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[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated)." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence ." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working.", ">\n\nFinally someone that will protect me from the space lasers" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working.", ">\n\nFinally someone that will protect me from the space lasers", ">\n\nSo what you're saying is if you're poor, female, a poc, or sick, you should be scared?\nNot even American and I'm scared for ya." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working.", ">\n\nFinally someone that will protect me from the space lasers", ">\n\nSo what you're saying is if you're poor, female, a poc, or sick, you should be scared?\nNot even American and I'm scared for ya.", ">\n\nPaying out the quid pro quos" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working.", ">\n\nFinally someone that will protect me from the space lasers", ">\n\nSo what you're saying is if you're poor, female, a poc, or sick, you should be scared?\nNot even American and I'm scared for ya.", ">\n\nPaying out the quid pro quos", ">\n\nThey basically said.. If we can't have Trump.. we will put the second worst we have on top. \nDiscusting. When you know it's bad and you still do it.. It's not longer ignorance.. it's on purpose." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working.", ">\n\nFinally someone that will protect me from the space lasers", ">\n\nSo what you're saying is if you're poor, female, a poc, or sick, you should be scared?\nNot even American and I'm scared for ya.", ">\n\nPaying out the quid pro quos", ">\n\nThey basically said.. If we can't have Trump.. we will put the second worst we have on top. \nDiscusting. When you know it's bad and you still do it.. It's not longer ignorance.. it's on purpose.", ">\n\nShittiest season of Homeland ever." ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working.", ">\n\nFinally someone that will protect me from the space lasers", ">\n\nSo what you're saying is if you're poor, female, a poc, or sick, you should be scared?\nNot even American and I'm scared for ya.", ">\n\nPaying out the quid pro quos", ">\n\nThey basically said.. If we can't have Trump.. we will put the second worst we have on top. \nDiscusting. When you know it's bad and you still do it.. It's not longer ignorance.. it's on purpose.", ">\n\nShittiest season of Homeland ever.", ">\n\nHistory books 100 years from now will equate the American republic to the Weimar Republic" ]

[ "Sounds like something that was given up for the Speakership.", ">\n\nKevin cut a ton of shitty deals for that gavel. He didn't care what happened as long as he got his spot.", ">\n\nParaphrasing Liz Cheney ‘Whenever Mr. McCarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or to do what serves his political purpose he always chose to serve his political purpose.’", ">\n\nLiz is real high and mighty after doing the right thing once", ">\n\nI mean that's solidly above average for a republican.", ">\n\nShe's a throwback Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld Republican. Those guys were (and still are) all hell-bent on American imperialism and hegemony. It's insane. But at least she has a bullshit filter and a deep respect for the rules and norms of the American system. \nI disagree with her on almost everything, but we desperately need more people like her in Congress. People who actually believe in something. People who care more about the country than their party or the next election.", ">\n\nWarmongering authoritarians are slightly better than fascists", ">\n\nThey're the opening act", ">\n\nYup, just cos they're the last to go, doesn't mean you have to worship them for token resistance lmfao.", ">\n\nNow now, we don't want to throw the zombie baby out with the putrid, infectious bath-water.", ">\n\nThe woman that said they would've been armed and would've won if she led the January 6th rally, is now on the Homeland Security Committee. \nMake it make sense, America", ">\n\nThe Nazi rise to power\n\nThe ~~Nazis~~ Republicans started advocating clear messages tailored to a broad range of people and their problems. The propaganda aimed to exploit people’s fear of uncertainty and instability. These messages varied from ~~‘Bread and Work’~~ 'Build the Wall', aimed at the working class and the fear of unemployment, to a ~~‘Mother and Child’ poster portraying the Nazi ideals regarding woman~~ Muslim immigration ban. ~~Jews~~ Illegal immigrants and ~~Communists~~ transgender athletes also featured heavily in the ~~Nazi~~ Republican propaganda as enemies of the ~~German~~ American people. \n~~Joseph Goebbels~~ Fox News was key to the ~~Nazis~~ Republican use of propaganda to increase their appeal. