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Semantic Infiltration: what to call the GOP House's tin-foil hat, cover-up, obstruction committees [1]
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Date: 2023-01-11
Gym Jordon and his “Tinfoil Hat Committee”. Dems need to control the discourse around the select committees to obstruct justice, slander the Biden family, and promote the Previous Guy.
The most obvious bit of bigotry is against Ilhan Omar. So much GOP false equivalence, so little time for revenge. Meanwhile there will be more stupid disinformation campaigns.
"I do not actually think that he has a reason outside of me being Muslim and thinking I should not be," the congresswoman said. "If you look at the comments from Republicans, it's precisely for only that reason."
Progressive U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar said Wednesday that the only reason why Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is moving to ban her from her House committees is because she is Muslim.
McCarthy (R-Calif.) confirmed Tuesday that Omar (D-Minn.), as well as Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) would be blocked from serving on House committees. The speaker first threatened to strip the trio of their assignments last year, a move that supporters and critics alike viewed as retaliation for Democrats removing GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Arizona's Paul Gosar from their committee seats after Greene's numerous white supremacist remarks and conspiracy theories. Gosar was removed after he shared social media posts depicting the animated assassinations of President Joe Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
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x The move is pure revenge when it comes to Schiff, who has always spoken his mind in general and actively on the Jan 6 Committee. For Swalwell, it was more symbolic as he was already due to be rotated off his committee. And I'm sure you can guess their reasons for booting Omar. — Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) January 10, 2023
x “By stripping @Ilhan of her committees, McCarthy kills two birds with one stone: He attempts to silence an effective, principled voice… stokes the ugly culture of anti-Muslim hate for cheap political points.”@MuslimAdvocates’s Sumayyah Waheed is right.
https://t.co/FkDCJZrvOm — Win Without War (@WinWithoutWar) January 11, 2023
House Republicans formed a new Church-style committee that will investigate the “weaponization” of the federal government as well as a committee on competition with China that many, but not all, Democrats supported.
The investigative committee looking into abuses by the federal government and intelligence agencies will be given “at least as much” funding as the sham January 6 committee received, according to Business Insider. The vote in the House for the committee was 221 to 211 with all Republicans voting for it and all Democrats voting against it.
The Church-style committee is officially recognized as the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” and will be housed under the House Judiciary Committee. The panel will be authorized to investigate executive branch agencies, particularly intelligence agencies, that gather information on American citizens.
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“We call that the tin foil hat committee,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Pete Aguilar stated at a press conference on Tuesday while adding that they will seek to join every official committee and subcommittee possible in the 118th Congress.
Aguilar said that it’s in the Democrats’ best interest to ensure that Republicans “don’t have an opportunity, behind closed doors, to shape and to add to these conspiracy theories.”
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