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Interim GOP speaker orders Pelosi and Hoyer out of Capitol offices (www.axios.com)

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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 26 points 1 year ago

It's funny because this is the best they've got. Forcing someone to change their secondary office while they're away at a funeral. Real inconvenience to the minority leader's staff. Make America Great Again!

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 23 points 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.

[+] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Jimbob0i0@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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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