• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    21 hours ago

    “Two Florida Republicans were sworn in during a pro forma session on April 2, the day after their special elections.”

    Of course they did! Wouldn’t be GOP hypocrisy without easily identified precedent contradicting their current shitbag position.

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    Word, words and more words. Do it. Stop posturing and playing politics, do your fucking jobs.

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    Since the whole thing is, she can be the vote needed to release the Epstein files… Is this the Republicans last tactic to prevent the release?

    IF she gets seated, and IF the votes get through to release, what other tactics will the traitors use to block it? With trump sycophants leading every agency, how do we know they aren’t just destroying or doctoring evidence right now?

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      she can be the vote needed to release the Epstein files…

      This game has a long history in the House. As soon as liberals think they have the magic number of votes, a conservative decides that the bill is secretly woke and goes on a tear about how we need to insert “Execute all transgender people” as an amendment before they can actually support it.

      what other tactics will the traitors use to block it?

      The head of the Department will say “No, you misread the bill, we don’t actually have to do anything”. And then it’ll be five years of the courts deciding whether words mean things.

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        Or some democrat who had been a yes up until that point suddenly decides that their conscience tells them they should change to no. See sinema, manchin, fetterman etc.

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          Jesus fucking Christ. It’s been nearly a whole year since I last thought about that piece of shit Joe Manchin. You just had to remind me.

          Did more damage to our state than I ever thought possible for a senator. Robert C. Byrd rolling in his fucking grave watching that turncoat hem and haw and not do a goddamn useful thing his entire tenure.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Reminder that fascist Republicans are perfectly fine with a district in our nation being taxed without representation because they refuse to do the job we pay them to do.

    These are traitors.

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    It is amazing just how hard these pedo pushers will work to ensure their kid-raping masters never have to face consequences.

    I don’t actually expect there to be much of Trump in these papers (that would be too easy), but I’m sure there are a LOT of big GOP donors pressuring the party to make the report go away.

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      Easiest way to make it go away is to release it then.

      People will forget about it in a week anyway.

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    I wish a CSPAN caller laid that question on him. My God. I didn’t think he could look more uncomfortable, but surely that’d do it.

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    21 hours ago

    “If you don’t do the thing, I’ll sue” only works when you’re the President extorting the news divisions of trillionaire conglomerates.