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[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\"." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”…." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point..." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box..." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!", ">\n\nGOP protecting their cronies at all costs. Fucking fascists." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!", ">\n\nGOP protecting their cronies at all costs. Fucking fascists.", ">\n\nEthics probe = kryptonite (to the Repubs)" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!", ">\n\nGOP protecting their cronies at all costs. Fucking fascists.", ">\n\nEthics probe = kryptonite (to the Repubs)", ">\n\nAnother victory for the law and order party, nice!" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!", ">\n\nGOP protecting their cronies at all costs. Fucking fascists.", ">\n\nEthics probe = kryptonite (to the Repubs)", ">\n\nAnother victory for the law and order party, nice!", ">\n\nI knew a very wicked man,\nI knew him as a lad.\nI never met his equal telling lies\nAnd though he takes delight in doing everything that's bad,\nHe thinks he'll go to heaven when he dies\nWhen but a child he robbed his dear old grandma in her sleep\nHe stole six golden teeth right from her jaw,\nHe's been a kleptomaniac since he began to creep\nBut the neighbors think he's alright because:\nHe goes to church on Sunday\nHe passes around the contribution box\nBut meet him in the office on a Monday\nHe's as crooked and as cunning as a fox\nOn Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday\nFriday Saturday\nHe's robbing everybody that he can\nBut he goes to church on Sunday\nSo they say that he's an honest man" ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!", ">\n\nGOP protecting their cronies at all costs. Fucking fascists.", ">\n\nEthics probe = kryptonite (to the Repubs)", ">\n\nAnother victory for the law and order party, nice!", ">\n\nI knew a very wicked man,\nI knew him as a lad.\nI never met his equal telling lies\nAnd though he takes delight in doing everything that's bad,\nHe thinks he'll go to heaven when he dies\nWhen but a child he robbed his dear old grandma in her sleep\nHe stole six golden teeth right from her jaw,\nHe's been a kleptomaniac since he began to creep\nBut the neighbors think he's alright because:\nHe goes to church on Sunday\nHe passes around the contribution box\nBut meet him in the office on a Monday\nHe's as crooked and as cunning as a fox\nOn Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday\nFriday Saturday\nHe's robbing everybody that he can\nBut he goes to church on Sunday\nSo they say that he's an honest man", ">\n\nWell...the playpen continues. McCarthy has started dumping Democrats from committees like they're fish. In retaliation he says for MTG and Gozar's ouster last Congress.\nForget the clowns, these people don't deserve to be called 1st graders." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!", ">\n\nGOP protecting their cronies at all costs. Fucking fascists.", ">\n\nEthics probe = kryptonite (to the Repubs)", ">\n\nAnother victory for the law and order party, nice!", ">\n\nI knew a very wicked man,\nI knew him as a lad.\nI never met his equal telling lies\nAnd though he takes delight in doing everything that's bad,\nHe thinks he'll go to heaven when he dies\nWhen but a child he robbed his dear old grandma in her sleep\nHe stole six golden teeth right from her jaw,\nHe's been a kleptomaniac since he began to creep\nBut the neighbors think he's alright because:\nHe goes to church on Sunday\nHe passes around the contribution box\nBut meet him in the office on a Monday\nHe's as crooked and as cunning as a fox\nOn Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday\nFriday Saturday\nHe's robbing everybody that he can\nBut he goes to church on Sunday\nSo they say that he's an honest man", ">\n\nWell...the playpen continues. McCarthy has started dumping Democrats from committees like they're fish. In retaliation he says for MTG and Gozar's ouster last Congress.\nForget the clowns, these people don't deserve to be called 1st graders.", ">\n\nThis is standard. Democrats did it for years when they were in charge. Everyone protects their own." ]

