Palpatine thinks he is relevant to this.

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    Or what? Is that supposed to be a threat? Seems to me that if a Republican is warning you not to investigate something then it definitely needs investigating.

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      I think he’s implying that exposing the corruption will bring to light corrupt Democrats as well.

      Which is such a fucking typical conservative concept, as though the party should defend the corruption within by ignoring corruption everywhere. Jokes on you, motherfucker, because we want to expose and eliminate corruption among Democrats and Republicans.

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          Democrats are not on a cult.

          “Vote Blue No Matter Who” *is textbook cultish behavior and has lead to some truly awful candidacies.

          The post-Obama turn from casual social liberalism to BlueAnon party jingoism has been absolutely miserable for intra-party Democratic politics. The influx of Bill Kristol / Michael Bloomberg / Lincoln Project anti-Trump Republicans is a poison pill that’s going to do the same damage to the Dems that it did to the GOP under Bush.

          I’m already seeing all the toxicity and nastiness in local Dem organizing meetings that I remember my parents complaining about as liberal Republicans during the 2000-era turn.

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            The post-Obama turn from casual social liberalism to BlueAnon party jingoism has been absolutely miserable for intra-party Democratic politics. The influx of Bill Kristol / Michael Bloomberg / Lincoln Project anti-Trump Republicans is a poison pill that’s going to do the same damage to the Dems that it did to the GOP under Bush.

            This may top Mitch’s response as the dumbest take im going to read today

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            There’s a big difference between “always vote for the Democrat” and “always vote for Trump”.

            The only reason I voted blue last time around was because my third-party vote wasn’t anti-Trump enough in 2016. And I will continue voting blue until Republicans understand what Americans truly want from their politicians, and act accordingly. I will probably be voting blue for the rest of my life, but will be pleasantly surprised if there comes a time when I don’t have to.

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              There’s a big difference between “always vote for the Democrat” and “always vote for Trump”.

              A big chunk of the Trump electorate has been increasingly radicalized Republicans. Folks who genuinely believe Democrats are Satanic. The Trump movement works by tapping into this cohort and feeding on their intense anxiety.

              Democrats are getting a similar treatment, particularly as old GOP staffers change parties.

              I will continue voting blue until Republicans understand what Americans truly want from their politicians

              Doggedly putting up candidates like Kristen Sinema, Eric Adams, and Dianne Feinstein to high office won’t compel Republicans to change.

              One routinely sides with her conservative friends and calls it bipartisan, another feeds off blue lives matter jingoism and fuels the hysteria, and the third is too senile to present any kind of strategic opposition even presuming her politics don’t suck.

              There’s no future for progressive politics in a party that can win as Republican Lite.

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                i agree with some of what you said but i do have to mention that dianne feinstein has been dead for over a month

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        And the republicans will find something minor and insignificant about a democrat and make a massive deal about it as though they are equivalent issues.

        Like Biden’s classified document issue compared to Trumps. Then they say, “See? Both sides are basically the same”.

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        Tbf, some Democrats don’t want it exposed, nor will resign when they are exposed. Some will run to their yacht to hide from angry constituents and not face intraparty opposition.

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      Is that supposed to be a threat?

      “You won’t like me if I get… uncivil” is the most Senate threat in the book.

      Nevermind that we’ve got sitting Senators who have body-slammed journalists in recent memory.

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    Dude, just fucking die already. I hope they double their efforts of subpoenas going forward. If a spotlight is cast on a Democrat, well call for their removal as well. Politics should not be a “get rich quick” scheme. You work for us, asshole, and it’s high time we reminded you/them of that fact.

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      He’s never been willing to work for the American people. Only the elite who can pay for his services.

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      You work for us, asshole, and it’s high time we reminded you/them of that fact.

      Time to start flexing our muscles to remind these assholes of that fact.

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        What muscles? Congress was created by an oligarchy to serve oligarchs and has never been anything else.

        Even the new deal was just a scheme to stop a guillotine party.

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      They don’t work for your just like Facebook or google don’t work for your, you are the merchandise they are selling.

      You are being pimped out. You are being sold down the river.

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    Palpatine thinks he is relevant to this.

    He KNOWS he’s relevant, that’s why he’s threat-begging them to look the other way.

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    I get that he has to fight this, for political reasons, but this is the dumbest fucking rebuttal ever

    What he’s targeting here is private citizens with no legislative purpose. I think it’s completely and totally inappropriate,” McConnell said at a press conference Tuesday

    The Supreme Court is hardly your average citizen and Congress absolutely has reasons to investigate potential corrupt in the Supreme Court.

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      Congress is literally tasked with setting up the court system in the constitution. Through, you know, legislation. He’s talking out of his ass.

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      also weird since he definitely thought it was worth it to probe hunter biden despite being a private citizen

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      It’s the billionaires he is saying are private citizens, he’s trying to protect his doners from humiliation

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      Targeting a private citizen who was involved in bribing members of the Supreme Court of the United States. Somehow I think that second part might be relevant to Congress subpoenaing that “poor wittle pwivate citizen”

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        Also, calling billionaires “private citizens” seems wrong to me. If you’ve managed to hoard enough wealth to make a Tolkien dragon envious, you’re no longer a “private citizen” in my book. If I became an immortal being when Christ was born, started saving $10,000 a day every day, didn’t spend a single dime, and STILL don’t have your net worth today, over 2,000 years later - then fuck you - you’re not a “private citizen” you’re a god damn plague upon society that should be counting your blessings that guillotines went out of style a few centuries ago. As far as I’m concerned, billionaires should be in front of Congress every day explaining why they should be allowed to exist.

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    “What he’s targeting here is private citizens with no legislative purpose. I think it’s completely and totally inappropriate,” McConnell said at a press conference Tuesday.

    But Hunter Biden’s nudes blown up poster size for a Congressional inquiry without consent, without relevance, and without Hunter Biden ever having run for or being elected to public office is A-okay with the turtle. Hell, he was probably jealous he didn’t get to go to the presentation.

    Won’t someone please finally find this asshole’s last horcrux . . .

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    calling such a move “totally inappropriate.”

    And this from someone who openly, shamelessly rigs the court.

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    McConnel warns to stop proving again and again how massive the corruption is in the republicans as there might be a democrat or two that might get swept up in it. I mean they got that guys son filling out the form wrong already.

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    What I want to know is what sort of cutting-edge medical voodoo based technology is keeping him alive?

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    Mitch is afraid that the court they worked so hard to pack with their CORRUPT hacks will be undone.

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      It’s funny how much conservatives struggle with finding people who aren’t criminals and frauds. Almost like there is something fundamental about them that attracts horrible people and repels everyone else.

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        What do you expect from people who think wealthy people need 100x more money than everyone else because “they work hard” or “they came up with an idea”.? Conservatism is morally corrupt. That’s why it attracts so many self serving crooks.

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        They don’t struggle, the corrupt ones are the ones who get funding. We need to repeal citizens United and get rid of Super PACS.

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    Cool, how about instead we focus on corruption in the department of transportation in, say, 2017-2021?

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      This is the most important part. Whenever Republicans do shit like this, a Democrat, preferably a much younger one, should say, “I’d like to address the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky with the following question: Or you’ll what?” Call their bluff and watch them fold like this shit was a game of Texas Hold 'Em.