House Speaker Mike Johnson Says He Won't Hold Vote Calling on Trump to Release Epstein Files. Trump needs "space," Johnson says
nytimes.com
It must be so hard suffering the mildest of consequences of your own actions.
your own horrific actions
He's the president. He doesn't get space. Ever.
That's literally the job of the president. It's not luxury. It's work.
But this jackass in the oval office has never worked a day in his entire fucking life and doesn't understand that concept.
Even if he does get space: it's not the job of the speaker of the fucking house to give him space from investigations. The house is supposed to investigate!
If you add up all the work he’s done throughout his whole life, it might add up to about a day.
Here I am, regularly feeling guilty about whether maybe I accidentally insulted someone with my autism, while people like these lie openly, constantly and with impunity. A conscience really is a goddamn hindrance in this world rather than a net positive.
A conscience really is a goddamn hindrance in this world rather than a net positive.
Sort of. People without a conscience and without the power, privilege and/or social tools to abuse that often also end up pretty badly. Like how narcissism can lead both to (unwanted) social isolation, or even prison time, and then also sometimes to a successful business/political career or creating your own adoring cult, depending on other factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic to the person.
I’d say the lack of a conscience is the real hindrance. If more people cared about the consequences of their actions, we’d be in a better place. It’s just a shame so many psychopaths are able to flourish.
"So-called Christian helps to cover up a giant pedophile ring"
Isn’t that a fairly normal thing for Christians?
So normal we already know the justification: for the glory of God 🙄
They built a huge organisation that's been around for over 1000 years just for the purpose.
Story as old as religion itself
The space Trump actually needs is a 3x4m prison cell.
Damn you're generous
As long as it has proper bars on the window, a solid door, prison food, and no wifi I'm generous.
Make that feet and we have a deal.
Trump needs ‘space’ for a specific purpose: avoiding the consequences of his crimes. Republicans are always ready to give him that space.
Last week: "We need to release the files."
This week: "Dear leader said no. I never implied anything different."
Awww does the felonious pedophile need space???
You can’t distance yourself without space.
I know where there is lots of space...
Oh, good. For a moment there it almost seemed like Johnson had a spine.
Never trust anything they say, it was pure posturing. Judge them for their actions, or lack of them. So when one of those inbred sycophants says they are going against Trump, don't believe them until they actually do (which will be never).
So I think this is actually a little bit of a naive viewpoint. The next level beyond it is to consider why they're saying something. You don't have to assume they're telling the truth, but politicians say things for a strategically chosen reason.
I do think the fact that Johnson even piped up about the Epstein files is meaningful. There is a break in the thinking between the coalitions of the Republican parties. Johnson was probably trying to woo some of them, got pressured, and then backed off. But even the fact that he had to be pressured means they had to expend effort to keep him in line. That can't keep working forever.
Which is also why I think the Epstein files are no mere distraction. There is a breakdown, and they're not easily falling in line.
He was willing until his donors told him it would be bad for them as well.
Plenty of “space” on golf course.
Do your job. Oh wait. You are. Protecting yer guy.
I think he didn't realize how many of his donors don't want the list released. I bet there's a good number of billionaires on the list.
Protecting himself. Trump is not the only one involved.
The more he runs away from this the more likely that nobody will believe whatever explanation he lands on to dismiss it. Even if there really isn't a list, and he really isn't on it, and they present some evidence that proves it conclusively, there's zero shot anyone will believe it.
The conspiracy vibes are so strong that even reality couldn't kill them.
he needs space to be spaced
Yes, I agree, Mike. Airlock, it is.
Presidents don't "get space".
"Listen bucko, this is Congress, specifically a Republican Congress. We serve two people here, the president and the ownership class. Notice how I didn't mention voters? They can go fuck themselves. Didn't we make that obvious with the Big Disgusting Bill?"
Actually, Michael, what he needs is to be fully outed as one of the pedos his base so vehemently abhors.
Mike Johnson made me loathe christianity. He's a smarmy little cunt germ.
Space to rape more children.
"They haven't deleted and scrubbed Trump's name off the documents yet , so we need more time."
Trump wants the story to die more. “Space” meaning more time and he needs more time to work on his base. He will repeat over and over that the files aren’t real and that they are a Democrat hoax and each time he does another MAGA will turn around and bend over for him until they are all docile again. Trump doesn’t care what the left see or believe anyway.
If by space you mean being thrown into a black hole then yeah. But seriously trumps a child fucker and the GOP is trying to hide it.
Just so we're clear, he's completely within his rights — per the landmark 1849 case Cowboys v. Indians, which famously established the "time-outs and tag-backs" precedent.
I agree with Johnson. Let's eject our rapist-felon president into space.
There are a couple Republican threads hyper focused on some “Obama written” Russian files thing. And how Hillary’s emails have only “scratched the surface”.
No idea. Except it sounds like they’re grasping at straws of distraction. Even so, the Repub people are eating it up.
Trump needs a kick to the balls, that's what he needs. And then another one, until everyone on earth had the opportunity.
He should take a one way ride up in a Starliner. Plenty of space for him in there.
He can take an underwater trip in one of those deep diving cardboard tubes.
Aww poor baby is stressed because everyone knows he fucked a child.
Fuck you Johnson.
Looks like someone had a conversation with Mikey.
Awww, the National pedophile needs space
FFS
Sounds he needs one of those quiet rooms on college campuses that they cry about on Fox News.
Space? SPACE?
warm up them rockets, Elmo
That's why the judge in the NY case was such a pussy.
Absolutely nowhere in the Constitution bars a sitting president from serving his term from prison. No federal law bars a state from holding a sitting president in prison to serve his prison sentence.
His only constitutional requirement is to be able to execute duties of the office. If his Cabinet feels like his prison sentence would preclude that, well there is an amendment to fix that.
Honestly Vance should have pushed this issue to force himself as acting president.
Sweaty toad
Oh, okay.
Is he dating the Epstein files? The fucking president of the country doesn't get the luxury of space, he is beholden to the office to answer to the people. What a joke of a country.