Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Ummm so let me get this straight: Republicans have ground Congress to a halt and are

[riversedge]

I just hope the Majority of people remember the vile Repugs on election 2022 day!!


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
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Ummm so let me get this straight: Republicans have ground Congress to a halt and are considering adjourning the entire House for 6 weeks to avoid releasing the info they have on Epstein?

What is going on here?

Link to tweet

[Permanut]

1. I'm sorry, no adjournment is possible..

Unti the Redskins/Commanders and Indians/Guardians issue is resolved.

This is a top priority, and no one goes home until the matter is settled.

[usonian]

2. Packing bags for Argentina for when the (unerased) dirt all comes out?

I am sure there are scads of witnesses, not just "files"

[B.See]

3. What's going on is, the Congressional

MAGA Insurrectionists are once again proving to be the conniving, cowardly, underhanded SCUM they are.

Always remember: No low, TOO low for them.

[bamagal62]

4. Must not be as many

Democrats in that file as they had hoped. Otherwise, it would be plastered everywhere and we’d hear nothing but what’s in these Epstein files. It must be pretty bad for all these skanky republicans.

[James48]

5. Ya can't allow people to vote.

Nope. No way!

[Gaugamela]

6. To be clear, they're not avoiding the release of the files, they're avoiding

the necessity of voting down the release of the files. I’m not in any way throwing shade on AOC for whom I have the greatest respect, and clearly she’s shorthanding for the sake of brevity and clarity, but it’s even more pathetic than she states.

[Figarosmom]

7. Well that's likely better than having them

In session passing bad laws that Dems can't stop and all those idiot "investigations" into Obama and Biden and everything Democratic. Why would they investigate Epstein when there is so much that the Dems did that needs condemning

If the press does their jobs they don't need the files, they can dig up witnesses and stories on their own, and I don't know what stopped them to begin with.

I see this as a good thing. AOC shouldn't complain she can go out on more town halls and talk about epstein and policies.

[newdeal2]

16. This is a great outcome actually

They look like they are protecting the pedo (which one?) and no more stupid MAGA bills. We need to run out the clock on this Congress as best we can. We have about a year before campaigning begins again.

[Wounded Bear]

8. "Grinding Congress to a halt" is what repubs do best...

[BidenRocks]

9. While they are in their home state,

let 'em have it!

[usonian]

10. Can someone please remove their chairs while they're away?

Turn them backwards?
Install whoopee cushions?
Trap doors?


Top secret: at work we had an administrator who was a genius in "getting nothing done"

I had just replaced the porcelain throne at home, so I cleaned up the old one real nice, and replaced his work seat with it, undoubtedly much more suitable for extended sessions of meditation instead of actual work.

How I got it past the guards is lost to fading memory. Truly a great accomplishment.

Well, our do-nothing administrator apparently got a burst of productivity, and it vanished rather quickly.

You see, there are ways to motivate people.

And to smuggle potties into aerospace facilities. And who knows, maybe that seat replaced an ultra expensive one for (redacted) Corporation.

[AZJonnie]

11. Just curious, what 'info' does the House have on the Epstein case that they are in a position to 'release' or not?

As far as I ever remember, the House has done no Epstein-related investigations. I remember some talk awhile back about investigating the original sentencing he got back in the aughts, re: why it was such a cushy deal. IIRC that was when Acosta was being considered for an important role in the first Trump admin (or maybe he already had the role when the Miami Herald story came out?), but I don't recall it ever happening.

So, what 'info' is she talking about?

[Nimble_Idea]

14. oh, you think the house is a separate branch of gov't

i'm sure the case is solved. no more looking anyone! AOC has been put in her place by AZJonnie

[AZJonnie]

18. Yes, it is exactly a separate branch of government from the DoJ

which is the branch would have actually done a thorough investigation as part of bringing charges, first against Epstein, then against Maxwell. As far as I can find, the House has not done any investigation on Epstein. For the record I'm a big AOC fan, I'm just asking what info is she talking about, not trying to 'put her in her place'. Apparently you don't know what info they have either

[haele]

17. The House Democrats have proposed a committee similar to the Senate's

To release documents relating to Epstein, or start tracing money from and to him to find out how far his potential corruption has gone.
Just like Comer and Traitor-Green going after Hunter Biden, you know...
But unlike Hunter Biden, who is only guilty of being an addict, getting a gun illegally, maybe using his family name to get an edge on getting hired, and f'ing around on his taxes; Epstein had corrupt links to various high levels business and political leaders.

[AZJonnie]

19. Well if that was what she said she was referring to, then I would have been less confused

The wording "avoid releasing the info they have on Epstein" implies that this information is already gathered/existing, in possession of the House GOP, just waiting to be put out there. They've done no formal investigation of their own, so when did the House come into possession of this evidence? Did they requisition it from DoJ and DoJ complied? When did that happen? Those sorts of questions are what I meant

[BoRaGard]

12. Thank you AOC

I hope you and your colleagues will not let the public forget this over the coming weeks.

[Nimble_Idea]

13. Running interference for child fuckers is not the FLEX the GOPedo thinks it is

I hope there is a line somewhere over at the "other side"

or damn, man there is no redeeming those sick fucks.

May Christ deal with the demons.

[spanone]

15. Every department of government is working for mr trmp.

This is so fucked up.