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Tankie noodlez 🇺🇸🦅

Tankie noodlez 🇺🇸🦅

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Tankie noodlez 🇺🇸🦅
@StealthQE4 I just hope the world knows it is not the American people. Our political well is poisoned on both sides of the isle by corrupt evil people. Its really just one coin two faces of the same.
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QE Infinity
QE Infinity@StealthQE4·
Morally I have a severe problem with this. I don’t think we are the “good guys” anymore. We’ve gone full rogue. The events I’m watching are things that I never thought I’d see us ever do to anyone. It’s really disturbing
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Darth Powell
Darth Powell@VladTheInflator·
If you start thinking about the decisions by Congress in the light of they're getting rich destroying America it all makes sense.
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Holographic
Holographic@HolographicMD·
I let the asparagus get limp. Mist. Time to make soup.
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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
I am the attorney for Leslie H. Wexner. I have been preparing my client for this deposition for eleven months. We rehearsed his testimony. We reviewed the financial records. We anticipated every question the committee might ask. We prepared binders. We retained consultants. We ran mock depositions in the same room where the actual deposition would take place, which is my client's living room, because the committee agreed to come to his house. In New Albany, Ohio. The suburb he built. The mansion he owns. The one where a woman reported being sexually assaulted in 1996. We did not select the venue. We accepted it. My client sat in his leather chair and told Congress he was a victim. I thought this went well. He explained that Jeffrey Epstein was his financial adviser. That the relationship was professional. That he never considered Epstein a friend. That when he learned about the allegations, he severed ties immediately. This is the defense. My client — who built Victoria's Secret, who negotiated the acquisition of five national retail brands, who personally managed one of the largest fortunes in American retail — did not notice that his financial adviser was running a sex trafficking operation. For decades. While managing his money. While holding his power of attorney. While receiving approximately one billion dollars. I want to be clear: my client is not stupid. My client built an empire. My client reads contracts the way a surgeon reads scans. My client once renegotiated a lease in Columbus over a fourteen-cent discrepancy per square foot. My client simply did not notice the billion dollars. My client visited the island. He brought his family. He described it, under oath, as a "pretty crummy island." I did not coach him to say this. I would not have coached him to say this. When your client is being asked about the most infamous sex trafficking site in modern history and he calls it "pretty crummy," you do not coach that. That is a man being honest about his aesthetic standards while being dishonest about everything else. The island was, by all accounts, crummy. It was also the place where children were imprisoned and assaulted. My client noticed the landscaping. There was a moment during the deposition that I need to address. The committee informed my client that approximately $20 million in stock and cash had been transferred from his charitable foundations to one of Epstein's charities. His charities. His foundations. His money. His signature on the governance documents. My client said — and I am quoting him here because the video is public — "Effing shocked. I just — I'm appalled. I never heard that." He then turned to me and asked, on camera, "Did you know that?" I did know that. I had prepared a binder. The binder was on the table. My client had not read the binder. This is not unusual. Many clients do not read the binder. What is unusual is being asked, on camera, in front of a congressional committee, whether you told your own client about the $20 million his charities gave to a sex trafficker. I made a face that I hope was not captured clearly. My client also testified about the first time he heard the allegations against Epstein. He called Epstein. He said, "What the hell is this?" Epstein told him he was being "shaken down by a hooker." My client believed this. He found this explanation satisfactory. He did not ask a follow-up question. He did not call the police. He did not call me. He did not call anyone. A billionaire's financial adviser — the man who held power of attorney over his fortune — was accused of sex crimes, and the explanation "a hooker is shaking me down" closed the matter. The victims were children. Epstein used the word "hooker." My client used the word "believed." I should tell you about the comparisons my client made voluntarily. He compared Epstein to Bernie Madoff. "Bernie Madoff is a boyscout compared to Jeffrey," he said. Madoff ran a $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Epstein ran a child sex trafficking ring. My client chose to compare them on the axis of financial betrayal. He also said, "If it was a movie, no one would believe it." He is correct. In the movie, the man who funded the operation, sold the trafficker his primary residence, visited the island with his children, accepted the hooker explanation without question, and didn't notice $20 million leaving his charities would not be cast as the victim. He would be cast as the third act. The committee did not believe my client. Representative Steve Lynch said my client was "perfectly competent and lucid" but "just not telling the truth." Representative Robert Garcia said "no single person was more involved in providing Jeffrey Epstein with the financial support to commit his crimes than Les Wexner." He also said that without my client's support, there would be no island. My client's position is that these statements are inaccurate. My client's position is that one billion dollars was a professional relationship. That the island visit was brief and crummy. That the townhouse sale was market-rate. That the charities operated independently. That the hooker explanation was credible. That the power of attorney was routine. That the decades of financial entanglement were unremarkable. That the mansion where a woman reported being assaulted was, and remains, his home, and the deposition went fine. The committee released the video the next day. They posted it on YouTube. Five hours. No redactions. In my experience, committees sit on depositions for months. They negotiate over transcripts. They allow review periods. This one was online before my client's morning coffee. On the same day the video was released, February 19, 2026, the United Kingdom arrested Prince Andrew. Britain arrested a prince. A member of the royal family. In handcuffs. The Governor of Ohio went on camera and said my client was not a problem. "Barring some new information of something that he has done illegal," Mike DeWine said, "I don't see that as a problem." One billion dollars. An island. A mansion. A hooker explanation. $20 million in charity money. A five-hour deposition the committee called "not credible." A victim's report from the property where my client currently sits. No problem. My client has not been charged. My client has not been arrested. My client has not been indicted. My client drove home from the deposition in under one minute because the deposition was in his house. My client slept in the bed he's slept in for thirty years. In the mansion the committee came to. In the suburb he built with the money he made from the company he founded. The money that funded the financial adviser. Who funded the island. That my client visited once. And found crummy. I am my client's attorney. I prepared eleven months for this. I made the binders. I ran the mock depositions. I anticipated every question. I did not anticipate "Did you know that?" on camera. I did not anticipate "pretty crummy island" under oath. I did not anticipate my client comparing a child sex trafficker to Bernie Madoff and meaning it as a compliment to Madoff. The system worked exactly as I designed it to work. My client testified. My client was called a liar. My client went home. My client was not charged. One billion dollars. Zero consequences. I am the defense. The defense rests. It has never been disturbed.
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Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna@RoKhanna·
@JSweetLI This is the central point. The DOJ unredacted the names and violated the law by not giving any explanation for why they were redacted in the first place. Excellent reporting.
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Jacqueline Sweet
Jacqueline Sweet@JSweetLI·
It's unclear why Massie and Khanna honed in on the page from the Epstein files that turned out to be a photo lineup of 16 random people arrested by the NYPD over a period of two decades, but on Sunday Massie crowdsourced on X for ideas of which files to view unredacted versions of. An X user named "Agatha Anonymous" suggested the photo lineup file, asserting without evidence that it was a collection of Epstein coconspirators. The next day Massie and Khanna viewed it and asked DoJ why it was redacted. It's unclear if the male names --Italian and Eastern European--just sounded ominous, or if the congressmen assumed Nicola Caputo was the Italian politician (some of the guys are actually handymen and mechanics in the outer boroughs of NYC.) Massie posted about the file on Monday (acknowledging that the names could be part of a random lineup) and Blanche quote-posted him to announce they would unredact it, noting that the page had several victims (in fact there were only two, so it's unclear if Blanche understood the file at that point either.) As Massie and Khanna point out, the DoJ could have gotten back to them within 15 days explaining why they didn't want to unredact the names. The next day, Khanna recited the four men's names on the House floor.
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NEW: Reps Khanna and Massie pushed the DOJ to unredact a file in the Epstein files. Then Khanna read four men's names from it in a House floor speech, calling them "wealthy and powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason." The only problem is that file is a SDNY photo lineup, and the 16 people on it have no known ties to Epstein, the DOJ confirmed. We identified 12 of the people on the list, and spoke to two of the men Khanna named, who denied any connection to Epstein and were seeking answers as to why their names were in the news. The lineup simply included people apparently arrested for various unrelated crimes over two decades in NYC, who resembled Maxwell and Epstein. Link:

