Feinstein is an order of magnitude more cognizant than McConnell, and yet a great many Dems want to see her removed also…and you just don’t see that kind of parity with the GOP.
So perfect that it happened when he was asked about running for reelection; the ads write themselves.
And before anyone condemns me for lack of empathy: the world would be a better place without McConnell in power. Also, fuck him.
I wonder if he can even make it to the end of his term. He knows the Democratic governor of Kentucky will not appoint a Republican to replace him, so he’s going to fight that.
Oh, I’d put money on them keeping him in a vegetative state if he croaks just to keep a Democrat out of power.
It would be the culmination of his life’s work.
At this point, we’re already witnessing the GOP version of “Weekend at Bernie’s”.
It’s funny how on certain topics (and to be clear, VERY few), the Dems and reps are the same. The Dems have feinstein who’s in a similar state, and she’s got people keeping her in office because they don’t like who the governor is(n’t) going to pick
It’s not about who Gavin Newsom would or would not pick, it’s a matter of the Judicial Committee being brought to it’s knees if she’s out.
They can’t appoint a replacement without cooperation from the Republicans, and the Republicans would rather stall the committee than replace her.
I hate this reboot.
Like they did with Strom Thurmond. Dude had to be wheeled onto the Senate floor and looked half dead by the end.
Part of the reason this happens is committee seniority is determined by length of time in the Senate, so to control committees it’s important to keep Senators in office as long as possible for both parties.
To be fair, they did the same thing with Dianne Feinstein
I think some people might read this comment and think you are describing some satirical hyperbolic scenario. But given what we have seen from conservatives over the last few years, It’s not just possible, it’s their normal.
Apparently what would happen is a Republican would replace him, as of a law passed in 2021 https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191034037/mcconnell-facing-health-questions-says-he-ll-serve-full-term-keep-leading-senate
The GOP dominated KY state legislature has been prepping for this eventuality https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/28/heres-how-kentuckys-law-works-for-filling-u-s-senate-vacancies/70484359007/
Doesn’t matter
He has an R next to his name. His own political ads could say “I’m too incapacitated to run and if you vote for me I will murder your family” and republicans will still vote for him
Isn’t that the sad truth
To the contrary, I think you are displaying vast amounts of empathy by advocating for the betterment of humankind.
Our empathy is wasted on him and better spent on his multitude of victims.
That man has done massive damage to the country. He can’t expire fast enough for me.
I love when people try to pull the empathy card.
There are people on this planet who do not deserve empathy nor the benefit of the doubt. Corrupt politicians are some of those people.
Fuck McConnell. I hope his last years are equal to the horrible legacy he leaves.
The world would be a better place if he choked on his own tongue while waiting for needed medical care like so many Americans that he helped keep from having healthcare.
Seriously. A few years ago he’s spearheading the party to remove rights from people and now he’s too old to speak. There has to be room for retirement between those steps.
Empathy is afforded to those who reciprocate.
Die, Mitch, Die.
Easily one of the most evil, destructive figures in the last 20 years of American history. May he get what he deserves.
I’ve accepted this for so long as baseline knowledge that I’ve kind of forgotten some of the headlines. Can someone toss me a few bullet points of the bullshittery?
I’ll assume you’re not a disingenuous republican. Off the top of my head:
- Getting in the way of fucking everything Obama tried to do, including passing the ACA.
- Disgustingly putting his thumb in the eye of everyone who voted for Obama by blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination to the now illegitimate and flagrantly corrupt supreme court (unworthy even of capital letters).
- Unabashed support for putin’s agent in the white house. Up to and including voting to acquit during the impeachment hearings.
There’s more, but fuck it, I have a show to watch.
The “fun” part of his acquittal vote is that he said he was guilty, but since he had lost the election already, casting a guilty vote would be the wrong thing for the senate to do.
He wanted to both appease trump voters by voting not guilty, and appease saner moderates by calling him guilty in the press
Just mealy mouthed all the way around.
He proposed a bill and then when Obama backed it he voted against his own bill.
On another occasion he proposed a bill, and after it passed and the fallout was bad he blamed Obama for not stopping him from passing the bill.
Mostly he’s changed the rules to benefit his party at the expense of the American people and / or democracy.
