This statement is truthful if you know McConnell.

Well now... I still do think you can tell a lot about a person from how they speak of the dead, but under the circumstances this is a level of restraint I would struggle to achieve.

And republicans have no shame or morals so they would absolutely do something like that.

To the point it wouldn't be shocking if he made it part of his will

"I thought i already got him?? Must have forgotten to visit."

He's a Republican. He's been brain-dead all his life.

Hopefully, he's conscious and in horrible pain and they're keeping him alive with all sorts of fucked up shit.

He hasn't been fit for anything in years, physically or mentally.

Rep. Tom Kean was missing for four months without much explanation and there have been no consequences.

Even Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Kean should have said more sooner at a news conference Tuesday: “If it were me, I would have been more specific about that, and I encouraged him to be.”

Dude won his primary unopposed while he still missing.

Truth needs to be found then told to all so seat can be challenged

Hey hey, be fair, he stole two supreme court seats. The third was pretty solidly in the middle of Trump's term.

So, what are you going to do about it? America used to be great because Americans used to actually get out there and be the change...or fight for it. Now y'all just whine on websites.

I'm voting for the Prometheus ending.

On repeat. Every day. Forever.

One of the finest posts I've ever seen on the internet

he could be technically alive. just enough. he might be kept technically alive for a while yet.

it's probably hell in whatever remains of his mind. a nightmare two months long.

They need to add at least 2 more now. That article is old.

Good time to mention that Reagan gutted the FCC protections that kept companies from owning more than six radio stations across the country.

Read up on the Fairness Doctrine

Screw the national "independent press" let's all keep using people-owned independent press instead. Because the majority stock companies and owned by wealthy individuals aren't cutting it.

Because we don’t have a free independent press any more.

I'm not sure the last time that we had that. I'm Gen X, so it must have come before. The "liberal media" I was always told was so damned liberal always seemed to be hosted by people with suits and ties and working as part of some megacorp, and that mostly spouted corporate compliant things. In any case, pre-internet, things were pretty tightly gate-kept by a small set of corporations.

And Ronnie Raygun worked to make that even worse - the decades since has been a long march toward the right, at least on cable and the airwaves...

Maybe I'm too young, though if I watch something like Network, it seems the boomers didn't really have an independent press either. Chomsky is much older and seemed to make reference to a lively press in his youth.

These days, I like that Meidas Touch sends people in to ask questions. Mostly you get to see Maga Mike Johnson fleeing the scene while trying to avoid answering anything, LOL.

She speaks from experience.

It is exceedingly difficult for a medical professional to differentiate between brain death and just being a republican representative.

Yes, but what about his current state?

But he's always been brain dead.

Takes one to know one.

What you are suggesting is the norm in every western country in the World.

However, in the US anything goes.

You might consider fixing that.

Kentucky does gubernatorial appointment, but I agree with the sentiment wholeheartedly.

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In Kentucky the governor no longer has any role in filling vacancies, replacement is only by special election: https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-legislature-governor-f4d0ab8ffaec1a435ac52515c67d8f0e

He may have been elected for another job, but the jobs he was paid for was to screw the average family for generations and destroy democracy.

In practice, the local pd would get shoed away by federal security before they got anywhere near the turtle's room.

Feel sorry for the regular nurses that have to work the floor and keep silent about it. They probably forced them to sign NDAs with massive damages for disclosing the truth.

The problem is the integrity of the people doing the wellness check

They would freeze him and say "not technically dead yet" given the opportunity.

Conservatism is ultimately an exercise in collective selfishness. One subset of the population decides, "we're going to vote together to give ourselves special rights and privileges and suppress everyone else." Everything else is just window dressing. Progressives actually try and believe in real principles, which is why you don't see such rat fucking behavior. If you're ultimately at least trying to be a good person, winning through cheating kind of takes the fun out of it.

The conservative movement and their party is just full of awful scheming dirtbags.

When conservative voters make it clear they have no standards the worst of the worst of our society know they can move in and setup shop.

This is all on braindead amoral bigoted conservative voters.

We'll have to ask the Supreme Court...

Ahh, 5 to 4, huh?

The primary elections for the normal election cycle have already happened. Massie did not run for a Senate seat in those because he ran for his House seat, and lost.

This special election would be a different electio under different rules, and now that he knows he's not going to his old seat he is available to run.

So, if they delay, they leave no opportunity for that special election, and Massie has nothing to run for. It definitely seems fitting that Republicans would scheme to leave a seat vacant, rather than there be a chance of it going to a Republican that Trump doesn't like.

There is no justice or rule of law or single truth in this world anymore so yea he should go for it

Lol, no.

I mean yeah, it's the weakness party. They're afraid of women, afraid of melanin, and of course very proudly afraid of God.

SCOTUS be like: "Are we talking democrats ore republicans here?"