So perfect that it happened when he was asked about running for reelection; the ads write themselves.
And before anyone condemns me for lack of empathy: the world would be a better place without McConnell in power. Also, fuck him.
I wonder if he can even make it to the end of his term. He knows the Democratic governor of Kentucky will not appoint a Republican to replace him, so he’s going to fight that.
Oh, I’d put money on them keeping him in a vegetative state if he croaks just to keep a Democrat out of power.
It would be the culmination of his life’s work.
At this point, we’re already witnessing the GOP version of “Weekend at Bernie’s”.
It’s funny how on certain topics (and to be clear, VERY few), the Dems and reps are the same. The Dems have feinstein who’s in a similar state, and she’s got people keeping her in office because they don’t like who the governor is(n’t) going to pick
Feinstein is an order of magnitude more cognizant than McConnell, and yet a great many Dems want to see her removed also…and you just don’t see that kind of parity with the GOP.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say the lady who tried to give a speech during a roll call vote, ceded power of attorney to her daughter and has to heavily rely on her staff to function is more mentally cognizant than the turtle by any stretch. He’s struggling, but she’s on another level.
But you’re right, there’s at least calls from the Dems to kick her out, so there is a decent difference between the two parties. I just wish the leadership felt the same way.
Leadership wants her out, and she finally accepted the option of letting another Democratic senator temporarily fill her position on the Judiciary Committee while she was unable to attend for many, many weeks in the most recent episode - but Republicans refused.
At that point, Democratic leadership can decide that they want her out so badly that they’ll simply hand Republicans a win. Or they can try to get her back in her seat with her hand on the button, so that Democrats can get at least a few wins in the Judiciary Committee.
I want Feinstein out, but I still think Democratic leadership made the correct decision.
There’s reports from colleagues that they need to repeatedly reintroduce themselves to her during the same meeting. She was completely unaware of her own months long absence from the capital.
There’s definitely more Democrats calling for her retirement than GOP calling for McConnells (AFAIK there are zero), but saying she’s an “order of magnitude more cognizant” is pretty damn generous
That’s ridiculous, Feinstein is clearly far more gone.
The issue isn’t her replacement, it’s that Dems would lose control of all of the committees she’s on.
I don’t believe for one second that Democrats and Republicans are the same or equally corrupt.
In this case, though, it does seem like they’re both playing the same stupid game due to their own seniority rules.
It’s not about who Gavin Newsom would or would not pick, it’s a matter of the Judicial Committee being brought to it’s knees if she’s out.
They can’t appoint a replacement without cooperation from the Republicans, and the Republicans would rather stall the committee than replace her.
I hate this reboot.
Like they did with Strom Thurmond. Dude had to be wheeled onto the Senate floor and looked half dead by the end.
Part of the reason this happens is committee seniority is determined by length of time in the Senate, so to control committees it’s important to keep Senators in office as long as possible for both parties.
To be fair, they did the same thing with Dianne Feinstein
I think some people might read this comment and think you are describing some satirical hyperbolic scenario. But given what we have seen from conservatives over the last few years, It’s not just possible, it’s their normal.
Oh, to be clear: I’m 1000% serious.
I expect the same for any of their SCROTUS justices who beef it.
William Rehnquist had a speaker installed in his private bathroom and the last couple of years on the court, he would suddenly disappear from the bench during oral arguments, but never worry, he could still hear them arguing on his special toilet speaker before making decisions that would affect hundreds of millions of people.
The GOP dominated KY state legislature has been prepping for this eventuality https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/28/heres-how-kentuckys-law-works-for-filling-u-s-senate-vacancies/70484359007/
This is insanity.
Under the amended law, the governor now may only choose from three names recommended by the executive committee of the outgoing senator’s state party, and must make that selection within 21 days of receiving the list from the party.
With both of Kentucky’s senators currently being Republican, the choosing of those three nominees would be up to the executive committee of the Republican Party of Kentucky, which is made up of 54 members.
After a vacancy is filled, there would be a special election with an open and bipartisan process — often referred to as a “jungle primary” — allowing any candidate gaining 1,000 signature to run. A candidate with more than 50% of the vote would win, but if no one wins a majority of the vote, the top two vote getters would go on to a runoff election in 70 days.
The timing of that election would be determined based on when the vacancy occurred.
If the vacancy occurred more than three months before a regularly scheduled election, that’s when it would take place. It the vacancy occurred less than three months before an election and a regular election is scheduled the following year, the latter election date is when the vote for the Senate seat would occur.
Arizona, Hawaii, Maryland, North Carolina, Utah, & Wyoming have similar laws according to ballotpedia.
Mind you, not disputing the insanity heh
I’m a huge liberal but doesn’t this make it a little more democratic than the governor picking someone?
Apparently what would happen is a Republican would replace him, as of a law passed in 2021 https://www.npr.org/2023/07/31/1191034037/mcconnell-facing-health-questions-says-he-ll-serve-full-term-keep-leading-senate
Doesn’t matter
He has an R next to his name. His own political ads could say “I’m too incapacitated to run and if you vote for me I will murder your family” and republicans will still vote for him
Isn’t that the sad truth
That man has done massive damage to the country. He can’t expire fast enough for me.
To the contrary, I think you are displaying vast amounts of empathy by advocating for the betterment of humankind.
Our empathy is wasted on him and better spent on his multitude of victims.
I love when people try to pull the empathy card.
There are people on this planet who do not deserve empathy nor the benefit of the doubt. Corrupt politicians are some of those people.
