I appreciate the Mitch McConnell jokes, I do, but it appears that they’re trying to stretch this out until after an August 3rd deadline that would mean there wouldn’t be an election to fill his seat until after the midterms, which would be a pretty egregious subversion of democracy. And maybe we should be saying that a little louder.
@ben he'd be proud. It's what he did with rbg
@ben As I keep saying, Gov Andy should start McConnell’s senate seat appointment on the assumption he is dead. Let the GOP PROVE he is not, in court. #nothingtolose
@ben They must think we all have severe brain damage if they think people won't all just assume he's dead or indistinguishable from death by August. All the shit they pulled claiming Biden's health was in decline and this motherfucker is probably either a vegetable or people are lying through their teeth about him being alive and we're just supposed to trust them when they say neither is true?
@ben dude its 2026 and you're still invoking democracy when referring to the US. LOL
@systemadminihater I know I know but never give up, you know?
@ben why?
they don't care about democracy and we need to stop pretending they do.
@ben Why are our elected officials doing nothing about it?
@ben Kentucky is going to have to pick up that torch and if they have ever done something like that it had been kept real quiet
I wonder if someone could create a halfway-convincing lookalike of McConnell's cooling corpus, just to convince them to show the damn body.
@ben Wasn’t it McConnell himself who thwarted the Obama Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland? Time for some irony and justice.
@ben and totally in brand for Mitch too.
Seriously now. If he’s in a hospital, it’s probably GWU or MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
Got any stringers in DC to check it out?
Ah, the old "Weekend at Mitchie's". We should have seen it coming.
@ben when are streamers going to start speedrunning mitch mcconnel?
@ben I don't appreciate the Mitch McConnell jokes. I don't think it is good to indulge in cruel jokes against our enemies, because it just cultivates cruelty in general. Now it's McConnell, soon it will be AOC, then it will be whoever the next Bukharin, Zinoviev & 700,000 others are next. Having a cruel attitude is a good way to end up shooting yourself in the foot & 700,000 comrades in the head the moment you get actual power. We must cultivate virtue & discipline in low stakes situations if we want to have it in high stakes situations.
I think it is being said quite a lot but one more time hurts no one! 🫡
@ben you mean the way McConnell himself kept a Supreme Court seat open for months to keep Obama from getting to pick one?
Saying it isn't enough. What path to force action exists? Who is best suited to engage it? What is the lead time to do so? I think we should get the folks at the various outlets (e.g., Indivisible, et al) on it. Coordinated call for unified effort to singular end -- unfuck this before the deadline and prove that no, actually, you are not "secure" in your power play. And you will never be so. So expect THAT. 🪔📣
"it appears"...
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As if it's not blatantly obvious to any casual observer...
Cheating is their only strategy.
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@ben I had been assuming the assumed games here was about avoiding a preview special election before the midterms. Never even imagined it was about having another election after them.
Interesting.
@ben So my 'Weekend At Bernie's' reference is still a go? I mean, it's relevant with the whole shenanigan's / deception thing, right?
@ben I don’t follow. From a pure realpolitik standpoint, Dems should *want* the Senate seat that would normally command another GOP vote to be held by an absent/non-voting GOP senator. If MM is dead, the GOP should want to get the special under way because their odds of winning are good. And Beshear should drag his heels if there IS a death/resignation before Aug. 3 because the KY statute sets no deadline for Beshear to proclaim a special election.
@ben As an Australian I can only watch in real time democracy 🔥in the US while trying to make sure we don't end up with the same fate here with a clown called Pauline.
It's going to take more than a lot of loud voices to turn the ship around over there. Good luck, rooting for you.
@ben Agreed, but mockery may have the most leverage here.
@ben Lessens the R majority in the Senate; okay by me, but Kentuckians should be having a fit.
@ben I have no doubts about it
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Silence as usual from the Centrist Democrats.
@ben I wondered about that but also there's almost zero chance it wouldn't be a republican replacement so it’s sortof a 1/2 pickup. Apparently Kentucky state Republicans removed the governor's ability to appoint a replacement in 2024.
@ben well? what hospital is he at? It's not like they're hard to sneak into.
@ben He died like he lived: subverting democracy
@ben it’s fraud. It’s treason.
This lawyer says it’s a criminal conspiracy.
https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/116903100136116616
@ben In their answer to T.J.C, EV had a pretty good answer today: https://www.electoral-vote.com/
@ben that's exactly the plan
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Everyone should be on the phone calling their senators and Representatives DEMANDING immediate proof of life.
