grooming? Give him a mirror. \nI'm tired of playing make believe. The Republican Party is a party of idiots, and we saw how well \"going high\" went.", ">\n\n\"Going high\" was basically appeasement. I am also tired of this liberal milquetoast \"we can't call them Fascist cus it's mean,\" so-called \"strategy.\"\nDoes anyone still sincerely think that if you go easy on Rightwingers, they'll stop attacking women's rights, public education, anti-corruption, environmental policies, public infrastructure, and so on?\nWhenever I hear a whine about \"civility\" I just want to ask where was the civility when hundreds of Conservatives marched through Charlottesville chanting \"blood and soil\" because the state decided to take down a statue of a fucking traitor.", ">\n\nA lot of that was from a Black president, who had to avoid looking like an aggressive Black man at all cost (similar issue applies to any female candidate).\nThat's why you unfortunately need an angry or snarky White guy (think Al Franken, Tim Ryan, John Fetterman) to play the attack dog.", ">\n\nFair point. Obama wore a tan suit once. If only he had led a coup attempt instead, then maybe Republicans would've liked him.", ">\n\nI know you're being facetious, but Obama's tightrope routine was less about appeasing Republicans and more about not spooking the racists in the Democratic party. Even with that approach Obama lost 1.8% of the vote between 2008 and 2012. Had he lost reelection, the system would have interpreted it as a sign that black folks weren't qualified for the office.", ">\n\nI think that if Obama had lost in 2012 the only people who'd believe Black people weren't qualified for the office were the same people who already thought that way before he was ever elected in the first place.", ">\n\nThere was a lot rhetoric, both quiet and out loud, that we need an old white man (Biden) to compete with Trump from the Dems in 2020.", ">\n\nLet’s be honest, the republicans are kinda making it easy.", ">\n\nIt should be, but the dnc just doesn't know how to dunk. They should be laughing out loud. They should just reiterate what the GOP says, but in a 'are you hearing this shit' tone. Just repeat how crazy it is, dont try to counter crazy.", ">\n\nThe go-on-offense strategy—one which pits their own level-headedness against the fever dreams of the far-right—has proven successful for Democrats.", ">\n\nI miss Dark Biden", ">\n\nThe problem is, you have a member of the house who just made the claim that an elementary school has received billions of dollars in funding for CRT.\nWhen you are allowed to just lie, then there will always be more lies than truths. I’m so sick of congresspeople being allowed to lie on the floor. Seems like automatic grounds to lose your fucking job.", ">\n\nNot elementary schools, but one specific school. I hope and think enough Americans can see through that blatant lying. If not we were never going to be okay anyway. \nAlso cathode ray tubes are horrible. No cathode ray tubes in our schools!", ">\n\nRepublicans have been completely unhinged for over 5 years now, and they still managed to gain control of the House. Their voters don’t care.", ">\n\nIt's true their voters are beyond help - zero use in trying to get through to them. The audience is the population of non voters who we can get to join in and participate. That number is still ridiculously high. The optics of Dems going in and showing what a circus this is, I think, is a good opportunity.", ">\n\nNon-voters don't pay attention to politics though. The vast majority of them couldn't tell you the difference between the two parties or the name of the president for that matter. Politics is just not something they ever think about.", ">\n\nWe have to get them to, as many as we can. It's not easy, but that's why people protest and work to educate communities that voting matters.", ">\n\nThe non-voting population has been convinced through propaganda to see protesters as a nuisance that inconvenience them, and the \"voting matters\" groups as nothing more than white noise and junk mail.", ">\n\nI disagree - but even if true we still should work to change that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 93%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nWhen Democrats took back the House in 2018, they made good use of their congressional committees, putting pressure on the Trump White House and investigating the long list of the president's misdeeds.\nThe high-profile committees that Republicans hope to use to spearhead their investigations are now crowded with the Trumpesque members whom Kevin McCarthy was forced to appease in order to secure his speakership.\nComer's promised investigations certainly don't have the relevance or national interest of previous Oversight Committee investigations such as whether Donald Trump played a participatory role in Russia's efforts to swing the 2016 election in his favor.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Committee^#1 Republican^#2 House^#3 Oversight^#4 new^#5", ">\n\nThe problem, of course, is that the average Republican voter will not be able to discern the difference between functional governance and “trolling the libs.”", ">\n\nThe average republican is not going to change their mind no matter what. It's the independents and casual voters who need to see how crazy the Repubs have become.", ">\n\nIf they can’t see it by now, they are not “casual voters” they are brain dead.", ">\n\nYes", ">\n\nHow about the Dem committee members all wear Ohio State T shirts just for starters", ">\n\nMy favorite part of these \"investigations\" are the White Boards. I like to picture some congressional intern had to go down to the Doller Tree and buy a couple sheets of poster board, Elmer's glue sticks and magic markers. Then they spend like 4 hours cutting out and gluing down blown up pictures of Hunter Biden's dazzling sturdy glistening one-eyed trouser snake. Rainbow lettering and glitter optional.", ">\n\nI havent seen it? Does it live up to the hype or is just rando junk?", ">\n\nGOP apparently are in love with it to the point where that's all they talk about these days, so it must be good.", ">\n\nThe thing that's so upsetting about all of this is that this country is facing imminent disaster involving the Colorado River, the consequences of which will reach far beyond the Upper and Lower Compact states, but Congress is standing around yelling about drag queens and Hunter's freaking laptop. It's insane.", ">\n\nI don't know anything about her Democratic opponent, but Coloradans reelected Lauren Boebert, who is one of these clowns. Without knowing a single thing about the Democratic nominee, I'm 100% certain he'd have been better than Bobo and would actually put effort into addressing Colorado's looming water issues. I'm sure there were other House races in Colorado and other states in the Colorado River watershed where voters could've elected reasonable people, but chose not to.", ">\n\nConservatives can't govern.", ">\n\nThat’ll happen when they already believe government doesn’t work.", ">\n\nAnd they’re the ones who broke it!", ">\n\nThey've been doing that for quite a while now...", ">\n\nUnfortunately, the deranged-weirdo demographic is still massive.", ">\n\nAwesome. That’s gonna help inflation how? \nI know that Republicans have absolutely no interest in solving inflation nor do they have any idea of how to address inflation other than cut taxes for the wealthy because they care about money and poor people don’t have any.", ">\n\nIgnore every subpoena, as set by their own precedent. Fuck 'em.", ">\n\nHonestly, the more time they spend on sham investigations, the less time they are spending on bills to make life worse for the rest of us so.... have at it, clowns.", ">\n\nRepublicans did horribly in this last midterm because voters and independents rejected the crazies and Trump candidates and conspiracy theorists. \nAnd now those same type of people have McCarthy by the balls and are going to put their crazy and conspiracy on full blast for all Americans to see. \nPlease proceed, governor.", ">\n\nThese investigations will cost the Republicans future elections, so I'm 100% for them. Nobody except for the 20% of this country that votes conservative cares about Hunter Biden.", ">\n\nIt’s not difficult. It was inevitable that the GOP would do this.", ">\n\nAgreed", ">\n\nAre you now, or have you ever been a Reptoid?", ">\n\nYeah but they won’t….instead they’re going to worry about how to compromise with these lunatics and how to appeal to brainwashed, semi-literate republican voters……", ">\n\nAny dem that's not pointing out the absurdity of these bozos should be voted out. If you can't spin this ignorance into common sense - step aside. Actions - no more pithy comments.", ">\n\ndoesn't matter, intelligent points will not reach the rubes who watch the gqp propaganda machines. at best you might for a news cycle reach independants but will be long forgotten when the gqp starts on about the new drag queen caravan.", ">\n\nCan Jim Jordan just go somewhere else so we can forget he exists! \nNot back to Ohio tho, we don’t want him.", ">\n\nThe author is out of touch. The distinctions have been there for quite some time. “They” don’t think like you and this is their meat and potatoes.", ">\n\nBold of him to assume the public can tell the differrence.", ">\n\nThere's one problem - distinguishing yourself from weirdos just doesn't work. \nThere's a similar problem in the UK - Conservatives are seasoned and talented bullies. It's very difficult to look good when being steamrollered.", ">\n\nI've been saying this for years - it might be temporarily painful, but maybe the best thing to do is just let Republicans get their way. Let everyone see what kind of hell their policies lead to. Make sure everyone knows who made those decisions, and make Republicans own their policies and decisions.