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    I still don’t like it that news help Republicans conflate government shutdown with Congress shutdown.

    The Congress’ shutdown is just Johnson’s doing to block Epstein Bill vote.

    Normally if GOP cared about the country, Congress would be open and politicians would be working overtime trying to pass the bill.

    This Congress shutdown is there to prevent that.

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        Seems insane to me that the US has no mechanism to deal with a Congress that refuses to do it’s job. In other countries if they couldn’t pass a budget they would be dissolved and new elections would be held. If you can’t do the job that people have elected you for, you should get replaced.

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          The founders didn’t think anyone would be this stupid and/or figured folks would start dropping if they did do something this stupid so no system was put in place. A lot of the flaws of the US become a lot less obvious if you disregard the concept of not just shooting politicians or other wars maiming them, do you really think Johnson would be such a prick if he was at risk for being tard and feathered?

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    Wow, the irony here is quite something. Whole lotta dipshits voted for Pedonald because they thought that he was going to unleash “The Storm” or whatever the fuck and arrest Hillary, Obama, Podesta, etc. for Pizzagate. Facepalm

    Then, dipshit gets in there and has his people completely squelch any such investigation because, duh, Pedonald is besties with the world’s most notorious pedophile.

    I really hate the fact that this country is filled with so many low-info morons.

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    For some reason when the American president fucks and traffics kids any and all law enforcement just throw their hands up in the air and shrug, at all levels. And the American people elect him, again

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    Congress’s entire job currently is to abdicate its power to the President. Johnson is a sycophant who has violated his oath of office.

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    I’m glad the “bombshell” is actually given, rather than some lame “I’ve got a secret” thing, but…

    According to a report Friday from Drop Site News, Epstein had helped broker a defense agreement between the West African nation Côte d’Ivoire and Israel, a revelation uncovered from recently leaked emails of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

    … That’s it? Am I missing something, or is MTG blowing things out of proportion? Or is that not the bombshell?

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    I’m pretty sure the real issue here is that Epstein was a Mossad agent, or at minimum a protected informant. I think it’s fairly obvious that his job was to compromise valuable people and create blackmail opportunities for <insert government agency here>.