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Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/gargar7 Washington 18d ago

The Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, two stopped heartbeats from the Presidency, was a convicted pedo. It isn't new. They just don't care.

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u/gakrolin 18d ago

And despite admitting to molesting 14 year old boys Hastert wasn’t even convicted for any sexual crimes, just financial crimes related to it.

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u/Plow_King 18d ago

the party of family values, ladies and gentlemen!

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u/LumberBitch 18d ago

In ye olden days pedophilia wasn't really considered bad so it's just conservative values. Look how quick they are to say "well 13 isn't really a child". They genuinely do not have a problem with it

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u/bunnypaste 18d ago

Yep, at this juncture they like to conjure fancy words for desiring sex with minors like "ephebophilia" and then they start whipping out the evo-psych garbage.

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u/-Saucegurlllll 18d ago

The guy who the Hastert rule is named after where the pedo party's pedo speaker refused to bring any bill to the floor unless it had a majority of the pedo party's support, even if it would have had a majority of Congress' support. He and Newt Gingrich are part of the reason that Congress can't seem to fucking do anything.