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I say we see how long we can keep someone alive on machines.
The guy who stole 3 seats on the Supreme Court is going to wait out the clock on his own replacement even when he's likely not even breathing on his own. Fuck everything about this timeline.
So, what are you going to do about it? America used to be great because Americans used to actually get out there and be the change...or fight for it. Now y'all just whine on websites.
So, what would you do about it?
dO sOmEtHiNg says the European who is likely also having their government bought by far right corpos
First of all, America was never great. That's a MAGA lie.
Second of all, anybody in the USA who posts about "fighting for it" is either being deliberately vague about decorating cardboard signs, or won't be posting anywhere for much longer.
It's easy to romanticize an armed rebellion when it's not actually your own family at risk. Half of the people who realize what's happening are leaving, like Einstein did.
And violent revolutions are kind of a roll of the dice. Sure, you could have a glorious outcome. But you are just as likely to have a bunch of scared people turn to whatever warlord promises them security.
There has been only one truly revolutionary movement and that was Haiti. We see how that turned out. The rest of the revolutions are just money fighting wealth.
If by rolling the dice you mean never in history getting the results you want in the end, then yes. Totally rolling those dice to crap out again.
Laura Loomer has said that he’s brain dead
Decide for yourself how much credibility you give her
She speaks from experience.
It is exceedingly difficult for a medical professional to differentiate between brain death and just being a republican representative.
points at Fetterman
But he's always been brain dead.
Yes, but what about his current state?
On the bright side, the fact they're this desperate smells of weakness. Does America have the stones to exploit this to actually mount an offense against the barbarians raising America to the ground?
I mean yeah, it's the weakness party. They're afraid of women, afraid of melanin, and of course very proudly afraid of God.
Their entire psychology is built on a foundation of fear demanding power to feel safety it can never deliver. They are violently delusional.
In my opinion if an elected official can't respond to a request for physical proof of fitness for the job by those they supposedly represent then they should automatically be removed from office and elections for a fit replacement is called.
What you are suggesting is the norm in every western country in the World.
However, in the US anything goes.
You might consider fixing that.
lil' bitch clung to power until he died. And every decision he ever made was to further his own self-interest, or hurt others. A true piece of shit. May he never know peace. May his soul remain forever fragmented and separate from the eternal ethereal coexistence we all will one day share. May he wander forever alone and afraid.
I'm voting for the Prometheus ending.
On repeat. Every day. Forever.
At least Prometheus did something useful...
I wish they'd confirm it so I can celebrate already.
Firmware update didn't take?
Republicans cheating? No way.
Anyways, it sucks we have to wait for traitors to die of old age in this country.
The article has a point. His death being manipulated and leveraged politically to keep a seat for the Republicans is exactly what he would have wanted.
So do I pour the drink now or wait until they admit it? Will we know the exact day they pull the plug? Did we already miss the appropriate day?
Subverting democracy to the bitter end.
Rest in piss, you evil turtle.
Mitch McConnell remaining technically alive for an extra three weeks because of a manipulative procedural maneuver is exactly how he would have wanted to go out,
Bruh.
Can't somebody file a lawsuit to compel them to produce their representative?
We'll have to ask the Supreme Court...
Ahh, 5 to 4, huh?
“So all they have to do is drag their feet until [the second Tuesday in August], then tell you that he didn’t make it,” Cochran continued. “And in turn block Massie from disrupting an otherwise safe Republican seat.”
5 more weeks of weekend at bernie's-ing the expired turd doesn't sound like a fun job. I'll take solace in that at least.
Just give him the goldfish treatment already.
If we had a free independent press any more, all reputable news outlets would be writing about this every single day to apply pressure for proof of consciousness, so they can't drag this out until the deadline.
They would demand that his office, which released a statement saying "The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session”, prove that they weren't outright LYING.
They would go around asking his spokespeople to answer questions on camera and hound them, "is McConnell conscious?", "Will you release a photo of him with his eyes open?", "Why did his wife go to Beijing?" etc etc.
But they won't. Because we don't have a free independent press any more. A few journalists will speculate. None will keep demanding answers until they get them. Just the talking heads speculating.
Good time to mention that Reagan gutted the FCC protections that kept companies from owning more than six radio stations across the country.
Read up on the Fairness Doctrine
The public has the right to know McConnell's medical fitness for office at any time.
Rep. Tom Kean was missing for four months without much explanation and there have been no consequences.
Even Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Kean should have said more sooner at a news conference Tuesday: “If it were me, I would have been more specific about that, and I encouraged him to be.”
Dude won his primary unopposed while he still missing.
His wife was also meeting with Chinese officials in china just 3 days after he was found unresponsive. Shes def his handler. This shit is all just so fucking corrupt
How about a wellness call for his room at the place he's supposed to be at? They legally have to do that.
OK can Iron Man go ahead and do the time travel Endgame thing, so we can fix this shit?
Weekend at Mitchie's.
Beshear should force the issue and appoint a successor. Let them dispute it with proof of life or STFU.