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Eric Swalwell Slams Kevin McCarthy To His Face: ‘You Are A P*ssy’

During the GOP-led censure of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in June, his fellow California Democrat Eric Swalwell let Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) know exactly what he thought about him, and it nearly led to blows on the floor of the House of Representatives, according to a report from The Daily Beast.

Matt Fuller notes, “Democrats stood on the House floor and shouted ‘Shame!’ at their GOP colleagues. As the spectacle was taking place, one of the leaders of the demonstration, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), was standing in the well of the House near the speaker’s podium and delivered some harsh words to his fellow Californian. ‘This is pathetic,’ Swalwell allegedly told McCarthy, who was presiding over the House at the time. ‘You’re weak. You’re a weak man.'”

Fast-forward to the next day, and McCarthy decided he was man enough to confront Swalwell.

McCarthy: “If you ever say something like that to me again, I’m gonna kick the sh*t out of you.

Swalwell: “Are we really gonna do this?”

McCarthy: “Call me a p*ssy again, and I’ll kick your ass.”

Swalwell: “You. Are. A. P*ssy.”

The Speaker has a longstanding contentious relationship with Swalwell and even removed him from the House Intelligence Committee after the GOP narrowly won control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections. Many saw the move as payback for Swalwell’s calls for the two impeachments of failed, disgraced former president Donald Trump.

 

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House Republicans Losing Patience With Jim Jordan’s ‘Dumb’ Investigations

A former top adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan says many Republicans among the current House GOP caucus are “losing patience” and getting tired of “dumb,” politically-motivated investigations being conducted by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY) that have produced nothing but humiliating headlines.

Brendan Buck was a guest on MSNBC earlier this morning, and he told host Jonathan Lemire that the bogus investigations are taking a toll on a majority of the non-extremist member of the GOP.

“I feel for [House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy,” Buck noted. “A not insignificant part of the job of being speaker is stopping your members from doing something politically dumb — and that’s clearly what is going on here.”

“But the reality is, House members are losing patience with a lot of these investigations. That’s because they rushed out right after the election and said that, pretty plainly, that Joe Biden is part of some corruption deal with his son,” he continued. “In fact, Jim Jordan and James Comer, the two party chairman came out and said they have direct evidence that Joe Biden was part of some schemes with overseas dealings. Of course, six months later, we’ve not seen any of that.”

Buck concluded, “So, at some point, your members get tired, lose patience, and they want to see action — that’s what came to a head with Rep. Lauren Boebert. Kevin McCarthy has put that to bed, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that doesn’t bring itself back up in the not-too-distant future.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEHF-q4LamU

The reference to Boebert was her absurd motion to impeach President Joe Biden, which was put before the House in June.

House Republicans are trying to run interference for their lord and savior, Donald Trump, who has already been indicted in Manhattan and on 37 counts by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith. He’s also likely to be indicted within the next couple of months on charges of attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

The GOP has no ideas and no platform because they’re too busy trying to distract from the fact that the head of their party is a crook who steals nuclear secrets and then keeps them “hidden” in a lavatory at his Florida golf resort.

If and when Trump is found guilty, what will Republicans do then? Try to stage yet another coup?

 

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WATCH A Democratic Congresswoman Fact-Check The GOP For Their ‘Voter Fraud’ Claims

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) is sick and tired of hearing Republicans whine about voter fraud that they claim is being committed by Democrats, so she decided she’d set the record straight during a hearing on alleged voting irregularities in the District of Columbia.

Who’s cheating? Crockett asked.

“We haven’t had half as many hearings about guns as we’ve had on voting rights, and every time we seemingly have a hearing on voting rights, we’re talking about the fact that people are cheating, so let’s talk about who’s cheating”

Crockett then brought up the matter of Fox “News” having to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for lying about the 2020 election, along with a law in Georgia which reportedly kept 87,000 people in the Peach State from casting a ballot in 2018.