He once filibustered his own bill because the democrats called his bluff and wouldve passed the bill
Dont remember what it was
I once heard him speak about ONE time in ‘97 how a ‘dumuhcrayut’ spoke 3 minutes over their time and he’d held a grudge ever since. That it was his motivation for destroying our system. He’s been a plague for at the very least 24 years but likely his whole career.
Moscow Mitch needs to have retired a long time ago.
It’s honestly sad that these people would rather hold on to the little power they have than retire and spend the little time they have left with family.
If they truly cared about heir families they wouldn’t push so much disinformation and enact such horrible policies. These people only love power so you’re basically asking them to willingly give up the only thing they care about.
Evil bastards.
Either being evil to the core or the great healthcare that being in the US Senate that lets them live so long. They should give everyone the same healthcare as the Senate does and run an experiment. At the very least US citizens would have decent healthcare even if the evil people got to run things. Thankfully I’m Canadian, but I do want what’s best for our neighbors.
Seriously, he’s given up everything to hold onto power, and now it’s too late to make any other choice. This is it.
All my homies hate removed McConnell
I know it’s not nice to be piling onto an ailing old man who probably isn’t going to be around much longer, but yeah when he was in good health he was an awful person who didn’t give a single fuck about anyone else who was having a hard time, and had literally decades filled with opportunities to help people who were worse off and squandered them all just to accumulate more worthless power and money for himself.
Keeping him in power does nothing but harm other people and the country in general IMO, although to be fair that was also true before his health started to go south as well.
He has destroyed so many lives, he deserves his destroyed.
I know it’s not nice to be piling onto an ailing old man who probably isn’t going to be around much longer
Pill cosby, Rudy Ghouliani, Donald Dump, and Kenneth Cokeland have entered the chat
Seriously, this mentality needs to end. These are people who would literally shoot you in the back for 20$
The fact that they’re old just makes it worse, they’ve been fucking people over much longer than anyone else
For reasons entirely seperate from his health. But it’s a stunningly good reasons to stop electing geriatrics.
And also human garbage like removed.
Goodness I hope it isn’t anything to minor.
Glitch McConnell
Guess that long Covid is catching up. Adios Mitch.
Put him in an elderly home. I’d rather have a crack head off the streets make policy decisions instead of him.
A random person would probably do what’s best for the country.
Why does America have so many really old politicians?
I wouldn’t go as far as to say the lady who tried to give a speech during a roll call vote, ceded power of attorney to her daughter and has to heavily rely on her staff to function is more mentally cognizant than the turtle by any stretch. He’s struggling, but she’s on another level.
But you’re right, there’s at least calls from the Dems to kick her out, so there is a decent difference between the two parties. I just wish the leadership felt the same way.
Leadership wants her out, and she finally accepted the option of letting another Democratic senator temporarily fill her position on the Judiciary Committee while she was unable to attend for many, many weeks in the most recent episode - but Republicans refused.
At that point, Democratic leadership can decide that they want her out so badly that they’ll simply hand Republicans a win. Or they can try to get her back in her seat with her hand on the button, so that Democrats can get at least a few wins in the Judiciary Committee.
I want Feinstein out, but I still think Democratic leadership made the correct decision.
Get rid of all politicians over the age of 55 or 60. Allow them to be maybe advisors but at this point these people have been unhelpful to the larger younger population.
If voting starts at birth + 18 years then participation in political life should end at average life expectancy -18 years.
If you can collect social security then you shouldn’t be able to run for office
Half-a-minute a second!? That’s not good.
Yeah that’s some serious time dilation!
This little maneuver is going to cost us 50 years.
This dude is going to end up dying of a stroke on camera isn’t he.
Seems he’s had several in the past few months already. Repeated events like this rarely end positively.
We can only hope
My bet is it’s a Parkinson’s freezing episode rather than mini-stroke.
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There’s reports from colleagues that they need to repeatedly reintroduce themselves to her during the same meeting. She was completely unaware of her own months long absence from the capital.
There’s definitely more Democrats calling for her retirement than GOP calling for McConnells (AFAIK there are zero), but saying she’s an “order of magnitude more cognizant” is pretty damn generous
