Moscow Mitch appears to be malfunctioning

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Lost_in_the_HTTP

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No salary at all. Government dorm style living quarters while in session. Expense account with very strict rules on use and punishment. Same for ethics rules on other matters like donations, gifts and investments. Jail would be likely, not just possible.

Office expenses in home district only.

Strict two term limit. Once served, no running for another Federal elected position for at least one term, then only for another office, not the one you left.

In general, I'm opposed to career politicians.
 
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brianmanahan

brianmanahan

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don't worry, i checked mitch out and he's fine

also they spelled my name wrong

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MrSquished

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Whatever his physical health is, and how that is malfunctioning, we know that he is an evil person and that is not malfunctioning, and people like @pcGeek like that about him. It's a feature not a bug.
 
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manly

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HomerJS said:
Now's the chance to replace Mitch's leadership and Diane's committee on the Senate JC.

I heard one of the reasons Diane wouldn't leave was Republicans threatened to block a replacement on the SJC.
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This suggestion only works if the GOP actually cared about Constitutional norms.

Saylick said:
Instead of term limits, why can't we have an age limit?

And by age limits, I mean a limit that is so ridiculously high that no one should disagree is beyond the point of "mental ripeness" or "being in touch with modern times", like 80 years old? Whether that means you must be younger than 80 when elected or you must be younger than 80 when you complete serving the term is up for debate.
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I think strict term limits have had a negative effect in the California state legislature. Now, institutional knowledge is never retained, so the lobbyists hold even more sway over Sacramento.

If the age limit is 80, it'll help in the U.S. Senate where the dinosaurs refuse to leave with dignity. But if you're going to have a limit at all, it shouldn't be "ridiculously high" to offend nobody. There's a massive difference between age at election vs. age at the end of the term for Senators. There shouldn't be any universe where you can get elected Senator at age 79 and serve out your term at 85, even if a rare individual is capable and astute well into their 80s.

I think something like age 76 at the end of the term is reasonable, already a decade past the conventional "retirement age."
 
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Fenixgoon

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manly said:
This suggestion only works if the GOP actually cared about Constitutional norms.


I think strict term limits have had a negative effect in the California state legislature. Now, institutional knowledge is never retained, so the lobbyists hold even more sway over Sacramento.

If the age limit is 80, it'll help in the U.S. Senate where the dinosaurs refuse to leave with dignity. But if you're going to have a limit at all, it shouldn't be "ridiculously high" to offend nobody. There's a massive difference between age at election vs. age at the end of the term for Senators. There shouldn't be any universe where you can get elected Senator at age 79 and serve out your term at 85, even if a rare individual is capable and astute well into their 80s.

I think something like age 76 at the end of the term is reasonable, already a decade past the conventional "retirement age."
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Median lifespan. Right now that's 76 for men and 77 for women iirc
 
fleshconsumed

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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
No salary at all. Government dorm style living quarters while in session. Expense account with very strict rules on use and punishment. Same for ethics rules on other matters like donations, gifts and investments. Jail would be likely, not just possible.

Office expenses in home district only.

Strict two term limit. Once served, no running for another Federal elected position for at least one term, then only for another office, not the one you left.

In general, I'm opposed to career politicians.
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As much as it tickles my fancy to impose same living conditions and requirements on politicians that they demand of anyone needing public assistance, a proposal like that will ensure that no worthy person would ever get the job. This will result in unscrupulous grifters doing anything they can to get elected and steal as much as they can in the two term limit they're allowed. It's going to be all inclusive buffet for the lobbying industry.
 
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tweaker2 said:
Seems logical to assume his episodes of what looks like fits of absence of mind are going to get more frequent until they simply join up. Hell I knew chronics that went off to never never land the exact same way even after they were off the fun stuff for years afterward. That blank unblinking thousand mile stare is also something I saw when guys couldn't handle being in the deep shit and they went tripp'in off to who knows where until they get set down and treated for shock. What's also logical to assume is that 'ol Mitch is having a face to face with Karma and over those many years that Mitch plied his trade in treachery she used up all the mercy she had for him so what's left for her to give but.........payback?
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Like him grabbing the table terrified of tipping over again… Fear/Angst will pull the curtain on you for sure.
 
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Paratus

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fskimospy said:
Yesssssss. Blind trust or an S&P index fund only.

People think entirely the wrong way about legislative salaries. We should make them very large because in the scope of federal spending they are barely a rounding error but in the scope of corruption they can cause it’s huge. Pay them all a million a year, because when you don’t they find other ways to steal.
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Federal government TSP accounts (At least until they opened up a fund trading window option this year) were limited to small cap, large cap, foreign, and government securities funds with lifecycle funds built on the previous also available. It worked fine and I believe congress has access to these. It's just that they have access to everything else too.
 
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trenchfoot

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cytg111 said:
Like him grabbing the table terrified of tipping over again… Fear/Angst will pull the curtain on you for sure.
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I think by now at least a dozen of the sworn enemies he's accrued just from being who he is are chanting a mantra while holding voodoo doll effigies of Mitch over smoking incense that goes something like "Walk to the light Mitch, waaaaallllllk to. the. liiiiiiiiggghhtt."
 
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kitkat22

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Clean bill of health my foot. He's been falling and hitting reboot. Last time I checked that is not "normal" human behavior. 🙄
 
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Ajay

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kitkat22 said:
Clean bill of health my foot. He's been falling and hitting reboot. Last time I checked that is not "normal" human behavior. 🙄
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Yeah. And sadly Biden said he talked to Mitch and he's okay. I mean, they've worked together for years and Biden doesn't hold grudges. On the other hand - Mitch is one of only a few preventing the MAGAs from going completely nutz in the Senate (like stopping military aid for UKR).
 
trenchfoot

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Incontinence. Pee pee or poop-si-doo it's just got'ta be him concentrating real real hard on squeezing that butthole of his into a spastic episode of sphincter cramps every time he feels something leaking out out of the plumbing that needs a Jedi zen level of mind control to rein it all in.
 
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akugami

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And where are all the fucktards pushing the Joe Biden has dementia narrative? You want dementia, go look at the old turtle himself, Moscow Mitch.
 
trenchfoot

trenchfoot

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akugami said:
And where are all the fucktards pushing the Joe Biden has dementia narrative? You want dementia, go look at the old turtle himself, Moscow Mitch.
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He ain't living in Kentucky any more. He's permanently moved to the state of Catatonia.
 
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