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Can we take a page from the German language and compress "every accusation is a confession" into one word that's easy to fit into any headlines about republicans?
Modernconservativism?
GOP, pronounced gawp.
I don't care for GOP
Conservatism. No need to translate or contrive a funny word
That’s easy… die Projektion
I propose "chairshooting" after the "who killed Hannibal" meme. It's a nice double word, like gaslighting.
Out of curiosity, what is the German word for this?
I don't think they have one, but German is known for forming compound words (if that's the term).
Just need something like "don't throw stones. Particularly not when you live in a glass house"
"I'm committing those crimes, so Biden must be too! Impeach!"
They're more about equality than they could ever even realize. We're all the SAME (level of evil)
No wonder they hate the extension of the funding for that program that monitors foreign nationals communications on popular apps.
It makes it harder for them to communicate with their Russian and Saudi benefactors.
Projection, once again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Interviews and records reviewed by The Associated Press provide new insights into the financial deal, which risks undercutting the force of some of Comer’s central arguments in his impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.
In particular, Comer has attacked some Biden family members, including the president’s son Hunter, over their use of shell companies that appear designed to obscure millions of dollars in earnings they received from shadowy middlemen and foreign interests.
But as Comer works to “deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand” through the GOP’s investigation, his own finances and relationships have begun to draw notice, too, including his ties to prominent local figures who have complicated pasts not all that dissimilar to some of those caught up in his Biden probe.
The AP found that Farm Team Properties functions in a similarly opaque way as the companies used by the Bidens, masking his stake in the land that he co-owns with the donor from being revealed on his financial disclosure forms.
“It seems pretty clear to me that he should be disclosing the individual land assets that are held by” the shell company, said Delaney Marsco, a senior attorney who specializes in congressional ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington.
Comer created the company in 2017 to hold his stake in the six acres that he purchased two years earlier in a joint venture with Cleary, a campaign contributor and construction contractor from Monroe County, Kentucky, where the congressman was born and raised.
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"Friends With Dividends". Make a stink about Biden and shell companies, sure. But soon enough the investigation will come around to wealthy Republican donors, then they'll be like, "ah let's investigate something else like Hunter's dick pics".
Shocker.