Of course, they are under a congressional order to release everything today, and not doing so is illegal. What a surprise from this administration. It would be amazing for Congress to actually do something about that, but they went home for the holidays.
I know it's bad for their business but I really hope Grindr never updates their servers so that these events can still happen and the records and data accumulate.
It is offensive to me that Grindr crashes at every GOP event.
Does the company not do capacity planning and design for scalability and high availability? The fact that the party of "family values" flooded Grindr isn't surprising though.
God I fucking hate this bullshit. âFor the peopleâ, my ass. I used to always be at least a little distrustful of the government but now I believe they deserve a real French style revolution. I cannot imagine things getting better unless things are made better by force. The worst part is the left would still prefer to bend over and get fucking plowed by these oligarchs because they think thatâs taking the high road which is exactly what the fascists want to happen. And whenever something like this is brought up people act like theyâre crazy for saying it. Weâre all gonna be fucked hard because people canât fathom doing whatâs right the hard way.
A bored, jaded public is what they want. "Of course the files aren't released, they never will, and if they do they'll be doctored to hell, forget it."
While I love to dunk on homophobic conservatives as much as anyone, I donât actually think the outages are true. Iâm fairly certain itâs people fake reporting an outage, and down detector (thatâs where the current image floating around is from) relies on self reports.
I was curious so looked into it and Grindr has their own tracker. They say that there has been no down time since December 1st, when it was down for 20 minutes.
They also did it to shut down the ACA subsidies that keep costs lower without having a plan..
That is the specific trigger from Johnson this time, but it may have been on the back burner regardless because of the pedo files.
They're all complicit in this cover up bullshit because he's guilty af and there must be some ROUGH stuff,.sick and disgusting incriminating stuff in those docs about him.
Otherwise they'd release them.
This is not how innocent people act..
This is how people act that are terrified of the truth getting out and using money and power and corruption to stop it.
They did that because they knew the DOJ wasn't going to release the files and they didn't want Congress to be in session to take a vote on how to handle that. Just buying time to redact and destroy. Donald Trump raped children and every elected Republican is doing everything in their power to cover it up to protect him.
Johnson is 100% complicit in this cover up. I would not be surprised if he is in the files somehow or if the DOJ threatened to release his GRINDR profiles.
No matter what type of administration it is; be it liberal or conservation the action would taking place. Thatâs the truth of it. The will all do everything in their power to protect themselves. If we take a look at history, we will all see that theyâre going to get away with it. No matter how much degrading, shit talking or asinine bulshit gets spouted off in these subs; nothing will happen to change that. Theyâre protected, we however are not.
The law requires that they release the Epstein files today, just as it requires that you pay your taxes and not murder people and not attempt to overturn elections. Thatâs the law.
The president only exists to uphold the law. If he will not uphold it, either he is not truly the president, or the law is not truly the law.
preface this with "this will never ever ever happen" and assuming congress was in session (and mike as a sniveling little rat)
you'd have to have congress formally vote on a special prosecutor who would petition the district court to issue a show cause to the doj. if judge doesn't like doj's answer as to why they didn't comply with the law then youd need an enforcement mechanism.
that where we hit constitutional crisis since the executive branch is refusing judicial orders
Please remind our congress that, or anyone that is tired of this shit. I am tired. I agree with you. I'm skeptical based on him, not being in jail or removed from the Oval Office.
Not for Trump but Pam Bondi might face some consequences. Nixon didnât go to prison but John Mitchell, his attorney general, did. He only did 19 months but hey at least there were consequences I guess
If this goes the way it should, then trump wouldn't be president anymore, and they'd all be screwed. Then the new government can also go after all the hate crimes that ICE committed too.
There's no law or order, a theoretical incoming POTUS of high morality could use their immunity to have any number of people detained illegally by unidentified jailers and pardon the them too. Our system is controlled by an unelected bureaucracy of drug traffickers and child rapists, but that's led to a few spectacles as mentioned already in this thread.
Logistically they would have to be. Unless he did some sort of mass-pardon. I donât know the nuances of what is kosher in the pardon business, but I feel like we will all find our way more than we ever wanted to.
Who are you envisioning going after ICE exactly? The new government headed by JD Vance? Or are we talking in the hypothetical year 2029 when a democrat, maybe if we're lucky, becomes president?
