House Judiciary GOP account posts 'Rickroll' instead of Epstein files link, sparking backlash

I am a victim of childhood SA.

Seeing this response from an official government body makes me physically ill.

They are literally joking about CSA, the torture, and trauma of what those poor kids went through .

I now have no qualms about violent overthrow. Get these sick fucks out of office and purge their crews.

The folks who scream most about "the children"? They better get the FUCK up and realize something right about now, so help me.

I'm really sorry for what you went through.
Conservatives are the most hypocritical persons ever. The party of "family values" has elected a convicted rapist, who was the "closest friend" with the most notorious pedo of the past 60 years and cheated his pregnant wife with a pornstar. They cheer when parents and kids of immigrants are separated and jailed.
The party of "law and order" elected a convicted felon, wanna be dictator, pathological lier, who proudly admits he's a a billionaire who doesn't pay taxes and sell scammy products. They stormed the capitol and killed cops doing their jobs and cheer when the president pardon the rioters.
- "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
  Laws about child abuse apply to their enemies, not themselves. Their north star is oppression, not rule of law.
- Appreciate it.
  I'm well aware of conservative hypocrisy, as I was raised in a family & environment that was deep in it. The fact that Fearless Leader wasn't lauded and cast out by them immediately just shows that there is no critical thinking or discernment, and they are weak-minded enough to elect a wolf to oversee the flock. Just utter "pro-life" and claim you're cool with Jesus and they'll elect you. "Wow! A truly good man! He's on our side!"
  I truly and genuinely hope anyone who supported/voted for him reap the absolute fucking worst of what his reign brings. I will do my damndest to support and protect all others.
- it fits, i used to followed some asian tubers, one of them bragged about knowing a pedophile teacher by association through his cousin, who brags about this? and why arnt you naming names? oh wait you're on a conservative channel who also had TULSI gabbard on spouting putin talking points. they wernt always super-conservative, they were willing to listen to other side prior to pandemic. tulsi gabbard came on the channel just before the election too.
Same here. This is outrageous. What the actual fuck?!
- This, unfortunately, is a sign that CSA is not something they will be taking seriously from here on out.
  In fact, my guess is that they will be downplaying & probably facilitating it. We need to get them out. Now.
It's only CSA if it's democrats and democrat-aligned donors doing it, otherwise it's a god-approved relationship.
- It's only CSA if you're LGBTQ+.
  Otherwise, it's a-ok!

Treating it like a joke because half the GOP are probably implicated in some way and this is a flimsy attempt at minimisation

Bold of you to assume a mere 50%
probably most of the gop, including many MSM ceos considering how they have lean in trumps favor, a ton of hollywood execs, other countries politicians.

Just double checked and the chairman is indeed Jim “Gym” Jordan Sick fuck

Jordan was an assistant coach with Ohio State University's wrestling program from 1987 to 1995.

Richard Strauss was the wrestling team physician during Jordan's tenure. Strauss died by suicide in 2005. In April 2018, Ohio State University began an independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by Strauss. Of the 177, 153 were student-athletes, of which a plurality (48) were members of the men's wrestling team.: 43

Several involved persons have stated that Jordan surely knew of Strauss's criminal misconduct but did not report it. Other wrestlers and Head Coach Russ Hellickson said he may not have known about the abuse. A spokesperson for Jordan denied the allegation, saying that "chairman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it". No wrestlers have accused Jordan himself of sexual misconduct, but four former wrestlers named him as a defendant in a lawsuit against the university.Jordan has denied any wrongdoing and has described his accusers as "pawns in a political plot".

(Sorry the formatting is messed up. On my phone and just woke up lol)

Sincerely thank you :)

When blue peacock was declassified everyone thought it was an April fools joke. The British agency assured the people that they "do not joke". Some things (particularly the things government involves itself with) should not be joked about by some people. The joke becomes sick. A king "joking" about cutting hands off is not funny for example.

there's a reason why you don't want to joke around as an authority that's more practical than "it's tasteless": you simply want to make sure people take it seriously when you say things. you don't want to declare something important and have people go "they're fucking around again".

There's a time and place for rick rolling.

This guy doesn't seem to know it and is entering his late childhood stage.

- "resign or be fired" talk
  LPT: If you get this talk they don't have the shit to fire you with cause so they want you to make a mistake and resign so they don't have to pay you severance.

