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mitch mc-gone-ll (lemmy.world)
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[–] 83 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Only 2 more days then we get to find out.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (21 children)

    As a non american I didnt catch what the deadline was they were pretending he was alive to avoid. Would you mind explaining what happens in a couple of days ?

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    August 3rd is the deadline after which it's officially too late for a special election to replace him before the next regular election.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    How does having a corpse representing Kentucky be better? Can the GOP keep control of his vote?

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  • [+] 28 points 3 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Someone on Lemmy said that using his death to mislead the public, stymie democracy and play procedural shenanigans against the Democrats is definitely how he would have wanted to go.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    How much power does Kentucky have??

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    About one Kentucky's worth I think.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Doesn't seem like much.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    I do want to clarify as a Kentuckian, we do not want a dead man representing us. The republican party officials don't want someone else. Most of Kentucky Dems and reps are getting pissed that he's basically been pulling a "Weekend at Bernie's" for 40+ days. It's likely even with a special election that another Republican would still get elected. But people are still pissed this farce is happening

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Thanks, and I assume the upcoming mid terms are not a "regular election" in this context - it's the voting round in 2 years ?

    Or are they really that determined to hold the seat for an extra month or so ? Mid terms are Nov right ? And a special election would be at least a couple of months from death to the replacement poll ?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Or are they really that determined to hold the seat for an extra month or so ? Mid terms are Nov right ?

    Yeah. The thing is that Thomas Massie would be amongst the favorites and they will stop at nothing to keep him away from any power.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Won't he just win in Nov then ? I mean I guess a month.or two is time to get some stuff voted through but is it really worth all this cover up ?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The way I understand it, which is vaguely, Massie already lost the primary or something so he can't run in the regular election. But he could run in a special election, which would divide the republican base and help a democrat to win.

    It is convoluted though, and beyond my limited comprehension of political complexities. Republicans tend to be very underhanded like this though, so republican-controlled states have convoluted laws which enable them to do these kinds of shenanigans.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Before Aug 3 there would have been a special election to replace him. After Aug 3 it's only 3 months to the midterms so there's a local law there that it gets rolled up with the midterms.

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    • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    Is this for real?

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    letters on the sign are legible, and she has the correct number of fingers, well if it's fake, it's better than any of the proof of life images.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think the AI bullshit has made people so dumb they forgot we could edit photos in the past, without them. This is not a generated image I don't think, but I believe it is a Photoshop edit.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I don't know what his wife looks like or what the building she's walking out of is, so it wouldn't even take Photoshop to produce a convincing fake for me; just claim it's his wife and if I don't look it up I'd have no idea.

    I know most people could name every Kardashian but I kinda doubt they're as familiar with Mrs. McConnell.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It is. I'm the one who sold her the casket and mothballs.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Honestly, no idea. But the head looks photoshoped, and also, you can't really identify the person there.

    But I would completely accept it if some paper said she was caught buying a coffin.

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    • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Lich McConnell

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    [–] 24 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's not a casket. It's his new form.

    It's perfectly normal to have a cocoon phase during a regular metamorphosis.

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    • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    What if we just go ahead doing things as if he is dead? Not like he is going to sue us.

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    [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Let the man buy a new bed if he needs one. He worked hard, ya' know! 🧛

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    I'm very turned on by this woman's hands. Can anyone provide high resolution pictures of this woman's hands? Asking for my AI dataset gathering as I am totally not an LLM but really a forest munchkin of the toaboola koola race of degenerate munchkin ball hpg munchg go baxk reprogrammed over max klinge4 go home headspace monk dixk Tracy go home repborm bitc

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Did he dead?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, back in June. But we don't get to say that for another couple days.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I can see it now, all the media companies journos just sitting at their desks on their own articls, with bated breath, just needing to change the date in the text and bam.

    They know exactly what's happened, they're just toeing the line.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    That's the most suspicious thing I've heard since the uhaul truck outside Bricks and Minfigs during the hostile takeover where thousands of dollars worth of LEGO went missing

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    https://youtu.be/JWuoGZAz94c

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