• Optional@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Oh ho! Wait til Fox News finds out about his tan suit! Oh man, they’re gonna drag him for weeks about that! Ha ha!

    Ahh Fox News sure does hate tan suits. And news.

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        God it’s so hard to believe that the same people who got outraged at Obama for having uppity fancy dijon mustard instead of honest earnest working class yellow mustard, would also go on to worship the man who shits in a golden toilet.

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      9 months ago

      that is one hideously tailored suit. Like JC Pennies ‘mail out to adjust off the rack suits’ look better.

      he’d look more professional if he was wearing fetterman’s hoodie…

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      If the number of seats in the House had not been frozen a century ago, this would not be a problem as it would provide representation proportional to population (as outlined in the US Constitution), rather than artificially amplifying the voices of low-population states. As it stands, citizens in Wyoming (pop. ~577k, 1 rep) have any twice as much representation per capita than those of Delaware (pop ~1.003M, 1 rep), while both have a single Representative. Compared to California (pop. ~39.24M, 52 reps), which has a ratio of 1 rep:~755k people.

      There is, to be said, an issue of maintaining the level of proportionality originally intended (1 rep : 30k people). This would require over 11k representatives today. However, using the “Wyoming Rule”, where the number of seats is proportional to that required to provide one Representative per population of the least populace state (currently Wyoming), the number is only about 575. That’s much more manageable and would do a better job of providing equal representation and making gerrymandering harder.

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        9 months ago

        You’re right. To be honest the website FiveThirtyEight always fucks me up on that number for some reason

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          Those are the number of electors in the electoral college when electing a president.

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            Also the number of votes needed by Gore to win florida in 2000. Unhappy little coincidence.

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      Because McCarthy gave away guaranteed power to avoid compromise with any Democrat.

      McCarthy made the deal that allowed the 8 to oust him.

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      In an ideal world, the speaker is supposed to be the most centrist person, but when you have parties of hardliners and refusal to make comcessions, you get the shit thats happening right now.

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    I don’t get Gaetz’s constitutional argument. The Constitution only has this to say about the Speaker role:

    The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and Officers

    It hardly seems like a “desecration” to let the House choose a temporary speaker.

    I know, I know, it’s shocking that Gaetz is not a serious person.

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      His comments are probably based more on the traditions and history of the House rather than any written law, House rule, or even Article of the Constitution

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    Remember when Republicans obsessed about running government like a business?

    In the real world, this level of incompetence gets you fired.

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      9 months ago

      Own the libs by giving Jeffries the one job that no sane Republican wants

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    Gaetz/Martian: Ack! Ack ack ack! Ack ack!

    Reporter: Sir? We can’t understand you. Why are you talking like this?

    turns top of his watch

    Gaetz/Martian: TREASON! GAETZ NO VOTE! MCHENRY BAD!

    shuffles off weirdly

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        Lmao. Sorry. People see the five-head and see Butthead. I see a Martian.

        I’m still in shock someone accepted money to sleep with that…thing.

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          honestly, always see a can of crisco with a corpse’s face stretched around it. But, totally understand the comparisons you’re relating.

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    Its so hard to parody republicans when the reality is them using light beer in their rhetoric of federal government operations

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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz ® said he will do “everything possible” to prevent the empowering of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.).

    Gaetz was one of the eight Republicans who sided with House Democrats to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) from his role earlier this month.

    Now, as the House has gone weeks without a Speaker amid multiple crises like the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and a looming government shutdown, some in the lower chamber have considered a resolution to give McHenry more power.

    Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who recently faced two failed attempts to gain the gavel this week, is also reportedly planning to back a resolution to empower McHenry.

    “I will not sit back and watch a complete betrayal of the GOP base with this ‘plan’ that’s being discussed,” Boebert wrote on X.

    “I ran because I was sick and tired of politicians coming up here and cutting deals and releasing ‘holier than thou’ statements about why we just had to accept it.”


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