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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Seems they have nothing to worry about when it comes to Taco being in those files...

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  • [–] 400 points 1 year ago* (20 children)

    The Democrats are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. There’s nothing there, nothing of importance, and the Trump administration has already asked the courts to start working on the release, so there’s no point in the House getting involved anyway.

    This is such a non-issue that the Republicans have shut down the entire legislative session and won’t vote on any of their own bills until September. Again, Democrats are just trying to make a show out of nothing, which is why blocking it is the Republicans’ top priority. Their work would be redundant anyway, which is why the Republicans are so unafraid to vote on it that everyone just up and left.

    On an unrelated note, my favorite local restaurant is so clean and compliant with all regulations that when visited by the food inspector they turned out the lights, locked all the doors, and refused to serve any food again until the health department leaves. As one does when they’re unafraid and have nothing to hide.

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  • [–] 165 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Dear diary,

    Today someone was sarcastic on Lemmy and people liked it. Big day for the fediverse.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    fr. I've actually been surprised by how little people around here seem to understand sarcasm

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We're a pretty neurodivergent crowd. I thrive in sarcasm, but a lot of us come with different care instructions

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's not the only blockage to noticing sarcasm, there are so many people who say these / the things and actually MEAN them. We need differentiators, because the crazy levels are too high to wade through.

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  • [+] [S] -22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

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  • [–] 100 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “Christian” Mike Johnson doing his best to give cover to pedophiles. Wonder if him and his son discuss these sins at bedtime together while going over their porn monitoring.

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  • Can you imagine how much better off we'd be if they were this determined to do any positive thing at all in their careers?

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well that pretty much confirms it

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The GOP till about a week ago: “we need to release the files!” The GOP now: “ we need to protect the philes!”

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's actually better if they can't pass their shitty Republican bills. Democrats should just keep nagging about this. Either they actually have to address it, or the Republicans block themselves.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They are doing more damage with all their other nefarious shit going around or ignoring Congress/judges/scotus/etc, we're still in a really, really fucked up place right now and it's still only going to get worse for the average person.

    It'll take at least the next 2-4 years to start to show tangible devastating affects that will get millions of Americans killed with stripping away healthcare, food/snap programs, children's cancer research being scrapped, and a list of 100 other programs being cut, gutted,or flat out just gone now and some of those programs may never come back. Shit ain't over just cuz Congress put their feet up on the desk. Stay sharp, stay focused.

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  • [+] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wish. There's a permanent restricted airspace around the capitol. In the before times, an unauthorized aircraft would get in serious trouble with the FAA. Nowadays with the sycophantic dictator in charge, who knows what could happen.

    But it'd be a damn cool way to say your last words.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bro if you're flying in restricted airspace near govt buildings you know what happens. You get intercepted by a fighter jet and either have a friendly escort out of the restricted area or you make friends with a missile and get obliterated.

    I would not recommend trying to find out which will happen.

    On a related note:

    I've been wondering if drones could be adapted to essentially act as glide bombs that could operate without direct control input. Those probably would get around most protections especially if they had a glide slope that they'd stay on if their systems were jammed electronically. Like they get launched, fly to whatever altitude they need to be at to take a long glide down, and just go for pre programmed coordinates.

    That's probably something the war in Ukraine has either made a thing or it was tried and found to be dumb but I've not done research on it.

    It's not like civilians are gonna get their hands on true missiles and launch systems. But civies could find a way to put together some drones packed with explosives pretty easily I imagine.

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  • I think you're right about Ukraine doing such a thing. IIRC they used drones to destroy some Russian supply depots a month or two ago. Though I think those were cabled? Which I had never heard of until then, but hey, if it works it works.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago

    Guardians Of Pedophiles

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  • Eveyone: We want you to release the pedo files

    Trump: What if we release the pedophiles instead?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've always wondered why politicians get a massive break in the summer, seems like a really bad idea to have the people running the country not around to do their jobs in case of an emergency. I know they can be recalled, but still, that takes time. This isn't just a USA specific problem either.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It’s funny too because I know several people who look down on teachers and other education staff because they “don’t even work a full year”. Those same people all vote conservative.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My understanding: back when the population was small enough for this government to be actually representative, the idea was that legislators would go home to wherever they were elected from and be among the people who elected them so they could still represent their desires. Why it happens now? Tradition, I guess.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    So, at what point do we decide they are not representing us, they are no longer a legitimate government, and we are going to rule without them?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    only until the American people have someone to rally behind and no one has yet to step up to that position. None of the democrats will.

    They need a leader, no one wants to lead.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Looked it up, and molestation apparently just involves touching, whereas rape involves intercourse. So it might be more accurate to say, "bunch of child rapists". But even then, that probably doesn't cover kidnapping, trafficking, abuse, drugging, and repeatedly raping a bunch of children for decades in a personal billionaire cult ring on a private island.

    Every person defending these monsters deserves to be alive in the most , , and public way. I am calling for absolute of the highest degree.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Is there a way to guillotine people more than once? It'd be a shame to let them get out easy.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is it bcz there are people in Congress who are in the files? Sounds like they're not just protecting Trump.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    People in Congress and/or people who are funding people in Congress.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man our government has fucking collapsed lol.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Well from now whenever republicans defecate some sentences involving "but the kids" from their mouths the default reply should be "Oh like the time you didn't release Epstein files?"

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The entire top level of the current GOP is a pedophile, christofascist cult.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    GOP = Gross Old Pedophiles

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anyone check the Con subreddits/communities to see how they're dealing with that little nugget?

    MAGAt morons have been told directly by their Dear Leader... But they wanted those files revealed. What shall they do? Worship an old nasty rapist or learn the truth. Hmmm, probably whatever Faux News Entertainment tells them to think...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Must protect Dear Paeder.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lol IDK how you've lived through US politics in the past 10 years if you think there is literally anything that could turn these morons away from Trump. The Epstein files could be released and say "Donald Trump raped 30 teen girls on Epstein Island" and it wouldn't change a thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    The insane outnumber them, and they made the decision a long time ago, the answer was yes.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's not that the insane outnumber them, it's that the military has crazy firepower and is controlled by trump loyalists, and they are willing to open fire on citizens. The sane people know that.

    The only hope is infiltrating the military i guess?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The US fell into this nonsense long before Trump took it to full, unashamed facism. The people of that country had lots of time and opportunity to just simply not vote for the objectively evil people and even right now currently have the ability to vote.

    The amount of gerrymandering it would take to make a 10% minority pull off a win is so far beyond what we have today. But it’s not a 10% minority, it’s over 70 million people who handed Trump the popular vote. They could simply have just not done that but their hate and fear mean they’re more than happy to support such a wildly cruel party over and over again. It’s not the military that’s forcing them to vote for dear leader, not yet anyway, and there have been decades of opportunity to sort this shit out before this point.

    No weak excuses, that shithole country has forced its way into everyone else’s business and needs to shape the fuck up.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Tbf I didn't say anything about it being a 10% minority. But trump won with less than 50% of the popular vote which we know included voter suppression and straight doctoring votes, so I think the people who didn't vote for him do outnumber those who did, but yes, it is definitely well over 70M people.

    I'm not making excuses at all, something must be done, but what do we expect? Their cops have insane fire power and will open fire on civilians, so I guess we just have to hope some people are willing to martyr themselves and commit suicide by cop?

    I hope for a revolution, but I understand why people might be afraid to stand up.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    They think it's going to blow over by the time they get back

    Which mean they're putting plans in place to make it blow over

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    Hilarisgusting

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Some of these fools should be arrested

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  • [+] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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