I was elected 6 weeks ago. Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear me in.
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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They've pulled up almost all the ladders.
Time to reach up and yank them back down.
Just start doing the job. She was elected by the people.
This is it. Just show up and get started. Her constituents are the boss. Force the opposition to explain themselves on the record.
Start working on the Pensky File.
Is she Pensky material though?
They'll probably force her out or flag her as Antifa or some other made up bs.
Good, this is unfortunately the kinda shit the moderates need to see to care
Vote! Vote! Get out and vote!
The people voted. Nothing is moving. What options are left?
give mike Johnson a better excuse to not do his job.
I am usually not a fan of witholding taxes (I do think we should invest more taxes into social services and less in defense and none in company subsidies or bailouts), but Arizona really should consider witholding federal taxes until they have representation. Money talks.
That's unfortunately not how that works, federal taxes are not held by the state but paid directly to the country, there's no way for the state to withhold it.
The state can withhold the taxes from employees if the state though. Wouldn't be insignificant
The uncomfortable option(s), are what's left. Those option(s) will get drastically more uncomfortable with each day passing. Good luck, US.
The next three boxes are jury, soap, and ammo. I suspect it will come to the last one
A legal challenge that forces his hand. Plus, some Republicans actually want to know the the truth about the Epstein thing.
Doesn't really make any sense
Mike Johnson is the guy that jacks off with his son, right?
Also, Grindr rumours keep popping up, no matter how hard he swallows them.
Just like straight guys going on gay cruises, it is not gay if it is on Grindr.
Mike is not gay for fucking other men, other men are gay for fucking him.
Not the only thing he swallows...
Shoulda said cumming up
Mike Johnson, you blowhard
they have a "porn montiring service, probably from a christian group on thier phones" they both monitor how often they both jac off.
It probably has a premium currency, like gems or something, that let's you turn it off for a few minutes.
It’s because Trump was trafficking kids with Epstein
Financial backer as well
im thinking they are just stalling til her 2 year term expires, or nearly expires. this shutdown wont end in anytime soon as long as epstein files reveals trump as the most frequent sex pest of his.
Mike Johnson has the spine of a jellyfish and wit of a rock.
That is a vile insult to rocks everywhere.
Actually, he has a quite solid spine. It's reinforced by a steel rod up his arse. That's why he can't budge.
Lmao good one
I would say judges should be the ones to swear in all elected officials in the federal government as in theory they are meant to be nonpartisan and unaffiliated but we all know that isn't the reality of the situation. No party should be able to directly stop the action of any elected official based purely on their party affiliation or political platform. Even better still, elected individuals should be sworn in before the election results roll in and should take office the same day the election results are finalized.
That shitty rule needs to be changed. One wins the election and the Speaker of the House should be available for the swearing in process.
Why would he? He’s not required to (by anything enforceable), and it’s all they got to convince Dems to open the government back up. Dems would do the same thing.
Edit: unpopular comment, but I’m 100% right. This is the least bad thing Republicans have done.
Edit 2: your downvotes mean nothing. I’ve seen what makes you upvote.
She has been elected to the position. And yes, he is required to swear her in
If it’s not enforceable then it’s not required.
Great. We got an idiot over here.
His comment history is full of stuff like this. My guess is he ate paint chips as a kid
Paint chips are like 4th best flavor too. What an asshole
Delicious.
But deadly!
If only.
😂 first time witnessing American politics in action? You’ll learn in time.
You keep Ricky and the boys outta this, yank
Kinda like the ACA individual mandate. If the penalty is $0, then it is not required.
Right. The party known for playing hardball.
Quit fucking lying, fascist apologist. The two sides are not the same.
In a government shutdown, they absolutely would.
You're still fucking lying. Go away.
😂
Fucking useless troll.
You keep using extremes but where in the history have you see this happen?
Democrats have been playing peacemaker while GOP walk all over them since forever.
He literally just imagined evidence and is using that as a basis for his argument.
almost all the shutdowns are done by REPUBLICANS, get your facts straight.
Stop pretending like you can just fucking flat-out make up evidence. What the fuck is wrong with you?
I’m not making up shit. I haven’t given any evidence. Dems would do it as well is an opinion. You may disagree with that opinion.
because it’s his fuken job maybe?
