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.
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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.
They are going to Bernie him until they can be sure they'd get another republican just as malicious as he was.
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
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.
Why couldn't this have happened like, 20 years ago
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.
Yay!
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
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.
He died as he lived. Holding up Senate business for his own personal bullshit reasons.

At his funeral, throw a fire extinguisher in his grave. Where he is going, he will need it.
Don't waste a perfectly good fire extinguisher on that slug. Give him an empty one with a hole in the side, because that's about as much as he gave the citizens on the country.
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.
Sort of like Stalin, eh?