• Hayduke@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    What a dickhead. May justice be applied where necessary.

    Perhaps one of the most important takeaways here is that at no point did the democratic party promote unyielding defense or support for Swalwell. Flawed as they may be, they don’t have the level of “party over people” that republicans demonstrate when something similar happens. Remind your conservative acquaintances of that.

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      17 hours ago

      Apparently this was a known thing around Washington and they just cut him loose when they needed to.

      Both parties cover this shit up.

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        7 hours ago

        Ah yes, handled exactly the same way as trump. No differences to be seen whatsoever.

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          6 hours ago

          Did I say that? No. I said both parties cover up sexual assault. The Democrats buried Epstein until it would no longer inconvenience the Clintons, don’t fool yourself.

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah but this eating our own while Republicans stay in office only benefits R’s.

      I know Gonzales “retired”, but that is by and large the exception AND only happened after Dems experienced an equal loss of one, leaving the House math unchanged. We need to stop taking the high ground while the rules are unequally applied.

      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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        3 hours ago

        He raped someone. Are you saying we should let him continue on as if nothing happened in order to own the Republicans?

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        16 hours ago

        Swalwell leaving doesn’t change the majority the Republicans already hold in the house, and he’s in a very safe seat in California so whoever replaced him will be a democract too. This guy is like Cuomo, dead weight and we should cut him lose to show some integrity, not latch on to any of these corporate democrats because they’ve got a d next to there name.