Craziness. Republicans in Minnesota basically doing a little coup, electing a speaker with no quorum, as DFLers have boycotted the start of #mnleg session. They are going against the Secretary of States ruling of no quorum. - ThreadSky

ziibiing.com • 45 days ago

Craziness.

Republicans in Minnesota basically doing a little coup, electing a speaker with no quorum, as DFLers have boycotted the start of #mnleg session.

They are going against the Secretary of States ruling of no quorum.

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highlyedited.bsky.social•45 days ago

Tired of the GOP and their constant coups. If they are just going to keep getting away with it, what is the point of Democrats holding onto norms and decorum?

thelibbiegrant.bsky.social•45 days ago

Time to chuck norms out the window and respond with extreme indecorousness.

augustbenassi.bsky.social•45 days ago

"indecorousness" is a new word for me. I love it when that happens! Thank you!

iskaffeskymann.bsky.social•45 days ago

Minnesota is one election away from becoming Florida.

ziibiing.com•45 days ago

Not at all

iskaffeskymann.bsky.social•45 days ago

The Republicans here are the same kind of crazy though, yeah? Give them any amount of power, and they pull shit like this...

ademainalors.bsky.social•45 days ago

We're one Steve Simon away from becoming Florida, we've protected the right to vote when others have squandered it, we've funded aggressive voted registration at the college and late high school levels, and have created a culture of voting under his leadership.

ademainalors.bsky.social•45 days ago

In most places people don't vote or pay attention to politics unless they are really radical and want to change things. In Minnesota, normal boring people do most of the voting, and that's why we get normal boring politicans who accomplish normal boring things like feeding kids.

iskaffeskymann.bsky.social•45 days ago

Unfortunately there are a lot of stupid, hateful, abnormal people in outstate Minnesota. Those people vote, too, and usually for the most batshit crazy people they can find.

ademainalors.bsky.social•43 days ago

To be fair, if your bestie was a cow, and you only knew like 10 people, and you had no access to therapy except 2 hours away in Fargo, and you were too broke for internet so listened only to consevative AM radio... uh... it explains a lot. We maybe should fund stuff to do out there.

karlexceed.bsky.social•45 days ago

I still don't understand how Royce White got any votes.

princejvstin.com•45 days ago

I was worried they were going to pull this.

skip2mylouise.bsky.social•45 days ago

This land is lawless

tomlaforce.com•45 days ago

Everything that happened after Simon gaveled the session closed will need to be sorted out by the courts. Assuming the court agrees with Simon, then none of this will stand.

ziibiing.com•45 days ago

It’s wild that they’re putting this whole show on. They look crazy.

johncastiglione.bsky.social•45 days ago

it doesn't get better until they start arresting government officials who participate in this sort of thing

erinmayequade.bsky.social•45 days ago

They’re playing legislature? Nothing official can happen after adjourning

viamarsala18.bsky.social•45 days ago

Maybe they just need the extra practice?

dskamper.bsky.social•45 days ago

When I was growing up in Illinois we had Model Illinois Government in high school. Did you all have that as kids here? Maybe they have FOMO if they didn't get that chance back in high school.

ziibiing.com•45 days ago

Yes, YMCA Youth in Government, the thing that sucked me into the world of electoral politics.

ziibiing.com•45 days ago

Baby’s First Legislative Session!

pettiannspiteful.bsky.social•45 days ago

Because they believe they can get away with it. Under the incoming oligarchic kakistocracy things like rules, laws, customs, legal precedence, facts, professionalism, human decency...NO. LONGER. MATTER.

Welcome to the

ziibiing.com•45 days ago

Lisa Demuth on the dais playing pretend.

nrlines.bsky.social•45 days ago

She's good at playing pretend.

yevkras.bsky.social•45 days ago

I’m imagining that all she can do to communicate now is whistle a tune the meaning of which no one will ever decode.

yourfavecussy.bsky.social•45 days ago

Also, all non partisan staff needs to walk off until there is quorum.

yourfavecussy.bsky.social•45 days ago

Someone needs to cut the power to the room.

ziibiing.com•45 days ago

Completely against the will of Minnesotans, who voted in a tie. GOP leaders refused to go forward with a power sharing agreement, hoping to use the gap between the start of session and special election the DFL will win to seize power.

Which they are now doing, against the state constitution.

tinybabygoalie.bsky.social•45 days ago

This is terrifying.

ziibiing.com•45 days ago

Lisa Demuth wanted to be speaker so bad she was willing to do it at all costs. This is a kangaroo legislature.

bricks-54.bsky.social•45 days ago

The GOP has made it clear since the first Trump administration that Democrats are the enemy. Why has this been so hard for liberals to process? Their hatred is real. They are at war…everywhere.

dukepowell.bsky.social•40 days ago

If the Sup. Court rules that 67 members represent a quorum, then all that has gone on before is legit. DeMuth will remain Speaker for 2 years because it takes a majority of those voting to oust a Speaker. In a 67-67 House where will the 68th vote come from?

daydream25.bsky.social•43 days ago

The only way they know how to win. Cheat!

suzwoehrle.bsky.social•45 days ago

lwhensler3.bsky.social•44 days ago

This Minnesota law professor says that it's the Democrats who are engaged in the coup. He seems to make a strong case.
https://x.com/ilan_wurman/status/1879576853775884403

ziibiing.com•44 days ago

Think I'm going to trust the SOS on this one.

sthelen.bsky.social•43 days ago

Ilan Wurman is a member of the ultra conservative activist group The Federalist Society. It would be extremely shocking if he didn’t side with Republicans on every matter of import.

billthecat71.bsky.social•45 days ago

If they can't cheat, they can't win

dog-the-wag.bsky.social•45 days ago

yesterday on MPR they were calling democrats out for doing “unprecedented” things and wagging their fingers at Dems for their tactics to prevent a hostile republican takeover-
I could just scream-this is the republican playbook-if they can’t rig it they will steal it #stopMNGOP #resisters

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