McConnell appears to freeze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky

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.

sturmblast,

Retire you old rat

Murais,

Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of shit.

Lot of folks trying to take the high road here out of compassion.

This guy single-handedly fucked democracy sideways for at least a generation. The reverberations of his Supreme Court shenanigans are going to be responsible for the deaths of thousands.

I hope he unalives confused and shitting himself.

Simmy,

Not American, what did he do?

abigscaryhobo,

After reading all the comments about wanting his life to be over and the counters about feeling bad for him etc. I think ive come to a conclusion on how to ethically handle him.

I’m going to laugh. I’m going to laugh at how foolish he looks having a stroke on stage. How despite all of the terrible things he has done to this country on a socio-economic level trying to line his pockets and stay in power, he is standing up there, feeble and barely coherent, looking like he simultaneously shat himself and forgot his name, I’m going to laugh.

Because if he wants any semblance of dignity, any ounce of respect, he needs to admit that he is done and bow out.

“But he is still human, have some empathy” No, why should I? This man has engineered tearing the country apart so he can put his grubby hands all over it and smear it in his own grease. And he is still trying to keep doing it!

What I see up there is an old man trying to walk across the freeway, with a dozen people telling him not to. And he is not only ignoring them but lifting his nose high and walking out into the road anyway. So when I see that mack truck hit him like it did on that stage, I laugh.

Intralexical,

“The grace of God knows no bounds. But my mercy has some practical limitations.”

abigscaryhobo,

Wow twice now. That’s…well maybe throw in the towel buddy.

greenlava,

Twice on camera. I can’t help but wonder how frequent this is when he isn’t holding a presser

MedicPigBabySaver,

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    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

    Nah, I hope he lives. Moreover, I hope he stays in the Senate. However, I also hope that his condition prevents him from actually performing his duties as a Senator. Hell, give him another six-year term and let him serve it in a bedridden and/or catatonic state, missing every single vote.

    fugepe,

    That’ll be 600 Gorillion dollars for Israel, + tips. Thanks

    Batbro,

    😳

    Mdotaut801,

    My previous comment was removed. I get why. Let me rephrase. Mitch, I would strongly prefer it if you uh, hmm, uh, cease to exist sooner rather than later? Seems like that’s the case and it brings me joy.

    The man is a disgusting, racist, lying, sack of total human garbage and does not give a flying fuck about his constituents, or anyone other than himself.

    MedicPigBabySaver,

    I approve this comment.

    themeatbridge,

    “I never killed anybody, but I have done just the same thing. I have had a great deal of satisfaction over many obituary notices that I have read. I never got into the habit of killing. I could mention the names of many that it would please me if I could read their obituaries in the paper in the morning,”

    Clarence Darrow

    Pistcow,

    *Hamburger time

    PeckerBrown,

    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.

    ech,

    If he weren’t such an evil fuck, I’d feel bad for him. But he is an evil fuck, so oh well.

    BonesOfTheMoon,

    So aphasia or focal seizures? I favour the latter. I think maybe he has a brain tumour.

    LostMyRedditLogin,

    Mandatory retirement age for political office when?

    fugepe,

    Oh lad, Israel wouldn’t like this power move from his host country.

    jordanlund,

    Quick reminder about the rules around wishing death and destruction on people.

    Don’t make me tap the sign.

    That being said, yes, McConnell is one of the key architects of how dysfunctional our system of government has become. From using the filibuster more times during the Obama administration than all prior administrations COMBINED, to blocking a legitimately named Supreme Court Justice, not by allowing him a fair vote, but by denying him a hearing AT ALL.

