r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 8d ago
Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Is Entirely Nonverbal in New Video | The 84-year-old senator also appeared to freeze up.
https://newrepublic.com/post/215759/mitch-mcconnell-nonverbal-freeze-up-new-video847
u/LeagueofJohnLegends 8d ago
Is this the Senator McConnell, and dear friend, that Scott Jennings had a fruitful 20 minute conversation with?
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u/expedience 8d ago
Those buttons they teach dogs to use to say things like food, outside, walk, no to paid sick leave, tax cuts for billionaires.
Standard stuff.
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u/jeffriestubesteak 7d ago
"It's Morse code!"
"For what?"
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u/Sedative_Sediment United Kingdom 7d ago
They've turned him into captain pike from the original star trek.
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u/Titleduck123 8d ago
You know those iPad they have for non verbal kids that translate pictures into sentences for caregivers? I imagine thats what Scot Jennings "talked" to. Of course back in my day when I had surgery and was intubated, they gave me a magnadoodle to communicate with.
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u/eroticdiagram 7d ago
They gave me an Etch-a-Sketch. Fucking impossible.
"He's either hungry or he wants to see the city skyline."
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u/Winnie_rulez Canada 8d ago
I'm still shocked that he wasn't dead while they hid him away. Though this is basically the nearest thing, besides being fully comatose.
All of the senators and pundits (such as Scott Jennings) who lied about "talking to Mitch for 20 minutes" a few months ago should never be believed again. It should be brought up every time they're interviewed, or if they have to testify under oath for some reason.
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u/starliteburnsbrite 8d ago
Yeah, I can't believe they haven't been pilloried by the media. Where are the columns on the gaslighting Republicans lying through their teeth?
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u/edgarecayce 8d ago
The media doesn’t pillory these people any more. They just parrot their bullshit and then talk about minutia. No one ever gets called out.
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u/edgarecayce 8d ago
The News where people did real reporting and asked hard questions to people in power is mostly history.
Now we have multiple channels and 24 hour streaming of “news” but it’s mostly pundits bloviating about what they think of the news, and guests choosing to come on and talk about just what they want to talk about, or have somewhat fake discussions about it.
Everyone gets to hear what they want to hear and the fire hydrant of bullshit from the people in power goes mostly unchallenged.
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u/i_give_you_gum 7d ago
Reagan removed the Fairness Doctrine, and thus our slide into the present day media landscape began.
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u/Zahgi I voted 7d ago
The actual issue was allowing corporations to consolidate their ownership of the networks. That allowed the corporations to turn sources of news into outrage farming tabloid corporate clickbait.
As soon as that happened, predicted by myself and others, these tabloids became all about fearmonger for profits instead of being a watchdog on corporate corruption and political power.
The rest of the free world does not have this problem because their news networks are not farming ratings for cash. They are still about informing the people. As such they employ journalists, editors, and lawyers to make sure they aren't lying to the citizenry.
The USA's infotainment outlets are manned by failed actors/actresses who can't even write and justify lying because they are "performing" not informing.
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u/SkollFenrirson Foreign 8d ago
And the American people gobble it up like so much fried food
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u/therossboss 8d ago
Not sure where you have been for the last uh 50 years, but this is what Republicans do. They lie, cheat, and steal from their base, and they keep voting R. Because omg it would just be so much worse if a D were in. They could NEVER vote for a D. Rather watch their own children be killed by ICE than vote D.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 8d ago
they keep voting R. Because omg it would just be so much worse if a D were in. They could NEVER vote for a D
Yep, and their representatives know that they won't lose their votes so any pushback is just an idle threat
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u/honeybadgerrulez 8d ago
american media is about ad revenue, not truth. they want clicks that’s it. they do not care that trump does crazy shit in fact are for it cause that means more attentions
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u/TWVer The Netherlands 8d ago edited 8d ago
No, that was the past.
Right wing billionairs own most of the media with the express intent of controlling the narratives.
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u/LiterallyObiWan 7d ago
It’s wild how many people don’t even know that media capture is a thing, let alone that it’s already happened
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u/Ill_Act_1855 8d ago
honestly, I kind of figured he wasn't dead, just not in good condition. Hiding an actual death would be way harder, and the consequences way more severe. Whereas something like this is much easier to excuse, and it's easier to lie about the progression of illness timeline than time of death
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u/phyneas American Expat 8d ago
Yeah, once he ended up in an ambulance, hiding his death would mean convincing multiple highly-paid people who don't work for you to commit serious career-ending crimes on your behalf, whereas hiding a serious incapacitating illness is as simple as, well, exactly what they did (and are continuing to do).
