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.
Mitch McConnell Was Found Unconscious Before He Was Rushed to Hospital
4 months ago by Sunflier to c/politics
blackbelt352 25 points 4 months ago
Aww.... welp keeping the champagne on standby.
tanisnikana 2 points 4 months ago
I wouldn’t wish pain on anybody. It’s a good thing he’s a nobody.
Buffalox 69 points 4 months ago
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.
UnderpantsWeevil 66 points 4 months ago
He died as he lived. Holding up Senate business for his own personal bullshit reasons.
Catoblepas 57 points 4 months ago
At what point is it elder abuse to let him keep trying to work as a senator?
UnderpantsWeevil 51 points 4 months ago
Ask Dianne Feinstein. Staffers were dragging her hand to the vote-clicker by the end, because she could barely move herself.
MrMcGasion 19 points 4 months ago
Kinda hard to ask her at this point.
UnderpantsWeevil 30 points 4 months ago
Break out the ouija board and find her restless ghost. I refuse to believe that bitch ain't haunting something.
wonderingwanderer 4 points 4 months ago
Politicians should not be working right up to the moment of death.
Clearly the work isn't too difficult if these people are choosing not to retire. Clearly the pay and benefits (and under-the-table backroom dealing) is too sweet to pass up for a happy retirement.
I guess when you get so many days of paid vacation, healthcare, and access to billionaires bribing you with luxury vacations, who needs to retire? It's not like they're out there going door to door serving their constituents...
DarrinBrunner 39 points 4 months ago
We need term limits for Congress.
sin_free_for_00_days 18 points 4 months ago
I think Congress needs age limits more than term limits.
Wizard_Pope 7 points 4 months ago
diablomnky 5 points 4 months ago
Maybe something along the lines of, if you're eligible to collect social security, then you're too old to serve in government.
PurpleHawkeye619 2 points 4 months ago
Dont do that. That just incentivizes getting rid of social security so congress can keep their power till death
diablomnky 2 points 4 months ago
If it's coupled with term limits, mandatory voting, and making running in a primary like jury duty, it might work.
DarrinBrunner 1 point 4 months ago
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.
ShaggySnacks 7 points 4 months ago
It's a nightmare we are heading towards too.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 4 months ago
Yeah, how hard would it be for any competent lawyer or accountant to spin up a few thousand privately and closely held C Corporations per day. How much is a vote worth? According to the trial court judge (there's room for at least two appeals to get to the Delaware Supreme Court thank Voticulus, god of elections and tiny candles), $150 plus postage.
mic_check_one_two 5 points 4 months ago
Stop giving them ideas
CADmonkey 1 point 4 months ago
No, they will decide to give AI personhood. Thereby allowing an AI to run for office, and causing all sorts of other problems that will start with "We can't turn it off, that's murder".
Thebeardedsinglemalt 3 points 4 months ago
“We can’t turn it off, that’s murder”.
And they'll treat it like abortion. "You can't turn it off, that's murder. And anyone who tries to turn it off will receive the death penalty"
NikkiDimes 2 points 4 months ago
If that were the case, he probably would not be a horrible person who deserves no peace and no dignity.
Zombiepirate 34 points 4 months ago
Set the dancing crabs on high alert.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 4 months ago
They been on high alert since Krasnov leaked his hand bruise photo. What's higher than high alert because those crabs are going through all my weed
Zombiepirate 2 points 4 months ago
WhyIHateTheInternet 11 points 4 months ago
Well good news, that's exactly how they're doing it to us.
AfricanExpansionist 28 points 4 months ago
If I found him I'd have left him
deathmetaldawgy -7 points 4 months ago
And .world has none, only those who get in the way of real progressive politics. Hehe
flying_sheep 4 points 4 months ago
Boo, that's not even a joke, just particularly lame divisiveness.
KulunkelBoom 27 points 4 months ago
How could they tell?
KingPorkChop 12 points 4 months ago
I don't believe in a hell, but I think a fitting eternity for Mitch is forever being ass fucked with a pineapple (no lube, pointy end first) while licking clean Lindsey Graham's "ladybugs"
Professorozone 9 points 4 months ago
How can you not believe in Hell? We're in it now.
too_high_for_this 5 points 4 months ago
You just had to say it. My mind has been trying to repress that fact and you just had to say it.
kmartburrito 2 points 4 months ago
As well as Donald J Rapeinger
Bytemeister 1 point 4 months ago
Unfair that Lindsey is getting sent to heaven though...
Thebeardedsinglemalt 7 points 4 months ago
Don't waste a perfectly good fire extinguisher on that slug. Give him an empty one with a hole in the side, because that's about as much as he gave the citizens on the country.
becausechemistry 25 points 4 months ago
Thoughts and prayers
BarneyPiccolo 23 points 4 months ago
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.
PostProcess 10 points 4 months ago
They are! He died ages ago, the battery just ran out which is why he was found immobile...
Frenchgeek 2 points 4 months ago
Battery? Feel way too modern for Republicans...
NikkiDimes 2 points 4 months ago
It was actually a hamster on a wheel. Unfortunately, the hamster too, has succumb to the wicked evil within his decaying corpse.
