Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said the newly named interim speaker, GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building.
She does maintain her regular office in the Cannon House office building.
An email sent from McHenry’s office to Pelosi’s office just after 6 p.m. Tuesday evening that was viewed by CNN, stated, “Going to reassign h-132 for speaker office use. Please vacate the space tomorrow.”
Pelosi said in a statement that she was not in Washington, DC, to immediately move her belongings.
A better headline would be what she said in response:
“Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them,” she said. “Now that the new Republican Leadership has settled this important matter, let’s hope they get to work on what’s truly important for the American people.”
Dems have
showndemonstrated absurdly good communication skills, but somehow, it’s never reallyshowngiven proper attention. Like, seriously, just watch this clip show of young Dems destroying Republicans last week: https://youtu.be/v6VZIjBLcyU?si=H9TuL2aRF9PM0vpYDems are fucking fierce, man.
Edit: Reworded a sentence to make it more clear.
Because the media even left leaning sites seems to focus only on what the GOP says.
Shock value and controversy sell clicks/views/engagement. It’s all any media does anymore and it’s annoying as crap.
It’s why the news treats a man tripping on a sand bag with the same importance as someone trying to start world war III.
This is what happens when your incentive structure doesn’t reward actual proper journalism.
That’s because of 2 main factors: (1) They are almost all owned by large corporations - yes, even the “left learning ones” - and corporate ownership always imparts a right wing bias simply because the people in charge are wealthy and want to only get richer (it’s basic self-interest); and (2) Right-wingers “take the bait” faster and more widely, which translates to more views, more ad revenue, etc. (see #1).
“All corporations are inherently right wing… I mean, unless it’s like a worker cooperative run exclusively by sternum piercing bisexuals, but no, all corporations are inherently right wing at least in an economic sense.” -Hassan Piker (Turkish-American Twitch Steamer and Political Commentator)
Might as well have quoted my own asshole
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dems don’t have the same expansive network of propaganda machinery backing them up no matter what like Republicans do. Don’t get me wrong dems are still wholeheartedly a capitalist political party but they aren’t working the shaft and fondling the balls of the capitalist class nearly as much as the republican party is and it show in the ability to get messaging out.
Rep Jim McGovern has expressed some concerns about the validity of all this:
how would he know?
Man, I love professionals who know their stuff.
There’s no money in signal boosting democrats, even the more establishment ones. Wait for Manchen to say something self-serving about corporations, then you’ll hear about it.
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Well, then give them a house majority and a veto proof Senate majority. The last time they had that (for a whole 72 days), they immediatly passed Obamacare.
Oh, and did I mention that every time the minimum wage was raised, it was done by Democrats (21 times) or because dems forced this as a concession from republicans (2 times)?
Fucking THIS, people. You can moan all you want about the Dems not getting stuff done, but unless you acknowledge that, oh wait, they actually DO when they have a majority that ALLOWS them to do it, you’re just adding to the static. Politicians still have to work within the political system they’re a part of.
Obamacare aka Affordable Care Act was written by Newt Gingrich
Uh. No.
Yet, in an odd twist of history, it was Newt Gingrich, one of the most conservative speakers of the House, who laid out the blueprint for the Affordable Care Act as early as 1993.
Well that’s great, good for him. I mean that seriously. He also wrote a novel about the Civil War. Guess what that blueprint and his novel have in common?
I had an idea for reusable rockets when I was six. Where’s my royalty check?
That’s not great. It shows that Obama and the Dems are actually conservatives that want to prevent universal healthcare. If you read the article that is the main reason Gingrich came up with this in the first place.
And how do they do that without a strong majority in the branches of government?? Magic?
Exactly what part of that do you consider to have the sole purpose of hurting someone’s feelings? Cause that’s what catty means. I think it was damn good for a Congress who’s been hamstrung by gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisment, and voter apathy. You want those things to come to pass? Get Republicans out of office.
Has to be bots boosting his comment. Literally no one thinks the Dems are fierce after decades of failure to improve conditions of the poor.
“Dems have shown… …it’s never really shown”
What is this sentence trying to say?
Democrats have demonstrated… but it’s never in the mainstream media.
Thanks man, yeah, that’s what I wanted to express. I edited my comment accordingly.
Aight thanks mate
Ah sorry man, that’s a result of my limited vocabulary as an ESL. I meant to say that Dems have demonstrated great communication skills, but it does not receive adequate attention because those snippets are rarely broadcasted on TV, mentioned in articles or shared on social media.
It was pretty clear in the original. I think SaakoPaahtaa is more likely the one with ESL issues.
The edited version does flow better.
I mean homeboy kicked her like a bad habit in the first day, it’s not like it was weeks of a grueling ordeal. Dude straight up dgaf and I’m here for it. “Oh, that nuisance still has an office here? Gone. Next?” Man’s coming in hot like Ari Gold.
