Has there been a House Committee Hearing where the Republicans didn't step on a rake?

[brooklynite]

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[marble falls]

1. Didn't he join DoJ under TFG? Wasn't he unfirable because he was on an active investigation?

[Bev54]

4. He also supervised, with Rosenstein, Mueller's investigation and his limitations.

[marble falls]

7. And then this crap got blamed on Garland. Hur was not the only landmine TFG had planted in DoJ.

[Bev54]

9. No the guy that supervised Hur is also a holdover. I am disappointed in Garland's appointment of him

and not cleaning out the Trump holdovers.

[Ocelot II]

2. They probably got their rakes at Four Seasons Landscaping back in 2020.

[Lovie777]

3. OK..............................

I'm puzzled, what exactly was the purpose of this hearing?

[TwilightZone]

6. The GOP thought they could run the show and make Biden look worse.

They were mistaken. It's being turned around on them quite skillfully, though they should have foreseen that outcome because that's usually how these things turn out.

[marble falls]

8. To make home repeat his old gentleman quote in his report repeated. Sewell and Rustin just plain blew it up ...

... and it seems Hur was honest in his answers.

[dutch777]

5. True, but it's red meat to the MAGA base that they are "going after the evil doers" and don't let facts get in the way

I am glad that Swalwell and Raskins are setting the record straight. I doubt that many who should, are paying attention. There was an article in this past week's Sunday NYT on the propensity of Americans to try and "manifest" reality. Basically, it they think hard enough that something should be true to their way of thinking, it will become true. Sort of like Trump and others repeating a lie long and hard enough, at least in some people's minds, it becomes the facts and the truth, reality be damned. I think those of us with a reasonable temperament and somewhat logical thought process almost can't believe anyone would buy into any of this wild departure from reality. Seemingly though, many do. Whether it is poor education, too busy to really delve into things or as George Will put it so well "The problem is not that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is, he confuses it with feeling".

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

10. This gif is especially apropos since...

both Kelsey Grammer and Bob Terwilliger are republicans!

[senseandsensibility]

11. For some reason CNN and MSNBC don't seem to think

this exchange is newsworthy.

[Prairie_Seagull]

12. "Just hit my hand as hard as you can"

Long:

Two workers were digging underground at a construction site . It was really a tiring job.

Worker A: “Why the hell we need to do all the hard job here for only a meager pay, while that arrogant foreman just sits there sipping the tea so comfy, and pockets much more than us?”

Worker B, sweating uncontrollably, said: “You’re damn right. I need to find out why now!”

So Worker B comes to the Foreman asking the same question.

The Foreman said: “Because, you know, because you two are stupid and I’m cleverer than you.”

Worker B said he did not understand; and the Foremen offered to demonstrate. The Foreman placed his hand on the wall nearby and asked Worker B to hit his hand as hard as he can.

Worker B obliged, and used his ham fist trying to aim at and hit the hand of the Foreman, who retracted his hand at the last moment.

After hitting his bare fist on the hard wall, Worker B, amid his great pain, heard the Foreman said: “Now you know why I am cleverer than you.”

Worker B went back to Worker A, who demanded to know what had happened. Worker B told him about the Foreman’s “stupid/clever men” dichotomy. But Worker A just did not get it.

Worker B proclaimed: “I was stupid but now I’m stupid no more. Let me show you why I’m now cleverer than you! You just hit my hand as hard as you can.”

Then Worker B put his hand on his own face.

Fount on Reddit. This is an old joke.