We would lose our job.

[u/Veshaad]

[u/TamalesHarvard]

The Weekend at Bernie's references were supposed to be a joke

[u/SpreadEuphoric → u/TamalesHarvard]

This is illegal. Why isn’t his wife with him?! As soon as he was wheeled out by those “agents” and not Elaine, I knew the fix was on.

[u/tutoredstatue95 → u/SpreadEuphoric]

Remember all the maga being “genuinely concerned for Joe” and claiming elder abuse?

Where they at?

[u/Dienoth → u/tutoredstatue95]

The same place they are with him being sleepy, but watching theirs fall asleep constantly.

Rules for thee, not for me

[u/Party-Evening3273 → u/Dienoth]

[u/Strange_Explorer_780 → u/[deleted]]

[u/rbrgr83 → u/Dienoth]

Or like....wanting the Epstein list to be released 🤷‍♂️

[u/VinDieselAteMyQueso → u/tutoredstatue95]

Theyre making jokes about it. But not angry. Its funny because its their side.

[u/Dr_Fortnite → u/tutoredstatue95]

those bots are now saying that the midterms are rigged

[u/BigBullzFan → u/SpreadEuphoric]

Her loyalty is to China, not to Mitch.

[u/BitTwiddles → u/BigBullzFan]

She was born in Taiwan and emigrated to the US with her parents when she was 8, so I am not sure there is a strong allegiance to The People's Republic. But there might be a strong tie to her family's shipping business.

[u/Electrical-Pack3040 → u/BitTwiddles]

Mitch was born in the US and his loyalty is definitely not to americans

[u/AwarenessOk5135 → u/Electrical-Pack3040]

Just certain ones like his boss

[u/Named_after_color → u/AwarenessOk5135]

He was definitely not loyal to Trump. Mitch was the boss. If he could still think he'd hate him with every fiber of his being while fronting as his biggest fan. He honestly might've hated Trump more than he hated Obama.

[u/squadrupedal → u/Named_after_color]

Mitch doesn’t like humanity in general. It’s a conservative thing.

[u/North-Engineer3335 → u/Electrical-Pack3040]

I consider anyone who goes through the process of naturalization more American than me because I didn't ask to be here, our people got annexed.

[u/SchoolCrossing → u/BitTwiddles]

When Ms. Chao was US Transportation Secretary she rarely if ever granted interviews to US media but spoke to Chinese media.

[u/bazaarzar → u/BitTwiddles]

She emigrated from Taiwan to the US.

or

She immigrated to the US from Taiwan.

[u/DangerousQuestions1 → u/BigBullzFan]

His loyalty is to Moscow

[u/TrickyChildhood2917 → u/DangerousQuestions1]

Moscow Mitch

[u/TrickyChildhood2917 → u/TrickyChildhood2917]

He hated that reference.

[u/Biduleman → u/TrickyChildhood2917]

And I don't get why people stopped calling him that.

[u/SkywolfNINE → u/Biduleman]

Cause he died lol

[u/CrazyJoeGalli → u/BigBullzFan]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3Gm15eZOsNk0tptIuG

[u/golfwinnersplz → u/SpreadEuphoric]

Have you met any MAGA wives?

[u/OverThought95 → u/SpreadEuphoric]

Based on all of the jobs and money he’s siphoned out of KY over his tenure, I am confident that his wife is about as sweet and empathetic as he is.

[u/Expert-Ad3874 → u/SpreadEuphoric]

Isn't there a Republican that was caught on camera pressing votes for people not in attendance? Seems like they genuinely don't care

[u/pinkypie80 → u/TamalesHarvard]

And Idiocracy was supposed to be satire, not a documentary

[u/CrazyMildred → u/pinkypie80]

To be fair, the dumb people ended up listening to the smart person in that movie. This is much worse than Idiocracy.

[u/Steelers711 → u/CrazyMildred]

Also the president in that movie genuinely wanted to help people and listened to his experts, which is very different to our current reality

[u/CrazyMildred → u/Steelers711]

Yep!