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u/Axin_Saxon 8d ago
Yeah no doctor is going to risk their medical license to cover up a death like that and not report it to the coroner or other relevant local authorities.
I knew he was vegetative at very least. I just figured he would be in a coma and they’d pull the plug mid-August after the special election deadline passed.
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u/edgarecayce 8d ago
Operative word is “to”. They talked to him. Really, AT him. They definitely didn’t talk WITH him.
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u/FalcomanToTheRescue 7d ago
I talk TO my dog all the time. He’s has no idea what the fuck im saying, but I talk to him
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u/FunkyChewbacca 8d ago
“Mitch, if you’re cool with me borrowing 10k from your funds, just stare at me unblinking. Okay, thanks, good chat!”
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u/iPutTheScrewNTheTuna 8d ago
I was absolutely shocked when I heard he was still alive. And surprised that Lindsey Graham died while we were all wondering about McConnell.
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u/RussellGrey 8d ago
They said they talked to him. Did they say he talked back? /s
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u/Colddigger 8d ago
I mean he's continuing to function as he always has, as a tool for big money.
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u/cawkstrangla 8d ago
Its so insane that at THIS point, how fucked he is physically...that he wouldn't want to take his ball and tell everyone to fuck off and go home and do something that any normal person would like. Sit by a lake and fish. Spend time with family. Go to ball games. ANYTHING.
Its so crazy that he is doing what he is doing. He is so fucked in the head that being a mobile corpse in the senate is how he wants to spend the little time he has left.
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u/WindyCanuck 8d ago
You are assuming he knows what the fuck is happening around him…..
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u/UnknownUnknown4945 8d ago
We have no idea if he even wants anything at this point. He may want that and not be able to communicate it other than doing a piece sign too.
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u/GandalfTheSmol1 8d ago
When he dies, I assume they will mummify his corpse and shove a stick up his ass to wave him around like a banner, completing his transformation from human to literal political tool.
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u/Then_Journalist_317 8d ago
"When he dies..."
That event is long past. We are now viewing a post-death scenario.
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u/alexm2816 8d ago
Right? Still voting exactly the way his corporate overlords intend him to just doing a worse job of presenting a public facade that this isn't the case.
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u/grundee 8d ago
This. What his party is doing to him is ghoulish, but if I had to choose a single politician to be trapped in a shattered mind while his dying body is wheeled around to win cynical political games, it would be McConnell.
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u/HeadFullOfNails Kentucky 8d ago
I actually wish it was Trump. McConnell is good, but Trump as a voiceless shell would be better.
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u/grundee 8d ago
Trump wouldn't understand that what is happening is his own fault. McConnell knows the only reason he is there is because they cannot give up his seat or his vote. He would have ordered this exact thing to happen to anyone else in his party.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 8d ago
I wouldn’t count on McConnell knowing much of anything anymore
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u/AnalBumCovers 8d ago
Dude they were handling him so indelicately up that curb. In a week we are going to see his handlers just tossing him in the trunk lol
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 8d ago
This subreddit can't do gifs, so use your imagination:
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u/Mr_Meng 8d ago
I work in a LTC facility with elderly residents with dementia and when they start to look like Mitch does it's because the dementia has basically turned them into a husk of their former selves. I highly doubt there's much coherent thinking going through his mind now.
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u/tweakingforjesus 8d ago
Let’s give him the President’s cognitive test and see where he lands.
Man, woman, plant…
…, …., …., ….
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u/theCroc 8d ago
Reminds me of Diane Feinstein towards the end. It's grotesque and should be a warning to politicians to retire while they still can, before they become simply a skin suit for their political staff to controll against their will.
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u/oh-kee-pah 8d ago
I had trouble putting into words how I felt about this to my wife, and ultimately landed on:
I nothing this.
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u/Prudent-Air1922 8d ago
He got what he wanted in life. If he's feeling any suffering at all, it's not enough. The only justice will be defeating maga and reversing its effects.
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u/habbathejutt Wisconsin 8d ago edited 8d ago
I don't know, given everything he's done in his life, I can't help but wonder if this is something he'd want. When he's beyond any true function, and void of any personal ability, he can still screw over democrats. Seems like this would elate him, even if he can't show it.
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u/TeamCrowGrudge 8d ago
This would make a great twist on skeleton key or midsommar
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u/Elendel19 8d ago
It’s not justice, it’s what he would want his corpse to be used for, fucking over the American people one last time.
