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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

House speaker starts August recess early to avoid Jeffrey Epstein votes

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House speaker starts August recess early to avoid Jeffrey Epstein votes

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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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The Trump administration has moved to release more information about notorious sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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  • pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world
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    A whole week early? Unacceptable. I don’t get an extended vacation when I feel like it. Why should they?

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    chicken

    • ceenote@lemmy.world
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      Don’t lump chickens in with them. This isn’t cowardice, it’s complicity.

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        Chickens are also capable of intelligence, compassion, and bravery protecting their flock. So unfair comparison, really.

      • CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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        A lot of the people in charge of the country are child rapists.

    • Tony Bark@pawb.social
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      It is a Tuesday. 🌮

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    America must keep Dear Leader in power. They haven’t even got around to the portraits in every home yet. Probably won’t need to, it’s happening naturally.

    Your deification of your elected leader is apparently so strong now that mere humans are abusable, at least non-cis-white-male-conservative-natural-Americans.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    Huh, what a coincidence, Epstein always looked forward to recess too.

    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
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      Hey man

      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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        Hey.

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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    I reckon a good number of them won’t be returning from recess. They’ll start sounding up the neurodivergents for the “wellness camps” during the August recess and also use the opportunity to murder or jail their opponents probably using ICE operatives. Dark times ahead.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    Here is an amazing write up on all of trump’s connections to epstein.

    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49344563

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      Thanks. I’m embarrassed to admit that I thought the 2003 birthday letter was a meme, until right now.

      Like the text was real, but somebody superimposed it onto a lurid drawing, adding T’s signature for extra disgust.

      Turns out it was Trump himself who did all that. And thanks to the WSJ for holding up to at least some journalistic integrity, sticking to the truth.

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    Oh so he’s on the list, got it

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      Maybe but more likely they bought time for spoliation. By the time they’re like fine ok here you go it’ll all be gone and the effort will be sorta worthless.

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    Didn’t realize GOP stood for Guard Our Pedos.

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    Very Christian of you, Mikey, to protect your false idol’s pedophilic actions.

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    Hold up, last I checked its still July…I think you have another week there Mr speaker

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Imagine if we could dock a weeks pay for them going home…

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    • oppy1984@lemdro.id
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      Right? I wish I could tell my boss I’m taking an extra week of vacation and the company will not only not punish me but will pay me for the time I’m not working.

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      Why do they get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars while at the same time skipping entire months worth of work?

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        They go back to their districts and work there for most of it. Supposed to keep them informed about the will of the people.

        I’m sure most just vacation the whole time but some might still give a shit, I dunno

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          Most of them spend a huge amount of their time fundraising whether congress is in session or not.

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            Jn whatever country replaces the US, we need to have publicly funded elections. We have to get the money out of politics. Eliminate PACs while we’re at it.

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        I’d like to see them have a similar health care system as the rest of us, for starters.

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          Hard to see what isn’t there.

      • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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        Because Americans let them. That’s why they get away with anything: they have nothing to fear.

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    Will somebody think of the children?

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      Republicans do think of the children because they’re pedophiles.

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        It’s time to start reminding people of this stuff.

        https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-accuser-lawsuits-230647

        [LOS ANGELES — A woman has filed federal lawsuits accusing Donald Trump of raping her two decades ago, when she was 13…“I loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop, but he did not,” Jane Doe wrote in a formal declaration accompanying her recent suits. “Defendant Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted. … Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump’s sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed.”]

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      These republicans are always thinking about children.

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    “Christian” Mike Johnson doing his best to give cover to pedophiles. Wonder if him and his son discuss these sins at bedtime together while going over their porn monitoring.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldBanned
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      No rule against pedophilia in the Ten Commandments.

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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      Mike Letmeseeyourkids Johnson.

      • greenfire@lemmings.world
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        Mickey (‘Mike’) Johnson, Squeaker of the House!

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      So Christian he’s practically Catholic.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        Protestants have plenty of child rape as well. For instance, maga mikey’s church…

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Southern_Baptist_churches

        • the Howling North@lemmy.ca
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          Fair enough.

    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
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      It really seems like most of Christianity’s leadership fucks kids pr enables others to do so. Its disgusting.

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    That pretty much confirms it

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  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    This is the DEMOCRATS Fault that the Republican led House is Protecting Infamous CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER Jeffrey Epstein and his Best Friend Republican President DONALD J TRUMP!

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    Fucking cowards. Stop protecting pedophiles.

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      Unfortunately- in this case- self-preservation is usually a very strong drive in human nature.

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