[Insert Sideshow Bob rake-stepping gif here]
In what universe do you think the findings will be anything other than âBiden is trying to kill you all so that China can invade the U.S.â?
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Jewish space lasers blew up the train?
Theyâll work the âwoke agendaâ in there somehow.
In my opening statement, when I have to testify before congress, I typically throw in a blurb about how appreciative I am for the opportunity to increase transparency and visibility for our (exec branch and legislative branch) mutual stakeholders, the citizens we both serve. I donât do that because I believe thatâs whatâs going on. I do it to poke a stick in their eye. Itâs an absolute Kabuki dance/show designed to generate a platform for whatever talking points they are trying to broadcast.
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Their last show trial was about Twitterâs cooperation with Biden in suppressing bad news in advance of the 2020 election, and ended up proving that the only people even asking Twitter to suppress information prior to the 2020 election was [checks notes] the Trump administration.
Their nonsense melts instantly when confronted with facts, which the other side is allowed to present in such hearings. In the Twitter hearing, they couldnât even get their own witnesses to support their crackpot assertions.
Now, viewers of Fox and their ilk wonât get to see the pushback in the hearings, but they are in a pushback-free bubble already. But itâs good to get this stuff on the record and on the lame stream media because the alleged scandals disappear like a fart in the wind.
But proving it to whom? Everyone with an ounce of integrity and a thimble full of sense already gets it. Republicans donât. They never will, and they donât care that they never will. Republican voters donât care and never will. It is a completely pointless exercise for anything other than a campaign rally for Trump in an attempt to curry his arbitrary endorsement favor in their next election. Itâs the script Trump has written for them.
Some of what we heard in the Twitter hearings was new. For example, we found out that the White House had pressured Twitter to take down a tweet by Chrissy Teigan in which she called Trump a âpussy ass bitchâ.
The House GOP has nothing new to present, so they canât do any more damage than theyâve already done with their misinformation. But theyâre giving Dems a platform which, so far, theyâve have used gleefully to pull down the pants of the GOP.
Another classic was Gym Jordan pricking on about the âdozens and dozens of FBI whistleblowersâ who have contacted his staff. Dan Goldman, aka ROTY, called him out on this, asking when the minority would get the information on these whistleblowers. Jordan was so nonplussed that he couldnât even go to his usual defense of speed-talking nonsense until the listeners ears shut down to protect the brain.
Of course, there arenât âdozens and dozensâ of whistleblowers. Jordan can say this with impunity on Fox and elsewhere, but when he says it in a hearing of which he is the chairman, there are consequences and he has to put up or shut up.
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So thatâs why they canât govern? They try to look up the definition and canât find it?
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Brexit update: The UK government has an agreement with the EU over trade regulations.
Hereâs a quick explanation of the changes:
What are those consequences?
Theyâll either learn to save their lies for Fox News, or theyâll spend the next two years owning themselves as smart Dems tie them up in knots and force them to admit they have nothing.
- Theyâll never admit that, and
- It wonât matter to voters anyway.
It might to primary voters, when a challenger runs clips of them trying to not commit perjury in Congress, and uses it to frame them as insufficiently MAGA.
Great, so an even more extreme nitwit wins the primary and rides that to a guaranteed win in the general thanks to gerrymandering and robotic voting patterns.
This is inevitable given the trajectory of the GOP. They will always tack to the extreme because of the gerrymandering. But they canât gerrymander statewide elections, and the more extreme they get they more they boil off the moderates and independents who make the difference in those wider elections.
The more elections they lose statewide, the more they will become marginalized. And losing control of states - like this did in Michigan last year - will mean that those states can undo the vote-rigging upon which the GOP depends for survival, and wipe them out electorally.
I have said this before, but the model for what is to come for the GOP is California. They have near-zero power in the state, but the few representatives they get to send to Congress are the worst of the worst. This includes the likes of Darrell Issa, Devin Nunes (before he used the levers of power he had to drop an anvil on his own head) and, of course, Kevin McCarthy.
These guys district hop when their current district gets competitive. Issa came from the district north of here when that one got close and moved south of here once he lost to Levin. McClintock left this district for easier pickings in rural Northern California. They have no interest in expanding their base or persuading anybody anymore in California. Good in the short run, bad in the long run.
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More fallout from the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News:
Wow!
Fair and balanced, Baby!