“Why can’t we all just live forever so she’d never lose the seat?”
That’s not reality, and if your argument for pulling a Weekend At Bernie’s is that everything is fucked if even one 90 year old person dies, then my brother in christ we’ve got bigger problems than losing 1 senate committee seat.
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Yeah, Republicans’ wish finally came true. Wanna know why there was such an online campaign push for her retirement?
Because she was the tie-breaking vote in the Senate judiciary committee, and Mitch McConnell had already blocked her replacement.
If she had retired, all of Joe Biden’s executive or judicial nominations, would’ve been dead in the water.
Well, she kept going until today, and now, watch the shit show happening. Republicans are celebrating.
We need proper governance in the US Senate, not geriatric puppets for either Democrats or Republicans (like you-know-which-lich)
“Why can’t we all just live forever so she’d never lose the seat?” That’s not reality, and if your argument for pulling a Weekend At Bernie’s is that everything is fucked if even one 90 year old person dies, then my brother in christ we’ve got bigger problems than losing 1 senate committee seat.
Well if you people hadn’t given Republicans so much power for the last decades, you wouldn’t be in this mess.
It not dems fault, but the voters.
Who exactly do you think the “you people” you’re talking to right now is?