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The Five Most Unhinged Moments at Republicans’ Hunter Biden Hearing (newrepublic.com)

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The biggest takeaway is that Republicans, especially Greene, have a huge hard-on for Hunter's dick.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 90 points 8 months ago

Toward the end of the hearing, Moskowitz pointed out that if the issue is that Biden won’t testify, it could be easily resolved then and there. After all, Biden was at the hearing.

But when Moskowitz asked for a show of hands from people who wanted to hear Biden’s testimony, almost no Republicans raised their hand.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 59 points 8 months ago

"We want you to testify, but not like that!"

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 59 points 8 months ago

Every challenger of every one of those Republicans should be showing that footage in their campaign ads. They are admitting they just want to fool the American people.

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

And before that, one of the Democrats (I forget which one) pointed out that the chair of the committee said that Hunter could choose to testify in public or private as long as he testified. Hunter chose in public. The chair disputed this and the Democratic Representative said "I really don't want to play the video, but I have your exact words here."

The guy was trying to change the offer after the fact from "public or private, your choice" to "you can testify publicly, but only after you testify in private."

What are Republicans scared of that they don't want Hunter to testify in public? Of course, we all know the answer. They're afraid that their imagined giant conspiracy theory will be revealed to be based on nothing. (Well, revealed even more than it currently is.) They're also afraid that they can't misquote Hunter if his actual quotes are on public video. It's a lot easier to say "Hunter replied 'my dad used his influence to get me a job'" when there's no video showing that his answer was actually "at no point did my dad use his influence to get me a job."

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 56 points 8 months ago

In the past, she's displayed pornography. Are pornographic photos allowed to be displayed in this room?

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8) Objecting to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) entering items into the record.

It's not pornography.

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14)

Oh okay well you're the expert.

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8)

That part, I was done. I just couldn't seriously watch it any longer. That whole thing from start to that point was a complete shit show.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean, like, how much porn can one really watch any way?

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

That’s not a good question to pose to the internet.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

BRB, gonna watch all of it

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I woulda thought Looney Boobert would be the porn expert

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago

This one made me laugh way too hard. Jesus Christ.

Mace: You're the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, You have no balls to come up here and --

Moskowitz: We can hear from Hunter Biden right now

Mace: Are women allowed to speak?!? Hunter Biden should be arrested right here

But this one made me wake up my family from howling.

[-] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When You Elect MAGA Clowns, You Get a MAGA Circus.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Look at the two gross people in that photo. 🤢

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

I have trouble finding humor in and laughing at the signs of our fall from democracy. But this had me in stitches

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