• CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    That would be precisely the case if this was any other job. But, apparently, Senate seats are ordained by God and are a divine right.

    • theparadox@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Considering the Senate was meant to be a collection of representatives hand picked by the rich, you are not far off…

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    3 months ago

    I cant even miss work for 3 days in a row without a doctor note and this pos just doing w/e?

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    3 months ago

    I never understood why, ,after stealing all this money, these POS can’t simply retire to an island at 50 and leave us the fuck alone.

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      3 months ago

      It was never about the money. They are addicted to the power.

      You know those old ladies you see at casinos and they’re on their motorized scooter with an oxygen tank and they just play slots all day and night?

      That’s the boomers in Congress, except the slots is imposing their will on the world like gods.

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      3 months ago

      Firefox reader view usually works.

      There isn’t any new information in the article aside from the quote.

      Washington Examiner was started as the conservative alternative to the Washington Post. They have mostly party-line Republican views, with a few exceptions.

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    3 months ago

    Need to send out more photos like a kidnapping victim from the 1980s holding today’s newspaper. Should use a Polaroid this time to make it really authentic. Maybe a note with some letters cut out from a skateboarding magazine. Someone can wait at a payphone at the mall next to Spencer’s for an anonymous landline call with further instructions.

    Man I really miss Orange Julius.

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      3 months ago

      Honestly it’s the fact that the paper was there that sells me for it. Like whoever took or doctored or made that photo was like “no we have to include the paper, nobody is going to believe us if we don’t” but if they really wanted us to believe them they’d make a statement. Which means that it wasn’t a good faith photo, they deliberately did their best to trick us by making it “as believable as we can”

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        3 months ago

        I like how everyone stopped to argue whether or not it was todays paper, but no one stopped to ask, why the fuck would they do that?

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        3 months ago

        That’s why it’s so funny. It’s like a parody of what these out of touch assholes think a proof of life photo would be, in 2026. When everyone has a video recording device in their hand at all times. It’s comically not credible (even if real.)

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    3 months ago

    I always figured that if you didn’t show up to work for a few weeks, that was a resignation. We should treat him as if he’s already resigned.

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    3 months ago

    Beshear should just call their bluff, and name a Democratic Senator. Force MAGA to sue to stop him, and then they’ll have to provide proof of life. If they do, then fine, Mitch is still breathing, so they win.

    But if they can’t prove it, or choose not to, then Beshear’s pick stands, and we’ve got another Dem senator.

    Go ahead, call their bluff. You know they’re lying, they’re ALWAYS lying.

      • wookiepedia@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Quite the opposite. The state constitution says replacements are appointed. Recent legislation that has not (yet) been tested in court calls for a special election.