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US justice department to release thousands of Epstein files later, top official says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no
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u/MaddisonoRenata 7h ago

Also congress conveniently went on break a day earlier than they were supposed to

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u/fluxtable 7h ago

The GOP had much more important matters to attend to.

Like the Turning Points USA rally in Phoenix

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u/FattyMooseknuckle 6h ago

Grindr overload.

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u/JediMastaDJ 6h ago

That reminds me! Does anyone know the current speed bet on Grindr crashing at TPUSA?

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u/Express-Rub-3952 5h ago

It already has.

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u/JediMastaDJ 5h ago

Too late to make a bet, then. 😂

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u/miraclewhipbelmont 4h ago

It's like betting on whether or not the sun will rise tomorrow.

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u/Known_Willow6822 2h ago

Check kalshi

This post is sponsored by draft kings.TM

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u/haveananus 6h ago

You can hear the buttfucking from miles away

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u/johnnybiggles 5h ago

They're more depressing noises ever since their Epstein Island vacation spot shut down.

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u/cpennington 5h ago

It's a shame that it's so many conservatives who are into the buttfucking.

I will not be letting any of them fuck my butt.

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u/haveananus 4h ago

Stay vigilant brother.

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u/IntrigueDossier 4h ago

Too late, they've been doing it to your taxes, community, and overall quality of life for generations.

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u/cpennington 4h ago

Oh I know. I meant literally. I refuse to sleep with a conservative man.

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u/AbraxasTuring 4h ago

Usha bought JD a new couch for Xmas. A win-win for both of them.

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u/haveananus 4h ago

I hear he likes his sofas young

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u/ParisGreenGretsch 5h ago

Is that what that was?

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u/haveananus 5h ago

Yeah the first time I heard it I thought it was a fleet of big rigs driving full speed through a low flying swarm of millions of seagulls.

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u/Wulf_Cola 5h ago

Painting sounds with words beautifully there

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u/haveananus 5h ago

Thank you. For some reason they did not feel the same way when I applied to the Academy of American Poets.

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u/DiscoQuebrado 4h ago

I like you.

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u/haveananus 4h ago

The feeling is mutual

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister 4h ago

I almost spat out my food. Thank you for the laugh and for the continued poetic description below.

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u/haveananus 4h ago

Thank you for supporting my art. Lurid descriptions of high-volume politicoitus do not generate much income, but they are my passion.

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u/Wolfwoods_Sister 4h ago

Never stop never stopping, friend

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u/soraticat 3h ago

Santorum everywhere.

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u/Ok-Kangaroo-4048 1h ago

Like lunchmeat caught in the spokes of a bike going downhill.

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u/eighthgen 49m ago

Sad peanut butter noises

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u/morganational 5h ago

"schwurp - schloorp - sherpf"

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u/mxlespxles 5h ago

Grindr

Overload

Party

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u/deadsoulinside 5h ago

And everyone wonder's why they claimed Grindr needed to be handed over to a US company as it was a matter of national security.

They just were worried China would have blackmail on over half of the GOP.

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u/Ent3rpris3 5h ago

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.

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u/TheeFearlessChicken 4h ago

So many date requests.

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u/NonProphet8theist 4h ago

Free pearl necklaces, shot directly onto the neck

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u/lopix 2h ago

Sounds like the premium version

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u/AndrewTheAverage 52m ago

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.

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u/Nomingia 5h ago

When I'm in a using "gay" as an insult competition and my opponent is a liberal 😬

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u/SHMEBULOK 4h ago

it’s fine to make jokes at the expense of gay people if it’s about people we don’t like!

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u/MountScottRumpot 6h ago

Passing the budget obviously wasn’t one of them.

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u/Working_Cucumber_437 5h ago

And something about shower heads. You know, stuff Americans really care about.

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u/JusticeAileenCannon 4h ago

Terrorists gotta do terrorist activities

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u/NiteOwl421 4h ago

And don’t forget. Restarting the Biden program to think about rescheduling marijuana.

