GOP = Gross Old Pedophiles
Eveyone: We want you to release the pedo files
Trump: What if we release the pedophiles instead?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/67b91960-caf9-4199-8315-932b7abebc38#0
Did Mike Johnson Backtrack on Epstein Report Release?
Johnson’s Public Position on Epstein Report
- Previously, House Speaker Mike Johnson had publicly expressed support for releasing the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein, echoing calls from both the MAGA base and House Democrats for “everything” to be disclosed:
“It’s a very delicate subject, but we should — we should put everything out there and let the people decide it,” Johnson said just days before the controversy escalated[1].
- Johnson also stated, “House Republicans advocate for transparency and are seeking ways to demonstrate that. … I have been unequivocal, and the members have expressed the same”[2].
What Changed?
- Despite these statements, Johnson reversed course this week, saying that he would NOT hold a House vote on measures related to releasing the Epstein files before Congress left for its August recess[1][3][4].
- In explaining the move, Johnson argued there was “no purpose for Congress to urge an administration to do something they’re already doing,” referring to ongoing internal Justice Department processes[5][6].
- He blamed Democrats for pushing the issue as “political games”—even as a bipartisan group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Thomas Massie, continued working to force a vote when Congress returns in September[6][3].
Shutting Down the Floor
- Republicans on the House Rules Committee refused to allow votes on any bills this week, out of fear Democrats would attempt to force amendments calling for the release of the Epstein files[4][7].
- This led Johnson and GOP leaders to shut down the House early, cancelling scheduled votes and starting their August recess a day ahead of plan, essentially blocking any immediate action on the Epstein documents[8][2][6][9].
- Johnson’s move has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum, with some accusing him of putting party politics and Trump’s interests ahead of transparency and public interest[2][1][10][11].
Summary Table: Johnson’s Stance vs. Actions
What Johnson Said What Johnson Did Supported full transparency[1] Blocked a House vote on Epstein files before recess[6][2][3] Urged release of all files[1] Sent House home early to avoid the vote[8][2][6][9] Blamed Democrats for drama[2] Accused of shielding the White House from scrutiny[11][2] Key Takeaways
- Mike Johnson initially voiced support for releasing the Epstein report, backing full transparency.
- He then blocked a House vote and adjourned Congress early, delaying any legislative push for disclosure.
- Public reaction has been critical, with many seeing this as Johnson reversing himself to sidestep political fallout and protect the White House[1][2][4][11].
This sequence highlights a sharp contrast between Johnson’s earlier rhetoric on transparency and his recent actions to halt legislative business on the Epstein files.
Sources [1] Speaker Mike Johnson Backtracks on Call for DOJ to Release Epstein Files https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/22/headlines/speaker_mike_johnson_backtracks_on_call_for_doj_to_release_epstein_files [2] Mike Johnson Under Pressure Over Shutting Down House to Stop Epstein Vote https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnson-epstein-vote-house-2102804 [3] Johnson shuts door on House vote before September on releasing Epstein files https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/epstein-files-house-vote-gop-johnson-massie [4] House stymied as Speaker Johnson’s hand-picked committee rebels over Epstein https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5414582-speaker-johnson-rules-committee-epstein/ [5] House ending session early as Republicans clash over Epstein vote https://apnews.com/article/congress-jeffrey-epstein-trump-f2a03eca247268b14a9e38858338eded [6] Johnson ending legislative session early over Epstein controversy as some Republicans demand answers https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-paralyzed-epstein-files-2nd-week-row/story?id=123953105 [7] House largely grinds to a halt over Epstein files https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/22/house-republicans-epstein-files-mike-johnson/ [8] Epstein crisis forces Republicans to shut down House early https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/22/congress/house-gop-huddles-on-epstein-drama-00466738 [9] Johnson Cuts Short House Business to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/us/politics/mike-johnson-ends-house-session-epstein-vote.html [10] Speaker Johnson reverses course on Epstein transparency, realigns with Trump https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-reverses-course-epstein-transparency-realigns-trump-rcna220197 [11] Johnson Does a Full 180 on Epstein Files After Hearing ‘the President’s Heart’ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mike-johnson-shuts-down-house-trump-epstein-files.html [12] House cancels votes amid fight over Jeffrey Epstein files https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-cancels-votes-fight-jeffrey-epstein-files-rcna220238 [13] Johnson tries to contain Epstein dissent https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2025/07/23/johnson-tries-to-contain-epstein-dissent-00469082 [14] Johnson confirms: No vote on Epstein before recess https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/21/congress/johnson-epstein-vote-recess-00465643 [15] House Speaker Johnson explains why he won’t force … - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6spfpC4IAa8 [16] Johnson sending House home early amid push to force Epstein files vote https://www.cbsnews.com/news/johnson-house-recess-epstein-files-vote/ [17] Why House Republican leaders closed up shop to stop more votes on the Epstein files https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/epstein-files-trump-house-mike-johnson-rcna220266 [18] Johnson shuts down House for the summer to sideline calls for Epstein transparency https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/speaker-ends-house-session-early-as-gop-clashes-over-epstein-files-vote
- Previously, House Speaker Mike Johnson had publicly expressed support for releasing the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein, echoing calls from both the MAGA base and House Democrats for “everything” to be disclosed:
The entire top level of the current GOP is a pedophile, christofascist cult.
