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All but one Republican voted to NOT release the Epstein Files. What are they hiding and why are they protecting child rapists?

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      And if you don’t believe the probability that occured… he admitted on daytime television that he was attracted to his own daughter!

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    That’s not remotely surprising, but I would like to know how many Democrats voted no.

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      Since it was the kiddie diddler supporters were going to vote against to block the bill, I’d be surprised if any Democrat switched votes cause there was nothing to gain from doing so.

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      None. All 4 Democrats on the committee voted in favor. It wasn’t a floor vote, it was an amendment to a crypto bill in committee.

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    Sometimes I wonder if the one voter just didn’t get the memo how their team was voting. Like bro just go with it like you meant to do it.

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      In situations like this where it clearly won’t matter, I’ve always seen it as basically a token vote that they pass around to whoever’s turn it is. Everybody on the team gets a few votes throughout their term where they can vote against something that will pass anyway and then they can turn around later when their constituents are mad about whatever and just say “but remember? I voted against that thing you hated!”

      I could of course be completely wrong but it just seems like the math just barely works out in the majority party’s favor way too much to be a coincidence.

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      Damn, if only the Dems had the presidency at some point, potentially between his death and now.

      I don’t think there a list that says “This is all the bad people I did bad things for”, but if there was it should’ve been released already, and if there’s not then this is just theater. They’re entitled to theatre, but I’m not really sure what your comment is supposed to imply. Is it implying “look the dems want it released!”, because this is the weakest attempt at doing that imaginable. If they wanted it released they had years to figure it out and it would’ve prevented maga from using it as a rallying point.

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        I’m sure he had a blackmail list ready to go in order to prevent himself facing consequences. It’s why he got suicided.

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          Why would he make a list, paper or digital? If he ID’d someone he wanted to blackmail for money or policies, he would remember if he had videos or pix of them. Having a name on a list isn’t gonna scare a mark or do anything in court. If blackmail was his thing, the videos, pix, or recordings would be what you’d want. Someone (Putin?) may well still have them.

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            A list of name is nothing. A list of names, dates, with flight records, and obfuscated payments, which can be corroborated by other records… That is a big deal.

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        Neither party wants this shit released. There are republicans and democrats incriminated in it.

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          There are rich people incriminated in it, and they don’t much care what flavour of neoliberal is in power, as long as they get to continue their affairs unmolested.

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    What happened: The House Rules Committee, which prepares legislation for votes on the House floor, voted 5 to 6 against attaching Khanna’s amendment to a procedural measure related to the GENIUS Act and a defense funding bill.

    Republicans said the amendment was not pertinent to the GENIUS Act, which would create the first regulatory framework for stablecoins, or the defense funding bill.

    I hope the next step is one page bill to vote on and not an amendment to an unrelated bill.

    I feel like this amendment gives Republicans full cover since they can just say, “It was an unrelated amendment” and they’d be right.

    Just the other day Rep Khanna tweeted,

    On Tuesday, I’m introducing an amendment to force a vote demanding the FULL Epstein files be released to the public. The Speaker must call a vote & put every Congress member on record.

    But had this amendment passed it would not have put every Congress member on record. Had this amendment passed Congress would have been voting on the “GENIUS Act” and defense funding bill.

    We would have been in the EXACT same situation as we JUST had with the “Big Beautiful Bill”. People voting for it and then saying, “Oh, but I don’t agree with it.”

    Had his amendment passed Democrats could then vote against the bill by saying, “The GENIUS Act and defense spending bill are terrible pieces of legislation. I also want the list released, but I couldn’t vote for this bill for other reasons.”

    And yes, a one page bill that says to release the files would never actually get a congressional vote. The Speaker of the House would never bring it for a vote. Some procedural nonsense would block it. BUT make those fuckers defend their decision.

    Just because Democrats are in the minority doesn’t mean they have to give up at the slightest inconvenience. Push this hard. You’ve found a weak spot, hit back! Push Republicans. Fuck, push Democrats if you have to.

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    Huh. That’s weird.

    Now just WHY would the Gang of Pedos be going out of their way to protect pedos? So strange, I thought they were the party that was going to get to the bottom of Qanon and release “the storm” on pedos, which were all presumed to be Democrats?

    pikachu_face.jpg here

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      On the one hand, yeah, shady as fuck from Republicans. On the other hand, the Dems could have pushed this during Biden’s term. I doubt that Epstein was adding more names to his ledger after being dead for a few years. I actually do feel like this is a “both sides issue”, and we would be better if this shit landed on both sides of the aisle so we have easy identification of the targets to clean up.

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        Democrats didn’t release the files for the same reason Trump didn’t. It doesn’t even have to be that prominent democrats were on that island (although it’s safe to say they were) it just takes a few CEO’s and other financiers of our current government to say “Nah, kill that” and it will NEVER see the light of day.

        We are constantly losing sight of what all of this is really about and who’s really in power here. They want us screaming about Dems versus Republicans in this WWE theater spectacle so we don’t start a class-war. And it’s worked perfectly.

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          Only one side was dumb enough to draw a bunch of attention to it when it was their guy (who is definitely on the list) is president.

          Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

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        Here’s the thing – what are the “Epstein files” exactly? Who claimed they exist in the first place? Who has them?

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      It’s not usual procedure for evidence to be released to the public, and both Biden and his pick for the DoJ, Merrick Garland, were unimaginative precedent-driven ghouls who wouldn’t take a piss if it didn’t have a court case and bipartisan agreement in the past five years authorizing it.

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      There are Democrats on the list also. Neither party wants this shit to actually come out.