Politician (58) calls out a name like “Leeroy Jenkins” from WoW during an important vote

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A US congressman was audibly annoyed during a vote on Wednesday. When it was his turn to cast his vote for speaker of the house, he called out “Hakeeeeem Jeffries,” in honor of the World of Warcraft meme “Leeroy Jenkis.”

This was the scene:

  • It was about the vote for the “speaker of the house” in the USA: This is the speaker of the House of Representatives, a high political office. After Vice President Kamala Harris, the next person elected would be to run the country if something happened to President Biden.
  • California Democratic Representative Jared Huffman, 58, voted for Democratic nominee Hakeem Jeffries, enthusiastically shouting, “Hakeeeeeem Jeffries.”
  • There was sporadic laughter, whispering and shouts of approval in the hall afterwards.

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    This is what he says about it: The 58-year-old Huffman tweeted: “Yup, I said what I said. With Republicans chasing us down through repeated self-flagellation, at least we can make it memorable.”

    Disagreement of a party leads to endless votes

    What does he mean by “self-flagellation?” The voting for the “House of Speaker” is dragging on in the USA. The Republicans actually have a numerical majority, but the party is so divided that they are unable to get their preferred candidate McCarthy through with party votes because not all lawmakers vote for him. Some Trump supporters are against him.

    As a result, the Republicans are about a dozen votes short of their nominee, but they keep running him anyway, hoping he’ll get through by getting votes from the Democrats. But they don’t even think about voting for him.

    This procedure seems to annoy Huffmann over time when he speaks of “self-flagellation”.

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    Leeroy Jenkins is the origin of one of the most famous WoW memes

    What is it with Leeroy Jenkins? This is a legendary meme from the early days of WoW. It is now known that the situation was meant to be ironic at the time and was intended to embody a contrast between “overly cautious mental players” and “pure emotional players who gamble for pure fun”:

  • A group of raiders overdo it with the planning, want to discuss all eventualities before a pull and come up with a complicated battle plan in which everyone has a fixed task.
  • Leeroy Jenkins, on the other hand, seems to have overslept the whole meeting, throws himself into the crowd with a war cry of his own name and causes a wipe of the group

    • Who wants to know more:

    WoW: What actually became of Leeroy Jenkins?

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