He died how he lived. Subverting democracy.
Does anyone remember when Biden stepped down and Republicans were real mad that the democrats were “hiding” his decline?
WHERE’S GEORGE CLOONEY TO SAVE US?!
To the Batmobile, stat!
Is he dead yet?
Not officially
The only thing that’s surprising is that they didn’t immediately on the stroke of midnight submit a press release of his passing, given the suggestion that he needed to make it to August 3rd in order to avoid any chance of the governor appointing his replacement. I wouldn’t have bet my own life on it, but I was halfway expecting to wake up this morning to the news of his passing.
Maybe they’re waiting a few days to make it less obvious
Gotta figure out which day has the best payouts on polymarket.
It’s sad that this is probably the answer.
They’re all about the technicalities:
"We didn’t declare him dead immediately after the deadline…
…we waited a few days! STILL COUNTS! PSYCHE!"
Mitch got smarter when his brain died. I hope he is getting bed sores.
I’m going to come out here and say he’s not dead, just effectively dead. Like on life-support and little to no chance of recovery, but I think they’ll hold on to that as an excuse… “He’s going to get better”… Yeah no way bruv
Tbh any lapse in an officials ability to simply show up for their job should be an immediate termination. Realistically we should grant a 2 to 3 day window but not when a single sick day equals fully fired for majority of the population.
OK…and then Trump’s brownshirts kidnap the Democratic caucus for three days.
Now they can control both houses of Congress with zero opposition?
They could do that now with no opposition lol
Yea. He is most likely clinically dead (has no brain activity) and the corpse is being kept “alive” through medical assistance to avoid biological death (no bio activity whatsoever and the body begins to rot).
Zombie moose. It’s just a zombie moose.
most people think he died the moment the news reported him being loaded into ambulance, they probably have him in cold storage right now, and his staff is autopenning all his signature.
Dont worry, the DNC is ON IT. Schumer hasnt written a strongly worded memo on it yet, but I think he’s considering it. I know that other than Beshear muttering some weak objections and not following through, the DNC has done and said nothing at all about it, but uh… yeah vote blue no matter who.
YESSSS go Dems GO! Show the orange CHEETO!!
Schmuck is busy with his side hustle with Israel, as well as insider trading, he doesn’t have time for this shit.
Democracy is having more then two options to choose from. If the two party system is so great and everyone is fully reoresented, the blue and red conservatives shouldn’t mind replacing First-past-the-post voting with something that let’s people transfer their vote if their first pick doesn’t win.
But I guess wanting to able to vote how I want is a purity test… and we dont do that here right?
“guys, I am going to say something really brave and really controversial: Kittens are cute.”
A lot of young people are just getting interested in politics, especially new Progressives, and they’ll be seeing this for the first time. A concise synopsis can do a lot of good, so it wouldn’t hurt to be patient and move on, without being condescending. Or not.
It’s about the last line of the comment.
LOL.
The hour is later than you think.
Republicans don’t want democracy, they want whatever puts their beliefs first and cheating is not out of the question.
Bring out your dead!
He’s not dead. He’s just pining for the fjords.
hes waiting to see lindsey grahams soul was enough to ressurect him.
Can someone explain to me what the upside for the republicans is in this game?
Mitch has a very safe seat and his replacement would probably be a dependable Republican vote. Now he can’t vote, can he?
There isn’t an upside. They’re just as stuck as the Democrats are. Mitch isn’t dead, he’s likely severely incapacitated. They’d love to have him on the Senate floor voting R but he isn’t healthy enough to do so, and the only way to remove a Senator is expulsion by a two-thirds vote in the Senate. That certainly wouldn’t get enough votes and, at this point, is pretty irrelevant anyway since the seat would simply remain vacant.
But you are correct that as long as he’s ill he isn’t voting, which is a good thing, which is why there was really no need for people to be all over Andy Beshear’s nuts this past month.
In order to get the war powers resolution to fail, Fetterman had to vote with them. If Mitch were declared dead, a special election would have had to have been held and anyone could have run in it.
Tommy TubervilleThomas Massie would have run, split the Republican vote and a Democrat could/would have taken the seat and that resolution would not have failed. Let’s not pretend the Republicans aren’t engaging in fraud on purpose. They are. They know precisely what they are doing and they need to be held accountable. But they’re on a very long list in that regard.I think that anybody but a Republican winning that special election was always a pipe dream.
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Nah, too busy watching you do that, lol. Because people from here know the difference between Massie and Tuberville.
You’re just another very new account warming up for the midterms.
Ah, and of course you never make mistakes. Like assuming that someone who has a five day old account didn’t just move to it from their other, 3-year-old account.
Ah, and of course you never make mistakes. Like assuming that someone who has a five day old account didn’t just move to it from their other, 3-year-old account.
What a bizarre take. It’s not for me to assume anything at all about a commenter, especially in a community where people operating in bad faith change up accounts more often than I change socks. They write what they write.
If you want someone to believe you post from a three-year-old account, there’s a way to do that besides posting from a five-day old account.
And you have yet to prove that I wrote in error, because – wait for it – I didn’t.
I verify what I write before I post (usually with supporting links, as above), and when I personally err – which I cannot ever recall having done in such an egregious fashion as above – I don’t lash out in rage at the person who pointed out my error.
There are people in the world who casually communicate untruths on the regular and then complain that everyone else is stupid. And now apparently you think others should be mindreaders too, lol. Carry on, don’t let me stop you.
If they dragged Strom Thurmond’s barely animated husk in to vote, they can wheel Mitch in to pretend like he knows what he’s doing.
“And yet, they haven’t done so.” Captain Obvious.
I heard there was also a quirk of electing a replacement. Prior to August 3rd, it would have been a new election. While republicans would normally win, they have an issue with their primary. The other republican could have run and split the vote. This could have let a democrat sneak in for 6 months.
Mitch’s seat isn’t as safe as you think it is. I believe Charles Booker has a good chance of defeating Andy Barr in the General.
Things I have heard, that may or may not be accurate but do not sounds like “batshit stuff.”
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If its after the 3rd, they can’t do the special election because its too close to the regular election, I guess it takes 3 months to organize the special election. Nevermind that the special election person would get sworn in for most of November and December.
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I have also seen, I beleive for this one, that it may be that the GOP would pick 3 replacements, and the Governor who is a Democrat, picks from.thise three, maybe I am thinking of a different state, but they risk the Governor picking the “least crazy” of the three.
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More likely, I saw a comment that if McConnel is gone, it disrupts several comittees and could shift them to the Dems or tie them. His successor is not guaranteed to be his replacement in these comittees.
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Corruption by force of habit rather than directed toward any specific goal.
This is only an argument if one values democracy, which the voters of Trump clearly does not
true, but lets get real, the dnc doesnt care what you think either, unless you are by chance mega rich?
If those kids could read they would be angry.
