I hope his rabbit is doing fine.
Goodness I hope it’s nothing minor!
Everyone speculating it was a stroke, but he might have just realized he shit his pants. He is old, either explanation seems likely.
He was told he had a duty to the nation, but he misheard.
Take a moment to realize these are the people who run your country. They should have been sent to a retirement home years ago.
What is the context behind this? Did I miss something bad that happened to this asshole?
He apparently blanked out while speaking - folks are speculating it was a stroke.
Here’s hoping it’s a severe one.
You definitely see the moment something happens, but this seems too subtle for a stroke.
Strokes are weird. “Brain attack” is an apt term–some folks barely notice them, some folks drop dead in moments.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/watch-mitch-mcconnell-freeze-press-conference-rcna96486
He fell in public a few weeks ago too, but this just happened. Circling the drain finally.
Now we just need Kissinger to die sorry.
He almost looked human for a minute.
I can’t see it, do I need to cross my eyes or something like one of those optical illusion images?
It makes me mad at myself, but his fear and confusion in that moment was cathartic. You have to hurt a lot of people eyes wide open to actually deserve the suffering of witnessing your own mind and sense of self crumbling from the inside, but Reagan was and McConnell is on that list.
We at least got to witness him experience a tiny sliver of the shame, pain, and terror of the Americans he inflicted his cruelty on for decades with a shit eating grin so he could cut his own taxes and that of his country club friends on the backs of hard working, struggling human beings.
No sympathy for the devil. I’ll remember you this way, Mitch. Now go fade away you spooky, sociopathic fuck.
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Trash belongs in the bin.
Don’t let schadenfreude and tribalism blind you for the reasons for disliking this person. You don’t win in politics if your opponent dies from old age, you win by shifting the forces that decide elections. Cheering on the… lets see here… inescapable march of time on a human’s body invites much the same onto yourself in the future. That is, don’t laugh at old people deteriorating if you don’t want younguns in the future to laugh at you or your grandma. It’s a journey that we all take, and I feel like it should have some dignity in it.
I wish he and his family good health, and that the political structure around him fades into history.
Society advances one conservative funeral at a time.
Such a good post, however I believe it is wasted on those who wish to remain blinded.
He’s an objectively bad person. My grandma isn’t, and I try not to be. If we are, you can make fun of us when we get that old too. (and I ain’t no spring chicken)
I don’t just disagree with the man’s politics, I recognize that he has played exceptionally dirty, and is responsible for policies and appointments that have hurt people, many of whom are far too young to even know who he is or what his politics are, many of them his own constituents. His hand in raising up Trump and fanning the flames of the damage Trump did is just one of the most recent and visible details. Dehumanizing entire segments of the US population is literally the only thing his entire party does with their political power. That’s it.
He has legitimately damaged the fabric of this nation, and I have no tears to shed for his deteriorating health. He and those like him need to exit the corridors of power - I’m not in the slightest picky about the mechanism of that exit.
When they killed Caesar they didn’t make it better. Killing Jesus didn’t do anything either. You can kill a person, not an ideology or a power vacuum.
Some people are objectively harmful to democratic countries and the principles they are built upon or even the world itself. If death is the only thing that can remove them from a position of power where they can futher harm the country and the people in it, I have absolutely no problem with seeing them on the way there. Good ridance!
If I ever get as vile as these people and negatively impact thousands if not millions of people then feel free to cheer my death.
Mitch is a shitty traitor.
huh what happened
He just glitched out I guess. Didn’t die…
Why does his face remind me of a Blob fish ?
Maybe you haven’t studied enough turtle faces?
…“It was not a fart… Definitely not a fart”…
Moscow Mitch
《 ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL 》
Mitch lost his wifi connection and needed to be rebooted
Nah, he’s a very old model.
His 28.8k modem finally burned out. You can almost hear the “Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch” in the background when he goes silent.
They took him away to reboot the disney animatronics he’s been running on since the early 90’s.
Boot device not found. Please install an operating system on your hard disk
Hope this old POS never has another coherent thought again.
Well maybe it’s time for 81 years old ppl too take politics seriously and leave it to the younger generation…
Some of the comments in this thread really show how quickly both sides are to dehumanize one another.
edit:
“both sides” is the fastest giveaway of a bad faith troll lately. At least the unapologetic conservatives don’t pretend to take the moral high ground
it seems pointing out destructive discourse is considered “troll” behavior now. i have learned another thing today, thank you.
Not explicitly, no. It’s just a red flag that if you engage with this person it will be unproductive and frustrating.
Conservatives wish death on pretty much all liberal politicians every now and then, sometimes on live television, and no one even bats an eye. A handful of leftist internet comments have “ding dong the witch is dead” vibes and you start clutching your pearls.
i believe the cause for the rift in american politics is that both sides (i mean both) consistently forget that we are all people that generally want to do the right thing. the source of discourse is differing ideas on the best way to achieve that right thing.
when those differing ideas are misconstrued as due to people being ‘evil’ is both incorrect and in bad faith.
it’s disheartening to watch people wish misfortune and misery on those that think differently than themselves, that’s what i’m trying to express.
edit: typo
I don’t intend to have a back and forth with you, I have reason to believe it would be unproductive and frustrating.
Maybe just consider that people have no better recourse to judge a person than their actions, and mitch has done terrible things. His motivations, and whether or not he is “evil” or just generally trying to do the right thing, are irrelevant in the face of his destructive political actions. People aren’t happy that an old man had a seizure, they are happy the old man might not be causing harm much longer.
and yet you send a parting ‘forth’. have a good day sir.
Oh I’m willing to have a few comments, I should have been more clear. I was just saying I didn’t want this to just keep going indefinitely. Bye!
I’ve never thought about it like that. Internet comments expressing a bit of schadenfreude really are morally equivalent to ripping civil liberties away from millions of people! Thanks internet commenter!
it’s disheartening to watch people wish misfortune and misery on those that think differently than themselves, that’s what i’m trying to express.
What’s disheartening is that you want to handwave away the damage this man has caused as “thinking differently.” This is the sort of false equivalence that nets you the other comment you received, which you bemoaned as some sort of “learning experience”. Wringing your hands about “both sides” is worse than an empty platitude when one side is actively trying to dismantle civil rights, among other things.
Something I’ve noticed - folks who do this only do it in threads where left-leaning people or US democrats are angry. Will you be the first person to prove me wrong on that? Are you in some maga thread somewhere telling them to be a little nicer, too?
Dehumanizing fascists is morally acceptable.
sounds familiar
It should. Dehumanising is the core tenet of the Republican Party.
He is a human whose obituary I will read with great pleasure.
Tolerance is a peace treaty, them wishing for and enacting policies that would lead to the deaths of people like me and the people I love means that my ability to tolerate them is gone.
I will happily read this guy’s obituary and the obituaries of his cohorts.
Really bugs me too. It’s vulgar and mean-spirited. I say this as a transfem who is an explicit target of discriminatory republican policies.
Making fun of someone because they’re old is unacceptable. That’s civility 101, if you claim to be a democrat and do this kind of thing you’re a fraud imho
Mitch dehumanized himself through a lifetimes work stifling progress and assisting in the deaths of thousands.
Take your “both sides” bullshit and gtfo
I said something along the same line on Mastodon and got eaten alive all because I refuse to celebrate a moment like this. I despise the guy, but I won’t lower myself to celebrating a possible stroke.
But that’s a turtle.
Actually an insult to turtles but i get your point
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy
