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travisview.bsky.social • 127 days ago

Trump is asking Congressional Republicans to publicly stain their souls as proof of their total compliance.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/exclusive-woman-told-house-ethics-panel-witnessed-gaetz/story?id=115897603

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profmarylewis.bsky.social•126 days ago

Johnson says shouldn’t release ethics reports on people who’ve left Congress. But what if they’ve left Congress BECAUSE of the impending ethics report? We all know this has to be partly why Trump made this appointment.

If the report isn’t released, Trump and Gaetz make a mockery of the committee.

profmarylewis.bsky.social•126 days ago

Also gotta love this line from the article: “Merrick Garland's DOJ cleared Matt Gaetz and didn't charge him. Are you alleging Garland is part of a cover up?"

I mean, at a minimum he lacked guts.

embracebecoming.bsky.social•126 days ago

Garland could find his ass with both hands and a map tatood upside-down on his stomach

kaiflai.bsky.social•126 days ago

I’ve actually suspected him of being a maga plant for a long time now.

jennparish.bsky.social•126 days ago

What souls?

carterkalchik.bsky.social•127 days ago

It’s genuinely so disturbing to see this happening and for the media to be covering it like it’s any old thing.

bertthekitten.bsky.social•126 days ago

Who’s up who’s down

urbanexile.bsky.social•126 days ago

It's not like he has not already asked 10000 times previously. And they have complied.

delteilh.bsky.social•126 days ago

Institutionalizing a rape culture across America seems the goal in this continuing the war on women.

rogerailes.bsky.social•126 days ago

Much too late.

vinosmax.bsky.social•126 days ago

And they will do it.

simon-t-vesper.bsky.social•127 days ago

first order of business under a fascist regime: loyalty tests.

josephrusso.bsky.social•126 days ago

Love to see it.

anniemouse.bsky.social•126 days ago

GODDAMMITMATT!

That couch was brand new!

That’s the fourth one this month!

happyrumrunner.bsky.social•126 days ago

they'll happily oblige

also: what are the Republicans' souls you speak of?

ramshackle78.bsky.social•126 days ago

It's how you break people to make them compliant: you get them to compromise themselves and everything they ever held as principle or morality.
All it would take is for people to feel their spine but he's rightly banking on most of them being craven cowards

m33gs.bsky.social•126 days ago

he resigned his seat in the house which "ended the investigation" that had been wrapping up after a year of investigating... there is something very wrong with how the government operates. we are knowingly allowing criminals to take over the country what the actual fuck

dwcrules.bsky.social•126 days ago

Ritual humiliation is the price of the bargain; the osculum infame.

edholden.bsky.social•126 days ago

I wonder if they will debase themselves and endanger their own constituents that way ... ... Yes they will.

kaiten9653.bsky.social•126 days ago

You say this as though Congressional Republicans have souls.

plumerjr.bsky.social•126 days ago

They’d have to scrape off the stains already there to add more.

greengluon.bsky.social•126 days ago

What souls?

gandylynn.bsky.social•126 days ago

And they will comply because they like themselves more than democracy.

stub22.bsky.social•126 days ago

This must be hardest on the Congressional Republicans with unstained souls!

therese03.bsky.social•126 days ago

Their existence in the House or Senate is a myth.

ncsteve.bsky.social•126 days ago

“Dignity wraithing” as Josh Marshal at TPM calls it. He engineers and requires the total surrender of every shred of dignity as a dominance display.

yarnlover.bsky.social•126 days ago

If you collected all the spines of the Republicans in Congress, you still wouldn't have enough backbone for a functioning vertebrate.

strangernalps.bsky.social•126 days ago

Can we please stop with this good Republican nonsense? There are very few Democrats with souls. There are no republicans. They will do whatever is most expedient for power. Full stop.

kdiannerule.bsky.social•127 days ago

Charming.

rawfrustrations.bsky.social•126 days ago

they have no souls

zaeff.bsky.social•126 days ago

He's asking them to break their oath to our country.
They serve the American people not Trump.

loriva.bsky.social•126 days ago

Read rumor on the Hill is that Elon Musk is threatening to fund a primary challenge to any House Republican who doesn't fall in line with Trump's agenda. Will be interesting.

imelven.bsky.social•126 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/imelven.bsky.social/post/3lauarbee7k24

colectable.bsky.social•126 days ago

This is presupposing they have souls, first mistake.

karyn628.bsky.social•126 days ago

So you know what will happen now? They will lower the age of consent to 12 so none of them fuck “underage” girls

pxtl.ca•126 days ago

Why bother? Laws don't apply to those guys anyways.

ravenwritindesk.bsky.social•126 days ago

Brought to you by the party of personal responsibility and "protect the kids."

rgh1205.bsky.social•126 days ago

I trust that is not disqualifying for a Second Trump Attorney General.

rgh1205.bsky.social•126 days ago

Exactly. He is humiliating his own party into full submission. He knows these choices are awful. They are so on purpose. He is like a serial killer with his prey. It is eerie.
But the price of eggs.

ojaidebs.bsky.social•126 days ago

I’m confused. Aren’t their souls already stained

romansmith.bsky.social•110 days ago

Permanently

colleenkuhn.bsky.social•126 days ago

Leaking the report makes their lives exponentially better

mamamia1959.bsky.social•126 days ago

Won't be the first or last time he does this.

Smh.

blorp3.bsky.social•126 days ago

they will likely comply, but not out of ideology. They will be bribed in some manner.

monkyhead.com•126 days ago

demanding/threatening is a form of asking, I suppose

jnotj.bsky.social•126 days ago

Lucky for them they're soulless

sandyparker.bsky.social•126 days ago

Yes sir may I have another!

flower4power.bsky.social•126 days ago

Most of the GOP have no souls, or conscience.

chrononaut.bsky.social•126 days ago

They'll do it.

And afterwards he'll own them 100%.

Just like he owns the souls and lives of his cultists - because he made them diverge from reality and morality so much, that now they have nothing but him.

edwarddavid.bsky.social•125 days ago

And if for them cruelty wasn't the point at first is certainly is now. They have no refuge within moral decency and they know it, and they know you know that they know it, so they have to be "all in" with the antisocial oppositional defiance.

mishap93.bsky.social•126 days ago

They're already elected republicans

chqm8.bsky.social•126 days ago

And they likely will comply.

thatac.bsky.social•126 days ago

Ha ha ha!!!
Jokes on you... they are souless!

luxechronicles.bsky.social•126 days ago

What souls? Whatever wisp of moral fortitude most mainstream Republicans could plausibly claim to have vaporized after they failed to stand up to the big lie and the January 6 insurrection.

letsgetreal.bsky.social•126 days ago

anhos.bsky.social•125 days ago

“Merrick Garland's DOJ cleared Matt Gaetz and didn't charge him. Are you alleging Garland is part of a cover up?"What did he answer?

zimjay.bsky.social•126 days ago

#CutTheCable
Starve them 👍
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