Republicans love pedophiles.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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I mean.. to be fair, read the title. Not all of them are pedophiles, many are just really fucking stupid and took them months to realize something everyone else realized long time ago
I do want to point out that at one point every single voting Republican in the house, 211, voted to shelf the Epstein vote: https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-1/194?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22hres+580%22%7D&s=8&r=3
And all but 2 in the senate: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00512.htm
So, not a single Republican is redeemable, imo.
I appreciate their sacrifice on many levels
Kinda tells you all you need to know about MAGAts. There is no bottom.
Well there is Lindsey Graham.
What's the opposite of a "power" bottom? Like a flimsy bottom. Or clean coal ass. Idk
With his little lady bugs
Now I need someone to explain.
Lindsey Graham has been rumored for years to be closeted gay; the "ladybugs" thing specifically comes from a satire story (full text here) where Graham calls the moles on his taint his "little ladybugs".
How do you realize you have moles on your perineum I cannot see mine.
Mirror
🤮
Every time I repress this, and I always have to feel like I'm discovering what this is for the first time.
Going to my happy place in 3....2....1.....
You know, I should've realized that I didn't want to know. Now I've added another item to the long list of things I can't unlearn.
There have been plenty… that’s a big part of the problem.
In the article you didn't read:
It’s too simple to reduce Mace, Greene and Massie’s loss of power to the Epstein files.
Never change, Lemmy.
(Edit: Not, of course, that you'd have to read an article to know that a sample size of four isn't sufficient to connect the two.)
The article is wrong
- MTG resigned despite no obviously threatening primary challenge.
- Boebert is running uncontested in the primary.
- The article notes of Mace: "Mace’s incessant political attention-seeking and often-bizarre behavior might well have alienated primary voters as much as the Epstein saga."
- And notes of Massie: "Both Greene and Massie were bucking Trump on plenty of other things, too."
Like it's clear at least Massie is gone because he went against Trump and probably Mace too, but using a sample size of four to say "Yup, it's the Epstein files" is obviously unsound.
The article is correct on the grounds that it is too simple to reduce it to that singular cause.
The MTG resignation is just such a fucking unforced L on her part. Like, she had the right rallying around her. She could have been their Coo-coo-for-coco-puffs replacement for when the cholesterol eventually does its job. She probably could even have bilked over the remaining TYT and Jimmy Dore fans to her cause.
But at the end of the day I think its about Trump and loyalty to Trump. We're seeing it across primaries too; the reality is that actually, the "MAGA" part of MAGA aren't particularly engaged in electoralism. "America First" represented expanded voter-ship into demographics which didn't typically vote; so its not particularly surprising when they don't vote in mid-terms. And if you follow RW media, Trump has fallen quite far out of favor, although you'll see much mental gymnast-icking. And you see it in the exit data on the mid term primaries. Democrats are out-showing-up Republicans 2:1, compared to typical turnout.
So there are a few things going on:
1: Trump is still firmly in control of the party.
2: The party is falling out of favor with their activist base.
3: Republican equivalent of ABWD are still showing up, but the part of the Republican party that put Trump into power appears to have lost interest largely because of US support for Israel and the war in Iran.
This all points further to support the thesis that Trump won't allow free and fair elections. Because there is a real divide within MAGA/ America First right now.
Release the files
*encouraged/pressed for. They didn't force anything. The Epstein files are not fully released.
I'm sorry, but language fucking matters.
Yup yup. Also, no job true, but still have pension.
I suspect that this is why Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned - because Trump is petty and vindictive, and was sure to do everything he could - and everything he could cajole his rich cronies into doing - to destroy the Republicans who dared to try to make an issue of the fact that he's a statutory rapist.
I thought she resigned right after her pension benefits were secured
Maybe that's just a big coincidence
Also a regular rapist.
Also a regular rapist of children. Those minors were forced into sex under duress; AND were underage.
There is also testimony that he was part of the murder of an infant which was then dumped into Lake Michigan.
The files have not been released…
- the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM)
Yet no consequences for Americans implicated in the Epstein files.
Looks like they finally solidified the pedophile base under the far pro-pedophile wing.
I feel so bad for the onion these days. Where's the satire?
People who follow Trump or the Republican agenda are brain-damaged or users. Do these people enjoy being racist/bigoted/misogynistic assholes? That is not the point. They control. It is intoxicating to control.
AIPAC has our country occupied by traitors and pedophiles
"Job"...
No slight is too petty to be used as an opportunity to stab another legislator in the back. The Epstein leaks are flashy news but way overkill for workaday congressional vendettas. Anything at all will do.
Let them fight.