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."

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[–] 239 points 10 months ago (20 children)

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.

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  • [–] 107 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    I see it as them showing their hand. They know they cant take the heat, so they run. Pussies.

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  • [–] 92 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Hey now, pussies can take a pounding and keep on coming.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What does Mike Johnson know how to do besides not doing things?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Well the GOP loves to say that government doesn't work, and surprise surprise when they're in charge it's the one thing they're right about.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    It's more than that even, they're usually the reason why the government doesn't work.

    Social security would work great if funded properly, so what do they do? Screw with the funding. The ACA would work if properly funded, so what do they do? Let the subsidies expire. Medicare for all would work if properly funded. The education system would work if properly funded. The VA works when properly funded. And so on, and so on, and so on. In most cases, all it takes is the money and resources that they'd rather steal or give to their donors and like magic, we'd have a functioning government again.

    They constantly sabotage programs that benefit tax payers while spinning the lie that government run programs can't and don't work. And after decades of dealing with underfunded programs run with minimal staffing and a maximum of red tape, of course people believe them.

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