The House speaker doesn’t want Republicans to be around when the deadline comes.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is conveniently sending Congress home the day before the Justice Department is supposed to release the Epstein files in full. The announcement came Wednesday night.
This looks like yet another instance of Johnson doing every little thing he can either to delay the release of the files or to make it so that his fellow GOPers don’t have to be in town to answer to their complicity in this monthslong campaign to avoid their release—as he did by egregiously delaying the swearing-in of Democratic Representative Adelita Grijalva for weeks.
“Like I said: view all political developments for the rest of the week in light of the fact that the Epstein Files are supposed to be released on Friday,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote Wednesday evening on X. “House Republicans just suddenly canceled Congressional session Friday and are sending everyone home Thursday evening.”
I guess it’s the land of the free after all if you can fuck a bunch of children and still be president
ain’t nothing more free than committing crimes and getting away with it…
This is fascism. They’ll always win.
Fascism wins until good men go to war. Then they fold
Yeah, looks like they’re up to something.
Wow, I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve come to the end of my attention span. I guess there was never anything to see there after all, right?
He has to be a pedo.
The guy that shares details around jerking off with his son. Totally normal.
You’re saying it’s a compulsion? Possibly so. Or maybe he’s just a knowingly evil child rapist.
at this point, we need to form an alternative socialist government of the united states as a micronation. seriously!
Are we gonna see the naughty list soon?
He’s making his list, redacting it twice, you’ll never find out who’s naughty or nice.
They’re checking it twice.
This guy is a one-trick pony.
Have to oath in a Democrat who will trigger a vote his master doesn’t like? Send everyone home!
Files that incriminates his master are being released? Send everyone home!
This tactic is getting old already.
What does Mike Johnson know how to do besides not doing things?
I see it as them showing their hand. They know they cant take the heat, so they run. Pussies.
Hey now, pussies can take a pounding and keep on coming.
Yeah, unlike ballsacks. If any sex-related human part has to be a metaphor for weakness, it should be that one.
That’s why in some languages, they use “ballsack” as a term of abuse. For example, “klootzak” in Dutch or “bawbag” in Scots.
They also have depth and warmth that most if not all republicans lack.
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When does the coming happen? Asking for a friend. A highly unsatisfied friend.
Edit: i just noticed how this joke might be taken. Before the unsolicited offers and pictures come rolling in, thought I should make clear that A) this was entirely a joke, a complete fabrication, and B) that I’m a dude. Please don’t send me pictures of your unimpressive dicks. I’ll post them online.
What about impressive ones? /s
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Fair, but they dont knwo that, lol. They’re obsessed with shining light on their balls and brain worms, or something.
Republicans complain that government is ineffective and corrupt, then they get elected and prove it.
Members of your own party trying to force a vote to extend Obamacare subsidies? Send 'em home!
The files probably incriminate him too.
He admitted he needs his teenage son to monitor his porn habits. Imagine what he doesn’t admit to.
You forgot about his other trick: I haven’t heard about that or I haven’t had time to read that.
That’s not his trick. That’s a GOP trick.
I wish I got so many days off…
No shit! Same… add to that the best healthcare, transportation, and a personal assistant.
Pension too if you can last long enough
Pension for them is like 5 years or something absurd like that.
A pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service at any age. A reduced pension is available depending upon which of several different age/service options is chosen. If Members leave Congress before reaching retirement age, they may leave their contributions behind and receive a deferred pension later.[1]
That’s actually a pretty standard public service pension schedule.
Mine had me vesting in 5 years, but the contributions at that point aren’t high enough to mean much. It just means that if if I didn’t make it 5 years the city wouldn’t contribute to my retirement ( I put in 7 and the coty double-matches, so I get 21%). When I hit 5 years, I retroactively got the 14% from the city for my previous 5 years added to my pension. If I had quit before the 5 years, I’d have been given my 7% back as a cash payment after 5 years away from public service.
