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House GOP Has 'Shut Down Congress' to Avoid Voting on Epstein Files (www.commondreams.org)

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The GOP-led House Rules Committee has shut down activity in the House this week to avoid having to take a vote on the Epstein files. It may not resume activity until September.

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[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Trump on coronavirus: ‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any’

Mike Johnson on the Epstein Files: "If we block the vote, then we can't be accused of voting against releasing them, so it won't look like we're protecting pedophiles."

These dip-shits have a very strange idea of how reality works.

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago

Well their voters re-elect them and the billionaires continue to support them so what is this reality you are talking about?

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Nah we're the stupid ones because they're going to get away with it while we seethe in anger because a majority of the country are stupid enough to fall for this