• hglman@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        The speaker isn’t a job laid out in law other than being listed as 3rd in succession. It exists at the acceptance of some rules adopted by a majority of the house. Those rules could just as well not include any speaker, it could call for everyone to dress as a banana on Tuesday.

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        That implies your government is functioning as it is meant to. Here in the US, it’s not. It’s just not.