• abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
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        People are joking about it with McConnell but if Trump dies I genuinely think they will just “weekend at Bernie’s” him through the next two years.

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          Genuinely worried that they’ll dress up some 40 year old to look like him, and say that Elon’s med-bed rejuvinated his body. Christians will declare it the second coming of Trump and make him King of all Christiandom. The rest of all of our lives will be a world war led by religious nuts to bring the word of DJT to world.

          I mean our SecDef has a crusader cross tatoo.

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    It’s weird that we don’t really have any laws to handle this sort of thing.

    How long do you think a Democrat would be allowed to play corpse before the GOP would start screaming about replacing them?

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      Often when there are no laws about something it’s because most of the key laws of the US were set down 250 years ago when modern communication tech didn’t exist, people travelled by horseback, etc.

      But, you would think that a procedure to determine if a key member of the government were alive or not would have been even more important 250 years ago. Back when legislators had to travel by horse across rural areas that were unlit at night, it must have been relatively normal for someone to just disappear. Maybe they’d get waylaid by bandits. Maybe attacked by wildlife. Maybe kicked in the head by their horse. Maybe caught in a flash flood.

      OTOH, maybe back then “just wait until the next election, even if it’s 6 years away” would have been considered reasonable.

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    Aw, he dead. CPR cracked his ribs like dry spaghetti. They just don’t want the special election.

    So much for respecting elders or the dead. Glory to the cause or some bullshit.

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    Same people who think that a teenager should be subject to genital inspection before playing volleyball also think that a major government official should be given absolute protection from any inquiry.