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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)"
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander."
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket"
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t"
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I hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20..."
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Get ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own."
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Based on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power."
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From the article: "In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022."
Good for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election.
And for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates"
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified."
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary"
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and so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.
how Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not"
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A majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment."
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024."
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All I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\""
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That’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years."
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Disgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol"
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Wait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy"
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Gym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!"
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…"
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Gym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym."
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As an Ohioan, I must state for the record.
Go suck an egg Mr. Jordan.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out."
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James Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan."
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England."
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Kennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them"
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Can you elaborate on what power the Democrats had to remove Republicans from office? Seems to me you're accusing them of dropping a ball they didn't have to begin with.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them",
">\n\nKennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…"
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them",
">\n\nKennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…",
">\n\nCan you elaborate on what power the Democrats had to remove Republicans from office? Seems to me you're accusing them of dropping a ball they didn't have to begin with."
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Jim Jordan is the absolute last person who should be criticizing anyone over the issue of transparency.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them",
">\n\nKennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…",
">\n\nCan you elaborate on what power the Democrats had to remove Republicans from office? Seems to me you're accusing them of dropping a ball they didn't have to begin with.",
">\n\nGet ready for a whole lotta nothing being done. And of course another government shutdown spearheaded by Republicans."
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Gym is smarter than the average jock.
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them",
">\n\nKennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…",
">\n\nCan you elaborate on what power the Democrats had to remove Republicans from office? Seems to me you're accusing them of dropping a ball they didn't have to begin with.",
">\n\nGet ready for a whole lotta nothing being done. And of course another government shutdown spearheaded by Republicans.",
">\n\nJim Jordan is the absolute last person who should be criticizing anyone over the issue of transparency."
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Motormouth Jordan, having no prior legal or judicial experience, will host the Gong Show of Judiciary meetings. Get yer popcorn ready!
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them",
">\n\nKennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…",
">\n\nCan you elaborate on what power the Democrats had to remove Republicans from office? Seems to me you're accusing them of dropping a ball they didn't have to begin with.",
">\n\nGet ready for a whole lotta nothing being done. And of course another government shutdown spearheaded by Republicans.",
">\n\nJim Jordan is the absolute last person who should be criticizing anyone over the issue of transparency.",
">\n\nGym is smarter than the average jock."
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“President Biden promised to have the most transparent administration in history but at every turn the Biden White House seeks to obstruct congressional oversight and hide information from the American people,”
Ummmm wasn’t it Trump that promised that?
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them",
">\n\nKennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…",
">\n\nCan you elaborate on what power the Democrats had to remove Republicans from office? Seems to me you're accusing them of dropping a ball they didn't have to begin with.",
">\n\nGet ready for a whole lotta nothing being done. And of course another government shutdown spearheaded by Republicans.",
">\n\nJim Jordan is the absolute last person who should be criticizing anyone over the issue of transparency.",
