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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 126 points 22 hours ago

It's been too long already, stop threatening and do it.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 76 points 22 hours ago

"Two Florida Republicans were sworn in during a pro forma session on April 2, the day after their special elections."

Of course they did! Wouldn't be GOP hypocrisy without easily identified precedent contradicting their current shitbag position.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 31 points 20 hours ago

Word, words and more words. Do it. Stop posturing and playing politics, do your fucking jobs.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 54 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking good for Arizona. A sentence I was not expecting to type today.

[–] Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works 44 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Arizona is weird like that. Sometimes they're California, the rest of the time they're Florida.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

it's the snowbirds

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 21 hours ago

Arizona has very "chaotic neutral" purple state energy.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Arizona is firmly the Florida of the desert. Like how the Bosporan Kingdom was the Carthage of the black sea.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Since the whole thing is, she can be the vote needed to release the Epstein files... Is this the Republicans last tactic to prevent the release?

IF she gets seated, and IF the votes get through to release, what other tactics will the traitors use to block it? With trump sycophants leading every agency, how do we know they aren't just destroying or doctoring evidence right now?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 27 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

she can be the vote needed to release the Epstein files…

This game has a long history in the House. As soon as liberals think they have the magic number of votes, a conservative decides that the bill is secretly woke and goes on a tear about how we need to insert "Execute all transgender people" as an amendment before they can actually support it.

what other tactics will the traitors use to block it?

The head of the Department will say "No, you misread the bill, we don't actually have to do anything". And then it'll be five years of the courts deciding whether words mean things.

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Or some democrat who had been a yes up until that point suddenly decides that their conscience tells them they should change to no. See sinema, manchin, fetterman etc.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 3 points 9 hours ago

Indeed I did! Thanks for the correction. 😉

[–] PKscope@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

Jesus fucking Christ. It's been nearly a whole year since I last thought about that piece of shit Joe Manchin. You just had to remind me.

Did more damage to our state than I ever thought possible for a senator. Robert C. Byrd rolling in his fucking grave watching that turncoat hem and haw and not do a goddamn useful thing his entire tenure.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

They can try to filibuster in the Senate, but that requires them to go on record.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Reminder that fascist Republicans are perfectly fine with a district in our nation being taxed without representation because they refuse to do the job we pay them to do.

These are traitors.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It is amazing just how hard these pedo pushers will work to ensure their kid-raping masters never have to face consequences.

I don’t actually expect there to be much of Trump in these papers (that would be too easy), but I’m sure there are a LOT of big GOP donors pressuring the party to make the report go away.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

Easiest way to make it go away is to release it then.

People will forget about it in a week anyway.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

I wish a CSPAN caller laid that question on him. My God. I didn't think he could look more uncomfortable, but surely that'd do it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

"If you don't do the thing, I'll sue" only works when you're the President extorting the news divisions of trillionaire conglomerates.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

at some point you skip straight to triple-dog dare

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 21 hours ago

Until they're prepared to threaten military action instead of legal action, nothing will change.