Jim Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on “the weaponization of the federal government,” continues to use “weaponize the power of the federal government” to punish…
"Socialism for me but not for thee," Republicans. Their desired lifestyles are heavily subsidized: suburbs, corporate bailouts, car centric society, etc.
This is so weird on a couple different levels. A congressman using the power of office in a blackmail attempt to force companies will advertise on a specific social media platform. I think the most disturbing part of the entire story was how it started:
Gym Jordan, who heads the House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on “the weaponization of the federal government,”
For real, stuff like this would have been unbelievable less than ten years ago. If someone told me there was a house judiciary subcommittee on “Atheist Muslims Occupying the White House” I would have laughed and said “good one.”
McCarthyism was a real thing that happened in the past. It went away for awhile, but it is back. It was only held at bay by people who were prepared to expend effort to push it back. Whereas now...