"By any rational measure, Trump’s disgrace is absolute, comprehensive, and about to get far worse. As Tom Nichols noted on our podcast yesterday: “It is a ghastly reality that the only job left that Donald Trump could get in this country is president of the United States.”

And yet, his grip on the GOP seems stronger than ever."

~ Charlie Sykes

#Trump #crime #criminal #Republicans #LawandOrder #insurrection #ShipofFools #DancingonTitanic #GOPClownCar
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https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/arrest-and-indictment

@thehill

Trump drowns out any signs of intelligence in GOP voters.
#GOPClownCar

I swear this is not a fat joke, but Chris Christie is his own biggest obstacle in winning the GOP nomination.
#GOPClownCar

@VictorLaszlo senator cancruz has a storied history of success along with George Santos in the house. Of course none of that is true, but this is the #gopclowncar and chatGPT fox news at work. Honk! honk! aoooooga! Cue the Boots Randolph

The obscenely wealthy who bankrolled and installed these GOP "children" in congress are just as nuts and immature! They haven't even outgrown greed!

Probe of Hunter Biden’s laptop already needs a reboot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/10/house-republicans-weaponization-white-nationalism/

#GOPClownCar
#WhereRGOPAdults
#GOPLies
#GOPDrowningOnOwnKoolAid

"Rep. James Comer is rapidly establishing himself as the Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the 118th Congress.

First, the newly installed chairman of the House Oversight Committee said he would investigate Biden’s mishandling of classified documents from his time as vice president, but not President Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents. Why? “The president has the authority to declassify documents,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Jan. 15. “The vice president does not.”

That rationale blew up a few days later, when it emerged that former vice president Mike Pence also mishandled classified documents. So Comer approached reporters in the Capitol basement on Jan. 31 in an attempt to establish a new justification for probing Biden but not Trump. But Comer succeeded only in confusing himself. “We’re very concerned about who had access to Pence’s documents,” he said — then stopped. “I said Pence. I’m sorry. Let me start all over. We’re very concerned about who had access to Biden’s documents.” Moments later, he added: “I want to be very clear, I was talking about Biden.”

Comer tried again this week, returning to CNN for an interview with Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday. This time, he said he wasn’t looking into Trump’s documents because “there’s a special counsel looking into everything at Mar-a-Lago.”

Collins pointed out that “there’s a special counsel looking into Biden as well.”

Comer, trapped, grasped for a lifeline. “Pardon me for not having as much confidence in this special counsel appointed by [Attorney General] Merrick Garland on Joe Biden.”

Collins checked him again: “But he appointed the special counsel into Trump as well.”

“I’m against both special counsels!” blurted out Comer, contradicting his latest rationale, expressed mere seconds earlier, for probing Biden but not Trump.

Comer is not bound by reason — even his own. Last week, he speculated on Fox News that the Chinese spy balloon might contain bioweapons from Wuhan — speculation he later admitted was based on “no evidence.” Yet he seems sensitive to the impression that he sounds nutty. He recently protested that “I’m sincere about trying to do the right thing.” His evidence: He didn’t vote to overthrow the 2020 election.

Baby steps, Mr. Chairman.

This week, after giving white nationalism a platform, he led his committee the following day into a doomed attempt to prove that the FBI and the Biden campaign colluded with Twitter “to suppress and delegitimize information contained in Hunter Biden’s laptop about the Biden family’s business schemes.” That’s how Comer put it as he sat in front of a blown-up New York Post front page screaming “BIDEN SECRET EMAILS.”

The hearing extended for six hours — including an hour-long break in the middle when the power went out in the hearing room. In the darkness, somebody on the panel (it sounded like Clay Higgins) said: “Now did Twitter do that?”

The conspiracies never end!

Committee members succeeded in mentioning Hunter Biden’s name — at least 82 times, a transcript shows. They also succeeded in bashing Twitter for its practice of punishing people (including multiple Republicans on the panel) for spreading disinformation.

“You can consider your speech canceled … because you canceled mine,” Greene hollered at the former executives. (She was suspended from Twitter for claiming that face masks and vaccines were useless.) “By the way, I’m a member of Congress and you’re not,” she taunted.

Boebert shouted about how her Twitter account was suppressed by the “sinister overlords” of “fascist Twitter” because she made “a freaking joke about Hillary Clinton.”
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But Comer and his sleuths failed utterly in their quest to prove collusion between the FBI, the Biden campaign and Twitter. The ex-Twitter officials testified that neither entity spoke to them about Hunter Biden’s laptop when Twitter, fearing that the tabloid story was based on hacked material or Russian propaganda, blocked it for all of 24 hours in 2020 before reversing the ban and apologizing.

It turns out Comer had no more evidence for his claim that there was a “coordinated coverup” of Hunter Biden’s laptop than for his claim that the Chinese balloon was a bioweapon. In both cases, he just made it up.

“My, my, my,” gloated Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.). “What happens when you hold a hearing and you can’t prove your point?”

Chief Inspector Comer has just found out."

In this hour's installment of

"George Santos Did What??? 😬 "

Amish country farmers say George Santos took puppies, left bad checks.

One breeder recounted how the future member of Congress made off with four golden retrievers, leading to a criminal charge in 2017.

On a side note, it's arguable that Kevin McCarthy is much more rotten to the core than Santos for not kicking him out of Congress.

No paywall

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and the #GOPCiircus goes on - thanks for throwing #RickScott under the #GOPClownCar , #McTurtle

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GOP Congress: Hey Biden, if you don't meet demands that are of great importance to us, then we're going to destroy the US economy from within.

Prez Biden: What are these demands of great importance you speak of?

GOP: ....Um ...... hang on ..... we need more time to figure out what they are.

#GOPClownCar #Congress #Politics #DebtCeiling #Biden #McCarthy

The U.S. rate of unemployment is at a 40-year low.

Kevin McCarthy says "We have to get the country back on track."

To what, higher unemployment rates?

#WeGottaTalkAboutKevin #GOPClownCar #plitics

This was clearly a false flag with a secret antifa member disguised as Rep. Roger's toupee. The antifa operative must have been sent by Soros to make the GOP look like a mob of violent thugs. #GOPInDisarray #GOPClownCar https://t.co/wXvSqRLUDx

Don't worry Kevin, Matt Gaetz will lose interest in the speaker votes after the count passes 16. You're almost there! #GOPInDisarray #GOPClownCar #GOPClownCaucus

KevKev pulls up one vote short on Round 14. I’m so very very sorry/not sorry. #mccarthyloses
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