There is only one reason you would vote to block transparency.
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If nothing else, a list of everyone on both sides who voted to kill it would be nice. Anyone who could ever possibly vote in good faith to not release a version of the Epstein list that only has edits/redacts to protect the victims deserves to be named.
did any dems? doesn't seem like it in this instance:
"In an 8–4 party-line vote Tuesday, Republicans on the House Rules Committee shot down a bid to put the Epstein Files Transparency Act—"
I can think of a few recent events that would be appropriate to have happen again with a certain list of names
Do we have any idea who has gotten to see the Epstein files? We should be pressuring/threatening for their release.
These are child rapists we're talking about. Anyone who protects a child rapist is just as culpable.
The repedocan party
If you live in one of those states, write or print a physical letter asking them why they voted not to release the epstein list. Explicitly ask for a response. You will almost certainly get one.
I gotchu, fam. Copied straight from the article:
Here is the name of every Republican who voted to block the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Tuesday.
- Virginia Foxx—North Carolina
- Michelle Fischbach—Minnesota
- Ralph Norman—South Carolina
- Chip Roy—Texas
- Nicholas Langworthy—New York
- Austin Scott—Georgia
- H. Morgan Griffith—Virginia
- Brian Jack—Georgia
If Democrats weren't spineless bitches they'd run ads of these names nationally and hammer all of Republicans on this issue 24/7.
If Democrats could muster half the energy Republicans had for Obama's tan suit we might actually have a chance to win something.
They can, they just don't want to. They'll only go as far as they can get away, it's all performative. They don't want the files released either, and they're all too happy for the republicans to take the fall and to simply say "we didn't have the votes".
If they did want to release them, like you said, they'd do more than the bare minimum.
Or fucking Biden would have done it. The fact that he didn't goes to show how bipartisan child rape is!
Before Biden was taken under Obama and swept under the hopes and dreams brand, before he became the leader of the Democratic cult, Biden was constantly called out for his inappropriateness by everyone. The right made a bid deal of Obama's tan suit and eating mustard on hotdogs, but the Daily Show constantly shit on Biden for smelling little girl's hair and making young women uncomfortable with his touchy feely hands.
How we forget. We know Bill is in there, are we sure Biden isn't?
I'm surprised the list is so short tbh, did others vote in favour or abstain?
It was a committee vote to bring the bill to the house floor for a full vote. Of the 12 member committee, the 8 Republicans voted against it.
Ah my misunderstanding, thank you
Ah, so this is the Epstein list, now we just need the full list.
5. “I haven’t seen it”—Jim Jordan
On brand.
Sounds like a list of pedophiles to me
Virginia Fox isn't even from NC but yet once again my people are more than willing to let an outsider dictate how we should live. WNC needs to do better but the anti-intellectual mouth breathers from the hollar can't see past their bullshit prosperity gospel to see what these people really are. They are like the soy farmers. They will vote hate as long as it does not affect them and even if it does they will still choose hate.
Now, we should go to their homes and stand outside and scream. If they feel unsafe, they’re likely to think twice
I like this. Not anything coherent. Not a chant. Just screaming. Constant, enraged, veins-standing-out-on-your-neck, blood-curdling screaming. A scream serenade. I scream. You scream. We all scream. Because fuck you, you psychopathic assholes.
A scream-in. We all camp outside the house and just go for it. Maybe we can record some of it and play it back when we need a break.
Obviously we would all have megaphones and earplugs.
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
I feel most of the US could use a good collective primal scream therapy session, this could really take off.
Screaming is just angry crying! 🤪
We could all use a good collective cry too. Just let it aaaaaaall out.
Does Virginia Foxx not have a real name? Why use her porn star name?
I keep saying this. Like who is writing this season? I can’t take headlines seriously half the time because they seriously sound made up. Like, we’re all trapped in a season of the Truman show and all the writers are on strike.
Chip Roy (TX) wouldn’t have a job without gerrymandering.
I doubt any repuglicunt would.
Perhaps you have too much faith in complacent American morons. Apologies for being repetitive.
more accurately: a list of repugs that know they are on the list.