\nYeah, it might suck for a bit, but it would also open the eyes of sooooo many people to just how incredibly shitty both Republicans and their policy goals are.", ">\n\nThat’s what people thought would happen with Trump during his election. But it seemed to have only made them more inspired to continue further. I think people are so delusional that they may never see the error of how they are behaving, even if the world is burning around them. It’s because the “other people” got in the way. \nAnd truth be told, I do agree that there should be some sort of counter balance to just increasing the debt ceiling. But, like always the people who call for it wouldn’t even have the first idea of what that should look like.", ">\n\nNONE OF US CARE ABOUT WHO WINS YOUR POINTLESS FIGHTS. All the republicans want is to be the edgiest of them all and all the democrats seem to care about is having the \"wittiest\" reaction to all the republican nonsense for social media points. They're all just wasting our time and tax money, getting paid to create a circus that makes sure the changes the actual 93% of US taxpayers were promised by their representatives will NEVER see the light of day. So many reports about price gouging and artificial inflation by pretty much EVERY sector, but they won't do anything about the heinously high housing, university education, healthcare or food costs. The only thing that isn't even remotely high in any way is minimum wage and corporate taxes. We need a complete rehaul of education and bring back quality educators to not only tackle the utter joke that is US public education, but to also tackle the huge set back that affect our kids from covid lockdown times. But none of this is going to even be truly addressed while all three branches of government are corrupt as all hell and rotten to the core. You maybe could count on one hand the number of politicians that actually give two shits about what their constituents need. The rest, regardless of gender or race, are all on the same side: the continual accumulation of power for the wealthy. And the wealthy around the globe have always been connected and working in tandem to manipulate each others countries' governments.", ">\n\nThis isn't going to be like the Benghazi hearings. It's going to be stupider and slimier.\nThis is going to be like when Sheriff Joe Arpaio \"investigated\" Obama's birth certificate.", ">\n\nBut that would require Dems to be good at messaging which they suck at beyond belief.", ">\n\nNarrator: But they won't..", ">\n\nHaven't yet!", ">\n\nDemocrats will still manage to find a way to fuck up their messaging when their opponents are this stupid. They’re just diet Republicans anyway. We need a real progressive party", ">\n\nWonder what they will uncover.", ">\n\n“You had me at dick pics” ~ Gym Jordan", ">\n\nThis headline makes it sound like before these investigations everyone on Capitol Hill was in one big indiscernible mosh of people. There has always been a clear difference in priorities and evidence of care for their constituents, this is just the next thing that makes it more obvious", ">\n\nthe \"Weaponization\" subcommittee will hold its first hearing on Thursday. There have been no indication of topics nor has any witness list been promulgated. Look for some underhanded shit to happen before the Hearing.", ">\n\nLooking forward to Republicans defending themselves on why they just can't look away from Hunter Biden's junk on live television.", ">\n\nMaybe start by asking Kevin \"Do you remember the last time a McCarthy was screwing things up for Republicans? Do you have more decency, sir???\"", ">\n\nAgreed, this is a great time to show the people these idiots are full of shit", ">\n\nJim Jordan should be easy pickings he’s a hypocrite and a fool", ">\n\nAs things are looking, after Mayorkas, Biden will see dereliction of duties impeachment for that ballon.", ">\n\nmake things work if they just find the elusive \"moderate\" Republicans.", ">\n\nGet ready for McCarthyism 2.0", ">\n\nno die hard member of the GOP base will ever see anything the dems do. They are locked in.", ">\n\nGym trying to look learned and parliamentarian but falling short...", ">\n\nIt waits to be seen if this will be like the Clinton investigation and hurt the GOP or like the Clinton investigations and weigh the Dems down. I suspect it will be like the earlier Clinton investigations and backfire.", ">\n\nRepublicans weirdos. Great name for their party.", ">\n\nOut of all titles they chose to call it an army of weirdos…. That dem pack must be some good Zaza. 🍿", ">\n\nI always loved the clown show when I watched the circus as a child. Not anymore.", ">\n\nThere is no opportunity our government is corrupt top to bottom.", ">\n\nSo.. White Nationalists are “Weirdos” now?", ">\n\nyep can't call them fascist, that's too 'vague' and 'hyperbolic' . We have to play word games to make it seem like they'll just grow out of it or something.", ">\n\nThis is going to blow up for them. They think the general society is as gullible as their constituency", ">\n\nand it is, they got elected.", ">\n\nTbf that was their mostly gerrymandered districts and Democrats came pretty close in some (especially Boebart’s).\nWhat the Democrats need to do this time around is not lose easy seats around NYC and Los Angeles .. pinning the blame squarely on Republicans when they blow up the budget and take back those seats, more incursions on red territory, etc..", ">\n\n“Stupid is as stupid does.”\n-Mama Gump", ">\n\nOkay, so this likely means the Republicans will be “going low”, as in taking the low road to get rich in the mud of dirty politics. Which should also mean the Democratic Party will choose to “go high”, as in taking the high road and assuming their “holier than thou, art I” mantle of martyrdom. Such wringing of hands and hopes for 2024... good luck with that.", ">\n\nThe GOP should be careful about chasing cars.", ">\n\nI used to play bass in a band called Army of Wierdos", ">\n\nOoof - I hear what you are saying and all, but if I didn’t see the entire world through a “what’s really important is that our team wins” point of view, I might just be of the mindset that unhinged investigations just sound like a bad idea all around….", ">\n\nDemocrat and Republican politicians are both garbage who have let total billionaire donor influence turn the country into an oligarchy.\nI'm sick of hearing about how lawmakers \"have a golden opportunity\" when the people who elect them don't stand a fucking chance in this country.", ">\n\nWe saw this for 4 years under trump and 8 years under obama, and bits and pieces before that. When is their shit going to end?", ">\n\nIt sucks that this is only going to be covered by one news channel", ">\n\nThey need to go for undecideds. Blast GOP hypocrisy in the face. They’re talking up a big deficit cutting talk and the only thing they worry about is bullshit investigations on the attempt of buying those independents votes.", ">\n\n\"... distinguish themselves from...army of weirdos,\" like if it already isn't abundantly clear that you aren't in fact one of the weirdos and you need to see more of this shit show to make it clear, maybe you have a problem.", ">\n\nYes we are when they put a Sex idiot in charge of investigating the investigators period!", ">\n\n\"This right-wing screeching will go great for us!,\" says author born yesterday.", ">\n\nThe Democrats will fall for it again.\n\"We can be the reasonable ones.\"\nExcept \"reasonable\" doesn't excite anyone. You need to be righteous, but they don't have the fortitude to be righteous; and they certainly don't have the policy agenda to back up any attempt, either.", ">\n\nI sure would like to see Democrats on TV (maybe on Rachell Maddow's show, and on the sets of other hosts on MSNBC) reveal regularly in the evenings following the Republican \"investigation\" days the Republican nonsense that happened that day.", ">\n\nWhat a waste of taxpayer money.", ">\n\nUnfortunately, Republicans ranting madly will get more clicks, so that's what will be covered instead of democratic competence.", ">\n\nLiberal spin.", ">\n\nMy Fellow Americans \nWe the People need to request the Sargent at Arms to get a grip on the functionality of both houses on all levels of federal, state, and local legislation units\nWe the People need to remove the influence of politics that lead to steal, kill, and destroy principles and powers towards others. \nWe the People need not repeat the McCarthy hearings to nowhere, please expose the republican treason platform that is silently attempting to install a dictator system.", ">\n\nThe general public is seeing that, under Democrats, inflation is down, jobs are up, unemployment is down, life is good. Republicans are focusing on unimportant bullshit. Why should we vote for them?", ">\n\nHis fingers are so tight ny", ">\n\nYet the Republicans still won the house (barely yes but still) and have a good shot in 2024 to take the senate and the presidency", ">\n\nNo, they really don’t. I think you are missing the biggest turning point in the last election. Despite overwhelming polling and attempts to gerrymander districts and history swinging to the party opposite the incumbent, Gen Z turn the tide and voted Dem. I am not going to say they are always going to vote Dem, but stupid shit like fighting student loan forgiveness, drag queen, trans people and asinine investigations rather than attempting to fix problems isn’t going to change their minds in 2 years.", ">\n\nWithout knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?", ">\n\nThis isn't much different than what they did to Obama or what the dems did to Trump.", ">\n\nYou're wrong.", ">\n\nJust like the unhinged investigations during the trump presidency", ">\n\nNah, simply not the same.", ">\n\nYea, exactly the same", ">\n\nJust like the democrats useless, baseless lies on Russian trump collusion.", ">\n\nSo the over hundred contacts between Trump’s campaign and the Russians were what? Invitations for a tea party to show off his golden toilet?", ">\n\n“Dems have a golden opportunity to distinguish themselves from McCarthy” because policy wise, they’re indistinguishable. (Let the downvotes ensue)", ">\n\nThis post has to be parody.", ">\n\nIf only the Democrats can come together and do that…." ]

