Political Memes

Have another fun cadaver event to think of occasionally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

I hope he is dead. So I can enjoy the 4th of July for my own special reasons from now on.

I mean, you're not wrong. He probably loved the idea of still being an evil cunt even after death.

And now I'm even more pissed at RBG, she could still be on life support today if only she'd planned accordingly.

Having his twitching, lifeless carcass hooked up to a machine to keep it functional enough to be used as a ghoulish puppet to subvert democracy one last time.

Maybe for an encore he can have his corpse injected with Ebola and launched at a food bank lineup from a catapult.

Shinzo Abe ... humility

Those words don't go together at all... unless you add a "no" before humility. 'Poor health' was an excuse given to cover for him breaking his promise to never resign, and he resigned because of the unpopularity of himself and the party scandals at the time. Wikipedia has a good summary:

Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered great losses in the upper house election, losing control for the first time in 52 years. Agricultural minister, Norihiko Akagi, involved in a political funding scandal, resigned after the election. Additionally, Abe's rejection of a possible female Japanese monarch, which led to the Japanese succession controversy, diminished his support base.[47][48] In an attempt to revive his administration, Abe announced a new cabinet in August 2007. Support for Abe rose by 10 percent as a result; however, the new agricultural minister Takehiko Endo, involved in a finance scandal, resigned only seven days later.[49]

On 12 September 2007, only three days after a new parliamentary session had begun, Abe announced his intention to resign his position as prime minister at an unscheduled press conference.[50][51] The announcement came just minutes before opposition leaders were scheduled to question him in Parliament and shocked many. Abe had described himself as a "politician who fights" and previously pledged not to resign.[52] Abe explained that his unpopularity was hindering the passage of an anti-terrorism law, involving among other things Japan's continued military presence in Afghanistan. Party officials also said the embattled prime minister was suffering from poor health.

Power is really that addictive. In ancient cultures, those who hoarded wealth were thought of as mad or of poor moral character, and there are modern psychological studies that show that anyone who is given power without consequences will abuse it and begin to believe that they are somehow deserving of the advantage.

The problem this time is that the ultra-wealthy have so much of the wealth that they can buy elections and control governments across the world, and no-one near them dares be anything but sycophantic, except their similarly-vicious billionaire peers.

That's a fate worse than death. Imagine turning a literal zombie moose and you're corpse is being piloted for political gain of your subordinate parasites.

He’s politically dead, though, except using him like “Weekend At Bernie’s”

Basically, Kentuckians had better stand up to get represented.

And Kentucky voted for this for what, 40 years? Hes held his seat since 1985. I wasn't even born yet and I'm 40.

America is a fucking cesspool.

afaik it's by election only now to fill a vacant senate seat from kentucky. the republicant super-majority in that state legislature passed a law that took the governor, including the sitting 2-term democrat, out of that process.

Make him confirm his identity with an app that 3d scans his face and retains a copy of his driver's license. Only way to be sure that he's alive and over 21.

Nope, Kentucky is one of 4 states that requires the seat to sit vacant until a special election is called.

https://ballotpedia.org/Filling_vacancies_in_the_U.S._Senate

But if he's brain dead and still on a ventilator, I don't think the corner would be aware of this until he was officially pronounced and the ventilator removed.

Because polling currently suggests that there's a bug leftward shift in American politics coming. If the special election were to happen now, there's a non-zero chance that the GOP would lose the seat to a Dem.

Hiding McConnell's death would mean that, even though he wouldn't be voting, the Dems wouldn't get an additional vote in the Senate early.

That's the justification, but it's still just a conspiracy theory. Also, I'm not a poli-sci person, so I don't know about Kentucky's special election rules or if Mitch's seat is being contested this year.