I see that the "news" is fulminating about the Senatorial GQP's hard no on setting up an "investigation" of the weird mysterious thing that happened at the Capitol on the 6th of January 2021.
Ummm...gee. That's too bad.
Without our solons on the case how on earth will we ever get to the bottom of that mystery, Scoob? Imagine the difficulty of unraveling who might have stormed the seat of government in desperate hopes to change the result of an election they'd been told over and over by their beloved Dear Leader had been "stolen"? Who, on that day, had spent hours listening to Tubby and his minions roaring about how the "traitors" and "thieves" inside the building were going to make that theft official and that how if only brave patriotic Real Americans could somehow, someway, get between these rascals and that process perhaps their dream of an endless reign of Emperor Trumpolean could come true? Who might possibly, just possibly, have been goaded through their gullible rage and credulous stupidity by grifters and conmen into trying their own Orange Foolius Revolution?
Who were recorded on live footage, on thousands of their own cell phones, on Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat and Instagram doing just that and boasting about it?
I can't possible imagine, and now, without that precious commission, We the People will be forever in the dark.
There are many reasons to despair of this fucked-in-the-head country of ours (hi, systemic racism, massive militarization, and climate change!), but letting Joe Fucking Manchin roll over and beg for doggie treats from Moscow Mitch "investigating" whether the sun rises in the east isn't one of them.
THIS is one of them;
"Yet a full 73 percent of Republicans pin “some” or “a great deal” of responsibility on “left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad,” even though both the FBI and Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have rejected the falsehood that leftist protesters were involved."
Now that's fucked-in-the-head. When you can see something with your own eyes, hear it with your own ears, and yet "not believe" it? What's that line about those who can make you believe absurdities..?
There are things that we can fix about the issues We the People face in the coming years.
This? This intransigent, dangerously belligerent stupidity of the people who have gone all in on the QANut Con?
Is not one of them.
There is no cure for Stupid.
It can only - and must - be utterly exterminated if this nation, as the nation it promised itself it would be, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The fundamental problem is that it is hard to distinguish honest actions from theatre.
In this case, Schumer is giving McConnell a chance to show "relevance" while avoiding a losing 2022 election platform. All the while allowing both sides to gin up support from the base.
You see, a lot of hard democrats want to go all in on the Jan 6 incident as the primary election pitch next year. This is clearly a losing move as people care more about the economy, pandemic, infrastructure and even climate change. So Schumer needs it to go down in flames, while riling up the base. McConnell needs to show something as it is clear that Republican's can't support any major initiative from Biden (but since Biden has effectively an majority in both houses, that doesn't matter). What does matter is that the Republican's can't then show they are "delivering goods" to their constituents. The usual congressional "pork" is effectively denied to Republicans.
And yes, the whole "stop the steal" bit is pure fantasy, but it has become one of the myths of the modern GOP and professing belief in that myth is part of the "accepted group culture". Failing that test, you are effectively out of the group. Look at Cheney.
Thus, a win-win scenario. Schumer dodges a losing campaign plank and McConnell shows that he is fighting for the myth.
Biden's "majority in both houses" is fiction; without Manchin and Sinema being willing to nuke the filibuster nothing substantive outside three fiscal bills will pass. As you correctly point out, the GQP is utterly in on Trumpkin looney, and they will burn the place down - economy, pandemic, infrastructure, climate change and all - rather than allow the opposition party anything. Four years of Trumpism, two with full control of the government, including the SCOTUS, with nothing to show for it but a massive redistributing-upwards tax cut, shows plainly where the GQP will go.
Sure, some of this is theater. Politics IS theater, at least in part. But behind the curtain the stakes are deadly serious. The U.S. public is constantly bombarded with the "both sides" even now, when the "left" is saying "let's do something practical" and the Right is saying "Let's do something utterly nuts!"
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