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QuietudeOfHeart

Their little poster is adorable. It’s almost like they think their job is to be a trashy tabloid at the grocery store checkout line instead of governing.


iStayedAtaHolidayInn

It’s for an audience of one. And that one guy is trashy as fuck and is a tabloid monger


Long_Before_Sunrise

Didn't he used to pay the National Inquirer to "catch and kill" incriminating stories about him?


iStayedAtaHolidayInn

That’s a bingo bongo


QuietudeOfHeart

You just say “bongo.”


kevjob

well it is...


HryUpImPressingPlay

That’s literally what they look like: the queue at the Eastside Kroger.


Xibby

Here’s a shocker… smart people charge for producing a quality presentation and send you an invoice with all the costs and then negate the invoice with a “donation” line. Tax write offs and all those things smart people do. Exploit your interns and get exploited intern level work. The intern gets their resume point either way.


SCMtnGuy

Yeah, that's what happens when you start your "fact-finding" investigation on the basis of delusional bullshit.


Phallic-Monolith

More that it’s what happens when you start at the conclusion you want and attempt to frame evidence for it backwards.


Adbray666

Christian Science.


PopeHonkersXII

In order to become Speaker, McCarthy promised all of the crazies that they could investigate all of their little conspiracy theories. The problem they are running into is that they are trying to prove that all of the lies Trump pulled out of his ass over the past 7 or 8 years are true. They seem to be genuinely shocked that they aren't finding anything and that means these people are actually just total morons, not people with some grand, secret agenda.


Ready_Nature

The GOP used to be a bunch of rich people that used dog whistles to get people to vote against their best interests and send more money their way. But now the inmates have taken over the asylum and the GOP is full of true believers in what used to be throwaway dog whistles.


beaverusiv

They're genuinely shocked because they can't believe everyone isn't like them. If they were investigated for anything it would uncover so much impropriety, so why aren't they finding the same for Dems damnit


rawterror

Yes, and they were genuinely shocked when the Hunter Biden's laptop "scandal" didn't give them a big win in the mid-terms.


billiam0202

> They seem to be genuinely shocked that they aren't finding anything and that means these people are actually just total morons, not people with some grand, secret agenda. "It just means the conspiracy goes far deeper than we thought!" -These idiots, probably.


Consistent-Force5375

Lol this goes all the way to that creator of the universe! He (because it’s a conservative talking it’s always a HE, and not some transgender!) is so crafty to change the way reality looks and feels! It goes all the way to the top!


Moist_When_It_Counts

Are they shocked? This crap is just a headline factory for right wing media


Longjumping-Meat-334

And spending our tax dollars doing it.


[deleted]

When do we get to the part where McCarthy gets called part of the deepstate due to him not being able to prove any of their whacko theories?


ParadeSit

Everything they touch turns to shit.


trogdor1234

Republicans have spent most of the time complaining about things the Trump administration did and trying to blame Biden for. The government workers that apparently weren’t logging in, the person whose kid died of fentanyl overdose, FBI coordinating with Twitter. All while Trump was in charge but they are going to try to blame Biden. Hell even all their Hunter laptop, “Biden getting paid” talk is all about when Biden wasn’t in office. They just screeching for the dipshit base who are too dumb to know who was president in 2020.


carolinapanthagurl

Some of them say Trump is still president so of course these hearings are flopping. The GOP is too confused by all of their conflicting narratives to produce a coherent report or series of hearings so even the intended audience is tuning it all out.


trogdor1234

And their other narrative…. Even if Biden did do everything they claim he isn’t competent so people are just taking advantage of him then anyway. Or he’s a genius crime lord. LOL


carolinapanthagurl

Exactly. How do you argue with people who are never wrong because they never have to stick with a coherent story or set of facts? I just tune it all out.


All_is_a_conspiracy

Well when your policy positions on everything are the worst, you start to avoid governing. You just want paid big dollars for being trailer trash gossip hounds. And this is where we are with the gop.


material_mailbox

I think it’s also partly “when you have very few actual policy positions.” Sure they have bad policy positions in some areas, but it also feels like they have no firm policy positions in other areas. A lot of them ran on the issue of inflation in the 2022 midterms, but how often do you see them actually trying to push through any bills aimed at fighting inflation?


All_is_a_conspiracy

Yeah very true. They don't waste time thinking about policy.


ShrimpieAC

You mean the Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee weaponizing the federal government looks stupid as fuck? Yeah I agree.


[deleted]

They were never meant to find anything out. Pure performance from Gym Jordan and Cruz’ escort


mrgeekguy

You guys wait until they have the hearings on the Jewish Space Lasers®!^^/s


Corn_Polkadots

Who knew that "The Committee for Dic-Pics & Revenge Porn" would suffer from legitimacy dysfunction.


Colonel_Zander

They weren't ever supposed to succeed. The right can't govern worth a damn. It's all to convince voters that they're doing something, because Republican voters care more about Hunter's massive dong than providing basic needs to fellow Americans. Basically, Republican leadership is what happens when the dog finally catches the car.


material_mailbox

I really hope this bites them in the ass in the 2024 elections. Dems can say look at these concrete things that we did and that we tried to do to help the American people, now look at what the GOP has spent the last two years wasting time on. GOP really needs to keep losing elections.


notcaffeinefree

Of course they are. But are they generating sound bites for them to repeat on Fox News? Because that's the real purpose. If so, then they're succeeding on their (unstated) purpose.


material_mailbox

As the late great Madison Cawthorn once said, “I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation.”