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u/Bae_the_Elf 8d ago
I'd agree with you if I didn't honestly believe that he is such a hateful person that he would be totally fine with consigning himself to this fate if it meant that he could stick it to the Democrats and make poor people suffer one last time
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u/MadMoose4 8d ago
Excellent point.
He’s like an extremely racist 90-year-old with dementia. You feel some sort of empathy for them, but you know that even if they did not have their disease, they’d still be a vile POS.
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u/zenerat Missouri 8d ago
Severe stroke, he probably can’t use a toilet without help and yet he’s one of the most powerful 100 people in the country currently.
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u/icaaryal 8d ago
I rest easy knowing that this man is going all the way to his grave being the exact same pos he’s been the entire time. I have no sympathy for him because I believe he wouldn’t have it any other way. People are claiming it’s elder abuse, but they’re ignoring that this man’s life mission has been to further the Republican cause to the fullest extent he possibly can. He has been a terrible public servant who has shamelessly tarnished the instruments of democracy. He will literally go down dying doing what he loved. I do not for one moment doubt that he is relishing every moment of this, with nothing better to do.
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u/OneHelluvaUsername 8d ago
After Bork’s nomination to SCOTUS tanked, McConnell made it his personal mission to reshape the Court in his image.
He succeeded.
Idgaf if he is being abused. He’s abused us all.
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u/Teyanis 7d ago
Turtle spent decades carefully honing the republican party to be his perfect ideal, and Trump smashed it to bits in 2 years and usurped the entire thing. Mitch's entire life's work was being burnt to the ground, and in the meantime his health took a sharp decline to the point that he couldn't rally a defense against Trump. He now spends the end of his life and career as a puppet for his own staff.
Now he's a victim of clear abuse and a prisoner in his own ruined brain, but nobody will lift a finger to help him. Karma really is a bitch. Believe in god or not, you can't escape once he comes for you.
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u/asummar 8d ago
It is elder abuse. At the same time, this is the closest thing to poetic justice that we will ever see. It shouldn’t happen. It’s fitting that it’s happening to him.
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u/PolarBailey_ 7d ago
i really don't care if it is elder abuse. i don't have sympathy for pos like him. i hope inside that empty head of his he is in nothing but pain.
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u/xynix_ie Florida 8d ago
His living will is to be a pain in the ass until his actual last breath.
Definitely wouldn't put it past him.
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u/tres-vip New York 7d ago
He should lose his taxpayer-funded health insurance for not working at least 80 hours per month, the way millions of Americans will come January 1, thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill that he signed.
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u/97runner Tennessee 8d ago
The fact that non elected people are allowed to vote for him shows how weak the system is.
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u/keb1965 8d ago
The Autopen was an outrage, but somehow this is fine.
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u/TheBSQ 8d ago
I wish we’d all stop pretending like there’s actual values or logical consistency to any of it.
They have things they want to do and they’ll pull any levers power available to do it.
They know it.
We know it.
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u/Daniiiiii I voted 8d ago
It's weak because Jeffries and Schumer are cowards scared to rock the boat. Little do they know the boat is sinking faster than the Titanic, but that's another issue altogether.
Mitch and Johnson and whoever else senior party leader on the Right would be crucifying the Left if they did the same. Ramping up pressure on the daily with their minions on every network beating the same drum along party lines, until the public outcry and corpo money speaks out loud and clear. Instead we have Lefty empty suits doing fuck all behind the veneer of decorum or some other scapegoat sentiment.
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u/lazysiobhan 8d ago
TBH I think this is what he would have wanted
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u/ControlNo1990 8d ago
This is exactly what I think. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has given explicit instructions to his aides and family to draw it out as long as possible, at any cost, if it benefits the party. He’s a remarkably effective and shameless ratfucker. This could be his final hurrah.
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u/thepvbrother 8d ago
Republicans vote against protections against elder abuse, so this is fitting.
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u/Axin_Saxon 8d ago
It’s simultaneously elder abuse but also exactly what he would want.
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u/Aerhyce 8d ago
That said, there is the ship of Theseus (mind of Theseus?) aspect to consider.
If the current Mitch is so deteriorated because of his stroke(s) that he's for all intents and purposes a different person, does he still deserve to suffer for the actions of past Mitch?
(There is a famous case of this with a death row inmate that suffered severe brain damage and did not remember at all the crimes he committed and behaved completely differently, effectively becoming a "new" person.)
