Mitch McConnell escorted away from cameras after freezing during a news conference

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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.

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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 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 would like this in Sweden too. Our idiots are comparatively youthful, but they’re still old enough to be completely disconnected from reality and make decisions with awful repercussions they’ll never live to see.

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. 🌚

I’m not even American. I hate most of the American politics and politicians. It’s infectious, like a disease once it crops up in the US it spreads to Europe sooner or later.

With Trumps campaigning and subsequent victory, the alt right nazis here in Sweden grew and made it into parliament.

There hasn’t been much of an abortion debate here. It’s been given that people should be able to short, but there has been some discussion about cutoff points. Then Roe v Wade was overturned and boom! Abortion was suddenly a topic.

Last election, a major political talking point was allowing for the creation of areas where police can stop anyone they deem suspect and search/interrogate them. Literally stop and frisk!

We’re also fighting a war on drugs. We have some of the most draconian policies for it.

We live in a society, and I’m sick to death of it. I want out!

they dont in most countries

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.

Then they took him backstage and prepped him for questions, rather than taking him to THE FUCKING HOSPITAL LIKE NORMAL HUMANS WOULD.

These are Republicans though. Simple human care and compassion is not their strong point.

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.

My first thought was that it may have been a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack). My mother had one; she was utterly confused for a while but then fine afterwards, except that she lost her memory of several hours preceding the attack. It is similar to a stroke but it is over quickly and doesn't leave much damage. But, as that Wikipedia page notes:

The occurrence of a TIA is a risk factor for having a major stroke, and many people with TIA have a major stroke within 48 hours of the TIA.

Just fucking die already Christ.

Well, you’re about 2,000 years behind, but boy do I have some good news for you…

Dude straight up shit himself. I have seen dogs make that same look. Term limits would fix this.

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.

Is it finally happening?

Nah, someone finally found one of his phylacteries but he’s got like six more

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.

Listen... It's fine, it's fine... Just a little Mitch Glitch, nothing to see here.

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

They do though, but only when they bother to vote, gerrymandering not withstanding. Republicans historically have higher turnout than Democrats which is sadly why they have disproportionate representation.

Thats the face of someone who just shat their pants and blames the youngins for it.

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.

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

Remember that time he showed up to work all black and blue because he back chatted Elaine over her runny eggs?

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