• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    You know what’s really hilarious about it?

    Pelosi is the one Democrat that didn’t vote for his removal, because she’s in CA for Dianne Feinstein’s funeral. Her absence from the vote actually made McCarthy’s job easier, as it meant McCarthy could afford one more defection. But hey, it’s all her fault, so let’s kick her out of her office. And as supposedly pissed off as the GOP supposedly are with Gaetz, I don’t see them shoving his office in a broom closet somewhere for leading the whole movement to oust him in the first place. You’d think if they were going to go after anyone, they’d go after the guy that caused their mess in the first place.

    But nope. Not gonna do that. Because the party still needs his vote.

    The GOP majority in the house exists because of four people:

    • A pathological liar facing various legal charges who has lied so often that even his real identity is under question.
    • A child sex predator that had his case dropped due to political connections who just led the charge to oust a member of his own party.
    • A woman who hasn’t managed to pass a single bill in her multiple terms in office, but does seem to have a particular fetish for people willing to expose themselves in public.
    • A woman who openly supports white nationalism, harrassing victims of gun violence, and Jewish Space Lasers.

    That’s not hyperbole. If those four people did not exist, we’d be talking about Speaker Hakeem Jeffries right now. The GOP majority literally exists due to the existence of multiple people who are either wholly unqualified for office, suspected of criminal activity that should have them in jail already, or both.

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      But hey, it’s all her fault, so let’s kick her out of her office

      She was supposed to move out 10 months ago. She still has her normal office with every other House Rep in another building.

      So no, it’s not her office.

      You’re very opinionated for not reading the article you posted tho

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        No… she wasn’t.

        It is her office, or at least it was.

        There are a number of unlisted offices that can be assigned. It is customary to allow a Speaker to retain one of these if they leave that role.

        Maybe you’re the one that should do some actual research?

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          1 year ago

          or at least it was

          Right it was…

          Then, it wasn’t.

          She doesn’t get to keep it indefinitely, and 10 months seems long enough to move out.

          How much longer did you want them to wait?

          It is customary to allow a Speaker to retain one of these if they leave that role.

          If that’s true, I googled and can only see Pelosi’s recent claims:

          Well, now there’s a new ex-speaker…

          How many ex-speakers get an office in the Capitol Building?

          Do you think McCarthy and Pelosi should share?

          Do we take someone else’s office so they can both have one?

          Just take two seconds and think about it

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            There are multiple offices. No one is sharing.

            You really don’t know what you’re talking about. It is a long-standing tradition for the former speaker to maintain an office after their term. Pelosi allowed the speaker before her to maintain an office, for example.

            This is just being done out of spite. Petty nonsense.

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              Mate, we got our representation capped because we ran out of space…

              There’s not infinite office space in the Capitol Building, that’s why House office are in an adjoing building.

              It’s not rocket appliances

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                Mate, we got our representation capped because we ran out of space…

                BS. Representation got capped because capping it benefited those in power.

                It’s easy to allocate more representative to more seats, it’s easy to allocate more office space to more representatives - even if it’s not necessarily in the same building.

                This issue has come up in a multitude of nations, and everyone has managed to dive this puzzle - and you expect people to believe that “the greatest nation on earth” can’t do it, because there’s apparently a finite amount of fucking office space in America??