The 118th Congress will be remembered for many firsts: Electing the first Black leader in the House, that 15-round speaker’s vote, and then removing that same speaker. The latest: Leadership swapped their apple-green members’ pins for deep navy ones mid-cycle at a cost of $40,000, according to one source familiar with the decision.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    So, like… you know how these freaking boomers bitch at “kids these days” for their participation trophies??

    This. This is a participation trophy. Try telling them they can’t have it. I dare you.

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      10 months ago

      A participation trophy for participating in a group made almost exclusively of election winners of various congressional districts?