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u/ThatLooksRight 8d ago
There was a Star Trek The Next Generation episode that had a similar premise. A man that had committed a bunch of crimes had his brain altered by some nanobots or something, and he became aware and regretful that he committed actual crimes. The debate was over if he was truly the same person to punish
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u/Cheese_Fisticuffs1 8d ago
Nah, there isn't. He's the same old piece of shit he's always been.
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u/goldenface4114 8d ago
It would be sad if he wasn't one of the worst humans in existence.
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u/Kakistocracy_0 8d ago
Get this fucking non verbal turtle the fuck outta here. He can't represent the voters as a vegetable.
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u/Smart-Koala4306 8d ago
He never represented voters the 60 years prior to this.
This country is fucked, whether he gets replaced by another yes man, or if he continues to be carted around, so let him suffer.
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u/dougan25 8d ago
Right? My first thought was, "this poor old man being exploited to death, quite literally."
Then I was like "wait a minute, no, FUCK this dude"
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u/Metalheadzaid 8d ago
I like to put it like this: "you shouldn't ever wish violence or death upon someone, but you also don't have to feel bad about it."
CEO, Turtle Senator, you name it.
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u/morningsaystoidleon 8d ago
It's still sad from a pure human perspective. I want Mitch to be punished, but I guess I believe in the whole no cruel and unusual punishment thing more than I thought.
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u/AwfulMouthful 8d ago
What I keep going back to is that this is a guy who has a wife, who has kids. The sort of people that you or I would count on to step in if we were ever being abused in this way, and clearly none of them love him enough do so.
It's his own fault, sure, but it's still sad as fuck.
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u/Atomic235 8d ago
Mitch is already gone. It's cruel in the same sense that harming an animal is cruel and really it speaks to the nature of his handlers. Maybe being literally puppeted around as a brainless shell is what Mitch would have wanted though.
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 Texas 8d ago
This is why Republicans hid him for months. Shameful.
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u/ReasonablyRadical 8d ago
The people around him in the video are clearly trying to obstruct the reporters from getting a good video of him. The state he is in is obvious to anyone that he is unfit to serve.
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u/lilB0bbyTables 7d ago
100% noticed that as well. That directive was given to all of them and it certainly didn’t come from Mitch’s mouth … so it’s more evidence that there is a (continued) coordinated effort to do everything possible to hide the truth extent of his lack of capacity from the public. He is without any doubt incapable of serving his duties to the American people and he is clearly incapable of casting votes - so if/when he does … who the fuck is actually doing so??
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u/cerevant California 8d ago
Feinstein was a case of elder abuse, and even she was more coherent than this.
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u/NorthTempleStreet 8d ago
I wish he called this out more, because both are/were horrible.
Things don't get better because we fail to call out our own. Just the political opponent. And I fear a lot of us on this comment section have forgotten about her and how awful that also was.
Feinstein was a better person than McConnell, but both ends-of-life were wrong.
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u/cerevant California 8d ago
To be fair, there were a number of Democrats who were trying to talk her into stepping down, but she was coherent and stubborn enough to want to stay. Where they failed was not unseating her.
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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 8d ago
It really pissed me off that other californians voted her back in when she was so elderly.
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u/Lane-Kiffin 8d ago
The only time where she was legitimately vulnerable was against Kevin de Leon in 2018. He actually came close (and I voted for him too) which is not common at all for such a tenured heavyweight incumbent. But most apathetic voters prefer certainty, and Kevin de Leon had no real platform, no energy (he didn’t have a charismatic following like Mamdani or Bernie Sanders) and the whole world found out a few years later that he was kind of a piece of shit the whole time.
In 2006 and 2012 there was pretty much no opposition.
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u/mr_potatoface 8d ago
In the case of McConnell, he has 40 full time staff and another 20-30 part time support staff. They'll be out of work as soon as he's dead. He is basically a business entity that they're keeping on life support to maintain their paycheck/benefits for as long as possible.
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u/Bronzeshadow 8d ago
It's poetic in a way. He's been swallowed and is being puppetted by the very machine he helped create.
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u/airfryerfuntime Washington 8d ago
What a legacy. Why bother retiring as an extremely wealthy senator and spending the rest of your days lounging on a beach in Florida, when you can just be wheeled around like some kind of husk or drone until you literally just wither away.
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u/Common-Accountant-57 8d ago
This is no different that wheeling an old person into a bank to commit fraud against their account or something.
