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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 74 points 4 weeks ago

A Bluesky comment

That makes five democratic members of congress that have died in the past year — three of them in the past three months. the youngest was 70.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 57 points 4 weeks ago

The dinosaurs will die with their scaly claws firmly wrapped around progress's throat, but they will die.

Except Mitch McConnell, until the prophecy is fulfilled and he becomes the Corpse Emperor.

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 29 points 4 weeks ago

The evidence is really pointing to him being some sort of lich

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Those times where he blacks out for minutes at a time are him communicating with some creature in the nightmare realm

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Gimlet-eyed and gleefully indifferent to the decomposition of his mortal vessel; he's definitely figured something out.

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 40 points 4 weeks ago

Smart play. Have these geezers die in office, have a snap election with guaranteed low turnout, get more blue dogs in when the left doesn't have time to organize.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 51 points 4 weeks ago

Almost like organization is necessary before it's an emergency.

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 34 points 4 weeks ago

only-throw no proactive only reactive

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago

Just in time revolution logistics.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago

The mortality rate of serving in congress is going to get up to Alaskan king crab fishing levels.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 56 points 4 weeks ago

Noooo that was going to be Biden's running mate in 2028.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago

Still could be.

Do ya like Weekend at Bernie's? Biden and his buddy VP Connolly are two dead guys who need your vote!

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 52 points 4 weeks ago

HAHAHAHA

lets see if AOC loses to another dinosaur with cancer

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 29 points 4 weeks ago

She's the world champion of eating bowls of shit

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 21 points 4 weeks ago

Or dementia. Or both.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 51 points 4 weeks ago

On Wednesday morning, the House Rules Committee paused its contentious meeting on President Donald Trump’s massive tax bill and held a moment of silence in Connolly’s honor.

liberalism

[-] Civility@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago
[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 48 points 4 weeks ago

joker-amerikkklap thank you for your service who else could have possibly kept a coked out succdem from a modicum of power braver than the troops im crying and shaking rn died in the line of duty

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 47 points 4 weeks ago
[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 45 points 4 weeks ago
[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 36 points 4 weeks ago

House of gerentocracy strikes again lol.

[-] egg1918@hexbear.net 31 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 27 points 4 weeks ago

They literally do make a wish foundation but for dying gerontocrats

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 21 points 4 weeks ago

Tangent time.

It will always be hilarious to me how democrats have an even worse case of elders who refuse to retire, much worse than the fucking party that believes old white men should be given the royal treatment in society.

How tf are conservatives embracing their youth and more enthusiastic to pass the torch to the next generation?

[-] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago

so much a blue dog his ears are even folded lol

[-] dragongloss@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

He's was such a young kid, he had his whole life ahead of him.

[-] menecimmeb@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

This is how you get to Democrat Valhalla

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Lo, when the breath fails mid-committee speech, down ride the Voter Valkyries, golden-lanyarded and grave, they bear the fallen Democrats — who perish not in scandal but in decorum — to Valhalla, where nothing shall fundamentally change.

There waits Odin, god of wisdom and moderate compromise, parliamentarian of the gods and god of parliamentarians. In his hall no reform stirs, no firebrand speaks, none disturbs the adults in the room.

Each morn the moderate einherjar rise to canvass and debate, to lose with dignity. By night they celebrate the rules and norms, they feast on Sæhrímnir the Avocado and sip Heiðrún’s Chardonnay in bipartisan peace.

At Ragnarök, the final election day, they ride once more to reach across the aisle and secure the the most noble of defeats.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

I coulda swore I blocked c/fakenews...

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 4 weeks ago

I posted a while ago about him and I added the word "dying" in the title even though the article didn't say that. He was resigning from the Oversight Committee so I knew in my bones he was dying. I could have been wrong and he might have started some god-awful chemo treatments or something. But I knew that was wrong. I knew he was dying.

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23 days ago.

Ancient and dying of cancer House Representative Gerry Connolly resigns as ranking member of the Oversight Committee. [More inside]

[-] D61@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

May you use your powers for good.

lathe-of-heaven

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

This is a big longshot. Like 10,000 to 1 but I'm trying. Within 23 days Trump drops dead from a heart attack. He's talking to a team of New York Times reporters at the time. It's very hazy - of course - but I think he will be telling Maggie Haberman a joke about "very, very tough" Israelis.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

rest in piss congressghoul

[-] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago
[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

@grok is this true?

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