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.
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.
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.
Now the orange felon has made it nearly impossible for americans to leave because the world hates our guts even more. I'd be embarrassed to even go to another country without a short that just says SORRYYYYYY on it.
I certainly would be careful about saying you're American if you go on vacation abroad. But I'm a long-time expat, and I can tell you if you behave well and you integrate in the society of your choice, people know the difference between ugly Americans and those who choose to be better.
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
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?
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.
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. Which is also, by the way, probably why they're continuing to conceal his death even after the fake 'deadline' has passed.
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.
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.
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.
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
This exactly it. Plus the Kentucky Governor said they're are loop holes they can use if he is dead, so they are delaying for as long as they can. Which likely means until the next GOP person can campaign and run for senator.
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.
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.
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!
Americans will look at chaos around the world, countries being bombed and people dying by the thousands and loudly shout, "Your suffering is just a distraction!"
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.
More like 10. Maybe they were present during the biden admin, I honestly can't recall. Don't remember anything happening In those 4 years other than waiting for the fascists to come back
I read that the reason it's being hidden/blocked is because it's pretty likely the republican seat could go to a democrat seat if they allow the seat vacant, due to who would be electing the special election for the position, thats why they plan on just waiting until he naturally is removed from seat instead to allow for a proper vote. They would rather be down a vote than be down 2 votes.
you forget (or maybe just unaware) they are casting votes for McConnell via proxy.
So not only are they refusing to give up the seat to deny the special election from taking place and potentially lose it to the Dems, they are also casting votes for a corpse.
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 204 pts · 1d
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 · 50 pts · 1d
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 · 56 pts · 1d
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 · 17 pts · 1d
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.
bad1080@piefed.social · 4 pts · 23h
i was told there would be something called "checks and balances"!?
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 16h
Yes, fair
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 20h
Most countries that have figured out people have worth beyond the bottom line.
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 1 pts · 5h
Nevermind that regardless of any other factor the absence alone for such a long time means that the ethical thing to do would be for him to resign.
mangobanana@discuss.online · 23 pts · 1d
Except in most American jobs you would be fired by now for being on sick leave this long
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 19 pts · 1d
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.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 22h
Now the orange felon has made it nearly impossible for americans to leave because the world hates our guts even more. I'd be embarrassed to even go to another country without a short that just says SORRYYYYYY on it.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 4 pts · 22h
I certainly would be careful about saying you're American if you go on vacation abroad. But I'm a long-time expat, and I can tell you if you behave well and you integrate in the society of your choice, people know the difference between ugly Americans and those who choose to be better.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 16h
The world isn't reddit/lemmy, most people aren't going to say or do anything unless you act like an asshole.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 40m
Yeah true. I'd still rather just pretend I'm Canadian
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1d
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.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1d
He's already dead. He would rise from his coffin to vote nay on such a measure.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6h
Fired, and at his age, since no one works at that age by choice, homeless.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d
Do European leaders keep their authority if they go MIA for months on end?
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Hypocrisy.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 19h
Lol he is wheelchair bound. He can't walk.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
I'm not so sure he's actually enjoying it. He seems pretty checked out mentally from what I gather.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 5h
and still people vote for him, what's the secret sauce that lowers IQ so much ? Mountain Dew ?
arsCynic@piefed.social · 1 pts · 4h
The irony of a parasite being sick. It's like cancer having cancer. Problem solved real soon.
weps@lemmy.world · 104 pts · 1d
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.
undecidedyellow@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 19h
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 · 18 pts · 19h
And if evidence is anything to show, they'll forget in approx 4 weeks.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 15 pts · 19h
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 · 60 pts · 1d
Hey what's up with them Epstein files?
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 22h
Serious answer? this is what's happening
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 16h
Sometimes it feels that Katie Phang is the only person who's been able to keep her focus.
4am@lemmy.zip · 54 pts · 1d
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 · 14 pts · 1d
At this point they will keep covering up his death until Jan 21st.
raman_klogius@ani.social · 10 pts · 1d
I dare they make him immortal, since legal death just turns out to be so hilariously circumventable.
Sidhean@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1d
AI Mitch will agree with everything the president says!
grue@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
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. Which is also, by the way, probably why they're continuing to conceal his death even after the fake 'deadline' has passed.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 1d
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 · 45 pts · 21h
The only vegetable the FDA has yet to recall.
diablomnky@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 20h
He made a large enough campaign contribution that they never will recall that one.
dellish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16h
And yet he gives me the shits more than anything else.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 1d
This country is such a joke. And its not even funny.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 27 pts · 20h
Hes dead
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 20h
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 pts · 15h
They're hiding the entire state of Kentucky?
I guess I'm good with that.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 14h
But....muh Jack...
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 19h
Accuttaally He's on life support and being flipped twice a day to prevent the corpse from infection
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 19h
Maybe he moved to Moscow
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 19h
Still waiting for anything to actually come from it AND be able to finally officially celebrate
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19h
Just celebrate now. Worst case scenario is he's not actually dead but will be soon, so you can celebrate twice!