">\n\nGym is smarter than the average jock.",
">\n\nMotormouth Jordan, having no prior legal or judicial experience, will host the Gong Show of Judiciary meetings. Get yer popcorn ready!"
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"Pretty ironic that the guy who slow rolled sexual assault allegation investigations, failed to report to authorities direct knowledge of said assaults, and basically just waited out the legal system...is asking for expeditious review of his requests....\nFor those not paying attention Jim Jordan isn't just an idiot. He has a history of covering up literal crimes.",
">\n\nAlso pretty ironic that Jim ignored congressional subpoenas and claimed they were partisan in nature but now he specifically plans to investigate nothing but Dems",
">\n\nGym has no moral compass.",
">\n\nBut he’s got the good drugs",
">\n\nThis article started my day with a smile and a chuckle. \n^\n\nIn respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n\n.....\n\nWhite House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration , that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.\n\n....\n\nThe likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false .\n\nArticle continues...",
">\n\nI'd love to see something to the effect of \"the Biden Administration will respond to subpoena's issued by Congressman Jordan with the same alacrity with which Congressman Jordan has replied to his own subpoenas from Congress.\"",
">\n\nSubpoenas are now meaningless in the govnt",
">\n\nCan't wait to see the Republicans get outraged by Democrats ignoring subpoenas as if there is zero precedence for it. They opened a can of worms and they'll pretend it was opened by dems.",
">\n\nyou absolutely know that republicans will be up in arms when subpoenas from congress are ignored claiming democrats don't believe in congressional oversight without a hint of irony.",
">\n\nOh but it is different for them since it isn’t a witch hunt and is legitimate. /s",
">\n\nI had the displeasure of meeting Jim Jordan a few times when he was just a local politician here in Ohio and I was working in republican politics (for which I have repented, earnestly and repeatedly). \nHe's as dumb, charmless, and unpleasant in person as he is on TV. He's also short, remarkably unattractive and has terrible breath. I have to think there's some kind of mint that can mask the sulphur, but no one's told him about it.\nAs stupid as he appears to be, he has a certain vulpine craftiness, like Wormwood with cauliflower ears.\nNow as an ordained member of the clergy, I'm generally opposed to hating any man. But I'm willing to make an exception for Mr. Jordan and throw myself on Christ's mercy for wishing nothing but misery on that wretched fistula of a man. \nIf I believed in eternal conscious punishment, I'd have to spend a lot more time repenting for wishing it on that cancerous little pustule.",
">\n\nPlease, I beg you, become an author. Your descriptive writings must be shared generously, not trapped within the realm of reddit alone!",
">\n\nAw, thanks. I do a little writing for work.",
">\n\nIt’s time to write a book or two or several. Don’t let your talent go to waste.",
">\n\nThe same guy who defied a congressional subpoena now wants to use those same powers to do oversight.",
">\n\nThat’s why it’s so brilliant that the J6 Committee referred their ignored subpoenas to the soon to be Republican Ethics committee, instead of asking for Contempt directly.\nThe Ethics Committee will have to either say ignoring “partisan” subpoenas is bad and hold their own accountable; or let them off the hook, and see their own investigations stymied by their own playbook.\nOf course the fatal flaws in their setup is underestimating the Republicans shamelessness and hypocrisy; while simultaneously overestimating the Democrats willingness to get a set of balls and fight.",
">\n\nI don’t get how so many powerful Democrats still haven’t figured out that GOP doesn’t care about hypocrisy.\nIt’s like how religious right backed a Mormon & then a guy who has cheated on his three wives & can’t quote a single Bible verse, all while saying the Democrat candidates were evil, despite them actually having a record of going to church.",
">\n\nI agree with you except one thing, do you think Mormons aren’t Christian?",
">\n\nThey are as much Christian as the NOI is Islam",
">\n\nGotta love it. Jordan wants everyone else to follow the rules except him.",
">\n\nI'd love to see the white house or other Democratic members of congress just decline his subpoenas the way he did.",
">\n\nExcept that Democrats don’t have anything to hide.",
">\n\nThey also have nothing to gain by playing into illegitimate subpoenas being issued to muddy the waters. We play by the rules so long as they do but they changed the rules so fuck em.",
">\n\nI know r/politics hates this but Dems need to appeal to the center; moderates and independents are key to winning elections and part of that strategy is letting Cons demonstrate they’re unfit to govern. Dems can’t pull the same shit that Cons do and refuse subpoenas and to play tit for tat.",
">\n\nNo. You’re completely wrong. Appealing to progressive youth is the way of the future.",
">\n\nYes, appeal to the group that doesn't vote. Excellent strategy.",
">\n\nYouth helped big time this midterm. Why? Because the democrats started paying attention to things that are important to them. \nIf the Dems court them on things that matter to them. climate change, student loans. They started to come out. \nAll you’re saying is they don’t vote because no one does anything in their best interest. \nTime to change that.\nEdit: your nonsense idea to court the people who can never make up their minds and then vote Republican anyway is why the Overton window in our American politics has been pushed so far right. Enough with that bullshit.",
">\n\nAgreed. The dark Brandon memes were some of the best dem comm strategies I've ever seen.",
">\n\nAbsolutely",
">\n\nGym is dying to see Hunters Hog.",
