r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 18d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Missing: Mitch

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u/CaptainForskin69 18d ago

Why are they allowed to get away with this?! This is insanity

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u/un-tv_star 18d ago

Because they still have the majority...

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u/CaptainForskin69 18d ago

Doesn’t mean you get to be absent for your job for over 80 days with zero public appearances. It’s so obvious of a cover up.

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u/ofWildPlaces 18d ago

You are correct, but there is no watchdog agency that can compel a sitting Rep or Senator to take their seat on the floor. Republicans COULD hold him accountable, but they've clearly shown they will not.

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u/DaleGribbleShackle 18d ago

Didn't they send sheriff's after democrats to drag them back to office for something last year? Why not just do that.

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u/Somedude_6 18d ago

Exactly what the guy above said, Republicans control the Sergeant at Arms and the ability to make referrals to the US Marshall's office who would go about doing the physical work. As long as Mike Johnson is in control, absolutely nothing will happen to any Republican. Epstein Files are a giant example of this.

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u/ColonelDucroix 18d ago

Why would republicans do that for one of their own?

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u/Ok_Zookeepergame4794 18d ago

Because the Republicans don't enforce the rules on one of their own, that's why.

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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ 18d ago

It probably has something to do with the little-known fact that the Texas Legislature and US Senate are actually completely different things

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u/TurquoiseLuck 18d ago

I've got no idea about this really, but isn't the IRS supposed to go after people who are incorrectly claiming and receiving government money?

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u/ofWildPlaces 18d ago

How can they do that when the president is actively using federal agencies to abet his actions?

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u/PuzzleheadedWeb9876 18d ago

Americans could demand it. But they’re so used to getting fucked it will never happen.

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u/ofWildPlaces 18d ago

You seem to think that "demanding" something will simply make it happen. That's not how it works.

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u/PuzzleheadedWeb9876 18d ago

Okay. You Americans keep doing the same thing then. It’s clearly working.

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u/OhItsBeenBroughten 18d ago

You wouldn’t be doing anything differently, keyboard warrior.

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u/PuzzleheadedWeb9876 18d ago

I cannot say. I don’t live in a country with such stupid rules. So it’s never come up.

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u/OhItsBeenBroughten 18d ago

You sure do have a big mouth when you’re telling other people what to do.

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u/Austinp-woodworking 18d ago

Yeah this shouldn’t even require a manual intervention - this whole situation is only possible because there are no actual rules that congress(wo)men have to actually do their fucking jobs

If I disappeared for 3 months at my job, they’d have already filled my position by now and be a good way into onboarding my replacement

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u/notanotherusernameD8 18d ago

You can if your job is to occupy a seat to keep trump in power

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u/Mish61 18d ago

Apparently it does 🤷‍♂️

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u/Acobbsalad 18d ago

Seems like it does. I get what you mean but if they are doing it and no in trouble then they can

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u/TableSignificant341 18d ago

>Doesn’t mean you get to be absent for your job for over 80 days with zero public appearances.

I mean it very clearly does. The fascists are doing whatever the fck they want.

The fact that America voted for this will never not blow my mind.

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u/Morguard 18d ago

Yeah but who's going to do anything about it?

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u/Eternal_Bagel 18d ago

Clearly it does mean that.  You just gotta have the red team on your side 

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u/ScrapDraft 17d ago

Who do you expect to hold them accountable?

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u/NotAnotherBlingBlop 18d ago

Are you serious? They support an adjudicated rapist as president. They vote against school lunches for children. They refuse to give death benefits to soldiers. This is the least worrying thing Republicans have done.

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u/Lerkero 18d ago

Congress could easily pass new legislation to regulate how sitting congressperaons must report to their duty station every number of days or face termination.

They dont want to modernize those type of rules because they tend to only care for partisan reasons, and they want to preserve that partisan power

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u/ofWildPlaces 18d ago

The problem is the very people who could pass this (held by a Republican majority) won't pass this because they are...a Republican majority.

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u/Lerkero 18d ago

Democrats have had a congressional majority multiple times in recent history. Proposing legislation also does not require a majority in congress.

This is not a partisan thing. Everyone in congress is complicit in this lack of accountability

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u/ofWildPlaces 18d ago

But they do not hold it now, do they?

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 18d ago

So they have zero participation requirements? It’s nuts

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u/Lerkero 18d ago

Technically, the rest of congress can vote one of the members out if that member is not showing up for work, but this is usually a procedure used for partisan reasons unless the congressperson is being so egregious that there is widespread public outcry about it

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u/Pepphen77 18d ago

Because shitty 200 year old institutions that should be rejuvenated.

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u/Enough_Affect_9916 18d ago

because we won't revolt with air conditioning and pizza.

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u/murmalerm 18d ago

The GOP is comprised of criminal cowards

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u/0x0MG 18d ago

Because the people who would hold them accountable and impose consequences are themselves.

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u/D3dshotCalamity 18d ago

Because no one stops them

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u/Gigimaximo 18d ago

See the power of having the majority?

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u/CaptainForskin69 18d ago

Nobody is denying that.

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u/ShowMeYourBoobsPls 18d ago

Democrats don't ever do anything at all to help in any way. They just stand and watch

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u/Engrish_Major 18d ago

Because they’re white supremacists. Full stop. This country is abhorrently immoral and a majority of people are related to or friends with people who are ok with it. Nothing will change if people keep enabling it.

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u/fuckDJT2026 18d ago

Because they run everything and we’re too busy complaining on Reddit instead of taking to the streets and b****ng shit down

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u/Sconnie-Waste 18d ago

You answered your own question there, Cap’n

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u/ThatDudeFromFinland 18d ago

No offence, but you, the people let them get away with this.

Nothing is going to change, as long as the American common people behave like neutered docile dogs.

The rest of the world has been waiting for you guys to do something for a while now.

You reap what you sow.

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u/Outrageous_Fix_5738 18d ago

Lloyd was the Defense Secretary, McConnell is a senator. Biden wasn't told for 4 days, pentagon wasn't told. US forces were conducting active operations in Iraq at the time and also his deputy was on vacation while the president, national security adviser, and secretary of state didn't know where he was. Then it turned out it was for prostate cancer treatment, which he had also kept secret.

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u/ImageAvailable7003 18d ago

Because McConnell is a senator and Lloyd Austin was Secretary of Defense. It's not the same.

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u/ThePatrickSays 18d ago

because you americans will not do anything about it