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Hospitalized Texas Democrat Al Green rushed to Capitol for impeachment vote in scrubs, saving Mayorkas
(www.texastribune.org)
Kinda badass though.
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What a fucking joke. Seems pretty clear that one of their goals is to completely remove any meaning from the word "impeach," so Trump's tenure doesn't look as bad.
Really great priorities.
Were you around for Clinton? He got impeached for getting his knob sucked.
I don't think Republicans have ever used it seriously.
Yeah but anyone who knows about that time will tell you that it's much different and far worse now.
Technically he got impeached for perjury. Pretty mild compared to Trump's impeachments.
Still will never understand it though. Clinton got a blowy and Republicans lost their minds. Trump fucked a hooker and nobody batted an eye
Meh, impeach is weak for Trump anyhow. Insurrection and possibly treason seem more in-line with his actions.
Did anyone reasonable think they actually want/intend to govern?
And they will still lie to their voters and blame everything on the Democrats.
Greene already did that. She blamed Democrats on doing something Republicans didn't expect for them losing, but in an indignant "how dare they" tone.
It's 2024 and congress still wants people to come in to the office to raise their hand.
During the Pandemic, Democrats approved rules allowing proxy voting. Of course, that was one of the first things Kevin (Remember him?) got rid of.
But not when they want to kill a bill in the Senate, they can filibuster without ever even coming into the chamber.
Why would he have been in scrubs? He doesn't work at the hospital, they don't just hand those out to the patients.
Idk if it's different in the US but when I went to a hospital in Canada for a broken leg they gave me scrubs and even let me keep the pants cause they were so comfy.
I cant speak to all of the states, but when I had leg issues as well, I was doing my therapy walking down the hall in a hospital gown.
I imagine he didn't want to leave the hospital in an open-back hospital gown. So they gave him scrubs.
Why are people even focusing on this? Who fucking cares if he was wearing scrubs??
Its not normal, you have your own clothes there, or you have staff to bring it. Why is this ok to gloss over?
I can't speak to all hospitals, but I i once came in to drop off flowers and they put scrubs on me and gave me two extra sets to use at home, as well as a boxset of the first season of Scrubs.
You must deliver some bomber flowers. Those scrubs dvds were expensive.
The hospital will have spare scrubs on hand, either for surgery or for staff to change if theirs get contaminated. Or, the patient pants are vaguely scrub like.
I'd guess they let him use some.
Occasionally for trauma victims or homeless people we give them scrubs to leave the hospital with if they don't have their own clothes or if they want pants to walk around the hospital with (normal gowns notoriously show off your butt as the flaps are in the back)
Well, maybe they meant hospital gown? Or they gave him scrubs so his balls would not have amy chance to see daylight? Or maybe it was a stunt to get attention.
out to the patients.
He had abdominal surgery. I'm guessing you stay there for a bit until everything checks out.
Scrubs are the things doctors and nurses wear, not patient garb.
Yeah, he should have went in his hospital gown instead. Bare ass.
Jesus Christ people... We get it, you want to spin this.
In my experience they sometimes give scrubs to patients for various reasons.
A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly, also known as a buster.
Well I can no longer read Al as AL its ai always A.I. now
Fonts need to clearly differentiate a lowercase L from an uppercase i. It's so frustrating I don't understand why this bad fonts are so widespread
I don't know either. For some reason we fell in love with Sans-Serif (e.g. Arial) for internet stuff. I'm guessing it's because they look less "old fashioned" than that "newspaper-looking stuff." Personally, I find serif fonts more readable, and they would distinguish "l" from "I".
Same here. We've got some neat studies showing that serif fonts are read more quickly, which I would think is a big boon.
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