CTH has never pretended or played the game of pretending, but several people have discussed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee against the backdrop of the Joe and Hunter Biden investigation. Thus, some general reminders about inside DC politics are perhaps valuable.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, hereafter called the House Oversight Committee or HOC, has a very specific function in DC that too few understand. Once again, let us be clear while trying to explain decades of false information founded upon arcane legislative outlooks.
This article is specific only to the House Oversight Committee.
Within Washington DC, the HOC has a very specific and unique function. What Fox News is to corporate conservative punditry, so too is the HOC to the same DC system of pretending. The House Oversight Committee is the “Chaff and Countermeasures” committee. The HOC operates for both parties with the same mission.
In recent years, the appearances by various DC politicians on the Sean Hannity show should serve as a key indicator for the Chaff and Countermeasures operation. If the politician is on the Hannity ‘tick-tock’ show, you are watching countermeasures. We are not yet at the point where this is widely understood, it will be for the next generation to look back and expose it.
♦ HOC – The House Oversight Committee was/is created by the House legislative leadership to make money for the party in control of the Chair. When the House Speaker is notified of a DC corruption issue, inside his/her office they will often be heard saying, “give it to oversight.” The intent of that instruction is to give the issue to the HOC, so they can hold hearings, create soundbites and fundraise from the issue.
Making money for the party in control of the Chair is the primary function of the House Oversight Committee. The HOC does not exist to create accountability or oversight; the HOC exists to exploit the issue for fundraising and satiate the base voters of the party in control of the Chair. The HOC presents the illusion of accountability by constructing soundbites and member performances which are then broadcast on television for appearances to the voting audience. It is essentially theater.
The HOC is a “general oversight’ committee, not a committee of “specific jurisdiction.” Thus, the HOC is the vehicle where Democrats and Republicans publicly display their political initiatives, frame their narratives and then broadcast them on MSNBC, CNN (Democrats) or FOX NEWS (Republicans).
Depending on the issues at hand, the HOC committee members are generally those performance actors best known to the audience of both parties. This is not accidental; this is by design. Again, for emphasis, I am only talking about the HOC, a “generalized oversight” committee. Only this specific committee has this specific mission.
A hot button topic enters the committee ecosphere. Specifically trained staffers and performance artists, uniquely qualified to put on theatrical productions (both parties), are then deployed to assist the representatives in creating the soundbites that hopefully will go viral and assist them with fundraising and opportunities to say, “here’s what we are doing.” Outlining this construct is not an exhibition in cynicism; this is the reality of what the HOC is designed and created to do.
When you see the HOC performing at their best, you will see lots of soundbites created.
The Chair of the HOC is always part of the House Speaker’s close inner circle. From that association you will discover by training, by habit and by consequence, the HOC framework is developed to sustain the process itself as an end result.
The questioning is the sum total of all accountabilities. The performance is the interview; the conversation is the point; the smoke is the fire.
Oversight, in the HOC framework of narrative creation, has evolved into reveling in the endless process (a fundraising proposition) and, as a consequence, it completely ignores the end point, misses the bottom line, doesn’t actually SEE the subject matter, and never actually applies accountability toward what might be discovered. This is why you end up with high blood pressure, frustrated with the questions not asked, and throwing bricks at the screen or monitors when viewing.
The point of HOC hearings is to create what are now described as “viral moments” that can be used to generate money. The second, and lesser objective, is to give the illusion of accountability while not actually ever holding anyone or anything accountable. See prior HOC reference points like Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, Benghazi, the Twitter Files of the most recent Hunter and Joe Biden bribery schemes.
If you watch the HOC Twitter hearing through the prism of expecting some form of accountability for the pay-to-play corruption, you will be frustrated and disappointed. However, if you watch the HOC hearings through the prism of how well the panelists will do at raising money from their performances, then you can evaluate the effectiveness – the proverbial winning and losing.
The HOC is designed by House leadership to perform the same basic function for both Democrats and Republicans. The HOC committee assignments are selected based on the theatrical skills of each representative.
This is not to say the motives of the members are sullied or impure, it is simply to point out the motive of the committee itself is to generate fundraising from the skillsets of the members on the committee.
