The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is holding its first hearing Thursday in the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden – and Republicans on the committee have made a series of false and misleading claims, as well as some other claims that have left out critical context.

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I think the most surreal part is that they’re wanting to impeach Biden on something that Trump very vocally did for Jared Kushner.

And worse yet, they established no link between Hunter Biden’s actions and Joe Biden outside of, “Of course he knew! He’s Joe Biden’s son!”

That was literally the maximum extent of connection they established. That they’re related to each other so obviously they’re all in on it.

The level of projection from this whole affair, especially seeing how the government is about to shut down, really indicates that the GOP in general has lost the entire point of governance.

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They didn’t lose it, they actively threw it away. Ever since Newt Gingrich said that he wanted to get the government so small that he could drown it in a bathtub I knew that they were illegitimate and did not belong in government at all.  it’s only gotten worse. 

Edit: I was incorrect, that is a Grover Norquist quote.

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That was Grover Norquist’s line. IIRC Gingrich was all about the Contract “With” America.

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Contract on America was what I remember those of us who thought Gingrich was a threat called it.

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To the question: Do you have any evidence of wrongdoing by the president of the United states.

All 4 republican witnesses all said, they don’t have evidence of wrongdoing.

If this was a real court case, with average individuals, the case would have been thrown out.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

Republicans are bunch of morons.

The original article contains 2,670 words, the summary contains 5 words. Saved over 99%! This is not a bot account and I am not open sourced. Fuck you.

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Damn you fucking nailed it.

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Republicans are nothing if not false and misleading claims about democrats.

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And global warming, and economic policy, and generally accepted medical practices, and immigration, and religious rights, and gun violence, and and and

In fact I’m usually quite shocked when anything comes out of their caucus that can loosely be interpreted as the truth.

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Those are mostly just casualties of their attempt to “own the libs”

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And a vast majority of their supporters will believe anything that comes out of their sloven mouths.

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This feels like my 8yo daughter having a raucous teddy bears’ picnic in the corner of the living room, with only her internally-generated dialogue creating a wild circus of a party full of intrigue and salacious gossip. Except major media is covering it.

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