">\n\nI do believe Hunter is far too old for Gym's interest.",
">\n\nHEY NOW! He never child diddled himself, he only COVERED UP child diddling, which is perfectly ok.\n\n!/s!<",
">\n\nBirds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.",
">\n\nObligatory reminder that Jim Jordan covered for a vicious sexual predator at Ohio State University.",
">\n\nThe caricature of old sleep Joe Biden bumbling through his presidency comes to mind. The mainstream GOP oddly bought into that caricature of Biden. and it has served this administration very well. \nPublic theater to serve up a vendetta, that’s not oversight. When you underestimate your opponent and also show your hand, that arrogance is likely to get you politically spanked. The political reality of the Red Wave apparently hasn’t sunk in. \nThese clowns have repeatedly underestimated the Biden team. I get a feeling they may get more than a spanking, more like old fashion hard ball. Mitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.",
">\n\n\nMitch McConnell’s mediocre candidate nightmare is about to unfold.\n\nI've tuned and polished my tiny violin for the occasion along with a bottle of bubbly.",
">\n\nI’ve tuned mine also. Two old warriors at the end of their games. I just can’t help to notice the stride of the two men. One is leading his party with confidence. The other slowly being pushed to the sidelines, being ignored. \nThese two old warriors go back a long way, and I understand are good on a personal level. I’ve wondered how they view each other. Success and failure do make odd bedfellows.",
">\n\nSo Republicans always want to be a \"jobsworth\", nice to see the Democrats are learning to play the same game.",
">\n\nSpending all their time being a jobsworth is how they justify not ever getting anything substantive done to their base. Instead of dealing with inflation, immigration, health care, prescription drug prices, etc. they can point to bringing sexy back to the green M&M, removing stripper poles, litter boxes, and drag queens from our public schools, ensuring that kids are not being taught CRT, replacing any book that has anything sexual in it with Cat in the Hat, and restoring masculinity to our plastic potato head dolls. You know the real kitchen table issues affecting all Americans.",
">\n\nWell said. The mystery to me is why they continue to garner votes in this day of a plethora of instant information access. This election cycle revealed a bit of a shift due to the Dobbs decision I think. Still, some voters continue to cut their noses off the spite their face to own the libs I guess.",
">\n\nI think this is (slowly) changing some minds. It’s never going to be a total 180, but quite a few friends of mine have said with all that’s going on right now, they want to investigate hunter Biden. A few of those have already said they won’t vote republican again unless these shenanigans end, and a few of those few have even gone as far as to say they’re quite happy with what Biden is doing as president. \nI’m not saying we’re approaching the end of the tunnel, but I would cautiously suggest we might be seeing the light on the walls…",
">\n\nThat is very encouraging; perhaps the far right of the GOP have overplayed their hands and manufactured drama.",
">\n\nThis is my favorite part of the story:\n\nComer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan , demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demanded materials by no later than December 27, 2022. \n\nAnd the response is just chef's kiss\n\nIn those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.\n“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers. \n\nNow they just need to completely ignore them once they are appointed, like the Trump WH and Jordan himself did.",
">\n\nMy expectation, and presumably the expectation of all republicans now, is that every subpoena will be sued, challenged, and then sued again all the way to the supreme court. Honestly im gunna freak if anyone complies with a single witch hunt subpoena",
">\n\nSlowwalk every request- declare executive privilege for everything and blow off every subpoena. Fuck the gop.",
">\n\nI think they should challenge every subpoena in court. Every single one. And appeal if necessary. Play within the rules.",
">\n\nAnd if they lose, appeal. And if they lose that appeal, appeal. Take it all the way up to the intergalactic Supreme Court.",
">\n\nThe Republicans are acting like they already control the House, which they don't. Biden was right to make them redo it.",
">\n\n\n...important issues such as the border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, COVID origins, and the Biden family’s influence peddling. \n\nThe Supreme Court demanded Biden leave the border in its current state, under a Trump era executive order. If you want to know what's going on at the border, ask Trump, he created it.\nFentanyl busts at the border have skyrocketed. Is the GOP upset by this? Is that why they're investigating it? Busts mean work is being done to stop it from getting in. Does this upset the GOP?\nAfghanistan went exactly as Trump planned it to go. It was a time bomb created by Trump, and dumped on Biden's administration on January 21st, with no way for the administration to work on it before then because Trumps admin refused to work with Biden's transition team. This was all intentional. So, Comer, now you know all you need to know...\nCOVID origins? It originated in China. If you want records surrounding exactly where, ask China for those records. Trump was in office when COVID kicked off. If it was paramount to have this info, why didn't they ask the friendly administration that was in charge when it was happening.\nInfluence peddling? Jesus. The GOP has no shame at all.\nEvery single issue in question here is a Trump era issue that Republicans own outright. They want to drag Biden on them, but they created each and every one of them. I hate these obvious political hacks with every fiber of my being.",