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[ "“After yesterday’s devastating earthquakes, we’re providing $10 million in immediate aid to the people of Türkiye and Syria — and we’ll continue to provide support as the situation evolves,” Trudeau said in a tweet issued Tuesday morning. \nCanada is currently conducting a “needs assessment” to determine what the next steps should be, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan said as he left a cabinet meeting in Ottawa on Tuesday, and the $10-million figure represents an “initial” response. \n“We’re also looking at various other options — medical teams, heavy urban search and rescue — and I know that also Minister Anand is looking at options for the (Disaster Assistance Response Team) DART as well,” Sajjan said\n\nNicely done." ]

[ "“After yesterday’s devastating earthquakes, we’re providing $10 million in immediate aid to the people of Türkiye and Syria — and we’ll continue to provide support as the situation evolves,” Trudeau said in a tweet issued Tuesday morning. \nCanada is currently conducting a “needs assessment” to determine what the next steps should be, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan said as he left a cabinet meeting in Ottawa on Tuesday, and the $10-million figure represents an “initial” response. \n“We’re also looking at various other options — medical teams, heavy urban search and rescue — and I know that also Minister Anand is looking at options for the (Disaster Assistance Response Team) DART as well,” Sajjan said\n\nNicely done.", ">\n\nWe would like you to do us a favor though^(tm)\nHow about you quit being a bitch about Sweden and we help your population." ]

