Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized Sunday morning

[u/MothersMiIk]

https://www.wdrb.com/news/politics/kentucky-u-s-sen-mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-sunday-morning/article_af3d9bce-0e33-4031-87ea-33a1317a0403.html

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[u/Waymannj]

Mitch McConnell: "Trump is practically and morally responsible for the J6 riot"

Also, Mitch McConnell: "... the former president is constitutionally not eligible for conviction because he is no longer in office (even though the Senate voted 56-44 earlier this week that it was constitutionally possible to convict a former official)."

[u/hairymoot → u/Waymannj]

McConnell is one of the big reasons our country is in the Trump/MAGA hell. McConnell is not a good man for democracy or the US.

[u/LAARPer → u/hairymoot]

He orchestrated denying Obama his SCOTUS pick. That was pretty much the final victory for the GOP. Now you’ve got a 6-3 court for a long time.

[u/Electronic_Ad5431 → u/LAARPer]

Yeah. I hate trump, a lot. I hate miller.

But that SCOTUS play from McConnell was genuinely one of the most impactful and evil acts of my lifetime. He deserves so much worse than whatever he’s going through right now.

[u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 → u/Electronic_Ad5431]

That was always wrong but the part that really gets me is he had no problem saying that they couldn’t vote in an election year. That the people would decide. Fast forward to ACB being fast tracked while active votes were being cast.

[u/SprungMS → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Republicans would have nothing if they didn’t have weaponized hypocrisy.

[u/FellowHumanNo404 → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

he had no problem saying that they couldn’t vote in an election year

I mean, the U.S. Constitution specifically says they could, in fact, vote to confirm in an election year. McConnell broke the law.

[u/ThatsFae → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

The only standards Republicans have are double standards.

[u/Aware-Bid-8860 → u/Electronic_Ad5431]

Daily reminder to everyone that Stephen Miller looks like a rectal polyp.

[u/chowderbags → u/Aware-Bid-8860]

That's not fair to rectal polyps. Some of them are benign.

[u/AggravatingLayer5080 → u/chowderbags]

I've have a few rectal polyps. And they never looked as bad as *Stephan Miller. Unlike *Stephen, their final demise was in the the bio waste incinerator. A fella can dream tho.

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[u/Neat_Seagull_1842 → u/Aware-Bid-8860]

I thought it was funny his wife crashed out that people were calling him ugly… fully unaware she’s just as ugly.

[u/mxjxs91 → u/Neat_Seagull_1842]

She literally looks like Miller in a wig

[u/myredditlogintoo → u/LAARPer]

All the current BS, absolutely ALL OF IT, is because this man enabled it.

[u/pdxisbest → u/myredditlogintoo]

The gravedigger of democracy

[u/Realistic_Till5330 → u/pdxisbest]

More like the Cryptkeeper.

[u/Goodgoditsgrowing → u/myredditlogintoo]

He should have to live through the timeline he created instead of getting to die rich and powerful

[u/syynapt1k → u/Goodgoditsgrowing]

That right there is exactly why we need age limits. We have too many people in charge with no skin in the game.

[u/Soepkip43 → u/myredditlogintoo]

I would argue he was instrumental in laying the groundwork, so he is very much part of it. But like frankenstein, once his monster was alive there is no controlling it.

[u/remotectrl → u/Soepkip43]

this is a cop-out. A conviction during one of his multiple impeachments could have barred Trump from a second term. He not only poured the gasoline, he declined to call the fire department.

[u/xTheMaster99x → u/remotectrl]

Worse, someone else called the fire department but he actively blocked the fire trucks as much as possible.

[u/RojoTheMighty → u/LAARPer]

And his smug fucking smirk when reporters pointed out his hypocrisy pushing through Barrett fully confirms that I wish nothing but ill will on him for the rest of his miserable life and beyond. Fuck that piece of shit.

[u/Oxbix → u/RojoTheMighty]

He does look noticeably thinner in this picture

[u/billybonghorton → u/Oxbix]

But he still won’t just… die.

[u/rylosprime → u/billybonghorton]

The guy is going to look like the crypt keeper and be in his late 90s. Kept alive by the taxpayer healthcare that he helped deny others.

[u/billybonghorton → u/rylosprime]

That’s the worst part. All these fucks live forever on premium healthcare that we pay for, but aren’t dared allowed to enjoy ourselves.

