1/ Insanely busy day for reasons, but let me make a quick point while I wait for someone to do something on a project.

The 1/6 Commission doesn't need to be bipartisan. 1996 called and wants their dumb trope back.

The poison-pill stunt-monkey addition of...
2/ of Gym Jordan et al shows the GOP is fundamentally unserious about this matter and no amount of "but muh bipartisan comity" bullshit mayonnaise will turn this chickenshit into chicken salad.

Don't. Get. Played.
3/ The GOP knows that the DC media looooooves the bipartisan both-sidesy claptrap. I have been too busy to read the coverage today, but I *promise* there will be DC conventional-wisdom stories that the committee won't be real and good and 'Murican if the GOP doesn't get to...
4/ ...add Congressman Fuckwit Qnonski (R-OAN) who will spend the entire time mugging for Fox cameras, vomiting out a slurry of mendacious spew to feed the Facebook machine, and bleating about the imaginary Antifa Attack on the Capitol.
5/ They'll say -- off the record, of course -- that they want to get to the truth and not continue to spread the Big Lie...but that itself is another Big Lie.

Naming Jordan, Banks et al is proof of that lie. Full stop. Don't. Get. Played.
6/ Republicans -- Cheney, Kinzinger, et al -- of good faith should join and let Qevin do his worst against them.

There are about 10 Republicans left, and the rest are insurrectionist traitors deserving naught but scorn.
7/ A coup attempt that goes unpunished is a training exercise. The committee should call Brooks, Hawley, Jordan and others as *witnesses* and drag their dicks through the wringer.

Enough pretending that they don't comprise an anti-American 5th column in our midst.

Done.

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