James Comer Is Holding A Hearing

"We return not to focus on advancing this robust agenda of progress, but instead, to take up an authentically trivial pursuit, all based on the obsessive victimology of right-wing politics" -- Raskin begins by pointing out what a huge waste of time a hearing Hunter's laptop is pic.twitter.com/sQKdYRwC5A

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023

However nuts you already think these people are, please understand they are worse than that. And one of the key differences between these wackos and those of the past is that they are being fully embraced by House leadership. https://t.co/uWon0YW91z

— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) February 8, 2023

Donalds: "What does handled these" mean?

Roth: My understanding is that these tweets contained non-consensual nude tweets of Hunter Biden.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 8, 2023

About Hunter Biden dick pics.

AOC now noting that election operatives are complaining that they couldn't get away with injecting disinformation onto Twitter.

"A whole hearing about a 24-hour hiccup in a right wing political operation." pic.twitter.com/KOnpYAkCSe

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 8, 2023

AOC noting that Twitter had a specific rule about "go back to where you came from" on abuse of immigrations. They REMOVED their own Twitter policy to accommodate Trump's racism.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 8, 2023

Has anybody told Matt Taibbi about this?

Now Marge is talking Ivermectin.

Basically making shit up, but she has yet to ask for someone to be killed.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 8, 2023

MTG is really bad at her day job. See, e.g.:

My goodness -- Marjorie Taylor Greene smears Yoel Roth as a pedophile pic.twitter.com/8yyjS9k2nY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023

What Marjorie Taylor Greene really wants to be is a TikTok star.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 8, 2023

Gomez cedes to Goldman, who lays out that the NYPost story was inaccurate, and Comer bites, asking Goldman to prove it.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 8, 2023

Goldman: I hope you are not wasting taxpayer dollars into the civilian child for political purposes.

Comer, will the gentleman yield? Did Biden get him fired?

Goldman: Pressured Ukraine who was not prosecuting corrupt companies.

Comer: His son's corrupt company?

Goldman: Yes. pic.twitter.com/Cqz8CRQtEH

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 8, 2023

The GOP really wants to walk into that buzz saw again. And again, and again, and again.

Former Twitter exec Yoel Roth explains that the Hunter Biden laptop stuff at first glance bore a lot of similarities to the 2016 Russia hack and dump operation pic.twitter.com/GK3uh73SE6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023

Send in the clowns.

The 1st Amendment is as simple as legal language gets & not a single Republican member of this committee understands it. Not one. https://t.co/Csnj4SczaO

— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) February 8, 2023

Seems like gilding the lilly at this point but, yeah:

Something tells me a lot of these Republican show trials aren’t going to work out the way they plan. https://t.co/aobZaWE675

— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 8, 2023