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[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 157 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's so juvenile Epstein would have trafficked her.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Maybe mentally but you can’t fuck a brain.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

You can absolutely do that. People get abused everyday

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Not with that attitude

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nor a college degree. Show me your genitals!

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Deepcut man

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Well, you could, but it'd be messy.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh. I thought I was reading the onion.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 20 points 1 week ago

So did I. xD

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

In other words, she had no intention of answering truthfully and forthrightly.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 week ago

she has aged so much since she was sworn in lol

like a year for each month

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

this stupid bitch again, cmon lil mama there's gotta be more brain to ya than when you're on your knees with geriatric balls in your face

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why can't she be held in contempt of court for not answering questions? Why did the guy running the meeting not have any consequences prepared for her? She got away with not answering his questions. So what was the point of the hearing at all? The only weapon they had to force her to answer questions was... hoping she'd do it? What the fuck was the point of this?

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "guy running the meeting" is a Republican. And they're all in on the conspiracy to uphold MAGA and Trump at any cost.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "guy running the meeting" is a Republican.

I meant Durbin not Grassley

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Fair. Durbin has the right to chime in on combative/argumentative witnesses and he should have. Maybe just letting her make a fool of herself, but he should have interjected at points.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 week ago

Contempt charges have to be voted on, so they wouldn't ever happen.

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why hold her in contempt? What's that gonna do? Who cares? Congress and the courts have no teeth, this administration knows that and they've shown us. Hold her in contempt and they won't even slow their stride.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then what's the point of releasing the epstein files?

[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a neat false equivalence.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No really. If this hearing is an example of what we can expect after the files are released, then what's the point?

Here's a possible scenario:

  1. files are released
  2. lots of important people are exposed as having done horrible, illegal things
  3. trump gets another felony and stays in power
  4. nothing changes

^^^ what do you see going differently after the epstein files are released?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

I'll agree that nothing changes, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be released anyway.

We already have docs from other cases that implicate loosely people in power (all the way to the top)

It's unlikely that they have truly damning things calling out people and acts, those would just have been burned long ago.

What's in there needs to see the light of day and be public knowledge good, bad, change, no change.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

The MAGA base does actually care about pedophilia. They've been told it's trans people committing it though. If they see evidence that it's the elite, in particular Trump, then some will flip, or at least lose interest. Assuming we have elections in the future (even local will be useful), this is something we should push.

Don't expect it to lead to immediate consequences. I don't think anyone expects that. Expect it to lead to them losing control of some of their base.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 13 points 1 week ago

Quite a read. The attorney general acting as attorney for the president.

[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Am I the only one who thinks she did this on purpose?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

She's so edgy.