Once you fully grasp what the intent of the House Oversight Committee is about, and once you drop the expectation that any accountability in oversight is the intent, then you can watch the performances through the entertainment prism of partisan politics and genuinely enjoy them. There are, after all, some exceptional soundbites and moments created by the hearings themselves.
The HOC is called the “Chaff and Countermeasures” Committee, because that’s essentially what the committee does. The committee gives the appearance of targeting, steers the target to a controlled destination, and then distracts the audience from the outcome of accountability.
If sunlight is achieved, meaning the Mainstream Media cannot ignore the issue as presented and questioned, and if the general public become more familiar with the controversial subject matter or topic at hand, and if the party of the Chair can fundraise from the issue, then the committee has succeeded. However, if you are looking for something to change as an outcome of any HOC hearing, you will be disappointed.
All of the insiders in Washington DC know this to be true; but, when discussing the HOC specifically, the insiders cannot violate the DC code of omerta and make this reality a part of the public consciousness. To make this operational mission widely understood is to diminish the financial value of it.
ala Trey Gowdy
Darrell Issa, Jason Caffetz ….
Ron DeCuckis..all fakery!
It’s Tick Tock time for Vannity too, does he lose his show or Ainsley first.
…not to mention all talk and never any action Air Jordan!
et al
Buck from Colorado on Newsmax and he commented he could not see impeaching Biden because of his mental issues. Welcome to our GOP, we gotta make big changes.
yes
and then gets a book deal
-and pumps up the next faker, Scott (co-author)-
and gets a paid gig at 🦊
—and Scott attempts a presidential run (wink)
3 at 🦊
– so far
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.”
Hat tip: The Bard of Avon.
In this case very bad actors on the congressional stage who really do think (I suppose) we can’t see them and their cringe worthy performances.
And hat tip Sundance who from his seat in the audience has risen to expose it all for the complete charade this is.
For him I’ll shout “Bravo!!”
For the “actors”?
Baskets full of the most rotten tomatoes I can find.
Rotten tomatoes are too soft.
I would prefer something that will leave a “lasting impression” on the cranium.
I remember watching the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and being struck by how theatrical it was.
I remember it as well. It was vicious. A brutal hatchet job by corrupt parasitic grifters on a man whose presence they were not fit to be in the room with. A public attempted lynching which failed. Thank Almighty God.
Biden and Kennedy.
I say no more.
Great insight for those enamored with Kennedy.
Thanks, Bet!
Most welcome, my friend.
The Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia had a regatta that week/weekend. We sailed all week listening to the hearings on Single sideband radio and had a good time talking about it over cocktails in the evening.
It was vicious. Clarence Thomas was a good sport and smart debater.
If you can, you should see the film “Created Equal”.
He discusses what he went through during those hearings. An outstanding, well done film. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
And this!
Ginnie Thomas Interviews Justice Thomas
Wonderful!!!
https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/19/ginni-clarence-thomas-supreme-court/
That was incredible! Thanks so much. What an amazing pair of loving, wonderful people! I wanted to hug them both.
Looking forward to this one. He’s such an incredible man and Justice. We have been blessed by his presence on the Court.
I thought you had previously had confidence in Comer
One thing I loved about SD is he keeps it real and calls it as he sees it. Won’t always admit when he is wrong (ala the “batting order” theory) but keeps moving in a good direction. We all make mistakes.
With respect, WT…Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna would disagree with you.
In fact as an avid reader of this site, he has said that one of the reasons he admires Sundance and his diligent research is that on the few points where he has been in error, he never fails to step up and own it.
An extremely rare to nonexistent trait in those today who are political analysts.
How will we ever have confidence in any of these trough dwellers when they reveal themselves one after the other?
They do just enough, say just enough, to keep the masses hopeful.
I have been on the planet too long. Only one person has truly won my total support.
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt too many times.
Not everyone has the Suicide Mission to fight the STATE system/party/club.
They can do small things they hope sparks something.
Remember the Wolfe Leak caught – that was in investigation started by Sessions.
There is some deep water in the swamp.
And it’s all fetid.
It’s not water it’s fecal matter.
💩💩💩
Kinda like Hotel California…
For some it is only 8 feet deep
Yep money, and even happier to use it for reelection.
I hate them all!
