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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago

Isn't all of feds required to be in office or get fired?

Why the special treatment?

[–] lemmygarden@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

I prefer if all Republican senators work from home

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Er I'm noticing a distinct lack of burning and demons.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Have they finally announced his death yet?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think they're waiting for the fossilization process to complete. Expect an update in about 250 million years, only then will they admit that maybe he might be dead. But they still won't confirm anything.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I don't think he's officially dead yet. Or they couldn't hide it. He's probably a vegetable.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 115 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

This whole thing is so stupid. The rule is not that he gets replaced when he dies, it's that he gets replaced when he's unable to do the job, which he clearly is.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

And the pussy ass Dem governor could have just replaced McConnell and made them prove otherwise in court. But he didn’t.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Rules are for other people

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 28 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah he's likely still alive.

My bet is a stroke or something equally debilitating.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 13 points 15 hours ago

He's passed on! This senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If they hadn't nailed him to the hospital bed he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!! HE IS AN EX-SENATOR!!

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 20 points 18 hours ago

The ghoul is braindead and being kept alive through artificial support. Although, regardless of the specific condition, we can infer with near certainty that he is a vegetable.

If he wasn't, they would have at the very least put him on a video call interview to show that he is alive, awake, and coherent.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 8 points 17 hours ago

Yep, if he had a stroke and a few hours passed before they found him there is no way he will ever work anything more than what he does with his therapists to preserve whatever capabilities he has left.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 36 points 21 hours ago

So does this mean all other government employees are no longer required to come into the office

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

Other than making the world a worse place for decades then what work did the horrible tortoise actually do that warrants a statement about a corpse working from home?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago

Now would be such a beautiful time for Dems to make a call for a Return to Work order for good ol’ Mitch.

[–] DonGirses@lemmy.world 51 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

'working' from home? what fucking work is he doing

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 50 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago

Regretting the music score he wrote, eh?

I'll show myself out.

[–] eggpl4nt@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well, at least he's finally doing some good in the world.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

compared to the CO~2~ he produced before, now at least its GOOD CO~2~

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I didnt know hell had that infrastructure.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@piefed.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

Satan absolutely has a Twitter account

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 29 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Other senators have been "voting on his behalf" because apparently that's legal?

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That is flatly incorrect for floor votes, only for committee business. While there are three different methods for the US Senate to take a vote, all three require the physical presence of the senator to do so. These rules have remained unchanged since 1798.

Unanimous consent is technically another, but it requires actual unanimous consent, so it is rarely used for anything of importance.

McConnell himself was one of the people being hardline about forbidding proxy/non-physical voting during covid, and the reason there is no absentee voting in the Senate when it came up again, which it does from time to time.

I never thought I'd be grateful, but I guess it's a good thing they never allowed the Herman Cain crowd to perform official acts.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 20 hours ago

Like most rules, it's almost certain that the fascists make an "unless WE want to" exception.

If the turtle's still alive, that is.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 16 hours ago

he would be a lich, sustained by souls of the youth, and lindsey.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Motherfucker would not be a ghost, his ass is in Kamaloka

[–] nezrock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago

Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama,

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Shaka, when the walls fell

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 hours ago

Sokath, his eyes open!

[–] dektep@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

his corpse must stink by now

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

He probably smelled like rot when he was still alive too