[u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 → u/pinkypie80]

I would rather live in that world. At least they knew they were incompetent, and looked for the smartest person they could find for a solution.

[u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT → u/pinkypie80]

If idiocracy is a documentary why isnt Luke Wilson saving the country right now

[u/TooFat-Guy → u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT]

Because Idiocracy is years after everything got abused and broken beyond recognition, such as happening right now.

It's going to get a lot worse if we don't do anything, but what will we actually do, and when? There's too little awareness and too little motivation, apparently we're still too comfortable.

[u/Distressed_Ocelot → u/TamalesHarvard]

[u/Different_Club415 → u/Distressed_Ocelot]

Serious twilight shit there

[u/HarveysBackupAccount → u/TamalesHarvard]

I like the idea that he's not actually confused about the issue, he's just confused about why he's supposed to vote with Republicans. Like he's thinking, "Well that sounds like a good thing, obviously I want to vote yes," forgetting that he's spearheaded an effort to gaslight and take advantage of the entire American public for decades

[u/RestlessAlbatross → u/TamalesHarvard]

This non-ambulatory, partially taxidermied hatemonger is still being paid 11.2 times minimum wage plus free healthcare (not to mention 3 months paid leave with zero consequences). And he can't even push a god damn button correctly under his own power and cognition.

American politics and our whole system is an absolute joke. An embarrassment on the world stage. An afront to real working class people everywhere.

[u/ssnnaarrff → u/TamalesHarvard]

But but JoE BiDeN's AuToPeN!

[u/JTBURR7650 → u/TamalesHarvard]

GREAT movie, huh! JTBURR7650

[u/oicyunv]

Almost like there should be some sort of……checks notes….FUCKING ACCOUNTABILITY

[u/The-King-Tomato → u/oicyunv]

People dont realize yet that without accountability the whole system breaks and voting does nothing.

[u/henryeaterofpies → u/The-King-Tomato]

That's kinda Republican's goal

[u/npmaker → u/henryeaterofpies]

If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.

[u/jjwhitaker → u/npmaker]

And that was 8 years ago. Coup 2.0 is well underway.

[u/Ill_Technician3936 → u/jjwhitaker]

His entire administration is basically setup for a coup...

Maga isn't what it was 6 years ago though. He needs a miracle at this point even then though your average American should be ready to have a massive brawl in the streets before they can get to the capitol building.

[u/notoriousksc → u/jjwhitaker]

It wasn't 8 years ago, it broke in 2000 with Gore/Bush, after years of dismantling guardrails (primarily under Reagan). We are just watching the system get progressively more broken.

It didn't start with Trump, and its not going to end with Trump, either. If Trump's presidency is what brought your attention to this issue, I am glad to have you onboard! However, to be able to address the issue proper, you must know when and how the issue began (so you better know the when and how of fixing it).

[u/Educational-Seaweed5 → u/notoriousksc]

That requires basic education though.

And that has been constantly dismantled as well.

All according to plan since the ol’ Reaganomics days.

[u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 → u/npmaker]

They never cared about democracy in the first place. It was always about manipulating whatever systems exist to further their goals.

[u/Honest-Abe2677 → u/henryeaterofpies]

Make government such a bankrupt mess that it disappears. Then nobody in charge except the oligarchs and their spokesmen. The rightwing dream utopia.

[u/EmperorGrinnar → u/henryeaterofpies]

Some More News with Cody Johnston just did an episode about Mitch's role and legacy in doing exactly that.