But I can’t collect until I reach retirement age or have 20 years of service.
For Congress it means good insurance for life.
It’s easy when special interests are paying you for NOT working. Sweet gig.
I think it’s hilarious that we have a system of government built on the false idea that we the people have any real power. We keep paying our taxes though. We keep buying the 7 versions of Taylor Swift’s albums. We keep “treating ourselves” because we “deserve” a treat for making it through another day. There’s a theme to these examples and it is at the core of every issue we face.
We actually have the power; all of it. We lack the will.
We lack the will.
Kinda, although I fully agree with everything else you said. Collective action is really difficult even when the government isn’t running COINTELPRO-like operations on anyone who tries to organize anything like a mass protest. For an example of the challenge of collective action, think about how hard it is to get your group of close friends to agree on which restaurant to go to and when. And that’s when everyone wants to hang out together, with nobody intentionally mucking up the works.
If we can overcome the “internal” hurdles to collective action, we can take back the country.
A lot of the shit people complain about that they use as an excuse to not get involved could be solved if they got involved.
Pretty sure there’s at least a couple other steps involved, though
If we collectively did anything that’d be the only step required.
Okay, so . . . now!
. . . Wait, where tf were y’all?
Sorry, I was waiting for a count to three.
On three or 3 then go?
Yes!
If you don’t pay tribute, the Boss will send some muscle to make you hand over the protection money.
I personally don’t get why people pay for music. You can just listen to Taylor Swift’s albums on YouTube
You know some people don’t mind supporting creators of things they enjoy. People also don’t mind spending a small sum of money to enjoy things without getting an ad every 30 seconds.
I can do that for free too. I can also pay for music that isn’t shitty after listening to it to support actually good musicians, coincidentally none of them being billionaires.
Someone’s financial status has no bearing on whether they make good music or not. Are you really gonna tell someone else what they can and can’t do in their free time? What are you a Trump supporter?
since when does not being a billionaire apologist-bootlicker make you a trump supporter?
You Trump supporters like telling people what they can and can’t do with their own bodies. It doesn’t surprise me you want to control people’s free time too.
dude I still don’t know where you are getting that from. I never said anything remotely about controlling anything or anyone. and I’m no trump supporter. I’d kill him and all his dipshit cronies with a rusty spoon if I could get away with it.
Since we are making assumptions, are you a rabid swiftie that got mad that I implied her music was shit? I stand by that. She has like one non irritating song and its decent at best. If only that whole thing about swifties getting mad at trump and voting him out went anywhere I’d have stopped talking shit a long time ago but apparently even her fans suck.
Dems should release more pics right when they come back.
lol. I love it. Keep a reserve of photos and keep trickling them out when the new cycle dies down.
Wait, there’s a person named Noam Chomsky?
I’ve heard the name said on the news before but was never listening.
Isn’t that the name of the gnome in the carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2?
Yes, the person was named after the gnome.
Common misconception, the person was named after Nim Chimpsky, the famous chimpanzee from the Columbia a University ASL study.
Wrong, the name was from a popular cat story about Nom Chompsky.
It may also effectively kill the discharge petition for the 3-year extension of ACA subsidies vote.
The epstein files are inevitable at this point and republicans are already getting marching orders for how to do damage control.
Mad props to AOC and I get why she wants to keep that in the cultural zeitgeist ahead of… tomorrow. But this is very much about house republicans breaking with johnson/doing token “See, I am one of the good ones” votes to override him on obamacare extensions and preventing trump from bombing Venezuela to distract from the epstein files.
He sent everyone home because of the discharge petition for ACA. Epstein was coming anyway, this is about ripping healthcare away from millions. Which in Mike’s own words…“It’s only 7% of the country”
Is the idea that he knows the justice dept is going to delay, and if the house isn’t in session, they can’t do anything?
I wonder if the Republican voters recognize this is literally protecting pedophiles. There’s no way around it.
Yeah, this has got to be for a reason other than no soundbites, right?