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News joined the ~~Nazi~~ Republican Party in ~~1924~~ 1970 and became the ~~Gauleiter for Berlin in 1926~~ number one news cable channel in 2002. ~~Goebbels~~ Fox News used a combination of modern media, such as ~~films~~ Facebook and radio, and traditional campaigning tools such as posters and newspapers to reach as many people as possible. It was through this technique that he began to build an image of ~~Hitler~~ Trump as a strong, stable leader that ~~Germany~~ America needed to become ~~a~~ great ~~power~~ again.", ">\n\nExcellent, simple illustration of the parallels between the modern Republican Party and the Nazi Party leading up to their seize of power.", ">\n\nThere was also a failed coup precursor called the Beer Hall Putsch.", ">\n\nYeah I'm surprised they didn't link to that. \nIt's going even better this time around, the leader isn't even in prison. If he was literate he could write his own mein kempf from his shitty hotel", ">\n\nDonald would just use a ghost writer anyway. Then 95% of his base wouldn't even read the thing but they'd listen intently when their media of choice told them it contained the literal word of god.", ">\n\nI wonder how many major things will just get missed because they're too busy trying to score points with their base in the media?", ">\n\nI'm having a flash back to some report about planes, Osama Bin Laden and attacking in the US, or something else vague like that.", ">\n\nBin Laden determined to attack the US was the headline of a Presidential Daily Briefing from Aug 2001.", ">\n\nIn December of 98, the CIA reported to the Clinton Administration that al-Qaeda was preparing to attack the United States using hijacked airliners.", ">\n\nWas this after the Tanzanian bombing, but before the U.S.S. Cole bombing? Lot of shit was going down at the turn of the century.", ">\n\nAll while Republicans insisted Clinton testify in front of grand juries over an extramarital affair and go through impeachment hearings. Imagine if Clinton wasn't distracted with their crap...", ">\n\nBut, but he stained that nice girl’s dress.", ">\n\nI do believe it was a group effort.", ">\n\nClinton stained the dress, the GOP gang banged her ability to go on and have a normal life afterward.", ">\n\nThe way she was treated was horrific. I'm about her age and it took me years after to understand the disparity between consent and the imbalance of power between them.\nI'm ashamed for not understanding it fully, though we didn't really have the words for it at the time.", ">\n\nThis is America. Take part in a failed coup, remain in congress, and get a job in homeland security.", ">\n\nYep. Insane isn’t it?", ">\n\nHer first request is to ask for EVERYTHING they have on the DC Jan 6th bomber?", ">\n\nI believe without a doubt it was her. She's that level of insane.", ">\n\nThe only reason I DONT think she did it is because she’s so battery-licking stupid, that I don’t think she could have achieved any of it without blowing her own stupid as fuck face off.", ">\n\n\nbattery-licking stupid, \n\nAs someone that tests their 9v batteries this way, I'm offended.", ">\n\nIt depends on if you’re licking the batteries for business or pleasure.", ">\n\nWhat about business and pleasure?", ">\n\nThey make it so obvious they're trying to be terrible at running the country on purpose", ">\n\nthey are going to spend their time tearing down the government as much as possible, while attempting to keep the hoi polloi distracted with multiple Biden investigations and debt ceiling debacles", ">\n\nI guess this is the one victory Putin can actually celebrate.", ">\n\nIf these people had the Senate they'd be cutting Ukraine off and throwing them to the wolves.", ">\n\nThey are still going to try with just the house. Shit, it might be one of their conditions for not crashing the US economy.", ">\n\nThere will be another Charlie Wilson that will back door money to Kyiv to fuck the Soviets", ">\n\nMaybe her years of harassing victims of school shootings prepared her for this important role.", ">\n\nShe was just on Alex Jones’s podcast, to boot.\nYou can listen to Knowledge Fight’s analysis on their episode 767 for January 12, 2023.", ">\n\nOf course she was\nThe Venn diagram of people who like and support her and Alex Jones beliefs is a circle", ">\n\nMany of them seemingly hate her too though for McCarthy getting the speaker position and her playing a part in that.", ">\n\nThis should terrify everyone, she literally suggested for martial law to assist what would be a failed attempt at a coup on Jan 6 with no consequences. Surprise surprise they’re trying again. To reiterate in case someone missed it, there is an active coup that is being enabled by parts of the government.", ">\n\nShe literally called for Marshall law", ">\n\nBackflip kick your way to power", ">\n\nShe's a literal domestic terrorist