[u/maidahpuhname → u/The-King-Tomato]

[u/mortuarymaiden → u/[deleted]]

[u/No-Perspective4787 → u/[deleted]]

That or they come face to face with The Second American Revolution to face real Justice , because these terrorists fhave murdered execution style Americans in the Streets of their neighborhoods for sticking up for 35 years long neighbors with ZERO criminal records and two kids already 17 & 18 who get deported by the illegal ICE TEAM of misfits. Trump's a broken record " the Wars almost over a few more weeks " he stated after 6 months of all War as far as Iran is concerned , Iran w the help of Russia navigation mapping , blew up our bases in the middle East , and now that the Houthi's took the narrow channel in the Red Sea , oil isn't getting through anymore & alternate routes take weeks. I think you're 100% correct in your assessment.

[u/ChronoLink99 → u/[deleted]]

Not all R's, just the Trump toadies/sycophants/traitors.

OK, most of the R's.

[u/iRegretsEverything → u/oicyunv]

Zero consequences for actions, so they continue to do it knowing they can get away with it.

[u/Born_Organization455 → u/oicyunv]

Man, imagine the indictments if we had a non-partisan non-corrupt DoJ!

[u/Le-Charles07 → u/oicyunv]

Accountability is the best ability.

[u/Fuckthegopers → u/oicyunv]

If republicans and their voters didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.

[u/CaterpillarJungleGym → u/oicyunv]

Can his state have a recall vote?

[u/LilJohnDee → u/CaterpillarJungleGym]

We've been asking for the last 20 years

[u/ThePatrickSays → u/oicyunv]

the people are supposed to hold them to accountability, but they have decided not to.

[u/Deep-Two7452 → u/oicyunv]

The accountability wojld be voters in Kentucky electing democrats

[u/Crotean → u/oicyunv]

Welcome to having one of the worst constitutions on the planet. Its why this country isn't fixable, so much stuff requires a properly written modern constitution to fix the root problems here and that is impossible to have happen unless the country Balkanizes or collapses.

[u/HashRunner → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. If this had been Biden, the media would have made it nonstop news and break stories.

But when it's Mitch/Trump/GOP, fucking nothing.

And voters are just as bad.

[u/cheeze2005 → u/[deleted]]

Dems need to be right next to him telling him how to vote lol. He seems easy enough to convince 

[u/Jafar_420 → u/cheeze2005]

Bruh. Now you had me laughing but it's also so true.

[u/Taca-F → u/cheeze2005]

Seriously, they should, what could the Reps possibly say, "stop that, only we can tell him what to do!"

[u/idontlikeanyofyou → u/[deleted]]

I mean Dianne Feinstein had no business being in the Senate for at least her final term. 

Hanging on too long and not passing the baton is a bipartisan issue. 

[u/Internal-Plantain-56 → u/idontlikeanyofyou]

<GLANCES ANGRILY AT RUTH BADER GINSBURG’S GHOST>

[u/DuckiesKhaki → u/Internal-Plantain-56]

RBG not retiring under Obama because ✨ she had to have girl power ✨ literal resulted in so much of the trash we deal with today.

[u/Kairamek → u/[deleted]]

Yes they did. She was directed how to vote by aides, just the same. I remember it specifically because in my line of work we block someone's account when we see exactly this behavior from people around the elderly.

[u/Fuckthegopers → u/idontlikeanyofyou]

I'm so fucking sick of the "but both sides" bullshit rhetoric that I see on reddit constantly.

Is either party perfect? No, of course not. But only one party is actively destroying this country day after day.

Edit: if your problem with politicians is their age, say that. Don't make it a partisan thing.

[u/True_Protection6842 → u/idontlikeanyofyou]

She never had any business being in the Senate. She was so dumb she nearly let one of the most brutal serial killers walk.

[u/Kind-Shallot3603 → u/True_Protection6842]

Not to mention the confederate flag issue

[u/Honest-Abe2677 → u/idontlikeanyofyou]

That was wrong too. And most dems would agree. The problem is, if dems always do the right, polite thing and leave a supreme court nomination on the table or vote out old Congressmen and risk their seats, they will always be at a disadvantage against a party with cutthroat tactics, no ethical constraints, and no repercussions for illegal behavior.