So what do we know about McHenry so far? He’s a petty little bitch.
McHenry is a piece of shit. Also he was running campaign ads on YouTube back in June, fucking 11 months before the primary.
In other words an appropriate avatar for the GOP in Congress.
Calling him a little bitch insults all the great girl Chihuahuas in the world. ;)
You know, I’m tired of this one. Every insult being an insult to blank is getting too predictable here.
How dare you insult blanks in such a manner!
Sure, they don’t have a soul, but they are none the less an asset to the imperium
Everything on the Internet is predictable or boring to someone. Downvote and move on if it’s important to you. My pet peeve is, “tell me you’re X without saying you’re X”
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I agree!
I can’t downvote without downvoting chihuahuas. My hands are tied. But you’re right I’ve devoted over twice the effort I should have with this comment.
You can downvote my comment if you want. I won’t be offended. Authentic conversations are more interesting to me than Internet points. It’s easy to feel good when you’re upvoted a lot and easy to feel bad when you’re downvoted. It’s better to choose to not have an opinion on it either way.
This is my first ever lemmy comment and I just wanted to share how much I enjoyed the wholesomeness of this exchange. A lot. Thank you.
I don’t understand those down votes, I think this comment was funny.
It’s just the pig pile mentality. At first there were upvotes, then someone said they were sick of seeing that style joke, and I told him it’s fine to just downvote and move on. After that people took my advice. Upvotes and downvotes don’t mean anything so it really isn’t a big deal.
The North Carolina GOP have sort of flown under the radar but are busy passing unconstitutional laws and usurping power following Donald Trumps playbook. These fascists are not hiding what they’re doing, and if they’re given complete control they will be scrolling through the rise of nazism Wikipedia page to see what they should do next.
Nah, its not Trumps playbook. Back when I was in college they tried to pass a constitutional amendment that would annul same-sex marriages for simply entering the state. NC GOP has been wild for a long, long time
Trump’s playbook is the same as any Conservative playbook, from Nixon to Reagan to Bush to Gingrich to Cheyney to Boener to Trump to Gaetz. It’s the same plays, but Trump had less tact and no filter, and he proved you don’t need tact or a filter because conservatives will vote for anyone they think will help them.
think will help them
Think will hurt other people so they can watch.
This. I grew up in single-party Republican Texas. It’s only now that people outside the South are really paying attention to what they have been doing to us.
CNN, did McHenry order Pelosi to vacate or not? Here’s an idea, do about 7 minutes of investigative journalism and find out one way or the other, then make a definitive statement in your headline instead of hedging with 'Pelosi says this thing happened, but who knows? We report, you decide!" So lazy/cowardly.
They have to get the article out first for SEO or else some other news source will do actual reporting and become the top result.
Endshitification and the algorithms driving it have ruined so many things… Gotta be the first, no one reads, just need a clicky headline and a couple pictures.
Enshitification implies the mainstream media once had a respectable platform. I honestly can’t think of a time outside of “newspaper” that the mainstream outlets weren’t shitty, especially if we are just talking online. I guess NPR holds strong but they aren’t falling behind or anything. BBC maybe? If it isn’t a complete snooze fest.
Newspapers have always been more or less shitty. Yellow journalism started a whole war in 1898. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_of_the_Spanish–American_War
now even the newspapers are ass i only trust what i see with my own two eyes i tell ya
American media is legitimately just extremely unreliable. British, Chinese, Russian, French, German, Middle Eastern, and Southeast Asian sources all got the detail that the recent Indian moon mission landed near the South Pole, but most American media picked up that they had somehow landed on the South Pole and put that in their titles.
They were 21 degrees of latitude off, for reference.
Now this has me curious. What’s considered “the pole”? Is it literally the line coming out from exactly center (or whatever relative features for the specific shape of the moon)? Or if you’re within like 10 ft can you say you landed there? How far off can you be and still be on the pole?
Usually people would consider within a few degrees (1? 2? Certainly less than 5) to be an acceptable margin, but the pole itself is a well-defined point along the axis of rotation.
The American language is reductive to the point of being inaccurate or at worse, downright wrong. Born from this nature is the reason they use the phrase “deplane” whereas the rest of the world uses “disembark”.
I have never heard anyone use the word deplane before I read your comment. I’ve heard disembark plenty, but it’s a little formal usually it’s just get your ass off the plane.
Well, are you on a plane or a boat?
sorry did you say something about US?/s 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 our military is already in your nation bro 😎😏😔 /s
i did not know india had a space program until i read youe comment thanl you kindly
But if they kick her out, whose office are they going to vandalize when the next January 6th happens?
They’re just going to have so smear poop in every congressional office just in case one is Nancy’s
Implying these guys knew where they were going or anyone in the building. Trump is the only one they can reliably identify.