Thank you for another good analysis rightly supporting the wisdom of making one’s own pancake syrup.
Would it be fair to say the only time anybody was held accountable was when Nixon was impeached and Agnew was replaced by deep state Ford?
Pretty much (but Nixon resigned before being impeached).
The Swamp tried really hard to get Trump to fall into the same trap and have his own Saturday night massacre so Senate RINOs would have political cover to convict him. GOPe must have been really upset Trump didn’t take the bait.
Not that they didn’t have reason for optimism.
After all, his trademark phrase was “Your FIRED!” and they just ASSUMED if Mueller team kept poking him enough, that he would “fall for it”.
And, there were MANY commenters here, repeatedly urging he do just that.
It was when they finnally accepted that he WOULD NOT fire Mueller and team (Obstruction trap) or agree to be deposed (Perjury trap) that they activated Barr, to “wind it down”.
Yep, looks like what’s going on now with the Dems. Watch Newsom rather closely! A good chance that a “tell” will be in his reactions!
Nixon did nothing wrong though
Thus, they’re ALL grifting. corrupt, obfuscating, unethical, immoral, lying, greedy PsOS who look at us with complete and utter contempt!
And Issa is back again like a bad penny.
Guess the crypto grift was too overwhelming to ignore, and Ukraine was upping their share as well. They are all corrupt, everyone gets a cut from all monies being allocated from tax dollars collected from citizens in their Continuing Resolutions give a way Retirement Fund Building Offshore Accounting Plan.
99%+ of them are.
Forever frustrated AND angry beyond words.
I’d never give a dime to them!! Everytime a counter chaff is emphasized, I get a text telling me. Lol I respond, ” Trump”
I never ever thought I’d hate the RNC as much as I do the DNC…ever…but here I am.
MAGA on!
Right on!
Dems use it to use it to grift and impeach Trump. The GOP uses it to grift only. The GOP is useless.
Being on this committee guarantees lots of TV appearances. This bunch is like Lucy and we would be Charlie Brown. They are just running out the clock and raking in the $$$s. I will not vote for any R at any level period. Trump is MAGA!
Sorry for the flag, my old fingers again
At this point, after all that has gone down, any of “us” who still allow ourselves to BE Charlie Brown, fully deserve the Charlie Brown treatment.
Given that the majority of “R” congresscritters in both House and Senate are not Trump fans, and the same ones or similar will be the nominee in any election, it is absolute insanity to think not voting for any non-MAGA Republican will do anything but cement the Demmunistas in power permanently. People like you are already responsible for the loss of many seats in Congress in 2022, because you sat out if you didn’t find the Republican sufficiently MAGA enough.
Especially now that their long march through our institutions is damn near complete. Since they have already captured and weaponized the entire federal bureaucracy against their opposition, one more electión where they “win” the Presidency, and also control both House and Senate, will result in a “restructure” of SCOTUS and we’ll be back in 1984.
The only thing Orwell got wrong was the year.
I can absolutely confirm Sundance’s assertions in this article based upon the volume and content of the hundreds of GOP/ RNC donation solicitation emails I get in my Junk folder each week during and after every HOC committee hearing on big news issues. It is disgusting and so transparently obvious as to what their strategy is and has been for many years.
I finally got them all stopped, it took forever but no more fundraising emails or texts.
I sure would like to know how you finally stopped all the disgusting emails. I keep unsubscribing but new ones with different email addresses show up. I’m defeated and can’t keep up with them all. I’ll never donate again! I guess I’ll use personal checks from now on.
Do you have any pointers?
I have unsubscribed and they stop but if you get another one go down and do it again. They have several different sources for sending stuff to you; so keep unsubscribing to them all.
Do you have any pointers?
The simplest tactic is a new email addy.
Yeah get a proton mail account. 👍
Best email account one can have many benefits.
Me too. And they have started calling too.
How did you get them stopped? I have Unsubscribed every time that link appears on an email but to no avail.
I then tried to block all the sending addresses but they keep modifying the addresses to avoid the blockers.
Finally I set my email Rules to push all emails to the Junk folder except the ones in my Contacts List. That has worked but is a pain to make sure that new legitimate emails from senders who aren’t in my Contacts List are pulled out of Junk every day or two.
