You watch. They will only take his congressional seat from his cold, dead hands. He would have to be a drooling vegetable.
Anyway, if Democrats won't get rid of Feinstein, Republicans sure as hell won't get rid of McConnell.
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It’s going to take these old assholes dropping dead in the Capitol before we start doing anything but bitching about the ages of our congresspeople. And yes, anyone selfish enough run for re-election when they’re over the age of 70 is an asshole in my book
Strom Thurmond was wheeled into the Senate in his hospital bed at 99 years old and died in office in 2003, didn't change a thing.
That’s still insane and I lived through it. Never got over the shocked pikachu face of that one.
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It's not really about age. There are plenty of older people who are still functioning fine. Hell, Biden is almost as old as Mitch, but he's physically fit and doesn't go into fugue states. (And the claims that his stutter and verbal gaffs are evidence of decline are utter bullshit. He's been that way his entire life.)
Where we're fucking up is that we don't have any systems in place to require our elected officials or candidates to be mentally sound. We should require people running for or in elected office to pass cognitive tests the same way we require people on the roads to pass driving tests. Yes, more of the elderly will fail those tests because age is a factor, but the focus should be on "can this person do the job," not "is this person too old."
Mitch might be someone who'd be removed from office with a test like that, but it would also potentially catch young guys with catastrophic mental health issues, like Herschel Walker, who got frighteningly close to public office while showing blatant signs of illness.
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Both parties should agree they’ll force McConnell to step down if Feinstein is also forced to step down.
Would you give up your queen for a rook?
Depends on the position of the board.
McConnell is still a powerhouse in the senate. Feinstein is basically a babbling sack of flesh that votes as she’s told.
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Lol I love these articles always "calling for resignation" of Congress people. Mitch will resign when he's dead and not a moment sooner, this slimy piece of shit has more power than the president and he has the position for life. And he's evil enough to wield it very effectively. He'll never give it up.
Pretty much. The Fed is more and more becoming an assisted living center and those being assisted will go out when they're dead. We need term and age limits, but that will be one issue the aisle is crossed many times to put down.
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Dude’s bones are barely propping him up. Why are these geriatrics allows to continue to run our government?
Because people keep voting for them, or they simply run unopposed.
They run unopposed because the people voting for them are literally brainwashed
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Because a lot of our government runs off seniority, so people that have been around for decades are disproportionately powerful.
And the party leaders for both sides won't support age/term limits, because they'd be the first ones affected.
The ones next in line don't want to change the system, because it's almost "their turn".
So only the most junior politicians have a reason to support it, and they know if they do, it's a death sentence to their political careers because senior leaders will take it personally
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Thoughts and prayers
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My thoughts are a dead Mitch and my prayers are invocations that he dies.
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Cool. Now do President Joe Biden and Donald Trump... and about 50% of the other politicians.
Please can we make Feinstein a named offender in this?
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It's almost like our elected officials should not be allowed to go past retirement age.
Both him and Biden shouldn’t be in political office, in fact there should be a cutoff and that should be you can’t run after you’re 70. Democrat or Republican people that should be at home retired tending to their garden or fishing shouldn’t be running the country.
It’s scientifically proven your cognitive ability is significantly declining by that age, and not to mention they are almost always out of touch with the modern world we live in.
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Resign? Nah, the show is just about to get interesting!
That look on his face is exactly what would happen at the start of Quantum Leap. Grab some popcorn and see what historic wrong Dr. Samuel Beckett rights in this episode!
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Oh that's interesting I thought it might be becausre he's a psychopathic liar that people are calling for his resignation
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Wish the old coot would drop dead.
Know why all these old pieces of shit never suddenly die in office?
These fuckers have FREE access to great healthcare.
Countless amount of Repugnants can't even grasp how they're fucked over every paycheck by paying into their company health coverage, while these puke balls in DC, get a free ride.
I dunno. I think he finally just realized what he did to the American people. Makes me speechless sometimes too.
Dudes eyes started looking in two directions from the video I saw. Micro stroke.
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Look like he saw a ghost.
He was visited by his old business partner, Jacob Marley.
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