‘The Onion’ Looks Back On 90 Years Of Dianne Feinstein Dying (www.theonion.com)

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Dianne Feinstein, who served as a senator of California since 1992, died Thursday night at the age of 90. The Onion looks back at 31 years of Feinstein becoming elderly while in office.

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[-] Clodsire@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

probably too many lobby groups backing them, which pushes them to stay until death intead of just picking a succesor and retiring

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

But that's just it, shouldn't we be picking the successor??

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

She was good for defense contractors, iirc.

[-] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 months ago

We do.

We just keep picking the one with the most ad backing.

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