[ "Just so we’re up to speed, McCarthy was finally voted in as Speaker just after midnight, following the 2nd anniversary of the January 6 attack on our Capitol, by the very Congressmen and women who held his speakership hostage and tried to help the former President overturn a US election. \nSome of those same Congressmen and women sought pardons for their actions, consciousness of guilt. \nThose MAGA Republicans now have the power to sway legislation that will impact American lives including trying to demolish Social Security and Medicare. \nGod help us if we have a true national emergency. If politics is insanity, the inmates are running the asylum.", ">\n\nThank god we have the senate and presidency…", ">\n\nAnd how exactly are they protecting us from all of this? \nDonald Trump needs to be in fucking jail and he’s not.", ">\n\nIt helps prevent long term damage through preventing legislation from passing like the recent house passed bill to roll back the funding for the IRS.\nIt's all still going to suck dealing with them though for anything.", ">\n\nVery telling that one of the very first actions of the GOP house was to gut the House Ethics Committee. That'd be like becoming mayor of a town and firing the police force. Yeah, totally legit, nothing to worry about here.", ">\n\nIt's what politicians do when they take power! Sorry it's the same thing democrats did when they took power. It's called politics!", ">\n\nNo they didn’t", ">\n\nWhere are you facts and proof?", ">\n\nYou’re the one saying they did, do you not understand any of the words you used?", ">\n\nLook at the revelations biden took classified documents like trump and the excuses being made. Lol! Politics", ">\n\nFunny how Biden's documents were returned the minute they were found, and didn't require a subpoena or other legal action being taken.", ">\n\nJust always amazes me how a citizen with a brain could vote for a party that supports self-regulation on one hand and refuses to police itself on the other.", ">\n\nPeople are great at compartmentalizing. The vast majority of Republican enablers I know are decent people on most other subjects. It's really disorienting.", ">\n\nEvery single Republican I know, without fail, either tells me \"BoTh SiDeZ\" or \"Im iN ThE SanE MaJorItY\". Most of them are dumb ass boomers that been voting GOP for 20+ years and have zero insight into politics besides Fox News every night.\nThe GOP is absolutely fucked by 2028 when the geriatrics die off and get replaced by Gen Z.", ">\n\nThey’re working on changing the rules. Your vote probably won’t matter in federal elections by then.", ">\n\nThat's sad, and really scary.", ">\n\nit's inevitable in my opinion. \nI think we're several years past falling off the cliff. we're just not gonna see the ground until we splat. and even when we do splat, there will be plenty of propaganda to tell us we're still climbing to the peak of the mountain.", ">\n\nThey should be ashamed, this is disgusting.", ">\n\nThey lack a shame gland", ">\n\nThe lack of shame is a feature not a bug, they would removed the shame gland with a rusty knife of it meant more power", ">\n\nIt sounds exactly like something ethically challenged people would do.", ">\n\nRepublicans know full well that they can’t withstand any level of ethics scrutiny.", ">\n\nWill Gym Jordan ever get his karma?", ">\n\nno, never. Failing upwards and having rich buddies must be great...", ">\n\nMaybe ethics investigations shouldn't be controlled by the body that is supposed to be investigated. I know, I know, it's a radical idea.", ">\n\nWho else would do it? Separation of powers is a large concern - would you have wanted Trump to appoint someone to run an ethics committee? Should the totally neutral Supreme Court do it?\nEthics committees are basically pointless anyways. They don't have any actual power and literally no one wants them to find anything or make a stink.", ">\n\nHello, DOJ, please take over where the former Congressional ethics committee left off.", ">\n\nThe insanity is a large number of people voted for this corruption like it was a good thing...", ">\n\nCritical thinking skills are lacking in America.", ">\n\nThose four republicans; Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs. All connected to Jan 6 / big lie.", ">\n\nAmazing how quickly they've gone from \"investigate the investigators\" to \"eliminate the investigators\"!", ">\n\n\"Unless it's the Democrats! They're so corrupt and un-American we have to look into their dealings.\"", ">\n\nI am in my 50s, and can legitimately say I have never seen a more corrupt group in charge of the US government. And yes, I'm including SCOTUS in that calculation.\nFrickin' Mos Eisley on the Potomac.", ">\n\nWill be up to journalists to keep the spotlight glaring until these conflicts can be revisited somehow.", ">\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".", ">\n\n\nThe problem is it's not newsworthy. Journalists, particularly the stuff that reaches the masses like broadcast television, don't cover Republican corruption because it's completely normal for them. Their goal is to report the news as if \"both sides are the same\".