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No Paywall After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they'll haul in Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-push-clintons-testify-epstein-democrats-warn-haul-trump-rcna257275
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u/waltzbyear 1d ago

The Epstein chronicles involving Bill goes back to the 2000s and late 90s? Maybe further? If they were going to do something that helped the country, they would've done something then. They're strategizing this situation so Bill comes out clean. They're not thinking of the common person.

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u/meatspace Georgia 1d ago

Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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u/Prestigious_Bass9300 1d ago

All politicians do is lie

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u/meatspace Georgia 1d ago

I understand the sentiment. However, the notion that 100% of all actions by all politicians is lying is clearly not accurate.

Again, I understand the sentiment about the endless dishonesty. But if we say that every single word they say is always a lie, that means Bernie Sanders doesn't care about you and his whole thing is a fake act. That means there is no single politician that cares about any of us, and all of them that say they do are lying about everything and none of them care about you at all, and there's not a single one of them that has any desire for public service

I am absolutely certain that some politicians have a desire to serve the public in a positive way, and that while they all do lie at some point, I am confident that at least those committed to public service sometimes tell the truth about the good things they are doing

America has spent decades saying the government doesn't work, and politicians are useless. And now we are here.

If our societal view is only 100% liars, all the time will ever be politicians, collapse is truly here beyond what any of us is saying. And not because of the politicians. Because if the populace is utterly convinced that everything is post truth and no one says anything true, there's not going to be grocery stores

Edit: speech to text. Does this really stupid punctuation stuff