• Etterra@discuss.online
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    1 month ago

    I was just talking about this for my fiance last night. I can guarantee you that it won’t be long after the election that he will have suddenly died in the hospital. My opinion is that he’s probably just being kept on life support, brain dead.

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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      1 month ago

      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.
  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexus
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    1 month ago

    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!

    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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      1 month ago

      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.

  • 4am@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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      1 month ago

      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.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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      1 month ago

      More like 10. Maybe they were present during the video admin, I honestly can’t recall. Don’t remember anything happening In those 4 years other than waiting for the fascists to come back

  • Ashrakal@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Current US politics are ridiculous. How come there aren’t large protests with burnt tires, thrown concrete blocks, and biological waste being pumped into government buildings like France had in the recent years? And before anybody points that out, French police and military also have guns, so being armed is not unique to the US forces. Hasn’t prevented the unarmed Frenchies from taking action too.

    Mere words don’t mean anything to these politicians.

  • undecidedyellow@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    They’re using this to test how long Americans will tolerate having a clearly dead person hold elected office for when Trump finally farts himself to death

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      Why when there’s already Grassley. Hell they had Diane Feinstein still voting for what a year after showing she had no mental facilities or ability to do anything without massive assistance?