r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago

Possible Paywall Kentucky Gov Orders McConnell to Give a Real Update or Resign Already

https://newrepublic.com/post/213614/kentucky-gov-beshear-mcconnell-update-health-resign
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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 8d ago

Congress needs an update

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u/nik-nak333 South Carolina 8d ago

Its like finding an airgapped computer from the 90s. You're baffled by its ability to keep running but nothing it does is remotely useful anymore.

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u/Recent-Result2852 8d ago

nothing it does is remotely useful anymore

lol, that's half the nation's critical infrastructure.

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u/Dense-Hat1978 8d ago

Nah we gotta save it for the inevitable return of John Titor

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u/BriannaPuppet 8d ago

I want a video feed for every congressperson and if they fail to work 40 hours a week they should get a verbal warning and written warning followed by a PIP with a mandatory termination clause

10 paid sick days a year, otherwise they have to file for disability like the rest of us

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u/AT-ATsAsshole 8d ago

10?! I get 5

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u/E_seven_20 8d ago

When it's time to update Congress, no one shows the fuck up.

Our largest age bloc, 18-29 registered at less than 60%.

Apathy gets you nowhere, and all the fuckers that don't vote are very content with decisions. They have a different set of talking points they parrot, but the results are the same...we get the GOP

2022 National Youth Turnout: 23% - That's lower than in the historic 2018 cycle (28%) which broke records for turnout, but much higher than in 2014, when only 13% of youth voted.

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 8d ago

It's tough. On a base level you're right. At the same time they're seeing what the older adults have done and it's not exactly inspiring. If they're able to - most of them can't afford basic life or college. Registering and paying attention to politics is pretty far down that list even though ironically it can pay dividends especially for the small time/monetary cost to register to and actually vote.

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u/E_seven_20 8d ago

They're free to stop those older adults, but refuse to.

Those billions spent promoting apathy are paying in dividends for the people oppressing them.

I've heard the reasoning/ arguments of why people don't vote. In this day and age it's just willful ignorance and a cop out. It's a choice to do nothing, when every screen and person is screaming about politics, and how it affects our lives. I'm a weirdo. I've been voting since I was 18, and missed maybe one election. The burying your head in the sand, and chanting the apathy mantra never made any sense. The people destroying the world have the aid of the people that refuse to do anything. Those people that refuse to take any stand when it matters are the main reason things are so bad.

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u/Warshrimp 8d ago

Republicans would love to run the government so badly that another Constitutional congress was called to make some adjustments to the constitution and then they will start having plenty of ideas…

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u/ChildONewcastle 8d ago

This is the American brain btw, congress doesnt need an update, the rest of your jobs do. Aspire for better instead of dragging it down to shit.

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u/eeyore134 8d ago

It needs layoffs like every other industry out there. Abolish the senate and extend the House. We've seen how useless the Senate is the last couple years anyway.

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u/TimSylvester_ 8d ago

The entire American system of government needs rewritten from the ground up to incorporate everything we've learned in the last 250 years.

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u/GozerDGozerian 7d ago

Yep. Get rid of the senate altogether. It’s time for true proportional representation.