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Punchbowl News reports that the former Senate majority leader, who is retiring after his current term ends in January, lost consciousness at his Washington, D.C., home at 8:36 a.m. on June 14, before a dispatcher sent over an Advanced Life Support ambulance. Journalist Desiree Townsend posted a recording of the call from the emergency dispatcher Tuesday afternoon to X.
Don’t party, he’s still alive, and an absolute disgrace to turtles.
Aww.... welp keeping the champagne on standby.
He is one of the most responsible people for where American politics are today.
Absolutely no conscience and no morals, he is as close to pure evil a politician can get. He was among the main people that created the circumstances that allowed Trump to become president of USA.
He died as he lived. Holding up Senate business for his own personal bullshit reasons.
At what point is it elder abuse to let him keep trying to work as a senator?
Ask Dianne Feinstein. Staffers were dragging her hand to the vote-clicker by the end, because she could barely move herself.
Kinda hard to ask her at this point.
Break out the ouija board and find her restless ghost. I refuse to believe that bitch ain't haunting something.
We need term limits for Congress.
I think Congress needs age limits more than term limits.
I disagree. Age limits would disallow competent people who happen to be old from serving (Bernie, for instance). Age does not correlate well to competency, but if you're young you might believe that. Competency itself can't be measured well enough by a test to be meaningful, so that is out.
There already is an effective age limit in that people typically run for office the first time when they're relatively young, and a term limit would kick them out before they got old. Old people running for the first time would likely be seen as out of touch, unless they make compelling arguments (again, see Bernie), and so would not be elected.
Having only an age limit would still allow people decades to entrench themselves and do great damage.
In short, the problem isn't competency, it's corruption. If anything, they're too competent at being corrupt. It's the same reason we have a term limit for the President, without the limit, we'd have Putin.
Finally, I think there's a chance term limits could pass, whereas an age limit wouldn't.
You're lucky it's limited to alive people only. I wouldn't be surprised if Supreme Court got rid this limit as well.
At his funeral, throw a fire extinguisher in his grave. Where he is going, he will need it.
Thoughts and prayers
If McConnell dies, then the governor will choose his replacement, and the governor is a Democrat. Unless he wants to completely END his political career, he will choose a Democrat.
The Senate Republicans won't want that, so it's a pretty good bet that when McConnell dies, they will keep it a secret for as long as possible.
Why couldn't this have happened like, 20 years ago
June 14th? And we only hear of this 2 weeks later?!?
What about the Kennedy Center?
What about those Trump-Epstein Files?
Don't forget what a piece of shit this guy has been his whole adult life.
You know, dying in office used to be notable and fairly uncommon. Mostly assassinations, plane accidents, etc.
But now our government is more of a hospice than anything else.
Which will die first: the Democracy he helped kill, or his own walking corpse?
I hope when he regains consciousness, it's in one of those Hellraiser scenarios where he's stuck in an eternal loop of... torment. I guess that seems like what just hell would be as well?
Either way. As long as he suffers, forever, in the knowledge it's all his own fault because he's such a piece of shit.
He dead and the governor of Kentucky, who appoints his replacement, is a Democrat.
Kentucky is no longer among the states that allow the governor to select a replacement US Senator for a vacant seat. McConnell himself got the KY state legislature to require a special election for his seat a couple years ago. Beshear will have no say in his replacement.