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[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position." ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit." ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems." ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems.", ">\n\nNah he's just an Israel apologist" ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems.", ">\n\nNah he's just an Israel apologist", ">\n\nWell Israel has \"hypnotized the world\" according to Omar so maybe they hypnotized him too" ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems.", ">\n\nNah he's just an Israel apologist", ">\n\nWell Israel has \"hypnotized the world\" according to Omar so maybe they hypnotized him too", ">\n\nStrong women, all 3 who are featured in the video clip. Much admiration for them." ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems.", ">\n\nNah he's just an Israel apologist", ">\n\nWell Israel has \"hypnotized the world\" according to Omar so maybe they hypnotized him too", ">\n\nStrong women, all 3 who are featured in the video clip. Much admiration for them.", ">\n\nLol, elections have consequences." ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems.", ">\n\nNah he's just an Israel apologist", ">\n\nWell Israel has \"hypnotized the world\" according to Omar so maybe they hypnotized him too", ">\n\nStrong women, all 3 who are featured in the video clip. Much admiration for them.", ">\n\nLol, elections have consequences.", ">\n\nAnti-semites shouldn't be celebrated" ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems.", ">\n\nNah he's just an Israel apologist", ">\n\nWell Israel has \"hypnotized the world\" according to Omar so maybe they hypnotized him too", ">\n\nStrong women, all 3 who are featured in the video clip. Much admiration for them.", ">\n\nLol, elections have consequences.", ">\n\nAnti-semites shouldn't be celebrated", ">\n\nThis is a false equivalency. She is not anti-Semitic.\nBeing in favor of Palestinians, and acknowledging how unfairly they are treated by the Israeli government, is not anti-Semitic. It’s pro-humanity. People should not have to live in fear due to their religion, and that includes Muslims who happen to be born in Israel." ]

[ "Republicans are reluctant to criticize Israel, but if it wasn't this, it would have been something else. I'll be shocked if they allow any Democrats any position.", ">\n\nThis whole thing is just madness. Ejecting someone from committees because of religion? This is theocratic fascist shit right here; this is Taliban shit.", ">\n\nAnd yet democratic leadership won't even advocate for her.\n\nRepresentative Omar certainly has made mistakes,' Jeffries said during his weekly press conference.\n'She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats.\n\nGutless leadership by the Dems.", ">\n\nNah he's just an Israel apologist", ">\n\nWell Israel has \"hypnotized the world\" according to Omar so maybe they hypnotized him too", ">\n\nStrong women, all 3 who are featured in the video clip. Much admiration for them.", ">\n\nLol, elections have consequences.", ">\n\nAnti-semites shouldn't be celebrated", ">\n\nThis is a false equivalency. She is not anti-Semitic.\nBeing in favor of Palestinians, and acknowledging how unfairly they are treated by the Israeli government, is not anti-Semitic. It’s pro-humanity. People should not have to live in fear due to their religion, and that includes Muslims who happen to be born in Israel.", ">\n\nPreach!" ]

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[ "How would they know the character is trans?" ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other" ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"" ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"" ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP...." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't.", ">\n\nI would expect transpeople to be EVERYWHERE in a Magical world.\nWhat with Polyjuice Potion, animagi(sp?) and shapeshifting in general, I would have expected that gender would considered an old fashioned idea for wizards." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't.", ">\n\nI would expect transpeople to be EVERYWHERE in a Magical world.\nWhat with Polyjuice Potion, animagi(sp?) and shapeshifting in general, I would have expected that gender would considered an old fashioned idea for wizards.", ">\n\nYall so butthurt over the creator of Harry Potter and a game that wasn't even made by JK its comically sad and hilarious. If yall really hate her so much just ignore HP and the world she made up. It's fiction." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't.", ">\n\nI would expect transpeople to be EVERYWHERE in a Magical world.\nWhat with Polyjuice Potion, animagi(sp?) and shapeshifting in general, I would have expected that gender would considered an old fashioned idea for wizards.", ">\n\nYall so butthurt over the creator of Harry Potter and a game that wasn't even made by JK its comically sad and hilarious. If yall really hate her so much just ignore HP and the world she made up. It's fiction.", ">\n\nyou do understand that she is actively campaigning to remove civil and human rights from transgender people yea? \nthat's not really something one can ignore, and the only folks that would think otherwise are exactly the sort of folks who almost never need to worry about that sort of thing." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't.", ">\n\nI would expect transpeople to be EVERYWHERE in a Magical world.\nWhat with Polyjuice Potion, animagi(sp?) and shapeshifting in general, I would have expected that gender would considered an old fashioned idea for wizards.", ">\n\nYall so butthurt over the creator of Harry Potter and a game that wasn't even made by JK its comically sad and hilarious. If yall really hate her so much just ignore HP and the world she made up. It's fiction.", ">\n\nyou do understand that she is actively campaigning to remove civil and human rights from transgender people yea? \nthat's not really something one can ignore, and the only folks that would think otherwise are exactly the sort of folks who almost never need to worry about that sort of thing.", ">\n\nThen don't give her the time of day a day ignore her work. Not that hard." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't.", ">\n\nI would expect transpeople to be EVERYWHERE in a Magical world.\nWhat with Polyjuice Potion, animagi(sp?) and shapeshifting in general, I would have expected that gender would considered an old fashioned idea for wizards.", ">\n\nYall so butthurt over the creator of Harry Potter and a game that wasn't even made by JK its comically sad and hilarious. If yall really hate her so much just ignore HP and the world she made up. It's fiction.", ">\n\nyou do understand that she is actively campaigning to remove civil and human rights from transgender people yea? \nthat's not really something one can ignore, and the only folks that would think otherwise are exactly the sort of folks who almost never need to worry about that sort of thing.", ">\n\nThen don't give her the time of day a day ignore her work. Not that hard.", ">\n\nYou can't exactly ignore her when she's actively supporting harmful things to an entire group of people...\nThat'd be like telling people to \"Just ignore Hitler\"" ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't.", ">\n\nI would expect transpeople to be EVERYWHERE in a Magical world.\nWhat with Polyjuice Potion, animagi(sp?) and shapeshifting in general, I would have expected that gender would considered an old fashioned idea for wizards.", ">\n\nYall so butthurt over the creator of Harry Potter and a game that wasn't even made by JK its comically sad and hilarious. If yall really hate her so much just ignore HP and the world she made up. It's fiction.", ">\n\nyou do understand that she is actively campaigning to remove civil and human rights from transgender people yea? \nthat's not really something one can ignore, and the only folks that would think otherwise are exactly the sort of folks who almost never need to worry about that sort of thing.", ">\n\nThen don't give her the time of day a day ignore her work. Not that hard.", ">\n\nYou can't exactly ignore her when she's actively supporting harmful things to an entire group of people...\nThat'd be like telling people to \"Just ignore Hitler\"", ">\n\nYeah... a fantasy author is the same as a socialist ethic drugged out purger..." ]