Gmail is biased so I never see GOP solicitations 🤔
Lucky you, my gmail is getting tons of them from DeSantis and Trump and Debby somebody. Unfortunately, it is all RINO solicitations. I only gave to Trump once. Never to the GOP.
If they are biased then why continue using them? Nobody should be using gmail.
Almost every day I get between 50 to one hundred texts from them asking for me to donate to their cause and so far I dont trust anything but P.T and will not donate, I also received a few texts this morning from the RNC and sent that to junk mail and deleted it
I to am really sick of them, and no matter how much I unsubscrible I get more by the end of the day under different number.
If there is any real help out there please share it with us..
If it’s texts just block them. I’ve got 1000 numbers plus blocked on my phone .
Reply “STOP” to them. That seems to work better, much better.
I am receiving all kinds of phone calls, not political, police and medicare plans that I don’t want. I am no longer automatically answering and if it says possible spam, I hang up and block. At least 10 this week, oh, its my birthday week and I’m eligible for a new plan, that’s why. This is nuts. I don’t mind the emails, but I HATE the calls.
In the good old days when they sent a self addressed prepaid envelope, I used to send that days junk mail and any stones that would fit, back to them. This level of evil almost matches the level described in the Bible.
Yup, they make out they are doing something just before the elections. Brings in the money, and gets them reelected by idiots who think talking is doing!
👍
All incredibly talented Actors and Psyops.
Will the American Public allow itself to be fooled again.
I Pray not.
Kabuki theater, we know the ending, it’s been the same for decades.
Rush used to say “DC is the Hollywood for ugly people.”
The HOC is a big scam for money-raising, as you’ve noted before Sundance. I have no confidence that they’ll produce anything beyond a little smoke and a lot of fiery talk. I could be wrong.
In other news, you never really can tell what will happen in politics, but I think DeSantis is sinking fast now.
https://markamerica.com/2023/07/25/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ron-desantis/
I believe, since the Repugs have no influence in the Federal Courtrooms and since what the Repugs are interested in is money, that most of the committees in both houses of Congress are reduced to “Chaff and Countermeasures”, as long as the Repugs are in the majority positions.
As for the Demcommies, they have many allies in the DOJ and among all of the Federal Bureaucracies and since they are mostly interested in advancing their agenda, they will push their agendas in the other more issue specific committees.
This is another reason why the Demcommies are the real enemy of freedom loving people. Repugs are basically harmless to anyone, unless that someone wants to unseat the top Repug fundraisers. This is why Donald J Trump scares the hell out of the Bureaucratic State.
Pokey,
Respectfully you could not be more wrong.
Mueller was appointed to head FBI, by BUSH, a RINO.
Meueller brought in Comey, who had worked in DOJ under Ashcroft, in BUSH (REPUBLICAN!) administration, and at the same time (under BUSH admin) Mueller brought in WEISEMAN, yes THAT one, to restructure and weoponise the FBI.
The UNIPARTY WANTS us to think of the R’s as “mostly harmless” and focus our attention on the D’s, but the most powerful, most feared person in Congress, and DC for many years,…has been Mitch McConnell.
Barr was also a Bushie. And, yes, McConnell is China’s ace in the hole in congress and he is a master at getting what he wants out of the other side and his compadres in the Senate, always for a price. First, the Democrat groupies went to Ukraine with Pelosi to arrange bribes and handouts, then, Mitch led the GOP groupies to Ukraine to make the same types of deals with the Republican Senators. Check the list of senators in each of these groups and you will know who wields power on each side of the aisle. They only get in these groups by doing things the Minority/Majority Leaders want them to do.
No mention of Chuck Schumer and Harry Reed as people who have/had fearsome power in the US Senate? The Demcommies are the architects of the Big Corrupt Government. Read the Sol Alinsky playbook. McConnell is/was the most powerful Repug and he is compromised by the Chinese, whom he correctly believes are the future source of most of the money. Of course he is corrupt, but his agenda is not to destroy our Constitution. Money to compete against the Demcommies has generally been his only pusuit. The ugliest fact of life is that politics is a game that is usually won by having the most money to spend during the campaign, and most politicians are well aware of this.
dutchman,
I think you got a little ahead of yourself with this comment. It was Obama who weaponized the DoJ by keeping Comey on as the head of the FBI after putting Eric Holder in as Obama’s AG. Weissman was also always a Demcommie and was part of the so called Lawfare group who were the active members of Mueller’s so called Special Counsel Russia/collusion investigation. They were part of the Obama /Holder ‘transformative gang’.
