He’s the executive. Doesn’t he have law enforcement capabilities of some kind? Can he launch an investigation? These democrats are humiliatingly weak.
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Well that’ll teach them.
At this point it's going to HAVE to be a closed casket and/or private funeral unless they pumped that body with the most chemicals known to man and put him in a freezer in the arctic.
Also whomever the mortician or whatever is they're probably rolling in the dough right now. probably the best thing that happened in their career.
If only there was SOMETHING he Could do! OH WELL!
I totally understand the frustration, but my understanding is that there is really nothing he can legally do about it. What exactly do you think he should be doing that he isn't? If there is something that he's legitimately not doing I'd like to know about it.
McConnell is a US senator. Beshear is the governor of the state of Kentucky.
Beshear has about the same legal authority to do something about it that you do.
So... What's your excuse?
He could have called for a special election before August 3rd and forced the issue. That’s a hell of a lot more than I could do.
You also left out: McConnell is a US Senator for the state of Kentucky. It’s not like he immediately became untouchable by his state he represents the moment he got elected.
The democrats (and the governor) are just too spineless to force the issue.
Lol at this thread ripping on Andy Beshear for not "doing something!" while totally excluding the actual fucking culprit AND his enablers from the entire conversation.
Also lol at all the people who, when directly asked, "What do you think the governor of Kentucky can do that he isn't already doing?" either fall silent, or instantly refer to the extensive law libraries they keep in their prison wallets to extract answers not found in reality.
So many people trying so, so hard to indict the only official actually doing what they can within the law -- while giving the actual miscreant a complete pass. Stop missing stair around this dead or dying motherfucker already, jesus. Do you think he's going to come get you like the ghoul he is?
Or to put it another way, Mitch McConnell, who is the actual individual deserving of your ire (remember this point) is physically in DC. DC is where he collapsed and was hospitalized, and just a couple days ago there was a video of a DC power broker coming out of McConnell's DC townhouse. It is safe to say that DC is where Mitch McConnell -- or at least his mortal coil -- is physically located right now.
Now let's look at the law. Gov. Beshear is not the mayor of DC. As the governor of a state, Gov. Beshear has no federal authority to do anything at all. Gov. Beshear has authority in the state of Kentucky, and only in the state of Kentucky.
Meanwhile, DC is not in Kentucky, which is very probably why McConnell is staying in DC.
To recap: at any point since mid-June, McConnell himself could have put a stop to this circus in a single heartbeat -- but instead of going after him, you're all focusing your anger on the governor of the state of Kentucky who is left as powerless by McConnell to go after him as you are, yet who is still doing everything he can legally do.
Or to put it another way, Gov. Beshear has NOT forgotten who the actual fucking culprit of this scenario is, which is far more than can be said for so many in this thread, lol.
Correction: that linked post has been removed; this is the comment posted under that video by OP showing the identity of the power broker that was recorded coming out of McConnell's DC townhouse. Screenshotted it in case that gets deleted too:

Quite literally all that needed to happen was to call a dead man’s bluff. Say his seat is vacant due to inability to perform necessary duties of the seat. If he’s not dead/incapable of doing the job then that’s a pretty easy thing to prove. The bar was on the floor, and that was still too high for them to hurdle. You’re jumping through logical hoops to pretend any of this was unavoidable.
instantly refer to the extensive law libraries they keep in their prison wallets
Cute, I get it.
Other than calling me an asshole, because apparently tactical logistics make you angry, got anything to say in response?
That is not an argument or valid point against what I pointed out. Outline the issue, don’t just get mad that not everyone is a lawyer.
Also, are you a lawyer?
Poor wikipedia editors have been waiting on his page for so long they begun unionizing.
Kentucky's governor is basically Chuck Schumer, all bluster. What a disappointment.
In 300 years people will debate whether mecha-mcconnell was ever a real person or always just a system of puppeteers
The guy who could have ended all of this nonsense is mad that other people didn’t end all of this nonsense.
Fuck you Beshear, you spineless piece of shit, this is as much on as it is on McTurtle at this point.
The governor can't actually do anything in this situation.
Think of how it could be abused if he could. Any Republican governor would be able to unilaterally declare Democrats as unfit for office and appoint someone else to Congress. If that were possible to do, don't you think they'd be doing that constantly?
He could have gone through the actions that would be done if McConnell had been declared dead, and then dared them to provide proof of life to invalidate his actions.
Make no mistake: He was NOT powerless.
The man is fucking dead, to pretend like nobody could do anything is a pretty god damned stupid take on the entirety of this whole situation. There was a lot he could have done, but all he did was roll over like a good dog.
They were quite fucking literally pulling a dead man’s bluff, all he had to do was call that bluff.
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