Let me guess, Granger continued to collect her paycheck while "missing."
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2024
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We need a maximum age for politicians. At all levels. And term limits. At all levels.
And a god damn attendance record.
My kid's school told me flat out that if a kid misses too many school days, they will be left behind.
So these "politicians" get paid and don't even have to show up?
Weirder still the ones that do show up tend to cast votes of absentees with sticks they proudly carry around for just that age or somehow both accepted and legal.
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My question is "How did they tell she was demented?"
GOP Congresswoman
Yeah, it's a tautology
Who's been doing her job since then? There is no way that can be legal. I'd bet the farm the same thing is happening to Mitch McConnell. No way that old bag of dust and bones is competent enough to do his job.
Kind of crazy how I get fired if I miss one day of work but senators can just not show up for weeks
The interns have been accepting all the bribes and spending it on beer.
Don't tell mom ~~the babysitter's dead~~ the Congresswoman's senile
I’d watch this movie
We already are
I don’t wanna live it … just watch it
Heyheyhey! In America we call those "bribes" free speech for corporations. Bribes are illegal.
As a rep, her only job is to vote. She hires staff to carry out other responsibilities.
Hmm I see. Her generation continues to be an utter fucking embarrassment when it comes to politics.
this is why health reporting requirements should be made publicly available prior to election, imo
This seems like a pretty important job to not just shuffle the person doing it into an old folks home! Like come on!
Literally a limited number per state. Even an midmanager would get called for running out of PTO way before then.
To be fair, dementia is not much of a hindrance for making GOP policies.
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How the fuck does a Senator go missing for SIXTH FUCKING MONTHS and no one bothers looking for them.
Her aids were probably running the show for years. What happens with these congress critters is that they create a support network around themselves to do the real work while they campaign for the next election. It gets to the point that the congress member themselves becomes superfluous. If it goes on long enough, they fall into dementia, but the aids don't want to start over again with someone new, so they just tote their boss around from time to time like Weekend at Burnie's. It happened with Dianne Feinstein. It's probably happening with Mitch McConnell.
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People from her office absolutely knew where she was, they just didn't bother telling anybody else.
She is in Congress, not the Senate - so there’s a couple hundred more of them in general, and not all of them turn up to work every day.. so it’s not hard to lose one for 6 months and not notice.
Especially when they’re Republicans, since they do sweet fuck all most days anyway.
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If only more GQP congresspersons were like her.
Some presidential candidates ripen before the election. Its natural.
Shouldn't something like that be reported when it happens? She's an elected official. Her seat has effectively been empty for at least six months now.
It's a small shit in the toilet-tub that is the current political state, but come on.
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Imagine not showing up to your job for 6 months and people just going, "hmmm, I wonder where they are."
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Is this what they mean by Reaganism?
Why not have a cut off age?
Asking people with power to give up that power willingly almost never works, unfortunately.
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That would put everyone voting for it out of a job.
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Let's talk about that woman later. Wtf is going on in Texas?? "An amendment to reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1" what did that person do that they put that on the agenda? Why is it possible to set a salary that low?
Realize that's she's a US house member, not a state legislature member. They were trying to defund the EPA in general by reducing salaries for individuals to $1 and it wasn't just Texas.
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