">\n\nVery similar to the Benghazi investigations.\nFor those who didn't follow it... Obama took action against Libya. The Republican reaction was... predictable. \"You're not authorized! We're going to impeach you!\" etc. etc.\nThey cut the funding for the Libya operation, and then Benghazi happened.\nNotice how none of the Republicans mentioned that Benghazi was IN Libya? Or how the funding for extra security was shot down by Republicans?\nThey created the problem, desperately wanted to prosecute Clinton and Obama for it... and then... Whoops! I guess nothing happened after all!",
">\n\nI think the MAGA drooling republicans are going to get lessons from president Biden over the next two years on how government works. This is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class.",
">\n\n\nThis is just the first hour of the first day of a two year class. \n\nNah, this is just sending out the syllabus two weeks ahead of when class is about to be in session.",
">\n\nSo says Jordan who ignored subpoenas. Trump set the bar, delay, sue, delay, appeal, ignore.",
">\n\nNo need to respond to subpoenas, gym j already showed you don’t have to",
">\n\nJordan refused to respond to the 1/6 committee subpoena. It’s very odd behavior to expect cooperation from anyone he targets.",
">\n\nWhy do the media never bring up the Ohio State stuff with Gym? He's at a minimum an enabler and has gotten a free pass. It's insane.",
">\n\nRight out of the gate, jordan and comer broadcast their incompetence, ignorance, and the skeevy nature of their motives. Stop trying to game the system and start doing the work of actually making America better for all of its citizens.",
">\n\nThis is so hilarious, given that literally the very first action the new GOP congressional majority did in 2017 was to end all oversight so that they and Trump could do whatever they wanted without question.",
">\n\nRepublican James Comer:\n\n“Just before dawn at 4:33 a.m., the White House informed us they will not provide the answers we have been seeking . . . “\n\nOh, my! Say it ain’t so!\nComer must’ve gone to the Fox school for melodramatic acting.",
">\n\nJordan the lowlife should have long been in prison for these sexual abuse claims, this is another extreme far right Trumpite who also needs to be held to account over participation in the attempted overthrow of the election",
">\n\nPlaying to their base is what the elected domestic terrorists do best. Well, after invading women's private medical decisions, interfering in the right to vote by likely Dem voters, continuing their over funding of the war machine, tax giveaways to their oligarchic donors, decimating democracy by protecting the seditionist head of their \"political party\", gleefully committing human rights violations and pitting workers against innocent refugees fleeing the effects from our aggression against poor countries from around the world, and, of course, wantonly destroying the world's environment by supporting global corporations that continue to spew greenhouse gasses.",
">\n\nLuckily, Repubs have already established that government officials don't have to comply with subpoena requests.",
">\n\nGym Jordan: We want things.\nBiden: Hey look, rules! I think we should follow them.",
">\n\nUntil the Democrats push back with as much legal force as the Republicans have been using against them in every single session, they are not going to get anywhere.\nThey have to learn to ignore every subpoena, just like the Republicans do. Take them to court over it, appeal it, appeal it again, do whatever it takes to drag it out. Make them tear their hair out. If you want to see a serious influx of new progressive young voters, you better give them something to vote for. Because they sure as hell don't want the tired old Democratic party who is always fair and ready to capitulate over principles. They want change. They want a government who is really ready to deliver promises, and are willing to fight for them against these nasty Republicans, and not in a namby pamby, let's pretend like we're opponents, wink.",
">\n\nFuck Gym Jordan. What a POS.",
">\n\nRepublicans don’t know what “good faith” even is.",
">\n\nThey mad they are not getting what they requested during the lame duck period FOH wait until you're actually in you new role within said committee and you will get the stuff you requested. Its fuckwd up these idiots care more about revenge than helping the American people",
">\n\nAll I ask is that in some of these staged hearings the Biden admin officials use comer's and jordan's words on 'partisan oversight' against",
">\n\nIt's a shame Jim Jordan didn't demand a little more oversight over what was happening in the gym.",
">\n\nOnly in America would Jim Jordan, whose rise to power and influence was on the backs of countless sexual assault victims and was an active participant in an attempted coup, be the ranking member and chairperson of a government judiciary committee.\nAnd only in America would a passive aggressive response to their requests be seen as a \"win\". Republicans are the new Nazis and Democrats are too weak to exercise their authority.\nThe government is so broken that it's been ten years since the fight for $15/hour began and we're only given bullshit stories and drama. These people aren't working for us. They are putting on a play to distract us from the fact that they are not working for us. Nothing will fundamentally change.\nEdit: and to preemptively stop people from telling me that i need to vote - i was on the ground turning Georgia blue.",
">\n\ni can't wait for JJ to issue subpoenas to other congresspeople to appear before his committee bcuz he never did.",
">\n\nRepublicans have been whining and screeching about various supposed policy failings of the Democratic Party, yet now that they’ve obtained a majority (however thin), they choose to focus their efforts on… investigations of nonsense conspiracy theories. You know what? Whatever. They won’t find anything, and it’ll keep them from actively destroying the country.",
">\n\nThe @gop are all fucking idiots. This clown show is definitely getting canceled (read- arrested)",
