Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., during a Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday accused the FBI of secret involvement in the January 6 attack. Higgins during the hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray cited their exchange from a previous hearing. “I asked you, ‘Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6, prior to the doors being open?’ You responded. I quote again, ‘I have to be very careful of what I say,’” Higgins recalled, arguing that “we can’t get a straight answer” despite a “tremendous amount of evidence.”

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    How the hell does a nation even dig itself out of this disinformation / conspiracy theory rat hole?

    This shit is so depressing.

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    He is nothing but an embarrassment to Louisiana. His FB page is filled with what sounds like drunken rantings.

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    I often think House seats should be smaller, there used to be 33k people per district, now it’s over 700k.

    But fewer people per district would make for some idiosyncrasies and guys like this make me think we have enough weirdos in the House as is.

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      I agree, but we’d have to restructure how the House does business.

      The current count of Representatives is 435. If we were to go back to old ratios at 30k, we’d have 11,300 Representatives.

      We’d have to break it up into smaller, constituent houses, or something.

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        If we went back to 210k people per Rep it’s about 1555. 210k is the ratio last time apportionment was done in 1912 or something like that.

        The math isn’t the point though. Republicans won’t budge regardless because any increase damages their inherent advantage.

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      Conservatives should love this, as it’s part of the Original plan right?

      Uncap the house. More reps = less power per rep.

      I will ALWAYS err on the side of diluting power. Always, All ways.

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    There are lots of these angry, stupid people. Some of them are at high levels of government–for example Clay Higgins. Democracy in the United States is in grave danger. Millions of Americans have abandoned reality and want bloody revenge on their perceived enemies.

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    “I asked you, ‘Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6, prior to the doors being open?’ You responded. I quote again, ‘I have to be very careful of what I say,’”

    I’m going to guess Higgins has never heard of the term “ongoing federal investigations”. If, for example, the feds are currently investigating the Proud Boys, Wray answering that question would put those investigations at risk and possibly risk exposing any undercover investigators that are on the case. Even his statement of “I have to be very careful of what I say” is all but an admission that at the very least, some kind of investigation is going on.

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    Another republicunt trying to convince me that I’m the idiot. No, fuck you. I have eyes in my head and I am able to observe and accept physical reality. Fuck off and die.

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      “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”