There needs to be clause that say you can retroactively apply eligibility to the senate based on prior eligibility but systematic failure to let you run during the limited timeframe.
"growing questions" this, "demands proof of life" that, all of that is meaningless. Either declare him dead and issue the writs of election or he shows his face in public.
One minute beyond the deadline they will announce, "mitch was visiting the ole' Kentucky explosion factory today, not being a closeted homosexual, and in a freak accident, he exploded. So we're all super bummed that there can't be an autopsy now... Even if there could be of course, the results would just say he was definitely straight, and he was not dead for a month before his corpse living body was deliberately accidentally exploded."
He's passed on! This senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If they hadn't nailed him to the hospital bed he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!! HE IS AN EX-SENATOR!!
If he's not dead dead, which admittedly seems like it would hard to keep secret for a month and a half, it seems pretty likely that he knows he isn't fit to serve and is simply waiting on announcing that until it's too late for the people of Kentucky to have a say about his successor. Which would, as many have noted, be a perfect way for this ghoul to end his career, fucking over his constituents one last time on his way out the door.
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Dude has been dead and they will announce it right after the deadline.
They should hold the special election and pick someone anyway, against the rules. He would have loved that.
They absolutely should do this.
Our federal government operates not according to any a laws, state governors should just do whatever they want and cite the president as precedent.
Worst case a judge rules in 6 months and it doesn't change anything. They should do it.
Only criminals ever do anything
He'll be dead in 8 days, officially. And his seat will go vacant, to prevent any obstruction to the destruction of this country.
What’s funny about that is he’d be replaced by a GOP- Kentafuckyou changed the rules because of the dem governor
Next time just say Kenfucky
yeah the other one is too close to kunte kinte for any ones comfort.
That's a reach...
The thing about that is they didn't change the KY Constitution.
Beshear should appoint a new Senator & make McConnell's staff prove they haven't been defrauding the government for a month and a half.
But no, that would require a spine.
We all know what they're doing, but apparently no one who could stop it cares to.
That’s the part that angers me the most. What the fuck is the (democratic) Governor thinking and why hasn’t he done anything yet?
Because the timeline depends on the fascist takeover happening
It’s definitely not better to do nothing.
There is a silent /s at the end of that.
Sure but it can’t be both silent AND invisible.
You'd think so, but here is a fart that we prepared earlier.
He is evidently unble to fulfill his duties. Needs to be replaced by someone who can.
There needs to be clause that say you can retroactively apply eligibility to the senate based on prior eligibility but systematic failure to let you run during the limited timeframe.
How can he face anything? He ded
"growing questions" this, "demands proof of life" that, all of that is meaningless. Either declare him dead and issue the writs of election or he shows his face in public.
Sometimes, the politics in my country enfuriate me.
But then I'm reminded just how absolute garbage it is in the US, and I feel better.
Does he face growing questions? Does he? Because I have a strong feeling he's facing questions in the same way that rocks might.
One minute beyond the deadline they will announce, "mitch was visiting the ole' Kentucky explosion factory today, not being a closeted homosexual, and in a freak accident, he exploded. So we're all super bummed that there can't be an autopsy now... Even if there could be of course, the results would just say he was definitely straight, and he was not dead for a month before his
corpseliving body wasdeliberatelyaccidentally exploded."He's passed on! This senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If they hadn't nailed him to the hospital bed he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible!! HE IS AN EX-SENATOR!!
oh don’t fuck it up for them now…. they’ve only got 8 more days til they can pull the plug.
How can he face these questions if he is brain-dead or dead? Headlines today, sheesh!
He is dead…
If he's not dead dead, which admittedly seems like it would hard to keep secret for a month and a half, it seems pretty likely that he knows he isn't fit to serve and is simply waiting on announcing that until it's too late for the people of Kentucky to have a say about his successor. Which would, as many have noted, be a perfect way for this ghoul to end his career, fucking over his constituents one last time on his way out the door.
He’s turtle soup now.
Turtlesoup for the fishes.
He's a turnip.
What mouse jiggler does he use?
Whatever. He released a statement that boils down to he is getting more work done in the hospital than he ever did from the Capital.
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Poor Dalores :(