Basic questions like “is he alive?”
It’s because Mitch McConnell is dead, and the Republican MO in all things is treachery.
If the news of his death breaks on Aug 4th you know it was a scam.
*crime
If Gov. Beshear has any balls or patriotism whatsoever, he’ll appoint a replacement on August 3 in any circumstance short of McConnell actually being present in the Congress building.
Or integrity
Gov should get in a car and drive to the hospital for an in person confirmation.
Too simple for this reality, i know.
I’m out of the loop. Why August 4th?
I don’t remember all the details, but for the past years Republicans have stripped away lots of powers of their Democratic governor. And somewhere in there, they also had a rule change that doesn’t allow a special election if it’s so many months away from a regular election. So basically if they run out the clock, the governor can’t hold a special election to replace McConnell.
Edit: I dug up an article
It’s worth noting that the laws the other people are mentioning are just state laws and therefore do not supersede Kentucky’s state constitution, which gives Beshear the power to simply appoint a replacement. Including a Democrat, if he wants.
Before August 4: Governor runs a special election and seat gets filled that way.
After August 4: seat remains vacant until new senator is elected in generals and new crop of senators gets sworn in.
Republicans are fairly certain they would lose a special election. It doesn’t seem they are too confident on keeping the seat in November, either.
For them, an empty seat for 5 months is better than one filled by a D.
This, poetically, being brought to us by the same shmuck who held up replacing Alitos seat, and countless others in lower federal courts in Obama’s last term because it was “too close to an election”…a problem that didn’t occur for AC(a)B when RBG died at the worst possible time (even closer to an election!), effectively nullifying her whole career.
even closer to an election!
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed on October 25, 2020. Early voting was already open in a number of States and ballots had already been cast. So technically her confirmation hearing happened during an ongoing election, not just closer to one.
GOP already does not want to acknowledge any voting outside of that one specific Tuesday during mostly working hours.
They also seem to only want to count ballots until the end of the day. Anything after midnight shouldn’t count. Because those are mostly the rural votes, because the population is so much smaller, the counting is a lot faster.
Shit thanks for sharing this. So post August 4 is highly likely then I imagine.
3rd of August is the actual deadline date. So 4th of August or later.
She was a bitch for not stepping down WWII l when Obama could have replaced her. This whole fucking SC situation is partly her fault
Seriously. She she strived so hard to be a strong, unyielding feminist, that she ended up dieing as a stubborn bitch.
It’s really the shittiest part of the whole thing. Like she spent her life as a champion of women’s rights and feminism, but ironically, her only real legacy is that she didn’t step aside when given the opportunity. That one act (ultimately, saying ‘no’ to a man) in the long term, will have ended up erasing most (if not all) of what she accomplished.
The fact that her replacement that is undoing it is a younger and objectively hotter woman, chosen by the ultimate chauvinist, is just the icing on the irony cake.
That poor woman. The forces exerted by her rotating corpse could boil enough water to power a hundred datacenters.
Multiple articles have stated in 2024 changes to state law requires a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat. Before that, a 2021 law allowed the political party holding the seat to submit three names for the governor to choose from, rather than leaving the selection solely to the governor. Political experts cited in the report say timing requirements mean the window to call a special election would be tight, with an estimated cutoff of Aug. 3 based on candidate filing and notice deadlines. It’s why if it’s announced Aug 4th it’d would have been weekend at Bernie’s essentially and why people are calling on Governor Bashear to just call a special election to force their hand.
Abusing the electoral process to further a fascist agenda is how he wanted to go out
The entire position of this government is, “oh yeah, well what are YOU gonna do about it? I am in charge here” Real corpo leadership mentality.
That’s not corpo leadership, it’s fascist dictatorship (which many corpo leaders also aspire to be).
I already know it’s a scam. The only thing I’ll find out in the future is what kind of scam it is.
I think you’ve perfectly described modern life
They really are going for it, I’m impressed
Been saying this for weeks, even after the “proof of life” came out.
His body is being held somewhere secure. If he was dead at a hospital it would have 100% been leaked.