“I’m running out of time, so I’ma keep going,” she said.

“There also was this article because I don’t want us to base anything on Georgia at all. Please, Jesus, not Georgia. Because Georgia purged 87,000 votes.”

The minute Crockett mentioned Georgia, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attempted to interrupt, but the Texas Democrat refused to be denied, laying out the receipts that proved her allegation.

“I’m reclaiming my time. All right, so there were 87,000 people that were purged that were legitimate voters, so no we don’t want to copy off of Georgia,” she said.

“Also, another GOP voter admits he committed fraud. Another one in Pennsylvania, man who admits he voted for Trump with his dead mom’s name because he listened to too much propaganda.”

Crockett later noted that had she not been restricted by a time limit, she would gladly have kept listing instances of how the GOP cheats in elections.

Well, done Congresswoman Crockett! Keep slapping down the Republicans for their lies and hypocrisy.

 

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Former RNC Chief Destroys Jim Jordan’s ‘Dog And Pony Show’ Hearings: ‘Who You Mad At?’

Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele hilariously mocked House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s “weaponization” hearing held earlier this week, noting that the entire venture is turning out to prove exactly the opposite of what Jordan and his GOP allies in the House of Representatives had been hoping for.

Speaking with host Charles Blow on MSNBC Sunday morning, Steele was asked, “Michael, did Jordan’s performance during these hearings actually help Democrats prove their point, the only party weaponizing the government is the Republican Party?”

“Any time Jordan opens his mouth he proves that point,” Steele responded. “The reality is there’s no substance to any of this. This is just the dog and pony show, it’s like the worst you can come up with in the world where you can just make stuff up. So you’re trying to connect dots that do not exist. You’re grasping about little lines of this and a little line over here about something else, and none of it ever comes together.”

“So this idea of weaponization of the government is being done by the very people who are supposed to be investigating weaponization,” Steele continued. I guess by the Biden administration? Didn’t this all occur during Trump’s term in office? It was his Justice Department and FBI. It just kind of proves the point.”

“So, are you mad at Trump? Jordan, Jim, are you mad at Trump?” Steele concluded “Are you mad at Mr. [Bill] Barr? Who you mad at? What are you trying — where was the weaponization against Trump’s own people by Trump? Because that’s basically what we are looking at here.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reCQFZXWsKc
 

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Jim Jordan Gets Reminded Of His Sketchy Past After He Asks God To ‘Bless’ Whistleblowers

Clearly lacking in the area of self-awareness, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) thought it’d be a great idea to tweet out a blessing on whistleblowers after his Thursday hearing featuring two such witnesses from the FBI blew up in his face and made him and House Republicans look like complete fools.

The two men who testified on Thursday — Marcus Allen and Steve Friend — aren’t actually whistleblowers, many Democrats rightly noted. Instead, they directly interfered with or refused to take part into FBI investigations of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, as CNN reports.

The FBI officially revoked Allen’s security clearance on May 3 and listed a variety of reasons for doing so, including a September 29, 2021, email in which Allen called on FBI officials to exercise “extreme caution and discretion in pursuit of any investigative inquiries or leads pertaining to the events of” January 6, according to a copy of the letter.

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Friend, a former FBI agent working out of Florida, had his security clearance suspended in September 2022 for objecting to using a SWAT team to arrest a subject whom the FBI said was at the Capitol illegally on January 6. Friend, in a previous interview with CNN, said the force was unnecessary against an individual who had committed a misdemeanor offense.

Whistleblowers? Hardly. They’re just disgruntled clowns who got their feelings hurt when they were reprimanded for not doing their jobs. And they’re also getting paid by a former adviser to failed former president Donald Trump.

Yet despite all of those facts, Jordan tweeted out this:

That led to many Twitter users reminding Jordan about his own sketchy past while an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University. Several wrestlers on that team say they told Jordan they were being sexually abused by a team doctor, yet Jordan never brought the allegations to the proper authorities at the university.