I actually thought this had already passed a while back.
lol of course
Their rush to ram this through makes me wonder if the state GOP knows something about McConnell.
Can the governor veto this bill?
They did this in Massachusetts a while back and that was how we wound up replacing Edward Kennedy with a Republican for one term.
No worries, the next time there is a GOP governor, this will be reversed.
Is Mitch dying?
When asked for comment, Senator McConnell said..
…. o_o ….
Kentucky bill strips governor* of power to appoint senator
*Democratic
Republicans are not at war with democrats. They’re at war with democracy.
That runs afoul of federalism, doesn’t it?
Seems like a seperation of powers violation.
He is already hamstrung by state law. He has to pick from a list of three candidates provided by the party the outgoing senator is from. It will be a Republican anyway.
When you can’t win, change the rules.
He should just take a page out of the GOPs playbook and appoint one anyways.
GOP stacking the deck as usual.
It will be reversed as soon as a republican governor gets elected.
But laws cannot supersede the state Constitution so Republicans can go F themselves.
Without looking, I can tell by the headline alone that Kentucky has a Republican State Assembly (or whatever they call their congress) and a Democratic governor. Republicans play dirty and change the rules when it advantages them politically. They are scum.
Republicans want to change the rules when they don’t agree. These people have no accountability.
KY the FASCIST STATE
Ehhh this is pretty average for republicans. Change the rules to suit their political ends.
Supreme Court position becomes vacant.
‘WE WOULD NEVER APPOINT A JUDGE IN THE YEAR OF AN ELECTION, ITS UNHEARD OF, AMORALE, HOW COULD YOU”
Less then 1 term later.
“WE HAVE TO APPOIINT THIS JUDGE IN AN ELECTION YEAR, 3 OF THEM IN FACT BECAUSE WE WANT TOO AND YOU KNOW, FUCK DIGNITY, INTEGRITY AND HISTORY”
Sounds familiar.
‘We’ve totts always thought you shouldn’t be able to do it, til you know, there was someone from the opposite side in the position to do it, but we’ll repeal this shit as fast as you can spell ‘were a bunch of grifting scumbags’ when we’ve got one of our boys in!’
He should sue them once McConnell bows out. Stall it out in court for a while.
Don’t worry, when they gave a gop governor again, they’ll reverse that law.
No good faith to be found with Republicans. I hope someone sues this up to the Supreme Court. Don’t you love how inept Republicans are when it comes to drafting literally any legislation for actual American people? When it comes to consolidating their power, lowering their taxes, increasing their pay, stripping us of our liberties or taking free school lunch out of kids’ stomachs then they make the time suddenly. They only seem to have time for things that help themselves or hurt people they don’t like.
That’s why I’m going apeshit on people still peddling “both sides” nonsense here in 2024. I’ve had it with people boldly lying about the reality of modern day corruption in the US Government.
This is not actually me saying, “Republicans bad!” I mean I am in a way, but it could happen to any political party. There have always been politicians who served their own interests over Americans’, but since 2016 we’ve seen Trump corrupt the GOP well beyond what many considered achievable in a society with free democratic elections.
It’s not conservative beliefs that are necessarily good or bad. It’s that the people currently elected to represent those values have abused them to tighten their grip on power and wealth. I don’t agree with those values and inherently those specific values seem prone to be abused against people and even condone it on some level.
Republicans don’t have to always be the bad guys, but they are as of right now, and unless conservatives turn their backs and stop voting them in then it won’t change regardless of Trump’s presence.
Pay attention Republicans because he already has unquestionable control over the levers of power and the media within your party. The media was never going to let him lose the nomination no matter how much you disliked him. Next it’ll be our whole government, and it’ll be over.
So, they are truly afraid that Mitch won’t make it to 2027
The GOP is the poster child for corruption. They make Netanyahu seem squeaky clean.
Totally has absolutely nothing to do with the turtle that died twice on live tv before our very eyes.
Fuck these bad faith actors.
Only more proof the GOP gets stuff done when it benefits them.
-“I turned 82 last week. The end of my contributions are closer than I’d prefer.”-McConnell.
Yet somehow I feel you’ve contributed too much. Maybe if you could spend this time **un**contributing we would be thankful for your service
..
And it was McConnell who wouldn’t allow a vote on Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court during an election year because he wanted to let the voters decide which *next* president would nominate the justice.
Despite their being an established process, and Andy Beshear was elected by the voters just last year knowing that process was in place, but now the hypocritical republicans want to do a power grab.
Republicans just being republicans. Insufferable and assholes all around.
McConnell is gonna retire early it seems
Republicans will find literally any way to cheat
Republicans go on about tradition, but soon as it disadvantages them they change the rules
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I actually thought this had already passed a while back.
lol of course
Their rush to ram this through makes me wonder if the state GOP knows something about McConnell.
