Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze again Wednesday, this time during a gaggle with reporters in Covington, Kentucky, stopping for more than 30 seconds after he was asked if he would run for re-election.
The Kentucky Republican froze in July at a news conference on Capitol Hill, going silent for 19 seconds before being escorted away from the cameras. McConnell, 81, returned shortly afterward and continued his news conference, telling reporters, “I’m fine.”
When it became apparent that McConnell had frozen again on Wednesday, an aide came up to him and asked, “Did you hear the question, senator?” McConnell continued to be unresponsive.
Dude is having a series of small strokes right in front of the entire world. If this is happening multiple times in front of cameras, imagine how often it’s happening off camera.
I think he’s having focal seizures actually. Which usually late in life is caused by a brain tumour or something.
I think you’re right about the seizures part. I’ve read some about how it might be Parkinson’s. He had a fall and a concussion at some point (and concussions are no joke).
McConnell is a partisan hack and an absolute hypocrite, whose actions in the Senate have damaged the country in far-reaching ways.
I aim to be better than him in every way, including not being happy about his physical pain or other complications due to medical issues.
Edit: Really, setting aside the mild editorializing, McConnell did not choose to experience medical problems. We can disagree fervently with the choices he does make, and criticize in the context of those choices as much as we want. It is wrong to criticize or wish ill of people when those criticisms are in the context of something not chosen.
That is rightly offensive when the context is race, gender, LGBTQ+, physical (mental should arguably be here, too) disability. It’s equally offensive when the context is illness or some other medical concern.
This is sort of like saying a parent shouldn’t want a punishment on someone who murdered their kid because they need to forgive in order to cleanse their soul or some other religious bullshit.
Perhaps if he weren’t an evil motherfucker, people wouldn’t wish ill of him.
This is probably the truth. And now he’s probably losing parts of his brain and there’s less and less chances that the ramifications of his actions ever taking place.