">\n\nSauce for the gander.",
">\n\nSomebody get that douchebag a sports jacket",
">\n\nRepublican’t",
">\n\nInvestigations into \"the origins of COVID-19.\" From the administration elected in '20...",
">\n\nI hope the White House treats their do-over subpoenas just as well as House members like Jordan treated their own.",
">\n\nGet ready for a reprise of 7 house gop subcommittees on Benghazi or White Water - all come up totally empty. The GOP is a party comprised of sociopaths and demagogues. They’re demanding evidence and documents even before they officially take power.",
">\n\nBased on the precedent set by Mr. Jordan I too will ignore any subpoenas. - any Dem he investigates",
">\n\nFrom the article: \"In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.\"\nGood for Gym. I hope he really nails Biden for the Covid lockdowns and mask mandates he started in 2020. And the inflationary stimulus checks, also in 2020. It just shows how deep the Deep State is that Biden could do all that even before he stole the election. \nAnd for the love of God, get Hunter out of his cushy White House job. It's disgusting that a President would give his kid an important post when he's totally unqualified.",
">\n\n? S is necessary",
">\n\nIt’s really not",
">\n\nand so the shit show begins. glad to see the house passed a lot of good legislation before the brakes are slammed on anything good for the country being done. just dust and noise for the next 2 yrs.\nhow Kevin Mac rules this house of rabble might be interesting, but i'm tired of looking to Congress for entertainment.",
">\n\nA majority of about 3 made up of congresspeople form a state that voted for Biden overwhelmingly in 2020 while doubling down on a congressman who basically lied about everything in his background and is currently under federal investigation doing absolutely nothing to help the American people should work out well for them in 2024.",
">\n\nAs in, \"sorry, not sorry. You'll have to use the official compulsory process to obtain the material.\"",
">\n\nAll I have to say is get ready for the do nothing shit show of attention getting for the next two years.",
">\n\nThat’s like me getting hired to start on Jan 3rd 2023 and then going in to work in November 2022. \nLol",
">\n\nDisgusting Gym Jordan. Doesn’t comply with a congressional subpoena but yet expects everyone else to submit to an subpoena once on he’a on a committee. Legal fucking Hypocrisy",
">\n\nWait, what do you mean they have to follow the rules? The GOP don't follow no rules!!!",
">\n\nGym Jordan is such a whiny screeching turd…",
">\n\nThe White House should announce that they will not listen to any requests from insurrectionists, including Gym.",
">\n\nGym will have to wrestle with the rejection. I’ll see myself out.",
">\n\nAs an Ohioan, I must state for the record. \nGo suck an egg Mr. Jordan.",
">\n\nJames Comer just sounds like how you say James Comey in New England.",
">\n\nNew England accents drop r’s, we don’t add them",
">\n\nKennedy was from Massachusetts and always called Cuba… Cuber…",
">\n\nCan you elaborate on what power the Democrats had to remove Republicans from office? Seems to me you're accusing them of dropping a ball they didn't have to begin with.",
">\n\nGet ready for a whole lotta nothing being done. And of course another government shutdown spearheaded by Republicans.",
">\n\nJim Jordan is the absolute last person who should be criticizing anyone over the issue of transparency.",
">\n\nGym is smarter than the average jock.",
">\n\nMotormouth Jordan, having no prior legal or judicial experience, will host the Gong Show of Judiciary meetings. Get yer popcorn ready!",
">\n\n“President Biden promised to have the most transparent administration in history but at every turn the Biden White House seeks to obstruct congressional oversight and hide information from the American people,” \nUmmmm wasn’t it Trump that promised that?"
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It is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.
The first time was during Lula’s first term.
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Yes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.
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Man it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.
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Man it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.
Unfortunate what that graph suggests.
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">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests."
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Basically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.
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[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?"
] |
>
Until that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say "better" at all, and would maybe just call it "less bad". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again."
] |
>
Slightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.
I wish more people had this mentality.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity."
] |
>
Thanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality."
] |
>
Elections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey"
] |
>
Same thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be"
] |
>
I think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside"
] |
>
Neoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast."
] |
>
The Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.
So... yes.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?"
] |
>
The party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.
Hell, even "the Squad" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes."
] |
>
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)
Amazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.
Caetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva "Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister."
Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism."
] |
>
Article says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5"
] |
>
Plot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”"
] |
>
It’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest"
] |
>
that's a sort of cultural appropriation
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth."
] |
>
100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation"
] |
>
Earth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping"
] |
>
hold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand."
] |
>
Unless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is."
] |
>
It can always get worse.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?"
] |
>
What a title
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse."
] |
>
Yeah confused the heck ouf me.
"Brazil's Lula" and "Amazon Defender" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title"
] |
>
Amazon Defender sounds like a car
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people."
] |
>
Finally some fucking good news
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car"
] |
>
As an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news"
] |
>
I'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him."
] |
>
It was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question."
] |
>
Very glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people."
] |
>
This is beautiful.
We must protect our natural habitats.
Once they're gone, they won't return.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment."
] |
>
An example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return."
] |
>
Just watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time."
] |
>
using gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests."
] |
>
You just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.
I just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets"
] |
>
Don’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible."
] |
>
Everyone liked that
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means"
] |
>
When she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.
All her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that"
] |
>
Hope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now."
] |
>
Next Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.
Replace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice"
] |
>
I do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top."
] |
>
Who do you think is buying the wood?
"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries..."
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance."
] |
>
Well that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\""
] |
>
Let’s go!
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[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?"
] |
>
I needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!"
] |
>
Lol
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited."
] |
>
Not only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol"
] |
>
Let's hope things improve.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances"
] |
>
My first thought was the company and now I feel stupid
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve."
] |
>
Holy crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid"
] |
>
Good. Finally Brazil stands up for the trees.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid",
">\n\nHoly crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first."
] |
>
My favorite part of this story apart from the immense hope I suddenly feel for the Amazon is the fact that the two had a falling out, with Lula moving to support farmers and causing Silva to resign from her post in response, and she is so convinced that he has changed his mind that she is willing to take up the mantle again and do some more incredible work. That tells me a lot about Silva, and a lot about Lula.
My god it's good to feel that relief for the Amazon.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid",
">\n\nHoly crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first.",
">\n\nGood. Finally Brazil stands up for the trees."
] |
>
Now imagine what would’ve happened. Had Bolsonaro gotten another term?
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid",
">\n\nHoly crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first.",
">\n\nGood. Finally Brazil stands up for the trees.",
">\n\nMy favorite part of this story apart from the immense hope I suddenly feel for the Amazon is the fact that the two had a falling out, with Lula moving to support farmers and causing Silva to resign from her post in response, and she is so convinced that he has changed his mind that she is willing to take up the mantle again and do some more incredible work. That tells me a lot about Silva, and a lot about Lula. \nMy god it's good to feel that relief for the Amazon."
] |
>
Probably an Exxon-Mobil executive
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid",
">\n\nHoly crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first.",
">\n\nGood. Finally Brazil stands up for the trees.",
">\n\nMy favorite part of this story apart from the immense hope I suddenly feel for the Amazon is the fact that the two had a falling out, with Lula moving to support farmers and causing Silva to resign from her post in response, and she is so convinced that he has changed his mind that she is willing to take up the mantle again and do some more incredible work. That tells me a lot about Silva, and a lot about Lula. \nMy god it's good to feel that relief for the Amazon.",
">\n\nNow imagine what would’ve happened. Had Bolsonaro gotten another term?"
] |
>
Democracy rules. Let's keep working on bettering education and upbringing and we might eventually get less Authoritarians.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid",
">\n\nHoly crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first.",
">\n\nGood. Finally Brazil stands up for the trees.",
">\n\nMy favorite part of this story apart from the immense hope I suddenly feel for the Amazon is the fact that the two had a falling out, with Lula moving to support farmers and causing Silva to resign from her post in response, and she is so convinced that he has changed his mind that she is willing to take up the mantle again and do some more incredible work. That tells me a lot about Silva, and a lot about Lula. \nMy god it's good to feel that relief for the Amazon.",
">\n\nNow imagine what would’ve happened. Had Bolsonaro gotten another term?",
">\n\nProbably an Exxon-Mobil executive"
] |
>
Conservatives in Brazil will find something negative to say about this.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid",
">\n\nHoly crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first.",
">\n\nGood. Finally Brazil stands up for the trees.",
">\n\nMy favorite part of this story apart from the immense hope I suddenly feel for the Amazon is the fact that the two had a falling out, with Lula moving to support farmers and causing Silva to resign from her post in response, and she is so convinced that he has changed his mind that she is willing to take up the mantle again and do some more incredible work. That tells me a lot about Silva, and a lot about Lula. \nMy god it's good to feel that relief for the Amazon.",
">\n\nNow imagine what would’ve happened. Had Bolsonaro gotten another term?",
">\n\nProbably an Exxon-Mobil executive",
">\n\nDemocracy rules. Let's keep working on bettering education and upbringing and we might eventually get less Authoritarians."
