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Yep!

Good to see that this issue still has legs.

https://archive.ph/ZakFR

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We’ll see. I hope it does… but he could also be attempting to play to the base and save his own skin. As speaker, there are probably some stuff he could do to put pressure on Bondi or the FBI to release documents. The question is will he do that?

[ETA] Also, it strikes me that the “let the people decide” is a bit of a cop-out, too. It’s not random MAGA stans that will put someone on trial for any crimes committed. It will just be more fodder for conspiracism to run rampant on social media. So… I don’t know. :woman_shrugging:

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Yeah. What a country, where any decent person pretty much has only that awful issue to pin their slim bit of hope on! :weary:

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He says one thing but votes another.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congress-shuts-down-epstein-files-release-as-every-house-republican-votes-no/ar-AA1IFES6

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Welp, I guess that shows that he will do whatever dear leader tells him.

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:man_shrugging:t2:

ETA:

Dems could’ve filibustered, but…

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That doesn’t make sense, everyone knows that part.

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Seriously, it doesn’t matter at this point if Murkowski is complicit or just incompetent. Alaskans can’t be stupid enough to fall for her shit again.

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:crossed_fingers:

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She didn’t believe any of that. She just wanted an excuse to vote for Trump.

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Yep. She wants to be seen as “defending” her constituents, but does not give two shits about them in reality. The whole party is rotten, whatever they pretend to do or be.

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Plausible deniability; “I tried, I really did, but they lied to me”.

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Meh, the CIA does this better.

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Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files.

Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

Good. And related, you couldn’t have done this before?

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