Rep. Eric Swalwell resigns from U.S. House after sexual misconduct allegations

Yeah crazy how much red tape there is when someone is 100% guilty. When it’s a black guy with a bag of weed instant death sentence

She wasn't the Florida AG during Epstein's sweetheart deal. She was a state prosecuter. Didn't become FL AG until 2009, after the Epstein deal which was given to him by then US Attorney to South Florida, Alexander Acosta, the same Alexander Acosta who became Labor secretary during Trump's first term, who resigned when Epstein was arrested again in 2019. This isn't a defense for Bondi. She *was* the state AG when rejecting to investigate Trump's fraud allegations dealing with his Trump University after Trump gave her $25,000. Trump was fined for this by the IRS, as it was deemed an illegal donation by Trump.

Valid. There are plenty of people walking around who are one l****** win from being the most evil person you ever met.

Face the facts. The only thing some people need to do the most unspeakable things, is premission.

Somehow I’m neither here nor there

Gonzales should have been out months ago. He was only told to quit because the GOP won the special election in Georgia last week, ensuring their house majority up to November. And as a bonus, a dem is out too, which tarnishes their party's reputation far more than Gonzales does for the GOP. There was no *real* bipartisan support for this, it's only an act. I'd bet both my kidneys that if Gonzales was needed to maintain a house majority, he wouldn't be resigning.

Good, now if all the other partisans will take the other trash out

Except republicans didn't force gonazalez out for over a year... swalwell was done in less than a week.

Yes it is. And I dont get it either, how do you not resign even if its just to mourn and recover from the trauma of a person you knew lighting themselves on fire? If it happened to me I'd be a shut in for the rest of my life, but this dude wanted to still be a US rep?

I voted for McCain over Obama and then Obama over Romney. Between those votes, I realized that the Republican party platform of "fiscal responsibility" was a lie and that their social policy was basically just to be as cruel as possible. McCain and Romney were both reasonable people with policy positions they could articulate and defend. Around that time, the tea party really started taking hold of things, though. That's proto maga. 2016 wasn't really a pivot. It was the party control being completely handed over to the nutcases.

ehhhh the *biggest* problem with Romney was that he was still in a post-teaparty GOP, and even though he tried to represent some sort of traditional politician vibe, he was sitting on top of a party that was clearly becoming more and more extreme and bloodthirsty. Voting for Romney was, IMO, and in all fairness far less obviously, still a surrender to the republican slide into what they are now. Maybe not Romney himself *directly,* but that he allowed the party its trajectory into the abyss in the undercard elections, so voting for him represented an acceptance of that collapse.

It's interesting seeing all the white washing of past Republicans. John McCain aligned with Donald Trump on 91% of Senate Votes.

> 2016 was such a hard f****** pivot. I was someone who didn't vote for Obama in either election, but I also thought he was a fine president and genuinely good person, and to be honest the level of rightwing rhetoric against him was enough for me to take a step back and ask myself "...am I actually rooting for the bad guys here?" I remember in early 2016 I was genuinely excited about the future of the republican party. I liked Jeb Bush, I liked Marco Rubio, I liked Chris Christie, I loved John Kasich. There were also plenty of second-tier players like Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul and Ben Carson and Bobby Jindal who I didn't necessarily think would be good as president, but I still thought were relatively rational and intelligent and generally represented what I wanted to see in government. But then all of those candidates got kicked to the curb in favor of someone who's not small-government, not pro-constitution, not free-market capitalism, not family-values, not... any traditionally conservative values whatsoever. The current Republican party platform consists solely of the unconditional worship of a single all-powerful president who should be able to do anything he wants with no checks on his power... which is literally the polar opposite of the one central value the founding fathers build the country around. Absolutely wild how quickly things changed in just a decade, and at this point it's hard for me to imagine ever voting for the Republican party ever again in my lifetime. I'll take flawed policy implemented in good faith over bad policy implemented in bad faith 100 times out of 100, and it's outright embarrassing seeing my "conservative" friends and family members who have suddenly done a complete flip on their stances in order to keep rooting for their "team"

Same. And that McCain stood up for Obama with that old lady, “he’s a good man with which I disagree with.”

I read that she did that in response to finding out her husband (that she was cheating on) had an affair with her best friend. coupled with whatever she had going on with Gonzalez led to a mental break but I'm more interested to see how much her relationship with Gonzalez actually had to do with her self-immolation

Yes. He hit 5 years in January this year. Resigning retains the pension. Even expelled members retain their pension if they've served 5 years and their expulsion is not due to criminal felony conviction. After Santos, a proposal was put forward to rescind pensions for expelled reps/senators but it did not pass. Like the pedo retirement home of Congress would ever pass anything against themselves and for morality and the people lol

you mean like when Liz blindsided Bernie by jumping on the politico hitpiece bandwagon and Bernie was like genuinely concerned about it? Pepperidge farm remembers

Doveeeeer, NOW BEND OVER HERE

Rhode Island?

Trick question. Delaware isn’t real.