How difficult can it be when the answer to everything is Jesus?
> The fact is that the Republican Party has gotten itself in a box on abortion and, once in there, it has driven nails to secure the lid on the box for the foreseeable future.
The Republicans seem to have forgotten that the women’s suffrage movement occurred and that, believe it or not, **women can vote**.
And, surprise surprise, most women don’t like the idea of someone else dictating what they can and can’t do with their body, especially when it comes to access to what is, essentially, just a medical procedure.
The fact that the GOP continues to lock themselves in the “abortion box” speaks volumes about how incompetent they are. Being the loudest and most offensive person in the room only works for so long, eventually people want you to actually lead the country.
That’s kind of impressive. Like you can’t just get up one day and just DECIDE to be a bigger piece of shit than McCarthy. You have to put your 10,000 hours in.
>On Thursday, a bloc of them opposed the financial services bill because it contained a provision aimed at undermining a 2014 Washington, D.C., law intended to protect employees from being discriminated against for seeking contraceptive or abortion services. A group of conservatives also opposed the bill because it did not include an amendment that the House voted down prohibiting federal funds from being used to purchase a new building for the F.B.I.
These people are children and they think they maintain the high road.
There is no level of competence that can make the Republicans work together in Congress.
I also think he believes in the Easter Bunny.
>Last month, the House Oversight Committee and its chairman, James Comer (R-Ky.), made public two checks that had been written to Joe Biden by his sister-in-law, Sara Biden. Sara is married to the president’s brother James, who partnered on business deals with Hunter.
>The two checks, one from 2017 and one from 2018, were identified on the subject line as “loan repayments.” Documents shared with The Washington Post reinforce the idea that the money was meant to repay loans from Joe Biden, then a private citizen. On July 28, 2017, Joe Biden wired $40,000 to the account of James and Sara Biden; Sara Biden wrote a check repaying that amount on Sept. 3. Then on Jan. 12, 2018, Joe Biden wired $200,000; on March 1, that loan was repaid.
>Comer and his committee received these documents at the same time but staggered making them public, presumably in part to get more than one news cycle out of the discovery (which followed subpoenas the committee had issued). Comer cast doubt on the idea that the checks were repayments of loans, demanding Biden prove they were and scoffing at the idea that it was significant that the checks were identified as “loan repayment.” (His suggestion, it seems, is that those words were part of a years-long coverup by Sara Biden.) Reporters quickly evaluated the situation, though, and determined that the checks were, in fact, repayments of loans.
>The value to Comer and Republicans, though, was in how James Biden purportedly got the money to repay his brother. The $40,000 repayment was made a few weeks after a consulting group led by James Biden had received a $150,000 payment from an entity that was basically Hunter Biden’s law firm. That entity had, the week prior, received $400,000 from another corporation that was paid as part of a partnership with a Chinese energy company. It’s not clear how directly downstream from the energy company the $40,000 is, or whether it was part of a larger pool of money from other sources (especially given the three-week lag time from the original payment to the loan repayment).
>But you can see why all of this is appealing to Comer. His argument is that “even if this $40,000 check was a loan repayment from James Biden” — something that has been robustly established by now — “it still shows how Joe benefited from his family cashing in on his name — with money from China no less.” Perhaps.
>All of that context is important when considering what Comer said about the check during the news conference Wednesday.
>“We’ve also revealed,” Comer said in promoting his committee’s work, “how Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money in the form of a personal check from his sister-in-law.”
>It’s hard to imagine a more obviously dishonest claim.
>The failure to note that this was very credibly a repayment of a loan, as though Joe Biden is morally culpable for how his brother earns money to pay him back. The assertion that this is “laundered China money,” as though, first, this money is proved to have been from that energy-company payment and, second, that it was filtered through some nefarious process to hide the source.
