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Leu2500's avatar

I wonder how long Grijvala will wait before seeking a Writ of Mandamus to force Johnson to swear her in.

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Kathi Ruel's avatar

I hope not long. This shit is ridiculous. You know what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot. Think of RBG’s (unbelievable) replacement.

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Catherine Beck's avatar

Would a Writ of Mandamus actually work to force the Speaker to administer the oath?

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Rick Herbst's avatar

Grijalva has been on my preaching stick for days now Dean. Bravo for bringing her up. My 64,000 dollar question is when in the actual f—k is she going to get sworn in? She is vote 238. We should call every DAY “day 238” because every day the House isn’t in session is a day that Epstein gets deferred, delayed, and covered up. At this point both MAGA and the Democrats should be bloodthirsty for action, not more bullshit out of Used Car Salesman Mike Johnson from Louisiana. He’s a fraud. He’s weak. He’s pathetic. And he’s using his power to delay, defer, deny and defend the indefensible by not standing up and doing what the American people (83% Republicans, 89% of Americans) demand be done: Release the files.

It’s smokin’ hot infuriating here to watch this BS just go by. Why wait for a No Kings protest? Why aren’t towns and cities, with all those Federal workers furloughed and about to be fired, out in the streets protesting? Wear medical masks if you’re afraid of being identified - I get it. But let’s do something that makes this viscerally painful. Remember, the HOUSE and SENATE take NO PAY CUT or BENEFIT CUT while the government is shut down. But a lot of other people sure do, like 375,000 of them.

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Politics And Aphrodisiacs's avatar

Whenever Johnson wants to avoid something the house gets adjourned and everyone heads home. This has become a pattern. The excuse I’ve heard about the new Congress woman not being sworn in is that Johnson is waiting for official election results which rarely happens. She won her race by a giant margin and should have been sworn in immediately. Now the additional excuse is the shutdown. We have no idea how long it could go on. I’m looking at it this way. She will eventually be sworn in because she has to be. A vote will be held on the Epstein files because it has to be. Johnson can only put this off for so long. It’s all very wrong. Still, frustrating as it is unless Johnson has some new trick I can’t think of up his sleeve the files will be released eventually.

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Catherine Beck's avatar

Make the calls.

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RandomHuman's avatar

If a duly elected congressperson can't take office for ANY reason, then our gov is more broken than ever. Shut down should not matter. R in power should not matter. She was elected, in a land slide, and somehow she's not in Congress? This is ridiculous. Change the rules.

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Victoria Hanks's avatar

Share this everywhere people. Yes, a shakedown, Totally and an Epstein shakedown. And hello! the Democrats are part of this I believe since some of them are in the pedo-files. But yes the republican rat bastards are mostly responsible since big fat Dumpster is in the files. I mean I'm so bored of this - we KNOW he's a sexual predator. He probably molested his daughter. I want to leave the country but I can't so I have to slog through this horror. I look at it this way, my life is so cushy compared to the Palestinians who everyone keeps forgetting about while Kushner, the slumlord makes plans for a resort town on Gaza. The ways I want all of them to suffer and die I can't even say, they are too horrific. Thanks again, Dean for keeping this alive - or trying to while so many people are comatose in this shitty country.

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Johnny with a G's avatar

Brilliant and I could not agree more with your every word.

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Sue's avatar

Is it possible GrindRGate is a distraction from the Epstein files? Like Zev said, it’s obvious Moses Mike is light in his loafers 😝

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Robot Bender's avatar

No, it's a direct threat that if Johnson doesn't swear in Grijalva, he gets outed.

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Sue's avatar

Wednesday has come and gone. The gofundme has surpassed the $25k, and the GFM is hosted by a guy named Mike Johnson

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Mike Harkreader's avatar

Right on Dean, cut through the bullshit distractions, swear in Grijalva and release the damn files MAGA Mikey. Simple and straight forward, full transparency. Trump has nothing to hide, the files shall set him free, the witch hunts exposed!!

