The noted homophobe Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is critical of Pete Buttigieg's use of government aircraft, saying he's flying to receive awards "for the way people have sex."
Whats wrong is this is retaliation by Republicans. Did you read the article? They're framing it as taxpayers paying for Peter to receive gay sex awards. Does that sound like a pressing issue? Or a real thing to you? Does that sound worthy of investigation? The Avengers should have never stopped Thanos.
They’re framing it as taxpayers paying for Pete ro receive gay sex awards.
If I said Donald Trump cheated on his taxes to fund the cloning of hitler in the hollow core of the Earth, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about him cheating on his taxes....
I feel like I'm going crazy here, I don't get why I'm not be clearer here.
I think you're looking at it from a rational view. However, most people don't actually look into things and instead just read headlines and make assumptions from there. They should absolutely look into any type of fraud, waste, and abuse but generally it is done behind closed doors. The only reason this is being broadcast out to the world, despite there being seemingly overwhelming evidence of no wrong doing, is to create headlines and a PERCEPTION of wrong doing. That perception is all they care about because to their constituents perception is reality.
It’s not just this case. This is a much wider pattern from the republicans to waste taxpayer money investigating things that they have no need to be involved in.
The same idea applies to the hunter Biden probe. It’s politically motivated investigations that don’t need to be done, but are done because the republicans can use taxpayer money to hash out their problems.
Nobody is saying this specific audit cost millions of dollars, but it certainly cost a whole lot more than just the salary of a single person for a few hours.
The GOP goal here is not to let a GS employee spend an afternoon on this. That wouldn't accomplish anything; the accusations would continue unhindered by such lack of evidence. Except now, they can cite the fact that an accusation failed to find anything as PROOF of malfeasance.
The goal is to create a huge spectacle to use for campaigning. To waste time, distract from their own inept governance, and smear political enemies. To promote conspiracy theory.