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(21,229 posts)It is so stupid nothing posted about it on this site but in right Wing crazy world it is a lie being spread.
Did Pelosi Use $15,000 Worth of Pens to Sign Articles of Impeachment?
The tradition of using multiple pens to sign important legislation, and then giving those pens to the people involved, has been practiced by politicians for decades.
A rumor soon started to circulate on social media positing that the pens Pelosi had used had cost an obscene amount of money. One Twitter user, for instance, claimed that each pen Pelosi used cost $2,025. A message on Facebook held that Pelosi had used a total of $15,000 worth of pens to sign these documents. This number was exaggerated even further by another Facebook user who claimed that each pen cost $15,000, and that the signing ceremony used a total of $450,000 pens:
This just goes to show you how ridiculous repukes are in their defense of mf45
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/impeachment-pens-15k-dollars/
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(81,550 posts)but it made me think back carefully.
I have known, heard, and read about Joe Biden for - what? Some 30 years? Its been a LONG time. Through Anita Hill. Through various judicial appointment hearings wherein he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. Through one or maybe two truncated runs for President as well as his two campaigns as President Obamas VP.
I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, not a SINGLE TIME heard ANY complaints about him from any staffers anywhere who said he yelled or screamed at them or mistreated them or intimidated them. NOT EVEN ONCE!!!
NOT ONCE.
I HAVE, however, heard such a complaint about Amy Klobuchar getting testy with staffers. Hell, Ive worked for SOBs who were horrible, shrieking at people, throwing typewriters out the window of an upper-story office, and damn near exploding. One miserable summer I worked in a newsroom where the ladies room was so crowded with terrified interns in hiding that there was no room to pee. Ive worked for SOBs who could be heard screaming at some poor unfortunate underling from OUTSIDE the newsroom through not one but TWO sets of closed doors. Ive worked for one SOB who shrieked at his victim with such angry violent venom that he actually made a grown man cry.
Hell, I worked one job in which I renamed one of the major crosstown streets on which the newsroom was located Cry Street. Why? Because thats what I did while driving home on it every day after work. The job was THAT miserable.
So I KNOW what its like to work for disgraceful AND deceitful and conniving shits and political backstabbers. I have NEVER heard anything even remotely like that kind of anecdotal evidence about Joe Biden.
Did I miss something?