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You are here: Home / Balloon Juice / Why We Fight Open Thread: The Disloyal Opposition

Why We Fight Open Thread: The Disloyal Opposition

by Anne Laurie|  June 9, 202211:27 pm| 21 Comments

This post is in: Balloon Juice, Jan 6: Hearings, Open Threads, The Republican Crime Syndicate

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Siri, what was “HUAC?” And please explain why Republicans spent years talking about Benghazi https://t.co/2r1kUzjSdq

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 9, 2022


I mean, in a way, aren’t we all mass shooters? https://t.co/F3KSLRbkRj

— DustUpHat (@Popehat) June 9, 2022

In a particularly low move, Matt Gaetz attacked January 6th committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin as being “unable” to do his job due to losing his own child to suicide.

Gaetz: “The country shouldn’t have to go through all that with him.” pic.twitter.com/pfhGwHPg7F

— PatriotTakes ???? (@patriottakes) June 8, 2022

january sixth was awful. the day of the tear gas attack on june 1st, 2020 was emotionally worse, to me. personally.

— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) June 9, 2022

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21Comments

  1. 1.

    Baud

    June 9, 2022 at 7:31 pm

    Seeing as how now traitors wefe.on the committee, I think it’s the most legitimate committee ever.

  2. 2.

    Mike in NC

    June 9, 2022 at 7:33 pm

    Caught McCarthy on the evening news doing his best impression of a jellyfish. What a feckless imbecile!

    You just know that seditious Republicans will try to disrupt these hearings. Maybe Empty Greene will show up wearing a dynamite vest.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    June 9, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    It’s amazing and appalling how each successive GOP House leader has managed somehow to be worse than his (always _his_) predecessor.

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    I think I’ve heard Kevin’s argument before. A twist where the first time is farce….

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 9, 2022 at 7:38 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    My Annoying Right-Wing Nut Job Brother sent me a video of MTG speechifying on the House floor today.

    There are all kinds of things wrong with it, but the funniest is when she rants about “fragrant” violations of law. Right up there with her “peach tree dishes” and “gazpacho police.”

  6. 6.

    bbleh

    June 9, 2022 at 7:38 pm

    I guess the fact that the Republicans are in full monkey-house poo-flinging mode is a sign they’re actually worried.

  7. 7.

    UncleEbeneezer

    June 9, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    @dmsilev:  Never thought I’d see the day when John Boehner looked remotely decent, in hindsight.

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 9, 2022 at 7:41 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: He was a simple, corrupt Tangerine-American.

  9. 9.

    Brachiator

    June 9, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    When asked about his previous statement that Trump bears responsibility for Jan. 6, @GOPLeader now says, “I think everyone in the country was responsible.”

    And this is from something that calls itself the “Republican Accountability Project.”

    Irony just gave up and left the building.

  10. 10.

    The Moar You Know

    June 9, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    I just know already that I will somehow manage to be truly surprised at just how low the GOP will go during this week, and this from a party that defends and justifies the continued public service of rapists and murderers on a daily basis.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    June 9, 2022 at 7:44 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: Boehner was the personification of the old definition of an honest politician (“one who stays bought”).

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2022 at 7:45 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Are we sure she wasn’t being racist against Asians?

  13. 13.

    RandomMonster

    June 9, 2022 at 7:47 pm

    Sorry, the tear-gassing in June is not even remotely as traumatizing as jackholes beating capitol police and looting the halls of congress.

  14. 14.

    Cameron

    June 9, 2022 at 7:47 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s OCD – Obsessive Cooking Disorder.

  15. 15.

    Cameron

    June 9, 2022 at 7:50 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: And how can we forget America’s Solon, Paul Ryan?

  16. 16.

    sukabi

    June 9, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    1. @SiubhanDuinne: that woman obviously needs to eat something….her brain worms and tape worms are fighting over the last scraps of sustenance.
  17. 17.

    Delk

    June 9, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    Can’t be too serious if Gym’s shirt sleeves aren’t rolled up.

  18. 18.

    UncleEbeneezer

    June 9, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    @Cameron: Still better than McCarthy though.

  19. 19.

    Geminid

    June 9, 2022 at 8:16 pm

    Now I’m really hoping those prosecutors can wrap Gaetz up tight! It looks like they are close, but we may not find out until August.

    There are plenty of despicable Republicans in Congress, including my own, but Gaetz is the worst I think.

  20. 20.

    Geminid

    June 9, 2022 at 8:19 pm

    @Cameron: Ryan picked a good time to step away from Congress. We haven’t seen the last of him, though.

  21. 21.

    Ella in New Mexico

    June 9, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    I don’t really care what low level ball-less shits like McCarthy or Gaetz or MTG blurble out on a podcast. Fuck them no one realy listens to them and we’d never even know about what they said were it not for Political Junkie social media posts.

    So far, tonight is so good that if it’s all an average American who’s too busy with life to be a political jukie sees of these hearings it’s incredibly smart, moving and damning.

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