U.S. Political Theater

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution, titled "Denouncing the horrors of socialism," in a 328-86 vote on Feb 2, 2023. Here are some excerpts from the debate between Republicans and Democrats.

A fiery exchange between Senator Ted Cruz and Attorney General Merrick Garland during the Senate hearing 'Oversight of the Department of Justice' on Mar 1, 2023.

'We investigate and expose ideological technological economic, and military threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party. We may call this a strategic competition, but it's not a polite tennis match this is a struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century. And the most fundamental freedoms are at stake. The CCP is laser focused on its vision for the future a world crowded with totalitarian states where human rights are to the whims of the party. For the time being, it is still up to us to decide if that is the future we want for our children but it won't be for much longer. Time is not on our side... I believe our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next hundred.'

'It took 20 years to record a total of 564,000 opioid overdose deaths, and in one year we saw over 100,000 opioid overdose deaths. ... Two weeks ago, law enforcement seized enough fentanyl to kill nearly 800,000 people.'

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, delivers his opening remarks at “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” hearing on Mar 7, 2023.

'Did the State Department have any irrefutable evidence that the Wuhan virus came from the wet market in China?... Do you have a bat from the wet market? Does the State Department have one of these bats?... What facts do you have, do you have any facts whatsoever to support your claim that the virus occurred in the wet market as opposed to the Wuhan lab?...'

“We reject woke ideology…We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where wokes go to die,” says Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in his reelection victory speech on Nov 8, 2022.

'I think it is a sign of arrogance that he would say he wouldn’t even discuss it. Think about what the Democrats have done just in 4 years. They have increased discretionary spending by 30%. When the Republicans were in the majority for those eight years, discretionary spending didn’t go up one dollar. And we know that we are sitting at almost $32 trillion in debt. How can you do this to a future generation? And anything we do, why don’t we sit down and talk, especially with something as serious as debt, as serious as debt limit. Why would you want to wait until the end?' (Kevin McCarthy, R-California, Speaker of the House, 17 Jan 2023) Related: Biden to Congress: Deal with debt limit and without conditions, https://rumble.com/v2qct14-biden-to-congress-deal-with-debt-limit-and-without-conditions.html

"On Friday, it was reported that Republicans have a so-called "plan" to prioritize payments if Congress fails to address the debt ceiling. So I want to be very, very clear here, as I have been, as the President has been: This is not a plan. It is a recipe for economic catastrophe. As President Biden has made clear, Congress must deal with the debt limit and must do so without conditions. But congressional Republicans are threatening to hold the nation's full faith and credit, a mandate of the Constitution, hostage to their demands to cut Social Security, to cut Medicare, and to cut Medicaid. Brinksmanship that threatens the global economy. Their latest idea is that rather than paying its bills, the United States should make payment to wealthy bondholders, including foreign investors, and stop payments for border security, food safety, nursing homes, school lunches, the FAA, drug enforcement, and other programs Americans rely on every single day." (Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Daily Briefing, 17 Jan 2023)

'The Twitter files are not just about Hunter Biden's laptop . Twitter files make it apparent that Twitter worked overtime to suppress accurate COVID information.' 'Twitter is basically a subsidiary of FBI, censoring real medical voices' - Twitter files hearing 'I find it extremely alarming Twitter unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affect millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC.' 'You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated doctors - doctors that are educated in the best places in the world. And you silenced those voices.' 'Thank God for Matt Taibiti, thank God for Elon Musk for allowing to show us and the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put real Americans lives in danger because they didn't have that information.'