A Tennessee Congressman warns that fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives have been lured into honeytraps with sex workers and drugs changing the way they vote, he said this week. “If it's women, drugs, booze, it will find you in D.C. and in most elected offices,” Rep. Tim Burchett told...

A Tennessee Congressman warns that fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives have been lured into honeytraps with sex workers and drugs changing the way they vote, he said this week.

“If it’s women, drugs, booze, it will find you in D.C. and in most elected offices,” Rep. Tim Burchett told podcaster Benny Johnson. “That’s what people, power and influence do.”

As Burchett tells it, Republicans aren’t backing important efforts, such as Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s crusade for Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs, because they’re being bullied by big backers and Russians.

  • @agent_flounderEnglish
    21•11 months ago

    We put the wrong fucking people in office.

    Surely I am not the only person who just wants to make shit better for everyone and couldn’t give less of a fuck about drugs or bribe money or power or fucking randos?

    If money couldn’t buy elections (via massive marketing campaigns) maybe we could get decent people into office. There has to be some way to put up barriers to the people who really want the power. They’re the last people who should get it.

    Maybe we need to just appoint people like in the jury system.

    • @CosmicTurtleEnglish
      16•11 months ago

      There seems to be a specific type of person who seeks office. And it’s often the type of person who shouldn’t be trusted with that responsibility in the first place. There are exceptions of course but the majority of people who run for office shouldn’t run a lemonade stand let alone represent a portion of the population.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•11 months ago

      I say ankle monitors and constant random drug and alcohol testing. And legalize and regulate prostitution.