\n\nMedia rarely covers corruption because the same companies that corrupt politicians advertise on their networks", ">\n\nHear me out: political oversight should not be conducted by politicians. It should be outside the reach of elected officials.", ">\n\nI hear that, and I'd like to agree, I just find it hard to figure out a method for that which isn't also prone to corruption and abuse.\nWhat's a democratic method of implementing this?\nPersonally, I'd put it in the hands of other democratically elected reps, just ones that have a very different purview and that were elected differently. Still open to corruption and abuse, but at least a chamber wouldn't be policing themselves.", ">\n\nI keep thinking Ethics needs to be its own branch of government at this point. I'm not sure what that looks like, but it's an obvious flaw when you can stop investigations into yourself and your colleagues.", ">\n\nWe absolutely need a Federal bureau of internal affairs.", ">\n\nI don’t get how the average republican voters don’t seem to care about this kind of stuff. Own the Lib’s seems to be enough of a reason to vote for someone. Republicans in congress are going to try to pass laws and change existing laws that will have a very real negative effect on their voters lives. But they will own the Lib’s. Social security could be completely funded by just raising the cap. But that would mean rich people would pay more, so Republicans in congress want to make cuts to SS instead. How do republican voters think this is a good idea?", ">\n\nThey don't think. They're spoonfed propaganda by right wing media and their representatives into believing it's a good idea. And they don't question any of it.\nBut, they're not sheep. They're free-thinking patriots! /s", ">\n\nI don’t understand how conservatives see actions like this and go “yeah this who I want to lead me”. Is it just so deeply ingrained anti democrat rhetoric?", ">\n\nAnd people wonder why 6 year olds are shooting teachers.\nHard to teach kids that being violent, unethical, criminal, and cheating doesn't pay when the GOP profits off it so blatantly.", ">\n\nDude I hate the GOP but what the fuck are you talking about?\nYou think the 6 year old got the idea to shoot a teacher from their intimate knowledge of America’s political landscape?\nThis is some “thanks Obama” shit.", ">\n\nThis is such a far out there \"logic\" leap that I'm encouraging you to try out for the Olympics long jump.\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question", ">\n\n\nEdit; what you said is a reductio ad absurdum fallacy presented as a question\n\nLOOOL My god please actually take 5 seconds to google philosophical terms before you try to throw them in a comment to look smart.\nReductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy dumbass, it's a type of argument that has been used formally in philosophy and math for thousands of years. It literally means \"argument to absurdity\". The entire point is to show how your view leads to an absurdity.\nI pointed out that your view would lead to the idea that a 6 year old has intimate knowledge of American politics because it shows that your view is absurd.\n​\nEDIT: LMFAO he blocked me once I pointed out how much of a dumbass he is. Please never again try to pretend you know anything about philosophy.", ">\n\nDrain the swamp something something", ">\n\nThe party of Law & Order", ">\n\nDefinitely not 'ethics'", ">\n\nTrash.", ">\n\nRepublicans are evil. Vote them out.", ">\n\nI will never vote for another Republican. I took that oath when gw was reelected. I've seen nothing since to change my mind. Although I do have some admiration for Adam Kinzinger.", ">\n\nTitle Translation:\n“Republican Party gains control and stops investigations into members of Republican Party”….", ">\n\nMcCarthy himself was one of the potential investigations. Funny how this worked out.", ">\n\nLate 1700's France had some good ideas.", ">\n\nThis guy Napoleons", ">\n\nBut does he Bonaparte?", ">\n\nCriminals and traitors.", ">\n\nEradicate the RNC. Abolish the Republican party.", ">\n\nJust watching our democracy circling the drain at this point...", ">\n\nThank goodness they’ve disbanded the ethics committee. Now no one will be investigated for ethics violations. \n—\nReminds me of what someone said about Covid testing…..\n“Don’t forget, we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing,” Trump said. “When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.", ">\n\nbOtH sIdEs...