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Welcome to America, where you’re never quite sure if your senator is dead or not (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Real senator, or wax figurine?

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Indeed, if McConnell were in perfect health and a Democratic senator were in this position, McConnell would be leading the charge to ensure they resigned.

No, McConnell wouldn't "ensure someone resigned", he'd use some procedural trick to remove them from office and have a Republican of his choosing fill the seat. And, he'd do it even if he knew full well that the person was alive, conscious, fully in possession of their faculties, but somehow unable to defend against that kind of a dirty trick.

The governor of Kentucky should simply replace McConnell, and if it turns out that McConnell is, in fact, up to continuing to serve in the senate, he can fight to get his seat back.

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

FYI, you double-commented. Did you have a connection issue with Lemmy? Good stuff either way.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

My instance got rid of the tesseract frontend, and I don't much like the default frontend. I was using the old-reddit style frontend, but it was having massive issues. It was not posting comments at all, then double posting comments, not loading comments, etc.

Funny enough, that was actually familiar from the old Reddit days... though it was never quite that bad.

Anyhow, I abandoned the old-reddit frontend for now because it was just too buggy.