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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

How does someone like this become senator?

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

People in power usually aren't smart. They just have money from their parents or grandparents. This isn't a meritocracy. Idiots rule the world

[–] dubious@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and there's only one way to get rid of them

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Trick them in to thinking that the senate building is haunted.

[–] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm sure that'll work, provided there aren't any meddlesome kids about!

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Really makes you question the youth vote.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure the mystery gang would help out with such an operation. Remember they mostly dealt with rich people.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great, now they're diverting all the tax revenue to churches to pay for exorcisms.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Don't read in to the fact that the priest receiving all the tax payer money looks like the senator but with a goatee, and you never see them in the same room.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great idea! I’ll go make some spooky ghost costumes!

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lank hair, sunken faces, soulless eyes... you're going to have to try real hard to separate them from the living senators.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

All we need is some white sheets!

[–] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Additionally, the dumb relate to the dumb (and are easily manipulated), hence why they get votes.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get that. But you would think that a senator would at one point be in the same room as a history book

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, but that's a long way from reading it

[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 month ago

Protest votes.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Racists are allowed to vote and do so en masse

[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

State senator, not real senator.