That’s not too bad. Remember when they uncovered a child pedophelia ring, locked up a women and then told us we’re moving on from it.
Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months
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weps@lemmy.world 1 month ago
undecidedyellow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re using this to test how long Americans will tolerate having a clearly dead person hold elected office for when Trump finally farts himself to death
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And if evidence is anything to show, they’ll forget in approx 4 weeks.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Why when there’s already Grassley. Hell they had Diane Feinstein still voting for what a year after showing she had no mental facilities or ability to do anything without massive assistance?
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 1 month ago
Hey what’s up with them Epstein files?
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Sometimes it feels that Katie Phang is the only person who’s been able to keep her focus.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
When it comes out that he’s dead but they waited long enough that there is no time for a special election, they should just have the special election anyway, because he was away from his duties before the deadline.
It’s procedural fuckery to get what you want. he would’ve loved it.
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
At this point they will keep covering up his death until Jan 21st.
raman_klogius@ani.social 1 month ago
I dare they make him immortal, since legal death just turns out to be so hilariously circumventable.
Sidhean@piefed.social 1 month ago
AI Mitch will agree with everything the president says!
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When it comes out that he’s dead but they waited long enough that there is no time for a special election, they should just have the special election anyway, because he was away from his duties before the deadline.
No. Kentucky’s governor should just immediately appoint a replacement, because the law requiring a special election was already unconstitutional (according to KY’s state constitution) to begin with.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Part of the reason for the deadline is so the special election could be held properly with sufficient time to staff and run it how you’re supposed to.
Regardless of this fucking chicanery nobody should be pushing to give them excuses to water down election integrity or change established rules on the fly. He can be ousted in the midterms.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The only vegetable the FDA has yet to recall.
diablomnky@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He made a large enough campaign contribution that they never will recall that one.
dellish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And yet he gives me the shits more than anything else.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This country is such a joke. And its not even funny.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
Hes dead
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
He absolutely has to be, or at least has such brain damage he cannot function properly. They wouldn’t go through so much to hide his state like this.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
They’re hiding the entire state of Kentucky?
I guess I’m good with that.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Accuttaally He’s on life support and being flipped twice a day to prevent the corpse from infection
rethnor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Maybe he moved to Moscow
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Still waiting for anything to actually come from it AND be able to finally officially celebrate
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just celebrate now. Worst case scenario is he’s not actually dead but will be soon, so you can celebrate twice!
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep. Be interesting how they wiggle out of this.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Part of yhe problem is Mitch McConnell’s absence advantages the Democratic party since it leaves the vote vacant as absent.
If a special election were had, a Republican would surely replace McConnell, and they would vote on the Senate floor.
This lends evidence McConnell is still alive, and the GOP is unwilling to pressure his administration to step down. It’s a situation similar to Diane Feinstein.
No one gives up power until its pried from their cold, dead hands.
It might be proper to pass forcing officials to step down id they are absent for a set length of time, and to mandate periodic proof-of-life correspondence in order to keep elected office. Confirmations of life and condition by a professional under penalty of perjury during absence might also be in order. But this is all conversation for the post-revolution constitutional committee.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Except the vote isn’t absent they are casting votes for McConnell via proxy.
Artisian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is a source easily available?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No one gives up power until its pried from their cold, dead hands.
Another argument for term limits for Congress.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I’m for age limits more than term limits.
juice702@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think the turtle is dead
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 1 month ago
At this point the deadline has passed for it to matter for bye-elections. If he was dead why wouldn’t they just say so. The whole thing stinks, it hasn’t made a lick of sense from the start.
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
At this point the deadline has passed for it to matter for bye-elections.
Well fuck. I hope there’s still time for the hello-elections!
Gerblat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They can’t announce it too quickly or else it’ll look suspicious… well, more suspicious than this shit already looks. They think they’re pulling a sneaky
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Could be brain dead and they are working on a technicality. Definitely have enough money and resources to keep a pseudo-corpse around for quite awhile.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
I was just talking about this for my fiance last night. I can guarantee you that it won’t be long after the election that he will have suddenly died in the hospital. My opinion is that he’s probably just being kept on life support, brain dead.