enabler. She stands for the terrorists who tried to have the certification of the 2020 election stopped by violent means.", ">\n\nNot an enabler. Direct participant", ">\n\nShe literally has zero qualifications for this role.", ">\n\nThis is an actual overestimation of her qualifications: she has actual strikes against her making her negatively suited for this role.", ">\n\nThis reminds me of a Louis CK stand-up. The joke goes he was so broke at one point that he had negative money in his bank account, which means he can't even afford something free, because that costs no money and he had less than that. She has less than no qualifications and is being given something for free. We can't afford that.", ">\n\nThese fuckers are out of their goddamn minds.", ">\n\nNo they aren't, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are succeeding at it. They are taking over the United States government and you guys don't give a single flying fuck. \nWhatever everyone's going to be involved at some point anyway. Even us fucking Canadians.", ">\n\nA lot of us give a lot of absolutely soaring fucks. But we're basically powerless against these shenanigans.", ">\n\nWhat does this self-described \"fucking Canadian\" want us to do? Nobody asked us if we wanted this Teflon terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee. She fuckin' weaseled her greasy way into this position\n by taking advantage of inter- and intra-party division and turning the incoming Speaker into a week-long global laughingstock.\nDo Canadians think we weren't mortified at this ham-handed, flagrant, rules-abusing violation of our democracy? We can't just go shoot her, so what do they want us to do? None of us has any real political capital. American freedom is a fucking sham. The overwhelming majority of Americans are the victims of all this bullshit, and fuck anybody who blames us for being crushed under the collapse of our \"Republic.\"", ">\n\nI bet she can provide some valuable insight into the Capital pipe bomb mystery.", ">\n\nSo this is why she pretended to disavow Q.", ">\n\nThought same", ">\n\nAnd there’s your proof that they don’t actually care about these things. Any committee with MTG or Boebert is a committee the GOP doesn’t give a shit about, but thinks the base cares about. If you actually want to get something done, you assign boring, career politicians who understand legislation and how it is passed. They’ll be boring and bills will go through. If you want to grand stand and rile up the base while doing nothing to help, you assign MTG.\nEdit: for further proof look at ways and means. It’s one of the most powerful and important committees in congress and none of the members are house hold names. They are necessarily good or bad, but it’s safe to say their goal is to not constantly be ok on camera with something flashy\nEdit edit: it’s ways and means not weighs and means", ">\n\n\nIf you actually want to get something done,\n\nThe GOP House knows the Dem Senate and Dem President are not going to pass any GOP bills anyways. The GOP gets two years to grandstand and obstruct and propose insane legislation because the Dems will block it, but their base will eat it up.", ">\n\nI completely agree with everything you just said… but, even if that’s the case, is their plan to also lose the senate and WH in 2024? Bills take time time prepare and more important bills take longer. If they cared about these things they should spend these next 2 years getting all the pieces in place so that when they have real power they can actually pass these bills. This is going to be like the Obamacare replacement that never existed", ">\n\nIt is exactly like that time period all over again. A bunch of GOP demagogues, who are not in the House to govern responsibly but are there to grandstand and get on FOXNews, will get to spend 2 years promoting their own brand.\nThe GOP are fractured and we just saw that they cannot even negotiate with each other to create a platform. Without a platform and a strong leader the House is going to be 220 different GOPers running around doing whatever they think is best for them personally.", ">\n\nIronically, that would probably mean democrats could pass their agenda. It’s easy to bribe a few representatives with funding for their district. It’s hard to negotiate will a unified GOP", ">\n\nCan Biden just refuse to grant her the security clearance she needs to be on the committee?", ">\n\nThis is not funny anymore. The people who have access to such important positions need to be competent. This isnt just shitposting on twitter anymore. God forbid that we are attacked or something happens and we have MTG in charge of investigating it. Our safety is in jeopardy", ">\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was naive at the very best, this has always been absolutely terrible. The apathy that has