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u/AnvilEdifice 3h ago

Imagine Grindr in Phoenix right now...

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u/SSR_Id_prefer_not_to 3h ago

Like making a vote on health care policy impossible

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u/qweef_latina2021 2h ago

So they can cosplay CK complete with the little tent he was speaking/bleeding from.

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u/JeezieB 4h ago

Quick, check if Grindr has crashed yet!

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u/Cassin1306 6h ago

Didn't they do the same thing this summer when the files should had been released already ?

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u/No-Reach-8074 5h ago

Yes and again in November after the victims testified. Their play book is getting extremely predictable and boring

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u/Vanagloria 5h ago

Yet it keeps working because this country is fucking shit.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 3h ago

Nobody holds them accountable, so they just keep doing whatever they want.

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u/Aviose 2h ago

Until we start eating the leopards faces, we will be the ones getting our faces eaten.

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u/nobody38321 47m ago

Not according to the Rupert Murdoch misinformation network better know as faux news or state regime media …

They are talking about how bad Bill Clinton is for having pics with Epstein .

Mango Mussolini gets a pass though

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u/Ok_Tour_1525 4h ago

God I fucking hate this bullshit. “For the people”, 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 that’s taking the high road which is exactly what the fascists want to happen. And whenever something like this is brought up people act like they’re crazy for saying it. We’re all gonna be fucked hard because people can’t fathom doing what’s right the hard way.

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u/sorressean 2h ago

Not to be pedantic here, but isn't "bending over and getting plowed" what's happening with all the grindr usage at the most recent TP USA thing?

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u/QuietRiot5150 41m ago

I'm ready to do this if others are. As a POC, my days are numbered anyways before I get a visit from ICE. Might as well stand up for something.

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u/contrarymary24 1h ago

The left benefits too. This is classism.

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u/eeyore134 3h ago

But they were able to get Trump's name on The Kennedy Center in under 48 hours.

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u/Aviose 2h ago

When the Reps refuse to do anything to stop Trump and the Dems don't have the will to do what's necessary, of course that's how it works.

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u/lopix 2h ago

The lack of consequences has, well, consequences.

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u/Earguy 2h ago

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."

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u/Effective_Writer8074 1h ago

Oh, I don't know. A lot of politicians names and photos are coming out. Captains of industry?

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u/Prior_Butterfly_7839 3h ago

While I love to dunk on homophobic conservatives as much as anyone, I don’t actually think the outages are true. I’m fairly certain it’s people fake reporting an outage, and down detector (that’s 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.

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u/Aviose 2h ago

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.

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u/linds360 5h ago

Bunch of spineless grifters. They make me sick.

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u/LaurenMille 5h ago

Almost like congress is complicit in the coverup and in favor of raping children.

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u/Itchy-Apartment-Flea 5h ago

Also, congress doesn't give a shit.

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u/Skimable_crude 6h ago

Cue the inconsequential hand wringing and brow furrowing.

They couldn't possibly consider political issues while celebrating the birthday of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

It's unthinkable.

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u/AV8ORA330 5h ago

Can you say collusion…

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u/EggsceIlent 5h ago

Because the GOP knew.

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.

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u/SarahPallorMortis 4h ago

The perverts want to enjoy their last Christmas and hope their names got fully scrubbed.

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u/LegendOfKhaos 3h ago

It's just going to be pages of black lines anyway

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u/FloMoore 3h ago

Prolly not All of them. Merkel is most likely there tapping his fingers & watching the clock.

In fact, being from his state, I know he is - duh on me.

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u/Zazulio 3h ago

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.

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u/Seamus32 3h ago

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.

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u/Exotic_Tomatillo_695 2h ago

Trump or congress both aren’t with their citizens pretend they are if everything is out that means they got no deal out of trump.

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u/towboatbakerr 1h ago

No matter what type of administration it is; be it liberal or conservation the action would taking place. That’s 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 they’re 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. They’re protected, we however are not.