Can someone just fucking leak it already
Guy defends the pedo that got him his job. What’s new with the Republican party?
Trump should be in prison now because he still is a ‘normal citizen’.
He would if the justice department weren’t a bunch of wimps and if the judges weren’t bought and paid for.
Those checks and balances are just a myth at this point.
Not at all. Political enemies of the Trump clan will be checked and balanced at every turn.
Rules for thee but not for me.
An extremely fragile democracy to say the least.
I can’t believe that this whole time it was just “please play by the rules” and that it was basically only enforced via tradition.
People in power should learn that these social contracts and norms are a peacekeeping measure and violating every single one isn’t a good way to keep the population peaceful.
Always have been.
A sitting representative just needs to read it into the Congressional Record.
You’re not a “private citizen” when you’re supposed to be a public servant. Johnson’s name is appropriate, he’s a total dick.
“Public figures confused about what ‘pivate citizen’ means”
there I fixed the headline
don’t let him off as confused, he’s directly lying and obfuscating the truth.
_“speaker Johnson is a festering pile of diarrhea”
Is all I read.
Leak it…
How this doesn’t just happen is beyond me. One would think one of the MANY staffers with access to this document would have leaked it by now.
People don’t wanna lose their jobs or end up in jail.l
Did I miss something? Are private citizens who rape children immune to prosecution?
This is America.
No see… he was a public representative, which means he’s only accountable to the house ethics pannel and not local law enforcement.
It feels like watching those old Bonnie and Clyde and other famous historical criminals in the US that would say rob a bank, cops would be chasing them… and Oops they crossed state lines, I guess they get away this time.
Depends… mostly on party affiliation and bank account.
This definition of private citizen seems to extend to all human beings… so why do we even do ethics reports.
trump is a ‘private citizen’. he should be in prison.
SCOTUS: we stopped caring about being consistent
When did they start?
SCOTUS: Do you understand how dumb “conservatives” are?? They’ll vote to make things worse for themselves, because they hate brown people.
OHHHHHH!!!
AIRHORNS!!!
Gaetz was a congressperson when it all took place. That report is government property, AKA it belongs to all Americans.
Or Biden releases it as a matter of national security? Dems have no balls.
Does Biden even have it? It was a house investigation.
Regardless, Dems have no balls.
Respect the norms!
Once again the wee widdle wanker warps reality for his Masters
Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Ok so how to handle it then
Justice dies in silence.
Good question. Best answer is building robust communities that can reject them and not allow them to gain footholds. “Fuck off loser” gives them no room to twist anything
In the future, I highly recommend sourcing to Wikiquote instead. It’s a sister project of Wikipedia which sources its quotes so they can be independently verified, whereas Goodreads just operates on an ad populum approach of upvotes. It also for this reason tends to be more robust to error, and many more prominent figures have specific sections both for popular quotes that are known to be misattributed and for ones that are dubious but not currently falsifiable.
He is Schrodingers citizen: both a public servant AND a private citizen whose waveform doesn’t collapse until the investigations begin.