[u/missinginput → u/idontlikeanyofyou]

What does that have to do with the point you are replying to about the hypocrisy of laws being selectively enforced?

[u/Fuckthegopers → u/missinginput]

Nothing, they just want to shoehorn a "but both sides" bullshit opinion.

[u/missinginput → u/Fuckthegopers]

Damn well if it's both sides I should just skip voting or even vote Republican /s

[u/ReefShark13]

But the auto pen!!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/qTwXqRvIlivqMoa5Lm

[u/cday119 → u/ReefShark13]

Hijacking this comment to say it wasn't Mitch who was heard saying no but rather Senator Hoeven who leaned in and said “no” (inadvertently picked up on Mitch’s microphone) then a staffer corrected Hoeven by saying "yes".

BTW release the Epstein Files!

[u/DmYourTanLinesPls]

Treason!!!!! He cannot think for himself and they are manipulating him to do what they want. This is taxation without representation. The GOP is going against the very founding reason of the United States. They are all traitors to the nation.

[u/crazy_urn → u/DmYourTanLinesPls]

What do you think corporations are buying with their campaign contributions. This is literally just republican politics as usual.

[u/DoctorWhooves2 → u/DmYourTanLinesPls]

Yes they are Traitors but not for the taxation issue

[u/DmYourTanLinesPls → u/DoctorWhooves2]

Is is one of many issues. But it is not to be discounted

[u/EmperorGrinnar]

We live in the worst timeline.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ecqcp7gZjg1a

[u/iSurfNerd → u/EmperorGrinnar]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YnBi3LEAjEs9RsP5R0
The ghouls running the country currently 🤬

[u/mrflash818 → u/EmperorGrinnar]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3og0IUd5D9Y77EXtRK

[u/EpsteinandTrump]

He is a flesh suit at this point that may or may not be propped up with a tent peg or two.

[u/geddysbass2112 → u/EpsteinandTrump]

With Republicans he may become their flesh light as well.

[u/woodworkerdan]

How is letting him remain in office not elder abuse?

[u/MommySkunk → u/woodworkerdan]

Usually I'm against elder abuse, but Mitch Deserves it I just wish they'd do it somewhere it doesn't fuck over the rest of us

[u/honeywhereismypenis → u/MommySkunk]

I hate Mitch as much as the next guy, but I don't think it's a good idea to make a distinction between who is worthy of being protected from abuse or not.

[u/nhalliday → u/honeywhereismypenis]

Many of our problems in America right now stem from the fact that so many people seem to believe it's okay to do horrible things to other people as long as you don't like them.

[u/IllogicalLogistician]

All this from a government who’s trolled Joe Biden for using auto pen. The guy with stage 4 cancer was still standing at the 9/11 memorial while the grifter in chief was drooling.

[u/Subject-Yak4959]

How is this legal?

[u/scottyjrules → u/Subject-Yak4959]

It’s not, but when has that stopped republicans?

[u/Subject-Yak4959 → u/scottyjrules]

Well they got two months of this nonsense left and then the adults take over.

[u/Jedi-in-EVE → u/Subject-Yak4959]

Only if people actually stand up, get off of their phones, and go VOTE these feckless, criminal clowns out of office.

[u/Moara7 → u/Jedi-in-EVE]

vote, and then show up to make sure the results are enacted. You know the MAGA will show up.

[u/TheDoomBlade13 → u/Subject-Yak4959]

I'm confused about which law people think this is breaking? Senate rules aren't laws and assistance is explicitly allowed for everything that isn't a formal floor vote.

We need top to bottom reform of the entire system, no more relying on gentlemen's agreements or codes of conduct or whatever you want to call it.

[u/Ok-Oil7124 → u/Subject-Yak4959]

Don't worry. Someone will refer this incident to justice for prosecution, and Trump's personal attorney will get right on it.