[ "How would they know the character is trans?", ">\n\nShe has a line of dialog where she says some of her old classmates didn't recognize her. \"Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”\nIt could mean she's trans, or it could mean she wears masculine clothes and they didn't notice she's a woman at first glance. They're leaving it open to interpretation so they don't have to commit one way or the other", ">\n\nIf the character was trans, they wouldn't say they were actually a witch...\nImagine a trans man all done up in men's clothing telling people \"Took them a second to realize I'm actually a woman, not a man\"", ">\n\nThe trans reading of that line would be that she was seen as a wizard when she was at school, so they didn't recognize her now.", ">\n\nShe is presenting as a wizard and claiming she is a witch. That is the disconnect. No trans would say \"but I'm actually what I am not outwardly projecting\"", ">\n\nWhat?\nShe's a trans-woman, assigned male at birth. She is talking about how it took them a bit to come to terms with her gender.", ">\n\nAll you did was flip my scenario. And both scenarios are made up and aren't what is going on in this game.", ">\n\nCertain people nowadays will take any barely trans relatable feature and slap trans on it lol.", ">\n\n$5 says this character was quickly shoehorned in at the last minute to try and damp down the proposed boycotting of the game.", ">\n\nyay corporate pink-washing via stapled on character added at the last minute specifically to deflect criticisms of the IP....", ">\n\nThis feels a lot like JK saying Dumbledore is gay in a blog post but refusing to do or say anything that confirms it in the books and movies. Presto! LGTB+ representation if you support it and plausible deniability to avoid angering the people who don't.", ">\n\nI would expect transpeople to be EVERYWHERE in a Magical world.\nWhat with Polyjuice Potion, animagi(sp?) and shapeshifting in general, I would have expected that gender would considered an old fashioned idea for wizards.", ">\n\nYall so butthurt over the creator of Harry Potter and a game that wasn't even made by JK its comically sad and hilarious. If yall really hate her so much just ignore HP and the world she made up. It's fiction.", ">\n\nyou do understand that she is actively campaigning to remove civil and human rights from transgender people yea? \nthat's not really something one can ignore, and the only folks that would think otherwise are exactly the sort of folks who almost never need to worry about that sort of thing.", ">\n\nThen don't give her the time of day a day ignore her work. Not that hard.", ">\n\nYou can't exactly ignore her when she's actively supporting harmful things to an entire group of people...\nThat'd be like telling people to \"Just ignore Hitler\"", ">\n\nYeah... a fantasy author is the same as a socialist ethic drugged out purger...", ">\n\nJ.A.R.V.I.S give me the definition for 'token character'" ]

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[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops)." ]

[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops).", ">\n\nThe first ever keyboard was back in 2012 when I got a Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition, however the first keyboard I started modding was the Anne Pro 2, finding great joy I decided looking into customs more. Now I am rocking a WindX R1 for work, and at home a IU TKL built with diamond polished mx blacks on 58g supreme springs, lightly lubed." ]

[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops).", ">\n\nThe first ever keyboard was back in 2012 when I got a Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition, however the first keyboard I started modding was the Anne Pro 2, finding great joy I decided looking into customs more. Now I am rocking a WindX R1 for work, and at home a IU TKL built with diamond polished mx blacks on 58g supreme springs, lightly lubed.", ">\n\nfirst was a magic force 68 with outmeu blues . my kids play with it now \nnow i use a mech mini 2 ortho layout with nk first gen creams" ]

[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops).", ">\n\nThe first ever keyboard was back in 2012 when I got a Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition, however the first keyboard I started modding was the Anne Pro 2, finding great joy I decided looking into customs more. Now I am rocking a WindX R1 for work, and at home a IU TKL built with diamond polished mx blacks on 58g supreme springs, lightly lubed.", ">\n\nfirst was a magic force 68 with outmeu blues . my kids play with it now \nnow i use a mech mini 2 ortho layout with nk first gen creams", ">\n\nThe first keyboard I used that wasn't e-waste was a Razer BlackWidow Elite with the Yellow switches back in about 2018-ish. I used that until 2020 when I discovered the Glorious GMMK Pro and the rest is history. \nToday the board on my desk at home is a Mode Sonnet with Wuque MM switches and at work is a Keychron K7 with optical Reds. I plan to replace the K7 with a Hope 75X, just waiting for the GB orders to ship." ]

[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops).", ">\n\nThe first ever keyboard was back in 2012 when I got a Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition, however the first keyboard I started modding was the Anne Pro 2, finding great joy I decided looking into customs more. Now I am rocking a WindX R1 for work, and at home a IU TKL built with diamond polished mx blacks on 58g supreme springs, lightly lubed.", ">\n\nfirst was a magic force 68 with outmeu blues . my kids play with it now \nnow i use a mech mini 2 ortho layout with nk first gen creams", ">\n\nThe first keyboard I used that wasn't e-waste was a Razer BlackWidow Elite with the Yellow switches back in about 2018-ish. I used that until 2020 when I discovered the Glorious GMMK Pro and the rest is history. \nToday the board on my desk at home is a Mode Sonnet with Wuque MM switches and at work is a Keychron K7 with optical Reds. I plan to replace the K7 with a Hope 75X, just waiting for the GB orders to ship.", ">\n\nMy first mechanical keyboard was the Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2013 with mx blues. Just built a Cloudline this past weekend with mx black hyperglides." ]