Ashrakal@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Current US politics are ridiculous. How come there aren’t large protests with burnt tires, thrown concrete blocks, and biological waste being pumped into government buildings like France had in the recent years? And before anybody points that out, French police and military also have guns, so being armed is not unique to the US forces. Hasn’t prevented the unarmed Frenchies from taking action too.
Mere words don’t mean anything to these politicians.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
French cops aren’t allowed to unionize so they’re fundamentally different than US cops
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, it’s so weird. Cops get to unionize, but normal workers? F- them, I guess? The place is screwy, like Hell.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How many deaths were attributed to French police last year?
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh I care.
I hope he’s alive and not dead. Alive but sick and in a lot of pain.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s on life support. Not officially dead. Only situation that makes sense.
Napster153@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s a zombie moose by now.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
And have you forgotten that twitter/x is owned by a nazi? write this shit yourself and don’t repost from there
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Turning what’s left of him into a realistic skin suit and finding a suitable actor who can imitate the way he speaks isn’t done in a few days.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 month ago
You’d be surprised what can be done with ai voices now!
TomasEkeli@programming.dev 1 month ago
As a non-USian I properly don’t care. You guys over there have far greater problems than this.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Exactly. This is just an amusing symptom.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 1 month ago
How about we all do the same and receive the same benefits… oh right none of us are a corrupt asshole that has received gifts and funding from every shitty company that has been poisoning us and the planet!
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s just resting
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
He’s pining for the fjords!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s been 75 days already?? Fuck this guy.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Evil continues to win.
NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
We’ve moved on from demanding answers. Now people just say, he’s dead, and carry on.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s okay.
All of Congress has been missing for almost 2 years.
AshMan85@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the Harp bs was probably realesed to distract from it
el_twitto@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Wish he’d hurry up and die so we don’t have to keep paying him.
sploder@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think he’s been turtle soup for a few weeks now
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Kentucky should be furious, bleet.
jama211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everyone cares, but no one has the power do to anything about it because americans keep abstaining or voting republicans in, because they’re idiots.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Nah, it’s totally cool. I can just not show up at my job for two to three months and it’s fine. /s
lemmygarden@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Isn’t it the good thing that a Republican is refusing to give up his seat, so that another one can’t vote?
For the anti MAGA team, isn’t this a good thing?
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 month ago
He’s on sick leave. Which would be totally normal in Europe.
The irony here is that he gets to enjoy what he has worked rabidly his entire life to deny his fellow citizens.
Fuck this walking corpse.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Yeah, if what was happening to Mitch wasn’t so exceptional in America then this would be a non issue.
Americans, btw, what’s happening to Mitch is just what happens to ANY PERSON AT ALL in most countries when they are suffering from severe long-term illness and disability.
Zombie@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Except that most people in most countries are retired by age 75 and therefore wouldn’t be “off” on sick leave in the first place.
But yes, otherwise, the point stands.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It would still be an issue because (a) Kentuckians are missing half of their Senate representation, and (b) because his death is obviously being hidden for bad faith political purposes, to illegally deprive Kentucky’s governor of his right to appoint a replacement.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Most countries that have figured out people have worth beyond the bottom line.
mangobanana@discuss.online 1 month ago
Except in most American jobs you would be fired by now for being on sick leave this long
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 month ago
Yes, that’s one of the things that happens in this violent and inhumane nation. I now live in Europe, and I had a lot more than 75 days of sick leave when I had my amputation. I still have my job and my employer isn’t mad at me in the slightest, because here it’s understood that shit happens and that’s life.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Mitch would croak so fast if he heard that Congress passed a bill giving Americans job protection for sick leave equal to the length of his absence.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fired, and at his age, since no one works at that age by choice, homeless.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Do European leaders keep their authority if they go MIA for months on end?
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hypocrisy.
arsCynic@piefed.social 1 month ago
The irony of a parasite being sick. It’s like cancer having cancer. Problem solved real soon.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
and still people vote for him, what’s the secret sauce that lowers IQ so much ? Mountain Dew ?
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not so sure he’s actually enjoying it. He seems pretty checked out mentally from what I gather.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Lol he is wheelchair bound. He can’t walk.