Republican lawmakers have called out Disney for “cowering” to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by omitting an episode of “The Simpsons” that criticizes Beijing from its new streaming service in Hong Kong. Disney+ released all episodes of the show except for episode 12 of season 16 which refers to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre—when the CCP ordered its troops to open fire on protesters advocating for democratic reforms, killing potentially hundreds or even thousands. The pulled episode, titled “Goo Goo Gai Pan”, features the Simpsons’ visit to Tiananmen Square, where they see a joke placard that reads “On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.” In the episode, the family also visits the embalmed body of former leader Mao Zedong, who Homer Simpson calls “a little angel that killed 50 million people.” In a Dec. 10 letter addressed to Bob Chapek, CEO of Disney, the lawmakers accused the company of apparently “scrub[bing] …