She tried to give the laptop to russians? Why isn’t she in jail for ESPIONAGE?!?!?!?!
They also tried to attack some of the Republicans though. It’s easy to know Pelosi by name even for them and her office must be identified, I bet most wouldn’t be able to tell it’s her if they crossed her on the street.
Pelosi had one of the “hideaway” offices. They’re intentionally kept secret so no name on the door, no open registry of who has what office. The location would need to be leaked by someone in the know.
Can’t possibly be any of those reconnaissance tours held the days before. /s
Not to mention the removal/disabling of panic buttons not that long before the insurrection, the gallows, trying to move Pence to a 2nd location, etc… This shit was planned and they absolutely knew. The insurrectionists are stupid, but they’re not so stupid they can’t follow a floorplan leaked to them by an insider(my money’s on boebert).
What an asshole, there is no way 1 day warning is reasonable. Republicans are a bunch of sociopaths.
While she is in California attending a funeral of a longtime colleague.
A fellow Senator, no less.
*Fellow Congressperson
He also doesn’t have the authority. He’s not Speaker of the House. His one and only duty is to chair the meetings to elect a new Speaker.
She should definitely leave some seafood in the heating vents.
I agree with pelosi.
Who cares. It’s just an office and she doesn’t own it.
You’re of course 100% right. It looks like a cheap ploy to me though. McCarthy was not a friend to Democrats and he didn’t kick Pelosi out of her office. It looks like either McHenry is trying to earn brownie points with the freedom caucus by beating up on Pelosi or maybe he’s kicking her out of her larger office so he can use it as a bargaining chip to garner support for his run on the speakership.
McCarthy was not a friend to Democrats and he didn’t kick Pelosi out of her office.
McCarthy seemingly followed the norm of letting the previous speaker keep their office if they wanted. McHenry is pissed at Democrats for helping 8 super crazy Republicans oust his friend as Speaker. Watching McHenry gavel out yesterday’s session it was obvious that he is very angry at what happened.
He should probably blame the freedom caucus then. Or hey, maybe even his buddy McCarthy for accepting such an obvious poison pill with the rule change that enabled his ouster.
That’s definitely a possibility. I really should go back and watch the vote on YouTube or something. It’s obviously a little silly to be upset with Democrats in this scenario. Hey McCarthy can always take consolation in the fact that his name will be in some history book somewhere as long as people are interested in American politics. Ozymandias would be proud.
Her office also has symbolic meaning to the J6er fuckholes because of that famous photo of that douchebag teabagging her stuff.
Ding ding ding!
“Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them,” she said. “Now that the new Republican Leadership has settled this important matter, let’s hope they get to work on what’s truly important for the American people.”
That’s the point.
If it’s the office with the shit on the desk she should let him have it…
They would eat it if they thought a democrat may have to smell their breath.
I thought she retired, why does she have an office? Or was that just as speaker but she’s still in Congress?
Still in the house just not the speaker. Apparently it’s a tradition that former speakers are allowed to have larger offices out of respect. But a lot of Republicans just love to hate Nancy Pelosi.
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And the right continue to make jokes about that as if it’s hilarious
100%
But it’s TOTALLY not terrorism, guys. Pinky swear.
Is there an official office for house speaker?
Probably not, since it’s a role for a representative, not a separate job.
But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t an unofficial office.
Technically it doesn’t have to be a representative, but it always has been to my knowledge.
That’s a great question and I did a little cursory research but I couldn’t find anything.
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I don’t think she’s a “terrible person” she’s definitely not perfect; she’s done things I agree with and she’s done things I disagree with, sometimes vehemently disagree with. There are Democrats that I think are despicable (Bob Menendez for example) and Republicans that I didn’t share views with but I thought were completely honorable people (former senator Flake for example). I try not to see politics as a team competitive sport. I try to see it as an exercise in cooperative disagreement.
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Cursing and insulting people while hiding behind a veil of anonymity
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You say that as if you actually know me. I’m willing to bet that the picture you have of me in your mind is very inaccurate.
So cool. Then you also think Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.), Vernon, Don Beyer, and Dean Philips are so much worse, right? The more money, the more terrible they are, right? Then you also have Rick Scott, Mark Warner, Mitt Romney, and Mike Braun. All terrible people even though you possibly only know two facts about them.
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Who gives a shit what kind of person she is? I only care about what kind of job my politicians are doing. None of them are golden gods.
“Who cares that our politicians are terrible people, just as long as they benefit me!”
None of them are golden gods.
Then stop treating them like golden gods.
Yes, she only retired as speaker, she’s still a regular member of Congress.
It took me too long to realize that this wasn’t a shit post about the dead senator
I’ve been on the Internet for quite a while (especially if you count bbses) but I still don’t quite understand the intricacies of the shitpost.