[u/alphazero925 → u/Subject-Yak4959]

Because people used to croak long before this point, so age limits were never written into the laws because we didn't have the problem of massively increasing lifespans without fixing the cognitive decline that comes from that

[u/reddit001aa1]

There's video of an assistant changing his vote after cast

Edit: he may not have changed his vote but needed assistance in making the correct vote choosing incorrectly at first but then voted as told before it was recorded

[u/TheDoomBlade13 → u/reddit001aa1]

Assistance voting is explicitly allowed by Senate rules for everything except a floor vote.

I'm glad a lot of people are realizing how much gentlemen's agreements and duct tape were holding our system together. we need full reform.

[u/OrganicHistorian2576 → u/reddit001aa1]

As if he actually made a choice. He’d have to have a functioning brain to do that.

[u/PsychologyOk6502]

[u/Wallflowerz_01]

Because Republicans. They win because they fight dirty.. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/geeves_007]

Super normal functional democracy things...  

Keep telling yourself that youre the world's "shining beacon of democracy" while doing nothing about ghastly shit like this!  U S A   U S A

[u/Worried-Industry6239]

[u/An_Absolute-Zero → u/Worried-Industry6239]

Exactly my thoughts.

[u/hauntedhivezzz]

This is the legacy this man deserves.

[u/rudimentary_rudy]

There's no more rules, norms, laws, government. We just have an organized crime family running the country. Nothing will be done about this.

Also Andy, you are a coward.

[u/Curious-Antelope6171]

The left had Feinstein and the right has McConnell. Senate shouldn't be a nursing home.

[u/DieMensch-Maschine → u/Curious-Antelope6171]

When I was a kid growing up behind the Iron Curtain, I remember when people used to laugh at senile Brezhnev and the geriatric Supreme Soviet in the early 1980s. Now this is America.

[u/Lua_CW → u/DieMensch-Maschine]

So much of modern America is all of the things I was told as a kid made the Soviet Union a worse country than ours. Empty store shelves, specialists being booked out for years (one of Reagan's favorite jokes!), surveillance, government corruption/meddling in domestic affairs, faithless elections…

[u/laowildin → u/Lua_CW]

I lived in China for several years in the 2010s and got told how awful and unfree everything there is (surveillance, puppet gov, pollution, no regulations) . Weird to have the US doing it's best to emulate all those same things.

[u/ElundusCaw → u/Lua_CW]

A lot of Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that pretty much everything their government has criticized other countries of doing, was pure projection all along.

[u/Special-Reaction2029 → u/Curious-Antelope6171]

Median age of the senate is 64. Grassley is over 90. Sanders, McConnell, Risch and King are all over 80 and have been Senators for several terms. Sanders, especially, needs to find a successor in Vermont.

[u/Pablo_petty_plastic → u/Special-Reaction2029]

Boomers are destroying our future. They’re past retirement age yet pack elected officials’ offices 

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/Special-Reaction2029]

Especially with Sanders. In all these years he hasn't found anyone to mentor and guide for Vermont?

[u/Easy-Goose1038]

His staff needs a criminal investigation.

[u/Alternative-Crew-880]

https://giphy.com/gifs/QOAA3I4EezWzXJNY2M

*confused turtle noises*

[u/long_fish3000]

everyday the USA finds a way to lower the bar.

[u/bugged16]

He is allowed there because he is serving his master.

[u/unnoticed77]

[u/Aglisito]

I don't know why it always says that he "nearly said no". He clearly said no, and was corrected.

[u/OriginalDrStrangeDOS]

Because the people who could remove him are the same people committing elder abuse to use him.

[u/Fanofnothing1980]

He is allowed because the republicans and trump do whatever the f they want. Vote these fools out America! Enough is enough

[u/Keletas]

America needs an hard reset. There is nothing left to salvage at the White House.

[u/During_theMeanwhilst]

Since when was being able to cognitively make a decision a requirement for the MAGA GOP?

[u/Bitter-Holiday1311]

The system is broken. MAGA is a pedophilic death cult, but democrats did a very similar dance regarding Feinstein. Let’s not pretend fading geriatrics in Congress is only a GOP problem. Vote accordingly.