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u/IncarceratedFurry 8d ago
An old man they can force to make decisions that impact millions of people
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u/johnb300m 8d ago
I’ve been saying this for months. If Mitch was still conscious, he would absolutely be loving that his body is being used for government obfuscation.
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u/DangerBrewin 8d ago
“Voted incorrectly twice and had to be instructed on how to vote” sounds like it has to be some kind of crime, no?
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u/PiaggioBV350 8d ago edited 8d ago
The press must force him to prove it.
"Mitch McConnell, if you CANNOT repeat, 'I, Mitch McConnell, serve at the pleasure of my Kentucky constituents' and today's date, you will be deemed incapable of serving in the Senate."
Or something of that nature.
Or if it must be a question, "Mitch, what is 2 plus 2 plus 256?"
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u/Iowa_Dave Iowa 8d ago
Mitch McConnel is the only vegetable that hasn't been recalled.
This is poor man is being used as a puppet.
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u/jehivebilorum1530 8d ago
If a pilot, a doctor of an air traffic controller has to retire at 65, lawmakers shouldn't be making national policy at 84 while entirely nonverbal
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u/Druggist147 8d ago
I mean hes an evil bastard but sure "poor old man". If he didnt sell his soul, he would probably have died already
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u/vacodeus 8d ago
Fuck him. He just got a 3 month vacation (medical leave) while repeatably voting against it for the rest of us
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u/specqq 8d ago
Just look at the picture. It's obvious he's been cursed to silence by a witch.
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u/Titleduck123 8d ago
Can you purchase curses on Etsy? I wonder how many people have.
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u/TomCosmic 8d ago
To quote Warren Ellis on Maggie Thatcher; "It is immaterial that she is dead. That she suffered is enough."
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u/Chucktayz 8d ago
At what point is this just blatant elder abuse? I mean he’s a piece of shit but still. Clearly past the point of elder abuse
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u/malamalinka 8d ago
He seems brain-damaged in some sort. The way he followed sounds with his eyes reminded me of someone I knew with dementia.
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u/spunds 8d ago
> “Do you want to be at work, sir? Would you rather be home?” Townsend asked, but still McConnell did not reply. As the car door slowly closed, McConnell held up a peace sign.
Uhh… what if he meant “option 2”???
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u/Imnotlikeothergirlz 8d ago
RN here. I bet the ICU cocktail he's on is straight up bananas.
Any ICU RNs have any ideas? I'm a hospice RN, so I'm definitely... here watching with my jaw on the ground lol.
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u/SignificantPop4188 8d ago
On the one hand, fuck Mitch McConnell. On the other hand ... nope, just fuck Mitch McConnell.
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u/Elendel19 8d ago
They spent 3 months teaching him how to give a thumbs up any time he heard his name.
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u/rmanjr12 8d ago
He’s going to die on camera at some point, isn’t he?
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u/SleepCareful6461 8d ago
He will, then 20 minutes later he will vote on something else
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u/DocShocker 8d ago
I'm no fan of him, but isn't this whole situation basically elder abuse?
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u/WiglyWorm Ohio 8d ago
Elder abuse is rampant in government. He's far from the first octogenarian multiple time stroke sufferer to be trotted out before the people.
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u/dodgertodger 8d ago
Absolutely. If he has aphasia, is non-verbal and appears to be immobile, they're using him as a proxy to vote on matters he cannot decide on.
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi 8d ago
I mean there's video of an aide showing him how to vote and what to vote on. There's clear evidence he's being used as a proxy.
It's just that Republicans are so corrupt that nobody is going to do anything about it. And Democrats, I'm not sure what the fuck they're waiting on here. Fucking do something about it.
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u/Then_Journalist_317 8d ago
It would be elder abuse if it was a human. However, this is just a defective mitchbot.
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u/honjuden 8d ago
Ok, who let Mitch update to Windows 11? He doesn't have enough RAM left to run it.
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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 8d ago
What was the bullshit they said about Biden? The people around him are complicit in elder abuse.
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u/Lucid_Insanity 8d ago
Fucked up his wife doesn't stop it.
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u/notsureifJasonBourne 8d ago
My first thoughts too, but she didn’t even come back early from her China trip after learning of his stroke. She clearly doesn’t care about him at all.
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u/PotatoAppleFish 8d ago
I don’t like this version of Weekend at Bernie’s. It’s just sad. You can tell the GOP doesn’t give a damn about morality, because if they did, they would have let Mitch McConnell retire instead of pulling this deplorable shit.
I mean, he was already about to resign.
