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[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 234 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

the Kentucky lawmaker hasn’t voted in nearly a month

Missing X votes per term should be grounds for impeachment or recall or something. Being unable to fulfill your obligations to your constituents and still occupying the position is disgusting. I don't really agree with his constituents, but we all deserve our constitutionally guaranteed representation. People deserve sick leave, but there needs to be a mechanism to stop this kind of exploitation of basically an unreplaceable position.

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[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 109 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 90 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Totally a normal thing a person does when they're trying not to scream at everyone to leave them alone because they're trying to mourn they deceased parent because dirty soulless politicians want them to keep the death a secret for their political games.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 81 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Totally normal to have your wife fly to China as soon as you have a heart attack and are sent to the hospital, too /s

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course she took off as soon as she could. She never expected that job to last over 33 years!

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, she had to file her dossier with the station chief.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 75 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The only question swirling in my mind is how long they'll Weekend at Bernie's him before admitting the truth.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

After August 3 apparently, after then it is too late to put someone in for him until the election.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That only works if they can keep everyone involved quiet. If he's actually deceased, that fact is going to leak.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

My totally unfounded theory is that he's just hooked up to a bunch of machines to keep him "alive" and they'll pull the plug after that.

It really does make the most sense given the info at have so far.

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[–] redsand@infosec.pub 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like he's brain dead which fits with "found unconscious". They can keep him on life support for months

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's my guess as well. There was also reporting that said CPR was administered. When that is done on a frail elderly body, it creates many more problems than it solves.

He started with cardiac arrest and now he's got maybe a chest full of shrapnel as well: he's only leaving feet first, IMO.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

5% survival rate for people his age.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Knowing Trump he'll let it slip as soon as he can.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

They're not dumb enough to tell him, right?

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's probably on a machine.

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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 51 points 2 weeks ago
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] gh0stb4tz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t know what this is, but I feel like I should upvote it.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If I had to guess based on the blur, I think it's the guys that carry a coffin on their shoulder while dancing.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's the dancing crab / rave crab meme.

But your guess works just as well.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I’m like 90% certain its crabdance/crab rave, something I’m not actually familiar with but which many many many people on the internet say they will be posting when certain horrible people die.

Why, I do not know.

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There clearly needs to a rules for circumstances like this. The people do not have a functional representative at the moment and haven't for month. That isn't democracy and is not what the intent is. Y'all need to organize with each other and become actively political. I don't mean protests and marches, I mean help each other learn how the procedures of politics functions and start using them.

[–] grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rules don't matter any longer in America. They only matter insofar as they're enforced, and they're not being enforced against the powerful.

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[–] sepi@piefed.social 25 points 2 weeks ago

He's as spry as a dead 92-year-old man.

[–] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

The best part is it's legally unclear how this will resolve, they'll likely be able to just stay silent and block any attempt for a special election and have a decent legal argument for it. One last fuck you from Mitch.

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[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This ENTIRE situation is PROOF that Trump runs the MOST TRANSPARENT Administration EVER!

-Free Thinking Alpha Republicans!

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

I think there are way more wishes of "drop dead already" than "speedy recovery"...

[–] Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

She's probably also tired of seeing the celebrations of his impending death, if he isn't dead already.

Sorry girl. Your dad is a traitor piece of shit who may be in the top 10 list of people who have done the most harm to this country.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

He's dead and we all know it. Instead of pretending that's not true, they should just wrap his deboned corpse around a robot dog and send him back to work, the GOP will probably give "him" a standing ovation for his dedication.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Using "hospitalization" a bit loose here, huh? Booked into one of those rooms with the refrigerated human-sized drawers.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago
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