She got shingles in late February.
Feinstein was hospitalized in early March for treatment and returned to her San Francisco home on March 7. She has not been in Washington, D.C., since the onset of the illness. She has missed 60 votes of the 82 taken in 2023 so far, including two prior to her illness. Feinstein “continues to work from home in San Francisco as she recuperates,” her spokesperson Adam Russell told The Chronicle Monday. He did not have any information about when she plans to return to D.C.
The Senate has been on a recess since March 31 and will return on April 17.
The article contradicts itself and it also said she's missed 58 Senate votes since late February.
Feinstein “continues to work from home in San Francisco as she recuperates,
No. No she doesn’t. She by definition can’t be working from home, as her job is to vote on policies, and she’s missed many many votes because she can’t do them from home. She is by definition, not working from home.
Also, I’ve never understood why we don’t have vice-senators. Either they should have a second that they run with or they should be able to appoint someone else to do their job temporarily.
In fact, if a vote ever proceeds without you or your appointee present, you should be in prison-time level trouble, because by not voting on those policies you’ve disenfranchised millions of people. Voting on every piece of legislation should be a legal requirement with prison time on the line.
You're assuming the goal is to have a functional government that enfranchises people.
In many other countries, at least those with party lists, substitutes are elected together with actual members of parliament. If a party wins five seats, the first five people on the list gets elected while the next five people become their substitutes. If an MP resigns, gets incapacitated or take a leave the seat will go to the substitute automatically.
The US really took all the bad parts of having political parties and none of the good
she continues to work from home
Either give Senators the ability to vote from their state home office or give states the ability to assign Senatorial duties while an invalid senator recuperates.
But drop this "my job is to do literally anything other than vote for shit" line, as though all that other stuff isn't just kicked off to her staff.
I work at dominos, my job is to make pizzas to give to customers. However, I’ve been working from home this year and haven’t been able to make a single pizza.
Pizza constituent services when I have my little bother answer the phone and tell people I can't make pizza right now.
Yeah the real story here IMO is that, in the year of our lord 2023, Congress still works predominantly in-person (excepting the proxy voting that was in place due to the pandemic until recently). How long has the telegraph existed, again?
This tweet made me laugh...
"No date has been given for the 89-year-old Feinstein to come back to Washington."
The 89 year old Feinstein
89 yeaR oLd Feinstein
89 yEaR oLd
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lol, she watched RBG ensure an indefinitely conservative SCOTUS and decided "That pissed off a lot of people on the left! I want to do that too!"
I found myself saying this as well but then I shuddered at the thought of a competent Tech ghoul taking her place
continues to work from home in San Francisco as she recuperates
but us dirty plebs need to get back to the office and save all that corporate real estate
Where's McConnell been also
The government is ran by zombies and their handlers at this point.
zombies and their handlers
That should be the title of the accurate reboot of The West Wing.
Holy shit I had to look that one up because I got old-landmark bridge NY brain.
Construction in the bridge started in January of '33, she was born in June of that year, and construction finished about 4 years later.
Nineteen fuckin thirty three. She is an antique. Items from that time are preserved in museums. Why do people keep voting for her?
Yeah, but they're trying to figure out how to make her mouth move and still sign stuff.
Met her at the store the other day, she was looking fine but it was a bit odd how she began every sentence with "I'm an AI language model so I..."
Or
"Fatal runtime error... Fatal runtime error... Fatal runtime error... Fatal runtime error... Fatal runtime error..."and her handlers whisk her away as fast as possible as they say "The senator has such a strange sense of humor - doesn't she?!"
They've been Weekend At Bernies-ing her ass since the mid 00s.
she'll reappear suddenly as a preserved meat puppet controlled by two aides with elaborate rigging don't worry
dianne frankenstein :kelly:
'actually frankenstein is the name of the doctor not the monst-' :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:
Why can't one of her staff just vote for her? We already know she has dementia and has no idea what's going on around her, so it's not like she has to be present.