\nDemocrats never seem to mind oversight or accountability. How strange that the GOP seems to need those things gone to govern.", ">\n\nThey defunded their police right?", ">\n\nUnfortunately, congress is the most powerful body in this country. The fact that they can never agree on anything is the reason we don't actively realize it.", ">\n\nNice they admit they have no ethics.", ">\n\nWhile this is obviously a corrupt move on the part of the GQP, the House Ethics Committee is staffed by members of the house. So its like the police investigating themselves, and even if they find wrong doing they can only make recommendations to the House on what IT should do about those wrong doings. \nAnalogy: 'Us police officers have found that other police officers, which may also include some of us, did something wrong but we recommend the police officers do something about it' \nThe committee is a waste of time, really it should be removed and rebuilt under an executive branch that isn't controlled by the House..... AKA by the very body of people it is meant to oversee.", ">\n\nIn a checks and balances system, besides the doj, wouldn’t it make sense for the senate to investigate house ethics and vice versa?", ">\n\nCan't have that pesky accountability getting in the way of bullshit as usual.", ">\n\nIf these corrupt hypocritical ass hats get control of the White House in 2 years this country is fuuuucked.", ">\n\nSeriously. That's what I'm worried about here. The '24 map is not a favorable one for Democrats in the Senate. I hope the House GOP fucks up hard that they can't weasel their way out of losing the House in '24.\nIt's such an uphill battle though, because they don't even have to pass legislation. They can ram through all the bills they want. Watch them fail in the Senate and then hit the airwaves saying, \"Well, Chuck Schumer and President Biden didn't want to take up this magnificent legislation that would be great for the American people. That's why we need to retake the White House and Senate in '24.\"\nExcept, whatever bills they pass will undoubtedly be terrible for the country but no one will know because Fox won't tell them and the MSM won't push back hard enough during interviews or not spell it out clearly for the general public to consume.\nThe MSM doesn't do enough to push back against the right and their obvious authoritarian tendencies. It's kind of infuriating that they continue to push this narrative that the GOP isn't a fascist organization.", ">\n\nRepubs set up new investigations of the people investigating them.\nAnd they stop the investigations of themselves.\nMakes sense to me. Right Repubs?", ">\n\nThere is no governance anymore. The U.S. Government has turned into a joke.", ">\n\nCriminals gonna criminal.", ">\n\nJust pass it over the DOJ if it’s a crime. If you have preponderance of evidence give it up and have charge start.", ">\n\nMake America ~~Great~~ Corrupt ~~Again~~ More", ">\n\nHow do people vote for the GOP? It never ceases to amaze me", ">\n\nCrimer’s gonna crime", ">\n\nThe senate should open an investigation into every house Republican. Clearly they are hiding shit.", ">\n\nThe criminals are in control", ">\n\nAnd here I thought that Killer Klowns From Outer Space was a work of fiction.", ">\n\nAt least they had popcorn guns and cotton candy cocoons, these guys don’t seem to have anything of value", ">\n\ncant probe if you aint got no ethics", ">\n\nRemember when the Republicans were chanting \"drain that swamp,\" and \"lock her up.\" Those were such innocent times.", ">\n\nIn our Republican world, criminals win again.", ">\n\nBut drain the swamp, right guys?", ">\n\nSuch a joke watching the country go from land of the free to land of the corrupt", ">\n\nCan't the DOJ still go after them?", ">\n\nI hope they realize that if the rules dont apply to them, they dont apply to anyone! It is time to show politicians that we the people can play the game better! Just think of it, NOBODY has to act ethically, or follow any rules!", ">\n\nMost people dont need rules to act ethically. \nDon you only act like you do for fear of punishment?", ">\n\nThey never did much in the way of visible accountability even before the gutting here.", ">\n\nThey shouldn’t be able to do that in the first place. This “gentleman’s Agreement” our government has been using since it’s inception is finally showing it’s cracks.", ">\n\nMAGA DOJ that Never needs Criminal Referrals, will lie and say they need criminal referrals.", ">\n\n\"Ethics? we don't need no stinking ethics!\"", ">\n\nSHOCKED!!!\nNot", ">\n\nFirst things first", ">\n\nWhy am I not surprised 🙃", ">\n\nIt’s not as though we can apply human ethics to them. Will we to try and shame bedbugs for not acting ethically next?", ">\n\nEducation is the key to a better everything.", ">\n\nGenerally it's better to police your own instead of letting the DOJ do it.