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  • [–] 53 points 19 hours ago* (4 children)

    On its face, this seems like a dirty trick by Republicans. Mike Johnson called a recess, then after members left, called a snap vote on whether to proceed with impeachment with no warning. This entire spectacle reeks of a planned Republican scheme to try to influence the outcome through procedure and sow division within the Democratic party. The Republican House caucus was obviously made aware this was happening so they would stick around.

    That any House Speaker can call a snap vote like this is a serious problem for our democracy.

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  • [–] 23 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    But you have to be smart enough to know that's a possibility. That's a trick that they've used before and has been used before for decades. A good leader, someone good at whipping votes, has to be aware of these tricks and has to be ready for them. A good leader would be able to keep his people ready for this kind of trick. There was only a small window they could have pulled it in.

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  • [–] 15 points 16 hours ago

    And I'm sure if some random person on Lemmy could figure it out, the people who've actually worked in the job for years or decades would have figured it out too. This is just whitewashing the Democrats culpability in aiding the Republican agenda yet again.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    So its ok for people to not do their jobs?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    It’s okay to play idiotic games like this to elicit idiotic responses like yours?

    If you’re at work and the manager says there’s a break, so you decide to take an early lunch because the break is long enough, only to find the manager waited until team members left before changing his mind so he could reprimand you for not being at work… you’d be like “oh my bad”?!

    Get a clue. I am no fan of politicians but this kind of immature game has no place in society.

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  • [–] 21 points 19 hours ago

    So, the israelis threw a party way the fuck in nowhere right before a critical vote, and there just happened to be a huge traffic jam blocking their only path back to vote?

    So, throw a party then crash a truck to continue their war of genocide uninterrupted. It's what their fictional gawd told them to do. Everything is justified by a fictional being that lives in their religious psychopathy.

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