The turtle has run his race. He’s seen better days. The man is in no condition to continue on as a public servant and that’s been evident for some time with the falls he’s had and now his going blank in front of a crowd of people at a presser. Watch.
Here is footage of when McConnell seemed to just stop mid-sentence pic.twitter.com/4o8xKdWiwc
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 26, 2023
Today’s reminder that KY changed the law to prevent Gov. Beshear from appointing a Democrat to replace McConnell if he is unable to complete his term. Which may be the case. pic.twitter.com/hPGS0w1bzY
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 26, 2023
There is a virtue to knowing when to quit. Say what you will about McConnell, he was a cunning adversary for many years and he knew how the Senate worked. He’s past his prime and it would be a good thing for him and for his constituents for him to step down.
This looks like a mini stroke. Certainly I’m no doctor but I’ve known people who have had mini strokes and if this isn’t one of those, it’s some kind of a medical incident, clearly. The man just zoned out. Look at his eyes.
This reminds me of the last few episodes of Succession, where Logan Roy, the patriarch, was barely able to function but he kept pushing and pushing and finally had a heart attack on his private jet.
Here comes McConnell back to the presser.
UPDATE: McConnell is back at the presser. pic.twitter.com/hrAdKXpAVX
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) July 26, 2023
McConnell says he’s fine but clearly he’s not.
I guess it’s harder for some people to give up when nature is sending them messages. McConnell had a good run by any yardstick. He’s in no shape to continue to lead a party that is as fragmented as the GOP is now.
The Republicans have no leadership. McConnell’s ready to collapse and McCarthy is living from crisis to crisis, like a fruit fly. If McConnell really cares about his party, he’ll pass the mantle to somebody else, stay home and have a bourbon and smell the roses.
Mitch and Di-Fi both need to be put out to pasture.
Congress is becoming an old-folks home.
We need term and (upper) age limits.
Feinstein is stepping down. She just can’t leave now or there’s no way a Democrat would be appointed to replace her. She’s hanging on for that reason. Although, conversely, you can argue that she should have stepped down before she got to where she is now.
People make the same comment about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that she should have resigned earlier. But if she had, her replacement would have been stonewalled like Merrick Garland was stonewalled.
There’s no way to win a lot of times.
In both cases, these women chose to stick it out and I respect them for it. I just hope Feinstein makes it to the end of her term.
My understanding is that there is plenty of time for her replacement to be named.
Whoa, that was a scary moment, to see him freeze like that, although it seemed like his mouth and face weren’t moving normally before he ran out of words. As much as I’ve despised him at times, it’s still a sad thing to witness.
I work part time on a dementia unit. He looked like he’d really fit right in. Now stayed tuned to the republican strategy of making this Joe Biden’s problem instead of Moscow Mitch’s issue.
If there is anyone who can be spared in Kentucky Democratic circles, they should publicly switch parties right now, so Beshear can appoint them when Mitch either steps down or drops over. TIAs like that are often the precursor of full-blown strokes, the man needs to be listening to his doctor, not wrangling the Senate minority.
The saddest part is he was not given medical treatment, but pushed back out to show he is “fine”…which is definitely not true. Politically, I love to see an end to his selfish career…as a human, it is sad to watch.
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TIA. Dad had two. Same look, same inability to.speak coherently. Mitch needs to go.
Robert Reich suggests it was a petit mal seizure.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-freeze
I cleaned up the link so you will get a popup, but it will have an option to click to read the wwhole thing.
This might have been a type of seizure. I had a patient do this and I sent him to the hospital. We did not get a definitive answer as to what happened but I saw someone else’s comment where he had episodes like this and it was determined to be seizures.
Though Senatortoise McTraitor’s health is not what it was, I have a completely different theory: Suddenly he saw the “ghost” of his Mom standing in front of him saying I love you and I’m waiting for you. That would explain why he stopped mid-sentence and began crying. As happens quite frequently, deceased love ones will visit someone who’s time to pass is coming up soon. Most of the times it’s in dreams, sometimes in other ways & at other times. Of course, he or no other politician would ever admit to any such thing, but it makes as much sense as a TIA, which I don’t believe occurred.
Everytime an elderly person falls and hits their head it is a traumatic brain injury. He’s fallen multiple times and there is a cumulative effect. A petite Mal seizure is what it looked like, but it would take tests to know for sure. No way the lying party will come out to endorse finding the truth. Fact is…he’ll fall again. It’s only a matter of time. He needs a walker. At least Feinstein uses a wheelchair, although cognitively, she’s facing the same issue: a decline in cognition and an increase in confusion.
Although a petit mal is smaller and prettier than a gran Mal seizure…it’s not really petite. Damn fingers.