Six weeks ago, I was elected to Congress. I'm still waiting to be sworn in.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s recess of the U.S. House of Representatives during a time of grave national crises is shockingly irresponsible. House Republicans have been on vacation for six weeks while our economy crumbles, federal workers go without paychecks, health care premiums skyrocket and funding for food stamps dwindles. This is negligent and cruel.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (31 children)

    More evidence that all yall care about is owning the libs & are willing to sacrifice everything for it.. No actual care for our country's values or democracy

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (29 children)

    The incentive is upholding liberty & justice as our elected officials. Our country has a representative government. This person was elected by the people. Anyone standing in the way of that is standing against the US.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    I've never seen someone be so confident and absolutely wrong this rapidly. Well done.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    I mean I wouldn't doubt it, but that's not what I was getting at. That's one instance we're you may be right in a hypothetical we can't confirm.

    You're all over this thread with both sides bullshit without anything to back it up and downplaying Republicans evil, all willfully.

    We can see you.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    You can believe, distort, and cherry pick what you want by all means, but no one is going to take you seriously when you do it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    See how you just distorted yet again?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (19 children)

    Cherry picking

    Now do incorrect opinion again

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    She has been elected to the position. And yes, he is required to swear her in

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Great. We got an idiot over here.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    His comment history is full of stuff like this. My guess is he ate paint chips as a kid

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    She has a right to vote on the budget on behalf of the 800k+ people she represents.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Your argument appears to be that because they've done something in the past that you perceive to be worse, continuing misdeeds are no big deal. I don't think you'll find many people who will agree with that.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You're the lowest of the low, a genuine bootlicker. You're a coward and conspirator with Epstein.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wow, I might have found the most neurotic person on Lemmy. It was fun reading all those comments, fully grasping your mental gymnastics. So, yes, echo chambers can be common on social media, but it may also be just as common to accuse through a mirror. I must ask you, personally, what kind of political environment are you surrounding yourself with that excuses the GOP and likens its actions to Dems? As a bonus question, what's your opinion on Bernie Sanders?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    “At the first session of Congress after every general election of Representatives, the oath of office shall be administered by any Member of the House of Representatives to the Speaker.”

    2 U.S. Code § 25

    “Shall” meaning it’s a requirement.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's a legal challenge in the works right now. The system takes time and humans need to do things like sleep and eat.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Which is why I said “enforceable”.

    Like Trump leaving the FEC without a quorum so it can’t enforce election laws. There’s nothing forcing him to appoint anybody. So he leaves it vacant and none of the laws the FEC is responsible for enforcing can be enforced. They’re as good as non existent.

    Same with this. There’s no mechanism forcing this guy from swearing in the congressman.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    This is the least bad thing Republicans have done.

    Kind of stupid to say something so egregious is the "least bad".

    Stop whining about downvotes, it's pathetic.

    Dems would do the same thing

    This is absolute bullshit, you're not "100% right" by simply imagining something that never happened, you fucking imbecile.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No-one will remember the longest US Govt. shutdown, ever? The one that dethroned the previous record, which was set during checks notes oh, right, Trump's previous go at stuffing his pockets with tax dollars.

    I wouldn't be so sure of that. When people start going hungry, people start getting angry. Anthropology has demonstrated this more times than almost anything else. If this keeps up, something "interesting" will happen, as the old curse goes.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Dems would do the same thing.

    Quit fucking lying, fascist apologist. The two sides are not the same.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    because it’s his fuken job maybe?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    ... I’m 100% right.

    and this is why you people never learn.

    He’s not required to (by anything enforceable),

    didn't realize doing your job as an elected official required legal ramifications as motivation.

    ... and it’s all they got to convince Dems to open the government back up.

    besides, democrats aren't required to agree (by anything enforceable), and if that's all republicans have to "convince" the democrats then how did they even gain majority control of the house and senate? unless....they cheated by gerrymandering....

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Sorry I didn’t meet the echo chamber’s approval. As a progressive democrat, I wish “we” would actually learn.

    A "progressive" who gets to make up evidence that doesn't exist, apparently. You phony fucking "progressives" gave us Trump, you don't have the moral high ground.

    You're so fucking biased and stupid that you actually think it's justified to flat-out fucking lie like this.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You're opinion is dumb and you should learn to shut the fuck up. We've heard your side. We are sick of hearing it. All your side has done has created havoc and stupidity.

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