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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Don't you think he looks tired?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's got the gaunt face of a man who's withering away. My grandpa, a much better man than McConnell, looked like that for the last few months of his life, despite spending the majority of his life with a slightly pudgy face. It is truly ghoulish the way they parade politicians like McConnell and Feinstein around as if they still have all their wits, when really they should have retired years ago. Hell, half the senate should have retired over a decade ago, but both parties value incumbency too much

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Incumbency, ah yes, the low hanging fruit of retaining party control.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My boomer parents are adamant that feinstein is still "young." They don't want to admit to their own mortality (they are in their 70s). I believe that's what is driving a lot of this bullshit.

Americans don't believe they will ever die.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

At least Harriet Jones, Prime Minister, acknowledged her mistakes and did her best to help humanity in the end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I understood that reference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ooooh, the six words to topple a tyrant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If only that actually worked...