\nWhat it means if everyone else in the GOP goes along with it and vote McCarthy for Speaker of the House while under an ethics investigation seems like he's part of the coverup.", ">\n\nWe're beyond the ballot box...", ">\n\nThe more of a criminal you are the more the GQP loves ya", ">\n\nRepublicans strike down ethics probe of themselves.\nMakes sense. Right Repubs?\nAfter all, if prosecutors were coming after you, wouldn't you like to remove the prosecutors.\nBut what about the guy who victimized you. He gets to do the same, huh.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nWhy even issue subpoenas if you aren't going to enforce any action on lawmakers that don't comply with the subpoena?", ">\n\nBased on what we’ve seen them get away with so far, not sure how much good it was doing anyways. Still, fuck McCarthy, that spineless weasel can sit on a cactus and spin.", ">\n\nWhere are their supporters now?", ">\n\nBetween Reuters and BBC the whole world witnessed a castrated Republican house majority who can’t pass anything they pass as a bill, play in their sandbox poorly for a week and after the shovels and buckets were all thoughtfully passed around, began playing big boy and girl house party and played pretend pass silly bills. \nThe US might not even be smart enough to realize they can all take a breather for two years and relax. They’ll likely all get hopped up about everything instead of taking advantage of this time and treat everything these guys do as a child-like expression and to speak to them in the same manner. \nFor the next two years, laugh and paint them as children. You can.", ">\n\nVote them out. After the next 2 years there won’t be a sane American who will vote gop", ">\n\nWhat ever happened with the fact that Kevin Mcarthy’s voter registration address was in a vacation cabin that he nor his family owned? He never even visited it.", ">\n\nNever mind that was Mark Meadows. My bad.", ">\n\nThough we are the party of law and order, the rules for thee but not for me!\nFucking shysters!!", ">\n\nGOP and Ethics: name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nAnd so the big sleaze starts again .. 24 hours and here’s their priorities 🤮🤮", ">\n\nbut will open one up into hunter biden's dick pic", ">\n\nCoincidentally, they're about to start 35,000 ethics probes against Democrats.\nMeanwhile, if a Democrat coughs the wrong way the party kicks them out.\nBoth sides are not equal here.", ">\n\nAnd to think, soon they will be issuing subpoenas to Democrats to come and testify in their stupid “investigations”.\nAny Democrat that shows up is an idiot.", ">\n\nThat's exactly what they want. Then they can say, just politics, and supposedly justify their refusal to comply with the law. We need to show up whenever we're subpoenaed. Because that's the law.", ">\n\nTrash", ">\n\nFill the swamp!", ">\n\nGOP protecting their cronies at all costs. Fucking fascists.", ">\n\nEthics probe = kryptonite (to the Repubs)", ">\n\nAnother victory for the law and order party, nice!", ">\n\nI knew a very wicked man,\nI knew him as a lad.\nI never met his equal telling lies\nAnd though he takes delight in doing everything that's bad,\nHe thinks he'll go to heaven when he dies\nWhen but a child he robbed his dear old grandma in her sleep\nHe stole six golden teeth right from her jaw,\nHe's been a kleptomaniac since he began to creep\nBut the neighbors think he's alright because:\nHe goes to church on Sunday\nHe passes around the contribution box\nBut meet him in the office on a Monday\nHe's as crooked and as cunning as a fox\nOn Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday\nFriday Saturday\nHe's robbing everybody that he can\nBut he goes to church on Sunday\nSo they say that he's an honest man", ">\n\nWell...the playpen continues. McCarthy has started dumping Democrats from committees like they're fish. In retaliation he says for MTG and Gozar's ouster last Congress.\nForget the clowns, these people don't deserve to be called 1st graders.", ">\n\nThis is standard. Democrats did it for years when they were in charge. Everyone protects their own.", ">\n\n\nDemocrats did it for years when they were in charge.\n\n[Citation Needed]" ]

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[ "Another thought: he just wants to ensure video evidence of his next assault" ]

[ "Another thought: he just wants to ensure video evidence of his next assault", ">\n\nWhy would he bring his next \"date\" to Congress? Or is he planning to just grab one from the next field trip?" ]

[ "Another thought: he just wants to ensure video evidence of his next assault", ">\n\nWhy would he bring his next \"date\" to Congress? Or is he planning to just grab one from the next field trip?", ">\n\nMaybe the only thing I agree with this guy on" ]