[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops).", ">\n\nThe first ever keyboard was back in 2012 when I got a Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition, however the first keyboard I started modding was the Anne Pro 2, finding great joy I decided looking into customs more. Now I am rocking a WindX R1 for work, and at home a IU TKL built with diamond polished mx blacks on 58g supreme springs, lightly lubed.", ">\n\nfirst was a magic force 68 with outmeu blues . my kids play with it now \nnow i use a mech mini 2 ortho layout with nk first gen creams", ">\n\nThe first keyboard I used that wasn't e-waste was a Razer BlackWidow Elite with the Yellow switches back in about 2018-ish. I used that until 2020 when I discovered the Glorious GMMK Pro and the rest is history. \nToday the board on my desk at home is a Mode Sonnet with Wuque MM switches and at work is a Keychron K7 with optical Reds. I plan to replace the K7 with a Hope 75X, just waiting for the GB orders to ship.", ">\n\nMy first mechanical keyboard was the Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2013 with mx blues. Just built a Cloudline this past weekend with mx black hyperglides.", ">\n\nstarted with a redragon k552 (stock). now i have a tape and PE foam TK68 with hand lubed Akko purple switches." ]

[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops).", ">\n\nThe first ever keyboard was back in 2012 when I got a Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition, however the first keyboard I started modding was the Anne Pro 2, finding great joy I decided looking into customs more. Now I am rocking a WindX R1 for work, and at home a IU TKL built with diamond polished mx blacks on 58g supreme springs, lightly lubed.", ">\n\nfirst was a magic force 68 with outmeu blues . my kids play with it now \nnow i use a mech mini 2 ortho layout with nk first gen creams", ">\n\nThe first keyboard I used that wasn't e-waste was a Razer BlackWidow Elite with the Yellow switches back in about 2018-ish. I used that until 2020 when I discovered the Glorious GMMK Pro and the rest is history. \nToday the board on my desk at home is a Mode Sonnet with Wuque MM switches and at work is a Keychron K7 with optical Reds. I plan to replace the K7 with a Hope 75X, just waiting for the GB orders to ship.", ">\n\nMy first mechanical keyboard was the Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2013 with mx blues. Just built a Cloudline this past weekend with mx black hyperglides.", ">\n\nstarted with a redragon k552 (stock). now i have a tape and PE foam TK68 with hand lubed Akko purple switches.", ">\n\nStarted with an Anne Pro v1. Have tinkered with many set-ups but my heart still skips a beat when I use my Polaris V1 from AIO3. Half plate/ w gateron black ink v1's." ]

[ "My first mechanical keyboard was a HHKB Pro2 I purchased around 2009ish. (I still have it)\nI have a lot of keyboards, but I guess I'll share what's on my desk at the moment. At home I'm using a Midway60 LE WKL with a custom pom plate, Gateron Ink v2 Stabilizers, and 60g Sprit Supreme Gateron 8008 Minks. (8008 Inks with milky tops).", ">\n\nThe first ever keyboard was back in 2012 when I got a Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition, however the first keyboard I started modding was the Anne Pro 2, finding great joy I decided looking into customs more. Now I am rocking a WindX R1 for work, and at home a IU TKL built with diamond polished mx blacks on 58g supreme springs, lightly lubed.", ">\n\nfirst was a magic force 68 with outmeu blues . my kids play with it now \nnow i use a mech mini 2 ortho layout with nk first gen creams", ">\n\nThe first keyboard I used that wasn't e-waste was a Razer BlackWidow Elite with the Yellow switches back in about 2018-ish. I used that until 2020 when I discovered the Glorious GMMK Pro and the rest is history. \nToday the board on my desk at home is a Mode Sonnet with Wuque MM switches and at work is a Keychron K7 with optical Reds. I plan to replace the K7 with a Hope 75X, just waiting for the GB orders to ship.", ">\n\nMy first mechanical keyboard was the Razer Black Widow Ultimate 2013 with mx blues. Just built a Cloudline this past weekend with mx black hyperglides.", ">\n\nstarted with a redragon k552 (stock). now i have a tape and PE foam TK68 with hand lubed Akko purple switches.", ">\n\nStarted with an Anne Pro v1. Have tinkered with many set-ups but my heart still skips a beat when I use my Polaris V1 from AIO3. Half plate/ w gateron black ink v1's.", ">\n\nMy first was a Ducky One 2 Mini in 2020 and I'm now 4 keebs in and currently rocking a Keychron Q2 with silent durock linears with Eva Mecha 01 replicas. I love this board so much!" ]

