• WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    On Tuesday “if” we actually get the Epstein files voted on and released it’s gonna be biblical levels of chaos for trump supporters and I’m fully onboard for it.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      55 minutes ago

      …“If”?.. Do people just not understand the bare fucking basics of how the government works?

      It won’t release on Tuesday. Not because of any kind of cover up, but because it’s only in the House right now. If on Tuesday the House votes to release it… It goes to the Senate. And they won’t vote on it that same day. There is no “if” it releases on Tuesday because there is literally no route for that to happen. And even moving forward, it’s extremely unlikely to ever get released this way.

      That’s why I’ve been pulling my hair out at all the idiots going “OMG we got the 218 signatures now! They’re gonna vote to release it!!1!”

      Yea… In the House. Then it goes to the Senate. Then it goes to Trump’s desk where he’s essentially guaranteed to veto it. Then it goes back to the house who now needs a 2/3rds majority, which they don’t have.

      That’s how fucking bills work. We learned this in fucking grade school with schoolhouse rock. “Oh we have the signatures now!” is completely meaningless. It’s like celebrating you won the lottery when all you’ve done is buy a ticket; you still don’t stand a snowballs chance in hell.

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        I’m not sure what I’m going to say, but I think you’re wrong. What they are going to do is not a law; Congress does more and has more authority than just legislate. If I’m not mistaken, the idea is to give a direct order to the Justice Department to release the files; they don’t need to go to the Senate or through Trump’s office. That’s why they’re so nervous in the government; otherwise, what would be the point of seeing Trump acting crazy about it?

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          Lol, it’s a bill dude. That’s how bills work. The bill is called The Epstein Files Transparency Act. There is nothing special about this bill that would make it go straight from the House to the Justice Department. It still has to go through the Senate and be signed into law by the president before it takes effect.

          You fell for the bait. And I get it, you’re probably scrambling now, looking up the actual reality of the situation going “No… No, that can’t be right… If that was how it worked then all this would be meaningless, and if this is all meaningless then why would every news site and social media board be talking about it as if it wasn’t? People would have to be complete, ignorant, fucking idiots for that to be the case…”

          And now you know why I’m going bald.

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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      “The girls weren’t THAT young, and besides, all the documents are fake, altered by the liberals”.

      About how I think it’ll go.

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        "Duurrrr. He only did all that raping of children to get ‘in with the baddies’ and then dismantle everything and to ‘drain the swamp’ from the inside.

        It’s obvious, when you think about it.

        Plus he was only an heejeebaphile, so he wasn’t raping pre-teens, like that weirdo hair sniffing sick fuck biden.

        Biology has proven for decades that those girls are practically adults by that age!!
        If they didn’t want it to happen then why were they there?
        Also the female body has ways to stop ‘proper’ rape!!
        You guys will believe anything. You just wait, it’ll all come out that he was only doing it because he was forced to!"

        That ⬆️ is basically a condensed version of what the maggots will be spouting over the next few weeks.