>Comer must know that this assertion is at least a stretch, if not willfully false. But consider why he’s making it: to show how serious and important the impeachment probe is. If the probe can be shown as serious or important only by wildly misstating what it has uncovered, what does that suggest about the probe?
>Not to be outdone, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) went further when summarizing the “evidence” against Biden that had been accrued to date.
>“The Oversight Committee recently released two checks,” he asserted. “You see the graphics up here today. These checks are to Joe Biden! One is for $40,000 from China.”
>It is not. It is from Joe Biden’s sister-in-law. It is in repayment for a loan Joe Biden made. It says so right on the check.
>But this, according to Johnson, is one of the four most important pieces of evidence they’ve obtained against Joe Biden.
>Make of that what you will.
Guys! Guys! Water is WET! HOLY SHIT!
Well yeah, as angry as McCarthy’s lying made people, occasionally enough of them would believe him that he could get something through. Johnson is unadulterated, unaware crazy.
He’s from north louisiana. This is a given.
Wow… that’s a whole lot of “Yellow Scare” going on there. Not to mention that Trumps kids cashed in off his name for decades. Most recently his undead son-in-law took 2 BILLION from Bonesaw in Saudi Arabia… but yea… BiDeN CrImE FaMiLy.
If he was actually “competent” at doing the H.O.R. business he would not be Speaker.
One more extreme Right Wing christofascist with more agenda than actually governing the Citizens of the United States.
Within the Republican Party, shit always rises to the top.
Oh, you mean the religious zealot nobody ever heard of?
Republicans have fucked this country
I disagree. While they trashed him the first few weeks, he’s been relatively out of the news, unlike McCarthy was. Fascists and privacy never led to anything good.
In the words of Gomer Pyle, “surprise, surprise, surprise!”
If you are an actual conservative maybe it’s time to make a head count of those that you know are actually conservatives as well in your party and split.
If it were up to me NONE of the current republicans deserve to hold office because of the fact they failed on numerous occasions to step up…they are ALL weak.
but
We can’t have on side trying to govern while the other runs in circles…orange traitorous circles.
The real GOP needs to let trump and the maga morons crash on their own, they have a very rare opportunity to reinvent themselves and get their act together and fix the damage they have done, they won’t, but they could
Which, given what he would do if he was competent, is great news.
He’s not there because he’s competent. He’s there because he’ll do what he’s told.
If he was valued for his competence he wouldn’t be a Republican.
He’s less competent but has more spine and a bigger dick than McCarthy. I’ll call out the fact that so does Boebert and Margie Greene.
This article is 3 weeks old and already wrong. The title may be right. But the article is wrong.
The bar was basically lying on the ground for being more competent.
He is literally a white christian Bin Laden. Exact same rhetoric.
He wasn’t tapped or installed for his competency score.
And WAY more likely to have major skeletons in his.
So much for the power of prayer.
What a joke our government has become.
Can they get any dumber?
Ted Cruz with glasses
It’s not a competition, guys. There is plenty of room for both of you to be complete boobs.
Liberal rags just print what they want. Complete lies but people are too stupid to care.
The bar is set so low yet we still see people dangle underneath it.
You’d think someone who believes the earth is 6000 years old would be utterly brilliant. This is truly and sincerely surprising. /s
Aka a Republican congressman.
He really is a vapid far right puppet.
That was obvious from the outset. It wasn’t a high bar … but Johnson managed to go impressively below it. Just a guy completely incompatible with reality but with total conviction he’s right in his absurd make believe world where he isn’t gay satan is just everywhere you guys.
Less competent is a win for the owners of this country.
Thanks Gaetz for trading in a sack of shit for a stinkier sack of shit
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If the GOPs worked at any company, they would be fired and escorted out!
What does Swalwell think? He was correct about McCarthy.
Out of date. It was published on the 10th and the shutdown we were heading towards that it is talking about has already been (temporarily) averted.
That being said, Mike Johnson is a dangerous christofascist who gets excited about all of the wrong parts of Handmaid’s Tale.