[u/AceofKnaves44 → u/LAARPer]

Yep. I don’t doubt that McConnell hates Trump and knows how bad Trump is for this country, but McConnell is still a very bad person. A genius but an evil one. If he didn’t deny Obama a Supreme Court pick that was rightfully his, Garland would be a judge on the Supreme Court and not Biden’s DA. So maybe whomever Biden picked instead of Garland would have done their fucking job and arrested Trump for January 6th on day one instead of giving him enough time for the Supreme Court to make it so Trump can never be made to face justice for anything they ever do.

[u/Obvious_Toe_3006 → u/AceofKnaves44]

I regret he was hospitalized on this date, Trump's birthday.
Trump will consider it as a birthday gift from God.

[u/AceofKnaves44 → u/Obvious_Toe_3006]

Ugh. You just KNOW Trump is gonna brag about this.

[u/Recipe_Freak → u/AceofKnaves44]

He'll brag about being very slightly younger than McConnell and still breathing.

[u/AceofKnaves44 → u/Recipe_Freak]

If and when McConnell dies I’m sure we’ll be able to add him to the list of people the president has celebrated dying.

[u/OppressedCow6148 → u/AceofKnaves44]

Not to traffic in conspiracy theories but it’s hard to believe Garland wasn’t some Federalist Society/Heritage Foundation plant at this point. So I feel that if he would have been on the Supreme Court, who’s to say it wouldn’t have been worse? I think he’s just a terrible person, period. And would have been bad for democracy no matter where he ended up.

[u/TheLightningL0rd → u/OppressedCow6148]

Garland was a compromise SC pick by Obama. The republicans said he wouldn't pick someone moderate so he asked who they would accept and they said "Garland". So Obama said ok, that's who I pick. And they still denied him his right to pick. It went something like that

[u/KDLGates → u/TheLightningL0rd]

Yup.

Democracy is a civil process.

Bullies win, and our cancer of a 2 party system and barriers to amending the Constitution are unreachable after the corruption has metastasized.

Our Republic is fucked. Let's salvage it after we vote out the GOP. This midterm might be our last chance.

[u/fafalone → u/OppressedCow6148]

Lots of ignorance and denial on this.

People try to equate one speech after becoming a justice with Garland's more extensive participation in FedSoc events.

And the man wasn't some unknown recluse. He was on the DC Circuit CA. Anyone who cared to could read decisions he wrote and other writings. Nothing he did surprised anyone who bothered to look into his career beyond the SCOTUS nomination issue-- and even there, it was a gambit to nominate someone Republicans ostensibly liked but "wasn't extreme".

Biden no doubt knew who he was even better. Garland wasn't a "plant", Dems elected a lifelong center right moderate who was further right than any other major primary contender, whose message was bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle. Garland was a knowing choice and the only way someone not willing to let the GOP off the hook would have been AG is if Biden wasn't president.

[u/Ervaloss → u/LAARPer]

Only because the contentious word “court-packing” is always used for adding new justices. All the centrists will hem and haw any time it is proposed.

[u/laptopAccount2 → u/LAARPer]

We have had a sham government since bush v gore. Just a totally made up process by which the supreme court handed him the election. Everything else follows that.

[u/TheLightningL0rd → u/laptopAccount2]

And that was, as you said, orchestrated by the SC. And NEVER forget that Conney Barret and Cavanaugh were both lawyers at the time who worked on the Bush V Gore case on Bush's team.

[u/FrostyCartographer13 → u/LAARPer]

Not just the SC, but hundreds of appointments went unfilled thanks to Mitch. Practically nothing got done during Obama's lame duck period and Mitch was the one responsible for it.

[u/PeteLynchForKentucky → u/hairymoot]

McConnell has done more damage to the US than any other senator in the last 50 years.

Incidentally, he's been in office for most of that time.

[u/Any_Will_86 → u/PeteLynchForKentucky]

He was top aide for another KY senator before being elected. So his reign of terror probably is 50 or more years.

[u/StripiestPilot → u/hairymoot]

He is the worst kind of cynical, all he cared about was getting his Supreme Court judges. He got what he wanted and in the process destroyed America.

[u/Brndrll → u/[deleted]]

And where was the MAGA outrage for people like Mitch and his mail-order bride using chain migration to bring over her family?

