Fun Fact!
2026-07-07 13:01 UTC
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@Etterra@discuss.online 2026-07-08 01:27
I personally don’t think he’s dead. I think it’s far more likely that he only technically alive on life support.
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@CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-07-07 14:02
This doesn’t make sense. He can’t vote by proxy, so there’s no point in delaying. If anything, Republicans should want to hold the special as soon as possible, because the Kentucky governor gets to appoint a temporary replacement, and he’s a Democrat. (I know this is just a meme, but I just don’t like poorly supported conspiracy theories.)
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@DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2026-07-07 15:41
A quick look at his Wikipedia page tells me he wasn’t a good guy, but this is still sick. My stomach twisted a little when I read this.
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@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2026-07-07 16:05
Maybe there’s a key detail about the electoral process that I’m missing, but what’s the practical difference between holding a special election now or waiting till the regular election? How does it benefit republicans to avoid the special election? The people voting would still be the same, no? And the candidates too, presumably?
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@modus@lemmy.world 2026-07-07 16:28
Can someone please contact the coroner in his hometown? If he’s actually dead, they’d have to tell you.
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-07 21:47
Curiously, Feinstein was incoherent and had to be wheeled into committee in a wheelchair for a while before she finally expired, still in office. We’ve seen countless times that officials, whether elected or appointed, will cling onto power until we pry it from their cold dead hands. We really need to implement age caps as well as term limits, since we can’t count on elected officials being pressured into retirement by their own peers, nor can we count on the voters primarying them since it means losing the incumbent advantage. Sadly, as with much of political reform, the status quo serves those who are in office, so there’s not much motivation to implement such legislation, and the public is not great at organizing over secondary matters.