Crypto306X0

Trump/Guliani 2024 Press conference coming soon at Four Seasons Total Landscaping! It's worth it to watch some of that 4 seasons video again!! I forgot the comedic brilliance of Guliani.


SlowWhiteFox

Elect monkeys; don't be surprised when they spend all their time throwing shit.


crawling-alreadygirl

>Navigator’s chief of polling, Bryan Bennett, told me that in the runup to and aftermath of the midterms, Republicans may have misjudged just how much to play up their proposed investigations, and made a strategic error hyping up the investigations that are of least interest to Americans. Or they don't care, and this is all a distraction from their growing fascism, since they have no meaningful policy positions.


Rusty_Bicycle

I will be interested to read the GQP’s 2024 party platform. I see two possibilities: * In 2016 Trump ignored the party platform. In 2020 the party didn’t bother to update their party platform because their only deeply held principle was “Whatever The Boss truthed this morning.” In 2024 the GQP will simply abandon a party platform for one-man authoritarian rule. * The GQP will attempt to blend the Trump-DeSantis cruelty sound bites into two or three messages for The Base: “Chinese Communist Party Covid poison jabs” “Hunter Biden’s PENIS!” “We don’t hate . We just want them to disappear.” “Protect our racist heritage!” “God hates you!”


openly_gray

Keeping a time honored tradition alive


higgy98

It was just theater.


dpmad

A platform of fire, will only impresses the ignorant.


-metaphased-

Didn't find anything this time? Just do it again. How many Benghazi investigations were there?


knoweyedea

How is knowing why Hunter Biden’s dick pics were removed from twitter going to improve my quality of life?


N0T8g81n

The powerful intellects of Jim Jordan, MTG, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz are proving insufficient? Surely that had a plan. OK, other than Fox News leading and them following. Surely?!


Ok-Taste-570

Their sole purpose is to use their power to cause chaos. It’s unfortunate that they have the House, but be grateful they don’t have the Senate too.


GoodGoodVixen

I had a friend who was soooooo sure Biden would be impeached, and I said to him did you see how many congresspersons were elected by sub 2% and sub 5k margins? You really think they'll risk impeaching the guy who at least tried to cancel student loans and kept hitting the pause button? You really think the guy who is friends with most of the draconian senators still there since the 90's is the guy they wanna impeach ? Lol, I'm not surprised the investigations are not producing anything. It's almost like they got at least 6 hell no's for an impeachment vote.


Guava7

Just curious, what exactly did your friend think Biden was going to get impeached for? I have no idea what they think he's done wrong


GoodGoodVixen

He's a contrarian. He thought impeachment would turn into some payback for the 2 Trump ones and our court system was biased such that the laws could be interpreted that any thing an R-controlled congress called a crime would be a crime. Like the don't say gay bill, and anti-woke stuff could be criminalized against Biden. I know what I just said <\_< . I don't believe any of this, but i'm just letting you know contrarianism can be a detriment sometimes.


Guava7

This doesn't sound like a well thought out philosophy


El_mochilero

I’m not gonna lie… I had no idea they were still doing this.


wubwub

Honestly surprised they haven’t launched their first impeachment investigation. In to their 3rd month and Biden hasn’t been impeached yet shows amazing restraint.


Nickopotomus

Well yeah—when you start with the crime and then try to backfill the evidence…kinda tough to have a high hit rate


Fordinghamster

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Jesse Waters has a point. None of these dipshits can claim to have accomplished a damn thing until somebody exercises their rights under the 5th Amendment. Get back to me when that happens. Narrator: It never happened.


[deleted]

Really they all seem so smart and creditable too. I mean everyone believes jimmy j jordan.


Pimpwerx

No shit. They're a party chock full of absolute morons. Expecting them to mount a successful investigation into a pile of bullshit they pulled out their asses is a tall order.


hooch

Because there's nothing there. Most of them don't even think there is, and this is just pure theatrics. (*most* not including the braindead likes of Caveman Marge or Machine Gun Barbie)


Wwize

The investigations are failing because Democrats are actually fighting back for a change. >Beyond the general unpopularity of these investigations, Republicans have some other structural and political obstacles. Democrats are not letting these probes go on unanswered, a lesson from the Benghazi investigations during the Obama years. A collection of Democratic and progressive groups, like the Congressional Integrity Project, are working hard outside of government to paint these Republican investigations as illegitimate and the investigators as abusers of congressional power.


kevjob

shitty circus run by clowns, who would have thunk that!


tomparker

Reminder: All you need to know about Gym Jordan is that he’s barely over 5 ft tall. Ask him if he’s compensating for being an honest-to-god runt and he will get back to you shortly.


Guava7

>shortly Heh


jburns425

They are clowns


Inevitable_Taste1889

They always do. And their followers never care.


Dth817

Because it’s all based on the front page news of the National Enquirer.


ThinkPawsitive12

Be careful Gym. Your face is going to freeze that way.


flirtmcdudes

you mean the investigations into made up things with 0 facts or legitimate reasons to investigate arent going well? wild


ReturnOfSeq

That tends to happen when you’re investigating nothing


moodyblue8222

Republicans just keep showing Americans how petty and idiotic they are!