The Dems have been Big Government totalitarians for at least a century now. Control and power is what they have always wanted and that is what they will have for the rest of your life if they manage to keep Trump out of the White House. And Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are still the most powerful and feared people in DC.
The sooner folks realize this and stop “trusting the plan” (which is to try to bamboozle the voters), the better.
I followed Q for about 6 months with the 2016 election in the middle. Promises that never came true soured me. The followers are gullible, but I think Q is a deep state operation to keep them angry and ineffective waiting for their knight in shining armor that never delivers. Bannon’s groupies are much more effective. I also think Q is a team of people and they are probably CIA. There are so many psy ops that have been perpetrated on the populace from lying media, censoring social media, corrupt institutions and Q that we really should be kind to those who have been duped. We have been lied to and surveilled for decades, at least 1963 to present. Cronkite lied to us, but, you’d be hard pressed to find many boomers that know this as a fact. We believed him. There was no internet. There were no foreign TV stations.
“We are not yet at the point where this is widely understood, it will be for the next generation to look back and expose it.”
Can we wait for the next generation?
Looking back at the results of previous hearings and seeing zero accountability or reform; I buy the Sundance analysis.
Yep.
So, the HOC are just like hookers. The better the performance then the better the pay. But, afterwards you are left with regrets and disappointments.
And a disease that you can’t get rid of!
Just consider these as the “floaters” in the cesspool, as opposed to the “sinkers”. It’s easier to see and hear them cause they’re on TV so much, but the real stink comes from that which is just below the surface.
Excellent analogy
Does the House Oversight Committee have access to the Slush Fund used for Sexual-Harassment? After all, someone needs to pay for acting lessons and cover up bribes.
Congress’ Sexual-Harassment Slush Fund Uncovered – Members of Congress Secretly Handed Out $17 Million in ‘Hush-Money’ to Women they Victimized
The HOC can only get away with their shenanigans, because the MSM are damned liars.
SD, it will be very interesting to see how our rep in WY, Harriet, reacts if this ends up being the outcome.
I have more faith in Harriet. Our eyes are opened in Wyoming and it’s a little harder to hide in the sagebrush 😁
I think she is for real. She’s new and she is prepared and sharp.
In other words, Kabuki Theater! NOT dazzling with brilliance, but baffling with bullshit! What almost all pols are quite good at!
Nicely said, Pa.
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
4 EVER
If you have cable or DISH, you’re giving aid-&-comfort to the enemy. Prove me wrong…
C-SPAN
C-SPAN2
The Weather Channel
Local government proceedings
This is a nice explanation, but I don’t see how it is different from what we already knew, that Congress will talk rather than act, if they can get away with it. So how do we keep them from getting away without action?
“there are many here among us…who know that D.C. is but a joke”…
…truthfully paraphrasing
B Dylan via J Hendrix…
…yes We B Experienced
also thanks G Lightfoot:
“Sometimes I think it’s a sin
When I feel like I’m winning when I’m losing again”
😥
Will Devon Archer ever be deposed? If so, will it make any difference? DC is truly Alice in Wonderland. It really is akin to watching a movie because we know it is make believe
You must admit, most every member of Congress is pretty good at letter writing. They have no expectations of answers or action but they still continue to write letter after letter after letter ad nauseum.
Do you think that if I write a letter to the IRS this year and tell them that I am sick and tired of the government taking my tax money and throwing it Willy Nilly at programs like Disgusting, Exclusion and Inequity or Criminal Racist Trials that they would at least write me back and tell me that come 4/15/24 I will be exempt from paying taxes?
