House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is taking his dog and pony show to Manhattan today in an effort to curry favor with indicted former president Donald Trump, and he got one hell of a welcome from New Yorkers as his “field hearing” began.
Jordan claims the purpose of the hearing is to focus on crime in Manhattan and failures allegedly made by the borough’s district attorney, Alvin Bragg, who indicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records last month.
According to Punchbowl News correspondent Mica Soellner, Jordan was greeted by New Yorkers by calls for the Ohio Republican to be indicted for treason.
Protestors are trying to disrupt the @JudiciaryGOP’s hearing with signs calling to indict Jordan and calling him a “traitor.” There’s a lot of shouting now that can be heard from the hearing room. pic.twitter.com/xMivau7WQk
The hearing could also wind up being humiliating for Jordan in other ways, according to political analyst Matthew Dowd, who said Sunday during an appearance on MSNBC:
“If he really wanted to find out answers to the unanswered questions about crime, then hold it on the Ohio State University campus and ask about the sexual abuse scandals that occurred while he was the wrestling coach. That would be a more formal and more interesting thing to find out undiscovered information.”
When he brings down the gavel Monday for a House Judiciary Committee hearing being held on the topic of crime in Manhattan, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) may wish he had never conceived of what is clearly a publicity stunt, according to a political analyst.
Matthew Dowd told MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday morning that as Jordan continues his accusations against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for what he calls his “pro-crime, anti-victim policies,” the congressman had better expect his own sordid past to be fair game for Democrats on the committee.
Specifically, Dowd noted, is the lingering questions about Jordan’s involvement in the sexual assault of wrestlers at Ohio State University while he was a coach of the team. Jordan never reported any of the attacks on student-athletes.
“The facts is, not only does Columbus have three times the crime rate that New York City has, the actual hometown and where Jim Jordan is from has a higher crime rate a small town has a higher crime rate than New York City in the course that eight of the top ten crime rate states in America are red states,” Dowd began.
That led to Dowd referencing Jordan’s past:
“And, the other thing, I’ll just add: if he really wanted to find out answers to the unanswered questions about crime, then hold it on the Ohio State University campus and ask about the sexual abuse scandals that occurred while he was the wrestling coach. That would be a more formal and more interesting thing to find out undiscovered information.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jm0HiRXBhc&t=1s
Monday’s hearing should be fascinating in all sorts of ways.
All week long, social media has been littered with various meltdowns, protests, and calls for boycotts of Bud Light beer and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch, for daring to partner with a trans influencer by the name of Dylan Mulvaney, who is a major star on TikTok.
As Business Insider reports, many right-wingers and other conservative crybabies have been posting videos of themselves destroying cans of Bud Light (which of course they first had to purchase) and vowing to never ever drink any Budweiser product again.
Now conservatives, angry with the brand’s association with Mulvaney, started taking out their rage on beer cans.
One example was the singer and far-right figure Kid Rock, who posted a video on his Instagram page. In the video, he uses his rifle to shoot multiple cans of Bud Light stacked atop each other on a wooden table.
Other far-right wingers quickly caught on and found ways to show their displeasure with the brand. Some people — like TikTok user tanmanwho — tossed their beers into garbage cans.
Man sticks it to Anheuser-Busch by throwing out all the Bud Light he bought.
However, it turns out that the Republican establishment isn’t ready to dump Bud, Bud Light, or Anheuser-Busch. Why? Well, because they desperately need their campaign contributions, which are significant, according to The Daily Beast.
This comes shortly after the NRCC accused Bud Light of tasting like water and attempting to raise money off that premise.
“Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water,” the NRCC said in a since-deleted tweet that The Daily Beast reviewed and can be seen below. “With our new koozie’s, you can make sure no one confuses Bud Light with real beer ever again.”
A corresponding page for GOP fundraising was also given the delete button, but not before screenshots could be made.
“Woke companies making you feel like drinking?” the fundraiser continued, using Bud Light’s iconic blue writing. “Then this limited-edition koozie is perfect for you! Just chip in $10 to CLAIM YOUR LIMITED-EDITION KOOZIE!”
How much money are we talking about that the NRCC was afraid to give up? Well, in the 2022 election cycle, Anheuser-Busch and its employees gave the NRCC almost $465,000.
One GOP operative told The Daily Beast (off the record, of course), “I assume they backtracked because they realized they were biting the hand that feeds them, and as soon as word gets around about that, why would anyone else give them big money in the future?”
If you listen closely, you can almost hear the homophobic right-wing snowflakes having a hissy fit.
Gather ’round, class. Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to enlighten us all on the topic of climate change.
Yes, you read that correctly: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) decided she’d take to social media and explain climate change by dismissing it as something that just happens and is no biggie.
“If you believe that today’s ‘climate change’ is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled. We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one another while our galaxy rotates and travels through the universe. Considering all of that, yes our climate will change, and it’s totally normal! There is no amount of taxes or carbon reduction that will stop or tame weather events or climate change. But there are some very powerful people that are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams convincing many that carbon is the enemy and that if humans sacrifice enough energy producing things we can actually control the climate. Don’t fall for the scam, fossil fuels are natural and amazing. They produce an abundance of energy that we all need to survive along with more products than you can possibly imagine.”
If you believe that today’s “climate change” is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled.
We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one… pic.twitter.com/Tpzpgd2K2i
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 15, 2023
What in the living hell does that even mean? The planet is spinning and moving while the galaxy rotates, so that’s why we have climate change? There’s dumb, and there’s Marjorie Taylor Greene dumb.
But something good did come out of Greene’s gibberish: The mocking replies.
It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that someone like this holds a position of power and responsibility – where did we go so wrong?? https://t.co/4TlEPIwbcB
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said Saturday on MSNBC that he was absolutely disgusted by remarks made by failed former president Donald Trump when he addressed the 2023 NRA convention.
Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, Bowman noted that Trump’s continued denial that guns are a reason the United States has so many mass shootings, the congressman let loose with a verbal fusillade.
“Donald Trump is the thug! Donald Trump is the thug. He admitted on video, excuse me, he was being recorded and didn’t know he was being recorded, he admitted to sexually assaulting women!”
Bowman was just getting warmed up, however, adding, “He is a man that has engaged in business practices that have been criminal, where he has had to shut down Trump University after raising all kinds of money. He doesn’t pay his taxes. He incited an insurrection! He is the thug.”
The congressman then used the words of another MSNBC host to fully excoriate the disgraced ex-president:
“To quote your colleague, [Medhi] Hasan, every accusation by the GOP is a confession. That is who he is, and that is who they have been banning books, attacks on trans communities, cutting Medicare, cutting Social Security, doing nothing about guns their thuggish behavior leads to the death of people.”
