American election joke

According to the American political news website Politics, because the Speaker of the House of Representatives 1 18 has not been elected after 1 1 rounds of voting, 435 new members of the House of Representatives and several committees under the House of Representatives have been delayed in taking the oath of office and starting to set up and operate.

As a result, many Republican politicians, Kevin McCarthy, who was nominated as Speaker of the House of Representatives by the Republican Party, promised to hold important positions in various committees of the House of Representatives, and took China as an example, saying that if an outstanding Speaker was not elected, it would delay the United States' response to the "threat" from China and endanger the "security" of the United States.

Judging from the political report, three senior Republican politicians who have been promised to be the chairmen of the House Intelligence Committee, the Military Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee are most angry at McCarthy's delay in winning.

The three men unanimously expressed their strong support for McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives before the seventh round of voting in the upcoming election of Speaker of the House of Representatives on June 5, 65438/KLOC-0. One of the reasons is that he will come up with tough plans to deal with China, but if he is not elected smoothly, it will affect the implementation of these plans and the security of the United States.

The three men also shouted to 20 Republican colleagues who opposed McCarthy's public speech: We can't put personal political interests above US national security.

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The problem is that the 20 Republican lawmakers who opposed McCarthy don't care about the "overall situation" argument put forward by these three people. Although the Republican Party itself is becoming more and more right-leaning, the establishment faction still dominates. The 20 people who can oppose McCarthy represent the more extreme right-wing populist forces, which are not the same thing as the establishment faction, so they do not need to be responsible for the "overall situation" in the mouth of the establishment faction.

Therefore, even though these three senior Republican politicians asked him to "take care of the overall situation", McCarthy still failed after five rounds of voting on the 5th, thus making him "shamefully" the first politician in the United States who failed to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives after 1 1 round of voting.

On the other hand, the Republican politician Mike Gallagher, who was also anxious about the postponement of the speaker of the House of Representatives, was promised by McCarthy that the post of chairman of the "China Special Committee" would focus on dealing with China's "threat" to the United States in terms of economy and security. He is also an important member of the House Intelligence and Military Committee.

He complained that many of his work could not be carried out because the Speaker of the House of Representatives was not elected, because as long as the candidate for the Speaker of the House of Representatives was uncertain, all members of the House of Representatives could not be sworn in and they did not have the authority to carry out related work.

However, unlike the warnings of the first three people, Gallagher made a "roundabout" speech when voting in the Speaker election on October 4th, local time, 65438/KLOC-0, trying to "find a way out" for the Speaker election that was difficult to produce due to the infighting of the Republican Party and even the political extremism of the United States. After all, some American media reported that the farce of the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives not only made the Democratic Party, the Republican Party's political rival at home, see a big joke, but also caused a lot of satire in China media.

In that speech, Gallagher's core statement was that "all this looks really chaotic, but democracy is so chaotic in design." This is a feature of democracy, not a shortcoming, and we will openly let all Americans see this. "

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Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? However, after frank investigation, I found that Gallagher, who used "democracy is like this" to make up for the tears, extremes and populism of American politics, actually did not respect democracy at all.

Because as early as last year, 65438+February 8th, when the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives had not started at all, Gallagher used the title of "elected Speaker of the House of Representatives" in his press release issued in official website to thank McCarthy who promised to let him be the chairman of the "China Special Committee".

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Results At present, McCarthy's successive 1 1 rounds of voting failed. Last year, he ignored the democratic process and directly identified McCarthy as the "elected Speaker of the House of Representatives", which also caused some American netizens to watch and laugh.

This once again proves a truth that many Americans know very well: American politicians are full of lies, including what they call "democracy."

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However, even if McCarthy really became the Speaker of the House of Representatives and let Gallagher and others take office smoothly and become the chairmen of those committees, honest monks are not nervous about it.

This is because, in the past two years, Mike mccall, one of the Republican Congressmen who was promised the position of Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee by McCarthy, had two extremely serious rollovers while playing tricks on China and made a fool of himself in front of the whole world.

His first rollover occurred in August 20021year. At that time, mccall claimed in an "investigation report" that the Wuhan virus originated in COVID-19, and spent "600 million US dollars to repair the central air conditioner", so he thought it was because of the virus leakage.

But at that time, Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Zichen found through investigation that it was probably because mccall and his team couldn't understand Chinese and Chinese digital presentation methods, and the result was handed over to Google for machine translation, which directly translated the amount of "392,687,694,000 yuan" needed by Wuhan virus to transform central air conditioning, which led to an increase of 65.438+0,000 times to 3.9 billion yuan.

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However, although American media who questioned Wuhan Virus Research Institute with mccall's absurd reports made corrections one after another, mccall himself did not apologize or explain, and no mainstream American media criticized him for using false data to make rumors.

The second time he made a fool of himself was during the World Economic Forum in Davos on May 23rd, 2022.

At that time, after Ukrainian President Zelensky delivered a speech via video, mccall suddenly took out his mobile phone and took photos of Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Lee Myung-hee and his entourage. Then he said that he went to CNN and said that these people were members of the "China delegation" and they didn't applaud Zelensky.

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Moreover, the media in China also specifically verified this matter at that time, confirming that it was Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Li Liming and others who were regarded as "China delegation" by mccall.

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However, apart from a CNN publicist who simply issued an apology statement to the Global Times, mccall did not respond, explain or apologize, and no mainstream American media reported his embarrassing situation.

But mccall, who has become an international joke, has served as the chairman of a "China Working Group" in the Republican Party of the House of Representatives in the past two years to deal with the China issue.

Moreover, Gallagher, who will soon become the chairman of the China Special Committee of the House of Representatives, said in an interview with the official American media "Voice of America" in June 5438+February last year that mccall had made "extraordinary" achievements during his leadership of the China Working Group.

Well, it's really "outrageous" to miscalculate the simple China figure and treat the Vietnamese delegation as the China delegation.

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In short, this is the current level of Republican politicians in the House of Representatives in the United States. No wonder they can't even choose a speaker.