The DoIJ has thrown away millions on “special counsels” which is code for government authorized witch hunts. The FBI has thrown away millions tracking down parents who attend school board meetings because the plandemic revealed the corruption in education and showed them that our children were not being educated rather they are being indoctrinated into the ways of Socialism and Satanism. The IRS takes in billions but can’t keep up with anything and some people have waited more than 5 years for refunds. I guess they are hoping that taxpayers will give up. 60-90 days in the eyes of the IRS is called a decade for normal Americans. Our military has been decimated by the same Disgusing Exclusion and Inequity and Biden’s mandates that all military be vaxxed with the death jabs. (Wonder how LeBron feels about his beloved vaxx now that Bronny suffered from cardiac arrest?). The fact that the military has been forced to not only accept woke policies has caused many of our brightest military minds to leave and allowed those with little common sense, reasoning ability, and ability to develop strategies to “lead” the military. Lead us where? Communism!
Time for a house cleaning in DC. Congress, the White House and all the administrative agencies. Term limits for the entire crew. Look what years of FauxXi, Collins and Scarf Girl got us. How about years of pocket lining by Pelosi, McConnell and the rest? Why should EMPLOYEES of the government be accepting royalties for work that was done on the government dime? Those royalties should be put into the Treasury with the explicit purpose of paying down the debt. And why is DoD funding GoF research and vaxx development? Only one possible reason–the elimination of tax paying patriotic citizens.
Term limits on admin officials HAS been brought up, but of coarse requires CONGRESS to enact.
In many ways, while the Depts of the Fed. Gov. are SAID to be a part of the Executive, they REALLY are more a creation of, and an extension of the LEGISLATIVE branch.
If Putin would nuke D.C., Brussels, Davos with hypersonics, few would shed tears I suspect.
“…it will be for the next generation to look back and expose it” after they get bored exposing their own selfies on Instagram.
The HOC will be safe for years to come. Sad.
The Big Top Show must go on!
A while back I had said that Comer was reminding me of Gingrich. My thinking wasn’t quite focused but my suspicions were. Sundance’s article now clears up what I was thinking about Newt Comer and the whole lot of them.
Rep. Bill Thomas CA is McCarthy’s mentor. The Speaker understands how the game is played:
https://oversight.house.gov/release/republicans-announce-appointments-to-the-911-style-financial-crisis-commission/
With whom does the repetitive, insight-less and intellectually limited Sean Hannity retain any credibility? Is there ANYBODY among Treehouse regulars who ever watches or listens to this clod anymore? I stopped watching FOX News almost 8 years ago, but I was off of Hannity years before THAT.
With you on Fox & Hannity, roughly same time frames.
Hannity reminds me of my dog. He’s been barking the same bark for years. Still don’t understand a “word” He’s saying…..
When your dog barks, do the words “Tick tock” come out?
Never DID watch Hannity, and have only seen him a few ‘times too much’ on links here, etc.
They aren’t fooling anyone. Not anymore. Those days are gone because President Trump exposed the Repubs as a bunch of do nothing’s. Even now he’s hammering them to “do something “. Its the reason why there was no Red Typhoon in the last election. It’s the reason why voters stayed home and some of those pinheads in office are deflecting and saying it’s because of the abortion issue. The scumbag Republican’s would love nothing better than to cave on abortion so that its put to bed forever. Then, they just know it…the MSM Whores of the CCP will love them and they will get invited to all the cool parties. This is why they will lose the House in ’24. They’ve been exposed for what they are, the Chock- Full- Of- Shit Party.
That part about exposing the Republicans:
I think that was intentional for two reasons – the base he needed and would support him was there; he knew both parties were corrupt but it would easier for multiple reasons to take over that party and voter base.
Great analysis and conclusion, Mike.
HOC must have an instruction manual a mile thick for newbies or staff that act as ” minders “.
I tried looking up Watergate investigations and I can’t find any from the House prior to impeachment hearings. There was a Senate investigation on campaign activities.
I would have thought the House was playing the game back then. Please correct me if I am mistaken.
I just recall impeachment hearings.
HOC needs to be rebranded as ‘The Illusion of Accountability” Committee.
It is a much more sophisticated label than the “Duplicitous Bastards” or “BS Incorporated”.
I am sick and tired of this circular bullshit for the sake of dishonestly raising campaign funds while enabling traitorous criminals walk free.
Where is the vehicle that will bring accountability and justice / financial ruin and prison to those who are in the business of destroying this country?
