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  1. 39 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    Because joe six pack and suburban cul-de-sac man aren't impacted directly by chumming it up with dictators, rounding up the browns, dismantling  the federal government, sham pardons, and democracy bleeding out. But they are impacted by financial pain, job loss, inflation, and unaffordable health care. And they will react. 

    TLDR: Everyone's selfish and only concerned about their own safety and bank account. its why we all should be rooting for as much pain as possible. 

    And ICE/CBP raids in their neighborhoods. One heartening thing has been how much normal people fucking HATE that shit. 

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  2. 30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Only gotta subdue the pinch points in swing districts/states, where Dem voters can make a difference.  

    It's a good thing they're very stupid and will send them to California and New York instead.

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  3. 21 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Mike Johnson and his caucus aren’t stupid, they are intentionally dishonest, about literally everything.

    They're actually mostly very stupid too, is the thing. Johnson has fucked this six ways from Sunday.

    At this point, it doesn't really matter what they do to try to suppress anything harmful to Republicans/their donors from being released. Trump can veto it, they can claim they can't release a bunch of shit because of ongoing investigations, they can over-redact a bunch of shit, they can try to artfully delete incriminating shit, but whatever they do will be ham-fisted, will keep this front and center, and will only make them look worse. Trump is visibly falling apart before our eyes and the Republican coalition is splintering as everyone tries to find an exit and a place in whatever comes after.

    If Trump weren't obviously shitting his pants and trying to cover up a stroke, he might be able to keep the party together on this, but he can't. They're already turning on each other and that's going to get much more obvious very soon. 

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  4. 50 minutes ago, tx ind said:

    Massie was saying live on CNN that in theory he could read the names live on the house floor if the DOJ doesn’t do their part.

    That's a pretty big tell that Massie already has copies of a lot of the DOJ's Epstein files.

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  5. 55 minutes ago, Baldwin said:

    When I said "they are all" I meant both sides of the aisle. 
     

    I am not supporting either side right now. All I am saying is that having all this rage at one side of the party whether you are rooted on the right and angry at the left or vice versa is essentially a fools errand. The system wants us angry at each other. It is easier to control a society divided than one united. 

    It is really really easy to make fun of republicans and it is easily as easy to make fun of democrats.

    This dipshit cynicism is fundamentally no different than a 12 year old stamping his feet and insisting that the world is flat because his parents say it's round.  

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    Even Loomer is beginning to position herself for a spot in post-Trump conservatism.  Either they know Trump is dying quickly or think he's so weak now that he might as well be. Anyone trying to predict how this will all unfold is an idiot, but we're definitely looking at some kind of schism.

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  7. 59 minutes ago, Foggy Notion said:

     

     

    This email is from the batch of documents that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subpoenaed from the Epstein estate.

    Democrats released this email and a couple others on Wednesday, and the name was redacted in the version that was initially made public although it was not redacted in the files received from Epstein’s estate. Later in the day Republicans released the unredacted version which confirmed that the redacted name was Virginia.

    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/house-democrats-release-new-epstein-emails-referencing-trump/story?id=127435983

    Ah, thank you.

    New dude is still deeply weird.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Lamar said:

     

    I'm sorry, what is not clear about this?  The only word redacted is Virginia.  I suppose there could be another name under the redaction but this is certainly not what is being reported.

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    You know Epstein had more than one victim, right?

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  9. 3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    About six months ago I said something about how a decent percentage of maga would suddenly become very comfortable with child rape if the files were to ever be released. I got a bunch of “Dude. Not cool” replies.

    We all on the same page now?

    The real uncomfortable question is how many MAGA posters on Surly are child abusers?

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  10. 10 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    That was always the case.  The right wing focus on pedophilia and sex trafficking was always the replacement for calling their opponents faggots.  As gay marriage became more accepted by society as a whole, pedophilia accusations is what they started attacking liberals with, despite there being zero evidence liberals are more likely to be pedophiles.  They had to maintain this fantasy they were morally superior to the perverted liberals.  And then they push into it into any kind of discussion of gay rights.  

     

    I'm curious if the House can release whatever information they possess.  I get they would need a law to compel the Executive Branch to release everything, but I wouldn't think the Executive Branch could restrain the House from releasing what they have.  It wouldn't be a law, just a decision on how the House operates. 

    They just did.

  11. 38 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    We have the same lawyer to blame for that. After he originally issued his extreme fatwa based on the 19th century anti-deficiency act, he moderated it by clarifying the “life, safety, etc.” exception that formalized making people work without pay. Instead, he made the threat of shutdown just painful enough that it became useful as a weapon. 

    It can’t be said enough: before this opinion Congress would get lazy and let funding lapse before getting around to it. People just kept going.  No one cared. We could even argue things were more sane. 

    This whole thing reminds me of dysfunctional self-harm rituals on a societal level. “If I fail this test I’ll cut myself, that will motivate me to study.” 
     

     

    It's every bit as stupid as the debt ceiling. 

  12. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    You mean, Ken Starr, Baylor president and vigorous defender of....Art Briles?

    Gosh.  It seems that rape, covering up rape, explaining away rape, and generally being "pro-rape" is a pretty consistent characteristics of pretty much every one of these fascist authoritarian scold fucks.  Wholda thunk it?

    Not discussing with the Baylor guys in the firm who are all MAGA is going to take all of my self restraint the next few days/weeks.

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