The 118th Clown Car Congress Discussion Thread

Why weeks and not days? The GQP is not known for their restraint.

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Should we set up a camera pointing at a head of lettuce and start counting weeks?

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This will be a long, drawn-out nothingburger. Well, an excellent fundraising opportunity for all around.

ETA
Also:

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With justice, even sooner.

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Also known as Lettuce Cam Mode.

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They wasted no time doing that.

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It is already considered homicide in the US to intentionally kill an infant that is born alive.

Posturing, but effective for the base.

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:heavy_check_mark: Projection.
:heavy_check_mark: Misdirection.
:heavy_check_mark: Et tu quoque logical fallacy…

… aka:

I need two more for this round of bs bingo.
Maybe I’ll just use the poster. And some pennies for bingo markers.

These cheap debate tactics and bad arguments have been around for millennia, at this point in human history. I keep wondering if critical thinkers get killed off (at least the vocal ones who push back). Or we historically give up and pull a Candide: retreat, “cultivate our own garden” saying the hell with it. That only sometimes works as long as there’s not a civil war or a massive environmental catastrophe (flood, fire, earthquake, pandemic, famine, tornado, plague of locusts, rain of blood…).

Damn, it looks I’ve been filling up that bingo card as well, all this time.

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“Family values.”

Y’know… family.

Like this:

Or this:

“Nice economy ya got here. Sure would be a shame if som’n were ta happen to it. A crying shame. Your wife at the hairdresser’s right now, she’d be cryin’ her eyes out. And your three kids at gymnastics and Little League practice, I think they deserve better. I know you wouldn’t wanna… disappoint them. Sure would be hard to keep up the payments on that house ya just bought either.”

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He threatened the power of subpoena if the department does not comply.

So, they can just blithely ignore it?

Regardless, it’d be easy to fulfill. “Here’s the order from TFG”

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I’m sure that no one wants to see McCarthy’s sausage.

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Naturally.

Archive version: archive.ph

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This guy’s depth of awfulness is hard to keep up with, but this is pretty sad:

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Not the puppers too! There is no bottom to this asshole’s depravity!

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