] |
>
Conservatives hate her exactly because she's been a very proeminent figure in regards to environmental protection for decades, she is also a woman and a person of color. She repeatedly tried to become president of Brazil and had a slight chance in 2014 before all other sides panicked at that possibility and united forces in a difamation campaign.
|
[
"I see the face of someone getting her dream job.",
">\n\nIt is the second time she gets nominated for this ministry.\nThe first time was during Lula’s first term.",
">\n\nYes. And she quit after 5 years because lack of government support. Hope this time it works out.",
">\n\nMan it sucks when people who really want a job become just a token hire to pretend the larger body is doing something.",
">\n\nMan it's great when people who really want a job become contributing and influential members to the larger body doing something.\nUnfortunate what that graph suggests.",
">\n\nWhat’s unfortunate?",
">\n\nBasically the graph says exactly what you think, that things were better but are getting worse again.",
">\n\nUntil that graph shows a negative value (aka reforestation), I would hesitate to say \"better\" at all, and would maybe just call it \"less bad\". As it was still getting worse, just at a different rate. Acceleration vs velocity.",
">\n\nSlightly off topic, but 'less bad' is how I like to describe things like hybrid cars and recycling. They're doing less damage to the environment than the alternative, but they are not good for it.\nI wish more people had this mentality.",
">\n\nThanks for sharing, this is an amazing journey",
">\n\nElections and democracy as a whole is so weird - just one year ago Brazil had a pres who was singlehandedly trying to destroy the rainforest. Now, thanks to the election, any time Brazil is in the news regarding the rainforest, it's good news. Pretty cool stuff, but it really shows how fickle things can be",
">\n\nSame thing in the US... It's like bipolar disorder to anyone watching from outside",
">\n\nI think the difference being each of your main parties are neoliberal in ideology (same with our parties in the UK), whereas Lula's party is decently left-wing! So they had that option atleast.",
">\n\nNeoliberalism being the economic ideology of deregulation, austerity and free market extremism (Reagan and Thatchers baby), I'd say so?",
">\n\nThe Democratic Party supports some regulation and some market controls within the constraints of capitalist economics. They are, by definition, liberal (pro-free market [with some oversight]) and conservative (in support of continuing the existing economic system [capitalism]). They still praise the inviolability of capitalism.\nSo... yes.",
">\n\nThe party is defined by its leadership, whom is absolutely the establishment Third Way Democrats. It is not defined by the Manchins (nor the Bernies), but it is defined by the Pelosis and the Schumers.\nHell, even \"the Squad\" is, at best, social democrats which are still a centre-left pro-capitalism stance that fall firmly within economic liberalism. Likewise the Canadian Liberal party of Justin Trudeau is a liberal party - socially progressive and pro-capitalism.",
">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nAmazon activist Marina Silva has announced that she has been appointed as environment minister of Brazil by President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.\nSilva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund, which took a hit in 2019 when Norway and Germany froze new cash transfers after Bolsonaro excluded state governments and civil society from decision-making.\nCaetano Scannavino, coordinator of Health and Happiness, an Amazon nonprofit that supports sustainable projects, said Silva \"Grew to become someone larger than only an environment minister.\"\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Silva^#1 Lula^#2 Amazon^#3 minister^#4 climate^#5",
">\n\nArticle says “Silva and Brazil stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund” when it should say “Silva, Brazil, and The Whole World stand to benefit from a rejuvenated Amazon Fund”",
">\n\nPlot twist, it's Amazon the company and not the forest",
">\n\nIt’s truly a tragedy that when you say “Amazon” you think of Bezos’ bald head instead of literally the biggest rainforest on Earth.",
">\n\nthat's a sort of cultural appropriation",
">\n\n100%, the native Brazilians are completely forgotten by the rest of the world since the Amazon brand is more associated with online shopping",
">\n\nEarth thanks you for your bravery and commitment. This was needed so badly. Other countries really need to support Brazil at this moment as much as we support countries like Ukraine. These are perfect examples of a line in the sand.",
">\n\nhold that thought until we see some actual actions lol. Talk is cheap. But yeah, it won´t be worse than it is.",
">\n\nUnless she literally starts fire-bombing the Amazon, could it get worse?",
