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Ro Khanna is trying to force Congress to vote on releasing the Epstein files (midwest.social)

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The speaker of the house and Zionist-first Mike Johnson will probably kill this. It would be nice to see if the democrats would vote this through if they gain the house in 2026. My guess, they would not. Epstein had "friends" on both sides of the aisle.

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[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it would depend on how much attention it gets. Given that both MAGA and Progressives want this out there (although I bet MAGA won't like or believe what they see if it DOES come out), it could be dangerous for ANYONE to vote against it, and interesting to see who does.

My guess is

Centrist media tries to cover it as little as possible and everyone hopes the story goes away. (Hopefully Elon's antics and both progressive and red cap media make this difficult to the point of absurdity)
Congress (Mike Johnson) tries to quietly shut it down in way that's not obvious why nothing ever happened and the doofuses on the right don't understand who's responsible (somehow blame Biden). We need to keep telling them "Your boy Mike kept the vote from happening. Why?"
If Congress IS forced against the will of the establishment to vote on it, they'll try to make it as procedurally confusing as possible, or make noises about how they are going to vote on it, but not for a while and then they just never do.
If it passes in spite of all that, Trump won't comply and no one will hold him accountable and MAGA probably eventually WILL move on to other conspiracy bullshit and this will get left in the dust.

It's infuriating that the ignorance and stupidity of a huge chunk of the country is what keeps enabling these bastards.

[–] womjunru@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

I’ve never heard a maga want this. And if it was released, it would only be the “libs” that are at fault.