Punchbowl News reports that the former Senate majority leader, who is retiring after his current term ends in January, lost consciousness at his Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14, before a dispatcher sent over an Advanced Life Support ambulance. Journalist Desiree Townsend posted a recording of the call from the emergency dispatcher Tuesday afternoon to X.
You know, dying in office used to be notable and fairly uncommon. Mostly assassinations, plane accidents, etc.
But now our government is more of a hospice than anything else.
Please be dead please please please
If he weren’t, I feel like they would have said so.
Looks to me like he’s probably brain dead and on life support. We can only hope 🙏
Mitch, god is telling you to retire. Listen to her.
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Margaret Thatcher maybe?
Ding dong the witch is dead
LOL!
Plenty of women gods who aren’t all powerful and have to context with the general fuckery of their male counterparts. Or in the case of Aphrodite making problems for herself and her children, for further context read the lliad and the Aeneid.
They are going to Bernie him until they can be sure they’d get another republican just as malicious as he was.
He is one of the most responsible people for where American politics are today.
Absolutely no conscience and no morals, he is as close to pure evil a politician can get. He was among the main people that created the circumstances that allowed Trump to become president of USA.How could they tell?
When asked if he enjoys having no power over the machine he helped create, he shat himself as opposed to his usual routine of pissing himself. The foul odor was a sign of distress.
Don’t party, he’s still alive, and an absolute disgrace to turtles.
Correct, I still have to find his final phylactery and destroy it, this happened right after I got to the penultimate
Hopefully he’s in pain
I wouldn’t wish pain on anybody. It’s a good thing he’s a nobody.
Aww… welp keeping the champagne on standby.
We can celebrate the fact he’s abstaining from voting.
Why couldn’t this have happened like, 20 years ago
We’ve reached peak Republican when we have to demand proof of life from the hospital for a GOP senator from a state with a Dem governor.
I predict Mitch showing up to the next senate vote wearing this
Republicans would still vote for that over a Democrat
ah a wooden overcoat, excellent choice
If I found him I’d have left him
Not all heros wear capes
Some, very few, have @lemmy.ml
And .world has none, only those who get in the way of real progressive politics. Hehe
Boo, that’s not even a joke, just particularly lame divisiveness.
You can dish it out but you can’t take it. I made the same joke you did, but I’m divisive? Because I’m anti imperialist? I don’t get it. Thanks for making this not fun
You’re replying to the wrong person, I didn’t comment in this thread previously
Ok? Why are you talking at me then?
He died as he lived. Holding up Senate business for his own personal bullshit reasons.
We need term limits for Congress.
I think Congress needs age limits more than term limits.
I disagree. Age limits would disallow competent people who happen to be old from serving (Bernie, for instance). Age does not correlate well to competency, but if you’re young you might believe that. Competency itself can’t be measured well enough by a test to be meaningful, so that is out.
There already is an effective age limit in that people typically run for office the first time when they’re relatively young, and a term limit would kick them out before they got old. Old people running for the first time would likely be seen as out of touch, unless they make compelling arguments (again, see Bernie), and so would not be elected.
Having only an age limit would still allow people decades to entrench themselves and do great damage.
In short, the problem isn’t competency, it’s corruption. If anything, they’re too competent at being corrupt. It’s the same reason we have a term limit for the President, without the limit, we’d have Putin.
Finally, I think there’s a chance term limits could pass, whereas an age limit wouldn’t.
Maybe something along the lines of, if you’re eligible to collect social security, then you’re too old to serve in government.
Dont do that. That just incentivizes getting rid of social security so congress can keep their power till death
If it’s coupled with term limits, mandatory voting, and making running in a primary like jury duty, it might work.
Genuinely curious what you mean about making running in a primary like jury duty?
You’re lucky it’s limited to alive people only. I wouldn’t be surprised if Supreme Court got rid this limit as well.
You mean like corporations are people and they can run for congress also? New nightmare unlocked.
It’s a nightmare we are heading towards too.
Yeah, how hard would it be for any competent lawyer or accountant to spin up a few thousand privately and closely held C Corporations per day. How much is a vote worth? According to the trial court judge (there’s room for at least two appeals to get to the Delaware Supreme Court thank Voticulus, god of elections and tiny candles), $150 plus postage.
Bah, why even go to that much trouble when they can just ask AI what the results of an election would be?
it’s just a few dozen million to rig an election my way. building an AI machine to obfuscate it costs billions
so you’re right. let’s go with the AI. sounds like government.
Stop giving them ideas
No, they will decide to give AI personhood. Thereby allowing an AI to run for office, and causing all sorts of other problems that will start with “We can’t turn it off, that’s murder”.
“We can’t turn it off, that’s murder”.
And they’ll treat it like abortion. “You can’t turn it off, that’s murder. And anyone who tries to turn it off will receive the death penalty”
No, they will treat people protesting the construction of a new one like they are trying to abort it.
Google for president!
At what point is it elder abuse to let him keep trying to work as a senator?
Politicians should not be working right up to the moment of death.
Clearly the work isn’t too difficult if these people are choosing not to retire. Clearly the pay and benefits (and under-the-table backroom dealing) is too sweet to pass up for a happy retirement.
I guess when you get so many days of paid vacation, healthcare, and access to billionaires bribing you with luxury vacations, who needs to retire? It’s not like they’re out there going door to door serving their constituents…
Ask Dianne Feinstein. Staffers were dragging her hand to the vote-clicker by the end, because she could barely move herself.
Kinda hard to ask her at this point.
Break out the ouija board and find her restless ghost. I refuse to believe that removed ain’t haunting something.
Yay!
