Republican goes on wild rant to push FBI Jan. 6 "ghost buses" conspiracy theory at hearing

Ghostalmedia, 6 months ago

How the hell does a nation even dig itself out of this disinformation / conspiracy theory rat hole?

This shit is so depressing.

agent_flounder, 6 months ago

I think it will have to be a long coordinated fight and grass roots involvement. There is a lot to fix.

NovaPrime, 6 months ago

For starters, stop treating these people as serious people, regardless of position or economic/political standing. This clowns and his kind should have their mics automatically cut off and all interviews immediately ended the moment they start bringing this shit up with any level of seriousness. We have to stop treating them as sane people with valuable opinions worthy of attention the moment they start spouting fucking reality denying nonsense like the mental patients they are.

hogunner, 6 months ago

Get money out of politics. Nothing will fundamentally change until we accomplish this.

eran_morad, 6 months ago

I think this is the rather depressing truth.

OldWoodFrame, 6 months ago

I often think House seats should be smaller, there used to be 33k people per district, now it’s over 700k.

But fewer people per district would make for some idiosyncrasies and guys like this make me think we have enough weirdos in the House as is.

ApostleO, 6 months ago

I agree, but we’d have to restructure how the House does business.

The current count of Representatives is 435. If we were to go back to old ratios at 30k, we’d have 11,300 Representatives.

We’d have to break it up into smaller, constituent houses, or something.

RestrictedAccount, 6 months ago

Too many people to bribe

Zipitydew, 6 months ago

If we went back to 210k people per Rep it’s about 1555. 210k is the ratio last time apportionment was done in 1912 or something like that.

The math isn’t the point though. Republicans won’t budge regardless because any increase damages their inherent advantage.

kryptonianCodeMonkey, 6 months ago

A sizable reason for the current state of eccentric weirdos in the House is the Gerrymandering happening all over the place. Makes it way easier to win based on notoriety and the letter next to your name alone.

RestrictedAccount, 6 months ago

Op’s solution would fix that

kryptonianCodeMonkey, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

It can help. But smaller districts can still be gerrymandered.

RestrictedAccount, 6 months ago

Fair enough, but there would be vanishing small returns because math.

QHC, 6 months ago

It’s harder and less effective with more districts, however.

TechyDad, 6 months ago

I think it would balance out because those idiots might be more numerous, but they would have less power. So maybe a few Representatives would be looney, but they wouldn’t be able to get much done against the even larger ranks of sane members.

homesweethomeMrL, 6 months ago

Well, you’d hope

FuglyDuck, 6 months ago

and then you discover… all the other loonies that get elected, too.

SoylentBlake, 6 months ago

Conservatives should love this, as it’s part of the Original plan right?

Uncap the house. More reps = less power per rep.

I will ALWAYS err on the side of diluting power. Always, All ways.

son_named_bort, 6 months ago

🎶 Your recent lie

Didn’t go your way

Who you gonna blame?

Ghost buses!🎶

Nightwingdragon, 6 months ago

“I asked you, ‘Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6, prior to the doors being open?’ You responded. I quote again, ‘I have to be very careful of what I say,’”

I’m going to guess Higgins has never heard of the term “ongoing federal investigations”. If, for example, the feds are currently investigating the Proud Boys, Wray answering that question would put those investigations at risk and possibly risk exposing any undercover investigators that are on the case. Even his statement of “I have to be very careful of what I say” is all but an admission that at the very least, some kind of investigation is going on.

eran_morad, 6 months ago

Another republicunt trying to convince me that I’m the idiot. No, fuck you. I have eyes in my head and I am able to observe and accept physical reality. Fuck off and die.

Bakkoda, 6 months ago

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Additional_Prune, 6 months ago

There are lots of these angry, stupid people. Some of them are at high levels of government–for example Clay Higgins. Democracy in the United States is in grave danger. Millions of Americans have abandoned reality and want bloody revenge on their perceived enemies.

Rapidcreek, 6 months ago

When you absolutely, positively have to have an insurrection on short notice, who you gonna call?

Fades, 6 months ago

Fucking traitor and psycho

eran_morad, 6 months ago

That’s like 99.9999999% of all repubs.

homesweethomeMrL, 6 months ago

Christ, what a shitweasel

Birdie, 6 months ago

He is nothing but an embarrassment to Louisiana. His FB page is filled with what sounds like drunken rantings.

bostonbananarama, 6 months ago

Just a quick question, how would one go about embarrassing Louisiana? Seems like a tall order…

BolexForSoup, 6 months ago

Watch Senator Kennedy, take notes.

Birdie, 6 months ago

It would be very very hard, but Rep Higgins certainly makes it look easy.