PostProcess 2 points 4 months ago
It's probably one of those old ones made of potato.
zombyreagan 7 points 4 months ago
If it looks like mitch is going to die the KY legislature will just pass a law stripping the power from the governor to appointed interim senator
Azulos 19 points 4 months ago
Actually they planned ahead and already did that.
Captainvaqina 15 points 4 months ago
Republicans are such fascist fucking filth.
CharlesDarwin 2 points 4 months ago
passed with bipartisan support
Ugh.
BarneyPiccolo 1 point 4 months ago
Who, the Senate? There's no approval process for Senators, that's for presidential appointments. In KY, the governor just appoints them, and they're the new senator from Kentucky.
That doesn't mean that Trump and the MAGA Senate won't unilaterally rewrite the Constitution, and insist on approving the new senator, and insist on taking it all the way to the SCOTUS, where they will lose, but have successfully kept him out of office and voting for months.
BarneyPiccolo 1 point 4 months ago
Gotcha.
Atelopus-zeteki 21 points 4 months ago
June 14th? And we only hear of this 2 weeks later?!?
What about the Kennedy Center?
What about those Trump-Epstein Files?
EvergreenGuru 5 points 4 months ago
Pretty sure he had a tumble that was in the news.
Kennedy Center is unimportant.
Epstein files will come out when the country falls apart of when everyone in them is dead. Whichever comes first.
Atelopus-zeteki 4 points 4 months ago
If the Kennedy Center is unimportant, then why is it still covered with a tarp?
itsgroundhogdayagain 20 points 4 months ago
Don't forget what a piece of shit this guy has been his whole adult life.
bold_atlas 19 points 4 months ago
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.
Abyssian 15 points 4 months ago
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.
Beetschnapps 5 points 4 months ago
The community should come together, everyone pitch in, and buy him a lament configuration plus a get fucked card.
TryingToBeGood 15 points 4 months ago
Mitch, god is telling you to retire. Listen to her.
snerkbleat 4 points 4 months ago path: 0 24559917 24560383, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 4
Goodlucksil 6 points 4 months ago
Margaret Thatcher maybe?
TryingToBeGood 4 points 4 months ago
LOL!
vaultdweller013 1 point 4 months ago
Plenty of women gods who aren't all powerful and have to context with the general fuckery of their male counterparts. Or in the case of Aphrodite making problems for herself and her children, for further context read the lliad and the Aeneid.
ChunkMcHorkle 16 points 4 months ago
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points 4 months ago
I mean while it works to our disadvantage (probably} in this case, I do prefer when these offices are filled from elections and not appointments. Kentucky has a strange and unique identity and it's hard for outsiders to grasp since we don't know the history well.
anon_8675309 11 points 4 months ago
So you KNOW they won’t announce his death.
WizardofFrobozz 4 points 4 months ago
Not sure what’s more on-brand, Mitch McConnell continuing to ratfuck US politics from beyond the grave, or democrats allowing themselves to be politically outmaneuvered by a dead guy
SkunkWorkz 14 points 4 months ago
Please be dead please please please
NikkiDimes 2 points 4 months ago
Looks to me like he's probably brain dead and on life support. We can only hope 🙏
BeardededSquidward 13 points 4 months ago
They are going to Bernie him until they can be sure they'd get another republican just as malicious as he was.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 4 months ago
There is no emergency in a pandemic or the McConnell household is the rule I was taught
SupraMario 8 points 4 months ago
They (gop) will "weekend at Bernie's" him until Jan.
tigeruppercut 12 points 4 months ago
I predict Mitch showing up to the next senate vote wearing this
funkless_eck 6 points 4 months ago
ah a wooden overcoat, excellent choice
NottaLottaOcelot 5 points 4 months ago
Republicans would still vote for that over a Democrat
green_goglin 7 points 4 months ago
Welp, Mitch glitched (again).
too_high_for_this 3 points 4 months ago
A lotta people, you gotta believe me 👐
They're saying, "That guy Mitch, he's very dead. Very, very dead."☝️
And let me tell ya, folks... 👏 THE MAN 🤲 IS DEAD👌. I saw him just the other day, I saw him and said, "Wow, that guy looks dead." 🫵
HootinNHollerin 6 points 4 months ago
He’s a comic villain that has a turtle shell support system roll up and pull him in when he’s on the verge
altphoto 5 points 4 months ago
A few staples here and some duct tape otta get him back up and running in no time at all! Extremely presidential at this point. Better if he's able to say his name and maybe a few other coherent phrases. They can just prop him up wherever needed, make him say a few things and move on to the next thing.
Or Permanent aphasia... Well not so permanent at this point but great for going out in a world of confusion. Hopefully people learn from this.... Don't be fucking evil! We all die but being evil doesn't help anyone.
captainlezbian 4 points 4 months ago
Why rush? If you don't take the time to slow down and smell the flowers you'll miss out on life
Pacattack57 4 points 4 months ago
Damn wasn’t he just in the hospital when they did the last vote on the housing bill?
Salamanderwizard 3 points 4 months ago
Hope the endless void swallows you whole and you feel it you pos.
Lushed_Lungfish 2 points 4 months ago
Sort of like Stalin, eh?
samus12345 1 point 4 months ago
Too little, too late.
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