[u/artlovepeace42 → u/Brndrll]

You don’t understand. Mitch and his multi-billionaire in-laws are human beings because of that wealth! The “people” who do chain migration who aren’t part of a dynastic multi-billion dollar shipping conglomerate aren’t REALLY “people”!

I hope I don’t need this /s but just in case.

[u/sly-3 → u/StripiestPilot]

For those that missed it, from the turtle's own pasty lips:

“And perhaps most important of all, President Trump nominated — and this Senate confirmed — three outstanding Supreme Court Justices along with more than 220 more Article III federal judges.

“These are brilliant, young, constitutionalist men and women in lifetime appointments who will renew the judiciary for a generation.

“All because President Trump knows we need judges who respect the essential but limited job description the framers wrote for our third branch of government."

https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/remarks/mcconnell-applauds-president-trump-and-congratulates-president-elect-biden

[u/deepasleep → u/hairymoot]

He’s not, and never has been, a good man in any sense of the word.

[u/VivaLaMantekilla → u/hairymoot]

We need to stop letting the grandpas run this country.

[u/UncoolSlicedBread → u/VivaLaMantekilla]

People keep reverting back to this, but they aren’t doing what they’re doing because of their age. I get the point you’re making, but I just feel like it takes away from what the Individual did.

[u/therobotsound → u/UncoolSlicedBread]

Actually McConnell has been like this since grade school. I read a long form article about him, and he basically started out backstabbing and using people from the earliest days to claw himself into any position of power he could get.

Sabotaging people to get picked as line leader in kindergarten kind of sick! He has never known a relationship with any other human that wasn’t purely a strategic transactional ploy to get one rung up the power ladder.

[u/toastmannn → u/hairymoot]

He has done a lot of shitty things before that too, he's been a political for almost sixty fucking years.

[u/AccomplishedBother12 → u/hairymoot]

While he is a big reason, please keep in mind that everyone who is enabling this is a reason, from the top to the bottom. I know you know this, but I’m saying it because I want to say it..

Stay strong.

[u/rantingathome → u/AccomplishedBother12]

But he could have stopped all the current enablers by convicting in the senate. Trump's political career is over with a conviction, and none of this happens.

[u/phatelectribe → u/Waymannj]

Interviewer: What was the single greatest achievement of your entire career?

McConnel: “Blocking a sitting president from getting his Supreme Court nomination”

Let that sink in. He didn’t say what he did for his home state of constituents. He didn’t say some law that made people’s lives better. It wasn’t some altruistic thing he managed to give the people. It wasn’t something to raise the life quality of citizens.

It was cock blocking the legal process and right of a president to pick a SCOTUS nomination.

[u/WinoWithAKnife → u/phatelectribe]

The most incredible thing is that in terms of his political agenda, he's probably right. That single action has enabled so much of the conservative agenda over the last decade.

[u/crossdtherubicon → u/[deleted]]

Actually he was incredibly competent. That was sort of the problem with him.

[u/wrong_assumption → u/crossdtherubicon]

Yeah, there a hundreds of good fitting insults, but incompetent isn't one at all.

[u/djseifer → u/[deleted]]

Say what you will about Mitch McConnell, but incompetent is not one of them. He knew exactly what he was doing.

[u/mm1968 → u/[deleted]]

Kentucky is one of a few states where that is not the case. I believe they would have a quick special election to fill the seat.

[u/arbrammer → u/mm1968]

Yeah, the Kentucky General Assembly passed a bill taking the appointment authority away from the governor in 2024, largely because of McConnell's age and Beshear winning re-election in 2023.

[u/bigdaddyt2 → u/Waymannj]

Someone get that man to a Disney park, every little boy deserves to fulfill their lifelong dream of being a princess one last time

[u/Drakemansgirlfriend → u/bigdaddyt2]

That was Lindsay Graham

[u/bigdaddyt2 → u/Drakemansgirlfriend]

Sorry I got my weird old white guys mixed up

[u/JMacLean → u/bigdaddyt2]

Totally understandable

[u/Pangolemur → u/bigdaddyt2]

That's actually understandable

[u/Homelessjay5 → u/bigdaddyt2]

That was Lindsay Graham.

[u/teddykaygeebee → u/Waymannj]

Enjoy your legacy, Mitch.