gripped America will kill it.", ">\n\n\nIt's never been funny, anyone who was laughing was priviledged\n\nFtfy\nSome of us have been in the crosshairs since before we were born. It ain't a game.", ">\n\nOh, it's completely believable.", ">\n\nThey put a Russian asset on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nYet people scoff when I say the GOP platform is to end our democracy.", ">\n\nDoubt you’ll catch a scoff here", ">\n\nThe backroom deal Kevin said he did not make.", ">\n\nRussia just got their mole.", ">\n\n*Another mole", ">\n\nfoxes guarding the henhouse", ">\n\nThey put Santos on the small business committee. If any of them bring their checkbooks to meet with him, they're going to want to make sure they're all accounted for when they leave.", ">\n\nThey put him on a committee at all?", ">\n\nThis is going to end badly. For everyone.", ">\n\nGOP is a plague", ">\n\nSo is conservatism in general.", ">\n\n“Enemies Foreign and Domestic” - this failure will be on you who voted Republican in the midterm!", ">\n\nWe should all feel safe from Jewish Space Lasers now.", ">\n\nWell now that she's been read into the program she understands that the Jewish space lasers are needed to fend off the Lizard people.", ">\n\nThe people who supported a violent insurrection against the US get to just keep being politicians. \nEveryone who votes R hates the United States and wants to burn it and start over. Don’t let them forget it.", ">\n\nRepublicans have no ideas. They are the \"do whatever Democrats don't like\" party, and unfortunately for everyone, that includes having someone who cheered for an insurrection that, if successful, would have ended free elections in the United States of America and led to the murders of many members of Congress on the Homeland Security Committee.", ">\n\nIt is so she can sell the info.", ">\n\nI struggle to find things about the GOP that I can even respect. I don't have to agree with something to respect it to some degree or another, but the modern GOP is just clown shoes.", ">\n\nCan she find her home state on an unlabeled map?", ">\n\nShe can’t find her ass with both hands.", ">\n\nA terrorist on the Homeland Security Committee? Sounds about right for Republicans", ">\n\nLet’s put traitors in charge of our defense. What could go wrong?", ">\n\n15 votes has got to buy something!", ">\n\nSorry Americans, but putting a Russian asset on the HSC doesn't seem like the best choice eh? 🤔", ">\n\nHonestly, I think I need to stop following /r/politics at this point. Shit has just become way too depressing and ridiculous. Not being American there is nothing I can do anyway, but I don't want to watch their country slowly burn. The only reason to watch is to be aware of shit that might/is slowly encroaching on my own country (Australia). I'm lost for words about this farce.", ">\n\nI read the first half of your comment and was gonna say \"no, don't give up, that's their entire goal here: to make everybody with a brainstem so disenfranchised that they stop participating in politics and elections\" but then realized that you're not American. By all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else. Unfortunately, I'm cursed to care about US politics until I'm dead, even if I do decide to pull the trigger and move to another country.", ">\n\n\nBy all means, tune it out. I probably would if I were from somewhere else.\n\nYeah but like I said, that American brand of right wing ideology is trying to find its way here and it seems to be succeeding. The good thing is (for now) is that we aren't a particularly religious country so at least they don't have that hook. Part of me feels like it is dangerous to tune it out because learning the playbook is necessary to combat it. It is just so damn depressing to watch", ">\n\nCould Biden just revoke her security clearance so she cannot be put on any commitee that requires one?", ">\n\nSo. The GOP strategy is to be purposefully incompetent then run in 2024 on government is stupid so let's get rid of it?", ">\n\nAnger, sure. However, I find it hard to believe that there's any amount of disbelief that this occured. Between all the deals McCarthy made and the GOP's track record of putting inept people on committees that are counterintuitive to their function, there shouldn't be a single person who didn't believe this would happen.", ">\n\nShe made a deal with McCarthy for her speaker vote. So, why does she want THIS position so badly?", ">\n\nWild speculation: Because the people bank-rolling her want her to have it.", ">\n\nShe was put on the committee for the sole purpose of destroying herself. None of the other Republicans had the balls to deal with her, so this was the simplest option. Give it a few months and a unanimous decision will be made to throw the crazy woman to the kerb.", ">\n\nBefore taking office, Greene had claimed on social media that deadly school shootings were staged, liked posts calling for the execution of Democratic leaders and federal agents, and supported the baseless theory that space lasers owned by a Jewish cabal had caused one of California’s deadliest wildfires.", ">\n\nWhy do I even follow the laws anymore? It's only for us common people I guess.", ">\n\nWe’re finally going to find out about the Jewish space lasers, guys!", ">\n\nThis is absolutely disgusting, immoral, tone deaf and infuriating. McCarthy is almost as big of a scum bag as Trump. Almost.", ">\n\nMTG should not be anywhere near public service.