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

    Racking my brain on this one.

    Matt Stopera
    by Matt Stopera

    BuzzFeed Staff

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

    U.S. Congress session in progress with officials seated and discussing. An American flag is displayed above the speaker's podium
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    That's quite a quick turnaround compared to the last election!

    Smoke rises as people gather outside a government building with flags, creating a tense atmosphere
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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:

    Time it took Joint Session of Congress to certify electoral vote count:

    2009 - 36 minutes
    2013 - 22 minutes
    2017 - 41 minutes
    2021 - 14 hours and 48 minutes
    2025 - 30 minutes pic.twitter.com/4gHqZ17GZy

    — CSPAN (@cspan) January 6, 2025
    C-SPAN/ Twitter: @cspan

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

    Man the pandemic must have really slowed down the process in 2021 https://t.co/wP9L7RHrxJ

    — Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) January 6, 2025
    C-SPAN/Twitter: @admcrlsn

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

    Why did it take so long in 2021? What happened https://t.co/Th2OEvICyp

    — Stephen Jewell (@stephengjewell) January 6, 2025
    C-SPAN/Twitter: @stephengjewell

    As you can see, everyone's a comedian!

    Fox

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

    🎵 one of these things is not like the other 🎶 https://t.co/h4RFR1uyih

    — TILR 🐢 (@TILR16) January 6, 2025
    C-SPAN/Twitter: @TILR16

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

    yeah, the social distance enforcements from the pandemic really slowed it down https://t.co/JGQtKvufax

    — Cunning Linguistics (@WedgemanThomas) January 7, 2025
    C-SPAN/Twitter: @WedgemanThomas

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

    Wow they took quite a long lunch break in 2021 https://t.co/jJHD1aIzSy

    — Niles Francis (@NilesGApol) January 7, 2025
    C-SPAN/Twitter: @NilesGApol