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

www.nbcnews.com Mitch McConnell escorted away from cameras after freezing during a news conference

A few minutes later, the Senate minority leader walked back to the news conference by himself.

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.

politics @lemmy.world Mitch McConnell escorted away from cameras after freezing during a news conference

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If there were ever a man that didn't deserve any sympathy for something like this, it is Mitch McConnell.

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- 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.
  
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- Pos got free care for his polio and now thinks free healthcare is communism.
  
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  TIL polio contracted Mitch McConnell.
  
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- This. If there was ANYONE whom I’d wouldn’t p!ss on if he was blazing glory its this crotch turtle
  
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- 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"
  
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This angers me.

This man gets to inflict suffering on millions of people but now he gets to be coddled by the state he's trying to destroy. Going to sit in that seat for as long as possible being puppeted and destroying more lives while he rots from the inside out.

He's going to be Feinstein all over again.

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- Term limits are needed throughout the government.
  
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  Age too.
  
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  My state has them and it sucks. Lobbying firms basically run the congress. Nobody there knows what the fuck they are doing so they just boost the shit that lobbyists hand them. Legislative work is a career, why is that a problem? I don’t want beginners fixing my car, why the fuck would I want a noob writing my laws?
  
  Age limits: yes, it is time. Term limits: sound great but don’t work well.
  
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  My state has them and it sucks. Lobbying firms basically run the congress. Nobody there knows what the fuck they are doing so they just boost the shit that lobbyists hand them. Legislative work is a career, why is that a problem? I don’t want beginners fixing my car, why the fuck would I want a noob writing my laws?
  
  Age limits: yes, it is time. Term limits: sound great but don’t work well.
  
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- Remember Strom Thurmond?
  
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- The difference is that the GOP will discard him immediately in order to fill his vacancy with a useful idiot unlike Feinstein who refuses to go.
  
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  He get replaced with a moderate republican. Kentucky has a democratic governor and a law that requires congressional appointments to be of the same party as the last person elected to hold that office.
  
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Just fucking die already Christ.

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- Well, you’re about 2,000 years behind, but boy do I have some good news for you…
  
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- You've been banned from /r/politics
  
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  It’s crazy. I try to temper malice, but I agree with Jaderick
  
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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.

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- Yup my grandpa has seizures like this too. Maybe 81 year olds shouldn't occupy powerful leadership positions?
  
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  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!
  
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  they dont in most countries
  
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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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- 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.
  
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- 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.
  
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Dude straight up shit himself. I have seen dogs make that same look. Term limits would fix this.

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Did anyone try turning him off and on again?

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- I nominate you to be in charge of turning him on.
  
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Is it finally happening?

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- Nah, someone finally found one of his phylacteries but he’s got like six more
  
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- Oh ho! On The Badd Site you would be SO banned right now!
  
  But high fives here. Hopefully so.
  
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- 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.
  
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  I was hoping for more of a "tonight" thing. Let me have this one.
  
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- Hate to burst your bubble, but whoever replaces him will be even worse, if you can imagine that.
  
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  Kentucky did elect a Democrat for governor. Maybe there's hope?
  
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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.

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Dude probably shat his whole self

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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.

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- That’s the catch isn’t it.
  
  ISN’T IT, KENTUCKY.
  
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  Charles Booker 2026!
  
  From the hood to the holler.
  
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  Kentuckian here to say there's a good third of us or more that have some sense, but 30-40% doesn't win elections
  
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Listen... It's fine, it's fine... Just a little Mitch Glitch, nothing to see here.

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

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In case you wanted to watch it happen and not deal with the mobile cancer that is any major news outlets website.

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Tots and pears.

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- Thots and playas. I think he’d really appreciate that
  
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Glitch McConnell

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Damn his skin looks like wax. Quite disturbing

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- 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.
  
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I think he had a focal seizure. He def should not be in office.

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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

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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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- Tune in to the next exciting adventure of . . . Chaos Husband!
  
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Dude’s literally demented.

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