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u/PlainBread 8d ago
This is generationally embarrassing. The rot in our system, on full display: Power over people at any cost.
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u/Wjldenver Colorado 8d ago
Yet, some of the Republican members of Congress report having 20 minute conversations with Mitch. They lie as much as their hero Trump.
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u/FoxyInTheSnow Canada 8d ago
I wonder what side of the "I'm glad he's dead" conundrum he'll fall on.
When trump said he was glad Rob and Michelle Reiner and Robert Mueller died, conservatives LOLd and moved on. When people said they were glad Kirk Cameron Charlie Kirk (I still have it stuck in my head that they're the same rotten person) died, they got fired.
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u/PlutoJones42 8d ago
Hey are dragging a vegetable around the senate floor and holding his hand up to vote. The entire Republican Party should be charged with elder abuse
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u/ProfessionalBake6607 8d ago
I will never forgive McConnell for failing to impeach trump, but at the same time, the human in me hates to see anyone suffering like that, and unable to speak or function. It’s absolutely unconscionable to me that those pricks dragged him out to cast a vote. The headline should read: Republicans are so desperate to hold onto power that they’re forcing a dying man to do their bidding. Utter cruelty.
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u/jspurlin03 Texas 8d ago
It’s possible to believe two things at once — it’s true that McConnell is a ghoulish human who has done a ton of damage. It’s also true that it’s difficult to see a person in genuine difficult circumstances due to aging and medical issues.
McConnell had multiple opportunities to cede power and step down. He could have done that ten years ago and been relaxing in his retirement.
He chose… differently.
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u/parallelmeme 8d ago
Doesn't Congress have any definition of when a congressperson is unable to discharge their duties? This seems to be a classic, obvious case.
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u/whichonespink04 8d ago
Everyone on both sides of the poor man is the victim of elder abuse and he deserves it because he's the elder that abused us are all right and I'm all for the discussion. He both deserves it and it's also obscene and incredibly fucked up
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u/eddie_koala 8d ago
Yet nobody cares enough
Puppet government
Some people still believe that it's a country
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u/Vulithral 8d ago
He may be one of, if not the most, vile human beings but even I think they should just let him go away and die with some dignity. He has no idea where he is, what he's doing, or really anything at all. I'd be surprised if his brain is more than a pile of mashed potatoes at this point. I think we should probably charge the heads of the GOP with elder abuse because this is so wrong.
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u/sha-man79 8d ago
Wonder how many nursing home CNA's are pissed as fuc# about this? I believe 'mitch the bitc#' is a piece of shit, all day, but this is abuse.
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u/Slow_Outcum420 8d ago
I have a death pact with a couple of friends. I"m sending this to them as an example of "the time for the plan to become active"
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u/FallingSputnik 8d ago edited 8d ago
My autistic 3 year old can talk more than Mitch McConnell (I won't lie though, I think they're tied in gestures), where do I sign him up? Probably shits himself less too, and he's at least adorable to look at.
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u/cagreat1 8d ago
I would strongly suggest keeping any minors away from DC for the time being...
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u/SevTheNiceGuy California 8d ago
Bro had a massive stroke, and they are pumping him full of drugs so they cart him around like a living mannequin just so they can avoid losing his Senate seat in this midterm...
fucking monsters
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u/symphonicrox Utah 8d ago
Why does he look the same as my grandpa who I just saw in an open casket at his funeral last week? Mitch McConnell is only alive so his aides don't lose their honeypot.
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u/lanesw 8d ago
How are the people of Kentucky not absolutely outraged that the person who is supposed to represent them is literally being used as a corpse puppet to appease other interests?
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u/ntwild97 8d ago
Freezing up is one thing. This is another. He's gone fully catatonic and resigned the mere prospect of speaking unless it's a vote to kick more people off healthcare or something
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u/downvote_or_die Colorado 8d ago
Don’t even need to see a video. Look at that thumbnail, that’s a dead man walking
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u/SpaceAdventures3D 8d ago
This is like what happened to Stan Lee, or what was going on with Frankie Valli. It's an insult to the dignity of human life (setting McConnell's politics aside). I like the framing of Townsend's question.
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u/6beerkdawg 8d ago
At this rate, he's gonna pass away right on the Senate floor during CSPAN coverage.
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u/Alycenwonderful 8d ago
Imagine that literally anyone actually cared enough to do something. No? No one? /s
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u/markeydusod 8d ago
He is a literal symbol of the Republican Party, silent as the country falls apart.
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