\nDo those who have voted for her check on what she does on gov't besides divide and sling around autocratic nonsense?", ">\n\nWhat a sick joke this country has become. A domestic terrorist on Homeland Security Committee. Honestly, how stupid do they think we are?", ">\n\nRepublicans: realizing they have representatives in major committees and control the house WE’RE BEING OPPRESSED", ">\n\nRussia didn't just get a front row seat, they got the reins.", ">\n\nI can kind of understand, you know, hiring an agent from the last coup to prevent the next one, the way you can hire hackers to secure computer systems.\nBut the coup she was a part of was such a miserable failure, the traitors almost credibly pretend it wasn’t a coup at all.", ">\n\nHopefully MTG will be able to requisition some of those Jewish space lasers and use them to defend the borders /s", ">\n\nBeyond sickening. I don’t want to live in interesting times any more.", ">\n\nB should not have a security sclearance. She gonna fuck things up. I've got my popcorn and cokes ready for this shit show.", ">\n\nMcCarthy is clearly worried about Jewish space lasers, so he put an expert in that field on the homeland security committee.\nOtherwise the would be danger of largest welfare recipient attacking us.", ">\n\nThat's pretty crazy.", ">\n\nDisbelief? Surely we are well past that.", ">\n\nWhat a fucking joke.", ">\n\nNo good will come of this.", ">\n\nThis is the person who didn’t believe 9/11 was real, right? Yeah, this sounds like a good idea.", ">\n\nThis country is a fucking joke", ">\n\nRussia got their in.", ">\n\nWell,now we know what McCarthy gave up for her vote.", ">\n\nThis once again shows that two-party systems are completely out of time. This is only the beginning of much worse to come. It doesn't even matter whether Trump gets reelected or not. The GOP is completely lost anyway. And when one of two parties in a two-party system has completely lost its mind, you're basically lost as a country. You can't win anymore when that happens. You can only lose, more and more and more, every day.\nIf anyone thinks things will get better, you're naive. Things will not get better until the two-party system ceases to exist in the US.", ">\n\nI can understand the anger, but I call bullshit on the disbelief. No rational person ever expected the Republican party to do anything but shit on the House of Representatives once they got the power to do so. They will not simply accomplish nothing, they are already planning to accomplish nothing. MTG would destroy the entire government if she actually had any power, but she and all the other crazies in the party were allowed in just for their ability to create chaos that Republican leaders can renounce whenever it suits them, or encourage when that suits them. Don't look at these distractions. Watch what the party does.", ">\n\nTheir intent is to destroy the Government in the next 2 years. The ones that don't answer to Putin, answer to Charles Koch, and he has been working to end the Republic his entire adult life.", ">\n\nDisbelief? 🤣 Shitbags gonna Shitbag.", ">\n\nI'm as far from Marjorie Greene politically as possible, and I'm neither angry nor surprised that she's been put on this committee. The Republicans are intentionally bad on security because terrorist attacks make people more Conservative. \nThere's a reason why 9/11 happened even though Bush II got clear briefings that terrorists were going to attack NYC with planes. Bush wanted to attack Iraq, and having the country at war made it easier to fabricate a casus belli against someone unrelated. It sucks for the country, but war makes people a lot more money.\nAt the end of the day, making money is what the Republican Party is about. They don't care who they kill, who they poison, or who they get sick.", ">\n\nNot to mention how bad they were itching to have an excuse to drop the Patriot Act on the nation.\nOr try to get Pointdexters Total Information Awareness to be a thing which they totally didn’t enact although Snowdens revelations sound like exactly what it had been described as…", ">\n\nDon’t let these pointless distractions that are sure to come work, people.