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I know, right? I called fifty times to ask if he can still get hard and they hung up on me every time.
EDIT: I have just set everyone up for a lot of rigor mortis jokes, have I not?
I appreciate it
The last thing that mafucker had that was hard is his arteries
Yea he's definitely dead.
MITCH MCCONNELL IS DEAD
BECAUSE HES FUCKING DEAD AND US REPUBLICANS ARE CRIMINALS.
MOST OF ALL THE PEDO FELON IN CHIEF
This may be a time to put "U.S." I was confused at first.
The most basic question: is he alive
And some still says two sides are the same and justify not voting last time. Congrats you did that too
Yeah, he's definitely dead.
Not only merely dead but really most sincerely dead?
Let's not jump to conclusions now. He might just be brain dead.
His office released what’s clearly an AI .photon where his wife’s right hand?
Serious question: what is stopping Beshear from calling for a special election right now? Like seriously.
“The people of the great state of Kentucky have been without proper representation in the senate for over a month. Since Mitch McConnell has abandoned his post as Senator I am calling a special election for his replacement immediately.”
Make them PROVE he is still alive.
His future political aspirations.
Serious question: what is stopping Beshear from calling for a special election right now? Like seriously.
The fact that he's a pussy.
Yep, call for the election, and make MAGA sue. If they do, they'll have to prove he's alive, and if they can't, then they get to go to prison.
Call their bluff. They're lying, they're ALWAYS lying.
But we must preserve the future by allowing the nazi takeover at all costs
Heather Cox Richardson (historian) talked about this in her politics chat today; she seems to think it's a combination of a) likely legal quagmire b) with no major benefit given congress will soon be out of session and c) turtle holds a couple of really powerful positions, while he's out the republicans are hampered.
Cowardice.
lack of testicular or ovarian fortitude. Some reporter should ask him if his balls are in a jar where we could actually verify that they exist. Lets just put the rumors to rest.
yes, they dont want to be held to account for lying about it. If he was alive they would 100% just attest to it.
I think thirty to sixty years old is a good enough range for politicians. No younger and no older.
I'd go as far as 70. That way you can have a full career in something, then spend your post-work life in public service fixing the problems you experienced first hand. Especially at the local level.
I'd also say 20 years is the limit as a politician. After that, full pension and a permanent ban on any elected positions, and nothing in the private sector that even remotely resembles lobbying.
Can we please have age limits. Senators shouldn’t be dying of old age in office. You can’t run after the age of 70
Even for him.
I like him. I don't always agree with him, but I think he's one of the few that really gives a shit and actually walks what he talks and I deeply respect that. I value the perspective that comes with age too. But it's time for age limits, man. It's past time.
I mean I agree even for Bernie. He should be living a chill life of retirement not continuing to deal with... gestures at everything
Bernie would end up under contract to some network, and make more in a year than his entire political career, but that's not important to him.
If a senator is absent, their vote should not count. Period. It is not deferred, and nobody can vote on their behalf. It is straight up not counted.
This is what Republicans want for midterm and presidential voting, so why does it not apply to senetors?
This would incentivise them to elect healthy people and quickly replace people who can not do their job.
I want unhealthy people to get elected too! The problem isn't that he's unhealthy, it's that he's cheating. The more we allow delegated voting as a matter of policy, the better represented we'll be.
Moscow Mitch will continue to fuck over Kentucky. Zero sympathy, they voted for the shitbag.
He’s DEAD Jim.
They’re pulling a weekend at Bernie’s style, dress him up, tie strings to his arms and legs to make them move
I'm surprised they're not having an AI deep fake do speeches for him. This will almost certainly happen eventually with some public figure somewhere