The Absurd GOP

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Can’t…stop…laughing…

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

Plus, Polio’s been all but eradicated in the wild outside of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Reintroducing it for a vaccine trial, outside of the ethical question is fucking insane. Not to mention, given that the majority of people are vaccinated against Polio already, where the hell are we going to find people for this trial?

That’s not outside the ethical question, it IS the ethical question. In order to perform the idiotically useless trials this lawyer wants, you’d have to first infect healthy people with poliovirus. That’s Mengele-esque, that is.

Boru

Well, the lawyer and RFK could volunteer.

[Nanny]

The model could be the Tuskegee Syphilis Trial under this administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

A crime against humanity.

[Thumpalumpacus]

That’s not outside the ethical question, it IS the ethical question. In order to perform the idiotically useless trials this lawyer wants, you’d have to first infect healthy people with poliovirus. That’s Mengele-esque, that is.

Boru

Well, the lawyer and RFK could volunteer.

They have the luxury of already having the shots before telling everyone else to avoid them.

[Rev. Rye]

Well, the lawyer and RFK could volunteer.

They have the luxury of already having the shots before telling everyone else to avoid them.

To be fair, close to 93% of Americans have already had the full course of polio vaccinations. That said, the prospect of these rates going down is nothing short of terrifying, especially when you remember the Samoa measles outbreak, or know anything about polio outbreaks of the past.

Putting this bullshit plan into action would probably be the single worst health care decision the US government has ever made.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Republicans released a report Tuesday reviewing the “failures and politicization” of the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee, capping their investigation by recommending a criminal investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).

The 128-page interim report forwards many of the claims circulated by the GOP since the committee was organized, complaining the Jan. 6 select committee was improperly constituted and unfairly pinned blame on President-elect Trump.

“Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar Select Committee was a political weapon with a singular focus to deceive the public into blaming President Trump for the violence on January 6 and to tarnish the legacy of his first Presidency,” the report states.

The report’s conclusion also calls for an FBI investigation into Cheney, accusing her of witness tampering by being in touch with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide.

It’s a claim that if pursued would likely face significant roadblocks but that nonetheless comes as Trump has suggested members of the Jan. 6 panel should “go to jail” for their work.

The suggestion and the panel’s report at large was excoriated by Cheney.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/50451...committee/

[Nanny]

Straight outta Nineteen Eighty-Four. The truth goes down the memory hole.

[arewethereyet]

I keep seeing articles about all the things going on in Congress now that we are within weeks of "the exchange of power" and what I see is both sides are running around like The Keystone Cops.

This is such a clusterfuck.

The other thing that come to mind is: Duck season, wabbit season, duck season, wabbit season.

[Sheldon]

Republicans released a report Tuesday reviewing the “failures and politicization” of the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee, capping their investigation by recommending a criminal investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).

The 128-page interim report forwards many of the claims circulated by the GOP since the committee was organized, complaining the Jan. 6 select committee was improperly constituted and unfairly pinned blame on President-elect Trump.

“Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar Select Committee was a political weapon with a singular focus to deceive the public into blaming President Trump for the violence on January 6 and to tarnish the legacy of his first Presidency,” the report states.

The report’s conclusion also calls for an FBI investigation into Cheney, accusing her of witness tampering by being in touch with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide.

It’s a claim that if pursued would likely face significant roadblocks but that nonetheless comes as Trump has suggested members of the Jan. 6 panel should “go to jail” for their work.

The suggestion and the panel’s report at large was excoriated by Cheney.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/50451...committee/

Not a surprise really, the lengths Trump will go to, to seek petty revenge, and to re-write history are pretty much well known. All I am left wondering now, is how much damage can he do in 4 years?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Yup that report is totally legit and in no way partisan