Real senator, or wax figurine?
Only five more days until Mitch McConnell’s team announces that his health has taken a “sudden and inexplicable” turn for the worse.
Is there something in particular they are waiting for?
The threshold to not call a special election, or something of the kind.
They dont want to lose that seat to voters before they can slide their own handpicked replacement.
Aha, that makes this all make more sense, thanks.
Worse than that. A replacement elected in November wouldn’t take office until January. They’d rather keep the seat vacant than risk having a Dem win the seat, because they plan on fucking with the November election results prior to the new Senate being seated, and another Democratic Senator placed into office earlier would make it much harder to push it through the Senate.
Honestly I’m not even sure what the point is. McConnell isn’t running for reelection. Even without this incident, he wouldn’t have been the Senator from Kentucky come next year. It seems an awful lot of trouble to go to in order to hold a seat for a few months, especially when it wouldn’t affect the balance of power in the chamber.
He was doing absolutely fine up until bit started to drop off.
I know for a fact both my senators are undead husks. Well, except for Ted Cruze, I believe the colony of worms piloting his human suit are themselves undead, making him some kind of double dead ball of worm liches.
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hes is the zodiac killer, he had since shapeshifted from after molting his skin in cancun.
Let’s just say I’m glad I don’t have to vote against that dead motherfucker anymore!
He was born in 1942. Imagine all the wonderful things he could have done with his life!
Or at the very least retired 25 years ago.
I’m sure he did plenty of wonderful things for his life. His life. Not the lives of the people he was paid to represent.
he did try to sustain himself by absorbing the soul of another senator who conveniently died at the same time.
Is Mamdani their only politician who can get about without a zimmer frame?
if he’s not, he oughta be
hard to tell the difference when there’s work needs done
Reptilians moult their skins once every eighty years or so
They are getting the same representation either way I suspect
Not just senators.
Plenty of non-white Americans too.
Also the one we really all want dead is getting propped up on engine coolant and fire retardants every week at Walter Reed or Camp David.
It’s a Schrödinger’s senator
Pretty sure that Mitch is still alive, but he’s basically slightly more aware and animated than a houseplant. I think that cognitively, he’s gone. Probably has to be told what to do, like eat, sleep, walk, etc, and he forgets what he was doing after just a few seconds.
We’re kind of torn between the need to know the status of a prominent senator, and a degree of class and compassion (whether Mitch deserves it or not) when dealing with someone who just had a medical event. I think Beshear should demand a visit with McConnell to assess if he can continue the dates of his office. If he is no longer fit, then a replacement should be seated to finish the term. If there is a disagreement about Mitch’s ability to perform the duties of his office, let him publicly speak to his constituents and have them advocate on his behalf.
Anyway, to hell with Mitch. Motherfucker has been ruining this country almost his entire life. We are due a reprieve from his shitty presence when he dies, and it’s bullshit that saving grace is being held up by the thinnest of lame excuses on why there can’t be a definitive proof of life.
If he is alive and unable to serve, that would also trigger the special election, which is why they keep him (or his corpse) hidden.
You’re not allowed to die this close to an election.
Indeed, if McConnell were in perfect health and a Democratic senator were in this position, McConnell would be leading the charge to ensure they resigned.
No, McConnell wouldn’t “ensure someone resigned”, he’d use some procedural trick to remove them from office and have a Republican of his choosing fill the seat. And, he’d do it even if he knew full well that the person was alive, conscious, fully in possession of their faculties, but somehow unable to defend against that kind of a dirty trick.
The governor of Kentucky should simply replace McConnell, and if it turns out that McConnell is, in fact, up to continuing to serve in the senate, he can fight to get his seat back.
Oh I’m sure.
Schrodingers Senator.
