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When republicans do a better job than democrats of pursuing the Epstein list...What even are most democrats other than seat fillers and creating an illusion of choice?
That's not actually true. Massie has been working with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on a house discharge petition that would require the White House to publicly disclose files and information related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It required 218 signatures in the House to force a vote. With every single Democrat signing the petition, they only needed 6 Republicans. They've got 4.
Massie and a couple other Republicans are on the right side of this, but credit should go to all of the Democrats in the house The vast majority of the House Republicans who have refused to sign it are all protecting Trump and Epstein's other clients.
Massie who was the spearhead for that who is a republican so I don't see what is there to celebrate democrats about.
This is a topic where if republicans say no then the public repercussions for them will be low to none but if a democrat says no then that person will likely be publicly ostracized (unlike the Israel vote where opinion is more divided and more than %50 of democrats happily voted no) and many people would automatically assume that the person is in the list and hence that is why they have voted no. So it is not a big success imo to get democrats on board and not a big sacrifice for a democrat to vote yes for this.
On the other hand, there has been definitely more than 4 republicans who have voiced protests over Epstein files not being released since this ordeal has started. It is again a failure of democrats that they could not help muster two more republican votes for this, if they have even tried that is.
It's democrats fault for not convincing Republicans that pedos are bad? Lmao