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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
@TRHLofficial @DOGE Following the Senate rules shouldn’t be considered radical!
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Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee·
Seven Steps to a Highly Effective Congress 1. End the Zombie Filibuster 2. @DOGE 2.0 to slash spending 3. Pass the Shutdown Fairness Act 4. Pass the SAVE Act 5. Pass the REINS Act 6. Abolish earmarks 7. Pass aggressive permitting reform
Coach Tommy Tuberville@SenTuberville

Too many swamp politicians are focused on re-election and power, rather than doing their jobs and helping the American people. 77 MILLION Americans sent a MANDATE to change the status quo when they elected President Trump. If we don’t blow up the filibuster and pass President Trump’s agenda, we might as well all go home. breitbart.com/politics/2026/…

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Tankie noodlez 🇺🇸🦅
Tankie noodlez 🇺🇸🦅@Tankiebutt·
@RepThomasMassie The criming will continue as long as you can pay off or bribe politicians wait is that legal seems like its corruption well at least its morally corruption but somehow not legally.
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Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie·
It’s not American oil. It’s Venezuelan oil. Oil companies entered into risky deals to develop oil, and the deals were canceled by a prior Venezuelan government. What’s happening: lives of US soldiers are being risked to make those oil companies (not Americans) more profitable.
JD Vance@JDVance

You see a lot claims that Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs because most of the fentanyl comes from elsewhere. I want to address this: First off, fentanyl isn't the only drug in the world and there is still fentanyl coming from Venezuela (or at least there was). Second, cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the Latin America cartels. If you cut out the money from cocaine (or even reduce it) you substantially weaken the cartels overall. Also, cocaine is bad too! Third, yes, a lot of fentanyl is coming out of Mexico. That continues to be a focus of our policy in Mexico and is a reason why President Trump shut the border on day one. Fourth, I see a lot of criticism about oil. About 20 years ago, Venezuela expropriated American oil property and until recently used that stolen property to get rich and fund their narcoterrorist activities. I understand the anxiety over the use of military force, but are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don't act like that. The United States, thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a great power again. Everyone should take note.

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Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban@mcuban·
Let me ask you a question. If because of some new tech,and the benefit of scale from covering 350m people , the actual cost to care for every single person in this country was $10 a year. And in that healthcare system, every doctor, nurse and care provider got paid double what they are today (in today's dollars) , would you be ok with taxpayers covering the cost of care for everyone ?
John Asghar MD@JahangirAsgha10

@SacksDisa The phrasing there was weird…. I took it as single payer isn’t as easy to achieve as some make it out to be I do think he tries to walk a line of being everything for everyone

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Tankie noodlez 🇺🇸🦅
Tankie noodlez 🇺🇸🦅@Tankiebutt·
@elonmusk Only to be for the government to sell us out 200 -250 years latter. Teenagers of from the US can't get jobs at Dairy Queen because Sanjay is now the manager and will only hire Indian kids.
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
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