McConnell appears to freeze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky

Sounds kind of like when my maternal grandma had a series of micro strokes for a few months before having the Big One.

Time to retire, Mitch. For both our sakes.

Those firmware updates from Moscow have been coming at very inconvenient times of late.

Glitch McConnell is at it again!

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.

May he receive thoughts and prayers. And no other form of healthcare or support.

The world will become a slightly better place when he finally dies.

That is hard to watch. I hate his guts and everything he's done and stood for in politics, but it's still rough to watch a man just fade away like that.

He needs to retire and stop clinging desperately to power. The stress of it alone is probably literally killing him.

Edit: Just so we're clear, here, I'm not offering him sympathy. I have none to give for a monster like Mitch McConnell. The man has done enormous damage to the country, and people like him are why I worry about the future for my kids (both LGBTQ+).

I was only trying to express that on a gut level, it's still unpleasant to see someone basically drain away like that.

I hope he's dying.

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.

That's the look you get on your face when you're standing at the podium and look out to see a skeleton wearing a robe and holding a scythe pointing at you from the back row.

Americans stop voting old white dudes and ruining the rest of the world please.

Can't help but enjoy this, given what a despicable human being he is.

Last comment was deleted, so I guess I'll repost it with edits.

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 spends the rest of his days confused and shitting himself.

I love how republicans will say Biden is too old and make fun of him while also down playing this BS...

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

Put these fucking geriatrics out to pasture already. That includes Feinstein as well. Shameful that this dude is being paraded around in front of media when he's barely coherent. It's shit like this that makes it very evident how long the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomers have clung desperately onto power long past the age that they should have handed over the reins to the people who will actually have to live with the consequences of their decisions.

Where are all the Republicans deriding "Sleepy" Joe Biden? What are your thoughts on Mitch McConnell the stroke victim? Would you vote him back into office again if he or whoever was puppeteering his desiccated corpse decided to run again?

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.

The mummy's curse will never release him

Could anything be more symbolic of America's political situation right now?

It says something that he's still the minority leader. Feinstein has similar issues and is still around, but she's just a random senator. This is the Republican senate leader.

I imagine many knives are being sharpened behind the scenes. I wonder if he's actively keeping himself in power, or if other people with power are "managing" (puppeting) him until they can grab power for themselves.

I guess the GOP is running out of children's souls to feed him.

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whatever is happening to him, I hope it's causing him extreme discomfort. it's the very least he deserves after all the shitty, life ruining ideas and policies he's endorsed

Reboot into recovery and factory reset

Last comment was deleted so it bears repeating: Taking the "high road" gets no one anywhere. And I for one am happy he is publicly losing his dignity, when he has gleefully played a major role in robbing others of theirs.

Hopefully, if there is a god, next time, he has a massive stroke & just dies immediately.

Can I wish bad stuff? I reaaaaaaaally want to.

This man's having seizures or strokes live on camera and no one's doing anything about this.

Mandatory retirement age for political office when?

This is why we shouldn't have old people rule a country, not only do they make decisions that only benefit them in the short term they're also incapable of just talking in public

They're seriously going to let this man stroke his brain to swiss cheese, for what? To save what little is left of the GOP?

Kind of hope he drops dead on camera. Would make for some amazing memes.

Political version of Weekend at Bernie's. Too bad it's not just a shitty movie.

I see a lot of hate towards him and it looks like he deserves it. But why is he still in the Senate? Do people vote for him?

I'm not an American, just trying to understand how it works.

Everyone in elected office over the age of 65 should be forced to retire. At best, they've done their duty and deserve to rest and enjoy the fruits of their labor. At worst, they're nonfunctional skeletons that don't even have skin in the game when it comes to government.

The reaper must have been in the crowd again. You can't run from the reaper, mcturtle.

feel that Mitch? that's the Devil's hands on your ass, boy.. oh yes it is..

Everyone should watch the video. McConnell needs to retire.

I want him to drop dead in front of a live camera feed during his next press event.

Give the American people what they want for once in the nearly 40 years that you've been in Congress, Mitch.