\nShe’s going to generate a near endless stream of bullshit with that position and it’ll be destructive, or at least a block to progress, at the least, but also it’ll be an effective smokescreen. This woman generates a ton of rage media for left-leaning people and it’s all to easy to get sucked into it on social media. Don’t give in to the massive outage machine.", ">\n\nJust send the briefings directly to Putin", ">\n\nShould make her do polygraph and she if she pass it", ">\n\nMy congressman is on that committee (Cleaver). I feel so sorry for him having to put up with her trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room.", ">\n\nBiden should eliminate the DHS.", ">\n\nThe GOP is sabotaging America on behalf of Russia and noone is doing anything to stop them", ">\n\nImagine how fucked up the country would be a fucking Trump won.", ">\n\nUh, you guys speed speedrunning Idiocracy over there or something else?", ">\n\nLess than 2 years after the attempted coup, Americans had a chance to express their outrage at the voting booth.\nAmericans handed control of the House to the coup supporters.\nThis is what you get when you combine garbage voters with a garbage electoral system.", ">\n\nAnger now? Should have sent her to jail the week it happened.\nIf there aren't consequences, what do you fucking expect?", ">\n\nSo we seriously put the women who claimed the democrats used Jewish space lasers to win the election, in the homeland security committee…..welll shit.", ">\n\nWhen you put a certified moron in charge of security, aren't you doing it to commit a crime and ensure you get away with it?", ">\n\nSecurity? On what qualifications exactly…", ">\n\nGet ready for the worst 2 years in air travel. And you can bet all the 'Never Kevins' were only there to get her this seat to protect Trump.\n\"DHS is responsible for counterterrorism, cybersecurity, aviation security, border security, port security, maritime security, administration and enforcement of our immigration laws, protection of our national leaders, protection of critical infrastructure, cybersecurity...s \"\n\"HSI criminal investigators, also referred to as special agents, conduct criminal and civil investigations involving national security threats, terrorism, drug smuggling, child exploitation, human trafficking, illegal arms export, financial crimes, identity fraud, benefit fraud, commercial fraud and more.\"", ">\n\nThis is pure spite and vindictiveness by the Republican Party. Next to Trump and his inner circle, she is in the next tier of American traitors, and belongs in jail not in Congress. A bought and paid for Russian mole. Her sole goal is to destroy American democracy.", ">\n\nShe probably asked for Homeland Security Committee so that she could warn her insurrectionist friends when they pop up on DHS's radar and squash the investigations.", ">\n\nFox News has done more damage to this country than Communism ever has.", ">\n\nBlame the nearly 40 to 50 percent of the Americans public who is too stupid to vote for the most qualified candidate as in NOT MTG.", ">\n\nPutting insane people in charge of important crap.\nThat's the American way.", ">\n\nSave us from the Jewish space lasers, Marjorie! /s", ">\n\nThe world is laughing at you America.", ">\n\nThis never would have happened back when George Santos was Speaker.", ">\n\nit's all george santos fault. back when dinosaurs roamed the earth he was around and god spoke to him and said george.. you can either go left or you can either go right.. george santos chose to go right and the rest is history.", ">\n\nDon't like it?\nDo. Something!\nLooking at you DOJ.", ">\n\nGotta have your \"guy\" on the inside", ">\n\nThe darling of those 'Mrk'ns who want to take their AR-15s to the border and handle the migrant crisis tactically.", ">\n\nAND Santos on Small Business bahahahahaha. Man. Phew. America is literally the worlds funniest reality TV show. Fuck me, probably bring in guest stars to mud wrestle for the gavel next. Gene Simmons takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene.", ">\n\nScraping the bottom, man", ">\n\nThe Jewish space laser lady. Unreal.", ">\n\nNobody at all should be surprised by this.", ">\n\nI’m guessing she wants to make sure her right wing terrorist friends are regularly briefed on security for Biden and other democrats, and intelligence on domestic threats (aka they’re being investigated).", ">\n\nUnbelievable. These clowns.", ">\n\nWell, now we see results of one of McCarthy’s back room deals to secure Speaker position", ">\n\nWhy the disbelief? “Own the Libs” is a GOP party platform.", ">\n\nShe can't even spell \"Homeland Security\"", ">\n\nIf I was a 7-d playing McCarthy, I’d be like “psyche, I’m just gonna wait until you do something supremely stupid and then take it back … I mean it worked last time.”", ">\n\nHow many seats did the Putin Caucus get on the Homeland Security Committee?", ">\n\nAs