Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Manchin finally releases awaited statement after bombshell Senate vote" video.

  1. Naturally, Republicans don't want their ties to terrorists and the insurrection exposed, nor does McCarthy want to be forced to testify about his damning phone call to Traitor Trump on January 6th. While it would be better to have a bipartisan commission with both sides operating in good faith to get to the truth, Republicans have demonstrated themselves to be incapable of operating in good faith. Given that they amply proved that by voting against the January 6 commission, it will actually be for the better, because a House select committee investigating January 6 won't be blocked by Republicans from subpoenaing witnesses, or bogged down with Republican obstructionism, obfuscations, deflections, and irrelevancies.
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  2. "Until Republicans return to reality and become responsible, they should not be trusted with power again." That's been obvious for some time, the same warning others like me have been advocating, but it's good that Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney is amplifying that message. More Americans need to understand this. The constant lies, denials, deceits, delusions, gaslighting, dog-whistles, crackpot conspiracy theories, and hypocrisy of Republicans is disgusting and disturbing. The Republican cult has poisoned itself with its own propaganda, choosing to live in a fascist Orwellian fantasy world. The Republican cult has been radicalized to such extent that it poses a clear and present danger to our society, our democracy, and our country.
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  3. Republican cult is the new ISIS. Republican politicians are appeasing fascist, seditious terrorists...because that's their voter base, radicalization and extremism is what they have cultivated, nourished, exploited, and profited from for four decades. Reich-wing politicians, plutocrats, media, Christian nationalism religious leaders, and demagogues thought they could ride the tiger, too arrogant, greedy, and stupid to foresee that master would become slave, and the beast they created would soon come to consume them.
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  4. As Republicans continue relitigating the 2020 election in Arizona, Georgia, and other states based upon a Big Lie they pushed, and after Republicans relitigated Benghazi for years with TEN partisan investigations, Moscow McConnell doesn't want a bipartisan commission to investigate an insurrection against the nation's Capitol because it would be "relitigating?" Nevermind the heights of hypocrisy reached here; that's an insult to the intelligence of the American people, and a gross dereliction of duty by Republicans.
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  5. Congressional Republicans just proved--once again--they are unwilling to operate in good faith, first in the House, now in the Senate, unwilling to even pass a BIPARTISAN commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection! How many times does Lucy have to pull the football out at the last minute before Charlie Brown Manchin finally wises up? New voting rights protections sorely needed in the wake of new Republican Jim Crow legislation nationwide, a badly needed infrastructure and jobs bill, and numerous other pieces of critical legislation the Democrats want to pass don't stand a chance if the filibuster is allowed to stand. If Republicans are going to abuse the filibuster, then it's time to LOSE THE FILIBUSTER!!!
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