Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze again Wednesday, this time during a gaggle with reporters in Covington, Kentucky, stopping for more than 30 seconds after he was asked if he would run for re-election.
The Kentucky Republican froze in July at a news conference on Capitol Hill, going silent for 19 seconds before being escorted away from the cameras. McConnell, 81, returned shortly afterward and continued his news conference, telling reporters, “I’m fine.”
When it became apparent that McConnell had frozen again on Wednesday, an aide came up to him and asked, “Did you hear the question, senator?” McConnell continued to be unresponsive.
If that behavior is typical, he belongs in a home, certainly not Congress.
unfortunately that behavior is more and more typical… in congress
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I mean, why not have a dying sociopath representing us?..
We had an Alzheimer’s patient as president, so this is just the status quo.
I assume you’re talking about Regan, but while I think he and Biden and Trump are/were too old to be president, the latter two don’t have obvious signs of Alzheimer’s.
Only signs of significant cognitive decline
They’re not so bad compared to McConnell or Feinstein.
In any case, Trump has a serious mental illness that is understated because of ethics rules. It’s just not solely cognitive decline. (It’s not that the 80 yo’s don’t have signs of decline. It’s that trump has a much worse and more obvious issue).
Par for the course at this point. Won’t be surprised if Mitch represents us in effigy when he dies. “this is what Mitch would have wanted”
The children’s blood he drinks is probably deficient in iron and magnesium.
The vaccines depleted the adrenochrome supply. Hardest of /s.
Mark my words: there will be a discovery of a pizza joint somewhere in DC where republicans rape and torture kids in the basement.
Someone was talking about adrenochrome at my work last night. Thought my head was going to explode.
I have no idea what that is, but it sounds like something an insane energy drink company CEO would use in their advertisements.
You mean to tell me no one wanted an energy drink for Asian homosexuals?
You’re confusing him with a democrat. /s
I always thought he would look like this when eating
Dude is having a series of small strokes right in front of the entire world. If this is happening multiple times in front of cameras, imagine how often it’s happening off camera.
I hope they’re painful. He deserves it.
The man feels nothing so I wouldn’t count on it
This is probably the truth. And now he’s probably losing parts of his brain and there’s less and less chances that the ramifications of his actions ever taking place.
A painful thought hit me earlier today. If he develops dementia then he will die in blissful ignorance of everything he’s done.
His obscene wealth guaranteed that outcome regardless.
McConnell is a partisan hack and an absolute hypocrite, whose actions in the Senate have damaged the country in far-reaching ways.
I aim to be better than him in every way, including not being happy about his physical pain or other complications due to medical issues.
Edit: Really, setting aside the mild editorializing, McConnell did not choose to experience medical problems. We can disagree fervently with the choices he does make, and criticize in the context of those choices as much as we want. It is wrong to criticize or wish ill of people when those criticisms are in the context of something not chosen.
That is rightly offensive when the context is race, gender, LGBTQ+, physical (mental should arguably be here, too) disability. It’s equally offensive when the context is illness or some other medical concern.
This is sort of like saying a parent shouldn’t want a punishment on someone who murdered their kid because they need to forgive in order to cleanse their soul or some other religious bullshit.
Perhaps if he weren’t an evil motherfucker, people wouldn’t wish ill of him.
No, it would be like a parent whose child was murdered wanting a severe punishment because the perpetrator was a “fag.”
If someone deserves punishment, it should be on the basis of what they choose, and not because of something they didn’t choose.
Mitch McConnell chose to be evil.
He didn’t choose to be sick.
He made tons of choices guaranteeing my absolute contempt for him. I’m not going to carry an ounce of guilt for the schadenfreude I’m experiencing now. There’s no shame in taking personal joy from bad things happening to bad people. A wild, rabid alligator could have appeared out of nowhere during the news conference and bit the man in the dick right there in front of the podium - I’d still have no sympathy to spare. He’s done meaningful and lasting damage to all corners of society during his shameful life and his suffering inevitably brings lots of people great joy.
He will probably one of the first politicians who croaks on a life press conference. If only the voters would see this as an actual “Act of God” and get the message.
That’s just the real Mitch McConnell trying to escape. He’s been locked in there since '45. I think Stephen King wrote a book about it.
Will somebody please reboot Mitch again?
All that Russian malware in him is really fucking things up.
Will somebody please reboot Mitch again?
What if we didn’t? Just let this thing run its course?