To be very clear here, my outrage is not at being pranked with a rick roll. I'd be fine with decent politicians doing that on most days. It's specifically with reversed courses on transparency regarding circumstantial evidence that the president was involved in sexual assault.

Obama gave out his birth certificate. Bernie Sanders shows his tax returns. The Republican Party is a team of liars that shares nothing.

And yet the Republicans have taken over the entire government.
Maybe people don't care about politicans lying. Maybe they expect it.
Maybe the Democrats are playing chess and the Republicans are strutting around and shitting on the board.
I'm so sick of people pointing out Republican hypocrisy like they give a damn about it.
The Democrats have had power for four goddamn months over my entire life. Maybe they should start lying and cheating so they can actually win a goddamn election.

Conservative "humor" is always dumb, blunt and obvious. Or in this case, wildly inappropriate.

NGL, this headline made me flash back to the "Womp Womp" given on air from a guy learning that a girl with down syndrome was separated from her parents after the latter were deported.

The sad part about this is the GOP made a big deal about releasing these files redacted. You can find all this stuff online UNredacted. They even invited conservative influencers to the WH and gave them binders with this stuff. They posed for pictures and all posted the same script about this being the most transparent administration in history, blah blah blah (just like how Sinclair Broadcasting gave all their affiliates the same script and had local news anchors read it on air). There was really nothing to see here, but of course the administration made a big deal out of it because they know their supports are big fucking idiots and swallow what ever they get fed.

Wat. I thought someone had given them the link and they posted it without checking. The thought that they may have intended a "prank" didn't even occur to me?!

Even if they posted the link without checking, that's still so incredibly fcking stupid and incompetent it hurts
- Oh definitely, but it would be mostly stupid and incompetent instead of so evil my head wouldn't even consider the possibility.

Reality is picking up scraps off a third-rate political sitcom's cutting-room floor again, I see.

They could have posted a link to a nonexistent pizza place.

Insanity.

I still remain shocked I have right wing friends, not because I'm surprised that they're my friends... Politics aside they're legitimately amazing people.

I'm shocked that my "amazing people" friends as superhumanly compassionate as they can seem at times keep legitimately believing in the innocence of a party that basically comes out and says "We're literally evil!" on a daily basis

(Right-Leaning =/= Nazi, sometimes it can mean being tricked into carrying water for Nazis)

They don't believe that the party is innocent at all. They know that awful shit is happening, but they chose to lie to themselves, and others, because the Republicans deliver something that they value more than their self respect, or respect of others. For most, it is permission to hate. There's someone, or some group that they hate so much that they are fine with whatever is "actually happening" as long as they can hate, and their hate is rightous and justified. With enough little lies like "both sides are doing it, so what are you going to do?" stacked on top of each other, then they can disassociate the awfulness from themselves and their party, and shift their disgust for what is being done to the other party.
You just have to realize that the strength of their hate for the Democrats is actually how much they hate then and their own party. So, knowing how much mental effort and emotion goes into lieing to themselves and everyone else, you now have some idea of how truly awful their little secret is.
- you might be onto something
Tbh, my conservative friends always hated (or at least dislike) him, but unfortunately my friends aren't in control of the party lol.
My leftist friends hated Biden, too. Nobody's happy in my circles, and none of us control more than a thermostat. Que sera sera I suppose. And it keeps rolling on.
Personally, I just want to walk near the creek and chill with frogs and snails and shit, then go home to my cat. It's nice out today.

It was a stupid stunt, for sure; but also does anyone besides the perpetually online even care about the Epstein files being released?

I mean we know he's a shitty person.

The interesting part isn't anything about Epstein, it's who his clients were. The people who diddled kids and are walking free.
I would care if prosecutions would happen. But they won't, so I don't.
- But releasing it has no basis on whether or not prosecutions happen; in fact releasing the information probably poisons the prosecutorial well and makes it harder to prosecute since you taint the jury pool (especially since you're never going to get the full, unredacted information - you're just going to get the version that's been created in narrative by social media).

People always get angry when they get rickrolled. Always ignore them

Yes you're right, the government should absolutely make child rape jokes, if people get angry about it you should just ignore them. Of course. That's just wise government policy, it shows how highly respectable those in the government are.
The density of your take rivals that of a Strange Matter star. Impressive.