Feb 12, 2023

February 12, 2023: Weaponization of Government, Fox News Porn, Repeat of Benghazi

 

 

Historian Heather Cox Richardson, Letters From an American, posted Feb. 9:

 

“Today the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held its first meeting under chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), who promised to look at “the politicization of the FBI and DOJ and attacks on American civil liberties.” There are twelve Republicans and nine Democrats on the committee.

 

Today’s hearing began with testimony from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee colluded with the Russians in 2016. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has complained that the government impeded his investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop; former Democratic representative from Hawaii and now Fox News Channel personality Tulsi Gabbard; and conservative lawyer Jonathan Turley also testified. They rehashed old complaints, but no one produced any new evidence.

 

The top Democrat on the committee, Stacey Plaskett, from the U.S. Virgin Islands, said: "I'm deeply concerned about the use of this select subcommittee as a place to settle scores, showcase conspiracy theories, and advance an extreme agenda that risks undermining Americans' faith in our democracy." Constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin (D-MD), sporting a purple bandana from his cancer treatments, pointed out the many times Trump abused his power to reward friends and punish enemies and said, "If weaponization of the Department of Justice has any meaning, this is it.”

Raskin also recalled that in August, Jordan said an investigation would “help frame up the 2024 race, when I hope and I think President Trump is going to run again. And we need to make sure that he wins.” Raskin said the committee was "all about restoring Donald Trump, the twice-impeached former president, to the office he lost by seven million votes in 2020 and tried to steal back in a political coup and violent insurrection against our constitutional order on January 6, 2021."

 

Early in the proceedings, Aaron Rupar of Public Notice mused: ”It is a bit odd to me that Fox News isn't carrying the ‘weaponization’ hearing live, since it is basically Fox porn.” After Raskin testified, he wrote: “I’m beginning to understand why Fox News thought it might be a bad idea to carry this live.” (1)

 

Of course, this is nothing less than a run-up to the next presidential election; a repeat of the Benghazi and e-mail nonsense leading into the 2016 cycle. Of course, there is no substance here, unless of course one takes the position that publishing photos of Hunter Biden’s genitals on “Shitter” is appropriate material for your children to see.   The only purpose of the previous proceedings was to drive up her negatives.  McCarthy admitted as much after the 2016 election was safely in the bag.  The only purpose of the present proceedings are to smear Biden lest he once again flog them like a rented mule.

 

Following Goebbels and vindicating Orwell’s predictions, the scum have tortured the language to such an extent that it will now admit to anything.   The Fascist Caucus is now the “Freedom Caucus”, free speech chokes in the smoke of burning books, and now the Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is itself a weaponization, just as the failed coup d’état, the ‘stop the steal’ was nothing more than an attempt to steal the last presidential outcome.  Orwellian “Newspeak”, a form of doublespeak in which coded terms meant to mislead and to justify the greatest crimes against the republic.  There is no Republic in the Republican Party, only a naked Will to Power.

 

The nation isn’t fooled. 

 Indict. Prosecute. Convict.  Imprison.

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 1.     Facebook, Sunday February 12, 2023.


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