https://x.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1715407046235811884?s=20
https://x.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1715411194603774188?s=20
Does saying “nonviolently” give you a get out of jail card?
Is it like saying no homo after you give your best friend head?
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https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1715363245123400085?s=20
I mean maybe it’s not Jordan’s fault directly, but I feel like the line should be that we do not condone intimidation in any form, not ‘they have it coming to them’.
Donalds is highly qualified, per Mike Lee.
https://twitter.com/SchottHappens/status/1715537300724289967?t=11UB7PSMGfXszDFc-_mwPA&s=19
do you know who those people are?
Coin flip that in 2024 it gets us all.
The Rs bounce Jordan as their nominee (by secret ballot) and no one notices?
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https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1716531352332353575?s=20
ok, but the Frank Luntz one is legit…
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Multiple secret elimination rounds tomorrow. Let’s go you gossipy bastards.
So what happens next? At 9 a.m. ET on Tuesday, the House GOP will vote for their speaker nominee.
With eight candidates in the running, members will cast a successive series of secret ballots, with the candidate who garners the fewest number of votes in each round dropped from the running.
The process will continue until there are only two candidates left or until one candidate receives a majority of the votes, whichever comes first.
Here a plurality of votes is not enough. The winning candidate will need 50% +1 of the conference, or a minimum of 113 votes. The conference vote is expected to take several hours.
1st ballot from GOP secret election:
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1716825140439515570
2nd ballot:
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1716830566224724091
I don’t even know who these people are. Maybe that’s best?
And wtf is the point of voting present in a secret ballot?
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Drunk driving
In 2009, Emmer sponsored a bill that would shorten the period of license revocation for driving under the influence and for refusing to take a field sobriety test. Additionally, though “suspected drunken drivers [currently] face revocation before they go to court,” Emmer’s bill would have delayed revocations until after conviction.[68] Supporters of Emmer’s bill said “it’s needed because pre-conviction revocations penalize drivers before proving they’re guilty.”[69] Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the head of the Minnesota DWI task force opposed the legislation[70] because it would allow arrested drivers to continue to drive during the time between their arrest and hearing.[71]
Emmer’s own history became an issue in relation to his bill.[72] At age 20, Emmer received a driving under the influence-related ticket. In 1991 he pleaded guilty to careless driving while two charges for DWI and a license-plate violation were dropped.[73] Emmer denied that his own drunk driving and legal consequences played a part in the bill, stating, “We all come to the Legislature with life experiences, but it has nothing to do with this bill.”[68] Emmer also said that his sentence in 1981 should have been harsher, because in that case he “probably wouldn’t have taken the second chance” that led to his subsequent arrests and guilty plea in 1991.[74]
On May 13, 2010, Emmer was one of three legislators not to vote on a bill that would have provided such tougher penalties for drunk drivers. He said he missed the vote when a previously scheduled lunch ran long, and that he had “no idea” how he would have voted on the bill, but that he “assume[d]” he would have supported it.[75]
“Fire Pelosi” machine gun video
In an October 2022 CBS News television interview, Emmer was challenged for posting a video on Twitter that showed him firing a fully automatic machine gun with the caption “#FIREPELOSI”.[76] As chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Emmer led 2022 election efforts to win a majority and replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The post occurred just days before the home invasion and attack on Pelosi’s husband in California.
Also bog standard Republican cruel positions on abortion, immigration, birth control, etc., but this one is pretty special:
“Tip credit”
On July 5, 2010, after visiting a restaurant in St. Paul, Emmer was asked during a press conference if he supported a tip credit, the policy of allowing businesses to subtract tips from a server’s hourly wage. His response was “Yes… if you didn’t have a minimum wage law”, adding, “somebody could be taking home well over one hundred thousand dollars as a server” while the restaurant owner could be making much less.[91][92]
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Oh, Emmer sounds bad. I assume that we can safely vote for his opponents then?
I love the secret ballot TBH. We should have more secret ballots.