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riversedge

(76,626 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:48 PM 8 hrs ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Ummm so let me get this straight: Republicans have ground Congress to a halt and are

I just hope the Majority of people remember the vile Repugs on election 2022 day!!


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
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Ummm so let me get this straight: Republicans have ground Congress to a halt and are considering adjourning the entire House for 6 weeks to avoid releasing the info they have on Epstein?

What is going on here?





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Permanut

(7,329 posts)
1. I'm sorry, no adjournment is possible..
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:01 AM
8 hrs ago

Unti the Redskins/Commanders and Indians/Guardians issue is resolved.

This is a top priority, and no one goes home until the matter is settled.

usonian

(19,164 posts)
2. Packing bags for Argentina for when the (unerased) dirt all comes out?
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:10 AM
7 hrs ago

I am sure there are scads of witnesses, not just "files"


B.See

(5,903 posts)
3. What's going on is, the Congressional
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:10 AM
7 hrs ago

MAGA Insurrectionists are once again proving to be the conniving, cowardly, underhanded SCUM they are.

Always remember: No low, TOO low for them.

bamagal62

(4,011 posts)
4. Must not be as many
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:17 AM
7 hrs ago

Democrats in that file as they had hoped. Otherwise, it would be plastered everywhere and we’d hear nothing but what’s in these Epstein files. It must be pretty bad for all these skanky republicans.

Gaugamela

(2,893 posts)
6. To be clear, they're not avoiding the release of the files, they're avoiding
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:26 AM
7 hrs ago

the necessity of voting down the release of the files. I’m not in any way throwing shade on AOC for whom I have the greatest respect, and clearly she’s shorthanding for the sake of brevity and clarity, but it’s even more pathetic than she states.

Figarosmom

(7,002 posts)
7. Well that's likely better than having them
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:27 AM
7 hrs ago

In session passing bad laws that Dems can't stop and all those idiot "investigations" into Obama and Biden and everything Democratic. Why would they investigate Epstein when there is so much that the Dems did that needs condemning

If the press does their jobs they don't need the files, they can dig up witnesses and stories on their own, and I don't know what stopped them to begin with.

I see this as a good thing. AOC shouldn't complain she can go out on more town halls and talk about epstein and policies.

usonian

(19,164 posts)
10. Can someone please remove their chairs while they're away?
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 02:23 AM
5 hrs ago

Turn them backwards?
Install whoopee cushions?
Trap doors?


Top secret: at work we had an administrator who was a genius in "getting nothing done"

I had just replaced the porcelain throne at home, so I cleaned up the old one real nice, and replaced his work seat with it, undoubtedly much more suitable for extended sessions of meditation instead of actual work.

How I got it past the guards is lost to fading memory. Truly a great accomplishment.

Well, our do-nothing administrator apparently got a burst of productivity, and it vanished rather quickly.

You see, there are ways to motivate people.

And to smuggle potties into aerospace facilities. And who knows, maybe that seat replaced an ultra expensive one for (redacted) Corporation.

AZJonnie

(1,051 posts)
11. Just curious, what 'info' does the House have on the Epstein case that they are in a position to 'release' or not?
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 04:00 AM
4 hrs ago

As far as I ever remember, the House has done no Epstein-related investigations. I remember some talk awhile back about investigating the original sentencing he got back in the aughts, re: why it was such a cushy deal. IIRC that was when Acosta was being considered for an important role in the first Trump admin (or maybe he already had the role when the Miami Herald story came out?), but I don't recall it ever happening.

So, what 'info' is she talking about?

Nimble_Idea

(2,709 posts)
14. oh, you think the house is a separate branch of gov't
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:22 AM
40 min ago



i'm sure the case is solved. no more looking anyone! AOC has been put in her place by AZJonnie

BoRaGard

(6,400 posts)
12. Thank you AOC
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:11 AM
1 hr ago

I hope you and your colleagues will not let the public forget this over the coming weeks.

Nimble_Idea

(2,709 posts)
13. Running interference for child fuckers is not the FLEX the GOPedo thinks it is
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:19 AM
43 min ago

I hope there is a line somewhere over at the "other side"

or damn, man there is no redeeming those sick fucks.

May Christ deal with the demons.

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