Y’all do know that yesterday’s vote was NOT a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth, right?
It was a procedural vote on whether to REFER the articles of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee.
A YES vote meant sending the articles to committee rather than proceeding immediately with impeachment.
A NO vote meant rejecting that procedural maneuver so the impeachment effort could potentially move forward.
Nobody voted on whether to actually impeach Pete Hegseth yesterday.
And yes, I understand why some of y’all are upset that several Democrats got stuck in traffic and missed the vote. The vote was reportedly open for approximately 23 minutes, and some members arrived after it closed.
But even if those Democrats had made it and defeated the referral motion, that STILL would not have meant Pete Hegseth was impeached. The House would have needed to vote on the actual articles.
We can discuss accountability without misrepresenting what happened.
The misinformation on this app is dangerous, especially when people are repeating things they clearly do not understand.
Learn the difference between a procedural vote and a substantive vote before telling everybody what Congress did.
Against the Chargers:
Josh Allen : 204 0 TD 2 INT
Pat Mahomes : 270 0 TD 1 INT
Matthew Stafford : 150 1 TD 1 INT
CJ Stroud: 384 5 TD 1 INT
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Let’s clear something up about Hakeem Jeffries.
Ro Khanna, AOC, Robert Garcia, Pramila Jayapal, Greg Casar, Brad Lander, Sam Liccardo, Jim Himes, Luke Bronin, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, Ted Lieu, Joe Neguse, and other members of the Democratic caucus have expressed support for Jeffries as Speaker.
Some of y’all keep throwing out names for Speaker who have already said they’re backing Hakeem!
And there’s a reason for that. Members supporting Jeffries say he understands the job, knows how to lead the caucus, and is prepared to take the gavel.
You elected these people to do a job. Maybe it’s worth listening when they tell you who they believe is best suited to lead them.
Leftists hatched this plan to hold Jeffries hostage back in October when they anticipated Dems winning a "thin" majority. The landslide has deprived them of their leverage but some are still talking about it anyway even though it mathematically doesn't work.
The word is out about the Election Night Watch Party at the White House on Tuesday.
For weeks, Trump had been assured by Susie Wiles and his staff that all the polls were wrong, and that, once again, the Blue Wave would only be a ripple, if one even showed up at all. And the DOJ was ready to pounce on it if it did.
Trump, after all, was on the ballot. "Vote like I'm on the ballot,' he said, "Because I am."
He told every rally that. He said it on FOX. He had a 90% approval rate, he said. And $5000 checks for everybody. What could possibly go wrong?
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So the East Room was decked out with the finest crystal and china. Staffers thought it would be a fun "cheeky rebuke" to order in platters of finger food from Cheesecake Factory. Just to give a finger to Barack Obama, for his viral joke about Trump’s gaudy renovations to the White House.
EVERYONE showed up in their party clothes. His Staff. His Cabinet. Top GOP politicians. Donors.
But there was no Host or Hostess to greet them. Which was a little odd. The guests mingled among themselves, and waited to be formally welcomed and invited to sample the refreshments.
Where were Trump and Melania?
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Trump waited upstairs in his residence, in order to make a grand entrance to a standing ovation with cheers, once the happy results started pouring in.
And was Melania also waiting upstairs, to march in at his side?
Nope.
Melania was not at the White House at all. On election night, the most anticipated night in politics, with the rest of her husband's term on the line, Melania was somewhere else.
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Finally at 8:00 the first election results came in. But during that entire first hour, not ONE Republican was named. It was only Democrat after Democrat, starting with Jon Ossoff.
Trump never came downstairs. At all.
Marco Rubio was the first to go missing, according to the Daily Mail. Then, one by one, the rest of the party goers slipped out the door.
Only two hours later, an enormous decision was called. Democrats had flipped the House of Representatives to their control. And in most cases, the Democrats won, not by slim majorities, but by double digits.
It was 10:00, and the East Room was empty. The party goers had gone to a nearby Washington bar to drown their sorrows. The Cheesecake Factory food lay untouched on the East Room tables.
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And Trump? He was upstairs watching the results on FOX News, and posting angrily on Truth Social.
He wasn't alone. No, Melania wasn't with him. But Natalie Harp was.
The Daily Mail reports that Susie Wiles, his Chief of Staff was upstairs as well. The one who had assured him day after day that Republicans would win.
By 11 pm, Trump stopped posting. “He’s watching Fox News barely uttering a word and paralyzed into silence,” a source close to the president told the Daily Mail.
“It’s very, very dark in the residence,” one senior official said of Trump’s mood. “It’s a dark scene.”
Another source said, “They were delusional right until the very end.”
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Commentary by Glee Violette
Yall can't have it both ways.
Its consistent bashing of Kamala and Hilary and Obama and the establishment until your fave candidate, El-Sayed, needs help and calls Kamala and Obama.
Its "Kamala's irrelevant" then also whining about how she didn't go to Florida to help Nixon?
Jayapal and Khanna are both backing Jeffries for speaker. Two massive progressive leaders. So maybe your favorite ragebaiting influencer doesn’t actually know ball. 🤷🏽♂️