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Incredible how >80% of Republicans support the release but only 4 R legislators signed the discharge petition. Shoes how little the GOP Congress cares about their constituents
That’s because they know what’s in the files, and it’s trump. And they don’t want their constituents to know that. Because that’s too big for them to cover up.
But also how little Republicans actually care about what their legislators do.
“but… The little R next to his name means he’s on my side” - Most Republicans
They are simple creatures
I don’t know. I would vote Democrat if I lived in the US but they would constantly vote against my preferences on more than just one issue.
In politics you always have to vote for the one that is closest to you or you help the ones farther from you.
Why would they? They get reelected whether they do what their constituents want or not. They vote R no matter what and the RNC generally ensures there is little to no competition.
This is something the Dems recently started trying to copy at the same level after seeing how well it can be blatantly implemented.
Wow MAGA Republicans are in a different category than just “Republicans” in the news now.
What’s the difference between MAGA Republicans and Republicans?
Nothing. They vote the same way.
- Regardless of whether a small minority or a large majority of American citizens support a policy, the probability of policy change is nearly the same — approximately 30%.
- A proposed policy change with low support among economically elite Americans is adopted only about 18% of the time, while a proposed change with high support is adopted about 45% of the time.
- Interest groups have a substantial impact on public policy. When mass-based and business-oriented interest groups oppose a policy, the probability of its being enacted is only 16%, rising to 47% when they’re strongly favorable. “On the 1,357 proposed policy changes for which at least one interest group was coded as favoring or opposing change, in only 36% of the cases did most groups favor change, while in 55% of the cases most groups opposed change.”
- Overall, business-oriented groups have almost twice the influence of mass-based groups.
- While the popular belief is that professional associations and interest groups serve to aggregate and organize average citizens’ interests, the data do not support this. The preferences of average citizens are positively and highly correlated with the preferences of economic elites but not with those of interest groups. Except for labor unions and the AARP, interest groups do not tend to favor the same policies as average citizens. In fact, some groups’ positions are negatively correlated with the opinion of the average American, as in the case of gun owners.
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Who the fuck are those remaining people?!
If you’re not in the Epstein files I see no reason why you should oppose to their release unless you are a complete fucking psychopath.
I guess Cruz’ point that Americans need to stop attacking pedophiles found its base.
It’s the ones that have hitched their wagon to someone definitely in the Epstein files
Mostly state and federal representatives and other pedophiles.
I can think of at least one that doesn’t.
Honest question: am I the only person who sees the “Epstein files” as an obvious and extremely valuable distraction?
He was literally a financial advisor with clients. The files everyone wants to see are a financial advisor’s client list.
Do you really think he wrote down a bunch of evidence about assaulting women?
Of course not. But It gets headlines better than anything despite it being utterly meaningless. Epstein is 100% clickbait, but everyone is too angry to admit it.
He was not a financial advisor. That was his cover and his money laundering operation. That’s like saying al Capone had a security company.
Me too mate. We don’t know what’s in these files so overstating their importance could backfire.
It also sets some unreasonably high threshold for condemning the man, as if there is not enough information out in public yet for people to make up their minds and the missing piece we really need is some list with his name on it titled ‘underage sex trafficking clients’, and nothing else will meet expectations.
That doesn’t exist and when they’re released it’ll be a damp Squibb and it’ll be framed by friendly media as if he’s been exonerated and a bunch of people will buy that. Like the Muller report.
Keeping his association with Epstein in the public mind is good but leaning specifically on the files too much is gifting them an opportunity for them to flip it around.
