 The situation regarding Dianne Feinstein is somehow getting even more ridiculous and I'm sorry but Democrats have handled this in the most irresponsible if not cruel way imaginable. It's to the point where I don't think most of us even realized how bad she's gotten. I mean sure there have been reports here and there about how she's losing her mental faculties but like it's beyond the time for them to step in and I don't know maybe have a conversation with her family because she's very clearly incapable of making a decision about her necessary retirement on her own volition so it's time for action to be taken because this is just this is too much for example Mark Joseph Stern of Slade shared this encounter that his colleague had with Feinstein and I mean this just really tells you everything that you need to know about the gravity of the situation so the reporter asked her what the response from her colleagues has been since she has returned and she responded by telling him no I haven't been gone and she added you should follow the I haven't been gone I've been working now the reporter was nice and he followed up trying to ask if maybe she meant that she was working at home but she apparently got feisty with him and she said no I've been here I've been voting she said quote please you either know or don't know she's literally arguing with reporters about her absence she just returned like a week ago what are we doing what are we doing folks I mean at least it's good to know that as she becomes increasingly senile that she hasn't lost her typical condescending attitude but I mean this is not someone who's fit to serve I feel like this is pretty obvious do we have to state the obvious why are there not more calls for her to resign from fellow Democrats she's very clearly mentally incapable of doing the job I feel like that's obvious to anyone with a brain and as many Hassan put it quote if you're a Democratic senator and you're not at least privately urging Feinstein to resign and urging Schumer and Durbin to take action you have failed the people who sent you to Congress you're lying to yourselves that this is okay and he's absolutely correct about that but I feel like the situation has deteriorated to the point where you can't really even have this conversation with her like I don't know that she is capable of making a decision about her own retirement that's how bad it's gotten Democrats have to talk to her family specifically the person with power of attorney and have them step in because this isn't acceptable it's almost cruel like it feels like elder abuse to keep her in that position and I'm no fan of Diane Feinstein I hate Diane Feinstein to be clear but to see her in this position when she very clearly isn't capable of performing the duties of this job it's just it's so unacceptable and the fact that Senate Democrats and her family let it get this bad is really an indictment on their judgment as well because there's been reports that she hasn't been in a competent state of mind for a while now Huffpost reports an unnamed Senate staffer recalled the senator welcoming Senator Tim Scott to the chamber apparently confusing him with Senator Raphael Warnock who had just won his seat in a special election both Scott who joined the Senate in 2013 and Warnock are black now Tim Scott apparently he played along but that was one of many many signs that she was losing control of her mental faculties Huffpost continues a 2022 story from the San Francisco Chronicle cited an anonymous Democratic senator who said it's bad and it's getting worse a subsequent New York Times report quoted lawmakers and aides who said Feinstein sometimes struggles to recall the names of colleagues and frequently has little recollection of meetings or telephone conversations and at times walks around in a state of the fuddlement before that Feinstein worried colleagues when she asked the same question twice during a November 17th 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey so needless to say this is something that has been going on now for a very long time and look I understand it is very uncomfortable to vocalize your concerns with a family member or even a colleague who's going through this right but this is something that many many families have to go through if they have a family member live to be that old like sometimes you have to set them aside sit them down and tell them it's no longer safe for you to drive it's no longer safe for you to live alone and Democrats or one of her family members should have sat her down when she started to deteriorate and say listen listen we're gonna have to make a decision really soon here about your job here you're gonna have to retire this is something that we have to do unfortunately I know that you still want to keep working but it's getting bad but no one had this conversation with her no one had the talk with Diane Feinstein about her needing to retire but the difference here though is that Diane Feinstein is no ordinary elderly person she holds an immense amount of power and her inability to perform her obligations as a US senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee that affects all of us not just her and her family that affects every single one of us for example Republicans predictably blocked Democrats from naming a temporary replacement while she was gone and as a result multiple judicial nominees from Biden were not confirmed until she physically returned and cast votes allowing their confirmations to move forward but I mean how long until she's absent again how long until the Democratic Party leadership intervenes I mean if they haven't by now they're honestly probably not going to do anything about this they're just gonna let her be there even if she isn't capable of functioning in that position and I want to be very clear about a couple of things here first and foremost this isn't about her age this is about her capabilities most politicians are extremely old she's not the only 80 year old senator but the difference is that when you lose your ability to perform your duties as a senator on powerful committees that's where the problem exists second of all can we stop coddling Diane Feinstein and not pretend as if she has some amazing legacy that we need to protect I mean the woman is a hundred millionaire oligarch who basically told kids concerned about climate change to fuck off she also notoriously during a 2017 town hall told her constituents that she refused to support Medicare for all even though they begged her which means that effectively she's fine with the peasants dying if they can't afford health care and I'm sure that the tens of thousands of dollars that she took from the health industry has something to do with that position but basically she took that position she decided that health care should not be a right in this country as she is receiving the best care imaginable but yet she's being coddled by millions of liberal sick events who want to protect her legacy as if there's some good legacy there to protect this is a center-right politician who oftentimes collaborates with Republicans she's a bad person and a shitty senator with a terrible legacy and honestly she can't retire soon enough in my opinion like she should have retired back in 2018 but the fact that she is still not retiring I mean at this point it's past the area where it's in her control right like this isn't like oh Diane finds that you should retire she doesn't know where she is it's time for her family and Democrats to step in so since she cannot make the decision for herself Democrats need to do their due diligence do their job talk to her family and they need to get her to resign because she can't make that decision by herself and it's just it's getting ridiculous like it's it's past the point where this is cruel it's past the point where this is absurd she shouldn't be there and the fact that she's still there tells you that the Democratic Party isn't serious about protecting all of our rights under attack by the Republican Party