[🎙️✨ AI sings it](https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/13f75915-5d53-4e6d-9124-8f39dda29f2d)
In halls of power, a clownish sight,
Our Speaker’s words, a hapless flight.
With gaffes galore and blunders grand,
He leads the House, a comedy band.
How difficult can it be when the answer to everything is Jesus?
> The fact is that the Republican Party has gotten itself in a box on abortion and, once in there, it has driven nails to secure the lid on the box for the foreseeable future.
The Republicans seem to have forgotten that the women’s suffrage movement occurred and that, believe it or not, **women can vote**.
And, surprise surprise, most women don’t like the idea of someone else dictating what they can and can’t do with their body, especially when it comes to access to what is, essentially, just a medical procedure.
The fact that the GOP continues to lock themselves in the “abortion box” speaks volumes about how incompetent they are. Being the loudest and most offensive person in the room only works for so long, eventually people want you to actually lead the country.
That’s kind of impressive. Like you can’t just get up one day and just DECIDE to be a bigger piece of shit than McCarthy. You have to put your 10,000 hours in.
>On Thursday, a bloc of them opposed the financial services bill because it contained a provision aimed at undermining a 2014 Washington, D.C., law intended to protect employees from being discriminated against for seeking contraceptive or abortion services. A group of conservatives also opposed the bill because it did not include an amendment that the House voted down prohibiting federal funds from being used to purchase a new building for the F.B.I.
These people are children and they think they maintain the high road.
There is no level of competence that can make the Republicans work together in Congress.
I also think he believes in the Easter Bunny.
>Last month, the House Oversight Committee and its chairman, James Comer (R-Ky.), made public two checks that had been written to Joe Biden by his sister-in-law, Sara Biden. Sara is married to the president’s brother James, who partnered on business deals with Hunter.
>The two checks, one from 2017 and one from 2018, were identified on the subject line as “loan repayments.” Documents shared with The Washington Post reinforce the idea that the money was meant to repay loans from Joe Biden, then a private citizen. On July 28, 2017, Joe Biden wired $40,000 to the account of James and Sara Biden; Sara Biden wrote a check repaying that amount on Sept. 3. Then on Jan. 12, 2018, Joe Biden wired $200,000; on March 1, that loan was repaid.
>Comer and his committee received these documents at the same time but staggered making them public, presumably in part to get more than one news cycle out of the discovery (which followed subpoenas the committee had issued). Comer cast doubt on the idea that the checks were repayments of loans, demanding Biden prove they were and scoffing at the idea that it was significant that the checks were identified as “loan repayment.” (His suggestion, it seems, is that those words were part of a years-long coverup by Sara Biden.) Reporters quickly evaluated the situation, though, and determined that the checks were, in fact, repayments of loans.
>The value to Comer and Republicans, though, was in how James Biden purportedly got the money to repay his brother. The $40,000 repayment was made a few weeks after a consulting group led by James Biden had received a $150,000 payment from an entity that was basically Hunter Biden’s law firm. That entity had, the week prior, received $400,000 from another corporation that was paid as part of a partnership with a Chinese energy company. It’s not clear how directly downstream from the energy company the $40,000 is, or whether it was part of a larger pool of money from other sources (especially given the three-week lag time from the original payment to the loan repayment).
>But you can see why all of this is appealing to Comer. His argument is that “even if this $40,000 check was a loan repayment from James Biden” — something that has been robustly established by now — “it still shows how Joe benefited from his family cashing in on his name — with money from China no less.” Perhaps.
>All of that context is important when considering what Comer said about the check during the news conference Wednesday.
>“We’ve also revealed,” Comer said in promoting his committee’s work, “how Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money in the form of a personal check from his sister-in-law.”
>It’s hard to imagine a more obviously dishonest claim.