Yeah I’m curious what would happen if nobody intervened. Would the guy just slowly curl into a ball on the floor and die? A silent room full of cameras recording him as he sheds his mortal flesh and unceremoniously exhausts the very last drop of what used to be his vast reserves of evil. To never again utter a self-serving Fox News talking point or to fellate an oil executive on a private jet.
Give it some lettuce.
But seriously that man should be at home spending time with his family for the rest of his life. He’s done as much damage to the US as any other politician in the past 30 years but one still feels some compassion for and old man losing the plot.
one still feels some compassion for and old man losing the plot
You have more compassion than I do. All the damage that guy has done to the people of the US is too much for me to give a rat’s ass about his well-being and comfort. Just on stealing Supreme Court Justices alone, who knows how many women will die because of the impact on Roe v. Wade. I rather spend my compassion on those women than this psychopath.
but one still feels some compassion for and old man losing the plot
Maybe one does, but that’s probably about the limit.
Sadly there’s some competition for the title of “most damage done to the US in the last 30 years” because Newt Gingrich exists as well.
He’s a terrible person and when he dies may he rot in piss.
I’d care about him going senile if him being sane wasn’t as detrimental as it was.
Empathy is a good thing but let’s save it for the people who actually deserve it and not old ass racist pieces of shit like him
I’m 62 years old, which probably makes me the Uncle Fester of the fediverse. Even so, this piece of shit does not represent me.
I work for a living – this motherfucker has never worked in his life.
Moreover, this teint of the universe has the mental acuity of a rotten turnip.
What a fucking joke.
yeah I’d feel real bad for anyone this happened to… but Mitch?
I hope he’s tripping locked-in syndrome hard. His handlers aren’t doing him any favors, at this point it’s getting a very creepy weekend-at-bernie’s feel.
Diane Feinstein (who was awesome, but…) and Mitch both need to sail off to a hospice. If their people truly loved them, they’d let them retire.
The older they get, the more senile they become
The grossest part is all the people covering up for him “he sounds like his usual self” like America needs a geriatric octogenarian in such a position of power. This guy can’t even speak to a small group of people without his handlers taking charge and masking the issue. Seems gross but I still see him winning reelection.
Weird. Diane Feinstein has the same issue and she doesn’t have many apologists.
Who had two simultaneous weekend at Bernie’s situations in the US senate on their Bingo card?
Question, if the good people of Kentucky finally get rid of this horrible man, what’s the prospect for the future?
Are they so deep red there’s no chance of electing someone more sensible, or is that state ripe for some competition?
McConnell is effective because of his tenure. A new Kentucky senator is still likely to be a fuck stick, but they probably wont be so brutal.
On a positive note, Kentucky does have a democrat Governor, so it does occasionally fall in the “Montana/Wisconsin split statewide seats” vote. A dem senator is slightly possible.
They’ve been planning for this eventuality. The state legislature passed a law requiring the governor to appoint someone of the same party.
Of course they did, which will give that person an “incumbent” boost before their actual election.
Anything to tip the scales. I guarantee they would repeal that law if they had a dem governor and a dem senator.
Mitch actually won the seat over a long time democrat. At the time he was considered an insane longshot but he had aid from Rodger Ailes. McConnell ended up winning in an upset.
Kentucky is very weird. They are not afraid to elect a democrat to governor if it’s necessary, but for any other position it’s GOP or bust. Most people I know in Kentucky HATE Mitch McConnell but vote for him anyway. Rand Paul on the other hand, they worship the ground he walks on.
Also the Democratic Party in Kentucky sucks. They are not effective at organizing outside of Jefferson County and are totally out of touch with what to do in the rest of the State. The last two elections against McConnell they ran women against him. I worked on one of them in 2014, and I had so many people tell me “I don’t like Mitch, but I won’t vote for a woman.” Other people experienced the same thing, and for some reason they decided to do it AGAIN in 2020 thinking the state had changed just because they elected a dem governor. Kentucky is not ready for women in politics even in 2023, but the Kentucky Dems refuse to see that. They will either have to run an old white guy or not even bother. Sucks to say, but that’s the state.
Pretty much a matter of people actually voting and republicans being less successful at voter suppression.
My brother once wanted to tell me something about McConnel, but didn’t knew his name so he said “The guy that looks like The Pale Man from Pan’s Labirynth”, and I knew who he meant.
Seeing him freeze up was like watching the equivalent of a human blue screening. Have you tried turning your politician off and on again?
“A reboot is required to complete installation of at least one update.”. Always happens at the worst time.
Granny Mitch
