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summer_in_TX

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13. People in positions of power dressed in suits

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Thu Jan 19, 2023, 01:39 AM

Jan 2023

holding hearings and gathering "testimony" are automatically given credence by many. After all, they're in a position to know. Combined with Republican talking points, they're deadly effective propaganda.

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It Is Comforting--But Foolish--to Believe the House GOP Inquisition Will Fail [View all] Nevilledog Jan 2023 OP

Republicans are dead serious, as J6 has hopefully taught us dlk Jan 2023 #1

No one has wrote them off .................... Lovie777 Jan 2023 #2

The "investigations" will only succeed as propaganda tools. louis-t Jan 2023 #3

Besides holding the debt ceiling hostage, Elessar Zappa Jan 2023 #4

I guess we'll have to find out if they are willing to Bettie Jan 2023 #12

k&r for visibility alwaysinasnit Jan 2023 #5

their witnesses will tell them what they want to hear rampartc Jan 2023 #6

Biden may be impeached, but he will never be convicted in the Senate... First Speaker Jan 2023 #7

What these republicans must be allowed to do Turbineguy Jan 2023 #8

The more people they can convince that everybody is corrupt and that there is no sense everyonematters Jan 2023 #9

The Republicans have everything to gain by sowing distrust of government and general chaos Red Mountain Jan 2023 #10

"..what it is doing might be dangerous but ultimately so crazy that it cannot possibly succeed." Septua Jan 2023 #11

People in positions of power dressed in suits summer_in_TX Jan 2023 #13