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Barbara Baldwin's avatar

All these delaying tactics just allow more time for the files to be sanitized. There’s no reason to believe that anything released will be the actual truth.

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Sheri's avatar

Nice deep pull from GOT. Do you watch the Bulwark’s Cam Kaskey talk theory with David Lightbringer on YouTube? It’s interesting.

And of course Johnson is both a lunatic and without empathy for his fellow man. “De-aging his penis”—what a selfish toad. He could spend a tenth of that amount buying up medical debt and be a hero to those people for generations. He chose to be a ghoul, instead.

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dean apostol's avatar

I'd like to take a wrecking ball to the palaces of these high tech rich idiots and when they ask what the heck I am doing, tell them "disruption is a good thing."

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ktb8402799's avatar

Put it on the next Luigi's casings...

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graceg's avatar

The footnotes for Press Pass are always gold 😂

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LD O'Connell's avatar

GOP House members may be stupid, but they're not that stupid and the Democrats, public and MAGAs who were promised the Epstein files are not going to forget what they're waiting for. Fingers crossed most of the judicial nominees go down in flames. Esp. the grossly unqualified Emil Bove.

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Karen Nielsen's avatar

The more I learn about these Silicon Valley billionaires, the more I think they are the most dangerous people in the world. Their philosophies are so extreme and insane. They seem like a bunch of idiot savants who lucked out and made billions and now are threatening civilization. We really need to take action now to protect ourselves from these people.

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R Hodsdon's avatar

"Leave the gun, take the cannoli"

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Linda Oliver's avatar

I like Thomas Massie’s Phase Two binder stunt. The beauty of a conspiracy theory is that it’s impossible to kill. Republicans should have fun going home to their constituents arriving at their offices armed with pitchforks and torches. They’ll never convince them it’s all been a massive snipe hunt.

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Marcia's avatar

I got an email from Indivisible last week promoting similar stunts with the aim to draw media attention. This email suggested that constituents either snail mail or personally deliver to their Congressperson’s offices items such as toy airplanes marked “Epstein flight logs” and empty manila folders marked “Epstein files”.

It’s a lot more fun than the standard petition!

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Paul G's avatar

It would take three things for the United States to become #1 in life expectancy:

* Provide universal health care

* Make work pay

* Vigorously enforce child support laws

Robust investment in public health, a commitment to evidence-based medicine,* and state-of-the-art disaster preparation and response wouldn’t hurt either.

* The real thing, as opposed to the fraud being perpetrated by MAHA.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Footnote 3 is perfect,

Joe. No vampires at

Mama's table.

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L.D.Michaels's avatar

Tough choices. The Republicans can make Trump happy if they hold up in swampy torrid Washington in August as Trump hits the greens. Or they can run the risk of Trump threatening them that he'll back other candidates in their primaries if they go home to their constituents. This is the mercy and gratitude that Trump lavishes upon his subjects.

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Katherine B Barz's avatar

It’s good to know that the Republicans are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Release the files-which they would eat glass before doing so, or don’t and get pilloried in Town hall meetings, and loose their cushy jobs, either through a primary vote, or to a dread Democrat. Couldn’t happen to nicer people.

Also; could we stop with the interviews with rich people who have too much money and too little working brain cells. They are tiresome, and only play into their fantasy world of delusion. Someone should tell them they were born on third base; they did not hit a triple!

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Tamera L Sanford's avatar

He already made US people’s lives HELL so why NOT???

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Tai's avatar

That Bryan Johnson guy is creepy as hell. He looks like Edward on the twilight if vampires actually age. Also, I sure hope I look and sound better than RFK Jr. when I am 70. He looks like a train wreck. How can he be seen the epitome of virility is beyond comprehension.

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Thea's avatar

I'm over 80 and I look and sound better than him

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APowell's avatar

I feel somewhat depressed and disheartened after reading these very informative reports and this made me laugh, thank you for that hahaha!

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Bob's avatar

There ain't no cure for the summertime blues. Apologies Eddie Cochrane

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Ah yes, Demoralized White Boy Summer on Capitol Hill—where the only thing hotter than the D.C. asphalt is the collective cowardice of a party caught between subpoenas, subpoenas-in-waiting, and whatever MAGA thinks is good for engagement this week.

Trump tells them to cancel their recess and stay to confirm judges. Not because of a looming shutdown. Not to fix a broken healthcare system or address inflation. No. Judges. Because reshaping the bench to ensure personal immunity is apparently the last real governing priority.

And it’s working. Like clockwork, Thune reaches for his calendar with one hand and his talking points with the other. The Senate might stay. The House? Already sprinting toward the exit like interns who just found out the vending machines are free in August.

But the real rot? It’s Epstein. Still Epstein. The phantom that haunts every hallway but can’t get a damn vote.

Massie lugs around a parody binder while the real ones gather dust. Republicans who once screamed “release the files!” are now chanting “give the DOJ space” like it’s a meditation app. Meanwhile, the kids trafficked by Epstein’s ring still don’t have justice. But sure, let’s get another zip code passed instead.

We’re watching power crack under the weight of its own complicity. The cult demanded blood and got performative subpoenas. Trump wants fealty, and the only thing standing between a full-blown authoritarian farce and a functioning republic is how much sunscreen Josh Hawley packed.

This isn’t governance. It’s gladiator cosplay on a crumbling empire’s steps. And as usual, the actual victims—the trafficked, the sick, the silenced—get buried under the noise.

But the truth isn’t going anywhere. It waits, file by file, for someone brave enough to unseal it.

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Reldas's avatar

Might I suggest a *special* guillotine just for Mr Johnson's favorite body part? In fact, why not suggest it for everyone listed in the Epstein hoax.

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