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Mary Roeser's avatar

If Dementia Donnie were innocent of child rape and sex-trafficking, the Epstein Files would have been released in their entirety in two seconds flat with redactions only of the names of the victims. There is a reason Donnie is pulling the Big Stall. He's guilty and he and his flunkies know it. Wonder how many of the gutless eunuchs, including MAGAT Mikey, have their names also recorded in the files. I'll bet it's plenty or they wouldn't be going along with this stunt.

When the Republican Party was alive, it proclaimed itself the party of Lincoln. But the Republican Party has gone the way of the dodo and the dinosaur. Now we have the GQP/MAGAT cult. The GQP/MAGAT cult is the party of perverts, predators, and pedophiles.

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Maria Devereux's avatar

Gang Of Paedophiles

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Mary Roeser's avatar

Absolute truth.

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easong's avatar

It's Tuesday Oct. 2.

Where is grindrgate guy?

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Catherine Beck's avatar

He's actually not fully in charge of the release any longer. The trusted journalist is.

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elliott oberman's avatar

Drones, Helicopters, Hundreds of Arrests: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in Chicago So Far

And early on Tuesday, federal agents, using drones, helicopters, trucks and dozens of vehicles, conducted a middle-of-the-night raid on a rundown apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, leaving the building mostly empty of residents by morning and neighbors stunned.

“It felt like we were under siege,” said one bystander, Darrell Ballard, 63, showing videos on his cellphone of officers entering the apartment building in the dark.

A U.S. Border Patrol official involved with the operation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said that the effort involved nearly 300 federal agents from various agencies. The agents came from various directions around the building.

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TONY's avatar

One of EPSTEIN'S VICTIMS indicated that she was raped at ZORRO RANCH in NEW MEXICO. Who else was held there?

The FBI released a statement that there were 1,000 VICTIMS. Have they been helped? Who are they?

JEFFREY EPSTEIN & GHISLAINE MAXWELL operated an INTERNATIONAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION generously supported by WEALTHY PERVERTS. The TREASURY HAS RECORDS OF THOSE WIRE TRANSFERS. The IRS failed to audit TAX FRAUD.

EPSTEIN & MAXWELL groomed & recruited CHILDREN with promises of MODELING CAREERS, confiscated their passports, held them hostage with no escape.

The FBI cleaned out EPSTEIN'S ISLAND. Where are those records?

PUTIN has the VIDEOS - EXTORTION or BLACKMAIL?

Too many unanswered questions!

WHY THE COVER-UP?

JPMORGAN CHASE:

Former FBI Agent Prepared to Testify that JPMorgan Had Jeffrey Epstein Account for 28 Years – Not 15 Years – and “Impeded” Criminal Investigation of Epstein

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/08/former-fbi-agent-prepared-to-testify-that-jpmorgan-had-jeffrey-epstein-account-for-28-years-not-15-years-and-impeded-criminal-investigation-of-epstein/

New Mexico lawmaker to propose investigation into Epstein's Zorro Ranch

A New Mexico lawmaker plans to introduce a bill to investigate activities at Jeffrey Epstein's former Zorro Ranch, aiming to uncover the truth and potentially change laws for justice.

https://youtu.be/Kj7gwEg6v6g?si=-vSDGemrUlNntkFr

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Manda's avatar

at this point, I don’t see why the Democrats don’t just go ahead and sign off on the CR. Congress will withhold or do away with all funding they want to regardless of whether they’re in session or not. Let the American people feel the pain that they are in denial is coming. That’s the only way the majority of any of these blind fools are going to pull their head out of his ass.. and who’s fault is it? The Republicans because it’s their bill. I worry they’re hoping that they can enact martial law on the next protest. They’re saying it out loud that they want to and you can bet they will. At that point, what do you think are the odds that there will be any release of files?

I hate sounding skeptical, but this regime gets away with everything they want to. bold faced lies that their idiot followers put zero effort into verifying.

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Kathi Ruel's avatar

I am naive. Dean’s essay makes so much sense. What a horrible and dangerous act of distraction. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Brick Top's avatar

This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼💯

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