Must protect Dear Paeder.
They are all on the list.
Time for the still sane Americans to decide if they still want a bunch of pedo’s and pedoprotectors to represent them. Decide if this might just be the final straw before springing to real action. Maybe they can now see that these people are so shameless, corrupt, criminal and whiteout morals, that one 9 to 5 protest every month or so isn’t going to impress these shitbags.
Lol IDK how you’ve lived through US politics in the past 10 years if you think there is literally anything that could turn these morons away from Trump. The Epstein files could be released and say “Donald Trump raped 30 teen girls on Epstein Island” and it wouldn’t change a thing.
They’d remark on how restrained he was, ‘he only had sex with 30 children, the Democrats murder hundreds of children every day to collect their adrenochrome.’
Yeah I know. I wasn’t talking about his supporters, I agree they are too far gone.
The insane outnumber them, and they made the decision a long time ago, the answer was yes.
It’s not that the insane outnumber them, it’s that the military has crazy firepower and is controlled by trump loyalists, and they are willing to open fire on citizens. The sane people know that.
The only hope is infiltrating the military i guess?
The US fell into this nonsense long before Trump took it to full, unashamed facism. The people of that country had lots of time and opportunity to just simply not vote for the objectively evil people and even right now currently have the ability to vote.
The amount of gerrymandering it would take to make a 10% minority pull off a win is so far beyond what we have today. But it’s not a 10% minority, it’s over 70 million people who handed Trump the popular vote. They could simply have just not done that but their hate and fear mean they’re more than happy to support such a wildly cruel party over and over again. It’s not the military that’s forcing them to vote for dear leader, not yet anyway, and there have been decades of opportunity to sort this shit out before this point.
No weak excuses, that shithole country has forced its way into everyone else’s business and needs to shape the fuck up.
Tbf I didn’t say anything about it being a 10% minority. But trump won with less than 50% of the popular vote which we know included voter suppression and straight doctoring votes, so I think the people who didn’t vote for him do outnumber those who did, but yes, it is definitely well over 70M people.
I’m not making excuses at all, something must be done, but what do we expect? Their cops have insane fire power and will open fire on civilians, so I guess we just have to hope some people are willing to martyr themselves and commit suicide by cop?
I hope for a revolution, but I understand why people might be afraid to stand up.
Isn’t that why you have the second amendment in the first place? So that you can rise up against the state? Does not compute.
Me?
Well from now whenever republicans defecate some sentences involving “but the kids” from their mouths the default reply should be “Oh like the time you didn’t release Epstein files?”
Bunch of child molesters.
Looked it up, and molestation apparently just involves touching, whereas rape involves intercourse. So it might be more accurate to say, “bunch of child rapists”. But even then, that probably doesn’t cover kidnapping, trafficking, abuse, drugging, and repeatedly raping a bunch of children for decades in a personal billionaire cult ring on a private island.
Every person defending these monsters deserves to be alive in the most , , and public way. I am calling for absolute of the highest degree.
