Gohmert identifies how unfair the law is to republicans

[billvon 2,772]

Rep. Gohmert recently identified a part of the US Justice System that is very unfair to republicans - you can't lie under oath.

"If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you. Or they’re going to bury you. They’re gonna put you in the D.C. jail and terrorize and torture you."

Yes, he actually said this.  The republicans chafe under the cruel and heinous requirement that   . . . . politicians not lie under oath.

[headoverheels 329]

1 hour ago, billvon said:

Rep. Gohmert recently identified a part of the US Justice System that is very unfair to republicans - you can't lie under oath.

"If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you. Or they’re going to bury you. They’re gonna put you in the D.C. jail and terrorize and torture you."

Yes, he actually said this.  The republicans chafe under the cruel and heinous requirement that   . . . . politicians not lie under oath.

Well, he used to be a judge.

 

[ryoder 1,572]

The first time I saw that quote attributed to him, I assumed it was satire.

[Phil1111 1,099]

Well to be fair to republicans, IMO Bill Clinton opened the floodgates to this. During the Monica Lewinsky debacle. The UK and Canada recently had big investigations about political lying in their respective parliaments.

Democracies seem to be morphing towards autocracies with regards to lying. There is more and more of it with little consequence.

IMO President Biden is good for staying on the straight truth tracks. The only way to end this is a jail cell.

[wolfriverjoe 1,481]

10 hours ago, billvon said:

Rep. Gohmert recently identified a part of the US Justice System that is very unfair to republicans - you can't lie under oath.

"If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you. Or they’re going to bury you. They’re gonna put you in the D.C. jail and terrorize and torture you."

Yes, he actually said this.  The republicans chafe under the cruel and heinous requirement that   . . . . politicians not lie under oath.

Well, don't forget that Hilary lied to the FBI and got away with it.

Trump said so, so it must be true.

(we really need a 'sarcasm' font).

Or we could go with the 'just cooperate and do what the cops tell you and you won't get shot...

Oh yeah, that only applies to 'those people'.

Maybe remind him that, as noted above, Bill Clinton was impeached (and acquitted) for perjury.
He did suffer other consequences. Fines and suspension of law license IIRC.

[JoeWeber 2,613]

3 hours ago, ryoder said:

The first time I saw that quote attributed to him, I assumed it was satire.

Believing he said it wasn't the hard part, after all, it's Gohmert. The hard bit was not believing that somewhere someone heard him and thought: goddamn liberals, enough's enough. Where's my gun?

[wolfriverjoe 1,481]

10 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Believing he said it wasn't the hard part, after all, it's Gohmert. The hard bit was not believing that somewhere someone heard him and thought: goddamn liberals, enough's enough. Where's my gun?

Not sure what you mean by 'the hard part was not believing..."

That's what happened all over the country during the protests against the lockdowns.

Y'All Queda, Vanilla ISIS, Meal Team Six. All those idiots prancing around armed to the teeth, but unable to run 100 yards without collapsing.

[Phil1111 1,099]

This may help the integrity challenged. Jonathan Pie: 'Boris Johnson Is a Liar'

[jakee 1,379]

20 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

This may help the integrity challenged. Jonathan Pie: 'Boris Johnson Is a Liar'

Boris Johnson was twice fired from newspaper jobs for lying about stories and sources before becoming a full time politician. As PM he’s continued to be the exact same person, just with less accountability. 
 

Boris has had a corrosive effect on standards in public life in a very Trumpian way, but luckily we’re not quite as purely partisan just yet. Yesterday he did survive a no confidence vote from his own party which could have forced him to resign - but 40% of Conservative MPs voted against him. Imagine if 40% of Republican Senators voted to impeach Trump! One difference there is that our no confidence votes are secret, so MPs are possibly freer to vote their conscience without worrying about backlash from the true believers. Though many of them publicly declared their position for or against anyway.

 

Boris still isn’t safe though, he’s also facing a standards enquiry over whether he deliberately lied to parliament about partygate. On the one hand our ministerial code is clear - ministers (including the PM) who are found to have lied to parliament must resign. On the other hand, regardless of what the enquiry finds, the person who decides if ministers (including the PM) are guilty is the PM. Boris has already broken this thought-to-be-cast-iron code by protecting his foreign secretary against a finding that she bullied staff. On the other hand, because the PM is a representative of rest of the parliamentary party in a way that the US President isn’t, I’d still expect even Boris to resign if the enquiry categorically comes down against him because to do otherwise would annihilate his party’s chances at the next election.

