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FizFashizzle posted:Powerful high school vp energy A Democrat could chew gum in the hallway and Republicans would respond the same. They need to do something to discourage it because it's going to piss everyone else off (especially the fire department) if it keeps happening, but it's not going to be anything substantial.
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KillHour posted:My friend is a teacher and a middle school student got expelled for pulling the fire alarm last year. Schools don't gently caress around anymore. My guess is these days pulling an alarm could be a prelude to a mass shooting so it's not the harmless prank it used to be hence the major punishment for it.
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Charliegrs posted:My guess is these days pulling an alarm could be a prelude to a mass shooting so it's not the harmless prank it used to be hence the major punishment for it. I think they just didn't like the kid. That literal same day, the principal caught a bunch of the teachers (not my friend) fall-over drunk at a school dance and nothing happened to them.
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KillHour posted:I think they just didn't like the kid. That literal same day, the principal caught a bunch of the teachers (not my friend) fall-over drunk at a school dance and nothing happened to them. Sure, but that's just class/co-worker solidarity. zoux posted:Oh my god I didn't know he was a middle school principal before joining congress Oh my god it's perfect.
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Doesn't Bowman know that this is what interns are for?
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https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1708217237952205261 Looks like they're going to put it off for 45 days while the House GOP devolves into bloody sectarian conflict. https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1708200022267879426 LMao I doubt Kev appreciates the shoutout. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Sep 30, 2023 |
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KillHour posted:My friend is a teacher and a middle school student got expelled for pulling the fire alarm last year. Schools don't gently caress around anymore. Eh, misdemeanor charges can result, and I think there can be fines/fees even for the organization for a false pull. Over a decade ago I was working at an indoor soccer facility, and someone on one team pulled the alarm after a particularly rough game. They refused to identify who did it - we knew which team, just not which individual. My recollection is that the GM wound up threatening to suspend the whole team if they didn't either identify the individual who pulled it, or collectively came up with the ~$500 fee the FD was going to charge the facility. I think they showed up with $500 a couple days later.
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koolkal posted:So what do people expect will actually happen to Bowman? Probably a nominal vote to censure without any actual consequences
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Can't wait for next week's 15 rounds of trying to elect a Speaker again. Crossing my fingers that McCarthy continues his headstrong push to pry up and sell even the things nailed down in order to get his title. How long until we get to Speaker McCarthy in his beautiful office as Assistant Speaker Jeffries runs the House? Chemtrailologist posted:Doesn't Bowman know that this is what interns are for? A real leader would have had an intern at one of his New York offices call in a bomb threat from Trump Tower instead of pulling the alarm himself.
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koolkal posted:So what do people expect will actually happen to Bowman? Whatever a majority of the House can agree on, and it's anyone's guess what they'll be. McCarthy says he wants to refer it to the Ethics Committee. One of the ultra-MAGA reps is introducing a resolution to expel, but I can't imagine that gets anywhere. Several other far-right representatives are calling him an insurrectionist and demanding that he be prosecuted, but that's pretty obviously just political posturing.
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Angry_Ed posted:And then Sam Brownback put his ideas into practice and when it predictably went to poo poo Norquist immediately claimed "well that doesn't count because reasons" Every Libertarian I know, I can promise you, that not even one month into their Libertopian fantasy dreamland, one of the very first things they'd start to do once the cracks started began to show in that society is to start coming up with rules and/or electing or appointing people to enforce them and fix all the poo poo that unfettered selfish greed creates. Some rear end in a top hat upstream from you decides to build a dam on his property that funnels all the water into his garden, onto his private chipping green and straight down into his private well where he then filters it and bottles the rest to sell to people in the subdivision? Then all of a sudden we need some restrictions on water usage and something must be done about sharing. Or, I guess the logical solution in their minds is for someone to just buy another property even further upstream until one person owns the highest property? That, and they'd have to come up with some socialist solution to garbage collection because, in Libertopia, no one wants to pick up trash. Further, let's say we privatize the fire department and no one will put out a fire on your property without swiping your credit card first. Gee, I can't picture a scenario where the person who makes money running the LFD would ever just go around starting fires and charging people to put them out! I'm all for individual freedom, but some things are just simply a collective responsibility and a societal need that can't be handled by capitalism and a profit motive. Many things, in fact. But, to these types, nothing is worth doing unless it makes money. See: the disdain for and contempt of the USPS.
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FizFashizzle posted:McCarthy is taking his ball and going home Reap what you sow, fuckfaces. You've spent decades filling the airwaves with your own Dittohead brand of media but never considered the consequences when they grew old enough to actually win elections with votes from the people you helped render brain dead. Too bad you're taking this country down with you but cry me a loving river for why your constituents and colleagues aren't reasonable people.
