He’s on sick leave. Which would be totally normal in Europe.
The irony here is that he gets to enjoy what he has worked rabidly his entire life to deny his fellow citizens.
Fuck this walking corpse.
Hypocrisy.
Yeah, if what was happening to Mitch wasn’t so exceptional in America then this would be a non issue.
Americans, btw, what’s happening to Mitch is just what happens to ANY PERSON AT ALL in most countries when they are suffering from severe long-term illness and disability.
Yeah, if what was happening to Mitch wasn’t so exceptional in America then this would be a non issue.
It would still be an issue because (a) Kentuckians are missing half of their Senate representation, and (b) because his death is obviously being hidden for bad faith political purposes, to illegally deprive Kentucky’s governor of his right to appoint a replacement.
i was told there would be something called “checks and balances”!?
Most countries that have figured out people have worth beyond the bottom line.
Except that most people in most countries are retired by age 84 and therefore wouldn’t be “off” on sick leave in the first place.
But yes, otherwise, the point stands.
Do European leaders keep their authority if they go MIA for months on end?
Except in most American jobs you would be fired by now for being on sick leave this long
Mitch would croak so fast if he heard that Congress passed a bill giving Americans job protection for sick leave equal to the length of his absence.
He’s already dead. He would rise from his coffin to vote nay on such a measure.
Yes, that’s one of the things that happens in this violent and inhumane nation. I now live in Europe, and I had a lot more than 75 days of sick leave when I had my amputation. I still have my job and my employer isn’t mad at me in the slightest, because here it’s understood that shit happens and that’s life.
Now the orange felon has made it nearly impossible for americans to leave because the world hates our guts even more. I’d be embarrassed to even go to another country without a short that just says SORRYYYYYY on it.
The world isn’t reddit/lemmy, most people aren’t going to say or do anything unless you act like an asshole.
I certainly would be careful about saying you’re American if you go on vacation abroad. But I’m a long-time expat, and I can tell you if you behave well and you integrate in the society of your choice, people know the difference between ugly Americans and those who choose to be better.
This country is such a joke. And its not even funny.
the Harp bs was probably realesed to distract from it
Everything all the time is a distraction from the two only two things that really matter:
- The upcoming rigged mid-terms and the final entrenchment of the American fascist regime.
- The Epstein files.
I think the turtle is dead
At this point the deadline has passed for it to matter for bye-elections. If he was dead why wouldn’t they just say so. The whole thing stinks, it hasn’t made a lick of sense from the start.
At this point the deadline has passed for it to matter for bye-elections.
Well fuck. I hope there’s still time for the hello-elections!
lol
The actual issue is that we didn’t know when to pop the bottles.
They can’t announce it too quickly or else it’ll look suspicious… well, more suspicious than this shit already looks. They think they’re pulling a sneaky
This exactly it. Plus the Kentucky Governor said they’re are loop holes they can use if he is dead, so they are delaying for as long as they can. Which likely means until the next GOP person can campaign and run for senator.
Could be brain dead and they are working on a technicality. Definitely have enough money and resources to keep a pseudo-corpse around for quite awhile.
Nope! Chuck Testa.
How about we all do the same and receive the same benefits… oh right none of us are a corrupt asshole that has received gifts and funding from every shitty company that has been poisoning us and the planet!
Considering what Republican US senators do, his absence makes exactly zero difference.
When it comes out that he’s dead but they waited long enough that there is no time for a special election, they should just have the special election anyway, because he was away from his duties before the deadline.
It’s procedural fuckery to get what you want. he would’ve loved it.
When it comes out that he’s dead but they waited long enough that there is no time for a special election, they should just have the special election anyway, because he was away from his duties before the deadline.
No. Kentucky’s governor should just immediately appoint a replacement, because the law requiring a special election was already unconstitutional (according to KY’s state constitution) to begin with. Which is also, by the way, probably why they’re continuing to conceal his death even after the fake ‘deadline’ has passed.
At this point they will keep covering up his death until Jan 21st.
I dare they make him immortal, since legal death just turns out to be so hilariously circumventable.
AI Mitch will agree with everything the president says!
Part of the reason for the deadline is so the special election could be held properly with sufficient time to staff and run it how you’re supposed to.
Regardless of this fucking chicanery nobody should be pushing to give them excuses to water down election integrity or change established rules on the fly. He can be ousted in the midterms.
That’s okay.
All of Congress has been missing for almost 2 years.
More like 10. Maybe they were present during the biden admin, I honestly can’t recall. Don’t remember anything happening In those 4 years other than waiting for the fascists to come back
I think he’s been turtle soup for a few weeks now
Wish he’d hurry up and die so we don’t have to keep paying him.
Well, his brain died, so
Was he ever using it though?
Exactly, so there’s no change to his ability to do his job.
Wish
he’dhis handlers would hurry up anddieannounce his death that happened months ago so we don’t have to keep paying him.FTFY.
That’s not too bad. Remember when they uncovered a child pedophelia ring, locked up a women and then told us we’re moving on from it.
Well, I don’t live in FarmingCoalFriedChickenHorses-land, so he’s neither of my mumbling turtles, so I stopped giving two shits about it a while ago.
Hey what’s up with them Epstein files?
Serious answer? this is what’s happening
Sometimes it feels that Katie Phang is the only person who’s been able to keep her focus.
They are covering up the fact that I chopped his head off weeks ago. Prove me wrong, GOP.
It’s because we stopped making memes about it
