• jack888888@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Not surprised they’re dragging it out past the appointment window. The empty seat is the feature, not the bug.

  • blujan@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    11 hours ago

    Republicans don’t want democracy, they want whatever puts their beliefs first and cheating is not out of the question.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    Not quite a counterpoint, but since they stripped Governor Beshear of the ability to appoint a Senator in the place of McConnell, it’s actually advantageous for the Democratic party that McConnell’s seat remains in its limbo state. As it is, it’s a non-vote. If an emergency election were run, most likely it would be filled by another R.

    So, yes, they’re getting away with pretending McConnell is alive (the opposite of murder?), and the Democrats have cause to just play along.

    And it gets worse if McConnell is not dead (and not stuck on life support with little hope for recovery). It’s routine to let federal elected officials cling to power until pried from their cold, dead hands. So long as there’s a chance he might recover, McConnell’s cabinet is going to insist Kentucky waits, and again the Democrats have good cause to let his vote stay absent from the Senate floor.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
    19·
    14 hours ago

    The only thing that’s surprising is that they didn’t immediately on the stroke of midnight submit a press release of his passing, given the suggestion that he needed to make it to August 3rd in order to avoid any chance of the governor appointing his replacement. I wouldn’t have bet my own life on it, but I was halfway expecting to wake up this morning to the news of his passing.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    153·
    13 hours ago

    Dont worry, the DNC is ON IT. Schumer hasnt written a strongly worded memo on it yet, but I think he’s considering it. I know that other than Beshear muttering some weak objections and not following through, the DNC has done and said nothing at all about it, but uh… yeah vote blue no matter who.

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
    144·
    21 hours ago

    His staffers have committed fraud & have also apparently committed forgery.

    They need to be indicted in 2029.

    • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
      302·
      17 hours ago

      That’s adorable.

      Democrats coukd win every seat in every election and they won’t do jack shit against any of these criminals.

      “TiMe tO mOvE oN aNd rEuNiTe tHe CoUnTrY” or some bull shit.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.worldEnglish
        51·
        13 hours ago

        It’s tough to try to indict the GOP when the majority of american voters decided they don’t care and voted the ringleader back into the White House…

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        15 hours ago

        Its gotta be easy to run against the worst people possible. The ads write themselves. If you want to win of course.

        Maybe thats why democrats didnt want to prosecute Trump. Gotta get one more election in with the big bad guy. Plus you can genocide whoever you want and break union strikes. What are they gonna do, let trump win? I wonder who will be the bad cop after Trump croaks.

        • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
          84·
          17 hours ago

          It points to the fact that if you want things to change, the Dems are not going to help you. I’m sorry if the truth causes you to doom-out and not be able to fight. You should work on that. Pretending in a lie so your feelings don’t hurt, so you can fight for an “option” that will not save you, is far more harmful.

            • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
              101·
              17 hours ago

              Saying “the Democrats have no desire to change things or save us” is not the same as saying “there is no hope”.

              I mean this from the bottom of my heart. Things are very very bad. If your mental state has deteriorated to the point where you feel that the truth is “doomerism” and that you need to believe in false hope just to mentally survive, you need to genuinely tend to your mental health. Fussing at your triggers online is not helping. In fact if you’re like most people, the online time is probably only hurting.

              The Democrats are not going to save you. A future where you matter can be forged, just not through them. I hope you can find some real future to hold onto🧡

                • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
                  32·
                  17 hours ago

                  I do discuss viable options. I didn’t in this post. It is not viable to do so in every interaction. To take your very valid frustration with the status quo out on me, someone who sees and fights, is far more harmful than my glib reminder that the Democrats will not fix the way things are, only perpetuate them.

                  You seem to be very thirsty for real action. You can’t get that here, my friend.

                  If you still want to hang out here, and you need viable suggestions to be mentioned for your own mental health, I would suggest that you add them any time you see a comment that you feel is “dooming”. If you want the work, do the work. Hoping that people leaving 3 second comments do it, is a losing strategy. Getting angry at allies, taking your very valid frustration at your current situation out on them, hurts your cause far far more than a comment like my original one could.

            • chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
              41·
              17 hours ago

              I feel like their point was that if being told that democrats wont save us sends you into a doomerism spiral of misery and despair, that’s maybe something you should work on yourself. And a more sober reading of our current situation is not that one should lose all hope, but that they should find it outside the democratic party.

  • deifyed@lemmy.wtf
    9·
    14 hours ago

    This is only an argument if one values democracy, which the voters of Trump clearly does not

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      32·
      13 hours ago

      true, but lets get real, the dnc doesnt care what you think either, unless you are by chance mega rich?

  • LazyBaby@lemmy.zipEnglish
    73·
    20 hours ago

    Does anyone remember when Biden stepped down and Republicans were real mad that the democrats were “hiding” his decline?

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    151·
    16 hours ago

    Democracy is having more then two options to choose from. If the two party system is so great and everyone is fully reoresented, the blue and red conservatives shouldn’t mind replacing First-past-the-post voting with something that let’s people transfer their vote if their first pick doesn’t win.

    But I guess wanting to able to vote how I want is a purity test… and we dont do that here right?

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        1·
        12 hours ago

        A lot of young people are just getting interested in politics, especially new Progressives, and they’ll be seeing this for the first time. A concise synopsis can do a lot of good, so it wouldn’t hurt to be patient and move on, without being condescending. Or not.