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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Sen. Mitch McConnell falls in Capitol hallway

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Sen. Mitch McConnell falls in Capitol hallway

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago
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The 83-year-old fell on his way to Senate votes.
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  • despite_velasquez@lemmy.world
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    How have we as a society accepted policymakers that will probably not live to see the consequences of their policies

    Another China win:

    The age limit for a minister-level appointment is retirement at age 65, and a person older than 58 will not be viewed as an eligible candidate. Department directors have an age limit of 60. A vice premier must be under 68 when appointed and must retire by 72.

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      Didn’t they just remove limits so that Xi can serve as leader for the rest of his life?

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        This doesn’t contradict the statement above. Also Mitch McConnell isn’t president, is he?

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      With the likely changes coming in biotech, this seems very short-sighted.

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        Laws are not immutable, they can change to adapt to technological advancements. Currently, we’re still at the mercy of declining mental faculties with age.

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    Oh no! Anyway…

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    Did he get back up?

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      Unfortunately

      • pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Damnit.

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      Someone must have turned him over so he wasn’t flailing on his shell. You know, showing that empathy that his party despises.

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    Sadly he’s still alive.

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    Why do we have all these crypt keepers still in power? Just retire already!

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    He was stumbling for several steps before falling. He has some serious mental/physical decline happening.

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      Dude’s into his mid-80s. He should be playing with his grandkids finishing up his second decade in the Hague, not wandering the halls of the US Senate.

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    He deserves to crawl.

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      I’m hopefully a long way off from it, but I tell my wife pretty regularly that if I ever fall and can’t get up to just leave me on the floor. Gravity will have made it’s decision, I’m to be a floor-person, no sense in trying to fight it. Let me crawl.

      I work in 911 dispatch, I get calls all night, every night for lift-assists, sometimes we’re sending help out to the same place every night or even multiple times a night.

      I don’t want that for myself.

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    Satan called but he resisted.

    Again.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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    From the stairs I hope

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      From the balcony, I hope.

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    Thoughts and prayers

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    fell to the floor while two volunteers from the environmental advocacy group Sunrise Movement approached the senator and asked him a question about Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. He did not respond to the question.

    savage

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      He’d rather risk a broken bone than to answer for his bullshit.

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        Blows my mind that people who believe in eternal judgement think these deplorable individuals believe in god or heaven.

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    this guy is still alive 😠?!

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      “despite the almost certain fact that he hides a fortune of indefinite magnitude somewhere about his musty and venerable abode. He is, in truth, a very strange person, believed to have been a captain of East India clipper ships in his day; so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name.”

      Hp lovecraft: terrible old man

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      Unfortunately.

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        Will no one rid me of this tiresome turtle?

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          I mean clearly there is no god.

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      And in the capital???

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      Define “alive”.

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    The necromancy is wearing off.

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    Can we get that video looped and set to yakity sax please? For the good of all mankind.

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      Here’s the video. Tried posting directly but Lemmy wouldn’t load it.

      https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP4M3OAAKkR/

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        This is embarrassing as a nation, having cameras always on let’s us see how far we are falling constantly.

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          Literally and figuratively.

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        Tagged you as “Mark Zuckercuck’s Blood Boy” :)

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        Posting instagram videos should be banned.

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    Why won’t it stay down?!

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