they should setup a system where votes by proxy are passed to immediate family members, and then companies can bribe them to vote yay or nay. it's a perfect system which would be indistinguishable from the current one. *or they can setup some sort of ip holding scenario, where ai trained chatbot is sold around to the highest bidder, so it wouldn't be so aristocratic-looking
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Legitimately Congress/Parliament is maybe the only job that shouldn't have the ability to be done remotely.
You have to be there every day, every vote. You have to sit there through the fucking filibuster and you have to take notes. The maximum permissible number of days off should be locked to the minimum federal legal requirement for paid sick days. You miss a vote and you're out of sick days, congratulations! Snap election you're not eligible to run in.
The most powerful job in the country should also be the least lenient. If you're unable to do the job, you should be ineligible to run for or sit in office.
I wish all Congress critters a very 4 years and counting SSI/SSDI application process.
You miss a vote and you're out of sick days, congratulations! Snap election you're not eligible to run in.
Please, this is far too lenient, they should also get life imprisonment and all their assets seized.
Congresspeople claim to work 70-80 hour work weeks, but they're doing that CEO bullshit where they count things like personal phone calls, sitting at home on their couch while forcing a staffer to work, and time where they're in spaces that are accessible to the public. Senior level staff actually do work 70-80 hours during legislative sessions, which is where they're getting that number.
Congresspeople typically only work 3-4 days a week when they're in session and only work about 150 days per year. They also have no actual obligation to show up for floor votes and can just have a staffer submit their vote by proxy. The only reason that Daylights Savings Time bill passed in the Senate by unanimous consent in 2022 is because the majority of senators were not present during the vote.
I remember when the governor before Arnie was all "but I just started" during the recall. I was like "OK? If you love job stability so much maybe you should have worked to make that a thing for your constituents."
wasn't governor before arnie fucked by enron? *or did enron dramamentary mislead me
Now that I read up on it, yes. He also took their money, so still fuck him.
I'm expecting them to use this as an opportunity to test out replacing a dead politician with AI, so that it's more refined once they do it with Trump.
Gonna have to ask you to step away from the lathe now
Calm down, there, Satan
Setting up a system of pulleys and levers to Weekend at Bernie's the budget vote
This election season...Kevin McCallister is: "House and Senate Alone"
Is this checks and balances?
I mean, just look at the Capital 
Building
Is this a serious place where serious people try to plot the best course into the future; grappling with complex topics like climate change and AI?
Or is it a Mausoleum?
Yeah, I thought so 
For people who are curious, the supreme court is the building just over the "left shoulder" of the capitol.
I never realized it gave off such "don't talk to me or my son ever again" energy.
Does kinda feel like they're trial-ballooning this for when trump finally kicks it
Just put the rotting corpse in a Mecha or something like that.
die you miserable son of a Mitch
It's because they made a pact with an eldrich horror that lurks beneath the swap they built the capitol on. The creature grants them extended life every time they start a new war.
They're keeping him on life support so Kentucky can vote him in for one last term