• 4am@lemmy.zip
      37·
      3 个月前

      They should hold the special election and pick someone anyway, against the rules. He would have loved that.

      • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
        21·
        3 个月前

        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.

  • mikenurre@lemmy.world
    52·
    3 个月前

    He’ll be dead in 8 days, officially. And his seat will go vacant, to prevent any obstruction to the destruction of this country.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 个月前

      What’s funny about that is he’d be replaced by a GOP- Kentafuckyou changed the rules because of the dem governor

      • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 个月前

        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.

  • grainfed@quokk.auEnglish
    28·
    3 个月前

    He is evidently unble to fulfill his duties. Needs to be replaced by someone who can.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
      5·
      3 个月前

      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.

  • NateNate60@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 个月前

    “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.

  • Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 个月前

    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.

  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
    15·
    3 个月前

    Does he face growing questions? Does he? Because I have a strong feeling he’s facing questions in the same way that rocks might.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 个月前

    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.”

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    141·
    3 个月前

    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!!

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    9·
    3 个月前

    How can he face these questions if he is brain-dead or dead? Headlines today, sheesh!

  • khepri@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 个月前

    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.