If fraud and treason goes unpunished it will continue exponentially.
Election fraud being a prime example.
This once great country and the patriots in it have nothing left to give.
It is not my nature to commit fraud and treason for financial gain.
Is my life then to be subject to financial ruin and political slavery ?
I have nowhere else to go.
If it comes to that I will have nothing left to loose.
Those who are responsible for fomenting such a dangerous situation will have much to fear.
As Sundance has made it clear that this is specific to the HOC, I suggest that more broadly, the televised House and Senate hearings have the goal of fostering the ILLUSION ov R vs D, rather than Uniparty.
This “tripped them up” a little, with the recent RFK JR testimony.
R Leadership actively targeted MAGA Candidates that campaigned against mandates.
R leadership are fully “on board” with championing the VAX, and denigrating any who question the Vax as conspiracy theorists, etc.
Ron Johnson got NO support from R leadership on his efforts.
But, as the script called for D’s to lambast and denigrate RFK JR, the Repubs had to publically take the opposite position and let him speak.
Sometimes they get ‘hoist with their own petard’ and its quite funny, really.
Another good observation
HOC … isn’t that something you do when you have to expectorate?
What happens when honest, Godly men/women get sent to DC? Seriously how is it that everyone who gets there is in on the scam? Are there no honest, Godly men/women left who only want the “Truth” to come out? Who have no agenda? Seriously it defies the odds? Yes?
They get blackmailed by something in their past or loved ones’ past; or threatened with a frame up, their life or that of one of their loved ones by the DS/IC!
Trump was squeaky clean, independently wealthy, and had his own private security and legal teams.
That is probably the reason why he sometimes is forgiving when certain people turn on him. He KNOWS the difference between those truly against him and those compromised (he understands why they turned).
I think perhaps WE explain the “going dc” phenominom as ‘blackmail’ far too often.
Once yo get to D.C. and are ‘schooled’ in the many ways of grifting, its subtly explained to you that THEY can guarantee your reelection,..with the implication that they can also guarantee you DON’T get reelected.
And for MOST, thats all they need, I suspect.
Check out how much $ MTG recieved in donations in the run up to the midterms.
There are ALL SORTS of ways of scamming off some of that $; hiring your daughter at $100,000/ year as Maxine does, for instance.
Having vendors bill at 2x’s their actual price and kick back, etc.
Does anybody really believe that RDS who had $200 million in campaign funds, is now BROKE?
C’mon man, I know TV spots are expensive, and those paid consultants (who probably kick back some, and aren’t worth spit) take up some $, but $200 MILLION?
I feel like Diogenes looking for an honest man or even Abraham looking for one righteous man in Sodom and Gomorrah! So everyone in America is corrupted, on the take? Who knew?
Dutch
The grifting creates the blackmail.
So, do the compromising videos.
Let’s not forget that every email, text message, website visited, photo’s on every US Citizen’s phone, etc., is in the Governments possession. You run for office, they have a file with all of your dirty little secrets.
been getting lots of RNC texts requesting money the last week or so
I watch hearings and find them to be of educational value. After seeing Eric Holder in action in a hearing, I knew we had a thug at the helm of the DOJ.
Yer right. It’s kabuki. Just piss and wind.
“Making money for the party in control of the Chair is the primary function of the House Oversight Committee. The HOC does not exist to create accountability or oversight; the HOC exists to exploit the issue for fundraising and satiate the base voters of the party in control of the Chair. The HOC presents the illusion of accountability by constructing soundbites and member performances which are then broadcast on television for appearances to the voting audience. It is essentially theater.”
+1,000,000
“We’re really gonna get ’em this time!”
I long ago stopped getting a kick buying a lottery ticket, same as for hoping the show SD describes will result in change.
Oh no, groundhog day again.
… the main feature of the Republican Party is its uselessness…
Clarify, its uselessness to US, ‘the base’ which is actually the American people.
It is more than just useful, it is ABSOLUTELY VITAL to the Uniparty, which is why whenever it is threatened, the D wing comes to its rescue.
For example, Obama (D) using the IRS to target the Tea Party, which was theoretically no immmediate threat to Obama or the Dems.
Dems seen as initiating these Impeachments, because PDJT represents a threat to RNC/GOPe.