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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Kentucky should be furious!! Half represented!? Just go through the processes as if he was dead, then they'll out themselves when they contest it.

[–] dasrael@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

he's hanging out with the epstein files.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

the undead lich is currently, trying to "Reanimate" using souls of the youth, her wife fled to china with his phylactery to do it.

[–] Ashrakal@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

How many deaths were attributed to French police last year?

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

French cops aren’t allowed to unionize so they’re fundamentally different than US cops

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, it's so weird. Cops get to unionize, but normal workers? F- them, I guess? The place is screwy, like Hell.

[–] undecidedyellow@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 22 points 2 days ago

And if evidence is anything to show, they'll forget in approx 4 weeks.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days 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?

[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I care.

I hope he's alive and not dead. Alive but sick and in a lot of pain.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's on life support. Not officially dead. Only situation that makes sense.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 216 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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 53 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Except that most people in most countries are retired by age 84 and therefore wouldn't be "off" on sick leave in the first place.

But yes, otherwise, the point stands.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, if what was happening to Mitch wasn’t so exceptional in America then this would be a non issue.

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.

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[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 23 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Except in most American jobs you would be fired by now for being on sick leave this long

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's been 75 days already?? Fuck this guy.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

I found him in Limbo, I think? He's probably a vegetable.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Not with that attitude.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You got my hopes up. I read MMA instead of MIA for a second. Now you have to make it happen or I'm gonna cry.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

No worries, jake paul will fight him soon.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Dude that's not fair. Jake Paul fought an olive garden last week

[–] weps@lemmy.world 109 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The only vegetable the FDA has yet to recall.

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[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey what's up with them Epstein files?

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] jama211@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 28 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And have you forgotten that twitter/x is owned by a nazi? write this shit yourself and don't repost from there

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Ah shit if it's not perfect just don't do it.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 54 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day 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

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 16 points 2 days 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.

[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 days ago

This country is such a joke. And its not even funny.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Part of the 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.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Just wait until this shit starts happening to supreme Court justices :(

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

He's pining for the fjords!

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[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

We've moved on from demanding answers. Now people just say, he's dead, and carry on.

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As a non-USian I properly don't care. You guys over there have far greater problems than this.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Mmm I don’t know about that, if anything this either reflects or is one of their biggest current problems.

There’s a good chance this Senator is dead, if not he certainly can’t serve as a Senator. That’s being disregarded and/or covered up.

That’s a serious issue within their government.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He's not really MIA, we all know exactly where he is.

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago
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