• @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Ok.

    Do it.

    The overwhelming problem is that the Dems tend to hold their members accountable while the republicans absolutely DGAF and happily keep literal criminals in their ranks.

    She’s basically acknowledging there’s plenty of dirt, but the only offenses they’ll care about is their opponents’.

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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      33 days ago

      Even if the democrats weren’t actually holding their members accountable, it should be done. So what if dozens of politicians, both R and D get expelled as a result. Nobody should be upset that people who had bad ethics reports get expelled.

        • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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          12 days ago

          We know of some democratic lawmakers who have been held accountable, and a very small number of republicans. But, really we don’t know whether what we’re seeing is the norm, or if it’s just a tiny fraction being held accountable. It’s possible that there are more democrats that are committing unethical acts, but that they’re better at hiding it and/or have more complicity in covering it up. But, I think most sane people would say that everybody’s ethics violations should be public information. Even if it means hundreds of congresspeople losing their jobs and massive uncertainty in who will hold power. Ethics violations should be something voters get to know about.

          • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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            Oh FFS. Your premise is that the dems are bad because they might be hiding evil stuff, or they’re better at hiding it, so that makes them just as bad as the republicans who get actually get caught?

            Give me a break.

            I already laid out what the problem is with republicans and how ethics are essentially meaningless to them when it comes to holding themselves accountable, but they freak out over tan suits, so I really have no clue what your point is.

            • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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              19 hours ago

              Wow, you’re like some kind of cultist. Any criticism that might apply to democrats and you come out swinging.

              My premise is that we don’t know what ethics violations have been suppressed by either party. We know that both Republicans and Democrats have been found to have violated ethics, but we don’t know whether it’s the majority that have been exposed or if it’s just the tip of the iceberg. If it turns out that the Democrats have never suppressed an ethics violation then maybe they do live up to your mental image of them and are pure as the driven snow. But, it’s also possible that the democrats have protected some members.

              That doesn’t mean that Republicans are better than Democrats or something, it just means that politics is politics and sometimes people in power get away with things. But really dude, you should cut back on the hero worship. These are just politicians, they shouldn’t be your whole identity.

              • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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                19 hours ago

                It’s possible that there are more democrats that are committing unethical acts, but that they’re better at hiding it and/or have more complicity in covering it up.

                This is your premise. Democrats are possibly evil too, and that’s what you’re basing your argument on.

                There’s no hero worship here, it’s objectively true that democrats punish their members more than the republicans do by a long shot.

  • Granbo's Holy Hotrod
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    44 days ago

    She is just as gross and opportunist. They will find the one example that isn’t one of theirs and use it for the next 20 years. I’m all for it just never trust the snake.

  • @holycrap@lemm.ee
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    704 days ago

    I don’t think this is as stupid as it sounds. With some exceptions Democratic voters tend to punish their representatives for corruption, but republican voters never do

    • @Signtist@lemm.ee
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      444 days ago

      So you’re saying she’s betting that while republicans will have significantly more corruption, democrats will be the only ones punished because their voter base is the only one that actually cares? Honestly, you could very well be right about the result of a hypothetical universal ethic report release, though I’d be surprised if MTG was smart enough to think 2 steps ahead like that.

  • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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    204 days ago

    Its actually clever. When the repubs block the release of the reports she will claim the dems balked at releasing the reports because they are the dirty ones.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      How many of these ethics reports even really exist? Gaetz existed I thought because he was under investigation for his crimes and they said if he dropped out it would be sealed.

      Do they actually have reports for everyone? If so that’s great, but I can’t imagine they were actually investigating every person in the same manner.

  • @auzy@lemmy.world
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    103 days ago

    Especially looking forward to all those Biden ethics violations they spent months trying to find and millions of dollars

    It will probably be a short read compared to the comey report though

  • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    133 days ago

    this is probably just an internal threat to bring dissenting republicans in line, nothing to see for us here since it likely won’t be realized

  • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I hate MTG but lately I’ve agreed with her twice:

    • I want a national divorce from red states
    • Release all of the ethics reports
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    3884 days ago

    This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don’t support corrupt leaders. MTG does.

    • @Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
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      234 days ago

      Or it reveals an intention by the republicans to release a flood of bad faith ethics reports on Democrats

      • @Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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        34 days ago

        Oh no, republicans released the kraken.

        Oh wait, nevermind, it looks like trump just scribbled with some crayon. And the occasional sharpie

    • @zbyte64
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      Then who is supporting Nancy Pelosi?

      Quip aside, let’s bring on the sunlight.

        • @taiyang@lemmy.world
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          204 days ago

          Ugh… I don’t really want to be that guy, but she was well liked when she was first in office. In fact, I dare say she was cool once when she advocated for more AIDS support in the late 80s and pissed off Reagan, which is always good. But that was around when I was born, haha.

          Unfortunately House seats rarely see competition, and I’m certain she grew complacent with age. Almost 40 fucking years, oof.

        • @ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
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          64 days ago

          I can tell you, that i truly and honestly think that Nancy Pelosi is the greatest! She’s never wrong about anything, and I’m totally not eating my own vomit as i type this!

        • @Serinus@lemmy.world
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          184 days ago

          She’s not the best, but she’s not the worst. Her biggest crime is what, using insider knowledge to trade stocks?

          It’s not like she gave a list of our spies to the Russians. Or likely sold classified documents. She didn’t betray our allies. (Do I mean the Ukrainians, the Afghanis, or the Kurds?)

          She was miles better than Manchin or McConnell. She wasn’t our best, but she sure as hell wasn’t a Republican. She got vilified primarily because she was a prominent Democrat for years. And it stuck because there was more than zero legitimacy.

          They vilified her so much that some douchebag went after her and her husband with a hammer. There’s a reason they didn’t go after Manchin or Sinema or Menendez or McConnell or Gaetz.

        • @RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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          384 days ago

          She has famously had an abysmal approval rate nationwide, but she gets more votes than her opponents so she gets to keep her seat.

          Like Mitch McConnell, MTG, Lauren Boebert, or Matt Gaetz.