Punchbowl News reports that the former Senate majority leader, who is retiring after his current term ends in January, lost consciousness at his Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14, before a dispatcher sent over an Advanced Life Support ambulance. Journalist Desiree Townsend posted a recording of the call from the emergency dispatcher Tuesday afternoon to X.
You know, dying in office used to be notable and fairly uncommon. Mostly assassinations, plane accidents, etc.
But now our government is more of a hospice than anything else.
Please be dead please please please
If he weren’t, I feel like they would have said so.
Looks to me like he’s probably brain dead and on life support. We can only hope 🙏
Mitch, god is telling you to retire. Listen to her.
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Margaret Thatcher maybe?
Ding dong the witch is dead
Plenty of women gods who aren’t all powerful and have to context with the general fuckery of their male counterparts. Or in the case of Aphrodite making problems for herself and her children, for further context read the lliad and the Aeneid.
LOL!
How could they tell?
When asked if he enjoys having no power over the machine he helped create, he shat himself as opposed to his usual routine of pissing himself. The foul odor was a sign of distress.
They are going to Bernie him until they can be sure they’d get another republican just as malicious as he was.
If I found him I’d have left him
Not all heros wear capes
Some, very few, have @lemmy.ml
And .world has none, only those who get in the way of real progressive politics. Hehe
Boo, that’s not even a joke, just particularly lame divisiveness.
You can dish it out but you can’t take it. I made the same joke you did, but I’m divisive? Because I’m anti imperialist? I don’t get it. Thanks for making this not fun
You’re replying to the wrong person, I didn’t comment in this thread previously
Ok? Why are you talking at me then?
Why couldn’t this have happened like, 20 years ago
He died as he lived. Holding up Senate business for his own personal bullshit reasons.
We need term limits for Congress.
I think Congress needs age limits more than term limits.
I disagree. Age limits would disallow competent people who happen to be old from serving (Bernie, for instance). Age does not correlate well to competency, but if you’re young you might believe that. Competency itself can’t be measured well enough by a test to be meaningful, so that is out.
There already is an effective age limit in that people typically run for office the first time when they’re relatively young, and a term limit would kick them out before they got old. Old people running for the first time would likely be seen as out of touch, unless they make compelling arguments (again, see Bernie), and so would not be elected.
Having only an age limit would still allow people decades to entrench themselves and do great damage.
In short, the problem isn’t competency, it’s corruption. If anything, they’re too competent at being corrupt. It’s the same reason we have a term limit for the President, without the limit, we’d have Putin.
Finally, I think there’s a chance term limits could pass, whereas an age limit wouldn’t.
Maybe something along the lines of, if you’re eligible to collect social security, then you’re too old to serve in government.
Dont do that. That just incentivizes getting rid of social security so congress can keep their power till death
If it’s coupled with term limits, mandatory voting, and making running in a primary like jury duty, it might work.
Genuinely curious what you mean about making running in a primary like jury duty?
Similar to the concept of Athenian Democracy where all citizens were expected to report for a lottery and if their names were picked they had to serve.
You’re lucky it’s limited to alive people only. I wouldn’t be surprised if Supreme Court got rid this limit as well.
You mean like corporations are people and they can run for congress also? New nightmare unlocked.
It’s a nightmare we are heading towards too.
Yeah, how hard would it be for any competent lawyer or accountant to spin up a few thousand privately and closely held C Corporations per day. How much is a vote worth? According to the trial court judge (there’s room for at least two appeals to get to the Delaware Supreme Court thank Voticulus, god of elections and tiny candles), $150 plus postage.
Bah, why even go to that much trouble when they can just ask AI what the results of an election would be?
it’s just a few dozen million to rig an election my way. building an AI machine to obfuscate it costs billions
so you’re right. let’s go with the AI. sounds like government.
Stop giving them ideas
No, they will decide to give AI personhood. Thereby allowing an AI to run for office, and causing all sorts of other problems that will start with “We can’t turn it off, that’s murder”.
“We can’t turn it off, that’s murder”.
And they’ll treat it like abortion. “You can’t turn it off, that’s murder. And anyone who tries to turn it off will receive the death penalty”
No, they will treat people protesting the construction of a new one like they are trying to abort it.
Google for president!
We’ve reached peak Republican when we have to demand proof of life from the hospital for a GOP senator from a state with a Dem governor.
I predict Mitch showing up to the next senate vote wearing this
Republicans would still vote for that over a Democrat
ah a wooden overcoat, excellent choice
At what point is it elder abuse to let him keep trying to work as a senator?
Politicians should not be working right up to the moment of death.
Clearly the work isn’t too difficult if these people are choosing not to retire. Clearly the pay and benefits (and under-the-table backroom dealing) is too sweet to pass up for a happy retirement.
I guess when you get so many days of paid vacation, healthcare, and access to billionaires bribing you with luxury vacations, who needs to retire? It’s not like they’re out there going door to door serving their constituents…
Ask Dianne Feinstein. Staffers were dragging her hand to the vote-clicker by the end, because she could barely move herself.
Kinda hard to ask her at this point.
Break out the ouija board and find her restless ghost. I refuse to believe that bitch ain’t haunting something.
He’s a horrible person who deserves no peace and no dignity.
He could have had both by retiring a lomg time ago. Oh well.
If that were the case, he probably would not be a horrible person who deserves no peace and no dignity.
At his funeral, throw a fire extinguisher in his grave. Where he is going, he will need it.
I don’t believe in a hell, but I think a fitting eternity for Mitch is forever being ass fucked with a pineapple (no lube, pointy end first) while licking clean Lindsey Graham’s “ladybugs”
How can you not believe in Hell? We’re in it now.
You just had to say it. My mind has been trying to repress that fact and you just had to say it.
Unfair that Lindsey is getting sent to heaven though…
Hopefully he’ll be right next to kissinger
As well as Donald J Rapeinger
Don’t waste a perfectly good fire extinguisher on that slug. Give him an empty one with a hole in the side, because that’s about as much as he gave the citizens on the country.
If McConnell dies, then the governor will choose his replacement, and the governor is a Democrat. Unless he wants to completely END his political career, he will choose a Democrat.
The Senate Republicans won’t want that, so it’s a pretty good bet that when McConnell dies, they will keep it a secret for as long as possible.
They are! He died ages ago, the battery just ran out which is why he was found immobile…
Battery? Feel way too modern for Republicans…
It’s probably one of those old ones made of potato.
It was actually a hamster on a wheel. Unfortunately, the hamster too, has succumb to the wicked evil within his decaying corpse.
I bet they Weekend At Bernies him and his votes.
Nah, pretty sure they can just not confirm them.
Who, the Senate? There’s no approval process for Senators, that’s for presidential appointments. In KY, the governor just appoints them, and they’re the new senator from Kentucky.
That doesn’t mean that Trump and the MAGA Senate won’t unilaterally rewrite the Constitution, and insist on approving the new senator, and insist on taking it all the way to the SCOTUS, where they will lose, but have successfully kept him out of office and voting for months.
I used the wrong term. Would have been swearing in. Johnson delayed one by over a month in Congress and as far as I know the same can happen in the Senate.
Gotcha.
If it looks like mitch is going to die the KY legislature will just pass a law stripping the power from the governor to appointed interim senator
Actually they planned ahead and already did that.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/kentucky-replace-mcconnell-beshear-00149543
Republicans are such fascist fucking filth.
passed with bipartisan support
Ugh.
