Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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    The Epstein files are the distraction. Republicans dismantle democracy while people fight over the files.

    Imagine doing something so horrible that you underage prostitutes as a smokescreen.

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      I’ve been saying this because I started to feel a rising sense of hopeless frustration every time the administration or Miller has destroyed some sacred institution or started scooping cash from needy families, you would invariably see someone, especially on Lemmy start spamming memes about “That’s cool bro, what about the epstein files?” as if anyone still cares when they’re starving and jobless or healthcare premiums have been driven up to a thousand dollars a month for someone on minimum wage.

      We are truly in the scummiest, stupidest timeline when an authoritarian can shield himself from accountability just by having child sex crimes hanging over him.

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      Not “underage prostitutes”, like they had any real agency is getting groomed and traded by billionaires, but children. He fucked children.

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    Started as a cover for not swearing in our new Congresswoman from Arizona, spun out of control.

    We need to stop talking TRUMP. We need to start talking REPUBLICANS did this. Want lasting change? Stop aiming for the dementia patient cult leader. He’ll die soon enough and blame with shift. Stop aiming at individual targets and shotgun this thing.

    Stop talking “conservatives”. Both anti-Trump and anti-conservative messaging is a personal attack, and they’ll resist. Say, “The REPUBLICANS did this. REPUBLICANS are to blame.”

    These people have no loyalty to “Republicans”. Hit them where they can fold up and agree. “I’m not the bad guy. My guy isn’t the bad guy. It’s those damned Republicans! If it weren’t for those meddling kids!”

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    Is this hope I keep tasting the last few days?

    Mamdani wins, Pelosi stepping down, dems winning multiple races, reps doing things like this…

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    Would releasing the Epstein files matter in anyway for Trump? Everyone that can be swayed by evidence already knows Trump is in there…

    And the stuff the republicans are doing is terrible in it’s own rights, saying “don’t care, release the Epstein files” seems to be downplaying the situation.

    I am open to being taught like a five year old, how continued focus on the Epstein files is a good progressive strategy.

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      Here’s the thing, I don’t think Trump can weather this storm.

      What he can do, is weather the doubt. But as soon as that doubt vanishes, he and a bunch of his associates will lose support from all but the most rabid of MAGA, and that’s not enough support to remain in office.

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      Well, even if trump himself can weather that storm, the rest of the powerful people in there might not. Either that or it’s just a distraction.

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    No one can change her mind. Reality is reality.

    Republicans are the party of pedophiles.