[]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?" ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!" ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!", ">\n\nThis intrigued me the most, no mention of the plethora of uses by the democrats during the Trump Presidency, but now all the sudden its a horrible abuse of power" ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!", ">\n\nThis intrigued me the most, no mention of the plethora of uses by the democrats during the Trump Presidency, but now all the sudden its a horrible abuse of power", ">\n\nPlease provide an example of a Democratic politician shopping a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a single-judge district where they know who the judge will be and how they expect them to rule on the case.\nA lot of people point to the 9th, and that's not an answer. The 9th is a massive district with many districts within it and you have a good chance of drawing Republican appointees. In most of the state districts, there are either a majority of Republican appointees or a rough balance. Some of the California districts are leaning heavier Democratic but still have plenty of R-nominated judges who are randomly assigned to the cases. Then the 9th itself is a 29 judge body with a 16-13 D-R composition. You draw a 3 judge panel and it can easily be 2 R's on that panel.\nSo please, show me where Democrats did anything like what Paxton is doing." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!", ">\n\nThis intrigued me the most, no mention of the plethora of uses by the democrats during the Trump Presidency, but now all the sudden its a horrible abuse of power", ">\n\nPlease provide an example of a Democratic politician shopping a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a single-judge district where they know who the judge will be and how they expect them to rule on the case.\nA lot of people point to the 9th, and that's not an answer. The 9th is a massive district with many districts within it and you have a good chance of drawing Republican appointees. In most of the state districts, there are either a majority of Republican appointees or a rough balance. Some of the California districts are leaning heavier Democratic but still have plenty of R-nominated judges who are randomly assigned to the cases. Then the 9th itself is a 29 judge body with a 16-13 D-R composition. You draw a 3 judge panel and it can easily be 2 R's on that panel.\nSo please, show me where Democrats did anything like what Paxton is doing.", ">\n\nLOL...my god.\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\nWell there you go. The problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\nHave a nice day" ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!", ">\n\nThis intrigued me the most, no mention of the plethora of uses by the democrats during the Trump Presidency, but now all the sudden its a horrible abuse of power", ">\n\nPlease provide an example of a Democratic politician shopping a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a single-judge district where they know who the judge will be and how they expect them to rule on the case.\nA lot of people point to the 9th, and that's not an answer. The 9th is a massive district with many districts within it and you have a good chance of drawing Republican appointees. In most of the state districts, there are either a majority of Republican appointees or a rough balance. Some of the California districts are leaning heavier Democratic but still have plenty of R-nominated judges who are randomly assigned to the cases. Then the 9th itself is a 29 judge body with a 16-13 D-R composition. You draw a 3 judge panel and it can easily be 2 R's on that panel.\nSo please, show me where Democrats did anything like what Paxton is doing.", ">\n\nLOL...my god.\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\nWell there you go. The problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\nHave a nice day", ">\n\n\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\n\nYes, a panel that is 45% conservative is accurately described as a \"panel of liberal judges\". If you just ignore basic facts, you can paint whatever narrative you wish.\n\nThe problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\n\nYes, actually. You described the problem. You have to file a lawsuit in a federal court against the US government. Filing in a district where you may or may not draw a friendly judge is not the same thing as actually picking the exact judge you want to hear your case. I'm glad we came to an agreement." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!", ">\n\nThis intrigued me the most, no mention of the plethora of uses by the democrats during the Trump Presidency, but now all the sudden its a horrible abuse of power", ">\n\nPlease provide an example of a Democratic politician shopping a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a single-judge district where they know who the judge will be and how they expect them to rule on the case.\nA lot of people point to the 9th, and that's not an answer. The 9th is a massive district with many districts within it and you have a good chance of drawing Republican appointees. In most of the state districts, there are either a majority of Republican appointees or a rough balance. Some of the California districts are leaning heavier Democratic but still have plenty of R-nominated judges who are randomly assigned to the cases. Then the 9th itself is a 29 judge body with a 16-13 D-R composition. You draw a 3 judge panel and it can easily be 2 R's on that panel.\nSo please, show me where Democrats did anything like what Paxton is doing.", ">\n\nLOL...my god.\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\nWell there you go. The problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\nHave a nice day", ">\n\n\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\n\nYes, a panel that is 45% conservative is accurately described as a \"panel of liberal judges\". If you just ignore basic facts, you can paint whatever narrative you wish.\n\nThe problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\n\nYes, actually. You described the problem. You have to file a lawsuit in a federal court against the US government. Filing in a district where you may or may not draw a friendly judge is not the same thing as actually picking the exact judge you want to hear your case. I'm glad we came to an agreement.", ">\n\nI think this is a case to create ethical rules that would lead a judge to be recalled or impeached. \nIf a judge shows this kind of pattern, a bipartisan panel would have to review and decisions should be biding. \nShopping for jurisdiction is not the issue, judge bias is." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!", ">\n\nThis intrigued me the most, no mention of the plethora of uses by the democrats during the Trump Presidency, but now all the sudden its a horrible abuse of power", ">\n\nPlease provide an example of a Democratic politician shopping a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a single-judge district where they know who the judge will be and how they expect them to rule on the case.\nA lot of people point to the 9th, and that's not an answer. The 9th is a massive district with many districts within it and you have a good chance of drawing Republican appointees. In most of the state districts, there are either a majority of Republican appointees or a rough balance. Some of the California districts are leaning heavier Democratic but still have plenty of R-nominated judges who are randomly assigned to the cases. Then the 9th itself is a 29 judge body with a 16-13 D-R composition. You draw a 3 judge panel and it can easily be 2 R's on that panel.\nSo please, show me where Democrats did anything like what Paxton is doing.", ">\n\nLOL...my god.\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\nWell there you go. The problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\nHave a nice day", ">\n\n\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\n\nYes, a panel that is 45% conservative is accurately described as a \"panel of liberal judges\". If you just ignore basic facts, you can paint whatever narrative you wish.\n\nThe problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\n\nYes, actually. You described the problem. You have to file a lawsuit in a federal court against the US government. Filing in a district where you may or may not draw a friendly judge is not the same thing as actually picking the exact judge you want to hear your case. I'm glad we came to an agreement.", ">\n\nI think this is a case to create ethical rules that would lead a judge to be recalled or impeached. \nIf a judge shows this kind of pattern, a bipartisan panel would have to review and decisions should be biding. \nShopping for jurisdiction is not the issue, judge bias is.", ">\n\nThere is no bipartisan committee that could work together in good faith. Republicans have shown again and again and again that they will do anything to protect their own, regardless of what they have done, as long as it keeps them in power." ]