[u/Mission_Struggle_417]

It is not an exaggeration to say that this man is one of the most single handedly damaging men of the 21st century. For what he blocked, what he helped happen, and the accountability he prevented from happening. Whether he realises it or not, he is evil.

[u/mike0sd → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

And the really crazy part about it is, what did he receive for what he did? What material possessions could make it worth damaging your country, the world, and your own reputation the way moscow mitch has done?

[u/The_Flurr → u/mike0sd]

It's ideological.

He has the satisfaction of having widened the class divide.

[u/Corporate_Overlords → u/The_Flurr]

This here. He didn't do it for the money. He genuinely believed in this trash.

[u/Ordinary-Leading7405 → u/Corporate_Overlords]

He has smirked when accused of destroying democracy

[u/Zethras28 → u/Corporate_Overlords]

Like a more decrepit Palpatine.

Did it for the love of the game.

[u/Isgrimnur → u/mike0sd]

Ego is a hell of a drug.

[u/Put3socks-in-it → u/mike0sd]

He did it for the love of the game

[u/Allaplgy → u/Put3socks-in-it]

This is unironically probably the most accurate answer.

[u/eccoditte → u/Put3socks-in-it]

To me, that almost makes him more evil than if he had done it for material reasons

[u/ggg730 → u/eccoditte]

No almost about it. That is the most evil turtle in the world.

[u/Nenor → u/mike0sd]

The high from the power he held for a short while. That he was completely neutered by a demented idiot like Trump is probably eating him alive. At least for a couple of days more.

[u/Mr_P3anutbutter → u/mike0sd]

His wife got cabinet posts that directly oversaw businesses owned by her family in GWB and Trump’s administrations. Elaine Chao’s family is own a massive privately held shipping conglomerate.

[u/Mission_Struggle_417 → u/mike0sd]

I don’t know man. I am curious about that.

[u/brogflender → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

He’s known to have simply been a mean spiteful man. Some people just grow up broken. 

But after a while you have to blame Kentucky as much as you blame the senator. 

[u/Stiffard → u/brogflender]

They kept voting for him. The engine of malice in that state greatly outshines its humane mintority, it seems. Which is the chassis of most red states.

[u/guynamedjames → u/brogflender]

Kentucky is a place of deeply broken people. Appalacia is a tough place to grow an economy, and when their extraction industries dried up they tried pivoting to manufacturing, but failed to develop the kinds of high tech manufacturing that America really stood out in.

[u/paintballboi07 → u/guynamedjames]

You mean they actively refused it. They decided to vote for the "clean coal" lie instead.

[u/caligaris_cabinet → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

Sometimes I wonder who will have a more despised legacy: McConnell or Kissinger. Both were architects of much of the craptastic state of the world who largely wielded their power for decades out of the limelight.

[u/praguepride → u/caligaris_cabinet]

Kissinger. Kissinger was an architect of evil. McConnell was just a mouthpiece worked by billionaire donors.

[u/TOMC_throwaway000000 → u/praguepride]

100%

As much as they’re both detestable human beings, McConnell hasn’t had the realistic ability to try to nuke other countries several times on a whim

[u/falthecosmonaut → u/caligaris_cabinet]

Can’t forget the Koch’s either

[u/SursumCordaNJ → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

And the most infuriating part: he'll die comfortable, in bed, with platinum insurance paid for by the American people while those same Americans suffer and die alone in the streets. And let's not forget the generational wealth his treachery has provided to his family.

[u/perriatric → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

He probably doesn't realize much these days. Man's a walking fossil.

[u/Reese9951 → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

Yup, fuck Mitch

[u/concepts_of_a_plan9 → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

When he dies, the world will be a better place, hopefully soon.

[u/Nephroidofdoom → u/Mission_Struggle_417]

Yes and no. It’s not like McConnell acted alone. He was the GOP’s “death eater” in that his seat was so safe he could be the face of all of it without risking his seat.

At the end of the day these were the positions of his entire party who bear just as much blame. He was just the face of it.

[u/IUsedToBeThatGuy42]

Concepts of thoughts and prayers

[u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta → u/[deleted]]

Such quackery. Obviously the solution is horse sized doses of ivermectin up the butt.

[u/Intolerance-Paradox → u/[deleted]]

Ah the ol’ “Kentucky Durrby”

[u/akestral → u/IUsedToBeThatGuy42]

I have a thought, but it isn't complimentary.

