Preemptively defending himself against accusations of, yet again, turning a blind eye to an inconvenient news item, Johnson told reporters, “You guys can mock me for not knowing that. I worked about 22 hours the last few days, and I did not get the briefing on that. I will this morning.”
Poor overworked Mike Johnson. Maybe the House of Representatives has a part-time role he can transition to.
I hear “Former Representative” pays pretty well.
Ok few things…
He talks about working 22 hours over a few days like that’s a lot. I’m betting you and I have worked 24 hours over the last 3 days and none of us are bitching about the time we put in. And we don’t get vacations half the year.
and if you worked less than 3 days and put on this many hours and you’re still this uninformed about things relevant to your job. Then you’re not working, you’re wasting time.
Somehow I misread it as 22 hours straight, which seemed plausible for a high level government employee if they had some fire to put out. But 22 hours over the last few DAYS?? Nurses put in more time than that in two days! EMTs often work more time in ONE day! The level of wealthy disconnect needed to offer that as an excuse, holy shit.
E: reading it again, maybe he meant he worked 22 hours each day for several days? If he did that’s a weird way to phrase it, but if he did his brain is probably fried so that’s explainable. But I don’t believe without evidence that he would work that long for multiple days.
LOL, I don’t believe this guy works 8 hours, never mind 22 hours in one day.
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Correct… the standard English interpretation is that a “couple” is 2 and a “few” is 3… 3 days at 8 hours per day should give you 24 hours of work, so he was working less than anyone with a normal full time job…
Yupp I thought this immediately. “A few days, to work 22 hours”
Its hilarious because this highlights how out of touch they are with normal people. I bet he got to work all those hours in AC as well.