Getting old socks. Maybe it will happen to you someday.

yeah, well, I’m not a US senator. and if I couldn’t do my job anymore because I was incapacitated, I’d resign.

Dianne is part of a thin Senate majority and on the judiciary committee. If she were to retire now, governor Newsome would name a replacement and set up a special election. But, that replacement would not have her senority in the Senate or on committee. So, should something happen, like Biden nominating a new judge, it could turn into a real shitshow. Could relive Garland. That is the reason, I think, that you won’t see her gone until the next Senate

yeah, what good is she to anyone in this condition? using her as a seat-filler like that is just ghoulish.

Of course she still votes on the floor and in Committee. I believe she has some say over priorities on the Committee