And they have been doing their job for the last 11 months?
Their job is to break all functions of government that don't directly support rich people. It makes more sense when you think of it as rich vs poor as opposed to left vs right.
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
This isn’t owning the libs. It’s politicking. What incentive do they have to confirm this person?
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.
And their argument would be “if liberty & justice and representative government is so important, then allow us to reopen the government”. To me, this is just basic politics.
I've never seen someone be so confident and absolutely wrong this rapidly. Well done.
They wouldn’t make that argument? For real?
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.
She has a right to vote on the budget on behalf of the 800k+ people she represents.
Honestly, after Republicans refused to vote for a SC nominee for nearly an entire year, this just feels insignificant.
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.
There’s not many people on here that are willing to hear “the other side isn’t behaving unreasonable in this one instance” about any issue.
I’m fairly progressive, but the amount of “⬆️:us ⬇️:them” on this site is pretty stupid.
You're the lowest of the low, a genuine bootlicker. You're a coward and conspirator with Epstein.
Upvote this quality post everybody! It only proves my point.
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?
I'm pretty sure that nominee couldn't have cast the deciding vote to release the Epstein files.
and this is why you people never learn.
didn't realize doing your job as an elected official required legal ramifications as motivation.
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....
Sorry I didn’t meet the echo chamber’s approval. As a progressive democrat, I wish “we” would actually learn.
Now you know.
I’m not 100% sure what point you’re making here. But I probably agree. Though I think when republicans win the popular vote for president, the gerrymandering probably isn’t the reason they won the house also.
Next year they definitely need to cheat to win.
ah, so just more bullshit.
I had my suspicions you were a troll, now it's confirmed.
I have that person tagged: Transphobe "centrist" I don't think they're worth engaging with. Good on you for calling them out though
I guess if that’s your takeaway.
It was certainly my takeaway.
I’m sorry that you feel that way
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.
“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.
Then why hasn’t it been enforced?
looks around... uhhh, have you not been paying attention? Or is that a rhetorical question?
By who? A stern speech from Congress? A strongly worded letter from a judge?
A judicial order is legally binding, a bit more forceful than a strongly worded letter.
Zactly mah point boo
There's a legal challenge in the works right now. The system takes time and humans need to do things like sleep and eat.
Great! And once that happens, there’s going to be zero penalty for Mike Johnson not doing his job. I’m not saying it’s a good strategy. I’m saying it’s all they got.
Congress hasn’t been in session yet. That’s the loophole. It’s stil. “Legal”
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.
Kind of stupid to say something so egregious is the "least bad".
Stop whining about downvotes, it's pathetic.
This is absolute bullshit, you're not "100% right" by simply imagining something that never happened, you fucking imbecile.
I’m not whining about shit. Lemmy can be an echo chamber incapable of handling non uniform opinions.
One year from now nobody is going to remember this because it is literally the least bad of thing they’ve been doing.
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.
Obviously the shutdown was not the thing I was referring to.
I wouldn’t consider myself a friend.
I almost passed over, but “Dems would do the same thing” is why I gave you the downvote. You give them more credit than they deserve.
You'd support Democrats doing this?
You're wrong. But you're too stupid to see why.
No need to be rude and call people stupid. Be civil.
I am being civil. Some people are dumb and need to know they are dumb.
This is what I'm talking about.
Oh no...
I've informed the dumb people that they are dumb
You can express yourself without being hostile. You don't make this place better by being that way. This isn't Reddit.
Informing dumb people that they are dumb is not hostile. It's matter of fact. If someone is short telling them so is easy because it is objectively easier to express. When people are dumb it's not. They tend to think they aren't.
My opinion is different than yours and you’re too close minded to recognize that.
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.
Spoken like a true hive mind.
Blah blah blah. Moron.
Whatever makes you feel better about yourself I guess…
Ah I love it when these idiots comment, clearly tells me whom to block
Keep your head in the sand and ears in the echo chamber and everything will feel just right.
How is that a response? OP is fucking moron basing his idiotic argument using made-up evidence he invented in his head.
Block people that don’t give the exact same opinion as you. Head in the sand ears in the echo chamber.
From Arizona, sincerely, shut up.
My deepest condolences.
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