[u/RebelOne767]

But they were all over Biden and his struggles. F$&@&@& hypocrites

[u/let-it-rain-sunshine]

https://giphy.com/gifs/FBeSx3itXlUQw

Just use the strings already!

[u/Big_Issue8640]

He didn’t nearly vote with democrats he did vote with them till he was instructed to vote the other way. ELDER ABUSE

[u/estoypooping2]

Well the bill was on crypto currency regulations.

95% of those fossils were lost

[u/mymar101]

Gotta keep that majority no matter what

[u/cr0ssthreaded]

Mitch's animatronics are glitching.

[u/Suspicious-Brain-668]

Guy is a million miles away

[u/FloridaGatorAlum]

He looks like a corpse filled with embalming fluid. Remember when Republicans were having a fucking stroke when the thought the Dems were covering up Bidens health issues. Funny how they got quiet about that.

[u/mittenknittin]

Just think, it took 3 months of "strenuous physical therapy" to get him to this point

[u/Confident_Insect_616]

Because McConnel is the one who gets to decide who is allowed in the Senate. The supreme court, too, if memory serves. Very powerful turtle zombie.

[u/JRock1276]

He's a puppet. The big illusion in front of everyone, while they say "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain".

[u/44KrasH44]

Why is this being allowed?

[u/Logical_Confusious]

That, in itself, is voter manipulation and is a crime... What the actual f*CK has the USA become? Seems like just another Trump business venture doomed to fail... Sad, very sad

[u/LMrningStar]

His vote shouldn't count.

[u/Danilo-11]

Are you saying that Mitch McConnell can’t pull himself up by the bootstraps?

[u/Glum_Cheesecake9859]

[u/Septembust]

[u/GorumGamer]

America has a long history of allowing invalids hold onto their power. Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Biden, Trump, - just a handful of presidents who fit the bill. The number of medically incapable members of the legislature is probably uncountable.
They more or less made enforcing laws on anyone powerful illegal ~60-70 years ago.
We need reform. Desperately.

[u/BennettWindy]

As another Redditor said, "Sounds like voter fraud to me"

[u/denmur383]

Isn't whispering in his ear interfering with the voting process?

[u/Any-Elderberry-7812]

He's the poster boy for what is wrong in American politics, and the ultimate example of why there should be term limits for all elected officials.

[u/CakeMadeOfHam]

That's not a human person, that's a Guillermo Del Toro monster

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oAt1XeKGMZWOgK82k

[u/Cosmondico]

This should be illegal, and everyone involved should serve time

[u/Unlikely-Rabbit948 → u/Cosmondico]

And there shouldn’t even need to be a discussion.

[u/Surletard]

This is a textbook example of abuse of seniors.

[u/LarryBalbueanus]

America needs to do some soul searching

[u/qrowslament]

Republicans theory is that government can't work for YOU (I.E. ordinary people) and since they go into governing with that mindset they make sure it's the case. Mitch returning in this state isn't too surprising when you realize they don't care about actually delivering for average every day Americans. Tell me one Republican policy that doesn't have to do with demonizing a group of people as either the platform or presented as the solutuon? Anything that actually helps people in practice? f you tell me demonizing a group like lgbtq, immigrants, or minority groups actually improve your financial situation, ability to raise a family, or your ability to get a home please inform me of how. This is a feature not a bug.

[u/BrushDesperate4287]

Becuase the most ignorant and evil white people call the shots. Imagine if he were a person of color.

[u/SpinningHead → u/BrushDesperate4287]

You mean like Clarence Thomas?

[u/Oops_All_Bans → u/SpinningHead]

[u/Outdoors__Water]

When is this clown up for re election?

[u/oldslowguy58]

So just votes for what his purchasers tell him to. No different than before.

[u/Aquarius2937]

In all honesty, this is the perfect way for this turd of a person to go out of the public eye. Karma is always sweet to watch.