 

Ultimately though he has, like Trump, highlighted how weak our systems of standards and enforcement are when they come up against a man who really doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except his own ambition and ego.

[Phil1111 1,099]

2 minutes ago, jakee said:

Boris Johnson was twice fired from newspaper jobs for lying ...

Ultimately though he has, like Trump, highlighted how weak our systems of standards and enforcement are when they come up against a man who really doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except his own ambition and ego.

IMO Canada is similar to the UK about the acceptance of corruption of politicians. Not near as bad as the US, but plenty bad. The Canadian PM Trudeau has had scandal after scandal but a Teflon coat has prevailed. Hence the state of the current and past coalition governments.

[JoeWeber 2,613]

1 hour ago, jakee said:

Boris Johnson was twice fired from newspaper jobs for lying about stories and sources before becoming a full time politician. As PM he’s continued to be the exact same person, just with less accountability. 
 

Boris has had a corrosive effect on standards in public life in a very Trumpian way, but luckily we’re not quite as purely partisan just yet. Yesterday he did survive a no confidence vote from his own party which could have forced him to resign - but 40% of Conservative MPs voted against him. Imagine if 40% of Republican Senators voted to impeach Trump! One difference there is that our no confidence votes are secret, so MPs are possibly freer to vote their conscience without worrying about backlash from the true believers. Though many of them publicly declared their position for or against anyway.

 

Boris still isn’t safe though, he’s also facing a standards enquiry over whether he deliberately lied to parliament about partygate. On the one hand our ministerial code is clear - ministers (including the PM) who are found to have lied to parliament must resign. On the other hand, regardless of what the enquiry finds, the person who decides if ministers (including the PM) are guilty is the PM. Boris has already broken this thought-to-be-cast-iron code by protecting his foreign secretary against a finding that she bullied staff. On the other hand, because the PM is a representative of rest of the parliamentary party in a way that the US President isn’t, I’d still expect even Boris to resign if the enquiry categorically comes down against him because to do otherwise would annihilate his party’s chances at the next election.

 

Ultimately though he has, like Trump, highlighted how weak our systems of standards and enforcement are when they come up against a man who really doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything except his own ambition and ego.

Seriously? This guy was up all night partying?

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On 6/6/2022 at 8:18 AM, Phil1111 said:

Well to be fair to republicans, IMO Bill Clinton opened the floodgates to this. During the Monica Lewinsky debacle. The UK and Canada recently had big investigations about political lying in their respective parliaments.

Democracies seem to be morphing towards autocracies with regards to lying. There is more and more of it with little consequence.

IMO President Biden is good for staying on the straight truth tracks. The only way to end this is a jail cell.

To be fair? Is that your final answer? LOL

[jakee 1,379]

2 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

Seriously? This guy was up all night partying?

Hard to believe I know 

He was also part of the Bullingdon club at Oxford University - a society of the absolute worst elitist entitled scumbags who got their rocks off by vandalising and destroying the establishments they partied in turn using mummy and daddy’s money to pay their way out of any legal consequences.

[ryoder 1,572]

If Gohmert is upset that lying to Congress or the FBI is a crime, then he should contact his congressman and urge them to repeal the laws.

[kallend 1,853]

2 hours ago, jakee said:

Hard to believe I know 

He was also part of the Bullingdon club at Oxford University - a society of the absolute worst elitist entitled scumbags who got their rocks off by vandalising and destroying the establishments they partied in turn using mummy and daddy’s money to pay their way out of any legal consequences.

Oxford! No academics, just sleazy pols.

Oxford has 69 Nobels and Cambridge has 118 - and more Boat race wins too.

[wolfriverjoe 1,481]

3 hours ago, ryoder said:

If Gohmert is upset that lying to Congress or the FBI is a crime, then he should contact his congressman and urge them to repeal the laws.

Oh no.

He doesn't want the laws repealed.

He still wants them to apply to 'the little people'. 

And Democrats.

You know, that whole idea of "lock her UP!!!!". 

But he wants the Republicans to be exempt.

Like they seem to be to everything else.