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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Conservative voters are circling the wagons to protect the pedos.

No one should be calling them anything other than the PEDO PARTY going forward.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the GOP if you're not sufficiently pro-pedophilia you're out of a job

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Republicans love pedophiles.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If I had a lawn that faced an actual roadway I would make a Grand Ole Pedophile sign with a red elephant dragging a 12 year old looking boy on the ground by his ankle with his trunk as the boy tries to get purchase on the grass with his hands to escape.

If anyone does have said lawn and wants the sign I will have my wife whip up the art.

[–] kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

I mean even without a proper yards I'd post it in other yards

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Can we come up with a new acronym? Can't think of an 'O' word rn but I got:

G rifters

O

P edophiles

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Guardians Of the Pedophiles

[–] Starstarz@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Obstruction

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago
[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago
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[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago

I cant believe Magic the Gathering is in a lineup with semi normal looking people.

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 154 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Kinda tells you all you need to know about MAGAts. There is no bottom.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well there is Lindsey Graham.

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now I need someone to explain.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lindsey Graham has been rumored for years to be closeted gay; the "ladybugs" thing specifically comes from a satire story (full text here) where Graham calls the moles on his taint his "little ladybugs".

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How do you realize you have moles on your perineum I cannot see mine.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

We have the technology.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or your partner can inform you 🤷🏻

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Good job !gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world make them read more weird shit

[–] gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Hey, I’m just trying to do the lord’s good work here by asking questions.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the opposite of a "power" bottom? Like a flimsy bottom. Or clean coal ass. Idk

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Dead Fish Bottom.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I do want to point out that at one point every single voting Republican in the house, 211, voted to shelf the Epstein vote: https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-1/194?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22hres+580%22%7D&s=8&r=3

And all but 2 in the senate: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00512.htm

So, not a single Republican is redeemable, imo.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

trump signed the bill himself, no doubt in some genius deflective move.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*encouraged/pressed for. They didn't force anything. The Epstein files are not fully released.

I'm sorry, but language fucking matters.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup yup. Also, no job true, but still have pension.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I suspect that this is why Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned - because Trump is petty and vindictive, and was sure to do everything he could - and everything he could cajole his rich cronies into doing - to destroy the Republicans who dared to try to make an issue of the fact that he's a statutory rapist.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also a regular rapist of children. Those minors were forced into sex under duress; AND were underage.

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I thought she resigned right after her pension benefits were secured

Maybe that's just a big coincidence

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 2 points 22 hours ago

I'm sure that's not an accident but I doubt it was the point. She had (and likely still has) greater ambitions than that.

I appreciate their sacrifice on many levels

[–] usernametbd@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago

Yet no consequences for Americans implicated in the Epstein files.

[–] newton@feddit.online 13 points 1 day ago

Release the files

[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like they finally solidified the pedophile base under the far pro-pedophile wing.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I feel so bad for the onion these days. Where's the satire?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The files have not been released…

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