• ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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    1 month ago

    It lives in my brain forever that Mitch McConnell eats apple sauce for breakfast, mashed potatoes for lunch, and ham and gravy for dinner every single day.

    Probably due to dentures. But one of the most powerful and richest ghouls of the American Regime eating joyless baby food is some sort of metaphor.

  • halfpipe [they/them]
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    501 month ago

    Like half of congress is 70+ at this point. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

    How long until most of congress is required to go around in wheelchairs, accompanied by nurses, because the house and senate majorities are so thin that it just takes one or two dinosaurs falling over to reshuffle US politics.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Please die while Congress is in session, pretty please. It would be so funnytimmy-pray

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    421 month ago

    I don’t understand why these people even want to keep working into their 80s and 90s. What the hell? It sounds miserable.

      • quarrk [he/him]
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        211 month ago

        I’m sure they all wear dentures. Anything spicier than an Ensure shake gives them debilitating indigestion.

        If I’m 83 and breaking my hips walking up 100-step marble staircases, I would be questioning why I’m doing that instead of living out my remaining years watching Price is Right on my yacht.

    • ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]
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      You get driven in a nice car from your fancy DC townhouse or penthouse to a huge office with comfy chair and private bathroom where your staffers act like servants while telling you how important you are. Then you go to nice restaurants with lobbyists.

      It’s like how people would talk about Bezos doing 60 hr weeks. The conditions he “worked” under shouldn’t be considered work to begin with.

      (Personally being an introverted person it sounds the worst but I get why others would like it)

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      271 month ago

      I really wonder how he functions every day in public so we never see video or even get a blurry photo by some rando of him in physical distress. Maybe he always has two aides on either side of him and their entire job is to be sure the Great Man is never seen falling over like a sack of rancid potatoes.

        • sentient [he/him]
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          101 month ago

          there have been at least a couple videos of him glitching out at this point but i think the media doesn’t really make it front page news

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    291 month ago

    Uncritical support to comrades stairs and gravity in their protracted physics war against genocidal octogenarians

  • @Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    I have a feeling Trump might give some sweet “eulogy” similar to his Colin Powell words when he died

    If I have to live in this slowly increasing dystopia, I at least demand Orange Clown Man ritualistically embarrass his opponents (even people who were never really such) in life and death

    I can absolutely guarantee when Bolton finally croaks, Trump’s words on him are going to be golden. This is all I have to live for.

    Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media," Trump said in a statement. "Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!

    Talk about “perfect” phone calls. That’s a perfect “fuck you” when a piece of shit just died and the media is riding his corpse still

    Edit: Ok, I keep editing faster than a NYT editor when they’re covering a fresh Israeli war crime…

    But I just learned Bolton is younger than Trump (wtf???). He’s “only” 76. Considering he appears to be healthier (who knows) than Trump, well, nature better not rob me. I need this.

    Also, check this out from US News

    Only a handful – such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who angered Trump when the Kentucky Republican said Trump was morally responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection – made more effusive remarks.

    Eh? Eh? (Please god)

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      161 month ago

      If I have to live in this slowly increasing dystopia, I at least demand

      Me too. But I’m nearly 100% certain that in McConnell’s written final requests - he states that under no circumstances should Trump appear at any official event after his death and that Trump should not attend his funeral. But on the plus side - Trump will riff to journos to dance on McConnell’s grave of so at least we’ll have that. And I assume Trump will do that a few times.

      • @Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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        191 month ago

        Oh yeah, I did not mean a proper eulogy. Trump would never crawl his ass to a cemetery or whatever to degrade himself like that for McConnell. Maybe for Netanyahu. Definitely not any currently living American politicians that I can think of

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          181 month ago

          I wish reporters had brains and interests like the rest of Americans. They could ask Trump today about McConnell’s physical problems. The response would probably be gold.

    • christian [he/him]
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      31 month ago

      I hadn’t seen or don’t remember the Colin Powell analogy so I imagined it was basically the RBG one before I got to the quote.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    221 month ago

    Since it says he fell twice I am imagining he slipped and fell, got up, and immediately stepped on a banana peel

    • christian [he/him]
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      91 month ago

      The banana peel was actually at the very top of the staircase he fell down. It’s been reported that his body contorted into a circle and he rolled down the stairs like a Looney Tunes character.