Everyone Is Making The Same Joke About This Viral C-SPAN Tweet

Congress certified the 2024 election on Monday in a cool 30 minutes.

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That's quite a quick turnaround compared to the last election!

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C-SPAN posted the amount of time it took Congress to certify past elections, and people are making the same joke about it:

C-SPAN/ Twitter: @cspan

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"Man the pandemic must have really slowed down the process in 2021," one person theorized.

C-SPAN/Twitter: @admcrlsn

"Why did it take so long in 2021? What happened," another person asked.

C-SPAN/Twitter: @stephengjewell

And this person pointed out, "That 2021 seems so strange. All the previous don't even add up to how long 2021 took."

C-SPAN/Twitter: @KryTierEon

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As you can see, everyone's a comedian!

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"One of these things is not like the other," this person pointed out.

C-SPAN/Twitter: @TILR16

"Yeah, the social distance enforcements from the pandemic slowed it down," this person joked.

C-SPAN/Twitter: @WedgemanThomas

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And this person surmised, "Wow they took quite a long lunch break in 2021."

C-SPAN/Twitter: @NilesGApol