Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again while talking to reporters

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When he froze he was asked by a reporter whether he was going to run again in the next election in 3 years.

That stroke had great comedic timing!

“Run…. Now there’s a word I haven’t heard in a looong time.”

It's sad and all he has to go through that, because you know, strokes are bad and all, but why the fuck do we have these ancient people on a platform and in charge of anything. It's insane.

Im not sad, are you sad? McConnell is an awful human being who has profited off the suffering of others. He's not misguided or trying to make the world a better place. He's human smega. Fuck him.

Congress, especially the Senate, is turning into a fucking nursing home. McConnel should do the right thing and retire now, because it's obvious that he is not capable of actually performing his duties and is therefore letting down his constituents. I have this crazy suspicion that he won't, though.

The reality is that time in office is used to determine seniority on committees. Both parties are “propping up the ancients” in a grotesque game of chicken.

I wonder if there’s any point in our future where we decide it might be worth trying something other than geriatric white dudes in office.

"Somebody else has a question?"

Eh... Why not ask him to answer the question now that he's rebooted?

I think she was trying to play it off like McConnell was just hard of hearing and the reporter wasn’t being loud enough and that’s why McConnell wasn’t answering. It wasn’t a good bluff though seeing as McConnell hadn’t said anything intelligible in like 20 seconds.

Like a turtle, caught in headlights.