Real senator, or wax figurine?

  • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social
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    13 days ago

    And earlier this year Tom Kean Jr, a Republican, went off the radar for almost four months. He missed more than 100 votes but continued to collect his salary. Eventually he resurfaced and said he’d been to inpatient treatment for depression and hadn’t wanted to explain

    Here I was thinking six weeks absent from my job would be outrageous enough. I’m pretty sure after 100 day absence, with no contact whatsoever, they’d not only have stopped paying me, but have already replaced me and had a whip round for my next of kin.

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      13 days ago

      But you’re just filthy meat, not a wealthy insider.

      The point of you is to work breed and die. If you aren’t doing either of the first two, you are encouraged and assisted in the third.

      Mitch is a real person ±1 soul

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      13 days ago

      In any normal job, you’d get fired by day 3 of no show, no explanation.

      Some jobs would just take 1 day.

      But it’s ok, being a congressman isn’t like an important job or anything, right?

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        13 days ago

        You can’t just fire him! Think about the bribes and lobby money they invested in him. They would have to start at 0 again with a new candidate.