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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

May 22

Tim Scott has an elementary school student warming up the crowd for him

yikes

Tim Scott says he failed civics in high school

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

May 18

I am going to put together a thread on today's House Republican "weaponization of government" hearing. Follow along starting here.

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@SnapStream Rep. Plaskett: "This hearing is evidence, as if we needed any more, that MAGA Republicans are a threat to the rule of law in America ... my colleagues on the far right are on a mission to attack, discredit, and ultimately dismantle the FBI. This is defund the police on steroids."

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

May 16

Kevin McCarthy suggests that one consequences of the Durham report may be [checks notes] ... Adam Schiff being removed from Congress?

"I also know in America you're innocent until proven guilty" -- McCarthy on George Santos

McCarthy then tries out some Adam Schiff whataboutism

"I think President Trump, when he does that, he's trying to help the negotiations" -- McCarthy on President Trump encouraging a default

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

May 16

Marjorie Taylor Greene sure is a charmer, isn't he?

Wow -- Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to come at witness Amy Spitalnick, but Spitalnick wasn't having it

AMY SPITALNICK: What we do know is that cisgender males are responsible for the vast majority of mass shootings

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I'm sorry, I don't know what a cisgender male is. There's only two genders. It's males and females.

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

May 16

House Republicans are holding another hearing to beat up on Washington DC city government today. Here's Glenn Grothman asking Mayor Bowser an extremely lazy and sloppy question and then not even letting her finish her response. What a waste of time.

Clay Higgins is an extremely creepy man. But wait for him getting owned by Bowser at the very end of this clip.

Bowser owns Higgins part 2

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

May 14

Chris Murphy on Title 42: "The majority of [the GOP] delights at chaos at the border. You saw some of my colleagues on Tuesday, as soon as votes were done, rush down to the border to take smiling photos with Border Patrol, essentially celebrating the fact that there was chaos."

Murphy on Meet the Press: "The only Covid restriction Republicans seem to want to keep in place is the one that keeps people that don't look like them from coming into the United States."

Murphy: "If SCOTUS eventually says that states or the Congress can't pass universal background checks or can't take assault weapons off the streets, I think there'll be a popular revolt over that policy. A court that’s already pretty illegitimate is gonna be in full crisis mode."