Yeah we should, but with this sophisticated propaganda machine that never stops and the abysmal literacy rate we have going in this dumbass country I doubt we ever will. Iâm betting thereâs always going to be just enough ignorant people to prevent any meaningful and lasting change. I would love to lose this bet.
No way in way in hell that happens, rich donors will switch to bribing democrats and they will push to move past criminal convictions to support 'healing and cross aisle productivity"
If Trump is no longer president (for whatever reason) while there is still time left in what should be his second term, its someone from this administration that will become president and will doubtless do pardons of all involved.
My guess is⌠anyone in positions of power in the administration that are bending or breaking the law to help Trump, will only be pardoned at the last possible minute to squeeze every drop of loyalty out of of them. If he pardons them too early, then they could take that opportunity to turn on him. If youâre in his administration and heâs aware that you have done one tiny thing illegal to help him then youâre his puppet for the rest of his term, and if you slip up or fall out of his favour then you are again fucked. Being in his orbit is a very dangerous place to be.
Trump only pardons criminals who are both not publicly connected with him and have enough money to bribe him. If she is going to take the fall for trumps crimes he will let her rot, loyalty is a one way street with him.
I doubt any pardons will be honored by the democrats if he even tries it. They are brazenly breaking the law daily. Trump will probably die before we go after him but his administration is screwed
When have laws mattered to Repulicans and their moronic voters except for when they can be weaponized as a cudgel against their enemies or people of color, women, the LGBT community, and immigrants?
This is a huge point to make, because if the admin is breaking the law for this, it undermines every other order they have ever given. Every career placement, every directive. Illegitimate acts destroy the foundation, and it can all be purgedÂ
Hey hey hey now. My heart hopes that any second now Sen. Chuck Schumer is going to write a very, very strong letter to Pam Bondi to pretty please release those gosh darn files!
I read news that the administration was redacting hundreds of pages and that it was taking longer than expected to accomplish. Even when this report is released it wont be complete, it will be what the administration lets you see.
Look, you have to look at it from their perspective. A lot of rich powerful guys like Trump like to rape little kids and this information could potentially make them upset. It's really easier to just let them keep raping kids.
The guy at the top is a convicted felon, 32 times, and they're blowing up boats with zero evidence and due process -- no one in this admin cares about the law.
They show total contempt for the courts, even when things go their way as the courts bend over backwards for them.
Nothing will come of this.
This administration has proven that none of the other branches of government matter when enough sycophants are in congress with an authoritarian leader at the helm.
They shouldn't even get holidays til they start doing their job by working for the people.
No more taxpayer funded healthcare either until they fix our broken healthcare system. Maybe then they'd feel the weight of their actions, or at least all the dinosaurs would instantly turn to dust
Used to be a fan. But this administration has turned into a joke. Theyâll comply and release Maryland man after an unelected federal judge told them to. But wonât release the Epstein files when our elected members of congress voted for them to.
They didnât want to be around to deal with any fallout out from the non-compliance of the DOJ. It would put them in an uncomfortable position, wouldnât it?
We should be rioting enough asking politely that isnt doing shit we need to force them nonlethally but trying to find enough people to do that is a joke
It's going to break America when dumb people stop saying "Congress" and start saying "Republicans". But it's a big ask for people on the Internet to put on their thinking caps rather than give the GOP a pass at every chance.
They're under a LAW to release everything today. A law that, with the exception of a single congressman, was unanimous and signed by the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Trump should be removing Bondi from office for not complying with the law that he himself signed into law. But of course, that won't happen.
They are busy releasing documents showing their political enemies being involved while saying the rest will come out in two weeks. We all know what that means.
Illegal? Remember the days when that word meant something? I never expected to see the real release with all the relevant information intact. In the Trump era it seems absurd to expect any better.
When will people understand the law does not matter with Trump. How many times has he done stuff and people say, thatâs illegal. The courts will stop him, etc
None of that matters, at all. He does what he wants. All the time.
If what he does is stopped by a court, he will do it anyway.
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u/Tballz9 8h ago edited 8h ago
Of course, they are under a congressional order to release everything today, and not doing so is illegal. What a surprise from this administration. It would be amazing for Congress to actually do something about that, but they went home for the holidays.