Age and term limits, please.
No “please.” Just do. The People have spoken.
Sane people have spoken. I’m sure way too many people would be willing to keep him in office even after this.
I don’t like the man’s politics, and I think it’s terrible that he’s been allowed to hold office this long with his deteriorating health.
That said, I also find it so sad to see any person reaching a point where their cognitive abilities are this unpredictably impaired. Sudden freeze-ups and clear moments of detachment remind me too much of my father in-law and conversations I’ve had with him as his dementia develops.
I agree, aging is fucked up. My objection, not just about McConnell himself but elderly people in politics in general, is there’s this cool thing called retirement. It’s the perfect way to enjoy your older years. Perhaps he could have tried that before now.
Everyone: You’re malfunctioning, please take a break from fucking people over.
Turtle: Newp.I think that the issue is two fold here. He won’t retire, and people keep voting for him.
Sure, people in KY like having a powerful member of the Senate be from their state and evidently he likes being a powerful member of the Senate.
That was a really satisfying video, in a morbid kind of staring at a car accident kind of way.
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Who keeps restarting him? Goddamnit. Stop it!
Damn, he looks old in that video. It strikes me as kind of cruel that our political system so strongly incentivizes seniority, both for the young fresh politicians who’re just getting started and the career politicians who feel like they can’t retire because they need to justify dumping the best decades of their lives slowly shimmying up that totem-pole.
FWIW: I do think that connections and experience really do matter for good governance, but no other industry pushes things this far. It’s messed up and it’s messing everything else up, too.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senator Mitch McConnell froze up for more than 30 seconds on Wednesday during a public appearance before he was escorted away, the second such incident in a little more than a month, a clip from an NBC News affiliate showed.
McConnell, 81, was responding to questions from reporters after an event with the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Covington when he froze up, staring into space and not responding to reporters and others nearby.
After being approached by a second person, McConnell began talking again but needed reporters’ questions repeated to him by an aide and gave minimal answer in response.
Representatives for McConnell were not immediately available for comment.
The incident was eerily similar to one that took place in the Senate at the end of July, when McConnell also froze in the middle of a press conference and had to be led away, returning several minutes later to finish taking questions.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Richard Cowan in Washington; editing by Scott Malone, Caitlin Webber and Susan Heavey)
The original article contains 174 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 1%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
thanks for saving 2 words I guess
I am wondering what words it saved and why we did not need those words, but, apparently, we needed all the other ones.
Also, saying that it saved 2 words took more than 2 words. So, it actually added words.
Now that I read both of your comments, the bot actually cost me a lot more time than it saved me.
I kinda want to go find the two elusive words… 😂
I checked, it’s literally the first two words “[Republican US] Senator…”
AI wordsearch
Still a good boy <3
Everybody looking forward to this man’s departure don’t realize what joy the great state of Kentucky has waiting in the wings. As bad as he is, he’s actually put a stop to some of the MAGA world’s worst nonsense. I’m not entirely confident that crazy is better than evil.
At this point, we all know anything the GOP puts forward will be worse than the last. The nice thing about ol’Turtle kicking-it is that his replacement will be a freshman without the power to control the Senate that turtle did.
You can hear his neurons trying to handshake.
Lizardman accidentally dropped the controller…again.
Sorry for afk guys I had to let the dog out
circling the drain
Get the buckets of piss ready. Mitch is soon for the ditch.
Signal 11 Segmentation Fault often indicates failing hardware.
