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Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 03:28 AM Feb 2022

If repugs get a majority in the House or Senate...

They will go wild with real witch hunt investigations and supeona everyone and everything that has criticised Trump in the past.

Will Dems ignore the supeonas or will they comply and play along?

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betsuni

(25,531 posts)
1. Doesn't matter. Republicans are incompetent idiots, nothing will come of any investigations
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 03:41 AM
Feb 2022

except wasted time.

unblock

(52,235 posts)
3. I disagree. The emails & Benghazi witch hunts were key to donnie winning in 2016
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 04:09 AM
Feb 2022

If you mean they're incompetent at investigating to uncover the truth, or to get successful prosecutions, sure, they're incompetent idiots at that.

But that's not really their goal.

betsuni

(25,531 posts)
4. I blame the media for that.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 04:18 AM
Feb 2022

MSM endlessly repeating emails and the idiots supposedly on the Left who kept up a constant Wall Street/Corrupt/Warmonger/establishment BS attack.

unblock

(52,235 posts)
5. Absolutely the media was and remains reprehensible. But it's hand and glove
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 05:00 AM
Feb 2022

Between the right-wing fake smear machine and the media that just eats it up.

The media should have covered the investigations as a high-risk fishing expedition for the republicans. Gambling that they'll find proof of criminality. That way, there's a consequence for coming up short.

The way the media covered it, Hillary lost even though she was cleared of wrongdoing and republicans won even though they abused their powers unethically and wasted tons of federal money and time for zero indictments.

So of course republicans smear democrats. The media makes it a gamble republicans can't lose no matter what.

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
13. .. and lower poll numbers for dems like what happened to Clinton. The GQP is better at message ...
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 11:26 AM
Feb 2022

... mechanics than dems and know how to take full advantage of their show trials.

Haggard Celine

(16,846 posts)
2. I think they'll have to comply, just like Hillary did.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 03:44 AM
Feb 2022

It might depend on what Jim Jordan and others do if they're subpoenaed by the 1/6 Committee. If they refuse to comply and aren't compelled by the courts to testify, then Democrats might ignore subpoenas as well. Refusing to testify is not a good look, though. I think Democrats should do all they can to get members of Congress to testify and should testify themselves if told to do so. It's bullshit that some people can ignore subpoenas about it while others go to jail for it.

 

Busterscruggs

(448 posts)
6. Our side
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 07:58 AM
Feb 2022

Doesn't do anything wrong. They can dig all they want to but there is nothing to find and it is only theater. The public knows this.

Emile

(22,764 posts)
7. There is a lot at stake in the midterm election! We have to GOTV!
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 08:06 AM
Feb 2022

I just pray our votes are counted!

kentuck

(111,097 posts)
8. It will be much worse than that if they also put Trump back into the White House.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 08:09 AM
Feb 2022

There will be revenge. People will be imprisoned. People will disappear.

I don't think we can imagine how bad it might get.

madville

(7,410 posts)
11. Hunter Biden is at the top of their list for investigations
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 08:46 AM
Feb 2022

They’ll be able to drag that out at least 6-12 months. China and Ukraine business dealings, the laptop saga, etc.

Hotler

(11,424 posts)
12. Political enemy's will be arrested immediately and or killed.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 11:22 AM
Feb 2022

Death squads will roam the streets looking for dems and libs to kill. Think Augusto Pinochet.

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