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 18h
YeahI know. Maybe if I find another bottle of bubbly to try out
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19h
Yep. Be interesting how they wiggle out of this.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 23h
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.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 14h
Except the vote isn't absent they are casting votes for McConnell via proxy.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16h
Another argument for term limits for Congress.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 16h
I'm for age limits more than term limits.
juice702@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
I think the turtle is dead
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 1d
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 · 10 pts · 1d
Well fuck. I hope there's still time for the hello-elections!
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 1d
The actual issue is that we didn't know when to pop the bottles.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
lol
Gerblat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
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
13igTyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
This exactly it. Plus the Kentucky Governor said they're are loop holes they can use if he is dead, so they are delaying for as long as they can. Which likely means until the next GOP person can campaign and run for senator.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
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.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22h
Nope! Chuck Testa.
Etterra@discuss.online · 15 pts · 20h
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.
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 8h
Oh I care.
I hope he's alive and not dead. Alive but sick and in a lot of pain.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 8h
He's on life support. Not officially dead. Only situation that makes sense.
Napster153@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6h
He's a zombie moose by now.
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 17h
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.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8h
Fox News Fans Baffled as Ex-Navy SEAL Appears to Wear Rubber Face Mask During Interview
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 13h
You'd be surprised what can be done with ai voices now!
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 10 pts · 1d
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!
TomasEkeli@programming.dev · 10 pts · 19h
As a non-USian I properly don't care. You guys over there have far greater problems than this.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 18h
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.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 14h
Put it on the pile...
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 13h
Yeah pretty much
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 15h
Exactly. This is just an amusing symptom of a much more serious problem.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 17h
He's just resting
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 15h
He's pining for the fjords!
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 15h
Hibernating
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
Resting in a freezer.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21h
Evil continues to win.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 17h
Because good ppl keep doing nothing.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 14h
Business as usual for America
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
the Harp bs was probably realesed to distract from it
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 24 pts · 1d
Everything all the time is a distraction from the two only two things that really matter:
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
Americans will look at chaos around the world, countries being bombed and people dying by the thousands and loudly shout, "Your suffering is just a distraction!"
sploder@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
I think he’s been turtle soup for a few weeks now
Ashrakal@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 4h
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.
NathanRanch@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 14h
We've moved on from demanding answers. Now people just say, he's dead, and carry on.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
That's okay.
All of Congress has been missing for almost 2 years.
TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 1d
More like 10. Maybe they were present during the biden admin, I honestly can't recall. Don't remember anything happening In those 4 years other than waiting for the fascists to come back
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 9h
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 · 3 pts · 6h
Ah shit if it's not perfect just don't do it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 6h
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.
Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d
Well, I don’t live in FarmingCoalFriedChickenHorses-land, so he’s neither of my mumbling turtles, so I stopped giving two shits about it a while ago.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
Considering what Republican US senators do, his absence makes exactly zero difference.
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 19h
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?
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 18h
I read that the reason it's being hidden/blocked is because it's pretty likely the republican seat could go to a democrat seat if they allow the seat vacant, due to who would be electing the special election for the position, thats why they plan on just waiting until he naturally is removed from seat instead to allow for a proper vote. They would rather be down a vote than be down 2 votes.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 14h
you forget (or maybe just unaware) they are casting votes for McConnell via proxy.
So not only are they refusing to give up the seat to deny the special election from taking place and potentially lose it to the Dems, they are also casting votes for a corpse.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12h
They are not casting proxy votes. They tried to and were denied.
Kevlar21@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
It’s because we stopped making memes about it
el_twitto@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d
Wish he'd hurry up and die so we don't have to keep paying him.
Gerblat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Well, his brain died, so
Lydia_K@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Exactly, so there's no change to his ability to do his job.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d
Was he ever using it though?
grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
FTFY.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 5h
It's been 75 days already?? Fuck this guy.
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 5h
Impossible. He's dead.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 4h
Not with that attitude.
456456@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1d
They are covering up the fact that I chopped his head off weeks ago. Prove me wrong, GOP.
chunes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14h
I don't actually care anymore
jama211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4h
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.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8h
He's not really MIA, we all know exactly where he is.
jestho@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 7h
Hell?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1d
MIANaw we all know he dead. Even where his body is.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 7h
Just wait until this shit starts happening to supreme Court justices :(
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Maybe that CIA plane to Moscow was returning his remains.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 6h
Nah, it's totally cool. I can just not show up at my job for two to three months and it's fine. /s
Mediocre_Bard_Redeux@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19h
Must be dead by now.
glimse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
Kentucky Girl is pro-Trump influencer with a Truth Social account.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 5h
Isn't that socialist?
dan69@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 14h
And the Epstein files are ready right!?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 1 pts · 20h
Francisco Franco-ing it
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h