Can the governor veto this bill?
They did this in Massachusetts a while back and that was how we wound up replacing Edward Kennedy with a Republican for one term.
No worries, the next time there is a GOP governor, this will be reversed.
Is Mitch dying?
When asked for comment, Senator McConnell said..
…. o_o ….
Kentucky bill strips governor* of power to appoint senator
*Democratic
Republicans are not at war with democrats. They’re at war with democracy.
That runs afoul of federalism, doesn’t it?
Seems like a seperation of powers violation.
He is already hamstrung by state law. He has to pick from a list of three candidates provided by the party the outgoing senator is from. It will be a Republican anyway.
When you can’t win, change the rules.
He should just take a page out of the GOPs playbook and appoint one anyways.
GOP stacking the deck as usual.
It will be reversed as soon as a republican governor gets elected.
But laws cannot supersede the state Constitution so Republicans can go F themselves.
Without looking, I can tell by the headline alone that Kentucky has a Republican State Assembly (or whatever they call their congress) and a Democratic governor. Republicans play dirty and change the rules when it advantages them politically. They are scum.
Republicans want to change the rules when they don’t agree. These people have no accountability.
KY the FASCIST STATE
Ehhh this is pretty average for republicans. Change the rules to suit their political ends.
Supreme Court position becomes vacant.
‘WE WOULD NEVER APPOINT A JUDGE IN THE YEAR OF AN ELECTION, ITS UNHEARD OF, AMORALE, HOW COULD YOU”
Less then 1 term later.
“WE HAVE TO APPOIINT THIS JUDGE IN AN ELECTION YEAR, 3 OF THEM IN FACT BECAUSE WE WANT TOO AND YOU KNOW, FUCK DIGNITY, INTEGRITY AND HISTORY”
Sounds familiar.
‘We’ve totts always thought you shouldn’t be able to do it, til you know, there was someone from the opposite side in the position to do it, but we’ll repeal this shit as fast as you can spell ‘were a bunch of grifting scumbags’ when we’ve got one of our boys in!’
He should sue them once McConnell bows out. Stall it out in court for a while.
Don’t worry, when they gave a gop governor again, they’ll reverse that law.
No good faith to be found with Republicans. I hope someone sues this up to the Supreme Court. Don’t you love how inept Republicans are when it comes to drafting literally any legislation for actual American people? When it comes to consolidating their power, lowering their taxes, increasing their pay, stripping us of our liberties or taking free school lunch out of kids’ stomachs then they make the time suddenly. They only seem to have time for things that help themselves or hurt people they don’t like.
That’s why I’m going apeshit on people still peddling “both sides” nonsense here in 2024. I’ve had it with people boldly lying about the reality of modern day corruption in the US Government.
This is not actually me saying, “Republicans bad!” I mean I am in a way, but it could happen to any political party. There have always been politicians who served their own interests over Americans’, but since 2016 we’ve seen Trump corrupt the GOP well beyond what many considered achievable in a society with free democratic elections.
It’s not conservative beliefs that are necessarily good or bad. It’s that the people currently elected to represent those values have abused them to tighten their grip on power and wealth. I don’t agree with those values and inherently those specific values seem prone to be abused against people and even condone it on some level.
Republicans don’t have to always be the bad guys, but they are as of right now, and unless conservatives turn their backs and stop voting them in then it won’t change regardless of Trump’s presence.
Pay attention Republicans because he already has unquestionable control over the levers of power and the media within your party. The media was never going to let him lose the nomination no matter how much you disliked him. Next it’ll be our whole government, and it’ll be over.
So, they are truly afraid that Mitch won’t make it to 2027
The GOP is the poster child for corruption. They make Netanyahu seem squeaky clean.
Totally has absolutely nothing to do with the turtle that died twice on live tv before our very eyes.
Fuck these bad faith actors.
Only more proof the GOP gets stuff done when it benefits them.
-“I turned 82 last week. The end of my contributions are closer than I’d prefer.”-McConnell.
Yet somehow I feel you’ve contributed too much. Maybe if you could spend this time **un**contributing we would be thankful for your service
..
And it was McConnell who wouldn’t allow a vote on Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court during an election year because he wanted to let the voters decide which *next* president would nominate the justice.
Despite their being an established process, and Andy Beshear was elected by the voters just last year knowing that process was in place, but now the hypocritical republicans want to do a power grab.
Republicans just being republicans. Insufferable and assholes all around.
McConnell is gonna retire early it seems
Republicans will find literally any way to cheat
Republicans go on about tradition, but soon as it disadvantages them they change the rules
Veto it.