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Not to celebrate her death, but fucking finally. The woman was literally older than the Golden Gate Bridge and had no business being in government at her age. She should've retired with some dignity decades ago.
The woman was literally older than the Golden Gate Bridge
I was about to mock you for being hyperbolic but then looked it up. She was born a few months after construction started in 1933, and the bridge opened in 1937. So she was literally older than the bridge.
Only five years younger than sliced bread.
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I don’t understand why not retire. She held on to that seat till the bitter end, for what?
She could have had time with her family and we could have had a seamless replacement. Instead, she got to die at work (basically) and there is a hole in representation right as the government is about to shut down.
I wonder how this will impact the gov shutdown results
I don't think she had full control of her faculties near the end. Her handlers and power of attorney should have forced her to retire but they didn't.
Yeah, she's been clearly a barely functioning wreck, propped up by people who needed her power. It was quite sad.
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Nancy Pelosi wants someone to replace her, Gavin Newsom wants someone else. Nancy Pelosi wanted her to stay in office until the next election.
It's all just a game to these kinds of people.
Newsom has been clear that he's appointing someone as a placeholder so as not to interfere in next year's Senate race by giving one of the actual contenders (Schiff, Porter, or Lee) the advantage of incumbency. But I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi, being Nancy Pelosi, would prefer the Party put their finger on the scale for the candidate leadership wants (which is probably 77 year-old Barabra Lee)
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They didn't want to lose her seat on the judiciary committee. Even if they had to tell her how to vote.
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Sorry, to be callous, but good riddance. You should hear what Jello Biafra has to say about the time Feinstein was Mayor of San Francisco:
Jello Biafra: Quentin Kopp was actually very jovial, friendly, kind of a character. He and Feinstein had been on the Board Of Supervisors, but when George Moscone and Harvey Milk were assassinated Feinstein was appointed as Acting Mayor. She ran the city with an iron fist, and the police were completely out of control, which she seemed to get off on. I have never been very fond of her, and any grief I can cause that creature, I’m happy to oblige. But that wasn’t why I ran for Mayor. It was more like: wouldn’t this be a great prank?
Jello Biafra: I had some pretty interesting proposals. Making businessmen wear clown suits was the one the media seized on, but there was a lot more to it than they realised. It was my response to Frankenfeinstein [Feinstein] saying she was going to “clean up” Market Street, by which she meant throwing the homeless out of all the vacant buildings.
In another occasion, he called her the most evil person he'd ever met.
Here's a video of her arguing with children about climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu-VzZ45MwI
Governments across the world need to effectively age down. It's ridiculous that those old clowns who aren't even affected by the consequences of their actions can just continue to do this shit. Yeah, they get voted in, but that's because of the aging populations of so many countries being such a majority while most of those who are going to be affected don't even have a legal say in the matter, since they can't vote themselves. Millennials got already fucked over repeatedly through politics in the past decades and now Gen Z has to face the same bullshit. People will just further radicalize if they don't address this.
God what a cunt. Who argues with children? Just lie to them like every other politician.
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Remember that time she gave away a vital clues in the Richard Ramirez case and possibly extended his serial killing career?
Hey can we stop normalizing dying in office? This shouldn't be normal.
We need a complete overhaul of our political party system.
Both parties decided that seniority = power, and if you'll always have more next year, it's never a good time to step aside.
With a "bonus" that younger generations never get the experience till they're also old as shit. The parties have no reason to change, because they're ran by the most senior people.
Parties have far too much influence considering they're not officially part of the government. And the current state of shit is why a lot of founding fathers were against them. I think Jefferson or Franklin wanted to explicitly forbade them
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Women need better icons.
Her and RGB staying on too long, very iconic.
Proving that it's not only old men that cling to power! Bad equality is still equality.
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Yeah that was like 30 years overdue. She's not an "icon for women in politics", she's an obstructionist sack of shit whose stubbornness left her own constituents with nothing to hope for other than her death.
GTFO before you become useless.
Good riddance.
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Truly an icon. And not only for women, but for everyone that overstays their welcome.
Somehow still running for re-election.
I feel bad that she spent her final few years Weekend At Bernie's-ing for her staff instead of getting to retire + relax a bit.
Dementia patients rarely admit they have dementia, even when they struggle to put a full sentence together. It's depressing to watch.
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Feinstein dies in office, Carter enters month 9 of hospice surrounded by family. I know which way I would want.
My dad always said Jimmy Carter was too good of a man to be president
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Killed what little legacy she had for nothing.
I was trying to think, what legacy? The only policy I can ever recall is a bunch of failed gun control bills.
Oh, her being adversarial with progressives was pretty well-known. Not the legacy I'd want.
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May all the 80+ year old senators and congress members take note at how many people are celebrating Feinstein's death today.
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This just in: It appears that while Laying in State, the deceased senator was seen rising from her coffin and returning to her seat. Sources in her office say this is a sign she has successfully completed her ritual to transform herself into a Lich.
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SENATOR?!?! Woman is 90 and is a Senator?! Jesus Christ can we stop voting these dinos
She was incoherent while "working" just a few weeks ago if that. The video was online.
Maybe she could have been an icon. But instead her legacy is that of a greedy asshole who made shady stock deals and held her political power far too long - to the detriment of her constituents.
Way to die on n office. Straight up Ruth Bader Ginsburg-ed that shit.
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I thought it would never happen. I'm excited to see the race for her seat.
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Does this mean we could finally have a representative under the age of 1000? No we’re just going to elect another dinosaur that thinks homes still cost a nickel? … okay
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