The world would be a better place if he choked on his own tongue while waiting for needed medical care like so many Americans that he helped keep from having healthcare.
Fuck McConnell. I hope his last years are equal to the horrible legacy he leaves.
Seriously. A few years ago he’s spearheading the party to remove rights from people and now he’s too old to speak. There has to be room for retirement between those steps.
Empathy is afforded to those who reciprocate.
Die, Mitch, Die.
Easily one of the most evil, destructive figures in the last 20 years of American history. May he get what he deserves.
I’ve accepted this for so long as baseline knowledge that I’ve kind of forgotten some of the headlines. Can someone toss me a few bullet points of the bullshittery?
I’ll assume you’re not a disingenuous republican. Off the top of my head:
- Getting in the way of fucking everything Obama tried to do, including passing the ACA.
- Disgustingly putting his thumb in the eye of everyone who voted for Obama by blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination to the now illegitimate and flagrantly corrupt supreme court (unworthy even of capital letters).
- Unabashed support for putin’s agent in the white house. Up to and including voting to acquit during the impeachment hearings.
There’s more, but fuck it, I have a show to watch.
The “fun” part of his acquittal vote is that he said he was guilty, but since he had lost the election already, casting a guilty vote would be the wrong thing for the senate to do.
He wanted to both appease trump voters by voting not guilty, and appease saner moderates by calling him guilty in the press.
Just mealy mouthed all the way around.
He proposed a bill and then when Obama backed it he voted against his own bill.
On another occasion he proposed a bill, and after it passed and the fallout was bad he blamed Obama for not stopping him from passing the bill.
Mostly he’s changed the rules to benefit his party at the expense of the American people and / or democracy.
He once filibustered his own bill because the democrats called his bluff and wouldve passed the bill
Dont remember what it was
I once heard him speak about ONE time in ‘97 how a ‘dumuhcrayut’ spoke 3 minutes over their time and he’d held a grudge ever since. That it was his motivation for destroying our system. He’s been a plague for at the very least 24 years but likely his whole career.
Moscow Mitch needs to have retired a long time ago.
All my homies hate Bitch McConnell
I know it’s not nice to be piling onto an ailing old man who probably isn’t going to be around much longer, but yeah when he was in good health he was an awful person who didn’t give a single fuck about anyone else who was having a hard time, and had literally decades filled with opportunities to help people who were worse off and squandered them all just to accumulate more worthless power and money for himself.
Keeping him in power does nothing but harm other people and the country in general IMO, although to be fair that was also true before his health started to go south as well.
He has destroyed so many lives, he deserves his destroyed.
I know it’s not nice to be piling onto an ailing old man who probably isn’t going to be around much longer
Pill cosby, Rudy Ghouliani, Donald Dump, and Kenneth Cokeland have entered the chat
Seriously, this mentality needs to end. These are people who would literally shoot you in the back for 20$
The fact that they’re old just makes it worse, they’ve been fucking people over much longer than anyone else
For reasons entirely seperate from his health. But it’s a stunningly good reasons to stop electing geriatrics.
And also human garbage like Bitch.
It’s honestly sad that these people would rather hold on to the little power they have than retire and spend the little time they have left with family.
If they truly cared about heir families they wouldn’t push so much disinformation and enact such horrible policies. These people only love power so you’re basically asking them to willingly give up the only thing they care about.
Evil bastards.
Either being evil to the core or the great healthcare that being in the US Senate that lets them live so long. They should give everyone the same healthcare as the Senate does and run an experiment. At the very least US citizens would have decent healthcare even if the evil people got to run things. Thankfully I’m Canadian, but I do want what’s best for our neighbors.
Seriously, he’s given up everything to hold onto power, and now it’s too late to make any other choice. This is it.
Goodness I hope it isn’t anything to minor.
Glitch McConnell
Guess that long Covid is catching up. Adios Mitch.
Put him in an elderly home. I’d rather have a crack head off the streets make policy decisions instead of him.
A random person would probably do what’s best for the country.
Why does America have so many really old politicians?
Get rid of all politicians over the age of 55 or 60. Allow them to be maybe advisors but at this point these people have been unhelpful to the larger younger population.
If voting starts at birth + 18 years then participation in political life should end at average life expectancy -18 years.
If you can collect social security then you shouldn’t be able to run for office
Half-a-minute a second!? That’s not good.
Yeah that’s some serious time dilation!
This little maneuver is going to cost us 50 years.
Time to take the keys away, Mitchell. People with dementia shouldn’t be driving
Not cars, and definitely not countries.
Honestly, how in the holy hell is this not automatically done?? This person is in a pretty powerful position and makes very important decisions. They absolutely need to be coherent. Do they not have some sort of stipulation that if you consistently stroke out on the job and can’t even speak or… do anything really, you have to step away from the position until you can prove you are healthy enough to return?
This just blows my mind. Dude could be making monumental decisions that affect the country for decades and not even know what planet he’s on.
IIRC Reagan had Alzheimer’s while in office and his staff tried desperately to hide it. Unfortunately, this shit ain’t new.
This dude is going to end up dying of a stroke on camera isn’t he.
Seems he’s had several in the past few months already. Repeated events like this rarely end positively.
We can only hope
My bet is it’s a Parkinson’s freezing episode rather than mini-stroke.
Who is the handler in the video? She’s more of an enabler.
She shares a ton of the blame.
We should write and call her because she’s effectively serving as an unelected senior Senator now.
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From now on, I’m calling this a Mitch Glitch.