    BUT…

    Now hear me out… BUT…

    He does have three daughters, Porter, is actually an activist:

    thelist.com/…/the-truth-about-mitch-mcconnells-da…

    You can make fun of the guy, you can hate the guy, but before you wish death on the guy, take just a moment to consider his family and how they must feel watching him break down like this live on camera, not once, but twice.

    monz,

    When a person’s actions causes death to groups, don’t judge those groups for wishing death in return.

    qball,

    Well that is a fucking ice cold take and a half. Takes a lot to willfully look at the record of Mitch McConnell, who has had a significant part in setting socioeconomic progress in this country back 50 years, and say that his decline and public embarrassment is somehow something I should at all feel sad about.

    jordanlund,

    I’m not asking you to feel sad, I’m asking you to recognize that as awful he is, he’s still a human being and has other human beings who, in theory, care about him.

    teruma,

    He doesn’t think I’m a human being, so I will give him the same respect in turn.

    Exatron,

    Fuck that rule.

    fugepe,

    Look at this Jannie cuck. Lmao!!!?? Clean it Jannie!

    the_post_of_tom_joad,

    Beatrix Kiddo said it best:

    Just because I have no wish to murder you before the eyes of your daughter does not mean parading her around in front of me is going to inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamn fucking thing you’ve done in the subsequent four years, including getting knocked up, is going to change that.

    Beaphe,

    I’m sick of all this be the better person shit.

    When he dies the world will be a better place. If he had died 10 years ago our world would be indistinguishable.

    Fuck Mitch McConnell AND his family.

    Worstdriver,

    As a human being, I feel great empathy for the man and his family. I wish him nothing but the best in health and family life and am saddened to see his decline. But was someone 100% opposed to his politics I will fight endlessly to destroy both his works and his legacy even as he has worked to destroy democracy as we’ve come to know it.

    Beaphe,

    Everything he did might as well be codified at this point. There is no fighting and reversing his damage. That fight is over.

    Mitch is the reason for; Trump, Kavanaugh, and Comey. He’s stonewalled every and any bipartisan suggestions for years, simply because D.

    Rescind your empathy. This coward has activity taken everything from you and your family.

    He deserves to lose it all to the void.

    Worstdriver,

    No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

    NatakuNox,
    @NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

    Who had two simultaneous weekend at Bernie’s situations in the US senate on their Bingo card?

    negativeyoda,

    2 is probably on the lower end. McConnell and Feinstein are relatively high profile. I’m sure there are congressmen shitting their depends on the reg that we just happen to pay less attention to

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

    And neither of them are Bernie.

    eran_morad,

    He should step down and fuck off into the sunset, warmly recalling with what little neurological function he may have how he fucked so many Americans. It’s probably best that I not write the rest of what I’m thinking about this piece of shit traitor.

    mayonaise_met,

    It all seems kind of pointless doesn’t it? You screw over your compatriots only to become a lukewarm wet towel yourself.

    Son_of_dad,

    I think he’s past stepping down, he can’t knowingly do it. He needs family and medical intervention.

    rigatti,
    @rigatti@lemmy.world avatar

    Stepping down? He’s better at falling down these days.

    Beaphe,

    I’m fully rooting for Mitchs dementia. Much the same as I am a big fan of Limbaughs cancer.

    Sometimes nature rolls a nat 20.

    WaxedWookie,

    I figure a nat 20 in this context would be a little more dramatic than simple sundowning… We could shoot for shitting himself on camera, moments of brutally honest verbal diarrhea, endless painful kidney stones…

    Whatever the case, I wish McConnell all the health outcomes he so richly deserves.

    hydrospanner,

    I would also wish him the level of healthcare he’s supported for Americans in general, but we know that he’s rich enough for a proper level of care.

    Intralexical,

    dementia […] cancer

    more dramatic […] shitting himself on camera, moments of brutally honest verbal diarrhea, endless painful kidney stones…

    Interesting to see a few short moments of temporary and trite social embarrassment portrayed as a worse fate than the gradual and drawn-out ablation of everything that you are.

    WaxedWookie,

    The dementia is already underway, these would be bonuses. That said, the verbal diarrhea would probably do the world some good - though it’s not as though the modern GOP has standards for that kind of thing.

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