I wonder if he can even make it to the end of his term. He knows the Democratic governor of Kentucky will not appoint a Republican to replace him, so he's going to fight that.
He has an R next to his name. His own political ads could say "I'm too incapacitated to run and if you vote for me I will murder your family" and republicans will still vote for him
The world would be a better place if he choked on his own tongue while waiting for needed medical care like so many Americans that he helped keep from having healthcare.
Seriously. A few years ago he's spearheading the party to remove rights from people and now he's too old to speak. There has to be room for retirement between those steps.
I've accepted this for so long as baseline knowledge that I've kind of forgotten some of the headlines. Can someone toss me a few bullet points of the bullshittery?
I’ll assume you’re not a disingenuous republican. Off the top of my head:
Getting in the way of fucking everything Obama tried to do, including passing the ACA.
Disgustingly putting his thumb in the eye of everyone who voted for Obama by blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination to the now illegitimate and flagrantly corrupt supreme court (unworthy even of capital letters).
Unabashed support for putin’s agent in the white house. Up to and including voting to acquit during the impeachment hearings.
There’s more, but fuck it, I have a show to watch.
I once heard him speak about ONE time in ‘97 how a ‘dumuhcrayut’ spoke 3 minutes over their time and he’d held a grudge ever since. That it was his motivation for destroying our system. He’s been a plague for at the very least 24 years but likely his whole career.
Moscow Mitch needs to have retired a long time ago.
I know it's not nice to be piling onto an ailing old man who probably isn't going to be around much longer, but yeah when he was in good health he was an awful person who didn't give a single fuck about anyone else who was having a hard time, and had literally decades filled with opportunities to help people who were worse off and squandered them all just to accumulate more worthless power and money for himself.
Keeping him in power does nothing but harm other people and the country in general IMO, although to be fair that was also true before his health started to go south as well.
It's honestly sad that these people would rather hold on to the little power they have than retire and spend the little time they have left with family.
If they truly cared about heir families they wouldn’t push so much disinformation and enact such horrible policies. These people only love power so you’re basically asking them to willingly give up the only thing they care about.
Either being evil to the core or the great healthcare that being in the US Senate that lets them live so long. They should give everyone the same healthcare as the Senate does and run an experiment. At the very least US citizens would have decent healthcare even if the evil people got to run things. Thankfully I'm Canadian, but I do want what's best for our neighbors.
Get rid of all politicians over the age of 55 or 60. Allow them to be maybe advisors but at this point these people have been unhelpful to the larger younger population.
Honestly, how in the holy hell is this not automatically done?? This person is in a pretty powerful position and makes very important decisions. They absolutely need to be coherent. Do they not have some sort of stipulation that if you consistently stroke out on the job and can't even speak or... do anything really, you have to step away from the position until you can prove you are healthy enough to return?
This just blows my mind. Dude could be making monumental decisions that affect the country for decades and not even know what planet he's on.
I agree with (possibly) none of McConnell's policies and I'll never forgive him for the un-American things he did as senate majority leader. I certainly don't care for him but that it is quite sad to see him like this. I hope he can make a graceful exit from politics and live the rest of his years in peace.
I agree it is sad but also when he was well, if he'd seen someone else in the condition he's in now and had the choice to either cure them or make $1 for himself that he didn't even need, I'm 100% convinced he'd have walked away a dollar richer.
Had his ilk not stood in the way of healthcare reform and medical research, he might still have enough of a mind to feel guilty. I wish only that he were well enough to register how much he deserves every bit of loathing that’s directed at him.
Edit: I think I replied to the wrong comment but I’m still angery. (•ˋ _ ˊ•)
That being said, yes, McConnell is one of the key architects of how dysfunctional our system of government has become. From using the filibuster more times during the Obama administration than all prior administrations COMBINED, to blocking a legitimately named Supreme Court Justice, not by allowing him a fair vote, but by denying him a hearing AT ALL.
BUT...
Now hear me out... BUT...
He does have three daughters, Porter, is actually an activist:
You can make fun of the guy, you can hate the guy, but before you wish death on the guy, take just a moment to consider his family and how they must feel watching him break down like this live on camera, not once, but twice.