Elephants and Jackasses...

That would imply some amount of principles on the part of Mr Higgins, which I assure you he does not have. This is a guy who had to resign in disgrace from being a cop, twice, and once voted for David Duke. He's a reliable lickspittle for Trump, and a genuine asshole in pretty much every Congressional hearing I've ever seen him in.

 

If I told you to imagine "a caricature of a racist bowl of gumbo," Clay Higgins is what your mind would conjure.

 

That's definitely the plan. The entire Republican caucus wheeling 180 degrees in unison means they've settled on some other plan. It's gonna be some combination of "active investigation" and "national security" to keep the most prominent Republican names out of it.

 

What date is that? He has been impeached twice. Convicted of 30 something felonies and admitted to sexual assault. He’s never been punished at all.

and because the democrats are too busy advocating for cutting off your ding dong being a great reason to play women’s sports, people would vote for him a 3rd time. No matter how many times he sucked of Clinton.

 

The way the American system works is that once a bill is passed by both chambers of Congress, it goes to the President for his signature. He has ten days to either sign it, or veto it (if he does nothing, it becomes law after ten days, excluding weird circumstances known as a pocket veto which shouldn't come into play here). If he vetoes it, it goes back to the Congress, where they can alter the bill to address the President's objections and send it back for his signature, or they can hold a veto-override vote. If 2/3 of each chamber votes in favor of the veto-override, it becomes law, without the President's signature.

What the news is reporting is the the number of Congresscritters who voted in favor of the bill is more than the threshold that would be required to override a veto, should one be forthcoming. But they would have to formally vote to do it in order for it to go into effect.

 

A lot of times you'll hear the phrase "veto-proof majority" which basically means so many Congressmen voted for it that the President shouldn't bother wasting his political capital trying to veto it, because they'll just tell him to fuck himself, override the veto, and embarrass him politically. But that was in saner times, so who knows.

 

Of course Clay Higgins was the only no vote. Of course the hero to every gun-toting yokel dipshit with a small dick in America would vote against it. What a perverted pussy.

 

I wanted to clear up a commonly passed around misconception about who is actually going to be releasing the files.

The DOJ/AG, who have seen the files, are not the agencies who would be releasing the files. That would belong to the courts who currently have the files as evidence from way back in the day when Epstein was convicted and sentence to jail. These files can't be redacted or changed or held up due to an ongoing investigation or any other thing Trump wants to do or is thinking of doing. The only option Trump has at this point is releasing an edited version of the files through the DOJ/AG as well as the files being released by the courts and then claiming "HIS" file release is the real one and the actual file release is fake and being pushed by a Democrat conspiracy to start another Russia Russia Russia hoax.

The release of the files will cause a few different things to happen -

1. Anyone who's name is mentioned in the files is instantly going to be labelled a pedo, regardless of their involvement or culpability. Trump is going to get a pass for this as he's going to weasel his way out of it as he's been trying to do for the past year, but everyone else is going to go down in flames.
1a. This is going to throw an even bigger wrench into political party dynamics and this will dominate the attack ads and be one of the top issues going into the midterms. The economy won't be extreme enough to be the major focus, but rest assured, it will be coming up around the corner soon after.

2. There is going to be so much mudslinging and finger pointing playing keep away from the pedo, the actual victims in this case are going to see zero justice and similarly to the 2008 crash, there will be one, maybe two high profile shame resignations, but ultimately this issue is going to get blamed on immigration and brown people.

3. Trump is going to ramp up everything he's already been doing to the maximum because he's already been allowed to do it. Deportations, missile strikes in South America, ignoring court orders, etc etc. He's going to continue to shrink in popularity, but the damage has been done already and he's going to milk out every last bit of power he can while he's president. Dems won't win enough seats in the midterms to reverse anything that's already been done, but it should stop anything new coming down the pipe that needs even the slightest bit of public support in congress. This doesn't bode well for the upcoming government fight over the next shutdown which is set to take place some time at the end of January. The World Cup kicking off in the summer of 2026 is going to be SUPER interesting to watch seeing as how much movement through the Americas is set to happen.

 

It's not that there's two copies so to speak, but the actual files have been held by the courts the entire time and have been released to specific parties when requested. Parts of them have been released since the case ended. It's why we know the information we know already. The recent release of documents by the Epstein estate was voluntary and probably has some crossover with information in the court cases. What remains that hasn't been released is probably the juicy stuff that's been under federal seal since the trial ended. There's almost no way to get a federal court to release sealed files on a case like this without doing exactly what has been done, making a law in congress. There is some language in the bill which Trump and Bondi think will allow them to keep out all of the information they don't want released, but unless you are trying to argue in front of a judge that the Epstein files are somehow related to national defense, the files are going to be released and there's nothing they can do to stop it. The only recourse they have is to muddy the waters as much as they possibly can and hope people lose interest once the files have been released.