• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    Well it took long enough for his colleagues to even give a shit. He just stands there for like a full minute staring into space before anyone does anything. And then they are more concerned if there’s “anything else he’d like to say” grandpa, rather than, ARE YOU OK???

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      This is a human being we’ve talking about. You can dislike him as much as you want but don’t be rude.

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        I say this with as much respect as it deserves. Fuck Mitch McConnell, I hope he dies a painful death, and fuck anyone who thinks that he deserves any amount of respect or human dignity. He has been undermining the American people for decades and has has helped millions of people die due to republican policy.

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        Agreed. Hate people all you want, but outside of like Hitler or Osama Bin Laden, there’s no reason for a good person to wish for someone to die.

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          Bin Laden was terrible but I don’t know about him and hitler in the same category.

          He watched thousands of his own people and civilians get killed by the US before he reacted. Was his reaction wrong? Yes. Should he have stood trial in the US? Yes. Is he on the same scale as hitler? Not even close.

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            Fair, wasn’t sure who else to include in the example… Mao? Lenin? The “scientist” who led all the human trials in the holocaust?

        • jake_eric@lemmy.world
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          No reason? McConnell works to make the lives of thousands of people worse, on purpose. The world would be better if he wasn’t in it. Seems like enough reason to me.

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          I can understand the hate. Mitch is one of the architects of the current political environment. Obstruct, shift blame, and stack the courts… he’s been a leader in all of that. The world as a whole will not be worse off when he’s gone.

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          McConnell has killed far more people than Bin Laden. Just the number of people who die from lack of affordable medical care is 15 9/11s every year.

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        You’re asking us to have sympathy for someone who has ruined the lives of millions of people for his own gain and is actively continuing to do so. I hope it’s a stroke and I hope it hurts.

      • Betty White In HD@lemmy.world
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        Nah he’s a fucking cunt and I hope he has another stroke and painfully shits himself in front of his dumb wife. He’s caused a tremendous amount of suffering and has been bringing this country down at every turn his entire political career and he can choke on a brick.

        You can take the high ground and try to defend a monster, but I’m not here for it.

      • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        When that fucker has done more damage and caused so much death I don’t give a damn what he is.

        He’s a shit human being and I will celebrate the moment he is out of our misery because of the very direct pain he’s caused.

      • CompostMaterial@lemmy.world
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        There are 8 billion humans on this planet, neither him nor any one else is special in any way. We are all just sacks of meat and then we die. So wishing ill of a particularly rotten sack of meat is perfectly acceptable.

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    We don’t know what it was, yet. Likely never will.

    Whatever it was, he’s one of th few people I have no qualms saying that I hope it hurt.

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    God dam we need a cutoff age for being in any level of political office and a yearly cognitive test to see if they are fit for office. Hell we should be able to vote them out of office mid term if we want. Fuck these old cunts ruining thr world for profit.

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    Damn, man. These people are too old to handle this shit. Go retire and enjoy your last days. They want to hold on to power until they die. There should be a mandatory retirement age in the government. I personally would do 75 and you’re out, I want to be a bit generous.

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    I like to think what happened is the atrophied part of his brain where a conscience would be suddenly came back online and for those 20 seconds he was consciously aware of what a monster he’d become.

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      I like this take. My theory is that he passed the time limit on the go-juice and they had to take him back and hit him with another dose. What kind of chemicals are they pumping into this man to keep him shuffling around?

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        The blood of the children SA by the church, members of the GOP, patriot front, anyone screaming groomers about the lgbtq+ community, and George Santos. And let’s not forget the blood harvest from the lgbtq+ children that are sent to re-education camps.

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      You can be sad for the person who is suffering from the effects of aging while criticizing the politician for their policies and refusal to resign despite being unfit.

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        Yes, absolutely. You can be sad for the person, critical of the pol, and enjoy a delicious sense of schadenfreude at the traitor’s humiliation. (Whether or not he feels human emotions at all is beyond my ken.)

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    I hope it wasn’t a stroke and that it was something more benign like an aura seizure instead. But if it actually was a stroke? It couldn’t have happened to a better person.

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    I heard with some really old hardware you have to pick it up and drop it a few inches to re-seat the pins. Anybody tried that yet?

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    Looks like it could be an absence seizure. Don’t think it’s confirmed. Given the lack of FAST symptoms other than speech problems, I’m not thinking it was a stroke.

    Either that or his operating system encountered an unexpected error and he needed to be rebooted.

    • Mostly_Harmless@lemmy.world
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      FAST can help to identify a possible stroke but the lack of FAST symptoms doesn’t rule out a stroke. So CVA/TIA is still a possibility along with a dozen other things.

  • Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world
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    I’ve always thought he might have PD. Freezing can occur with this. While I don’t wish the torture of neurological disease on anyone, damn this guy is a scumbag asshole.