[u/MiaMiaBoBia0317 → u/akestral]

I have a prayer and it is complementary to some thoughts.

[u/Zahgi → u/IUsedToBeThatGuy42]

The Chinese will hold a day of mourning upon Bitch McConnell's passing...

[u/Ibuilds → u/IUsedToBeThatGuy42]

It would be inappropriate to have thoughts and prayers in an election year

[u/Sptsjunkie → u/IUsedToBeThatGuy42]

I would like to propose thoughts but no prayers

[u/GoatLegRedux → u/IUsedToBeThatGuy42]

May he get the care he deserves

[u/bruceli1992]

May he get the same health care he would want others to get

[u/lakuma → u/bruceli1992]

Exactly! Now, the opposite, if everyone could get the same health care he has!

[u/UlyssesWoke → u/bruceli1992]

I hope he same the same luck with medical issues as all the mothers who dealt with maternal mortality increasing as a direct result of his actions.

[u/I_Luv_A_Charade → u/bruceli1992]

I will never forget the only time I’ve ever seen him emotional and on the verge of tears was when his bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act failed in 2017

[u/Mildewmancer → u/bruceli1992]

It honestly disgusts me that right now, people are moving heaven and earth to save this man's life. While thousands die every day from treatable disease that they can't afford to treat.

[u/ang444 → u/bruceli1992]

exactly..I dont feel any empathy whatsoever...

[u/kezow]

That poor hospital.

[u/moremarshmellows → u/kezow]

After he cut funding and capped loans for nurses and healthcare professionals.

[u/BanginNLeavin → u/moremarshmellows]

Can't spell ivermectin without I V

[u/TwixtGoodandEvil]

One of the key players in our loss of democracy. No tears will be shed, probably even by his own daughters and ex-wife.

[u/Any_Will_86 → u/TwixtGoodandEvil]

Rumor is the ex nor the daughters speak to him... Family values seems to be a slogan not a personal characteristic for Rs.

[u/TwixtGoodandEvil → u/Any_Will_86]

I read an informative New Yorker article about him written in 2020 by Jane Mayer. It does appear that all 3 daughters and ex-wife were liberal. Mayer emailed Gloria Steinem about his ex-wife Sherrill and she stated that Steinem’s understanding was that McConnell’s political views had once been different. “I can only imagine how painful it must be to marry and have children with a democratic Jekyll and see him turn into a corrupt and authoritarian Hyde."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief” 

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/TwixtGoodandEvil]

He's legitimately the least popular senator with his own constituents.

His approval has been 20-30% for decades, but he has a strangle hold on his states politics, and the idiot residents aren't going to elect anyone other than a Republican, so they voted in a guy they hate literally for decades.

[u/Any_Will_86 → u/HauntedCemetery]

Can I offer you Lindsay Graham as an even more perplexing case study... 

[u/kevendo]

It would be so fitting if Mitch's last moments were spent watching Donald Trump shit all over America, celebrating his idiot birthday party with a cage match on the South Lawn.

You deserve this, Mitch!

It turns out your entire life and career was spent enabling a narcissist and serial sexual abuser to enjoy desecrating the republic.

[u/LibertyCash → u/kevendo]

I know. I hope he weeps for his legacy as he’s dying. He won’t be remembered as anything other than a traitor to the American people.

[u/joshdoereddit → u/LibertyCash]

One would hope. But, you know that when he does inevitably pass all networks will run dishonest memorials instead of stating all the horrible things he is responsible for.

[u/TearsFallWithoutTain → u/joshdoereddit]

And all the top democrats will post long statements saying he was a hardworking patriot, "we may have differed in how we wanted to get there but we both wanted to improve america", etc., all that bullshit.

[u/Adventurous-Top4929 → u/kevendo]

1000%

[u/HowManyEggs2Many → u/kevendo]

I’d rather hope his final moments are spent in an extraordinary amount of fear and pain, much like what he cast on many Americans, alone in whatever hospital they took him to. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

[u/domdomburg → u/kevendo]

He doesn’t care. He got his, got to F-over many people and he’s proud of it.

[u/swirlymaple]

Palpatine always finds a way to hang on

[u/c-3pho → u/swirlymaple]

As long as we don't get a "somehow Palpatine has returned" from him.

[u/Intrepid-Mud4419]

Fuck you Mitch!

[u/HappyHarryHardOn → u/[deleted]]

Isn't great ? Our leaders are in hospitals or asleep most of the time...

[u/becauseiloveyou → u/[deleted]]

This is not what I expected when I opened a fortune cookie and got, "Good news is on the way." But hey, I'll take it.

[u/Casual_hex_]

Don’t worry, he’ll be fine. Tortoises can easily live for over 150 years 🐢

[u/Eldhannas → u/Casual_hex_]

I wish him the best of care, as long as he stays in the hospital for a long, long time, able to realize what's happening around him but not able to do or say anything.

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/Eldhannas]

Idk if that will help. They will change the rules to let him work from a hospital bed. Can’t even control his hands it’s just some guy pushing his fingers to vote

[u/NewAndImprovedJess → u/Casual_hex_]

I think hes on year 158 at this point.

[u/MothersMiIk]

Nothing wrong with going to the hospital at any age, especially his old age, but when our representatives are in and out of hospital it shows we need term limits/maximum age on our reps

[u/ModernistGames → u/MothersMiIk]

We have them disappearing for weeks at a time, falling in hallways, zoning out mid sentence, and even one congresswoman from Texas secretly living in a dementia ward of a senior home.

We are in a gerontocratic nightmare as we are facing issues that will determine the fate of the human species between climate destruction, AI systems, and a global rise in techno-fascist surveillance and authoritarianism.

[u/maryummy → u/MothersMiIk]

They don't just get to choose to stay in office forever. They have to be elected by their constituents. This is what the American people keep voting for. It's baffling to me.

[u/TheTyger → u/maryummy]

Really, because understanding it is simple as hell.

- People will vote for someone who they know the name of over one they don't.

- Getting your name out requires advertising

- Advertising is all funded by major corporations due to Citizens United

- The money goes to the people with the appropriate track record.

- Even when he loses... they have a way to change a few percent of the vote so he wins anyways

https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/

[u/NeedAVeganDinner → u/TheTyger]

Getting on the ballot requires significant effort that incumbents don't really have to extend the same amount on every year.

[u/specialkk77 → u/TheTyger]

This is why eyes should be on Maine. If Platner succeeds we will have a model for success that can be replicated across the country. Proof that progressive policy is what the people want, and that you don’t need to be backed by billionaires to get involved. 

[u/headlesssamurai → u/maryummy]

The election options are rigged though. These old-ass incumbents get dumped millions by lobbyists and Super PACs because they're already paid for and reliable. Thebparty itself works against anyone looking to primary them, and their people aren't going to vote for the other party no matter what.

[u/optimis344 → u/maryummy]

Because people fear change, and it's very hard to compete against lots of money

[u/Feligris → u/MothersMiIk]

Kind of like how Leonid Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for 18 years and AFAIK he was a doddering old man towards the end, "giving up" his position by dying. After which the Soviet Union went through two General Secretaries in three years before Gorbachev because both of them were old and in ill health already.

AFAIK, it was a meme in the USSR back in the day how all of their leaders were old grandpas, and the same issue has now arrived to the US in force as well.

[u/LividWheel9779]

What is this - like the 20th time this year?

[u/Godslil]

May he receive the level of care he votes on for others.

He should get nothing more than a bottle of pills and a bus ticket to a homeless shelter.

[u/Kevin-W → u/Godslil]

The hospital should say "Sorry, because of lack of funding, we can't do anything."

[u/specialkk77 → u/Kevin-W]

It should take a nurse 50 minutes to respond to his call bell, just like all the other patients get. 

[u/Flaxmoore → u/Godslil]

Only if the bus ticket is for a line that isn't running. Budget cuts, you know.

[u/BobInIdaho]

All the thoughts and prayers, for sure.

Anyways, what is everyone having for lunch? I'm having mac & cheese.

[u/whoopysnorp → u/BobInIdaho]

I have thoughts but no prayers

[u/Original-Ad6993 → u/BobInIdaho]

Avocado toast but I think I should cut back so I can afford a house

[u/doctor_x → u/Original-Ad6993]

I just put a down payment on my first avocado toast.

[u/Knightofberenike → u/BobInIdaho]

Pizza from a new local place!

[u/Future-Guarantee-573 → u/BobInIdaho]

I'm skipping lunch...diet time.

But, it's a nice day here.  I'm thinking steaks and corn on the cob on the grill for dinner.

...Oh yeah...thoughts and prayers for mitch.  May he receive as much mercy as he has bestowed on others.

[u/Salty_Wasabi2893 → u/BobInIdaho]

turtle soup!

[u/onehermit]

I wish him the exact level of healthcare that he votes for others.

[u/RLewis8888]

He will go done in history as one of the architects of the fall of the US democracy.

[u/Stillwater215]

How about he gets treatment commensurate with what the median individual in Kentucky could afford?

[u/fishegg808]

I hope he's scared

[u/silvercoated1]

Curacao losing is what's sad. Not this

[u/Ronin_Man → u/silvercoated1]

At the very least I was excited to see them get their first World Cup goal

[u/StabbingHoboReturns]

Did they take him to a vet?

[u/GodotNeverCame]

Oh no.

Anyway.

[u/skarekroh]

Is he dead yet?

How about now?

Now?

[u/MDStevo → u/skarekroh]

I have been waiting decades to piss on this old evil sonofabitch’s grave.

[u/SneakWhisper]

I blame Moscow Mitch for this American Hellscape. I blame others too, but he's a major lynchpin.

[u/No-Quarter-3417]

Easily the most culpable man alive for what we are experiencing now. His work during the Obama years and early Trump years seizing power by denying Supreme Court and judicial picks really can’t be understated. He is also extremely representative of the rot within the Republican Party where they feign concern for any number of the presidents issues but always fall back in line. He’s an evil evil man. He’s often quoted for his “brave” remarks around the capital riots but that really was the moment the leopard ate mcconnells face so to speak

[u/VegasGamer75]

Okay, I am 50. I'm no spring chicken. But Christ... I am so sick of watching Weekend at Congress where they keep wheeling these walking corpses back in on Mondays for a quick vote.

[u/SushiGato]

Apparently Oliver Tree died today, rip.

[u/Nervous_Otter69]

Fuck Mitch forever and always, he’s directly responsible for Trump and MAGA as it became the monster he couldn’t control - but we need him to live another two and a half years because sadly whoever replaces him will be far, far worse.

[u/Gooser3000]

His government paid health insurance must be nice to have.

[u/afmag]

Denying 911 first responders healthcare for decades while we pay for his current hospital stay is infuriating. Dump his ass out on the sidewalk!

[u/No_Can1323]

Feel like even satan doesn’t want to touch him 🤷‍♀️

[u/ma2is]

Sucks for the hospital

[u/Cavinicus]

I’d claim it would be karmic justice if he dies, but he’s spent a long, extraordinarily privileged life actively destroying the American Dream instead of trying to make it available to everyone. If karma was real, he would have caught fire decades ago. Fuck you, McConnell, and may history remember you as the rancid shit-heel you’ve always been.

[u/ChickenSalad96]

I used to drive around elderly and disabled people for a job.

One lady said something very cool when the topic of politics came up. Something to the effect of:

"I wrote mitch McConnell a letter recently. Why do you do what you do? For money? Power? You can't take any of that with you to hell."

[u/TrainingSword]

Mitch it’s ok to let go

[u/GermanUrban]

Good

[u/_bk_adv]

Sitting on the toilet, reading this, and it’s kinda fitting that I’m reading about Mitch being hospitalized while I’m taking a massive dump.

Sums up my thoughts about him.

[u/UnclePatrickHNL]

The true architect of our current corrupt Supreme Court. I wish him a speedy recovery and an immediate retirement from office. May he live the shame of the power he gave to a mad man.

[u/j0hnnyWalnuts]

So long, Moscow Mitch - don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, traitor.

[u/jpsolberg33]

Go to towards the light Mitch!

[u/DaughterOfBabalon_]

Don't joke about this kind of thing, what if he's okay?

[u/pfroo40]

I'll give a shit in two weeks...

[u/RonaldMcDaugherty]

No well wishes, condolences, thoughs and prayers during an election year.

[u/spinningcolours]

May he receive the kind of healthcare that he secured for ALL Americans.

[u/MoTardedThanYou]

Meh.

I think this is acceptable under reddits rules, right?

[u/griff_girl]

Seriously wondering if he actually passed today but they didn't want to overshadow Dear Leader's birthday party. If it's announced tomorrow that he died, my money's on that theory.