• @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    He almost turns me into a believer because it seems the only place these fuckers might face any consequences would be hell itself.

  • Zier
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    656 months ago

    Gaetz was a congressperson when it all took place. That report is government property, AKA it belongs to all Americans.

  • @[email protected]
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    2916 months ago

    They wouldn’t show restraint for a Democrat. These are empty words

    They literally showed pictures of hunter bidens Wang on Cspan and he was a private citizen. So spare me the theater.

    • @[email protected]
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      656 months ago

      That’s DIFFERENT! That was a Private Citizens PENIS NOT Underage Sex Trafficking and Rape Testimonies! THOSE things are PRIVATE!

      -Republicans who believe Pizzagate!

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, pretty sure the report about Al Franken still got released despite him resigning months earlier.

  • @[email protected]
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    296 months ago

    He is Schrodingers citizen: both a public servant AND a private citizen whose waveform doesn’t collapse until the investigations begin.

  • @[email protected]
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    115 months ago

    Except thats bullshit because house reports have been released after members resigned in the past.

  • @[email protected]
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    1736 months ago

    Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

      • TheTechnician27
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        506 months ago

        In the future, I highly recommend sourcing to Wikiquote instead. It’s a sister project of Wikipedia which sources its quotes so they can be independently verified, whereas Goodreads just operates on an ad populum approach of upvotes. It also for this reason tends to be more robust to error, and many more prominent figures have specific sections both for popular quotes that are known to be misattributed and for ones that are dubious but not currently falsifiable.

  • @[email protected]
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    255 months ago

    If the report was exonerating, they’d release. Therefore, drawing the adverse inference: holy shit, trump nominated a child rapist to the justice department.

    • @[email protected]
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      I saw a comment earlier I thought was interesting, this may be a way of forcing everyone to bend the knee, make them complicit

      We all knows Gaetz is a kiddy diddler

      Trump knew when we nominated him

      Now everyone in congress knows. And they’ll allow it, because otherwise trump will turn on them

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    It’s funny and a bit ironic how far Mr. Jesus (Johnson) has fallen since he took office. Going out of his way to protect pedophiles and rapists like Gaetz and Trump and doing nothing but looking after the interests of how much money his boss is going to be making.

    _Matthew 6:24

    No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money._

    • @[email protected]
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      175 months ago

      People in power should learn that these social contracts and norms are a peacekeeping measure and violating every single one isn’t a good way to keep the population peaceful.

      • skulblaka
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        Exactly. America was born as a nation because last time someone tried some bullshit like this we shot them all dead and moved out.

        We’ve seen an awful lot of history repeating itself these days.

        If they’re smart they’ll take the hint. But we all know how likely that is.

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      An extremely fragile democracy to say the least.

      I can’t believe that this whole time it was just “please play by the rules” and that it was basically only enforced via tradition.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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        Literally the only thing required to take down the American Empire: some orange turd saying “nuh uh”

  • @[email protected]
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    456 months ago

    Who is applying for a different government job.

    As an alternative argument, that report almost certainly shows evidence of criminal wrongdoing, and it’d be weird to shield private citizens like that.