Only pedophiles defend pedophiles.
And I fucking HATE pedophiles.
Woody Allen is still a pedophile who raped one of his own young step-daughters and married another.
People who defend that shit are SICK.
There is a game I used to play in the late 90s and aughts that was simply stupid but fantastic for stress relief, and I still think about it even though it’s been possibly fifteen years or longer since I played it. Just checked the archive and it’s there.
I had no idea this even existed until now. Many thanks.
Huh, I hadn’t heard about that, and I do mean not a word. The bigger committees like Ag tend to rule themselves in a straighter line because of the power involved – everybody is watching everyone else very closely – but this seems like a new low. At least the proxy votes got tossed. I also didn’t know Tuberville was/is MIA.
Now I know. Thank you for the info and the links, I really appreciate you taking the time.
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That is . . . questionable. A committee has a certain number of chairs; whether or not that chair gets an acting substitute is at the discretion of the committee rules and more often than not, the committee chair. Keep in mind that committee and subcommittee assignments are worked toward for years, over the span of multiple elections, and McConnell’s own seats are among the most powerful and highly coveted, like Rules, which he chairs.
So sometimes they just sit open, and in this particular case McConnell is one of the most powerful senators in Congress who has friends that are rabidly guarding his assignments, not just for his sake but for purposes of control, with an eye to who will get them if/when an actual vacancy becomes real in legal terms. (They’re all lawyers anyway, now turned lawmakers, so it really is all about the letter of the law with them.)
Also, just as a friendly reminder, in the US we have a bicameral (two houses) form of government legislature and Mike Johnson can’t do shit in the Senate (the higher house). He’s Speaker of the House of Representatives (the lower house). The Senate has different rules and different leaders. Technically it’s JD Vance, the vice president of the US, and Chuck Grassley, president pro tempore, but they don’t actually have much to do with regular leadership. For leadership in actual day to day business it’s the Majority Leader, John Thune, one of McConnell’s besties and one of the Republican legislators swearing to have spent 20 minutes on the phone with him after his hospitalization.
Apologies, I know a detailed correction is probably not what you wanted to get back in terms of a reply, but it’s worth understanding how the power flows in practice.
Can you tell me where you’re getting your information that someone is voting for McConnell in committee? I’d like to know more.
If you want to dress up as a monster that’s an easy way to do it.
Thank you. I kept reading people offering endless diaper jokes as the explanation, but he’s been wearing diapers for years and that ass box is new. Your suggestion is the first realistic guess I’ve seen.
As an aside, this video came out on the official WH press secretary’s X account. Looks like Karoline Leavitt is even more pissed off about being left behind on the decoy plane than we thought, lol.
That is flatly incorrect for floor votes, only for committee business. While there are three different methods for the US Senate to take a vote, all three require the physical presence of the senator to do so. These rules have remained unchanged since 1798.
Unanimous consent is technically another, but it requires actual unanimous consent, so it is rarely used for anything of importance.
McConnell himself was one of the people being hardline about forbidding proxy/non-physical voting during covid, and the reason there is no absentee voting in the Senate when it came up again, which it does from time to time.
I never thought I’d be grateful, but I guess it’s a good thing they never allowed the Herman Cain crowd to perform official acts.
Woobies. A librarian turned me on to it when I told her I’d gladly listen to more audiobooks but I hate just sitting there, having nothing to do with my hands. She told me to ignore how it looks and just do it. She was right. I still miss it when I’m just listening to music, or did until today.
Of course I went and played it immediately, lol.