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Bowman just a total dipshit handing Republicans some talking points https://twitter.com/bresreports/status/1708247568084307989
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FizFashizzle posted:McCarthy is taking his ball and going home yo wasnt this guy one of the OG tea party people who keot shutting down the government over stupid poo poo? Lol
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Piell posted:Bowman just a total dipshit handing Republicans some talking points Why does it matter?
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:Why does it matter? it's an unforced error and will be annoying
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What was the idea behind pulling the alarm to begin with? Republicans were trying to force a vote and he was hoping to get more reading or discussion in during the evacuation?
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pulling the fire alarm was a lame stunt that takes focus off the republicans being doofuses
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OctaMurk posted:pulling the fire alarm was a lame stunt that takes focus off the republicans being doofuses the media doesn't seem to be caring about it at all, so it doesn't matter
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Blind Pineapple posted:What was the idea behind pulling the alarm to begin with? Republicans were trying to force a vote and he was hoping to get more reading or discussion in during the evacuation?
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Blind Pineapple posted:What was the idea behind pulling the alarm to begin with? Republicans were trying to force a vote and he was hoping to get more reading or discussion in during the evacuation? Man lost his struggle with the intrusive thoughts. Honestly, I can't even be mad, I'd find it hard to resist pulling the fire alarm in the Capitol too.
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Pulling the fire alarm as a tribute to first responders
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zoux posted:They told us they could get fingerprints and could always identify anyone who pulled a fire alarm. In retrospect that was probably a lie to scare us from doign it. All of us believed that indelible ink would get on your hand, making you as the one who did it. I don’t think any adult ever told us that, though. I think it was a plot point in one of the My Teacher is an Alien books.
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Now that I live in EST, this is the first one of these I get to watch live instead of on rebroadcast delayed for my timezone like New Years Rockin' Eve.
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senate passed the short-term bill 88-9. so we avoid a shutdown and all it cost was kevin mccarthy's gavel, looks like
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Craig K posted:senate passed the short-term bill 88-9. so we avoid a shutdown and all it cost was kevin mccarthy's gavel, looks like
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FlamingLiberal posted:Ukraine funding is a mess now, and it may be that they won’t be able to get any future funding through with this current Congress extremely fair and good point. and i'm now suddenly realizing that, considering kevin mccarthy was literally the only person to want the position, who in the hell is replacing him
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Craig K posted:senate passed the short-term bill 88-9. so we avoid a shutdown and all it cost was kevin mccarthy's gavel, looks like I’m not entirely sure Gaetz has the guts to do it. Who is going to do it if not McCarthy? The real alternative is McCarthy deals with Dems to save his speakership.
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Blind Pineapple posted:What was the idea behind pulling the alarm to begin with? Republicans were trying to force a vote and he was hoping to get more reading or discussion in during the evacuation? That's the pundits' read on it. His own excuse is that he wanted to open the door (which is an emergency exit that only opens when the fire alarm goes off). Piell posted:it's an unforced error and will be annoying It's only going to be annoying if you make a habit of reading right-wing media or following right-wing Twitter, because they'll be the only ones talking about it for anything more than a brief aside here and there.
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BiggerBoat posted:... Tell that to the libertarians that took over that town in New Hampshire. Nobody did garbage collection and eventually bears took over the town.
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BDawg posted:I’m not entirely sure Gaetz has the guts to do it. They could stab him in the back and put Jefferies or someone else as Speaker since the Republicans will be divided.
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Young Freud posted:They could stab him in the back and put Jefferies or someone else as Speaker since the Republicans will be divided. That's the most hilarious scenario I've envisioned as well.
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davecrazy posted:Why exactly did that guy pull the fire alarm? Sow chaos and piss off Republicans and pearl clutchers
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Kale posted:That's the most hilarious scenario I've envisioned as well. Probably can't happen, unless they A) Convince moderate Repubs to vote for their candidate, or B) Convince Gaetz to play into their hands by having his goon squad vote "Present", since you need a majority.
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davecrazy posted:Why exactly did that guy pull the fire alarm? Dems never saw the bill until it was introduced so they needed time to read it and see if there was any bullshit in it before they voted for it.
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saintonan posted:Dems never saw the bill until it was introduced so they needed time to read it and see if there was any bullshit in it before they voted for it. So of course naturally the problem is now "pulling the fire alarm is bad" and not "the Republicans trying to force through a bill that nobody read resulting in someone pulling the fire alarm just to give it time to be read is bad"
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:If McCarthy is gone will the next house speaker election be as hilarious as his? Probably not, because it would literally never end. The GOP would fully consume itself trying to figure it out, I don't think they have anyone who can get the votes. Comedy option: A few of the moderate Republicans switch their party allegiance, giving the Dems a narrow majority and vote Jeffries in as Speaker, just to keep the House functional.
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