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.
Dude probably shat his whole self
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.
Yup my grandpa has seizures like this too. Maybe 81 year olds shouldn’t occupy powerful leadership positions?
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!
Congress, the President, and judges need a mandatory retirement age. We have them for pilots and air traffic controllers. I would set it at 65.
I know the Right likes to throw around Biden Bot’s text to speech timeouts, motor control issues, ghost handshakes and the gibberish world salad he likes to produce but I like to think there’s a parallel dimension where this is frontpage news world wide, no matter where you politically stand.
But we’re in this dimension, unfortunately. 🌚
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.
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.
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.
Damn his skin looks like wax. Quite disturbing
Is it finally happening?
Hate to burst your bubble, but whoever replaces him will be even worse, if you can imagine that.
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.
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.
