Ya know. When I was a kid, I was horrified reading a reveal in a book where the queen was actually a corpse that was being puppeted around to hold off a succession war.
Every once in a while I think about it again
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Have another fun cadaver event to think of occasionally
This also fits the times we live in alarmingly well—because of the absurdity of it all. Well, it’s hardly surprising, given that we’re seem to be heading back toward the dark ages with its anti-progress monarchs who would rather see the world burn than relinquish any of their power. I think today’s billionaires are very much in that tradition.
He died as he lived, usurping the rule of law and stealing power for his fascist party
I hope he is dead. So I can enjoy the 4th of July for my own special reasons from now on.
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It's what he would have wanted.
I mean, you're not wrong. He probably loved the idea of still being an evil cunt even after death.
And now I'm even more pissed at RBG, she could still be on life support today if only she'd planned accordingly.
Having his twitching, lifeless carcass hooked up to a machine to keep it functional enough to be used as a ghoulish puppet to subvert democracy one last time.
Maybe for an encore he can have his corpse injected with Ebola and launched at a food bank lineup from a catapult.
He was a soulless fuck. He's literally been compared to Palpatine. Yes, he absolutely would want his fucking corpse used for the cause.
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I remember a few years ago, the Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe, resigned from his position due to a chronic health condition that was worsening. He resigned of his own accord and made a public statement saying that he's stepping down because he did not want to make any major political or policy mistakes that would compromise the welfare of the nation. He was only 65 at the time, but still had the humility to recognize the weight of his position.
Meanwhile, we have 80+ year old dinosaurs that are brain dead and on life support that are still clinging on to power to their very dying breath regardless of the harm it does to the nation. Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Clarence Thomas, Maxine Waters, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and the list goes on and on. It's time for all of them to fuck off. Even Bernie Sanders needs to go. It's time to step back and enjoy retirement.
These parasites are literally the reason why we're in the mess we are in today. Their greed and selfishness is so extreme that it's like a disease. The dinosaurs that did go extinct like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dianne Feinstein ended up leaving headaches for everybody else because they just couldn't step down gracefully. It's fucking embarrassing that we're even allowing these leeches to stay in power as a country. It's embarrassing that people are seriously wanting age limits for their politicians because these ghouls are soulless. When you look at actual civilized countries like Japan, you could only dream of what could be here.
Power is really that addictive. In ancient cultures, those who hoarded wealth were thought of as mad or of poor moral character, and there are modern psychological studies that show that anyone who is given power without consequences will abuse it and begin to believe that they are somehow deserving of the advantage.
The problem this time is that the ultra-wealthy have so much of the wealth that they can buy elections and control governments across the world, and no-one near them dares be anything but sycophantic, except their similarly-vicious billionaire peers.
Shinzo Abe ... humility
Those words don't go together at all... unless you add a "no" before humility. 'Poor health' was an excuse given to cover for him breaking his promise to never resign, and he resigned because of the unpopularity of himself and the party scandals at the time. Wikipedia has a good summary:
Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered great losses in the upper house election, losing control for the first time in 52 years. Agricultural minister, Norihiko Akagi, involved in a political funding scandal, resigned after the election. Additionally, Abe's rejection of a possible female Japanese monarch, which led to the Japanese succession controversy, diminished his support base.[47][48] In an attempt to revive his administration, Abe announced a new cabinet in August 2007. Support for Abe rose by 10 percent as a result; however, the new agricultural minister Takehiko Endo, involved in a finance scandal, resigned only seven days later.[49]
On 12 September 2007, only three days after a new parliamentary session had begun, Abe announced his intention to resign his position as prime minister at an unscheduled press conference.[50][51] The announcement came just minutes before opposition leaders were scheduled to question him in Parliament and shocked many. Abe had described himself as a "politician who fights" and previously pledged not to resign.[52] Abe explained that his unpopularity was hindering the passage of an anti-terrorism law, involving among other things Japan's continued military presence in Afghanistan. Party officials also said the embattled prime minister was suffering from poor health.
America needs more doohickeys
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Curiously, Feinstein was incoherent and had to be wheeled into committee in a wheelchair for a while before she finally expired, still in office.
We've seen countless times that officials, whether elected or appointed, will cling onto power until we pry it from their cold dead hands.
We really need to implement age caps as well as term limits, since we can't count on elected officials being pressured into retirement by their own peers, nor can we count on the voters primarying them since it means losing the incumbent advantage.
Sadly, as with much of political reform, the status quo serves those who are in office, so there's not much motivation to implement such legislation, and the public is not great at organizing over secondary matters.
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I personally don't think he's dead. I think it's far more likely that he only technically alive on life support.
He’s politically dead, though, except using him like “Weekend At Bernie’s”
Basically, Kentuckians had better stand up to get represented.
That's a fate worse than death. Imagine turning a literal zombie moose and you're corpse is being piloted for political gain of your subordinate parasites.
That's probably the most Mitch McConnell way to go out though.
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Everyone knows it.
They will get away with it.
This is the reality of the new Fascist America.
And Kentucky voted for this for what, 40 years? Hes held his seat since 1985. I wasn't even born yet and I'm 40.
America is a fucking cesspool.
Kentucky is part of the long-corrupt South. Even when Jim Crow laws and black voter suppression became illegal, the corruption was too deep to route out.
McConnell's seat was secured by election tampering the whole time. So Kentuckians didn't vote for him, but they "voted" for him.
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If he's effectively brain dead he could be on a ventilator. Some 1-in-a-million chance of recovery that they're using to keep him 'alive' to hold the seat
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im pretty sure its the other way around; If they hold out for 1 more month, they have to have a special election. If they don't hold out for a month, the governor (who is a democrat) gets to appoint someone.
afaik it's by election only now to fill a vacant senate seat from kentucky. the republicant super-majority in that state legislature passed a law that took the governor, including the sitting 2-term democrat, out of that process.
https://ballotpedia.org/Filling_vacancies_in_the_U.S._Senate
You are correct the seat, no matter what, would sit vacant until a special election is held
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Bashear should appoint his replacement now. Let them provide proof of life or STFU.
Make him confirm his identity with an app that 3d scans his face and retains a copy of his driver's license. Only way to be sure that he's alive and over 21.
Nope, Kentucky is one of 4 states that requires the seat to sit vacant until a special election is called.
https://ballotpedia.org/Filling_vacancies_in_the_U.S._Senate
I think the actual process is lost on a lot of people. Apparently there is no process to remove McConnell while he’s alive unless he resigns. Meaning if he’s on life support there’s nothing anyone can do. His seat just remains as is. I honestly think no one knows what’s going on with him. Apparently according to sources he’s been in a coma for 3 full weeks.
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Mitch Turtle McConnell, corrupt as fuck even in death
Can someone please contact the coroner in his hometown? If he's actually dead, they'd have to tell you.
But if he's brain dead and still on a ventilator, I don't think the corner would be aware of this until he was officially pronounced and the ventilator removed.
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They're probably keeping his braindead body on life support. Can't have him rotting before entering the 3 month window before the election.
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