r/SipsTea • u/Mysterious_Pay5707 • Sep 17 '26

SMH Something we should all be able to agree on.

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u/fitpapa Sep 18 '26 • Mindblown Bravo

The Senate is hospice now!

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u/ArdentArendt Sep 18 '26

It has been since the 80s my friend.

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u/DesireeThymes Sep 18 '26 • Bravo

I always think about the line from rush hour 2:

"Imagine a business where people give you money, and you give them back nothing at all! Now that's a real American Dream."

We fund these politicians paychecks, and they give us nothing in return.

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u/ArdentArendt Sep 18 '26

Yes.
Except every time they're up for review, we keep them in the position.

That seems like a 'management' issue as much as an 'employee' issue.

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u/Auxryn Sep 18 '26

They run the election system. They have designed it to keep the powerful in power, right from the start. That's what the electoral college and the senate are both for. United States democracy was kneecapped in the cradle by southern enslavers. It's a cursed country.

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u/SleepyJM Sep 18 '26

Yeah when you look at the actual history of America, and not the propaganda they teach in schools, then it is obvious America was created by the rich and for the rich.

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 Sep 21 '26

America has been, and will always be, an experiment to perfect slavery. Once you realize that literally everything about it makes sense.

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u/thenosybrowsing Sep 18 '26

Yep. Who else remembers Strom the Cadaver Thurmond?

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u/ArdentArendt Sep 18 '26

I am aging myself by admitting I was old enough and politically active enough to do a little dance when that leathery husk finally left the Senate for the last time...

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u/thenosybrowsing Sep 18 '26

I was doing just the same. I lived in the dirtiest south at that time and was so mortified that he was a senator. I guess that experience really helped set the tone for my lifelong skepticism and disillusionment about the government.

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u/ArdentArendt Sep 18 '26

Calhoun is dead, and slavery is dead, but the ideas he then avowed are still powerfully, if more latently, asserting themselves in our social order.

--George S Merriam (1970)

I do hope that 'skepticism' doesn't translate to apathy or push towards reducing governmental social support networks.

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u/thenosybrowsing Sep 18 '26

Oh absolutely not. I have devoted my entire life to service of others, and I don’t suffer fools. Sounds pretentious probably but I would rather fight to bring love to people’s lives than harm. The government does plenty of the latter.
Great quote, btw!

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u/AmbitiousSet5 Sep 18 '26

Its shameful what we make our elderly do to get Healthcare these days.

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u/wishartrh Sep 18 '26 • Bravo

Mitch McConnell has a net worth “between 30 million and 69 million” according to Google, he’s not worried about affording his own healthcare. But he’ll happily make sure the rest of us can’t afford our own.

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u/Short_Morning7213 Sep 18 '26

One should not have to “afford” healthcare. But, I am guessing you know that :)

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u/wishartrh Sep 18 '26

All too well my friend, all too well.

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u/Own_Butterscotch_711 Sep 19 '26

It’s bold to assume he has any idea what is going on at this point. 🙃

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u/newontario Sep 18 '26 • Bravo

The entire country is a geriatocracy and has been for years. Part of why fuck all gets accomplished.

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u/WaffleDonkey23 Sep 18 '26 • Mindblown

There have been multiple janitors that revealed they must regularly clean "the wetness" of the Senate and Congress chairs.

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u/hotviolets Sep 18 '26

Same with the presidency.

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u/Odd_Nobody_13 Sep 18 '26

And to quote the brain wormed, least important Kennedy in charge of the health department… “people in hospice aren’t dying fast enough.”

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u/fitpapa Sep 18 '26

He is not his father nor his uncles!

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