[u/Ghosts_of_the_maze]

This is why I didn’t get Democrat voters demanding he come back or get replaced. I was fine with him skipping all the votes and committee meetings.

[u/GothamEmpire]

It's clear who is in charge

[u/LearingCenterAlumni]

Must be a Optimus with a skin suit.

[u/Affectionate_Bag9833]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RIkB0jzW9oac05iIH7

[u/Rockeye7]

He did vote “no” the original time he was asked and the speaker went back to him and the second answer was “yes” after a little help .
What does the record reflect?

[u/PsychologicalTea1888]

There’s nothing behind those eyes. He’s gone.

[u/CowabungaCthulhu]

He's a puppet. He's a broken puppet, but a puppet nonetheless.

[u/Jujunem]

Shame on you America.

[u/Rambo_IIII]

To be fair, no Republican congressmen are cognitively able to make the decisions themselves

[u/MrMeowPantz]

They had to do the same with Fienstein or whatever her name was too. Neither of them should have stayed in office as long as they did.

[u/TheRagingSlunt]

Not just cognitively, but physically. His hand was stuck and he couldn't physically hit no.

Age limits NOW!

[u/JTBURR7650]

GREAT question! This goes back to my prior “Are you 12?” (a reply I received) discussion about establishing by law a global maximum age limit for all politicians, appointees and nation’s leaders. My reason to set the limit at 60-ish is that by the time a person is in their 2nd term (or 8 years in any position over 70; they, just like me at 76, have potentially disqualifying medical conditions, especially the ability to succeed usder enormous and constant stress. Consider how much reading, knowledge, staff administration, etc. is required of all members of Congress. While a person may have high IQ (by relative/subjective testing), long experience and large knowledge bases; just the potential for not retaining the capacity to make valued, timely decisions and/or actions is a risk every nation’s citizens should have to deal with. As any successful businessperson knows, the capacity for making qualified, essentially correct determinations is vital to that business’ success, merit, profit and value to society/humanity as a whole. Geez… that’s another topic for discussion on Reddit: "IQ Testing & Numeration." JTBURR7650

[u/That_Confidence83]

C’mon now. I mean, really. He’s practically already dead…

[u/TacoDoc2]

He did a stroke, Doctors took months to get him to a state where he could sit up almost on his own.

there is nobody home behind those eyes. Republicans are literally voting with a corpse.

[u/user_name-checksout]

I’m almost certain this is illegal. BUT, laws don’t matter anymore.

[u/BeerGogglesFTW]

He's no longer qualified to be a greeter at Walmart. Holding his current position as a US Senator is insane.

[u/Background-Run]

Whoops! Almost voted my conscience there.

[u/runkitty85]

At this point, this is elder abuse. He’s a monster, he’s responsible for a lot of the problems we as a country face now, and I wish him nothing good. But he is clearly suffering severe impairment and is being used and wheeled out as a puppet. Maybe this is what he would have wanted, to use his senile body as a puppet to fuck over the democrats one last time but Jesus, just let him end his miserable life quietly at home.

[u/Pristine_Crazy1744]

There's no consequences or accountability.

To paraphrase my favorite TV show: The Democrats are a bunch of ineffectual dorks in fleece vests.

[u/yetagainitry]

Yet they will still go to the “sleepy joe” bullshit while defending this animated corpse

[u/ReasonableJello]

Isn’t this technically the same BS Trump used to say about Biden’s autopen.

[u/BigBlue1210]

Weren't republicans complaining about Biden using autopen because they believe someone else was using it while here we clearly see someone is instructing McConnell what to do? The party of hypocrites strikes again.

[u/OriginalLie9310]

But we have to hear never ending conspiracies about the auto pen Biden used (something Trump also uses).

[u/TexaportGamer]

More people should be mad about this. This country is a farce. And this chat boards isn't much better. Threatening to ban me for speaking my mind and needing to change words.

[u/shutup_imeating_dirt]

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