[ "It’s a problem. Anyone who wants to block a new policy can bring any number of suits to any number of judges — you only have to find one judge who agrees with you. There’s no sport in the world in which 1-30 constitutes a winning season.", ">\n\nWould an example of this be the student loan forgiveness Biden signed which was ultimately blocked by a single federal judge?", ">\n\nYes, absolutely.", ">\n\nNot sure how it could be implemented, but maybe you just shouldn't be able to choose where to file a complaint if it's not solely affecting that jurisdiction? Like, if the complaint is concerning a national matter, it should be arbitrarily assigned to a random federal court.", ">\n\nThere's actually things like the US Federal Circuit, which is a specialized circuit that only hears appeals on certain cases regarding the federal government. It could probably make sense to create an analogous jurisdiction of trial courts that are not \"districts\", but rather designated courts of first hearing on such matters.\nThat or you just let whatever district courts have first hearing but remove appellate jurisdiction away from the regional circuits.", ">\n\nTo give an example how this can work. This is the system that exists in Germany. We have here 5 different branches of courts, the \"general court\" for civil and criminal matters, the labour courts, the governmental courts for all general lawsuits against the government, the financial court for everything taxes, and the social courts for everything social security.\nEach of these courts have their own court buildings, their own districts, their own judges, and exist independent next to each other.\nEdit: Also, these kind of injunctions, because they come from a state instead of a private citizen, would probably not be handled at these levels, but there would be a call to the constitutional court (our version of supreme court) right away, because it would involve a conflict of state vs. federal rights.", ">\n\nYeah exactly - the funny thing is that most countries like Germany, Austria, etc all have a separate \"administrative court\" that checks the executive; the US has \"administrative law judges\" as Article I courts but they are - for arguably ludicrous reasons - considered part of the executive branch; just like the inspector generals, and the classic \"we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing\" mentality.\nUS should make all Article I judges into magistrate-adjacents.", ">\n\nThis seems like something best dealt with through appeals processes and preliminary injunctions of various sorts. The courts are supposed to rule the same way as each other when presented with the same facts and arguments; of course they do not do so in fact, but that is the ostensible goal.\nSo variations attributable to judges should be avoided by the relevant appeals courts in each area making sure the judges under it follow standard patterns; and by enjoining the lower courts rulings and injunctions on as necessary basis. Then of course the Supreme court ensures that each appeals court is following that process.\nIdeally we should also have a system for monitoring the extent to which various judges are overturned on appeal in various ways, particularly when their injunctions are overturned. With perhasp some sort of consequences for judges with persistently erroneous rulings.\nAlso, Ken Paxton should've been disbarred by now; if it were up to me I'd have denied him access to the federal bench at all.", ">\n\n\nsomething best dealt with through appeals processes\n\nOne of the cases brought by Paxton was around Biden's Title 42 repeal. A single-judge district decided the case quickly, blocking Biden from repealing an executive order of the former president. It took the Supreme Court ruling in the summer of 2022 to overturn that Trump judge's initial ruling in early 2021. For over a year, the Biden admin was hand-tied on an immigration policy because of this.\nThat's more than 25% of the president's term taken from them over a single judge. The appeals process is slow and frankly, the ruling should have never been made in the first place.", ">\n\nMore judges. There are already systems that allow judges to hear cases in different districts, which are pretty much a bandaid on the real problem.\nThe Senate shouldn't be allowed to sit on nominations, the problem starts where the process starts. There should be a time frame for them to approve, and if they miss it, it would go to that district/circuits current judges to approve.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president\n\nMaybe you weren't aware but this has already happened during Trumps years. The left would go Judge shopping in California, New York and Washington the state.", ">\n\nThose 3 states don't have single-judge districts, so this didn't happen. You're conflating simply suing in any court with picking a court with 1 judge presiding over it who is a friendly and suing in that particular court.", ">\n\nI think what they is saying is that even though there are no single judge circuits, there are circuits in those states that are exclusively one ideology (or are very close to one). That is the same in practice as shopping a single judge circuit because your outcome is still guaranteed.", ">\n\nAll I could imagine is having the judge that gets tapped to hear the case be randomly selected from the pool of all judges nationally who adjudicate at that level.\nCall it the \"Ken Paxton fucked around so now all of you get a travel compensation!\" act.", ">\n\nVenue shopping is a well established legal strategy. It's not just used by politicians. My company's lawyers choose the most advantageous venue when they sue somebody.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president.\n\nYou can't be that naive; it's used all the time by both sides.", ">\n\n\nbut could just as easily be used by Democrats against a future Republican president. \n\nYou mean like the “nutty 9th” circuit was used by Democrats for years? \nI think the real question is why Biden keeps overreaching Executive authority but that’s not a question you seem willing to address based on your question and naivety around how Democrats have been doing this for years already.", ">\n\nHow dare the republicans take advantage of the same law that the democrats have used. totally shocking, it is only supposed to benefit the democrats, how dare they!", ">\n\nThis intrigued me the most, no mention of the plethora of uses by the democrats during the Trump Presidency, but now all the sudden its a horrible abuse of power", ">\n\nPlease provide an example of a Democratic politician shopping a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a single-judge district where they know who the judge will be and how they expect them to rule on the case.\nA lot of people point to the 9th, and that's not an answer. The 9th is a massive district with many districts within it and you have a good chance of drawing Republican appointees. In most of the state districts, there are either a majority of Republican appointees or a rough balance. Some of the California districts are leaning heavier Democratic but still have plenty of R-nominated judges who are randomly assigned to the cases. Then the 9th itself is a 29 judge body with a 16-13 D-R composition. You draw a 3 judge panel and it can easily be 2 R's on that panel.\nSo please, show me where Democrats did anything like what Paxton is doing.", ">\n\nLOL...my god.\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\nWell there you go. The problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\nHave a nice day", ">\n\n\nSo to be clear, its ok to take it to a panel of liberal judges that you know will vote your way but the \"problem\" is taking it to one judge you know will vote your way.\n\nYes, a panel that is 45% conservative is accurately described as a \"panel of liberal judges\". If you just ignore basic facts, you can paint whatever narrative you wish.\n\nThe problem isn't partisan judges and waste of time lawsuits, its using one judge.\n\nYes, actually. You described the problem. You have to file a lawsuit in a federal court against the US government. Filing in a district where you may or may not draw a friendly judge is not the same thing as actually picking the exact judge you want to hear your case. I'm glad we came to an agreement.", ">\n\nI think this is a case to create ethical rules that would lead a judge to be recalled or impeached. \nIf a judge shows this kind of pattern, a bipartisan panel would have to review and decisions should be biding. \nShopping for jurisdiction is not the issue, judge bias is.", ">\n\nThere is no bipartisan committee that could work together in good faith. Republicans have shown again and again and again that they will do anything to protect their own, regardless of what they have done, as long as it keeps them in power.", ">\n\nDo not submit low investment content. This subreddit is for genuine discussion." ]