Enough With the Political Theater More Focused on Driving Fundraising Clickbait Than Holding the Biden Administration Accountable
The Victorian Era is over, which the Left figured out decades ago.
Another hearing, another round of clips from Republicans aimed at generating donations. I’ve long referred to these clips as clickbait. This clickbait is meant for the most partisan Republicans who spend most of their days tuned into their favored radio or television channels, forward along unverified drivel from emails and social media, gladly donate money, and never question why those hearings never result in consequences for the Left. I, for one, am damn sick of them. I don’t want to see another clip of Jim Jordan with his coat off rapidly regurgitating whatever talking points his staff wrote as he gets the better of Merrick Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, or any other Biden Administration official.
I think we all get the formula now:
See Jim send damning letter.
See Jim hold a hearing.
See Jim go at someone.
See Jim fundraise using the clickbait.
The part Jim and the other Republican chairs and leaders leave out is this one:
See Biden Administration official ignore or evade questions and walk away without suffering any consequences.
I’m not trying to pick on Jordan, as the same criticism applies to James Comer, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, Rand Paul, and every other Republican who pushes their clickbait performances without ever getting even a breadcrumb of accountability from the Left.
The Left employs the same formula. The only difference is their formula ends with consequences. Those consequences includes two impeachments of Donald Trump, the hounding and bankrupting of Trump Administration officials, criminal charges filed against Trump Administration officials, guilty verdicts against Trump Administration officials, and blacklists of Trump Administration officials sent to all possible employers. The Left didn’t worry about developing cases, gathering evidence, or other pesky due process items. They understand they are engaged in a political, not legal, trench politifare battle for the soul of America, so operate under a “by all means necessary” political mentality.
What I wouldn’t give for a Speaker like Nancy “Inside Trader” Pelosi, zero sum game Chairmen like Adam “Eyeballs” Schiff and Jerry “Roly Poly” Nadler, and shameless mouthpieces like Eric “Feng Feng” Swalwell and Dan “Trust Fund” Goldman. If we had bare-fisted fighters like them, here is what would have already happened:
Garland and Mayorkas (and possibly other cabinet officials) already would have been impeached for their acts and omissions or at least driven from office;
Every Biden family member who received foreign funds would have been subpoenaed, deposed, and hauled in front of several committees to explain in detail what they did to earn those funds;
Every one of the 51 “intelligence” personnel who signed the fraudulent letter saying Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation would have been subpoenaed, deposed, and forced to testify multiple times and the procedure to remove their security clearances would have been initiated (please don’t ask me why Donald Trump didn’t do anything to revoke their clearances);
Ex-staffers like Jen Psaki and Ronald Klain would have been subpoenaed, deposed, and forced to testify countless times as part of a "make them pay legal fees until it hurts" plan;
Every prosecutor and judge involved in the 1/6 and Antifa riot cases would have been subpoenaed and deposed to answer detailed questions about their acts and omissions related to both types of cases, including charging and sentencing details;
Any person mentioned in the Durham report who played so much as a scintilla of a part in the Russia, Alfa, and Laptop hoaxes would have been subpoenaed, deposed, and forced to testify multiple times, especially Jim Comey, Marc Elias, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Christopher Steele, Charles Dolan, Rodney Joffe, James Baker, Jim Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, Joe Biden, Sally Yates, and Michael Sussman;
Every individual working for Twitter/X, Meta/Facebook/Instagram, TikTok, and other social media companies involved in any way with content screening, suppression, or monitoring, including all officers and directors of those companies would have been subpoenaed, deposed, and forced to testify on their efforts to suppress information from/beneficial to the Right or harmful to the Left and vice-versa;
Any person in the private, non-profit, or government sector who played any role involving the use of “Zuck Bucks” would have been subpoenaed, deposed, and forced to testify;
Any person involved in any way with the movement, storage, and review of Biden’s documents from his time in the U.S. Senate and Vice Presidency, including all University of Pennsylvania and University of Delaware personnel, as well as UPenn personnel involved in any aspect, including fundraising, of the Biden Penn Center, would have been subpoenaed, deposed, and forced to testify; and
Impeachment articles against Joe Biden would have been filed.
You can disagree with whether these things should be done or not from a strategic standpoint, but Pelosi et al. would have done them and cared not one iota about whether it was right or wrong. She just wants to win and make the other side suffer as much as possible. We need fighters like her.
And it wouldn’t have been just Congress. Any of the above actions also would have been pursued by George Soros-funded Democrat District Attorneys, Attorneys General, city prosecutors, and U.S. Attorneys in any jurisdiction where any element so much as touched their jurisdictions, no matter how lightly. Where are the cases in Republican states and cities against individuals involved in any of these items? Can only Democrats use geocaching technology to identify rioters and vandals? Why has not one case been brought by Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares in Virginia against the protestors harassing Supreme Court Justices in Virginia? Given how many of the people involved in the above events live in Virginia, is there really no state law that was violated? Is there not a fraud statute in Georgia Republican Attorney General Christopher Carr could have used against the players in the Alfa Bank hoax that involved Georgia Tech personnel?
Please understand, I’m a rules follower kind-of-guy and would love nothing more than for both sides to follow the rules. The problem, of course, is that the Left not only doesn’t follow the rules, but they also make up whatever rules they need for the moment to get the outcomes they want (then break those new rules when convenient). In order to get back to a rules-based system, however, we need to destroy the Left by ditching the rules, too. Once they experience the pain they’ve doled out to our side, maybe we can attain a "peace through strength" truce in which both sides return to the old ways. Unless we do that, we will continue to lose or, when we win, our side will be harassed relentlessly to impede us from executing on our agenda.
Regardless, it makes no sense for the Right to unilaterally disarm by following the rules and losing, as the Left breaks the rules and wins. As I’ve often said, the Victorian Era is over, which the Left figured out decades ago. It is high time Republican elected officials stop with the clickbait and start enforcing severe consequences on the Left.
P.S. For those interested, I am totally supportive of Jordan becoming Speaker of the House. My only complaint of Jordan is that in Ohio politics, he far too often sides with Establishment candidates in primaries instead of true conservatives and outsiders, which is unfortunate given the power he wields in endorsements. Had he used his endorsement power more effectively, far better elected officials could have won primaries and done more to strengthen Ohio. As Speaker, I hope he brings in some fresh staffers who truly comprehend the fight we are in against the Left and have no hesitation engaging in trench politifare with the Left.