a New Yorker, that lost a few friends 9/11. Fuck her!!!", ">\n\nHer stupidity is about to be witnessed as never before. She actually has a job now and can’t just be a troll. \nYeah, never mind. It won’t matter to her base. Fuck.", ">\n\nWe have to do everything possible to keep the GOP from being any more power. Particularly start telling periods to go vote in 2024... now. These people are as bad as they representives of Confederate states during the Civil War. They are anti-American and the absolute antithesis to what democracy is supposed to be.", ">\n\nNow she can find out about those space lasers!", ">\n\nSo, a possible domestic terrorist overseeing a terror policing agency. Perfect. Sometimes, fuck this country.", ">\n\nOne of the people who supported the insurrectionists on Jan. 6th is now in charge of overseeing the protection of our homeland. Let that sink in, there zero consequences for supporting insurrection, actually she was rewarded for her loyalty because of it. There’s no bottom to how low the GOP will go for power.", ">\n\nThe party is all about tearing things down. I don't know why you wouldn't believe them when they say they are the party of small government... You just aren't reading between the lines about what that means.\nRegulatory capture is a key tactic of facists.", ">\n\nWhat happened to the part of the constitution that says insurrectionists and treasonous traitors can’t have these jobs?", ">\n\nOk, this isn't funny anymore", ">\n\nIs America Great Again now? No? Thought not.", ">\n\nSpoiler: she works for the Kremlin", ">\n\nFucking fascist insanity.", ">\n\nLiterally a traitor. Disgraceful.", ">\n\nand like that the J6 pipe bomber leads are erased.", ">\n\nAnd they put the Hamburglar in charge of the hamburgers.", ">\n\nAs a naturalized citizen , Mexico is corrupt . But to be honest USA politics takes the win . We are legit putting terrorist in positions of influence .", ">\n\nIsn't it sad that the slimmer the win over the Democratic party, the greater the power the craziest Republicans hold?", ">\n\nHaha the USA is fucked.", ">\n\nThose terrorist bat shit crazy lunatics are bad people.", ">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t prosecute seditionists.", ">\n\nOur government failed to hold any members of congress accountable for their roles in the failed coup.", ">\n\nWhy are we in the worst timeline?", ">\n\nThe anger I understand, but disbelief..? Do you even America?", ">\n\nThe GOP always pulls this kind of horse shit; Putting the mice in charge of the cheese. For instance every time there's a GOP president he puts some Oil man in change of the Department of the Interior which oversees management and conservation of federal lands and natural resources, like forests. They're only good at raping the land.", ">\n\nPeople being shocked by a fairly obvious outcome is beyond my ability to understand. It's not like they've hidden who they are or what their goals are.", ">\n\nDisbelief ?\nNobody saw this coming when she became McCarthy's work wife ??", ">\n\nThe inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nAnger, I get. But disbelief? C'mon, this is why she gave in so quickly on the speaker vote.", ">\n\nThis calls for a protest. This is definitely something worth taking to the streets for, right?\nI for one do not feel my homeland would be secure with A leader of a failed coup is in charge of homeland security.", ">\n\nHahaha a domestic terrorist on the Homeland Security Commitee...\nRepublicans destroying the country from the inside.", ">\n\nGood. It's the only way to win with these people. \nIt's a committee for one, it's not giving her the ability to run around doing whatever she wants. And people like her will always villainize and attack until they're the one in charge of what they're attacking, and then all of a sudden their tune will change real quick. Let her see how many domestic terrorism threats we get from her supporters. Let her try to figure out how to deal with it in a safe way. Let her take criticism when it doesn't.\nSometimes you got to give the 4-year-old the ability to dress themselves and absolutely fail before dressing them will keep working.", ">\n\nFinally someone that will protect me from the space lasers", ">\n\nSo what you're saying is if you're poor, female, a poc, or sick, you should be scared?\nNot even American and I'm scared for ya.", ">\n\nPaying out the quid pro quos", ">\n\nThey basically said.. If we can't have Trump.. we will put the second worst we have on top. \nDiscusting. When you know it's bad and you still do it.. It's not longer ignorance.. it's on purpose.", ">\n\nShittiest season of Homeland ever.", ">\n\nHistory books 100 years from now will equate the American republic to the Weimar Republic", ">\n\nIt must be so easy to live life as a republican, having zero consequences for anything" ]