• @AbidanYre
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    1832 months ago

    “Thank god Elon Musk bought Twitter, because that’s the only way we would even know what’s in this bill,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) said of Musk’s efforts to kill the bipartisan bill on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

    Are you illiterate? Do you not have staff that can read and summarize the bill for you?

    • TheLowestStone
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      2 months ago

      50% of your fucking job is knowing what’s in bills and the other half is voting on them.

      • Nomecks
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        122 months ago

        Wrong. 10% of your fucking job is writing bills so long and complicated that nobody has time to read them.

        • TheLowestStone
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          182 months ago

          Most of the writing is actually done by lobbyists.

        • @Passerby6497
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          72 months ago

          That’s a weird way to describe the heritage foundation and alec writing their bills for them.

      • @AbidanYre
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        42 months ago

        If the Republicans weren’t all so far up Elon’s ass right now I’d be more willing to believe that.