McConnell Freezes, Is Led Away And Returns During Press Conference

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) abruptly froze mid-sentence during a Wednesday press conference, falling silent and still soon after he began his remarks.


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When they go low (6ft under) we get high.

Too soon?

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But, but, but… Biden is OLD!!!

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Glad he has good healthcare.

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He isn’t my favorite politician but this doesn’t sound good. Did he have a stroke?

I hereby officially extend my most sincere “thoughts and prayers.”

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You can bet the “Biden is old,” folks will suddenly demand “civility” and “grace” regarding this.

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I’m sure Organized Money is glad their plenipotentiary is still healthy enough to continue strangling democracy.

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The beginning of the end of this evil bastard?

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He came back to the mic after?

Booo!

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Just watched the video. Didn’t look good. :grimacing:

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Perhaps Senator McConnell will decide to retire? He’s been the brains of the Republican Party (apparently, there are no contenders, either) for the last few decades. He hasn’t groomed (heh!) a successor for Senate leadership? Nor pushed for a designated successor to his Senate seat?

Maybe after his concussion, it’s “After me, the deluge.”

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Didn’t yet see video but I would think it time he get checked out medically.

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Fuck him. I refuse to engage in fake tearful bedwetting over this fascist asshole. The damage this piece of shit has done in Congress is second only to the smash and grab crimes Gingrich committed.

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I watched the video. It was a little more than that.

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I just saw the cnn video and i would offer that Mitch get to a hospital asap and get checked out

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It look like he had a stroke, or some other major medical incident. Why are they trying to hide that fact? I posted immediately a video on TikTok where I wished him well with empathy because it looked like he had had a stroke, and I don’t even wish that on my enemies. Is my reaction not universal? Is my empathy not shared by those of its own party? Do they really think that being human makes him weaker? I just don’t understand, and I hope he gets the help he needs if he did have a stroke.

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And I vote that we give them exactly as much deference and respect as they have.

“War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
– W. T. Sherman

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Definite stroke. We’ll see how forthcoming his press office is with an update. We could go months without hearing about his condition.

Politically charged comment here, but Schumer needs to push through any votes he can in Mitch’s absence.

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I don’t feel about Mitch the way I do about trump… … or Putin.

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I absolutely agree. And while he’s at it (if he had a pair) he’d invent some new bullshit rule like, Democrats can pass anything they want on their own as long as there’s no Republican leader. I mean, Mitch would do it.

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