Nothing to see here folks, just another little Mitch Glitch.

I actually think these strokes could make him a better at his job.

Hello, republican department, have you tried turning him off and on again?

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

Term limits, please.

Error 404: Coherent Thought Not Found. Buffer Overflow in Verbal Output Stream. Senator.exe has encountered an unexpected filibuster in cognitive process.

Initiating System Reboot... Please Stand By.

Estimated time to resume 'functionality': 30 seconds.

He's stuck in line after Kissinger. Is there a strike happening at Reaper Inc.?

It looks like he's having a mini stroke.

I know people are quick to jump on this as a sign of cognitive impairment, but could this be a form of aphasia resulting from his fall a few months ago?

I just ask because it's possible it's a motor issue (knows what he wants to say but can't physically say it) rather than a cognitive issue (can't think of something to say).

As much as I'd love for McConnell to GTFO, and certainly support age/term limits in Congress, if it is a motor issue it'd be similar to what Fetterman has dealt with since his stroke (auditory issue vs. cognitive issue).

This geriatric fuck needs to hit a nursing home

Ohhhhh how I do enjoy seeing this!!! It does bring a smile to my face :) This horrifying creature doesn't deserve any semblance of caring or empathy because it's very simple: he's not a human being. He's some kind of monstrosity birthed from some demon world and accidentally wound up here on earth.

C’mon, THAT is a poster board cutout of McConnell. Absolutely hilarious if it’s not!

That dude looks expired 😐

Every second he’s frozen is a second he’s not making the world a worse place so… let’s go glitches

Oh Kentucky, you poor poor fools rode this piece of garbage all the way to the bitter end.

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

Again?

D I E, you ugly motherfucking old coot

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.

AGAIN?

that's a stroke

Check to see whether there is a hand behind the slot in its back. If there isn't, there's your problem.

again?? Or is this just old fucking news???

Retire you old rat

Well, he can't talk or think and he has tons of power! This is excellent and surely not a symptom of a fundamentally broken system that will doom us all!

Can we agree to a compromise? You boot McConnell and we boot Feinstein?

Once they got some sort of response out of him: "any other questions? And please speak up!"

As if that was the issue!

Not weighing in on opinions about the fella as I’m British and ‘not my politician’ but, just showed this to my wife who is a specialist in geriatrics for the NHS and she said she’d refer him for a scan querying either a vascular event or vascular dementia.

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MF having tias right the fuck up on the stage, lol. They've probably got him on anticoagulants since the first one but it probably doesn't take a big clot to fit through his arteries at this point. I can't imagine the amount of sclerosing and HTN is present in an excessively rich and exceedingly old white man. Wonder how much syphillis he's caught from 14 year olds.

This is just sad. He's clearly not fit for any kind of work.

asshole.exe has stopped working

Did you try to turn him off and on again?

It was just a glitch. He temporarily ran out of CPU cycles.

What’s happening to him?

Maybe he just went to a Death Grips concert!

In all seriousness, the loudest concert I went to was seeing the Local Natives at Coachella. Everything was fine, but they kept asking the sound technician to turn their instruments up. It was deafening. Wear earplugs when going to concerts, especially if you're close to the front.

Answer the question Mitch! Are you running for re-election? Damnit!

I see he was resurrected by alien machine dogs. The black hands, the pauses. Has anyone checked him for a pulse?

Thoughts and prayers

This is what I don't get about USA. So called freedom country granting lifelong held positions to people. Supreme court, senate whatever it's there that are giving people lifelong until their deaths positions and talk about free elections and stuff. I might be wrong so please correct me but why do you have so many people like him holding their places until they die or retir because of old age? How is it a democracy when there is a monarchy in place by election?

😳

This does not sound good. I wonder who the cons will end up replacing him with? He is not and was never great; but given their trend, they are bound to find someone even worse.

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:

https://www.thelist.com/257172/the-truth-about-mitch-mcconnells-daughter-porter/

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.

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

I understand people don't like him, but after watching my mom die of dementia it's a little hard to stomach just how cruel people are here about this.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

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The dehumanizing attitude of the comments here sucks. Don't be like them.