So, Rick Scott Doesn't Speak For The GOP On Social Security/Medicare

thank you for reiterating that Republicans do indeed want to cut Social Security and Medicare https://t.co/LwnkoOsjCj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023

It should have just ended here. https://t.co/5k56iktDUp

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) February 8, 2023

Does Gym Jordan speak for the GOP on the First Amendment? Or is he the GOP’s "Ilhan Omar"?

I…oh my god https://t.co/PKc1rzEFyx

— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) February 8, 2023

I'm not really sure at this moment how this is a thing, but I'm enjoying it anyway.

Here is the tweet Trump wanted taken down: https://t.co/jU9BQmwepf

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) February 8, 2023

I'm very surprised Matt Taibbi wasn't upset about this interference from the White House.

Gosar is struggling. None of the witnesses understand him. pic.twitter.com/OEStyo5alD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023

Is Paul Gosar channeling the spirit of a William F. Buckley impersonator?  I've been wondering since I first saw him in a hearing this week.  Or is he the lizard person I keep hearing about? (Or was Buckley, for that matter?)

The cognitive dissonance here is just amazing.

They're holding a hearing about supposed government interference with a social media site to decide which content is allowed.

In the same breath, they want to government to force a cable carrier to pay for a specific channel. https://t.co/gSBvkUcr0H

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) February 8, 2023

The confusion here is based on an error. Republicans in the House don't want to do anything. They just want to stir up outrage, and raise money off of it. There is no Grand Old Party anymore. There's just a bunch of grifters stealing the party label so they can con people out of coin.

RASKIN: Did I hear you say there were hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Twitter accounts set up by Russian propaganda and disinformation?

ROTH: That's right. Those accounts are still active on social media today.

RASKIN: Well, we should be having a hearing about that pic.twitter.com/1iLI9Imt14

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 8, 2023

Oh, hell, as long as I'm repeating tweets (I did use that one earlier, didn't I? Well, it bears repeating.), I'll repeat this one, too:

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

Because:

"You didn't shadow ban or permanently ban my Democrat opponent," Greene complained. "No, you did that to me. And that was wrong, and it was against the law. It's not only me that you violated my First Amendment rights; you violated countless conservative Americans."

"Guess what," she told Roth. "I'm so glad that you're censored now, and I'm so glad you've lost your job. Thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter."

At one point, Greene held up giant posters of her banned tweets.

"You violated me," she insisted. "You called that Covid misinformation. By the way, I'm a member of Congress, and you're not."

Being a MOC does not grant your pronouncements a privileged status or an imprimatur of truth (or even “truthiness”). And banning a Twitter account is not a personal violation. It’s the same thing as the shopping mall that says you can’t harangue customers within their private space. Even governments can restrict where and when you speak (try shouting out the headlines in a courtroom when the judge is there). Private internet platforms have even more authority over who they host.

MTG really thinks her shit don’t stink. 💩