Today Temujin and I Were Suspended From Congress

Day 1,194, 15:24 • Published in Canada Canada • by Jacobi

Today TemujinBC Canada’s tank-in-chief, former President, and former commander of the Crimson Canucks was suspended from Congress.

His crime?

He nominated Adam Sutler for Speaker. This is not against the rules.

To most critically thinking people, the punishment certainly does not fit the crime. Chochi the Speaker, in the name of decorum, used a hammer to squash the mildest of flies. It’s as if to counter TemujinBC’s silliness, Chochi decided to be even sillier. He did this last month too, so this is a reoccurring pattern of the same thinking: that two wrongs somehow make a right.

Of course, in the name of “not creating bigger distractions in the future,” the Speaker’s poor judgment causes a much larger and less contained situation. But please hold for applause, because Chochi isn’t quite done.

I am a 10 term Congressman, and a two term Speaker who literally wrote the book on the rules of Congress, one can imagine that I have some idea of the powers of the Speaker. As such, I can quickly diagnose the overreaching grasp of a Speaker who can’t see the forest from the trees.

So I seconded the nomination of Adam Sutler. I also call for a lifting of Tem’s suspension in the other thread.

A few minutes later, I receive this message in my inbox on the forums from Chochi:

“At this point you'd actually only be nominating him.

I'll give you the same choice as Tem: I can remove your post or I can suspend you.”

At this point, again me being me, I decided to offer some helpful advice. Suspending the Minister of Foreign Affairs for seconding (or nominating) Adam Sutler -- a person with no previous record of trouble in Congress -- seems to be the move of someone motivated by pride rather than logic. What good would suspending me do, if not to fan the flames even further? Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t take to abuse of power lightly, just ask 1ronman. So I sent this helpful reply back to the Speaker:

“Youre playing a losing hand.

You know I'm just itching to play the martyr and write an article about your suspension of me.

Now, if you want to play with your chances for re-election, go right ahead. If you want to admit you made a mistake, everyone wins.

As for your offer, I respectfully decline to choose.”

Why provoke me into making a bigger deal out of this, as undoubtedly I would do if suspended, I reasoned in my head. Surely Chochi would see the logic and conclude that he had overstepped his bounds. I thought wrong. His combative and slightly paranoid reply said it all.

“What made you think that I care about re-election? Is everything politics with you?

And you know that I now have a screenshot of you asking to be suspended for your own personal political gains?

Now then, since you've chosen not to remove your nomination I will go forward with your suspension. Can I trust you to not abuse your Cabinet Masking or should I ask Kronos Q to remove it temporarily?”

Yes Chochi, in Congress, everything is about politics. It’s Congress -- not day care. Now, I could go into the absurdity of the idea that it somehow helps me to be suspended (I can’t run for Speaker against him, I can’t do my job as a Congressman or as a Minister as effectively) but that wouldn’t be the point. The point of this article is to illustrate precisely the same thing as my seconding of Adam Sutler’s nomination and so I hope it is clearer now in public than it was in private.

Chochi, you could have let a silly nomination pass without comment, or overruled it, or warned Tem, or warned me. You could have shrugged your shoulders and life would have gone on without two Congressmen now suspended. But both times you swung your gavel as hard as you could, and in doing so brought this on yourself. Your motivation is clearly not to prevent distractions but hell if I know what it could possibly be. There is no net gain in this situation; I really do hope your slavery to decorum is worth it.

To Conclude:

You are a fool, Speaker of the Canadian Congress, in the most traditional sense of the word. Please admit your folly.

Oh, and I'd appreciate Congress members supporting my reinstatement.

🙂

Jacobi