He’s “legally” alive, so the risk on saying he’s dead is technically slander.
He is not in any shape to perform his duties (or really any duties but existing on a technicality). This is yet another loophole being exploited that needs to be addressed. Likely in the future because this admin sure won’t address it.
PEPSI ?
He’s dead & they are 100% committing fraud by continuing to receive a pay check a month after the fact.
He’s probably “technically” alive thanks to an IV infusion of pure malice and a bunch of machines they’ll unplug on August 4.
Even if that is the case, which I highly doubt, that means he can’t do his job & needs to be replaced.
We miss a few days, even in some cases with a doctor’s note, and most of us would be on the hook for our jobs. Our supposed “representatives” can fuck off for months and still get a salary and job security.
We aren’t angry enough. Yet another reform to throw on the pile once we dig out of Hell and get back to ground zero.
His job is a member of the GOP is to obstruct progress as much as possible. He’s still doing that from beyond the grave.
I think you’ve got him here on a technicality.
No so much ‘beyond’ as ‘suspended above’ imo.
This. Appoint his replacement and then let them prove he’s alive.
This. Appoint his replacement and then let them prove he’s alive
Great! Who is in charge of doing this?
Terrified Dems like Garland who never do anything with the power we give them.
Ok so it’ll never happen. Got it.
That would fall on Beshear, the governor of Kentucky.
You might want to read up on why the Kentucky GOP is stalling, before you jump in with uninformed comments.
You’re showing your ass
Mitch the bitch would have loved all this stonewalling if he were still alive.
It would be a fitting end to his political career if he is fillibustering his own obituary.
Oh boy you really nailed it. This is 100% him isn’t it.
I have my doubts.
If I understand right, Mitch (still a PoS person) was increasingly hating MAGA and Trump. If he actually was alive to have a say, he would probably support doing the special election just as a fuck you to MAGA.
He might have hated MAGA but he rightly perceived that it is the only thing keeping the right wing going in this country. That’s the thing with Republicants who “hate” MAGA: they never hate it more than they hate the left.
Or the poors, or the brown people, or the non-Christofascists
Dems fall in love, Republicans fall in line. Though these days it seems like that’s reversing.
Yeah they’re just delaying the celebration
Normally I’d say this is the realm of conspiracy theories, but updating the people that a US senator is supposed to be actively leading on his basic ability to represent them is such a low bar to achieve that suddenly it all smells fishy.
Its a genuine conspiracy to commit fraud, treason, etc
Hey governor of Kentucky, hold that special election please?
Nah, better yet just unilaterally appoint a (D) replacement, as laid out in the state constitution. The law “requiring” a special election is unconstitutional.
He ain’t real; he dead.
He’s 💀💯.
Surely its illegal to lie about an elected official’s alive/unalive status?
Oh wait, it’s the fascist/GOP party.
It’s precisely because they know it’s illegal that they aren’t saying anything. If they don’t overtly lie and just refuse to talk, they won’t obviously open themselves up to prosecution by a later administration (in theory, though I am sure a motivated prosecutor will be able to make a case either way).
Schrodingers Mitch
Has anyone in the press simply asked “is Mitch dead?” Or are they just asking for updates on his health? Like, there is no fucking update. He’s dead. These fuckers are not only depriving Kentuckians of their representation in Congress, but they’ve also deprived the rest of the country the ability to properly celebrate this asshole’s long awaited demise.
Right? “Is he alive without life support?” would be a pretty basic question to get answered.
So far we have heard he recovered from pnemonia after being bedridden due to a fall.
After barely being amblitory and articulate for a few years.
When he finally suddenly dies of an unexpected, acute something everyone will be very suprised and shocked.
One, you can’t. Something about a hippopotamus.
But, aside from that, that man is dead. They’ll not announce it until after his term is up in 2027.
We put Mitch in a box and as long as we don’t open the box we are not sure how he’s doing. Additionally we added a feature where you can shake this box for a vote.
Once in the box, Mitch is both alive and dead!
Sold… Let’s put him in a box forever.