>The failure to note that this was very credibly a repayment of a loan, as though Joe Biden is morally culpable for how his brother earns money to pay him back. The assertion that this is “laundered China money,” as though, first, this money is proved to have been from that energy-company payment and, second, that it was filtered through some nefarious process to hide the source.
>Comer must know that this assertion is at least a stretch, if not willfully false. But consider why he’s making it: to show how serious and important the impeachment probe is. If the probe can be shown as serious or important only by wildly misstating what it has uncovered, what does that suggest about the probe?
>Not to be outdone, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) went further when summarizing the “evidence” against Biden that had been accrued to date.
>“The Oversight Committee recently released two checks,” he asserted. “You see the graphics up here today. These checks are to Joe Biden! One is for $40,000 from China.”
>It is not. It is from Joe Biden’s sister-in-law. It is in repayment for a loan Joe Biden made. It says so right on the check.
>But this, according to Johnson, is one of the four most important pieces of evidence they’ve obtained against Joe Biden.
>Make of that what you will.
Guys! Guys! Water is WET! HOLY SHIT!
Well yeah, as angry as McCarthy’s lying made people, occasionally enough of them would believe him that he could get something through. Johnson is unadulterated, unaware crazy.
He’s from north louisiana. This is a given.
Wow… that’s a whole lot of “Yellow Scare” going on there. Not to mention that Trumps kids cashed in off his name for decades. Most recently his undead son-in-law took 2 BILLION from Bonesaw in Saudi Arabia… but yea… BiDeN CrImE FaMiLy.
If he was actually “competent” at doing the H.O.R. business he would not be Speaker.
One more extreme Right Wing christofascist with more agenda than actually governing the Citizens of the United States.
Within the Republican Party, shit always rises to the top.
Oh, you mean the religious zealot nobody ever heard of?
Republicans have fucked this country
I disagree. While they trashed him the first few weeks, he’s been relatively out of the news, unlike McCarthy was. Fascists and privacy never led to anything good.
In the words of Gomer Pyle, “surprise, surprise, surprise!”
If you are an actual conservative maybe it’s time to make a head count of those that you know are actually conservatives as well in your party and split.
If it were up to me NONE of the current republicans deserve to hold office because of the fact they failed on numerous occasions to step up…they are ALL weak.
but
We can’t have on side trying to govern while the other runs in circles…orange traitorous circles.
The real GOP needs to let trump and the maga morons crash on their own, they have a very rare opportunity to reinvent themselves and get their act together and fix the damage they have done, they won’t, but they could
Which, given what he would do if he was competent, is great news.
He’s not there because he’s competent. He’s there because he’ll do what he’s told.
If he was valued for his competence he wouldn’t be a Republican.
He’s less competent but has more spine and a bigger dick than McCarthy. I’ll call out the fact that so does Boebert and Margie Greene.
This article is 3 weeks old and already wrong. The title may be right. But the article is wrong.
The bar was basically lying on the ground for being more competent.
He is literally a white christian Bin Laden. Exact same rhetoric.
He wasn’t tapped or installed for his competency score.
And WAY more likely to have major skeletons in his.
So much for the power of prayer.
What a joke our government has become.
Can they get any dumber?
Ted Cruz with glasses
It’s not a competition, guys. There is plenty of room for both of you to be complete boobs.
Liberal rags just print what they want. Complete lies but people are too stupid to care.
The bar is set so low yet we still see people dangle underneath it.
You’d think someone who believes the earth is 6000 years old would be utterly brilliant. This is truly and sincerely surprising. /s
Aka a Republican congressman.
He really is a vapid far right puppet.
That was obvious from the outset. It wasn’t a high bar … but Johnson managed to go impressively below it. Just a guy completely incompatible with reality but with total conviction he’s right in his absurd make believe world where he isn’t gay satan is just everywhere you guys.
Less competent is a win for the owners of this country.
Thanks Gaetz for trading in a sack of shit for a stinkier sack of shit
The creationist is incompetent? Oh my