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‘The Onion’ Looks Back On 90 Years Of Dianne Feinstein Dying (www.theonion.com)
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Dianne Feinstein, who served as a senator of California since 1992, died Thursday night at the age of 90. The Onion looks back at 31 years of Feinstein becoming elderly while in office.

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[–] Clodsire@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

probably too many lobby groups backing them, which pushes them to stay until death intead of just picking a succesor and retiring

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But that's just it, shouldn't we be picking the successor??

[–] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago

We do.

We just keep picking the one with the most ad backing.