">\n\nIt can always get worse.",
">\n\nWhat a title",
">\n\nYeah confused the heck ouf me.\n\"Brazil's Lula\" and \"Amazon Defender\" both sounded more like AIs to me than actual people.",
">\n\nAmazon Defender sounds like a car",
">\n\nFinally some fucking good news",
">\n\nAs an American, I sometimes wonder how a lunatic like Bolsanaro could've been voted into power and then how he could possibly stay in power while acting like a supervillain. Then I remember that we elected Trump and even after all he's done (and still doing), we might even re-elect him.",
">\n\nI'm curious if the Bolsanaro voters and evangelicals are a minority that screams really loud (like the US) or if they are a majority. Well, the majority elected Lula so I guess that is the answer to my question.",
">\n\nIt was a very close race, but Bolso still lost with the full government machine behind him, spending billions on last minute benefits to poorer people.",
">\n\nVery glad that “Amazon” here refers to the rainforest and not the corporation, as I’m sure they would have polar opposite effects on the environment.",
">\n\nThis is beautiful. \nWe must protect our natural habitats. \nOnce they're gone, they won't return.",
">\n\nAn example for other countries leaders to take action in this much needed time.",
">\n\nJust watch how much more crazy and divided Brazil becomes as the right-wing, tree-cutting, oil-loving machine starts rolling and manipulating their society to sow divide and protect their interests.",
">\n\nusing gays, abortion, Christ, and gun laws, as the surrogate reasons to get to their actual targets",
">\n\nYou just reminded me during the campaing this year, bolsonaro spread some bullshit about lula closing down churches, legalizing theft and some people actually fell for it.\nI just don't get why so many people can be this gullible.",
">\n\nDon’t forget banning the bible, burning all copies and giving every school age child a “gay kit” whatever the fuck that means",
">\n\nEveryone liked that",
">\n\nWhen she was Environment Minister(2003-2008) deforestation fell from 21.000km² to 12.000km², and a continuation of her policies resulted in further reductions, all the way to 7.000km² in 2012.\nAll her political history is based on protecting the Amazon, and she was even a major candidate for the presidency in 2010 and 2014(about 20% of the vote). She's a strong woman with an amazing history, and the absolute best person for the job right now.",
">\n\nHope there's room in the department budget for security. Amazon loggers don't play nice",
">\n\nNext Call of Duty concept right there. More effective of an enemy than the Russians and just as evil.\nReplace the regular killstreaks with calling in swarms of army ants or riding a capybara with a machine gun on top.",
">\n\nI do think that, if we're going to waste a trillion dollars on military spending every year, the US should commit troops to hunting loggers in South America and poachers in Africa as though it were big game hunting. It's hard to sell ivory with an ass full of UAV ordnance.",
">\n\nWho do you think is buying the wood?\n\"Shipments went to the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and possibly other countries...\"",
">\n\nWell that's...progressive. Good job Brazil?",
">\n\nLet’s go!",
">\n\nI needed to check which Amazon was being defended before I got excited. Then I checked. Then I got excited.",
">\n\nLol",
">\n\nNot only an Amazon defender, one of the best politicians in current Brazil. She would've been president if Lula's party hadn't thrown her under the bus in '14. Which only makes it more notable that she's taking this job now as it involves setting aside some pretty strong personal grievances",
">\n\nLet's hope things improve.",
">\n\nMy first thought was the company and now I feel stupid",
">\n\nHoly crap — when I read the headline my first thought was someone who supports the Amazon corporation. Glad I had sense enough to read the article, yet concerned that my brain went to corporate malfeasance first.",
">\n\nGood. Finally Brazil stands up for the trees.",
">\n\nMy favorite part of this story apart from the immense hope I suddenly feel for the Amazon is the fact that the two had a falling out, with Lula moving to support farmers and causing Silva to resign from her post in response, and she is so convinced that he has changed his mind that she is willing to take up the mantle again and do some more incredible work. That tells me a lot about Silva, and a lot about Lula. \nMy god it's good to feel that relief for the Amazon.",
">\n\nNow imagine what would’ve happened. Had Bolsonaro gotten another term?",
">\n\nProbably an Exxon-Mobil executive",
">\n\nDemocracy rules. Let's keep working on bettering education and upbringing and we might eventually get less Authoritarians.",
">\n\nConservatives in Brazil will find something negative to say about this."
] |
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