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- politicus@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- politicus@kbin.social
House Speaker Mike Johnson had no idea Representative Ken Buck is quitting, as the GOP is in complete shambles.
Representative Ken Buck took to social media to announce his near-immediate leave from Congress, resigning so fast that even his party leaders were caught off guard by the decision.
“Today, I am announcing that I will depart Congress at the end of next week,” Buck said in a statement on Tuesday. “I look forward to staying involved in our political process, as well as spending more time in Colorado with my family.”
The less-than-two-weeks notice took practically everybody by surprise, including (or maybe especially) House Speaker Mike Johnson.
“I was surprised by Ken’s announcement,” Johnson told a crush of reporters inside the Capitol building. “I look forward to talking to him about that.”
“I didn’t know,” he added.
They buried the lead, as do most American media outlets. Who gives a shit about what Mike “Accountability Partner for his” Johnson thinks? The MAGAt party is collapsing. Report on that!
Local clown claims to be surprised that his fellow clowns can’t maintain decorum
“The Freedom Caucus member originally announced his intention to retire in November”
PLUS:
“It is the worst year of the nine years and three months that I’ve been in Congress,” Buck elaborated to CNN, describing the current iteration of the lower chamber as “dysfunctional” and the “worst year in 40, 50 years.”
Member of the Leopards Eating Faces Party swears he never thought the leopard would eat his face.
When I saw Mike Johnson and ‘resignation’ in the same sentence I got a little excited but it was just Ken Buck, which I’d heard reported earlier that didn’t beat around the bush.
I had to reread that headline a few times.
The first way I read it was that Mike Johnson was surprised that he was resigning. Which could be an entertaining conspiracy.
FYI, because I learned this the same way: It’s buried the lede. As in the first sentence of the article.
I’m sorry to be this way, but both are acceptable. Lede has never been formally or universally adopted, and is more a remnant of an industry effort toward low-context clarity due to the word being a homonym. There are countless records of journalists using the traditional spelling when using in the context of writing an article.
Again, I hate myself for being like this.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being pedantic. In my case, it bugs me really bad that people say 110/220 for USA mains voltage. The standard has been 120/240 volts but there is a tolerance on both sides so the older 110/220 are still within specs. But the tolerance is defined from the nominal values of 120/240.
I work with electricity constantly, and never could figure out the discrepancy. I do see 115 quite a bit on elecronics as well. Tbh it always confused me. I guess i learned something today.
Devices probably designed to work with both 110 and 120 mains?
That is unless it’s a system that is wye three phase, in which case it’s 120/208… While we’re being pedantic.
Even more pedantic, the proper writing convention (rarely used) would be 208Y/120 🤓
Most if not all media outlets have factored the competitiveness of the presidential horse race into their bottom dollar. The media are the main ones propping them up at this point.