Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suddenly stopped speaking during a weekly Republican leadership news conference Wednesday afternoon, appearing to freeze, and then went silent and was walked away.
This was a really odd scene, dude just stares right off into space and comes back to say he’s fine. That was a classic seizure if I ever saw one.
Yup my grandpa has seizures like this too. Maybe 81 year olds shouldn’t occupy powerful leadership positions?
What! You’re saying the system of oligarchic gerontocracy we’ve had for all of modern history, that is literally burning our planet, should be changed?
Blasphemy!
Congress, the President, and judges need a mandatory retirement age. We have them for pilots and air traffic controllers. I would set it at 65.
I know the Right likes to throw around Biden Bot’s text to speech timeouts, motor control issues, ghost handshakes and the gibberish world salad he likes to produce but I like to think there’s a parallel dimension where this is frontpage news world wide, no matter where you politically stand.
But we’re in this dimension, unfortunately. 🌚
they dont in most countries
My wife has a seizure condition, she’s much younger than Mitchell. There have been plenty of times where she just kind of trails off and in the middle of a sentence and then kind of stares off slack-jawed. McConnell already looks pretty slack-jawed so I would say a seizure diagnosis makes sense. I will also say fuck his people - I dislike the old turtle, but they obviously have no idea how to react, react slowly, and then don’t follow through and let him just stand there. He could have easily collapsed and died right there.
It’s even stranger to me that nobody reacted or did a damn thing for a good 10 seconds. Then they took him backstage and prepped him for questions, rather than taking him to THE FUCKING HOSPITAL LIKE NORMAL HUMANS WOULD.
If there were ever a man that didn’t deserve any sympathy for something like this, it is Mitch McConnell.
Pretty much.
Oh, he’s being used by others in his party while his cognition declines? Guess what he was doing before that happened.
I can’t stop him if he plans to die standing up, but since he chose to stand directly on the face of America, he gets no tears from me as he goes.
This. If there was ANYONE whom I’d wouldn’t p!ss on if he was blazing glory its this crotch turtle
I watched my father get sick and pass away. This symptom was something I saw in him a few time. Seeing this video hit me pretty hard. everything else aside all I could think was “this is sad”
This angers me.
This man gets to inflict suffering on millions of people but now he gets to be coddled by the state he’s trying to destroy. Going to sit in that seat for as long as possible being puppeted and destroying more lives while he rots from the inside out.
He’s going to be Feinstein all over again.
Just fucking die already Christ.
You’ve been banned from /r/politics
yo so one fuck this guy, but also this is just sad to see. fuck this dude’s people for riding this shit train until it’s dead.
Dude probably shat his whole self
Listen… It’s fine, it’s fine… Just a little Mitch Glitch, nothing to see here.
Is it finally happening?
Oh ho! On The Badd Site you would be SO banned right now!
But high fives here. Hopefully so.
Yup, get your party hats ready. He’s only got 15-20 years left in him! Good thing the new batch of incoming Republicans are so much more level headed and reasonable.
Hate to burst your bubble, but whoever replaces him will be even worse, if you can imagine that.
Kentucky did elect a Democrat for governor. Maybe there’s hope?
Damn his skin looks like wax. Quite disturbing
Those pursed serpent lips on that waxy turtle noggin. I know that’s shallow but, oof, it’s time for this guy to go home and eat live rats or whatever he does in his free time.
There are too many politicians in DC who are too old to handle the most basic parts of their job without the assistance of aids. People need to stop voting for these dinosaurs.
That’s the catch isn’t it.
ISN’T IT, KENTUCKY.
Kentuckian here to say there’s a good third of us or more that have some sense, but 30-40% doesn’t win elections
Tots and pears.
Remember that time he showed up to work all black and blue because he back chatted Elaine over her runny eggs?
Tune in to the next exciting adventure of . . . Chaos Husband!
I think he had a focal seizure. He def should not be in office.
in office since 1985
If any other country did this we’d call it an authoritarian shit hole, but it’s just the standard here instead
Dude’s literally demented.