Is there a way to guillotine people more than once? It’d be a shame to let them get out easy.
For a rapist? We can probably guillotine a particular body part first and call it poetic justice.
I think I’m picking up what you’re putting down. Start feet first
The GOP till about a week ago: “we need to release the files!” The GOP now: “ we need to protect the philes!”
Been way more than a week, so it’s nice to see that they’re struggling to get this one to go away. Good momentum, the US needs to keep it up.
Yes definitely we need to spread the word and post it everywhere, make signs, call the radio stations if people still do that.
😂… What a time to be alive…
So, at what point do we decide they are not representing us, they are no longer a legitimate government, and we are going to rule without them?
only until the American people have someone to rally behind and no one has yet to step up to that position. None of the democrats will.
They need a leader, no one wants to lead.
Anyone who wants to lead will get murdered
exactly. that’s why no one wants to lead. Revolutions aren’t won without blood shed but no one wants to take that step.
If you want that, you should call all your friends, grab your guns and meet at the town square.
THEY NOT LIKE US
Guardians Of Pedophiles
May as well hire a skywriter to put “TRUMP RAPED KIDS” above the Capitol.
I wish. There’s a permanent restricted airspace around the capitol. In the before times, an unauthorized aircraft would get in serious trouble with the FAA. Nowadays with the sycophantic dictator in charge, who knows what could happen.
But it’d be a damn cool way to say your last words.
Can we crowdfund this?
Inb4 citizenship taken away
The Democrats are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. There’s nothing there, nothing of importance, and the Trump administration has already asked the courts to start working on the release, so there’s no point in the House getting involved anyway.
This is such a non-issue that the Republicans have shut down the entire legislative session and won’t vote on any of their own bills until September. Again, Democrats are just trying to make a show out of nothing, which is why blocking it is the Republicans’ top priority. Their work would be redundant anyway, which is why the Republicans are so unafraid to vote on it that everyone just up and left.
On an unrelated note, my favorite local restaurant is so clean and compliant with all regulations that when visited by the food inspector they turned out the lights, locked all the doors, and refused to serve any food again until the health department leaves. As one does when they’re unafraid and have nothing to hide.
Dear diary,
Today someone was sarcastic on Lemmy and people liked it. Big day for the fediverse.
They were clear about it. Most people just write a bad take that reasonably suffers from Poe’s law and call it satire when everyone else gets mad.
I literally looked at the upvote as I was reading and had to question if it was sarcasm because it hadn’t been downvote into oblivion…
Me too! Its a handy satire indicator
I had to check if I was in a hexbear thread.
fr. I’ve actually been surprised by how little people around here seem to understand sarcasm
We’re a pretty neurodivergent crowd. I thrive in sarcasm, but a lot of us come with different care instructions
That’s not the only blockage to noticing sarcasm, there are so many people who say these / the things and actually MEAN them. We need differentiators, because the crazy levels are too high to wade through.
That is a difficulty. Sometimes you take a risk with a joke, and if people don’t like it? Guess what, they’re right. Humour is subjective.
You had me in the first 2/3 there
Had me in the 1st half, ngl
Please tell me you’re being sarcastic.
I take it you didn’t finish reading?
You have no idea how many times I’ve been wrong before. Just double checking.
Read the whole comment instead of jumping to conclusions.
If I was jumping to conclusions, I would have accused them. That’s why I’m asking.
I’ve always wondered why politicians get a massive break in the summer, seems like a really bad idea to have the people running the country not around to do their jobs in case of an emergency. I know they can be recalled, but still, that takes time. This isn’t just a USA specific problem either.
It’s funny too because I know several people who look down on teachers and other education staff because they “don’t even work a full year”. Those same people all vote conservative.
My understanding: back when the population was small enough for this government to be actually representative, the idea was that legislators would go home to wherever they were elected from and be among the people who elected them so they could still represent their desires. Why it happens now? Tradition, I guess.
If they did return to where they were elected from and interacted with the people. Mayors and town halls. That would be fantastic. But it’s more golf time.
They interact with the people they represent, often on a golf course. It’s just that those people aren’t you and me.
