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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze for about 30 seconds on Wednesday while speaking with reporters after a speech in Covington, Kentucky.

The incident is similar to an episode McConnell experienced at the US Capitol late last month and is likely to raise additional questions about the fitness of the 81-year-old to lead the Senate Republican caucus.

Wednesday’s episode occurred when a reporter asked the Republican leader if he was planning to run for reelection in 2026. McConnell had to ask him to repeat the question several times, chuckled for a moment, and then paused.

Someone at his side then asked him, “Did you hear the question, senator, running for reelection in 2026?” McConnell did not respond.

Article includes video of the incident.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

That is hard to watch. I hate his guts and everything he's done and stood for in politics, but it's still rough to watch a man just fade away like that.

He needs to retire and stop clinging desperately to power. The stress of it alone is probably literally killing him.

Edit: Just so we're clear, here, I'm not offering him sympathy. I have none to give for a monster like Mitch McConnell. The man has done enormous damage to the country, and people like him are why I worry about the future for my kids (both LGBTQ+).

I was only trying to express that on a gut level, it's still unpleasant to see someone basically drain away like that.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He lost all potential sympathy from me when he denied Garland and rammed in Barett during an election year before RBG was fucking cold in the ground. That decision and denial of representation has made shockwaves of regression in terms of civil rights, voting rights, women's bodily autonomy and LGBTQ rights …and that’s what we have gone backward in…so far (birth control and gay marriage being illegal again is coming) and we will feel these effects for several decades way after he’s gone.

tots and fucking pears, goddamn ghoul.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Umm what stress? No really I am asking. There is no realistic scenario where he will have to choose between medicine or food, face homelessness, have his career destroyed, or really any major setbacks. Also he is probably a psychopath so even if some relative of his gets killed it isn't going to impact him.

I am a regular middle class family man. It would take nearly nothing to destroy everything I have. One dark spot on an x-ray, one bad car accident, me and my wife both losing our jobs at once, a kitchen fire. The Turtle's wealth, pension, power, and lack of emotional attachments means he is shielded from everything. How can someone who can't lose anything be worried about anything?

The very worst thing that could happen to him is his party doesn't have as much power. Which isn't even really a thing on him, it is on the vile ideas that he has.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I feel the same. Terrible human being. But taking joy in the suffering of others is not something I will do.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, I will take enough joy for us both. There is no hell, he is going to the same dirt we all are. If I want to feel a bit glad that one less terrible human is around causing problems I won't feel bad about about feeling bad. Humanity as a whole will be better off the faster he dies. My feelings won't change when that event happens and express an honest evaluation of the situation.

Every single teenager girl in America trying to abort her incest fetus with a metal hanger is because of that fucker.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Your account has been suspended for posting violent content. The suspension —-“

Just kidding, this isn’t Reddit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't worry I'll have your share, get fucked Mitch.

I know McConnell is just a lightning rod for hate for the GOP and as soon as he's gone some other amoral, sociopathic mercenary will take his place, but damn if he's not just the worst.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Convince me that's a human being.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Whether he clings to power and dies from stress is kind of his decision.

I don't enjoy seeing a person, even him, suffering illness. Even as much as I despise that horrible piece of shit.