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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] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You need to parboil turtle meat before it freezes. Especially if you want to get rid of the rank bitterness. Also, to purge the filth out of its flesh properly, you really should put the turtle in a tub or plastic trash barrel (while still alive) for about a week, with some fresh water to swim in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

again?? Or is this just old fucking news???

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not weighing in on opinions about the fella as I’m British and ‘not my politician’ but, just showed this to my wife who is a specialist in geriatrics for the NHS and she said she’d refer him for a scan querying either a vascular event or vascular dementia.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we agree to a compromise? You boot McConnell and we boot Feinstein?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well, he can't talk or think and he has tons of power! This is excellent and surely not a symptom of a fundamentally broken system that will doom us all!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Retire you old rat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Once they got some sort of response out of him: "any other questions? And please speak up!"

As if that was the issue!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MF having tias right the fuck up on the stage, lol. They've probably got him on anticoagulants since the first one but it probably doesn't take a big clot to fit through his arteries at this point. I can't imagine the amount of sclerosing and HTN is present in an excessively rich and exceedingly old white man. Wonder how much syphillis he's caught from 14 year olds.

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

asshole.exe has stopped working

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

This is just sad. He's clearly not fit for any kind of work.

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