• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    One minute beyond the deadline they will announce, “mitch was visiting the ole’ Kentucky explosion factory today, not being a closeted homosexual, and in a freak accident, he exploded. So we’re all super bummed that there can’t be an autopsy now… Even if there could be of course, the results would just say he was definitely straight, and he was not dead for a month before his corpse living body was deliberately accidentally exploded.”

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    Does he face growing questions? Does he? Because I have a strong feeling he’s facing questions in the same way that rocks might.

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    He’s passed on! This senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If they hadn’t nailed him to the hospital bed he’d be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, he’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!! HE IS AN EX-SENATOR!!

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      That’s the part that angers me the most. What the fuck is the (democratic) Governor thinking and why hasn’t he done anything yet?

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        Imagine if someone tried to do something.

        “How callous! How uncouth! To play politics when the country is in mourning!”

        No. It is better to do nothing. There will be a better time, a better day, a perfect moment when the right action will appear automatically, and no one will be upset, and no feelings will be hurt; except for the fascists and the white supremacists and the Christian nationalists who will gnash their teeth and furrow their brows as they weep, knowing they have been defeated by the measured patience of a superior moral cause.

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    He is evidently unble to fulfill his duties. Needs to be replaced by someone who can.

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      There needs to be clause that say you can retroactively apply eligibility to the senate based on prior eligibility but systematic failure to let you run during the limited timeframe.

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      They should hold the special election and pick someone anyway, against the rules. He would have loved that.

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        They absolutely should do this.

        Our federal government operates not according to any a laws, state governors should just do whatever they want and cite the president as precedent.

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    How can he face these questions if he is brain-dead or dead? Headlines today, sheesh!

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    He’ll be dead in 8 days, officially. And his seat will go vacant, to prevent any obstruction to the destruction of this country.

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    Sometimes, the politics in my country enfuriate me.

    But then I’m reminded just how absolute garbage it is in the US, and I feel better.

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    “growing questions” this, “demands proof of life” that, all of that is meaningless. Either declare him dead and issue the writs of election or he shows his face in public.