https://x.com/i/status/1948211079001051267
The GOP chair was caught off guard and scrambled—first delaying the vote, then trying to sabotage it by adding amendments to include Biden administration communications. Democrats called their bluff and agreed.
Then the GOP chair, Rep. Higgins, lied, claiming the motion FAILED until Rep. Robert Garcia forced a full roll call vote.
Ultimately, the vote passed 8-2 after 3 Republicans DEFIED their leadership and joined all 5 Democrats to pass the motion.
The dude literally said “in my opinion the no has it” slight emphasis on singular no. Everyone laughed. Then the vote was counted correctly without incident. It was a joke, people, and this fucking X (formerly twitter) post is capitalizing on the surface-level intentional malinterpretation for rage bait engagement and at least 276 of you fell for it. Do your research. Investigate Tower Seven.
Are you seriously suggesting that the chairman of a committee miscounted the votes as a joke?
You cannot be for real. Who the fuck upvotes this shit? Does everyone on this site have 14 fucking alts?
Tell me you didn’t watch the video without telling me you didn’t actually watch the video. The guy calls a recess and then they come back and the vote happens. Timestamp 1:35 for the video in the x post to the relevant claim of “lying” in the presumptive vote count. Incredibly boring government parliamentarian bureaucracy at work. The inner workings of the leviathan exposed to reveal a brief moment of shared humanity, corrupted by a cheap narrative from an anonymous jaggoff capitalizing on the poisonous atmosphere of the child rape scandal. It’s a real nothingburger dude. You gettin all huffed up over me observing (not suggesting) some x poster told an easily disprovable lie on the internet for clicks? “cannot be for real” with your ignorant lazy vibes-based-pearl-clutching ass
You’re deluded if you think this was a joke.
He was caught off guard, and made a stupid choice to try to keep following the marching orders, when put on the spot. He’s been told that he needs to prevent this exact thing from happening, so when he was blindsided by the vote, he panicked and made a split second decision to continue with the orders despite obviously losing the vote.
Also, I thought about it for another ten seconds and what you’re saying is even dumber than it looks on the surface. You say he had orders to prevent exactly this- no it wasn’t, this was a surprise move from the democrats and his position does not afford him any power to “prevent this” and there was an internal schism within the republicans, so wrong on at least three counts. You say he got marching orders- where in the video did you get that from? Are you sure you didn’t just make that up in your head as the thing most likely to go along with what you already believed going into it, what you were primed to believe by the BIG SHOCKING SLAM HEADLINE? You say it wasn’t a joke- how do you explain the fucking laughter coming from the people whose votes he supposedly tried to snub? It was a lighthearted moment complete with a natural beat for comedic effect. You can tell he was being flippant by his particular choice use of the singular noun “no” and the singular conjugation “has” that he intended to draw attention to his surprise and dissapointment that one is in fact less than almost a dozen for comedic effect, which it fucking achieved. Surprise and pretended incongruity with reality are notorious sources for humor. At no point did he actually impede the vote.
There are kiddie diddlers, and the people protecting them. They are in office. It is real, it is a conspiracy, and no not everyfuckingthing the light touches belongs to the pedophiles. This guy is just doing his job. He didn’t say “In my opinion the no has it [over the obvious chorus of yes]” for attention, you’re right that doesn’t make sense.
this is how i shoulda known for a fact before even starting typing all that shit that you didnt watch the shit, dont know how a parliamentary procedure works, dont know what you’re talking about. You don’t count the votes individually unless it’s called for. You start by listening to how loud the ayes and nays are, making a call, and then when someone, anyone, not just the chair challenges it, then you go to individual roll call. There’s some fuckery you can get up to with this system but this aint it. The system is set up to prevent precisely this kind of lie being baselessly alleged from being possibe to be told. The system worked in this case. You should stop assuming your american public school education prepared you to “understand” this shit cuz its not a 200 year history, this goes back to olde england and arguably ancient greece and by your understanding this is apparently your first time examining this in any detail.
With all that fucking confidence and outrage too. “Are you suggesting-” Take a breath. You’d uncritically go along with literally just any half-baked not-even-tabloid story if it flattered your existing beliefs or confirmed your predetermined narrative. God help any accused who find you on their jury.
Fucking hell, that is so much effort put into not at all understanding something correctly.
okay then explain it all and make it look easy you got it figured so good
No. You’re a brick wall, why would I waste my time? Die stupid for all I care, your point of view isn’t worth validating with an argument.
Difference between us? Both of us talkin shit, only one of us pointing to the video bringing receipts. “brick wall” he says turning to stone
You still aint watch the video huh
Probably he was forcing his republican turncoats to have thier names recorded with thier vote. Kinda petty since everyone knew who voted which way, but they are petty people.
No, he was lying and trying to get away with it. If he wanted to count the votes, he would have done what every committee chair has done for (in my understanding) 200+ years, and call for a roll call vote. He wouldn’t lie in the face of an 8-2 vote.
I gotta agree with the other guy. He probably did it for some kind of attention one way or another. I don’t think he intended to get away with it. That said, I do think such things are deplorable. It just that when you use a popularity contest to choose reps, this is what you get.
I think he was caught off guard, and tried to stick to his marching orders despite it being obvious that they lost the vote.
No way this was a joke or something done for attention. That makes no sense.